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Unfortunately (thanks to the title), this was the last film I saw of Kirk Douglas's before he died..... it does have a bit of a TV feel to it.....

You should. Despite some suggestive dialogue and moments, its very close in mood and tone to a drawing room comedy of the 30s or in literary terms, like a cross between Jane Austen and PG Wodehouse. Its witty and sharp.

True. Ironically she lives in The Assassination Bureau.

Isn't that kind of an awkward pick, at least based on what happens to her in the film?

Finished up my Summer TV Project having sampled 140 shows, arranged chronologically below. Some of them were wonderful, some very good, a few middling, some not so great. They came from TV schedules, streaming websites, DVDs. But they were all tackled. Here they are..... Father Knows Best 1954 NBC Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955 CBS/NBC Perry Mason 1957 CBS Leave It to Beaver 1957 ABC/CBS The Donna Reed Show 1958 ABC Bonanza 1959 NBC The Andy Griffith Show 1960 CBS The Flintstones 1960 ABC The Dick Van Dyke Show 1961 CBS The Saint 1961 NBC Hazel 1961 NBC/CBS The Lucy Show 1962 CBS The Jetsons 1962 ABC The Fugitive 1963 ABC The Patty Duke Show 1963 ABC Petticoat Junction 1963 CBS Bewitched 1964 ABC Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. 1964 CBS Gidget 1965 ABC Green Acres 1965 CBS I Dream of Jeannie 1965 NBC The Big Valley 1965 ABC Hogan's Heroes 1965 CBS That Girl 1966 ABC Mission Impossible 1966 CBS The Mothers-In-Law 1967 NBC The Flying Nun 1967 ABC Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In 1968 NBC Hawaii Five-O 1968 CBS Adam 12 1968 NBC The Doris Day Show 1968 CBS The Odd Couple 1970 ABC McMillan and Wife 1971 NBC Upstairs Downstairs 1971 ITV The Streets of San Francisco 1972 ABC The Bob Newhart Show 1972 CBS M*A*S*H 1972 CBS Police Story 1973 NBC Happy Days 1974 ABC Good Times 1974 CBS Barney Miller 1975 ABC One Day at a Time 1975 CBS Alice 1976 CBS Charlie's Angels 1976 ABC Rich Man Poor Man 1976 ABC Three's Company 1977 ABC The Love Boat 1977 ABC Taxi 1978 ABC/NBC Vega$ 1978 ABC Holocaust 1978 NBC All Creatures Great and Small 1978 BBC The Facts of Life 1979 NBC Hart to Hart 1979 ABC Backstairs at the White House 1979 NBC Knots Landing 1979 CBS It's a Living 1980 ABC/Syndication Dynasty 1981 ABC Hill Street Blues 1981 NBC Cheers 1982 NBC Cagney and Lacey 1982 CBS Family Ties 1982 NBC Newhart 1982 CBS Fame 1982 NBC/Syndication Hotel 1983 ABC The Thorn Birds 1983 ABC Oh Madeline 1983 ABC Miami Vice 1984 NBC Kate and Allie 1984 CBS MacGyver 1985 ABC Growing Pains 1985 ABC Moonlighting 1985 ABC L.A. Law 1986 NBC Perfect Strangers 1986 ABC thirtysomething 1987 ABC Full House 1987 ABC Frank's Place 1987 CBS A Year in the Life 1987 NBC A Different World 1987 NBC Beauty and the Beast 1987 CBS Roseanne 1988 ABC Dear John 1988 NBC Family Matters 1989 ABC/CBS The Simpsons 1989 FOX Doogie Houser MD 1989 ABC Coach 1989 ABC Twin Peaks 1990 ABC Beverly Hills 90210 1990 FOX The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 1990 NBC Evening Shade 1990 CBS Northern Exposure 1990 CBS Gabriel's Fire 1990 ABC Sisters 1991 NBC Home Improvement 1991 ABC Step by Step 1991 ABC/CBS Homefront 1991 ABC Brooklyn Bridge 1991 CBS I'll Fly Away 1991 NBC Martin 1992 FOX The Larry Sanders Show 1992 HBO Melrose Place 1992 FOX Living Single 1993 FOX The X-Files 1993 FOX NYPD Blue 1993 ABC Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman 1993 CBS Friends 1994 NBC My So-Called Life 1994 ABC NewsRadio 1995 NBC Cybill 1995 CBS Everybody Loves Raymond 1996 CBS Relativity 1996 ABC The Practice 1997 ABC Ally McBeal 1997 FOX Dharma and Greg 1997 ABC The West Wing 1999 NBC Once and Again 1999 ABC Gilmore Girls 2000 WB/CW Malcolm in the Middle 2000 FOX Girlfriends 2000 UPN/CW Alias 2001 ABC My Wife and Kids 2001 ABC Six Feet Under 2001 HBO George Lopez 2002 ABC Boston Legal 2004 ABC House 2004 FOX Desperate Housewives 2004 ABC The Office 2005 NBC Brothers and Sisters 2006 ABC Pushing Daisies 2007 ABC Dirty Sexy Money 2007 ABC The Middle 2009 ABC Modern Family 2009 ABC New Girl 2011 FOX black-ish 2014 ABC Fresh Off the Boat 2014 ABC How to Get Away with Murder 2014 ABC Schitt's Creek 2015 CBC/Pop This is Us 2016 NBC The Good Doctor 2017 ABC Big Little Lies 2017 HBO a million little things 2018 ABC

Brooks is an acquired taste, but I found Lost in America to be very witty and well handled (not to mention kudos for casting the wonderful Julie Hagerty). i have a feeling that two of the films he did in the 90s might be popular here: The Muse, with a delightfully quirky performance from Sharon Stone and many Hollywood in-jokes, and especially Mother, with its wonderful central performance from Debbie Reynolds.

Well, its official. the DVD of Diary of a Mad Housewife is due on December 15th.

I've seen both before. TCM is going into some pretty gory and fast currents tonight.

it looks pretty much identical to the one that appeared on the new movie Tenet (somebody had a videocamera at a screening of it and captured the logo on YouTube), but on that particular film its tinted blood-red.

The movie studios have over the years employed many different types of logos to differentiate themselves from their competitors and also to jazz up their traditional look. Warner Bros. just unveiled another look to their shield logo, even though it looks a bit cheap, it is a new chapter for them. So, with that in mind, lets think of other classic logos the studios have had over the years, shall we?

Raise the Titanic is just leaping up ready to be booked for this.....

i have some secondhand film reference books from the early 80s that give detailed synopses of films. I've had them since I was about 10 or 11 (I was a bit of a child prodigy when it came to film research, although I'm past the point to be called that now). And I clearly recall reading about Theatre of Blood and about that scene with Robert Morley and I felt sick to my stomach.

Admittedly, three of their animated films were some of the better ones they had done in a long time, but the live action remakes of animated films were, on the whole, truly dispiriting. The Beauty and the Beast remake had me sinking in my seat. They aren't films that are built to last.

Absolutely. Its growth only really started in 1985 or 1986. First they branched into TV shows (even if The golden Girls and Home Improvement were two of their only hits until the 2000s) and non-family films (Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Color of Money, and Ruthless People were their first three Rs), then they started publishing books in the early 90s, followed up by swallowing up Miramax in 1993 and ABC (and A& E, History Channel, ESPN, Lifetime) in 1996 (that was when it was finalized), then a break, and then they dumped the adult movie business in the 2000s, grabbed Pixar in 2006, Marvel in 2009, and Lucasfilm in 2012, before getting 20th Century Fox (with the streaming service Hulu and other TV channels attached) last year. They seemingly have a habit at looking for big bucks and neglecting anything that doesn't make as much as they want (They even considered dumping ABC, their chief prize of the 90s, a few years ago!), but earlier in the year they had one of the biggest corporate losses ever recorded.

I'm late on this but its kind of expected. Even before the Disney takover, Fox occasionally branded their TV shows as only 20th Television, not as 20th Century Fox Television, and I'd seen the abbreviated name on countless Fox films on TCM and FXM.

I subscribe to HBO, so yes the channel costs money. But if you are a cable subscriber to the channel you get HBO Max for free.

1. The Sound of Music 2 I Want to Live! 3 So Big 4 The Set-Up 5 The Day the Earth Stood Still 6 Star Trek: The motion Picture 7 The Sand pebbles 8 Executive Suite 9 The Haunting 10 Star!

This one hurts. I have to admit the first time I saw her was in The Great Muppet Caper, a childhood favorite of mine; and needless to say she was exceptional in it with her classy and witty performance (including breaking the fourth wall a few times). She was heartbreaking in the Bond film, memorable in The Hospital, catty fun in Evil Under the Sun, and good in the 2006 version of The Painted Veil. She also had two good TV movies: as a nun in In This House of Brede and in a supporting part as another classy lady of fashion in Mrs Arris Goes to Paris (which starred Angela Lansbury). I see where her final TV guest appearance will be postumous: the small role of the mother superior who sens a group of nuns off to India with terrible results in a miniseries adaptation of Black Narcissus which is due to air on FX.

The only episodes of that show that are still in print on DVD (AKA still for sale and not at scalper's prices) are the ones with Diana in them.

Probably the latter, be deemed ineligible before voting begins.

As i commented elsewhere, this would have negated the Best Picture nomination of 6 of the 9 contenders last year (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 1917, The Irishman, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, and Ford Vs Ferrari) alone. So, it will be interesting to see how this all pans out.

Not really surprising. Even when most 2020 releases are hardly A list films, they still get the most motion in the open market.

Goodwill Hunting, or Pardon Me, But You Are an Extreme Cheapskate The saga of seven steely women (Joan Crawford, Marie Windsor, Mercedes McCambridge, Ida Lupino, Joan Bennett, Signe Hasso, and Gloria Grahame) as they claw their way through thrift stores after hearing Liberace comment on TV that he found a Tiffany necklace on sale at Goodwill for $3. All of them are suddenly hit with the desire to hit those bargain racks, and their greed knows no bounds as they refuse to even pay full price on becoming 50 cent frocks. In the end, Windsor wins the war by finding an original Monet painting worth a million bucks [ on sale for $5.95], securing it just seconds before it falls into the hands of an out-of-towner (Shelley Winters), while Crawford waits at the ceckout counter complaining about the wire hangers and asking if she could buy this second hand evening gown for 5 cents.

Six Feet of Separation A new drama with the social distancing as a backdrop. Will Smith plays a con man who tries to manipulate Stockard Channing and Donald Sutherland over for money, but it doesn't pass muster in today's wired, distant world, not only can he not get close enouth to them to con them, but they use IMDb to realize that Sidney Poitier had no sons, and being a discerning couple, they would not be caught dead starring in Tom Hooper's version of Cats. He leaves to try to go con Paris Hilton and Tor Johnson instead.

Have no idea, but Raise the Titanic has to be one of the most sleep inducing.