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    Ben Affleck...too macho?

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    stoneyburke,

     

    Yes. The people who regard nature as an amusement park ride.

     

    Oh...that's right, extreme. Unh...huh.

     

    I don't know...I will never know. I do know that I won't waste my time trying to understand their extreme death wish.

     

    On the other hand, I have never had the experience of--spending big bucks for a helicopter ride...flying hundreds of miles...getting dropped on top of some mountain...intentionally causing an avalanche...and skiing the thing! Oh...boy!

     

    BTW: It is a shame that bear was shot.

     

    Rusty

    Ben Affleck...too macho?

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    stoneyburke,

     

    I think a lot of folks like "Grizzly Man" are wandering around Alaska. Because the state has over 500,000 square miles...they go about their business and little notice is given to them by authorities or residents.

     

    Only when, for instance, a couple of them get eaten do they 'make news'. Why my opinion?

     

    1) "Grizzly Man", the movie, interview with "four trash bag man".

     

    2) Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard--"Grizzly Man" and girlfriend of "Grizzly Man".

     

    3) Christopher McCandless--protagonist of the book "Into The Wild".

     

    4) Three high school classmates. Went looking for...something in the Alaska wilderness during the 1970s. Luckily, did not go missing. Unless, working on the North Slope is regarded as 'missing'.

     

    Rusty

    classic movies

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    Nav1,

     

    Yesterday, took the 'plunge' and bought a combo-DVD recorder with 160 Mbyte hard drive--Toshiba brand.

     

    Oh, I am not a 'shill' for Toshiba.

     

    Investigating what to 'look for'...okay, hearing from my wife what she learned to look for, almost all attention is given to hard drive recording and, specifically, the horrific "TV Guide Inside" programming software.

     

    I have an answer to this 'TV Guide' thing, "that hard drive records 8 hours--hook up a TV to recorder input...start the hard drive recording before broadcast of desired show and program the TV. Probably don't even have to worry about changing the TV channels--we will only record shows off of, maybe, three channels".

     

    There is usually "work arounds" for technology that results when marketing trumps engineering.

     

    I think it is strange that something that garners near one hundred percent of the complaints--"TV Guide Inside" is, at present time, on all Toshiba, Panasonic, Samsung, etc. hard drive video recorders. "TV Guide" must hold a patent on some of the technology and requires their software to be included with the hardware.

     

    Anyway. Wish me luck programming the thing. Recorder should arrive in a couple of days.

     

    BTW: Probably would not have made the purchase except, the VHS tapes that are sold in stores are crap!

     

    Rusty

    SEEN ANY GOOD MOVIES LATELY?

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    Ralph,

     

    Sorry about the delay between posts...I hope you are still 'tuned in' to this thread.

     

    I understand you have an extensive knowledge of theatre, maybe you can answer a couple of questions.

     

    Did you ever get the opportunity to see Peter Schafer's "Equus" on stage? I remember reading a review (at the time it was playing in New York) that the staging was very unconventional. If you attended the play, what were your impressions?

     

    I saw Sidney Lumet's "Equus" and, while I thought Richard Burton and Peter Firth were excellent, I thought the rest of the production was so-so. Maybe the movie would have presented better if Lumet had taken a page from Peter Schafer (vis-a-vis inventive staging). I realize Hollywood abhors producing filmed plays...always have to 'open it up'.

     

    Considering the play "Equus"--if the fantastical staging was an asset to the external relationship between doctor and patient and the internal dialogue of the doctor, I think the movie may have been better served by a surrealistic presentation.

     

    Ralph...any comment?

     

    Rusty

    Gone With The Wind-THIS Is What TCM's All About-Yaaayyyy!

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    lzcutter,

     

    Quote:

    "But part of that difference in progress is that from 1905 -1939, the art of moviemaking was still be written..."

     

    lzcutter...excellent point. An observation:

     

    Watching Buster Keaton silents are not only some of the funniest movies I have seen but, show me the 'joy' of craft. I understand Buster Keaton and his crew (pre-MGM) 'made it up' as they filmed. Keaton's wonderful spontaneity is the result.

     

    Oh...along with Keaton, I would add some other silent comics who demonstrated 'no bounds' filmmaking--Charley Chase and Fatty Arbuckle.

     

    I bet, 1910 to 1930 was the best time to be in the movie biz.

     

    Rusty

    "Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width"

    in Your Favorites

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    markfp2,

     

    "Carry On Theater" was broadcast on my local TV when I was a young'un.

     

    I love them. I fondly remember them as 'comfort comedies'--goofy fun.

     

    Thanks for mentioning a collection of "Carry On" films are now on DVD. I would never have thought of looking up availability of the "Carry On" series.

     

    Rusty

    Gone With The Wind-THIS Is What TCM's All About-Yaaayyyy!

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    lzcutter,

     

    Thank you for your reply regarding the "Edison Manufacturing Company".

     

    Do you remember the TCM broadcast a couple of years ago of a few of the "actuality films". I don't remember the circumstances but, as you wrote, they were a series of inter-titles and set-pieces. I thought at the time TCM broadcast the (circa 1905) films that, in a few short years--King Vidor's "Show People" (1928) would be produced and, eleven years later, "Gone With The Wind". Of the films I have seen, I consider "Show People" a high water mark for silent films and, of course, "Gone With The Wind" the zenith of Hollywood movies.

     

    Using 1905 to 1939 two ends of a 'yardstick', American cinema progressed from 'set pieces' to Technicolor masterpieces.

     

    Consider. What was in theaters about the same number of years in the past? Oh, thirty to forty years? Let's see...2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)...that would be thirty-eight years ago. Hollywood has not progressed the 'art' of cinema much in (almost) forty years.

     

    Rusty

    Ben Affleck...too macho?

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    MattHelm,

     

    Sorry, I misunderstood your reference. I thought I might have missed something more, uhm...scandalous. Specifically, the guy had a really 'up close and personal' relationship with 'da bears'.

     

    Yes...I saw the bee thing and the 'smiley face' thing and the 'happy fox' thing and...

     

    Rusty

    House of Rothschild

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    vecchiolarry,

     

    A couple of chapters of "The Amber Room" is devoted to the construction of the 'new' amber room. The authors, Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, write about their meetings with Dr. Ivan Sautov, Director of the Catherine Palace and overseer of the re-building of the amber room.

     

    Larry...please write about your impressions of the 'new' amber room after your return from Russia.

     

    BTW: Excuse my (possible) forward request but, I would like to ask you about someone mentioned in the book, "The Amber Room". Considering your connections with Russian nobility, you may have may have met this person--Baron Eduard von Falz-Fein?

     

    Rusty

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