jarhfive
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sweetbabykmd,
Is that Daryl Hannah line for real?
sweetbabykmd...Don't mis-understand me--I believe you...but, is that Daryl Hannah line for real?
I've got to find "Summer Lovers" and watch the thing. I hope the rest of the movie approaches the idiocy you highlighted!
Rusty
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Hello,
"Convention City" from 1933.
When is TCM going to show "Convention City"? Never.
Rusty
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MattHelm,
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"Do people usually send those newsletters with Season's Greetings cards?"
My experience? No...not my family.
Well...yes. Strangely, my mother gets an annual newsletter from a former neighbor. The newsletter has arrived for over forty years--since they moved to another part of the country! Even stranger, every year, my mom makes sure I read the thing during my Christmas visit.
I guess my mother thinks:
1) The former neighbor's 'doings' are important.
2) I remember the neighbors.
The answer is "no" to items 1) and 2). I was around five years old when the 'diary people' moved!
However. Based on what you have written about your family, I think you would agree--it is best to humor mom. I read the letter.
Rusty
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MattHelm,
Regarding the Ross/Supremes quote.
Again, I have to clean my bio-fluids off my computer monitor.
Rusty
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Ralph...your reply has a lot of information. I appreciate your effort--thanks so much!
Have you seen the Burton/ Taylor "Taming of the Shrew"? If you have seen the movie, how does it compare with the Broadway Theatre Archive version?
Regarding "The Taming of the Shrew"--let's see...Richard Burton's performance was...not nominated for Oscar. I guess the Academy did not see fit to award "over the top" performances that year.
I think the Burton/ Taylor "Taming of the Shrew" would be a good "Suggest-A-Movie". I will give it a shot.
Thanks again.
BTW: "Galileo" was a American Film Theatre thing (mid 1970s).
Rusty
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Huntress,
You and any other Star Trek fan, will believe what I am about to write.
Everyone else? Probably not.
The first season of Star Trek, I begged my mother (she was working at Pennys for the Christmas season) for a spanky-new Penny's reel-to-reel tape recorder. I got the recorder for Christmas...yay! From December of that year, and for the next two and one-half years, I recorded the sound of every Star Trek episode. Not only did I fill up a bunch of reel to reel tapes, I listened to the tapes and...listened to tapes and...listened to the...
You get the idea.
The tapes are long gone.
However. The first season of Star Trek, I sent a fan letter (my one and only) to "Star Trek...NBC...Gene Roddenberry". A couple of months later I received (from Paramount) a manila envelope with: 1-8X10 picture of William Shatner ("Good Luck...William Shatner") and 1-8X10 picture of Leonard Nimoy ("Best Wishes...Leonard Nimoy").
If I have to turn my mom's house upside down, I am going to find those two pictures. I know they are stashed at her house...I just know it!
BTW: My fanaticism for Star Trek has cooled since that time. Aww.
Rusty
I do have 1-8X10 of George Takei autographed at, ahem...a Star Trek convention (ca. 1975).
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MattHelm,
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"...A friend and I would crawl pubs from Cambridge to Boston on several occasions (see also: weekly) and we'd often find that we missed the last bus and train..."
I enjoyed your anecdote.
I thought it would have been a great addition to one of those--"What The 'Helm' Family Did The Past Year" letters.
I hope your mom or, whoever was in charge of the annual newsletter, added your reminiscence for 'spice'. Aunt Tilly would have been green with envy, "s***, next year I'll have to lie like a dog to 'top' my sister".
Rusty
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lzcutter,
Thank you for the reply.
Kino Video releases some good (make that incredible) DVDs.
I did a Netflix review of Keaton's "Seven Chances"--a Kino DVD. My review was mostly a 'love letter' to Kino. The restoration and production of "Seven Chances" is the best production of any silent film I have, so far, seen. There I go again.
I'll check out Kino's AFT offerings. Too bad the AFT idea did not 'catch on'.
Rusty
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lzcutter,
I checked out the "Kino" link.
That means no "wild coincidence"...somehow, I am sad.
I pick up the pieces...lzcutter, do you have any "American Film Theater" recommendations?
Rusty
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MattHelm
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"Not really funny, but common..."
Situation you reference may not be funny. Your comment regarding situation? I laugh.
As far as re-hashed plots. I think the last original story was created circa 200 B.C.
B.C. is "Before The Common Era"...you know.
Rusty
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Ralph,
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"I have seen several of those old Broadway Theatre Archives productions. I remember PBS showing "The Gin Game" with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, years ago but I sure would like to see it again. And Julie Harris in "The Belle of Amherst;" always one of my favorites."
Your reference is a wild coincidence or, maybe I was just 'attune'. I was thumbing through an old movie catalog (looking for an answer to one of those trivia questions) and I happened on a "Broadway Theatre Archives" DVD section.
I remember going with my mother to see the theatrical release of, uhm...I can't remember the name. No, that's not the name of the movie! The plot revolved around the trial of Galileo. Anyway, I did not see the "Galileo" DVD in the catalog.
Do you have any other "Broadway Theatre Archives" recommendations?
Rusty
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elgrabadura,
Whew...for a second there I thought you meant James Cagney!
Then, I scrolled up to the 'turkey' shot.
Rusty
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MrWriteLa,
"The Last of Sheila".
"Parker Brothers" was the clue.
BTW: Good job regarding the 'Hammer Film' trivia answer. Is the movie--Satan Rides Out(?) worth a rental?
Rusty
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CharlieT,
I have not seen daytime TV in a long time but, thinking about the 'dumbing down' of everything else these days--a couple of days of this thread would be ideal training to get on to any TV quiz show.
The answer? Please...don't make me say it.
Okay...bridge and, track...so there!
Rusty
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lzcutter,
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"Thank God for Netflix. Silents, Classics, Documentaries and new movies. Couldn't ask for much more than that. "
Thank God for Netflix, indeed.
Is it just my imagination? Netflix appears to stock the best available version of a movie. For instance, if a Criterion DVD is available, that is what Netflix sends. If a Kino silent is available, ditto.
BTW: I am not a shill for Netflix.
That's the second, "I am not a shill..." I've written in the last couple of days!
Rusty
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traceyk65,
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"They also say it's a weepie, which is why I've been avoiding it. Is it a major tear-jerker?"
I am not the one to answer "yes" or, "no", to your question.
The only thing that makes me weep is my heating bill.
I don't know your opinion of Ronald Colman but, "Random Harvest" is a Ronald Colman picture.
My opinion? "Starring Ronald Colman" (that voice!) makes "Random Harvest" a must-see.
Rusty
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kaplan,
That is an excellent point regarding "in with the new...out with the old".
So true...so true!
I cannot tell you how many times I have run into that situation at work. Sitting on the floor of my laboratory are 300 back-up 'streamer' tapes. Tapes may still be fine but, what is stored on them is unreadable (hardware long gone).
Why don't I do some housekeeping? I hate to 'displace' all those spiders and (did I see a couple of rodents take up residence?)...my furry friends.
Rusty
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FredCDobbs,
Yiddish radio. A few years ago, NPR played some recordings of radio shows originally broadcast to NYC Jewish neighborhoods (low power AM(?) stations), post WWII time frame.
Like most local radio of a long time ago, the programming was: news of local interest, interviews of local inhabitants and music of interest to locals--a lot of Klezmer music.
I listened to some of the stuff (Yiddish translated to English or, English? I don't remember) until the Klezmer started--five minutes of Klezmer music satisfied me for the rest of my life.
Rusty
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lzcutter,
I read your message after I posted the thing I wrote.
lzcutter...all good points.
Now...where is the "lzcutter" thread I mentioned a couple of months ago?
This is just the sort of technical issue that needs a 'one-stop shop', uh..so to speak.
I know, it would be a lot of work.
I'll keep hoping!
Rusty
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kaplan,
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"It's specifically about the lifespans of burned CDs, which are given as between 2 and 5 years (!). Everything I've read indicates that burned DVDs are even less stable than CDs are."
I am glad you brought up the 'shelf life' issue. I mentioned that thing somewhere earlier in this thread.
I will write a couple of brief points.
2 to 5 year CD life span is probably pessimistic--I have read 10 to 20 year DVD life span. I am splitting hairs. The important thing is--the selling of the compact disk format was, "digital data is forever"--not true?!
How long a DVD will last is not known--burned at home and purchased. Accelerated wear tests are models. The simulations may or, may not, reflect actual shelf life.
Actual shelf life is dependent on a bunch of variables--disk quality, burner quality, DVD burner algorithms (ability to handle errors), disk storage, etcetera.
One anecdote. A couple of months ago I unearthed a twenty year old, six VHS set of "I Claudius". Recorded in 1985, stored in a variety of environments, all six tapes played fine. Not a hitch.
I wonder if DVDs will survive 20 years--no one knows!
Bottom line, transferring VHS to DVD for archival purposes? My advice--keep the original tape after burning the DVD.
Rusty
BTW: Technology does improve, what may be unreadable today may play a few years from now (better software, you know). Hang on to those unplayable disks.
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nursekimmy (and the rest of you'all),
Your mention of "Random Harvest" is timely.
The weather outside is frightful (N.E. Oklahoma--as if anyone cares) so, I decided to pick up a book. I read a few pages of Faulkner's "The Sound And The Fury" and decided my brain was not up to the challenge.
Instead of reading, I watched a tape of "Random Harvest". My wife mentioned that we had James Hilton's "Random Harvest". She said, "why don't you read 'Random Harvest'...probably not so taxing as Faulkner". I picked up "Random Harvest", the book, and looked at the cover. I will start reading the thing, uhm...today.
Now, to the point of my post.
When completed, I will compare and contrast "Random Harvest", the movie, and "Random Harvest", the book. I estimate three months to read the book.
Please don't be on 'pins and needles' until my review.
BTW: If I like "Random Harvest", the book, I will probably try to read James Hilton's "Lost Horizon". When I complete "Lost Horizon", the book, I will compare and contrast with "Lost Horizon", the movie. Maybe, six months from today.
Rusty
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MattHelm,
"movie is dark..."
How did I miss that? Clue...CLUE!
Rusty
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MattHelm,
"I wonder if the indians have a mob now..."
Within a 10 mile radius of my residence are:
Modoc, Quapaw, Miami, Eastern Shawnee, Seneca and a couple of other tribal casinos. Two more 'gamers' are under construction.
Your comment has been the topic of discussion in my household several times. My opinion? No mob here but, maybe, string-pullers.
Rusty
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MattHelm,
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"My great grandmother was full-blooded Algonquin..."
Why work for the man? Build a gaming facility.
Rusty
BTW: Not even partial credit for my muppet movie answer?
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markfp2,
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"Lots of times theatres will skimp on the size of the lamp in order to save money..."
The last time I went to our local theater (and I mean the last time), the screen was dirty and the bulb was under-sized (maybe old...maybe junk). The movie was "Stargate". I saw the same movie on HBO. During the viewing of the HBO "Stargate", I said to my wife, "I didn't know they were in a desert".
I am (almost) not kidding.
Rusty