daddysprimadonna
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Well, I still can't access them. I was able to a few days ago. I tried to access them from a different browser, then a different computer through a different ISP to make sure it's not my computer or browser settings. I can't access them from anywhere, not even using a different ISP (AT&T from my iPhone, instead of my regular wireless connection through my computer). I just cannot access them at all! I was able to only about 5 days ago. What's up, TCM, and can you please help me or give me a clue as to what I can do to access my Watches?
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Good one Mr Larry (the part about the thermostat war is soooo true, except that I like it cold and he likes it hot
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I watched it, it was really good! I hadn't expected to like it, I don't usually like male comedians too much (barring Chaplin, of course), but I really enjoyed it. What is the name of the movie where he hangs from the hands of the clock? I liked that one too (I hope I'm thinking of the right actor, I afraid that I sometimes confuse him and Keaton in my memory).
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I remember that! It's the one reservation that I have about the Queen, Norma Shearer-I read that after Thalberg died, she went after Mickey one time, and got him. The elegant Miss Shearer and...Mickey Rooney??!! Blech! (I like Mickey Rooney just fine as an actor, I just can't compute chic Norma Shearer being with him, for any length of time!)
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No ideas on why I can't access "Your Watches"? Is everyone else being able to access theirs?
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I just watched that movie, I love all the Andy Hardys except the last one when he comes home with a wife and kid (it didn't have the same spirit as the rest of the series). The Wilde twins were so cute! I loved their speaking and singing voices. Poor Andy, not knowing what to make of a girl who winked at him one second and slapped him the next, LOL!
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I probably don't remember enough from school to aspire to **** regarding my vocabulary, but I appreciate accuracy and precision in language (it's one reason that I wish I knew German, it seems to be such a precise language, and I think I'd fit right right in as I have a bad habit of writing run-on sentences, and the German language seems to employ them also, hehe ). So I appreciate the correction and will remember it
I'm **** about housekeeping, for what it's worth 
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LOL! You hear that TCM, my batteries need to be changed!
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For the record, I LOVE her.
Me too, and I bet lots of people do. I was a bit surprised to read that at a festival of her films that was recently held in, I think San Francisco, it was noted that a group of men regularly sat in the front seats and stared intensely at Norma in her roles. I kind of didn't expect that she would appeal to the modern masculine aesthetic for women. She's certainly very feminine without being a drip about it, the kind of woman you could appreciate for her femininity but also know that she'd hold her own with the guys. She seemed independent enough that she would have her own life and career and not sufficate a guy, but would never be the type to say "men, who needs 'em?". I would've thought that men these days would appreciate those aspects of Norma, if they hung around long enough to learn of them. I just didn't think that many younger men would hang around that long-she's undeniably beautiful, even though she worked magic to achieve the illusion of perfection, but she's nowhere near the image of the modern sensibility of "sexiness" ( long blond hair, tan, overly pouty mouth, that unsubtle kind of sexiness-you know what I mean). She's much more elegant than that. But she also looked quite at home in "sports casual". Norma is just such a paradox, you never quite figure her out. That must be a lot of the fun and appeal of her.
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Why can I not access My Watches? Everytime I click on the link for them, the connection times out and won't let me access them. It only happens for that page, and it was working just fine last night.
Also, the "Search" function isn't allowing me to adjust the date for the searches. The menu box won't drop down when I click on it.
Finally, what happened to the "Preview" option? I often need to my preview my posts to be sure that I correctly used symbols and things for bolding, italics, posting an image, etc.
Thanks for your replies! Melanie
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Would y'all please excuse me for noting, off-topic, that there seems to have been a plethora of actresses in the silent days named "Mae"? It must've been the "Tiffany" or "Amber" of its day
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For real, between TCM(sometimes), a few other channels (History, etc) and books and DVDs, I can create my own historical reality! Woohoo! It's easy being crazy these days, LOL!
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I knew what you meant, sorry my reply was unclear
She was indeed a huge star in her day, but sadly, until recently, has either been unremembered, or wrongly remembered. I don't really understand why this is so. My theory is that her personal life was happy and stable enough for the most part, that she wasn't as concerned with a "legacy" as some other stars and therefore never took strenuous steps to cement it. -
"Immortal Beloved" about Beethoven. It takes a lot to make me cry at a movie, and I never fail to cry at the crossed wires that ruined lives in this one. It's based on an actual letter written by Beethoven, but my understanding is that in reality, it's speculative as to whom it's written to. The scenario in the film is a realistic possibility based on his real life. If it's the true one, it's sad beyond belief.
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FF, I would be hard-pressed to make a list of 5 contemporary stars that I do like! OK, Nicholas Cage in "Valley Girls" (yes, I roll my eyes at myself, but I only like him in it! ) and the actors, especially Michael Caine, in "Blame It On Rio". But only for those movies-I can't think of any that I persistently like in anything. Of course, those are probably the most recent movies I've see. No, I liked "Immortal Beloved". I forget who the actors in it were. But I liked the movie.
I hate all the "brat-pack" kids, either the Eighties, Nineties, or Double-Ought versions. I hate the kinds of movies they act in. I hate "meet-cute" contemporary romantic comedies (is that phrase even au courant anymore?) I hate graphic violence. I hate potty-mouth comedians. I hate contemporary hipsters. In fact, I hate most all contemporary pop culture!
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I agree. I certainly wouldn't want a fluffy uninformative "fangurl" piece about Norma. I've read the two excellent biographies about her, and she led quite an interesting life, both pre-stardom and during, for one who was so relatively untouched by scandal.
It's my understanding from some short articles I've read (sorry, no links, just my memory) that there is some renewed interest in Norma amongst classic film lovers. I don't know how much this applies to the public at large, but I'd say that I'm not a particularly educated "insider" lover of classic film, and she's been my favorite star for some years now, even before the revival of her career. I'd be interested in the perspective of someone with a larger view of this, as to whether or not interest in her is widespread enough to merit a documentary. Surely if Thalberg did, Norma would? How many other than core classic film fans could've been interested in Irving Thalberg? Or was the "angle" on him a bit different? After all, she's not Mae Busch or something
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Well then help me pester TCM to put one forward , LOL
PS-I love documentaries too!
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I almost seem to vaguely remember the Lillian Gish one, but I may be somehow confusing it with a large book called "The Movies, Mr Griffith, And Me". I can't believe that I wouldn't remember that, as I've always adored the ethereal Miss Gish. (Though she must've been sturdier than she appeared, from the accounts of the filming of "Way Down East".) I bet the PBS website would have it (I hope? )I have both of the Dietrich and both of the Garbo documentaries taped. They were all excellent! I learned a lot of things about Marlene Dietrich to admire and respect as a human, not only as an actress. She undertook some great risks and discomforts in WWII for her adopted home (the US) and the Allies. That could not have been easy, as a German with immediate family still there. I have a new respect for her as a person since seeing that documentary.
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There must not be one, or I have to think that TCM would've shown it by now. (BTW, I certainly agree that we don't get to see enough of the lovely Norma
) I'm actually glad that hasn't been made about already, in past years. I don't think it would've done her justice, because it's only in recent years that she's really begun to be appreciated and respected again, and not seen only as "Mary Haines" from "The Women". Her daring pre-Codes are being seen again, and it's just being understood again what a refreshing and unique, not to mention deserving, actress she was. For too long she was slandered with the canard that she got by with being Thalberg's wife and playing saintly housewives. What a complete misapprehension that is of her on-screen persona for most of her career, and what an injustice if a documentary had been made based on it! I wish that TCM or someone would do one about her that gives her the credit she deserves.I think that she could step into many contemporary roles without missing a beat, while outclassing them all in the process.
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How about a documentary about Norma Shearer? It's not as though we're awash in information-books, etc-about her. There seem to only be a couple, as far as I know. She was such an important and legendary star in her day, plus the tie-in to the movers and shakers behind MGM--Thalberg and all. I can't believe she doesn't deserve her own documentary if Thalberg did. She certainly is as intriguing and relevant a part of Hollywood history as Garbo, Crawford, or Dietrich. She did after all set the trend in the Thirties for the liberated complicated woman.
And while I'm asking for a favor-please show the Mary Pickford one again!
Does anyone know if there is a Lillian Gish documentary out? There should be. She was one of the first Hollywood artistes and had a long career. Gloria Swanson would be a fascinating subject also.
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I have most of my favorites taped, at least the ones not yet released on DVD (someday I'll learn to work my DVD recorder, VHS-to-DVD converter). The ones I don't yet have, I haven't ever seen on TCM (such as Norma Shearer's "Trial Of Mary Dugan", Crawford's "Letty Lynton"). The couple of times TCM has shown "Chance At Heaven", the screening went screwy and messed up my tape, darn it!!
Even so, I still watch some of them on TCM when they're shown, such as "Gone With The Wind", Norma Shearer movies, early Joan Crawfords( Dancing Daughters, etc), and pre-Code specials such as "Complicated Women", even though I have them all. It's an event to me watch them with other viewers and hear Mr Osborne's take on the movies, and discuss them here (though I haven't watched much TCM in ages, due to my disgust at the turn in the movies shown). I watched "Student Prince" Sunday night even though I have it just because it's such a treat to hear the trivia about the movie, and share the movie with other viewers. And "Gone With The Wind" on TCM is an event for me, no matter how many special DVD sets I have. I just have to watch it with other fans.
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As always, Norma Shearer. She combined a successful career with a successful and happy marriage, to Irving Thalberg. Then she had a successful marriage to Marty Arrouge, until her death in 1983. She kept her personal life clean without being a recluse or a prude, and capitalised on less-than-perfect assets, though she had plenty of good ones. Plus I think she was charming and delightful and combined sexiness with wit and humor and a light touch. I think she must have been a delight to know and to be friends with, both for men and women. I'd like to have known her.
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I enjoyed watching that little short, and "The Student Prince Of Old Heidelburg" which followed. I was able to pretend for a short while that it was the old TCM.
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That couple in the pics in your post bear a faint resemblence to M'sieur Lecler(Jack Haig) and Madame Fanny (Rose Hill) from "'Allo 'Allo", the most hilarious comedy series of all time IMO.
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"My Watches"
in PROBLEMS with the Message Boards
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Under your name in the upper right hand corner of this page click on "Control Panel." When that comes up there will be a list of things down the right side below your name. The second (or so) listing is "Your Watches".
Give that a try.
That's how I've been trying to access them. The page won't load, the connection times out everytime. It's not my connection, because I tried it from a different computer using a different ISP, and it still wouldn't load and it still timed out. So it seems that it would have to be on TCM's side.
Also, the bold/italic/quote functions won't work for me, unless I type them in myself. I mean the buttons at the top of the post do nothing when I click on them, I type the tags in myself.
And when I click on the arrow on the drop-down menu box to adjust the date for searches, the menu won't drop down. I could live with that, but I'd like to be able to access my Watches.
I wish we had a "Preview" option for the posts!
Phooey, TCM's buttons for the "quote" tag won't do anything when I click on them, and my tags didn't work, and I couldn't preview the post to know that before posting!
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