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I'm sorry to have missed the "Nuremburg Trials" episode,as I love WWII history,and have the movie "Judgement At Nuremburg". I'll have to see if it's going to be repeated anytime soon. PBS has really great British programming,comedy,drama,mystery,etc. I love "'Allo 'Allo","Are You Being Served", "Keeping Up Appearances","Inspector Morse", "A Touch Of Frost",the mystery series featuring Patricia Rutledge(the actress who portrayed "Hyacinth Bucket-pronounced 'Bouquet',LOL-I can't remember the name of the series this second),the one starring Helen Mirren, "Upstairs Downstairs"(miss that series! I need to buy the DVD set), Benny Hill,all the Agatha Christie series(especially the "Miss Marple" ones-love stories set in English villages of a bygone time)and more. I also love(don't snicker TOO much,LOL) the Lawrence Welk Show.

"American Experience" did a GREAT show about Mary Pickford,one of my most favorite silent actresses,last night. She was not only a pioneer in acting,she was arguably the most successful businesswoman in film(or any other business)also. I don't think there's been a more powerful woman in the film industry since Mary Pickford,and that really says a lot,considering the era in which she was so powerful. She appeared to be an golden-curled naive little girl,and then would have grown men,powerful moguls,quaking in their shoes as she appproached them to conduct business! No one ever got the best of her.

For goodness' sake-if I see that schedule comparing the 2005/2006 schedules again,I'm going to just forget trying to get a fully honest answer here.The changes have been INCREMENTAL,over a period of some years-just showing a comparison of 2005 to 2006 does not tell the whole story-a more enlightening comparison would be the schedule from,say,2000 or 2001 to a 2005/2006 schedule. The changes have been incremental,over a period of years! so that it would be harder to make a legitimate comparison! if I knew where y'all are finding these schedules,I would be glad to post it myself-a schedule from 2000,for example,to a schedule from 2005 or 2006.It didn't just begin last year! It's been being sneaked slowly but surely,in phases,into the schedule over a period of some years-so the constant comparisons of 2005 to 2006 are disingenuous. A more complete picture would be gained by comparing the schedules from 2000,2001,say,to those of 2005 or 2006. If I knew where to find these schedules(if anyone wants to direct me to the place,I'll be happy to do it myself),I'm sure that I could show what some of us are saying-that TCM is incrementally adding more and more "modern classics',so-called,into the line-up. Do you think that I WANT thIs to be true? I would LOVE to be proven wrong,and will eat a large helping of crow pie if anyone can show me,by comparing the scheduling of 2000/2001,for instance,to the scheduling of 2005/2006. THAT's where the difference,if there is one,as I and others are proposing,will show the truth. That's why I keep saying "incrementally"-every year,more programming time is devoted to the so-called "modern classics". It's done so incrementally that you would have to remember what TCM's scheduling was app 5-6 years ago,to the schedules of 2005/2006,to see the creeping changes-NOT 2005 to 2006. I will glad to look up the schedules from the years 2000,2001,if someone will kindly tell me where to find them. I KNOW that there's a a difference in the programming from those years,and what's being sneaked in the back door in the last couple of years.

Ditto both your choices-Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney. I personally love them both.They could do it all.

Condolences to her family. She was lovely,and a wonderful dancer,in "The Red Shoes",just about the best ballet movie ever.

Mr. "Nielsen" would be out of work virtually overnight. No more falsely manipulated or deliberately deceptive so-called "ratings" that leave MOST people scratching their heads. ("When TCM showed Japanese Animation their ratings went through the roof!" Yeah, right. And if you believe that I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'll sell ya real cheap.) Even if it's true that the ratings went through the roof for the anime programming,where does that leave TCM? Do they now begin to schedule more and more anime and other such programming,to get those high ratings from that demographic,and totally betray their original fan base who watch Turner Classic Movies,to see classic movies,or do they continue to show classic movies,in the original sense of the word? Like way back when,all those years ago,TCM themselves knew what classic movies were,obviously,because that's what they showed? Hmmmm...

That wasn't my post.

Same here. I used to have TCM on all the time-even if a movie was on that wasn't particularly my taste,I could generally enjoy it because it didn't break the overall "mood" of the programming. Now there are many days at a time that I just don't bother.

Yes,change is good-unles you're paying for specific product,and are fobbed off with another w/o your permission.Would you like it if your parents gave you the money to buy an anime movie,and when you bought it,and took it out of the package to play,it turned out to be "Broadway Melody of 1929"? What a little snot you are.It's OK,most of us are like that when we're 10. You'll find you have a little more empathy as you age. You WILL age,you know. We all do unless we die young. Hopefully you'll grow intellectually,commensurately with your numerical age. Right now you have some catching up to do.

Yes,stoneyburke,it's rather ironic that people who may have never even heard of TCM all the years that it was showing classic movies(as was its stated intenet,by its name-Turner CLASSIC Movies),have come out of the woodwork to hype their cherished anime and rudely dismiss the long-time faithful viewers of TCM,who were here to watch what TCM always purported to play. And for those who have a problem with those of us who are staitng our opposition to this programming,don't be so quick on the trigger. My uneasiness with TCM's programming and direction didn't just start with the anime scheduling,but I never before stated my uneasiness-with the anime,the worm turned.I've posted in many threads,and was quite a regular under my old username,until it got to be impossible to log-in. The anime came shortly after I was able to choose another username. When TCM begins preempting its classic movie scheduling with heavy doses of "original programming reality shows" or something of the kind,do we just suck it up then also? I for one won't have to,because I'll be long gone then.

That way, we who revered (or as an idiot actress on the Golden Globes pronounced the word, 'reverend') you all these years won't miss you when you're gone. stoneyburke, you got that right. TCM is slowly making it very easy for me to decide to NOT pay for cable. At this rate,won't miss'em when they're gone.

"Non-existant acting"? Then you really must be very young,because you seem to believe that the characters in anime are "actors",LOL. You are comparing animated characters to live actors,and comparing their merits??? LOLOLOLOL!!!

Hey old people suc-did it ever occur to you that one day you'll be an old person yourself unless you die first? But some people don't even have to get old to suc,know what I'm saying...

Hi vecchiolarry,--nice to see there's someone else in the world who doesn't watch really violent movies.I thought it was just me. Graphic violence makes me really squeamish. No offence to those who can watch it W/O a problem-my husband does. I just can't. I won't watch certain movies that I might even enjoy because the violence is too graphic and too interspersed within the movie,and I can't skip it.

I agree,constarkel,and have resigned myself to the fact. I'm taping as many films as I can that ARE classics(they're making it really difficult though,considering the times that the really good stuff is scheduled,and the way the silents have been squeezed out).I'm already resigned to the fact that the TCM I knew and loved is about to be a thing of the past.

I think that they're reading my posts and everytime I say I don't like something,they play it more(Bringing Up Baby,Shirley Mclaine,anime),and everytime I say I DO like something(the Robert Montgomery star of the month movies),they bump it.It's a theory! It's a conspiracy! It's a conspiracy theory! I better go watch some anime so I can find my inner child and be at peace with all the universe! Waaahhhhh!

Nice to know that I'm not the only pre-Code fanatic! (Not to mention the great Norma Shearer,Marion Davies,and Robert Montgomery,hurray!)

> < > in primetime,>> > > Okay Stoney........you must learn to be more > tolerant.....Dumb And Dumber is on the May schedule > and I must tell you it is a beautiful piece of > art........and it means a lot to us Jim Carrey > fans....... > > Dumb And Dumber takes me to far-a-way worlds of total > tolerance and understanding. > > Why is your mind so closed? Open up and let the art > flow through your veins..........c'mon.......be happy > and except all this world wants to force feed you! > > love and happiness, > Tom > ps.....NO....dumb and dumber is NOT on the > schedule.....(not yet anyway) ROFLMAO!

Would you believe that I'm actually staying up all night long just so I can record all these movies,being still in the Stone Ages as far as equipment and my mechanical skills go? I thank TCM for contributing to my insomnia,but at least I can't croak about the selection of movies they scheduled for tonight and the early morning,these are perfect!

I thank John Ford,I've loved the couple of Westerns that I've seen of his(She Wore A Yellow Ribbon and the one with Shirley Temple). Yes, Ireland really needs to filmed in color-lucky you,to have been there-it's in my plans to go there with my husband someday. I hope it's not just my fantasy that there are still a few more remote places that have retained their character.

Never fear, he does do that,the little...

Yes indeed ,I would greatly enjoy both of those,and am gratified to hear that I wasn't mistaken in my suspicion of the subtext of the movie:) Is the author Maurice Walsh,any relation to Raoul Walsh the director?

LOL! I'll do that. BBL, as I have to go feed my brothers,which are three large labradors,a yippy Jack Russell, and a whiny orange cat. Hmmm,maybe the school that says the animals are our superiors,have something there...after all, they've got ME waiting on THEM,hehe.

In fact, I'll put them in the player right now,as I can't bear to sit through another showing of "Some Came Running",or of "Cat Ballou". But I have no problem with these movies being on TCM-they fit the definition of "classic",at least-just not my taste.

Ok got it now:) I have,I believe,all the classic claymation Christmas shows,and I don't think that that fact ever registered with me,that the Abominable Snowman was called "Bumbles". Actually, I didn't watch them this year,things were a little crazy. Now I'm going to watch them post-holiday. I missed my dose of Burl Ives singing "Silver And Gold".