constarkel
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My ace in the hole is "Club Paradise"
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I'll match you, now let's see what you have?
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I'll see your "Bicentennial Man" and raise you a "Flubber!"
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> Yes, but don't forget the Robin Williams of "Dead
> Poets Society" and "Good Will Hunting." Not
> everything he did was "Popeye."
You're right, he did do "Mrs. Doubtfire" too. YeAAH, YeAHH, Dude looks like a lay--day....yeahh, yeahh!
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You make an excellent point about the slim amaray cases. I store all of my self-recorded dvds in slim-cdamaray cases. The result is that I can house approximately 600 movies in less space than 200 conventional sized DVD cases.
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And don't forget that TCM has included something for those who don't like classic movies too.
"Honey, I shrunk the kids"
"The Birdcage"
"Hook"
"Mask"
"The Dogs of War"
"Mrs. Soffel"
I guess this is what they call being inclusive.
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"Ruby Keeler was the first tap dancing star of motion pictures. She was a Buck dancer. Both the shoes and the style were different from regular tap dance. Instead of metal taps, the soles were wooden, and hard. Buck dancers stayed in relatively the same place on stage, and their concern was the rhythm coming from their feet, rather than how they looked on stage. They stayed on the balls of their feet most of time, which meant that their torsos moved very little, and the movements were isolated to below the waist. Because of this style of movement, the early Buck dancers often appeared less graceful in comparison with later tap dancers."....wikipedia
So it appears that she was just perfoming a different style of tap dancing than most here are familiar with and not necessarily bad or embarrassing at all.
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Yes, hack into their TV and fix it so that no matter what channel they tune to, no matter what time, it is always "Suspended Animation Night with the Maytag Repairman and friends". I'd give their TV about 10 minutes to live....then its PUMP CITY!
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stoneyburke, I have never seen "Hollywood My Hometown" but I would love to. Too bad TCM doesn't include the shorts on their schedule.
Did you see that color short of the 1939 Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco that they aired this morning right after "Treasure Island"? Seeing all of that in full living color was amazing. There is a site called "The Prellinger Archives" or something like that, that has public domain films that are free to download in a variety of formats...including MPEG2 (DVD). I have about 6 hours of amateur color footage taken at the 1939 World's Fair in NYC which is very interesting. Maybe that "Hollywood My Hometown" is available? I will check.
You know that I am in complete agreement with you on the anime alley, Sonny and Cher, Tootsie etc. My guess is that there are some people currently involved with the scheduling at TCM that would rather be working at MTV, VH1 or the Cartoon Network. This would explain the lack of focus that we have been experiencing as of late. I also have a theory that the most blindly supportive of TCM's scheduling are probably those that don't actually watch alot of TCM.
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I think they popped in for a second but found the lighting a little too harsh and retired to the cool darkness of the Bat-Cave for the rest of the film. I would say that the original Star Trek's portrayal of the 20's gangster era was far more accurate than "He Laughed Last" Certainly, Star Trek's production quality was far superior to this film's.
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Actually there were two color consultants on that short, Albert Hoffman and Stanley Owsley. They also collaborated on "Good Times" and portions of "Operation Bikini". I am trying to find out who the lighting consultant was on "He Laughed Last" That was some first rate work! The Maytag Repairman suffered second degree burns along with temporary blindness and Lucy Marlow's wig caught on fire.
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I will be recording "Cass Timberlane" today to DVD.
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It was like watching "Mystery Science Theater" without the robots. Those movies would have been vastly improved given the MST treatment.
The Suspended Animation Law: Avoid all movies that include actors who are more famous as cartoon voices.
I just checked the schedule, and these movies will be repeated in April.
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Did anyone watch TCM last night? My guess is that their primetime ratings must have been somewhere between the 24 hour Infomercial Marathon and deadair....and the 24 hour Infomercial Channel is screaming because they came so close.
If you were watching, what did you think about last night's primetime line-up consisting of "Good Times" with Sonny and Cher, "Operation Bikini" starring the voice of Mr Magoo, and "He Laughed Last" starring the Maytag Repairman?
The lame excuse for showing this drek is that it starred actors known better for their voices in animated tv shows. After watching these movies it is easy to see why. Hey TCM, how about a new theme like "Movies that don't suck"?
There has to be an underlying reason for this type of programming. Perhaps these movies are "Public Domain" and therefore cost TCM nothing to show?
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TCM does not show "The Godfather", "Raging Bull" "Goodfellas" etc. TCM's idea of modern "classics" is pretty well defined by their repeated scheduling of "Sleepless in Seattle", "Tootsie", "The China Syndrome", "The Karate Kid" and anything that stars Goldie Hawn. So, if you want TCM to show more modern classics then those sort of movies is what you will get. If the distributor (only to be blamed, never credited) decides to send TCM pan and scanned versions of those movies, that's the way TCM will air them.
I only mentioned the pan&scan thing because an earlier poster said something about TCM showing its movies uncut, in their original aspect ratio and commercial free. And that just isn't true.
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One thing that everyone seems to ignore is that TCM does indeed show formatted to fit your TV screen movies.
1) "Lovers and Other Strangers" shown last month was either Pan&Scan or a made-for-tv movie. Either way, that movie didn't need to be shown as it was pure crap to be rivaled only by Thursday Night's PRIMETIME showing (as if they are really rubbing our noses in it) of "Good Times" This movie was so bad, their own studio didn't even want to release it to the theaters. So WHY do we get to see it here? Were there a lot of requests for this movie or the aforementioned "Lovers and Other Strangers"? Were there ANY?
2) Last week, TCM showed a formatted version of "Magnificent Obsession" There was a great deal of debate on whether this film was formatted or not, but none by anyone that actually watched it.
3) Again last week, "Come Blow Your Horn" was shown in Pan&Scan. There was a seperate thread relating to this and the TCM progammer chose to avoid it even though the thread was directly addressed to him/her.
The more 70's, 80's and 90's movies that TCM decides to show us, the more likely we will be getting more pan&scan.....which is exactly the way all of the other crappy cable channels show them.
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Thank you Fred C. Dobbs.
I was on the fence about this one, but I think I will record it. I am still kicking myself for not recording "Flying Down to Rio" the last time that it was on. Who knows when they will show that one again?
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lzcutter,
I have nothing against Susan Hayward, I just thought it interesting that none of the "I" movies were hers. She has been in several that started with "I", possibly more than any other top star.
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You may have the right idea. I am going to have to stay up until 1:30am to start one recording and then set my alarm clock so I change the disc and start another recording at 3:30am.
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Now this is what TCM should be doing all the time!
George Brent, Busby Berkley, The "I" movies that don't even include a single Susan Hayward title etc. This is the type of programming that got me hooked on TCM in the first place. My DVD recorder will be working practically non-stop until.......8:00pm Thursday when we are dashed back to reality with that awful Sonny and Cher garbage. No matter, that will give me time to label all of my DVDs and give my recorder a chance to cool down.
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I am looking forward to "In This Our Life" at 9:00am on Wednesday. Olivia De Havilland with Bette Davis.
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I too can vouch for the fact that it is indeed Chet Baker singing "Look for the Silver Lining"
I saw the intro for "Syncopation Station" for the first time last week and I loved it.
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I agree entirely. I just had to chuck a recorded DVD of last night's "Magnificent Obsession" as it was obviously panned and scanned. If TCM is going to show pan and scanned versions of certain movies, then they should at least show the common courtesy of letting us know ahead of time. And if the "edited" version of these certain movies are the only ones available, then maybe they don't belong on the channel that advertises that it shows its movies unedited. There are plenty of rarely shown movies in TCM's library that are in their original format to replace them with.
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1:85 is a widescreen format. "Magnificent Obsession" and apparently "Come Blow Your Horn" was shown in 4:3 which means that the ends were hacked off. It sure looked like pan and scan to me. The framing was awful. Did either you or CineSage actually watch these two movies? I don't recall seeing any disclaimer at the beginning of either of those two movies by TCM though.
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I guess my "Club Paradise" didn't carry the weight that I thought it would. How about that car crash scene in "The World According to Garp"??? I was called away in the middle of it, did anyone see what happened?