deeanddaisy666
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Of course. He lends the same air of class that Bob Dorian and Nick Clooney used to add to AMC, before they dumbed it down with the young guy. And even he was finally fired, and they now have no humans at all, just commercials.
I do have to say, though, that I don't like Ben M.
By the way, kimbo, have you read Bob Osborne's resume? Quite impressive.
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My apology, jhnrndglt, in thinking you might be leo. I just saw another post of yours, and the spelling was completely correct, a skill in which he is sorely lacking. I imagine he will be going into an 'open admission' college which has an "English for Dummies" remedial class for Freshmen who were too stupid to learn English by the time they graduated high school.
jhnrndglt, I'm still curious as to why you think leo is genuine, however.
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I'm curious, jhnrndglt, what gives you the impression that leo is an 'author'? Are you saying that he has an online book where there are STILL typos?
He is trying to pass as an author here and is not doing a very good job. In addition, he is hawking an obscure little book for which he seems to have written his OWN review on Amazon. And now you mean to say that he is making it available online and it HAS MISSPELLINGS?
jhnrndglt, wouldn't you believe that even an ONLINE book has an editor and a proofreader?
Or, leo, have you taken on YET another alias? Have you no shame?
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For the sake of sanitization, replace leo with an empty chair.
Leo, you're a one note song.
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Same here, mypalspencer. Born in 1950...I know, OLD!...but we didn't have a teevee until 1953, drat!!
Was weaned on the thing, however, I remember Winky Dink (my father wouldn't send away for the plastic screen), Ding Dong School and of course Kukla Fran and Ollie. There was talk of Beany and Cecil at another board...oh, just realized this is off topic, so don't kill me, ok?...and there apparently was a Beany puppet show that included Beany's creator, Bob Clampett and Stan Freberg! Ah, the clever guys (and gals) behind early television.
But at any rate, with only one television in the house, I HAD to watch what my father wanted to watch, and so didn't get a wide variety of early movies...he liked Westerns.
If I recall, movies weren't on that much in primetime, mypal? Maybe it's for that reason that I remember the themes from TMDM and TLLS more than the movies themselves? Seems to me I had an early curfew for the longest time. Oh well, guess back them kids weren't allowed to mouth off to their parents and get away with it.
Thanks for the memories, mypal.
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classics, thanks for the info on Aug. 1...my VCR will get a break from all the crime wave taping!!
evh, that would be me. BEFORE they wrote the manager of the station into a bogus SPY vs SPY plot, that show was delightful, warm, and soooo enjoyable.
tcmprogrammer, holder of the keys, can TCM wrest 'Remember WENN' away from the classics pretender AMC?
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Thank you, tcmprogrammer!!!
To everyone here who likes Abbott and Costello, and is a sap about fantasy movies (as I am), be sure to catch this one.
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classics, the routine was from 'Lost In A Harem'. Read the first two questions/answers here to see the answer to yours, and a mention of MY favorite Bud and Lou movie, 'The Time of Their Lives'. I hope TCM shows the latter one of these days, I haven't seen it in years and years.
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Funny, moira. As I was watching one of the wonderful obscure TCM film noirs today, 'Crime By Night', I was thinking the exact same thing about Jerome Cowan.
Jerome WHO????
Yup, you've seen him a gazillion times...he was in 138 films and made 57 television appearances...but he absolutely delighted in this film. His timing was impeccable, his delivery was spot on, and he even did a darned good job of 'getting the girl'...in this case Jane Wyman.
And you are correct, both Van Heflin AND Van Johnson were better than their material. I personally love to focus on the second string actors, to me they flesh out a movie and without them the 'stars' would be talking to their reflections in a mirror.
A personal case in point is Clark Gable, almost as much of a non-actor (he is simply a 'star') as John Wayne. My opinion, mind you, and I don't advocate burning any films that Clark Gable is in.......
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True, Max Schreck, Klaus Kinski and Gary Oldman all played an unattractive Dracula.
Bela Lugosi, imho, was an achingly sexy Dracula..........
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tcmprogrammer, when the day comes that I am no longer upset that I missed THIS film noir or THAT film noir at 6:00am or 3:00am, THEN I'll be the first to let you know that you have joined the ranks of an AMC.
As of RIGHT now, today, you are THE best movie station in the sewer that is cable television...and satellite television, I'm sure, although I wouldn't pay those crooks for the pleasure of their hundred plus extra crap channels.
Bingo, you are a "network that is about the history of film". I don't like color films, I don't like silent films, but I ADORE black and white films, especially the 'film noir, venetian blind, shadow on the wall, striped furniture, everyone wearing suits and dresses' films. And all the others that I DON'T like are as much a part of the history of film as the Gutenberg Bible is part of the history of literature.
Okay, so I have a "specialized" interest in your films.
SO WHAT?????
So everyone ELSE who has a specialized interest in your films should....here, I'll say it slow, so the grammatically challenged can follow....PICK.......AND.........CHOOSE.
DON'T turn ON TCM when they DON'T have something you don't like. Take an English course at your local high school, learn to spell correctly, learn to read, and then peruse your television guide to find out WHEN THEY ARE programming something you like.
DUH..........was THAT so difficult to understand?
tcmprogrammer, I am a cranky, obstreperous, often crudely written New Yawk poster, but your channel...which, by the way, the jackasses at Rainbow Cablevision TOOK TEN YEARS TO BRING TO MY LINEUP...is THE best thing since sliced bread. Okay, well, at least since the early AMC. Say, can you buy 'Remember WENN' from the idiots at AMC? What a WONDERFUL little series that was.
SO, take the barbs and put them aside, but take the compliments to heart. You all, amazingly, since I also hate the corporate entertainment industry to pieces, are wonderful.
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Of course you are correct, kimbo. Silents are a part of film history, and although I am not a big fan of them, I have come to strongly dislike what leo has suggested. And he a 'supposed' author.
TCM is doing the audience a service by programming silents. If leo and his ilk want the sanitized, MTV, Clear Channel, Rainbow Media, Rupert Murdoch version of entertainment history, they can always:
change....the....channel.
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brackenhe, you mean you're not in awe of our resident author's command of the English language?
Too bad, I guess he's not also exiting, stage right.
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'The' book? Don't you mean 'My' book? Slipped up there, youngster. Gotta keep in mind that you're pretending to be an author, not just a poster who assumed the name of an author of a verrry obscure book. Does Leo on that film site know you're using his name?
Oh, and BUY the book, WHY would I want to do that? I don't even KNOW Leo...then again, neither do you. By the way, the book review you wrote as 'leslie' is quite obvious.
And again, an AUTHOR who doesn't know how to spell 'crap'...OH, come on, graduate high school first and then come back to post.
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Now, now, no need for profanity. What are you, sixteen?
A writer who *should* know how to spell 'ridiculous' and 'damned' SHOULD be able to understand the following three words...
CHANGE THE CHANNEL.
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>my, how clever you all think you are.
No, Leo, you're the one who has been trying to impress us all since day one with your genius at 'supposedly' having written A book. By the way, I don't ANY other author in the world who would have mentioned their 'supposed' ONE book as often as you have here.
Darn, and here I said I was going to stop this.
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"stonebrook": Mongo, that must be me.
Let's see, leo the, ahem, 'writer' couldn't even cut and paste my name or spell 'swallowed' correctly, made a presumption about my viewing preferences, and insulted my intellect. Then he went on to infer that because *I* haven't created a 'book', that I should keep quiet. And his last sentence made no sense at all.
Well, I did promise not to speak to the troll, I believe I'd better stop talking *about* the troll as well, since this is getting us all nowhere. He is accomplishing what he is setting out to do, i.e., disrupt this board.
I assume he will only be happy when TCM turns into AMC.
You're welcome, tcmprogrammer, and know that:
a. there are many here who appreciate what you do, and
b. you can NEVER make all of the people happy all of the time.
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You know, leo, you remind me of a poster on another board I frequent on mysteries. He constantly crows about how intelligent, rich and successful he is with his own computer business. Now, of late, he has branched out into misogyny. All this, at a board designed to talk about mysteries.
I am all for going off topic, in fact, this is off topic. At yet another board on radio and film, I was censured for going off topic, and I ask indulgence for this post.
But to my point. While just about everyone here is very civil, very thoughtful, and very well spoken, you came here with tales of your editorial prowess. Now, even an idiot knows that someone can plug 'author' into Google and come up with an author of SOME book which no one has read, and then use that name to post on a movie board. Your posts included and invited insults. I'm impressed that your retentive powers are still intact, but so, sir, are mine.
I too am at fault many times, in that my New Yawk language can be coarse. I tend not to write by halves - if I dislike something I, unfortunately, usually don't hide that fact. On the other hand, if something or someone needs a compliment, I am more than effusive in my praise. And TCMprogrammer deserved more than a few compliments this month, and you, sir, were way off base with your implication on his behalf.
Finally, I now no longer believe you are whom you pretend to be. No writer could (or would) construct a sentence as poorly as you have here, and push the 'send' button. By the way, back in your original 'Doris Day' post, the correct word is 'interpret', not 'interrupt'. I won't bother posting to you any longer, I think your sole aim here is disruption.
You, sir, are a troll.
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No, sorry, leo. You are quite wrong on the programming of TCM. When it even comes CLOSE to the horror that was the 'new and improved' AMC, I will be the first to let you know.
You are wrong. The mix is very good, there isn't always a movie I like, but then there are festivals like this last month that make every exorbitant dollar I pay the monopolistic Cablevision worth it. Okay, well almost.
To those of us who won't get a satellite dish just to have forty more poker and reality channels, TCM is THE only decent movie channel amongst the 57 channels of crap on the air (of 'family' cable) right now. Agreed? THE ONLY DECENT MOVIE CHANNEL.
So please don't imply that a human being who, in this day and age of indifference and offshoring and illiteracy and the inability to speak English and rudeness, PERSONALLY COMES to this board to answer questions and take suggestions BACK to the PTB, should be "let go".
IF you do not like the lineup of TCM, leo, change the channel.
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mypal, was 'The Late Late Show' the one with the 'Syncopated Alarm Clock' theme????????? I LOVE that song.
It was only AGES later that I found out that theme had a name and boy it was nice to know it. A song from Leroy Anderson, who also wrote 'Sleigh Ride', which is used ubiquitously. Funny world.
mypal, are you from the Northeast? Did you also get 'The Million Dollar Movie' when you were young? THAT theme was 'Tara's Song' from GWTW. I never knew that, but my father called Channel Nine (can you believe it, the current POC UPN) and they told him the name of the song.
Dontcha love the way all those old movies are in your brain?
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Well, jpo, you might have gotten a little more empathy, but this week happens to be the 'Week From Heaven', chock full of the best crime film noir movies ever made, I don't know where they're getting them. AND, the people behind the corporate entity that is Time Warner fixed a computer glitch on these message boards that now allows for MORE (I bet they're sorry about fixing it!) posting than ever before! You have to understand, this many good things don't befall American people in one week. We're giddy with our good fortune. Okay, maybe it's just me.
So, if you really are still anxious for your movie, why don't you submit a 'suggestion' that they run it? Or, submit a post to TCMprogrammer, my current hero of the month.
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lolite, I don't remember the ending of the movie where Vincent Price talked to the audience, but I only saw 'The Tingler' for the first time not very long ago, and I do NOT think I could watch it again. The concept of the movie totally creeped me out, inserting the 'tingler' into a person's body and it would travel throughout the body and....holy ick, Batman. Reminds me of the urban legends I used to hear about the insect that crawled in a person's ear and travelled throughout their brain!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK! I have enough stress in my life without tinglers on my spine!!!!!!
LOL, but seriously, what a totally creepy movie. Reminds me of the very first time I watched 'Night of the Living Dead', the original of course. I was alone, it was night, and I completely and utterly creeped out. What a glorious experience THAT must have been in the movie theater! OH, and the first time I saw 'The Fly' THE ORIGINAL OF COURSE..........helpppppppp me, helllllllllllp me........ACK!
About the only equivalent I have is seeing 'Rodan' in the movie theater. Made a big impression on me.
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Interesting, thank you. Is the leasing of movies expensive? I would have thought that the pockets of Time Warner were nearly bottomless. Then again, perhaps they budget more for their executives than they do for the really important business of showing and preserving films?
Speaking of which, anyone here know what happened to the AMC film preservation program? Did they use all the preservation money they used to ask for to treat their execs to bigger limos? It's funny to see old tapes I have from the hey day of AMC which asked for donations for film preservation, when they no longer SHOW the films they supposedly preserved.
Well, however you're choosing to distribute your budget, tcmpgmr, you're doing an outstanding job this week.
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Ain't that the truth, lolite. Imagine how 91 films, for the most part 50 years and older, are giving SOOOO much pleasure to SOOOO many people.
Just think. Fast forward 50 years. Picture TCM still in business..........HAH! Cablevision will have bought them and turned them into a Shopping Channel.
Where was I? Oh yes, fast forward 50 years. TCM will have to come up with NINETY ONE 50 year old films of quality that don't have gaggles of computer generated effects, gratuitious sex, and mindless violence.
Then again, maybe the aforementioned WILL qualify as quality. Who knows.
Unless my head is still here, a la Dennis Potter, I'll be dead.
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Interesting, leo. Well, if you're not a 16 year old troll with an illiterate's command of the English language, you've given me an entirely new perspective on what it means to be a writer.
Oh, and no, I wouldn't enrich your wallet by buying your 'book'. Thanks all the same.