deeanddaisy666
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Absolutely, bansi.
At the risk of sounding too treacley, and since I'm usually one of the first to complain, I'd like to say again how 'swell' this crime wave spate of movies is.
And how pleased I am to see a company promise to fix something and then fix it. That don't happen that often in New York, so I'm quite a cynic.
TCM, whatever you do, DON'T let Rainbow Media or Clear Channel buy you.
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tcmprogrammer, as wonderful as the recent 91(91!) crime movie film fest is, and it is! (and I should stop with the accolades, I'm even making me sick), I wonder if you have the following in your library:
ALL the Philo Vance movies..........i.e., the William Powell three that are NOT shown while The Kennel Murder Case is constantly shown:
The Greene Murder Case
The Canary Murder Case
The Benson Murder Case
and the other Warren William one:
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hmmmm, interesting thread. Are you saying films that are depicting winter scenes CAN be made during the height of winter? Those of us not cinematically savvy thought there was some adverse reaction on the camera, blah, blah, blah.
Do you mean to say it is only about the comfort of the actors and executives? That the obviously FAKE snow strewn about in 'A Christmas Story' was unnecessary, that they COULD have waited until a real snow fell and the kid who grew up to be a porn star would REALLY have had his tongue stick to the pole?
But seriously, I was under the impression, ALL these years, that real winter weather had a detrimental effect on film equipment. I'd be very interested to hear it was just the lazy, yuppified actors and directors who insist on throwing around the fake snow in the middle of Miami, Florida.
You're right, slappy, even the cinematically challenged can tell FAKE at 40 yards. But never mind, 'continuity' (and the lack thereof) annoys me even more than fake snow.
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Well, I'll be horn swaggled! I do believe you're right, tcmweb. It worked, first time. And thank you.
By the way, tcmweb and tcmprogrammer.....NINETY ONE crime dramas have been programmed during this crime film fest?????
GOLD, pure gold. I can't tape fast enough!!! Thank you, I'm in movie heaven.
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Of course, pfornatar, we're definitely looking a gift horse in the mouth.
Wait until TCM goes the way of AMC and then we'll all be wishing they still showed the Silents. I don't like Silent movies, by and large, although I did like W.C. Fields' short films.
However, as you said, they are cinematic history and anyone who believes we could have gotten to the present day genre of sex and gore and gratuitious violence and overpaid actors without the innovations at the turn of the century is sorely mistaken.
As with anything in the media, there should be no tolerance for talk of censorship. If anyone doesn't like a particular film or type of film...hmmm, here's a hint, turn......off........the.........television.
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No, slappy, I don't, but then I never got into the Bond movies. I'm the first to agree Lord didn't have enormous range, but I found him sexy.
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Nice try. Nope, I won't go to an individual notification site, since this is a problem AFFECTING THE ENTIRE MESSAGE BOARD.
The problem, in a word? It take 1001 clicks to log in, another 1001 clicks on the 'reply' button to a message to bring up a reply form that DOESN'T say: YOU ARE A GUEST AND ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO PERFORM THAT FUNCTION, and ANOTHER 1001 clicks to actually get the message THROUGH.
How's that? Are we clear on the problem? I believe the problem is with whomever you are paying to supply this board format. They are using two cans and a string, and two chimps are at the controls.
SO, why don't YOU let us know via this message board when you REALLY have the problem fixed?
Thanks so much.
I realize this board is free, but we PAY for the privilege of accessing your station, so we ARE paying customers after all, aren't we?
Finally, is customer satisfaction of any importance to you?
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Well, personally I'd prefer to be able to post here without a million and one clicks during which I am called a 'guest' a million and two times.
But getting back to OT, before we go wishing Mr. Osbourne starts jumping around like that annoying little rubber faced man in the amusement park commercials, let's remember that Bob Dorian and Nick Clooney just stood there, and now I miss them, and I miss what AMC was.
So, Mr. Osbourne can nail his shoes to the floor for all I care, as long as they don't change the movie database.
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I agree, again...lol, did so in another post.
Amazing week of programming, kudos to TCM.
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I'm confused here. I read Tokien's trilogy, loved it, but hated how it was brought to the screen. Hated it.
So? Isn't it all about choices and personal opinions? Read, don't read. Like a film, don't like it. Hey, a whole boatload of people liked Mel Gibson's gimmick, so, what does that prove?
This is America, not Iraq.
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ladymirabelle, yes! Wow, so few people remember that show. I had a serious crush (along with the one on Robert Fuller) on Jack Lord in that show. In fact, I can *hear* the theme right this minute in my head!
Then, I hear that he was gay. Now, come on, Jack Lord? Cary Grant, Nathan Lane (okay, I'm an idiot), Jack Lord? NOT that there's anything wrong with it, but why the guys that I found yummy?
Remember him in those chaps???
*sigh*
Hey, speaking of teevee shows that were on for a minute and a half, do you remember 'Coronet Blue' with Frank Converse???
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Well, bless your heart, tcmprogrammer (although I'm begging you, *please* fix the login system or change the format of this site), this week is heaven sent to me.
An entire week of crime dramas, I'm in film heaven.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, and finally, thank you.
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Ah, so that's Ben Mankiewicz. No, sorry, don't like him. He reminds me of the efforts made by AMC to bring in the 'youts' before the station crashed and burned.
Robert, we miss ye.
Oh, and the log in procedure still reeks.
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Good question (now that the board is allowing me to answer it). Some that come to mind:
King Kong...I remember crying for the ape, setting a pattern early on where I had more compassion for the animals of the world than the human population that is decimating them.
The Wizard of Oz...again, not being a particular fan of reality, I became an early fan of 'fantasy' films. Thanks to AMC and TCM, I have seen the many gems of this genre.
The Alastair Sim version of 'A Christmas Carol'...THE one and only, THE best. It used to only come on, way back when, on a local channel, WPIX, at 11:30p.m. on Christmas Eve, and if I didn't catch it, that was it until next year! LOL, that was before VCRs and tapes and cable teevee, of course. However, all the modern technology in the world and all the subsequent versions of this film still can't erase that early awe of this movie.
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One more time...........I don't CARE how they COULD have come up with those legions of orcs.......I didn't LIKE the legions of orcs and I wouldn't watch part deux of the legions of orcs. I...don't...care.
More power to their technological brilliance...heck, I remember admiring the audioanimatronics from the 1964 World's Fair...but I don't want it in my movies. I didn't like 'Matrix', I have no interest in a host of other whiz bang VFX movies. On the other hand, I did like the way they morphed Tony Shaloub's head in 'Men In Black' and how that technology has been transferred to many television commercials. I find gimcracks in teevee commercials quite interesting.
No grudge here, no interest in treating them differently, just intense dislike.
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This is getting me madder. With other sites, if one doesn't shut down the browser, the log-in remains. NOT with TCM.
tcmprogrammer, what gives? Is there a feedback function...no, I haven't seen one...where all the complaints about this despicable log-in system can be directed?
It is completely ridiculous and unwarranted. I KNOW it's all about money, I work for a money-centric corporation, and they don't GET more money-centric than Time Warner. Are we not providing enough return for the thought of money output in system upgrade? Is THAT what it is?
We're giving TCM 'eyeballs', aren't we? Don't they get advertising based on 'eyeballs'?
Helllooooooo????????
And now I start the cycle....you're logged in, you're not logged in, you're not permitted that as a guest, blah, blah, blah, et cetera, et cetera.
Come on, you geniuses in Time Warner, get your act together. Hmmmm, perhaps a boycott of all things Time Warner? How would THAT grab your little purse strings?
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Really, tcmprogrammer....you haven't given up on us, have you with all our bitchin'n'moanin'? But this 'you're logged in, you're not logged in' loop is ludicrous, ridiculous and egregious!!
Oh, hatorihanzo, I have NO alternative to the legions of dinosaurs or orcs or whatever that CGI allows. I am just an elderly curmudgeon and I prefer my special effects small and personal, like Ray Harryhausen's and War of World's spaceships. I don't like seas and seas of people or anything else that is obviously not real.
But that's me. The 'youts' of today, I imagine, love that stuff. They are welcome to it.
Me, I get more than annoyed at not being able to easily post here and rude cell phone users and ill mannered children, so you can't go by me. I'm just someone who was born too late and has a big mouth. And, oh yes, is to the right of Attila the Hun in political opinion.
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orson4ever, I completely agree about the LOTR movies. I tried the first one, and won't go back. I do not like movies that rely almost entirely on computer generated images to give the impression of HUGE fields of anything, animals, people, whatever. I am NOT impressed. The books were much better.
Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard leave me cold, so I never watched 'Breakfast'. THE movie that rakes the nails on the blackboard in my brain is 'Sound Of Music'. I'm happy to say I've never seen more than a promo, since the first notes of 'The hills are....' send me screaming from the room, in much the same way that Andrea Bocelli's voice does.
Michael Moore? LOL, I won't even start on how much he skeeves me out.
orson4ever, do you remember John Lennon on the Mike Douglas show? Now *that* was an odd interview, don't you think? However, no more odd than the promo I passed for the 'John Lennon jewelry' on QVC....can you IMAGINE????
Speaking of odd, do you also remember Jack Douglas and his wife Reiko? Apparently a very talented writer, but at the time he seemed (to me) quite outrageous. I believe he was ahead of his time.
P.S. STILL getting 'you are not authorized'.
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Well, I only have AIM, no AOL. And as someone here said, it helps to login on first getting to the site. Though not always.
Well, I have no idea, but I'm sure tcmprogrammer will.
But.........the bottom line is money.
P.S. I'm not being allowed to post this. It is saying "GUESTS are not allowed to perform that function". And I tried hitting refresh.
HOW frustrating.
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Nah, slappy. Keep trying. There are lots and lots of good people here.
Neither have I seen such a messed up message board fostered by one of the richest corporations in the world. Heck, Yahoo is bad, and even THEY are not as bad as this board.
And oh, by the way, Brando was by NO stretch of the imagination the 'world's greatest actor'.
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Slappy, it's more than horrific.
Even having an AOL id doesn't help. Logging in takes many, many, MANY tries. I have addressed this in the past, under another id, and to no avail. I have changed my id to stoneyburke666 from deeanddaisy666 in an attempt to make it easier.
tcmprogrammer, you who are SO attentive, what gives with the morons in charge?
I too am curious why Time Warner gives no attention to this.
Perhaps they can't afford it?
Yeah, right.
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alwaystcm, 'Forbidden Planet' is going to be shown on July 5 at 3:30pm.
Good idea, a SciFi theme. There were a few I never saw and would like to catch, particularly one about a kid and aliens taking over the bodies of people he knows (?). Heck, I even went so far as to *buy* 'Brain From Planet Arous' because it was never shown anymore, and it was...sigh...one of Robert Fuller's (big crush) first screen appearances.
However, tcmprogrammer, don't give TCM the idea that we want *all* new *all* the time! Or the PTB will do an AMC on us, and that would be a horror.
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Hmmm, in addition to most of the character actors of the 1930s and 1940s, my favorites include (in no particular order):
Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, John Garfield, Cary Grant, James Cagney, Walter Huston, Warren William, James Gleason, William Powell, Dick Powell, Robert Montgomery, Robert Young, Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Dana Andrews, Ray Milland, Paul Muni, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, John Mills, Fred MacMurray, Brian Donlevy, Warner Oland, Sidney Toler, Basil Rathbone, Joseph Cotten, Bela Lugosi, Ricardo Cortez, Harold Lloyd, Claude Rains, George Raft, Buster Keaton, Eddie Bracken and Joel McCrea.
I think that's about it for the men, I may have left some out, and then there are the women.....I'll come back!
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Yum....'The Lady Vanishes' (oh, that writing on the window in the mist), 'Strangers On A Train', and if you can catch it, 'The Shanghai Express' with Marlene Dietrich and Sidney Toler as a character (bad, bad man) named Chang...can you believe it!?
Sigh....oh, the sound of the train, the image of someone falling off a train...'Shadow of a Doubt'....there's nuthin' like a train movie!! Unless, of course, it's a film noir movie ON a train........sigh.
Oh, and of course, they have to be in glorious black and white.
Philo Vance.......
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Thanks, all. So is the bottom line that Universal would not allow TCM to show those films on a 'lease' basis (is that how it's done, they're leased?)? What would be the benefit to them, I can't see everyone rushing out to buy any of these movies on DVD (or VHS).
Is it a case of the dog in the manger?
Does a film get into the public domain if the studio which made it no longer wishes to retain the rights? Again, why would one old film (Kennel Murder Case) get into the public domain while the other three are still being held?
LOL, thanks for the class in the business of cinema. Fascinating stuff.