deeanddaisy666
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I'm confused. So if I buy a film from TCM, which I wouldn't, I am actually buying the film from Warner Brothers, which I wouldn't? Do they reveal that? So here I am thinking I am helping keep TCM alive, when in fact I am contributing to a corporate giant?
So did TCM sell off their movies like the Beatles sold off their song rights...because they were stupid?
I am constantly hearing about global this and global that, the world is shrinking, blah, blah, blah. So if 'it's a small world afterall', why isn't some thought given to making the TCM face one around the world? Might there not be a classics hungry fan in Australia or China who wants to see Carole Lombard or Cary Grant? Do they only get Cher and SHAFT?
So who is in charge of TCM China? Who decides what they see? Can the people complain?
I wonder, are there ornery curmudgeons in Australia and China?
dolores
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Interesting Larry, thanks for the info.
dolores
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Wow, pktrekgirl, I can believe that, but what sick little individuals.
You mention a scifi board...do you follow and talk about the X-Files? I have only recently started watching this show and am confused beyond all reason but love the show with the same lack of reason. I'd be happy to come to your board if you discuss this show. If yes, and you would be so kind, can you PM me the url? Thanks!
dolores
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Larry, your travelogue has been fascinating and I appreciate your sharing.
Good trip home.
By the way, is my memory completely shot or were you supposed to see my new fave singer Leonard Cohen there?
dolores
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I agree, sweetbabykmd -- pot calling kettle black.
Ah, well, I feel sorry for him, he doesn't even see what he is.
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Holy cow, GM, where DO you find these pictures? I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of Nils Asther before, and find him too effeminate for my tastes, but what a FAScinating picture.
Simply fascinating and as has been noted, such an embodiment of everything we here hold dear about the Hollywood of old and also a symbol of everything which Hollyweird today is not.
Thank you, GM.
dolores
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I was just about to ask that question. Since there is SO much emphasis on this now being a 'global' economy, why wouldn't TCM be able to show their stable of films worldwide?
tcmprogrammer is the expert, nataliefan, perhaps he can tell us.
dolores
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montgomery4me, I too found the ending scenes in The Grifters amazing, but toooooo intense. I wasn't 'spoiled' when I first saw the movie and I'd have to look away now since I know what is coming.
By the way, I claimed Sterling Hayden as one of my hunks awhile ago here.
I never knew he was a major **** until I saw him in his early movies, thank you TCM.dolores
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Yes, and has been pointed out TCM showed 6,934 b/w movies and 1135 crap movies since midnight of Dec. 30, 2005.
No, the above are not facts, I am being sarcastic.
The FACT remains that TCM the 'classic' channel should NOT be showing SHAFT.
SHAFT is not classic, never was classic, never will be classic, not in 2006, not in 2036, not in the year 2525.
dolores
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I just don't get it.
SHAFT is ....... what?.......... a classic movie??????
Peggy24, you're absolutely right. Many of us here have been getting that 'feeling' about TCM for the past year. As others are quick to point out, they didn't turn out the 'classic' lights overnight, as AMC did, but they have been sneaking in crap here and there.
Welcome to the board. I'm a coot...56...and a curmudgeon. Fact is, TCM is the only station left in the vast wasteland of cable television (without paying for premium stations) that is worth a tinker's damn.
dolores
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He had graduated College for Pete's sake, and he still didn't know what to do with himself except lay around the pool all summer?!!?
Ummm, I graduated college with a teaching certificate, didn't want to teach (student teaching terrified me), so my father, bless him, paid to send me to graduate school for library science. I then, kicking and screaming (kidding) went to work as a librarian, got laid off due to budget cuts, and have been with the same corporation for 30 years.
Yes, I was spoiled but I did get down to it. I can see how a rich spoiled kid like Benjamin would act as he did. Heck, I know kids like that today.
The movie was a product of its times, but heck, so were many movies of the 1930s and 1940s.
I miss the 1960s and 1970s, she said, sounding like an old coot.
Interesting subject, heidigunn!!
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Who's walking behind you now, Joan?
I remember when Joan used to say that in her act on Carson or wherever. What goes around does indeed come around.
I can just see that other little woman, asking Joan: can we talk??
Ewww.
I never could warm to Dietrich. La Streep reminds me of her, I don't ever care what happens to Streep in her movies, when I watch them, which isn't often.
Then again, neither Dietrich nor Streep care what I think!
dolores
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I like this just fine.
You go, girl.
...I never had the experience as a young person of having a dog, I'm revelling in that experience now.
Amen.
It's a new century, and women are not so reticent about expressing their dissatisfaction with the way they are treated by some men.
Amen. Although I've met some very young women who scare me in their rabid wish to be married just for the sake of 'being married'.
Just think about the disparaging way many men speak of women.
Amen. And have, for ages and ages and ages. We have a long way to go to catch up.
It doesn't mean we don't want each other.
Amen. Equal is nice, isn't it? I realize it's a fairly new concept, but equal is nice.
We just need, from time to time, to vent our frustrations at the unfathomable differences.
Amen. Men ARE from Mars, and women ARE from Venus. Now, if we could all just appreciate the differences and quit trying to change each other and LISTEN to each other and treat each other as dogs treat us...well then it would be just swell, wouldn't it?
dolores
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That's funny, inglis. Take it from me, who learned baking and not debate...she's better off with debate.
When she's a high powered exec in one of the corporations which currently have a glass ceiling for women, she can either: a. take a baking class in continuing ed or b. hire someone to do her baking for her!!!
GM, agree on the plastics line. Yes, it was omniscient wasn't it? Who would have thought cars would someday have more plastic in them than metal? We ALL should have bought stock in DOW.
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sugarpuss, I have to agree with you. I even, sad to say, bought the album (vinyl) which contained the Simon and Garfunkel songs, I found the song Mrs. Robinson spoke to me, even at the age of 20. Still have the album.
I was a sucker for the 'plastics' line, I liked the ending...I was and still am a rebellious hippie...and the movie was just one of the coming of age messages I took to heart in the 1970s, like Midnight Cowboy.
Now, I confess, I wouldn't even rewatch it. However, I also wouldn't flay it, as it was a product of its time, as were many movies of the 1920s, 1960s, and 1970s. They had their good points at the time, but they don't stand up to the dissection of 2006.
So, as with much of what I did in the 1960s and 1970s...what happened in those decades stays in those decades...I can cut The Graduate some slack and save my ire for other, more inferior movies.....can you guess which one?
dolores
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Give me a man who can be as compassionate as my dogs were and I'll marry him pronto!
sugarpuss, I have a favorite saying (and I think men are delightful): buy a dog, rent a man.
Thank you for your kindness.
dolores
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I'm on my second poodle, and neither was as you described, RTRiley. Depends, again, on the breeder and how they are trained, much as well- or ill-behaved kids are brought up to be that way.
My first was a rescue toy, an elderly, quiet, sweet old girl who died of kidney failure. I miss her still. The new guy is a healthy brute of a miniature boy, happy and full of P&V. Both are quiet unless an intruder requires a bark, and are very companionable.
The ugly, noisy, hyper stereotype you speak of, RT, belong in the same category as the monstrous pit bulls or the nasty Pomeranians. Genes will out, in the end.
dolores
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"The Grifters" is a very interesting movie.
Very interesting indeed. The theme is timeless, the acting very good, and the ending shocking. I highly recommend it, even though I don't think I could watch it again.
Someday, when the planets align correctly, I hope to see After Dark, My Sweet.
dolores
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Oh...thanks vallo13!
I'm sorry to hear about John Colicos, he had a very distinctive voice.
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Actually, heidigunn, I was incorrect. Dogs, ANY dog, can be vicious if so trained AND if their genes are inferior. With the preponderence of 'insert-your-breed-here'---doodles out there, there are many, many suspect cross breeds whose temperaments are questionable. A Labradoodle is NOT guaranteed to be kind and gentle because the idea of a Labrador is a gentle dog. There are many ill-bred Labradors which are in pounds because they turned out to be high strung whackjobs.
I have a miniature poodle and his breeder lied to me about his background. He is a wonderful dog, but has serious possession issues. He also came with two luxating patellas, but I am dealing with those.
A dog's inherent temperament is, if bred correctly, tied back to the reason for which it was bred. I.E., a well bred Maltese is stubborn and very attuned to one person in a household. Ditto with a Chihuahua. A German Shepherd was bred for guarding and attack. Ditto with a Pit Bull or a Rottweiler. While all these dogs can be sweet and gentle, if their lineage is not spotless, there will be problems.
Hence you can have a toy poodle which bites just as you can have a Mastiff which bites. Thing is, the bite from a Mastiff will be more serious than the toy poodle.
Dog ownership is a very serious responsibility and not to be taken lightly. Unfortunately, too many of today's McMansion yuppies who want a dog as a 'paris hilton' accessory and fork over $1K to a pet store which usually gets its dogs from puppy mills is taking a very big chance on a creature they will have in their house for 15+ years.
Off my soapbox...dolores
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John Colicos, Don Gordon, and Anthony Zerbe.
I have no idea, these were just three guys who were around a lot and now are gone. Dead, perhaps?
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jdb1, he's not smart at all.
You'll notice that he never engages in conversation, he only makes inane comments and rushes away like the coward he is.
He is not smart, he is simply a pompous ****.
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sorry you asked, eh?
Nope, pretty much my sentiments exactly. The Paleface? Yikes, even the title gives me the heebie jeebies. I saw only a few minutes, and it made me cringe. Seemed the type of movie that Ben M. would introduce.
Ick.
dolores
I never knew he was a major **** until I saw him in his early movies, thank you TCM.
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Thanks, lzcutter and markfp2. It makes sense, but it's still all about business.
And as much as I hear, day in and day out, how these corporations who make trillions in profits still have to do better, I haven't lost my old hippie sensibility that they are all greedy pigs.
Yes, Ted did this and Warners did that and TCM is now doing this, and they have only the good of the people at heart. Bull. The bottom line is still the bottom line and it's what drives Ted and Warners and TCM.
Oh, and don't think I am naive enough to believe money isn't everything because of course it is. Money is what it's all about in the world today.
HowEVER, when I listen to the platitudes put out over the airwaves by this politician or that media mogul on how things are changing for the better...isn't Warners Brothers now some inane CW channel, a meaningless acronym to me...then put your thirty pieces of silver where your mouth is.
If we're going global, then go global. Give the people what they want. Don't make it hard for feaito in Chile to see the movies he wants, or montgomery4me in Germany to see the movies he wants.
Just as TCM can show more classics than it is currently showing, but continues to blather on with doublespeak on how it is giving the people what they want, the international TCM can pay more attention to its audience without bleating about this right or that lease. Yes, markfp2, I quite know about internal dollars and external dollars and value for the stockholder. In the end, the corporations are run on the backs of the people who made them, and when is enough money enough money? As someone asked our chairman at a shareholder's meeting, just why DO you need $20K a day in pension when the retirees are struggling to make their medical premiums. No answer was given.
Oh, and to those who feel the need to censor me, this is my opinion.