deeanddaisy666
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Thompson sounds interesting, JonParker.
I can still see the scene in The Grifters in my mind's eye. I'm sorry not having seen After Dark My Sweet, especially if it is similar.
dolores
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Hi Ned, glad to see you're still here.
One of my favorite dramatic performances of Ed's was in a Twilight Zone episode. I don't remember the name, but I believe the premise was Ed giving himself over to Death in place of a little girl. I firmly believe all good comedy is born out of serious introspection...laugh, clown, laugh and all that.
I also can't think of the film, but wasn't it one with Eddie Albert where your father had an excellent comedic role?
Under General Discussion on this board, a thread arose on Sterling Hayden. Do you know anything about him? He seemed a man's man, like Ryan, Mitchum and Marvin.
Are you writing anything we can watch for?
dolores
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Sharon Stone comes to mind.
But hands down, Joan Crawford could probably shrink 'em like they were in a pool.
dolores
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That's funny, ken. I too never paid much attention to Sterling (Dr. Strangelove was the only performance of his I had seen) until TCM.
Now's he right behind Warren on my 'hunk' list, along with Robert Ryan.
In trying to find the films where I was hubba-hubba'ing all over him, I went to imdb and found that he got into acting late, in 1941 (P.S. if I weren't mathematically challenged, I could subtract better and see that he was only 25). I'll have to go ask Ned if he knows why.
It seems I made an exception for Sterling, the two films I taped were made in the 1950s, The Killing and Crime of Passion. I can't tell if any others are crime films, but I would love to see more of his work in this genre. I enjoyed both films very much.
He, like Ryan, imo were men's men, chock full of testosterone. They'd just as soon deck a dame as kiss her.....and the dames loved it.
*sigh* where are the Haydens and Ryans of today?
dolores
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Hi AnotherBoomer, welcome to the board.
Here's a url to the producers of the piece, and if you scroll down to 'TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES THIS MONTH SEPTEMBER 2006', you can watch it to your heart's content:
dolores
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Well, I have to agree with you too, JonParker.
I guess that's a hallmark of ugly trolls, they are divisive on the boards they make a concerted effort to ruin.
No matter WHAT TCM is doing, it has no bearing on the fact that this ugly little person is posting here simply for the purpose of inciting us against each other.
I still can NOT get over the fact that he created TWO personas that had dying wives, in an imitation of the real tragedy endured by GarboManiac. That is beYOND reprehensible. He would be hard pressed to sit in a room with us all in real life and encounter civility, he can be assured of that. I don't care if he's 15 or 50 or 75, he is an ugly human being and I want to see him gone.
He is endangering the free message board that TCM has created, and that galls me most of all.
I have no answers, and I am very much saddened at all of this.
dolores
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It seems we have lost Ned.
I can understand why, considering the deconstruction of this board of late.
All the same, what a shame.
dolores
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HAH! I agree, sweetbabykmd.
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Granted, it's no Rocky and Bullwinkle.........but what is?
I imagine this is sarcasm (?) but imo, you're right. Anime can't hold a candle to Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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Nope, they don't. Even pitbulls don't attack people in real life unless they are so trained.
But Conan Doyle put the fear to good use with his phosporously-enhanced Great Dane or Mastiff in Hound Of The Baskervilles, as do the drug pushers who train their pit bulls, and the idea arose that dogs are vicious all on their own. Not so, it takes years of breeding and training to deconstruct man's best friend in his own sicko image.
dolores
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Yes....but. Is it a coincidence then that it began when TCM changed their audience focus?
What DID bring this creep here? And I repeat the question, why can't this creep's IP address be blocked?
It's disgusting how one vile little creature abuses the unequalled free speech of this board.
As someone mentioned, I would HATE to see this board turn into the Gestapo-like Television Without Pity board.
dolores
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Re 'our friend'.....can't an IP address be blocked? I thought that was possible? I can't imagine this cretin has more than one computer.
mrsl, I think I saw you say somewhere you were leaving. Please take a break and come back. I realize this 'thing' is putting out some very ugly posts, but I'm afraid 'it' might bring down the boards if we give in to 'it'.
silentfan66, you're quite right. I have long held that personal responsibility is a thing of the past. When I said 'civil liberties' were being used as an excuse in the school system, I meant the use of 'civil liberties' to absolve a parent from their innate responsibilities to present a well-mannered, well-spoken child to the school system. My kid is rude? My kid is violent? No way. And what's more, if you keep harrassing my kid, I'll get the newspapers and the lawyers after you, school system. So watch your step.
It was perhaps at the other end of the spectrum in 'my day'...if a teacher hit a kid, many times the parent hit them again if they went home and complained. Today, it has swung the other way, little (and big) kiddies can do no wrong. Junior can scream and run in a restaurant if he so desires. Little Miss can talk in a movie theater, isn't it wonderful that she likes to have a conversation? These kinds of behaviors are of course allowed in the home and carry over into society. These same ill-mannered, selfish individuals whose every needs are considered sacrosanct are the types of people Fred is now dealing with at 25. These savages even infiltrate boards such as these for the 'fun' of it.
I don't have the answer, I'm just an observer with a dog.
Good for you, silentfan66, and other parents who don't want to be their kid's 'friend', but rather want to impart rules, manners, instruction, and love into the human being they brought into the world in an attempt to make it a decent member of society.
God help us all.
dolores
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Seems you were right, Fred. I'm now sorry I debated its merits.
Too bad the decline of TCM is now affecting its message boards.
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Thanks, SusannO. Sorry I was chewing my cud twice.
dolores
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Mitchum reminded me of Sterling Hayden and Robert Ryan...a man's man to whom acting came naturally.
I liked him in Out Of The Past.
As much as I like Bogey, I even liked the older Mitchum in the remake of The Big Sleep.
dolores
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Hmmm, rainee, I don't remember that. I've been a fan of music videos since way back when, if they were done right...remember Eddie Money!!!!!!!????...but I don't remember the use of Silent Films.
I think the John Wayne insertion (wasn't it John in a bar?) and others like it annoyed me because of the heirs approving their deceased family to sell a product they most likely wouldn't really hawk. At the time, too, I think the technology wasn't that good and it was obvious that they were inserted...there was a halo effect around them, I think?
I guess I would have to review the videos in order to accurately give an opinion...even I wouldn't approve of Charlie Chaplin selling condoms, and I don't even like Chaplin.
dolores
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Cool, never heard of this before, Mr. Parker. This isn't the forum for my views on Mr. Bush's 'war on terrorism', quotes included for sarcasm.
But no, even I will admit, teachers can stop just short of this when trying to educate the idiots in their classes.
dolores
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If I must. Talk about a hack actor!
dolores
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Ahhhh. If you don't know, I can't tell you. It will take an economist, a lawyer, a priest and Judge Judy to update you.
Sorry, I'm not that smart.
But trust me, I'm right. Consider yourself lucky that you don't know what the opportunistic crooks in NY are up to.
By the way, what is 'waterboard'?
dolores
P.S. I just noticed, I didn't say ABUSED civil liberties, my mistake. You noted RESPECTING civil liberties, which is all well and good and is as it should be. However, the school system of New Yawk doesn't respect civil liberties, they abuse them. A teacher is guilty until proven innocent.
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So you are for the William Kunstler bleeding heart liberal civil liberties of New York, JonParker?
I would hope not. They will be the death of us yet.
'waterboard'? That's a new one on me. Bush has a good idea? I doubt that.
dolores
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Wow. Ditto to you, NortBanba: Bless your heart. You 'get' me, me when I'm sarcastic, serious and straight from the heart.
Thank you very much.
dolores
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Kudos to you, jdb1.
As an almost English lit high school teacher and a public children's librarian (before my stint in the godless and soulless corporate America) I noted these same things starting. This was in the day of 'open admission' (no idiot left behind) when READING was a class given to college freshman (I kid you not), and I was not up to discipling what I saw then (in 1972!!!) as out of control students!!!
Can you imagine if I didn't change careers?????????
I view education as I do citizenship....a gift, not a handout. Get onboard, get as much education as you can while you are young, or suffer the consequences. Similarly, learn the English language and become a citizen while you can....or get the hell out of America.
To quote some very wonderful vets from MY era: America, love it or leave it.
dolores
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Well, bless your heart, MovieMark. You 'get' me, me when I'm sarcastic, serious and straight from the heart.
Thank you very much.
dolores
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Freaking duplicate. Yo, TCM!
Asking for suggestions: What do we want TCM to do about trolls?
in PROBLEMS with the Message Boards
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I strongly agree, sugarpuss. You have previously raised the spectre of another board that rules with an iron fist, i.e., TWoP. If you go there today, you can see a 'locked' thread, because the 'moderators' have decided that there was already a topic on the subject, and...oh the humanity...two threads are not allowed on the same topic.
Do we want this here? Heavens no. I would leave if this board turned into something similar.
I've also posted on how A&E handled trolls on their message board a few years ago, which was to bring in a company to moderate. Now, I believe, one has to register in order to post.
I agree on ignoring the trolls and those who live in PompousVille, as hard as they have made that. We can always ask TCMAdmin to step in, as they did so recently without intruding on the free speech here. Quite admirable, imo.
Bottom line, I guess my recommendation is that TCM do nothing, unless the posters here need their help. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is one of the last places (that I know of, at least) on the internet where free speech is allowed.
Thank you, TCM.
dolores