deeanddaisy666
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Judas Priest..**** TCM? I am getting 'illegal arguments'!!
Thought it was me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wow, now THAT'S what I call organization!! And on a website, no less. I thought I was doing well because I have mine in MS Office. Kudos, CaptainP!
Bat Out of Hell!!! I love that song, I love Meat, I love Meat in Rocky Horror....
And Dudley Do-Right....your head's in the right place, Sir. Good stuff -- did you too root for Snidely Whiplash (and Dishonest John from Beany & Cecil)? Misunderstood gents, the lot of them.
dolores
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Amazing, GM. Simply amazing. I thought we saw an end to this sort of ignorance with the end of 'open admissions'.
However, I imagine with the new incentive of 'no moronic kid left behind', there is the result you are seeing. A self-centered student who can do just as she damned well pleases. With no recriminations.
No one, apparently, has held her accountable in her short life and chances are no one will. If you were to take a stand and try to discipline her for her actions, YOU would be censured.
I admire teachers today. They answer to so many ugly forces...school politics, political correctness, civil liberties, parents who have reared their kids with no personal responsibility, the list goes on and on. With the results that you see, GM. A young adult who should have manners, discipline and an interest in an education. Instead, since she's too 'tired', and therefore her feelings come before the interests of the class.
Amazing.
I also imagine you aren't really allowed to follow through on lowering her grade for non-participation? Would she have her parents and her lawyer in your office? It would be nice if she saw the error of her ways, but I wouldn't bet on it if I were you.
Good luck.
dolores
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You're absolutely right, mrsl. There ARE many hard working Hispanics and other ethnicities who endeavor to become citizens, although everywhere I go, I only hear Spanish spoken -- since many retail clerks here are also Hispanic. No need to learn English when you can shop in your native language.
However, when a town feels the need to vote on a designated spot in the center of town, complete with mobile toilets, to accomodate these folks who wait to be picked up for daily work....you know there is something wrong somewhere. It's all of our making, so we can't complain.
Yes on the difference with immigrants...today's ILLEGAL aliens are NOT immigrants, they are people here ILLEGALLY...in the early part of the 20th century. My grandmother never learned the language, never even learned to read or write. Nonetheless, she managed to rear 8 children, and live in mortgage-free multi-family home. I kid you not, her 'X' was her legal signature. She died at 86, and was a model for any immigrant. She came to Ellis Island from Italy, and helped her father who was already here. Her mother had died. As I said, she never learned the language but also didn't expect anyone to go out of their way to speak to her in Italian. She got all necessary help from her kids, whom she and my grandfather made SURE to learn the English language. Another difference today...the schools bend over to become bilingual.
So I feel absolutely NO sympathy for the aliens, illegal or otherwise, who refuse to learn the language but want ME to accomodate them. I am constantly surprised by our weakness in national pride...I even saw a deli sign in Spanish recently. Disgusting.
mrsl, I TRY my darndest not to press this button or that. If need be, I hang on the line as if I had a rotary phone (remember those?) but many times, the politically correct companies hang up on ME because I don't wish to identify that I am living in America. Disgusting.
As to the 'yahoo'? Have you ever sat there and listened, really listened to him speak? Not only are the words put in his mouth, he has trouble constructing a sentence. And this man was a graduate from Yale? I bet it's something they are not happy to advertise.
Ah well. We, you and I, are in the minority when it comes to feelings like this, I would wager. So all we can do is ignore it and try to enjoy life.
dolores
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Exactly right, NortBanba. There are other more vocal posters who think TCM can do no wrong and are equally insulting to those of differing opinions. The key word on this and all message boards is 'opinion'- we would all do well to read Voltaire when it comes to them.
However, brad continues to harp on an old post of mine that contained a very virulent response to DiCaprio's non-acting in a very bad movie and for SOME reason (unless he is the said non-actor DiCaprio) he can't let it go. As I've decided, I feel sorry for him and lzcutter.
They both can't seem to recognize the issue of Free Speech in America and the ability of anonymous people to have 'opinions' on message boards.
There was in the verrrrry old People.com boards a poster who would defend beyond all reason the acting 'ability' of those in the show Friends. This irrational defense of DiCaprio is similar.
Ah well, and so it goes.
dolores
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Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Like the phrase 'moronic comments' is the essence of what Freedom of Speech is all about.
Get help, brad.
I'm finished with you, life is too short to deal with your nonsense.
Oh. Darn.
dolores
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Ah, lzcutter, you too would presume to dictate what people say about hack actors in crappy remakes of wonderful movies. I wonder at people like you and brad, and feel sorry for you.
I'm entitled to my opinion, you are entitled to yours. This is America where I reside.
Have any doubts on free speech? Read the above and repeat to yourself.
An unnecessary dig? Who are you to say? I am glad he was a popsicle at the end of a piece of crap movie.
Provocative? Not at all. I hate DiCaprio as an actor, and am entitled to my opinion. Sorry, sweetheart, I didn't post that remark to provoke, spark a response or a defense. I was glad to see him as a popsicle and will enjoy seeing him as a popsicle EVER so much more now that I can see your and brad's words in my mind's eye. How extraordinarily silly the two of you are, trying to censor someone's opinions of a hack actor in a piece of crap movie.
Oh, my, so we're rude because your and brad's feelings about a hack actor in a crap movie were hurt. Tsk, tsk.
Get over yourself. If you don't like my OPINIONS (look up the word, sweetie) then don't read them.
dolores
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Dear brad:
immature: I confess to being immature
annoys you: this is a public board. If you don't like my remarks, pass over them.
we're all adults: have you been reading here lately? Don't assume anything, you know what that makes you.
something a 5 year old would say: how presumptuous. Who died and left you the arbiter of what someone at a message board would say?
hypocritical: this boggles the mind. It's a dig at a non-actor, not at a person. I talk of the civility of those here, real people who work for a living and don't make a gazillion dollars to pose as a popsicle in a moronic remake of a formerly wonderful movie, i.e., A Night To Remember. You aren't Mr. DiCaprio the hack himself, are you? Get a grip, brad.
an INSULT to all who went down with the Titanic: you need help, brad. Get it, quick.
IF WE ALL CAN'T SEE THIS? Get help, brad.
P.S. I'm ever so more happy now to see the non-actor DiCaprio as a popsicle now in the piece of crap remake of A Night To Remember.
There, feel better?
dolores
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Oh I understand completely Rusty.
There was a beautiful tree lined street where I grew up in New Rochelle, which bordered a HUGE tree-lined tract of land that sat silent for 50 -- yes, 50 years.
Finally, one day, you guessed it, as I try not to watch the news or read the paper (I get enough grief from the Internet news), I drove down this street and I saw something I never saw before....light. I was puzzled. WHY is there so.much.light on this street?
Why? Because all, todos, every single last tree had been cut down in preparation for (get this) what was billed as senior housing. They slaughtered all the trees, and clotted the property with houses which, in the beginning, had elevators and were touted as being aimed toward the elderly.
Well, of course you can picture what happened. By the time the development was finished...and I'm talking about hundreds of houses...they were being marketed at prices MUCH higher than originally advertised (I don't know many exorbitantly rich seniors) at an audience that suddenly did not include seniors unless they were quite wealthy.
The sad/funny part of the story is that the locals (one guy had a house near the property they wanted but he wouldn't sell so they practically built around him) protested to the Mayor of New Rochelle about the very sudden disappearance of hundreds of trees.
'Huh? Wha?' he said. 'I didn't..........know about it'. Can you imagine? So the compromise reached was...again, you can see it coming...many small trees were planted, including the ubiquitous Bradford pear.
Yup, Rusty, I can just hear these hundred year old trees screaming when they are cut down in the name of greed. We are a godless race oftentimes, aren't we?
dolores
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How cool, Sheldon. I saw part of the special on Garbo and one of the reasons she liked her apt. building in Manhattan was the fact that it and the courtyard and the surrounding streets reminded her of Stockholm. Manhattan side streets have that capability, of transporting one into another place and another time. Another reason I like the book Time And Again...one of the specifics for time travel is that the person must stand in a place that hasn't changed in the days since the time to which the person wants to travel. There are so many places like this in Manhattan.
moirafinnie6, did you see the SVU where Mickey played the grandfather on the escalator who witnessed a crime? He was in the episode briefly, and Mariska 'questioned' him as a witness. It was just so cute to see them together. She seems SO real, doesn't she?
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Thank you for the info on Robert Earl Jones, moirafinnie6.
I know he is not movie related per se, but Mickey Hargitay passed away recently.
He was Jayne Mansfield's bodybuilder husband...you all remember that publicity shot, right?...and the father of the lovely actress Mariska Hargitay. He did a stint in her Law and Order:SVU show, and her affection for him when she won her Emmy was heartwarming.
I guess I'm just a sucker for Hollywood people who have a great big heart.
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Absolutely true, KathleenT. Especially true here in Westchester (as I'm sure it is in the suburbs of other major cities), where every newly rich yuppie feels it is their right to build a McMansion which immediately wipes out all established trees and pushes wildlife out of their homes.
Then when a black bear appears in their yard or deer eat their shurbbery or a coyote carries off an innocent little toy poodle, and they do, the humans immediately want the animals murdered.
The fault is ours. We are reaping what we sow, et cetera.
As our greed and our conspicuous comsumption grow, I don't see any end in sight to the displacement of wildlife.
Sad.
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susanlenox, it's interesting that they are doing this again. There were some commercials a few years ago where they would digitally insert John Wayne or some other deceased actors into a scene with live actors, and it was downright ghoulish. These spots didn't last long.
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A MOLE? Did you really, Sam? Are you really that stupid?
mrsl, pay no attention to Sam. I'm not sure what the intention of he and his sycophants is, but it's certainly not civilized discourse. He and others like him think they impart intelligence from on high to this board, when in fact they are simply divisive little trolls.
A mole. How funny. A mole for whom, exactly. While he is most likely a **** of indeterminate age who thinks sucking up to TCM will gain him notoriety, he accuses YOU of being a mole. And thinks by putting cute little dogs at the end of his posts that his filth is diffuesd.
Pompous ****. Not by proxy, but directly.
dolores
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Powerful post, Judith. At the risk of sharing too much, my father has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I never knew it until I got a computer and read message boards and Googled Google. But he fits every single symptom, and perhaps your mother does too.
Family is great, but it has its own dynamic, and its own selfishness. Message boards, while anonymous and therefore given to ugliness, also offer a chance to meet and talk with people about anything and everything. I have gotten amazing advice via message boards. My brother, on the other hand, is too close to the problem and has chosen to move away, so it's moi who has to deal with elderly parents.
This is a current phenomenon that is a stressful one. The sandwich generation, aren't we that? I have no kids, only a willful PITA dog, so I have just one half of the sandwich, but my father is amazingly cruel, verbally and mentally. Has been since day one, only I never knew why. Now I do.
I empathize with you, Judith, and anyone else who is going through this. The key is distance, mental and physical. It ain't easy, but it is imperative. IF you have a support system, all the better. IF you do not, seek one out. There are groups out there who will help when family is unable to do so.
Kathleen, Judith....a sense of humor is valuable, as is the ability to talk about issues and not let them fester. Seeking out assistance is key, even if just to find others with like problems at a movie message board. In the corporate world, they call it networking and it is a true aid.
LOL, amazing how this thread is what we are all about and how the pompous **** of the other boards don't come here. Sorry, just had to throw that in!
dolores
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Carol, I am literally out of gardening space. Here in lower Westchester space is at a premium, so I have gardened all I can during the last 16 years. From hereon, unless I tear out established plants and try again, all that remains is maintenance.
I don't kill spiders unless there's a chance I will walk into their webs...have you read 1984? spiders are my Room 101...then it's either me or them.
If there are crickets in my basement, my dog dispatches them with fervor. Otherwise, I am all for live and let live, whether it's crawling worms or even human worms.
I admire you for teaching the love of gardening to your kids. The appreciation of life, whether in an earthworm or a two legged creature, is something that is absent in many people on earth today. Witness 9-11. More's the pity.
dolores
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Actually Ned, it's embarrassing to admit, but I got the Vans mixed up. I know, I know. I thought Van Heflin was a hunk (shallow, aren't I?) and now that I've had TCM for a few years, I admire him even more. His scenes with the lovely Lizabeth are wonderful.
Van Johnson always left me cold, although my mother liked him a lot. I never would have guessed he was homosexual, as I never did Hudson, nor would I care. I've never found creative ability had anything to do with sexual preference. If one was good at something, one was good. Period. I am firmly against affirmative action based on anything.
As to Seconds??? Well, you've named not only the single Rock Hudson movie I like (I can't abide his Doris Day movies) but that last scene is still stuck horrifically in my head, with Rock spitting around his gag in his realization at what is going to befall him. Chilling scene. Excellent movie, superior performance by Rock. Why did he not do more in this vein?
dolores
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Really embarrassing for a guy, no?
Pat, I think it's rather nice.
When I dig in the garden I always apologize to worms whom I harm, and pick up worms and praying mantises (sp?) if they are where they shouldn't be. In fact, one praying mantis bit me for my trouble.
I think those who hurt children and animals should be severely punished.
dolores
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Wow, trevor, you're absolutely right.
Raygun did a much more superior job with the song than MUSE's video producer.
Thanks for the pointer.
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Chris, I had the exact same thought when reading this thread. I was the stereotypical Catholic school bookwormed crushingly painfully shy girl that you read about. Not a pretty picture.
I'm sooooo much more immature now (no, really?), at 56. In fact, as Bob Dylan said:
I Was So Much Older Then, I'm Younger Than That Now.
Sooooooo true.
dolores
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I think I was being polite or else my math is off. You're probably right, NortBanba.
And HOW could I forget about A&E....A&E which used to show, almost nightly: Frost, Cracker, Poirot, Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Morse, An Unsuitable Job For A Woman, Prime Suspect, all of them reruns of perfectly wonderful British mysteries which I'm not even sure Britain makes anymore. I wonder that the 'reality' crap hasn't hit them too.
But oh how I loved A&E, and only taped a few shows, dang it. Sometime after they killed the mysteries on their original channel, a suit came up with the nasty idea of moving some of the British shows to a sister station, The Biography Channel.........WHICH could be yours for MORE money. Clever little buggers, no?
Their message board was similar to this, only flush with lovers of British shows that were written well, acted beautifully, and replete with enough British countryside to make any Angliophile swoon.
THEN they began to change and the board started to get ugly...hark? Do I sense a portend of things to come? Nah, just a bothersome bottle fly in the corner.
Red Barn (TCM please stop reading) was called in to moderate the boards. There were good moderators and bad moderators. It never got to the editing invasiveness of other boards I have named, but most of the original posters, including myself, finally left. I think they now have a sad little board, sans moderators, wherein people revel about Black.White. and other such piffel.
Ah well. And so it goes.
dolores
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mrsl, the only 'free' teevee anymore are the stations viewable with an antenna and even then there is electric and wear and tear on the television set involved.
Cable in my area is $50. plus for 75 channels, 85% of which are crap.
I like the channels you show as niche, since some of them used to be my favorites and now are peers of AMC. Since media giants (read corporations) were allowed to gobble up movie studios and television stations, niche stations have slowly died and have been replaced by homogenized, commercialized, brain dead - crap.
http://freepress.net/ownership/chart.php
BRAVO -- used to show better than average shows, usually imports. Then, it was bought by GE and now is in the gutter with AMC.
HIST -- see above (parent company is Disney).
CMT -- I don't even remember the original call letters, but this station actually had Grand Ole Opry shows and country music. Now it has.... you guessed it.
MTV -- had good ole music videos and... music! Then, waaaay back when (I'm sure some corporation bought it) it decided to get into the 'reality' market and the landscape of programming has never been the same.
FOOD -- one of my favorite deconstructions, because it has happened slowly and recently. Formerly (again, they were probably bought by a corporation) they showed ... food! All day, every day, chefs, nice little shows on food around the country and more chefs doing... cooking! Then, THEY decided to get into the 'reality' market and FN became ... bingo.
COM -- a shell of its former self.
AMC -- need I say more. Oh, only to say that the monopolistic behemoth that is behind my cable company, Cablevision, bought AMC and then AMC became XXXX.
Never mind the stations that are gone, the stations that played Burns and Allen and Molly Goldberg.
Nick At Nite and TV Land at one point played -- imagine this! -- old television shows. Now look at them.
So, TCM is the last holdout and is ever so slowwwwwwwwwly going the way of the wooly mammoth and the flightless dodo.
Take a look at that url above, mrsl, it'll curl your hair.
Yup, you are entitled to your opinions and those who continue to lord it over the rest of us and think they can shut us up are wasting their keystrokes. Pay no attention to them, sweetbabykmd.
dolores
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George, I thought it was MUSE's Time Is Running Out??? I've been playing it since I found out the name.
I am an old fogey who doesn't usually like new things, like cell phones in supermarkets used by rude gits, but I like new things when I like them. And I like the promo and the song, but at the same time don't think either belongs on the TCM I liked in Jan. 2002. It probably belongs on the new and improved TCM, and will seem like Bach, I fear, on the 2011 TCM.
They are not sure what they are anymore, George, so we all can watch their growing pains as the new suits offer up their ideas...can you just SEE those meetings in those TCM conference rooms?? :0 ...talk here freely thanks to those same suits, enjoy what we see, tape madly if we like the stuff, and turn off the channel when Cher or Tootsie is shown.
dolores
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Wow, I didn't see this post.
Bingo again, pktrekgirl.
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*sigh* duplicate, Part Deux.