deeanddaisy666
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Good find. I wonder if the Cher movie was one of the greatest motion pictures of all time, in 1997...or 1998...or 1999? No matter, they hold the gold and they make the rules.
Good point on film preservation too, lzcutter. I wonder if AMC is still into film preservation, they were too when they were a quality station.
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Of course, mrsl, you are correct. TCM took a lesson from AMC, which changed into crap overnight, so they are doing it gradually. They have to change in order to 'remain competitive', a favorite catch phrase of corporate America. We all know that. However, since they are THE only decent station in a sea of swill, we also have the right to comment on the obvious change as we here are so passionate about TCM.
Yup, keep offering your opinions. We all shall.
Would you like a popsicle, in the meantime?
dolores
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My self-deprecation is also part of my everyday persona and it has always been a little too real.
I know what you mean.
By the way, I'm happy to say I've found your website.
Wow!
I know what you mean. I just wish someone somewhere would do an interview with her before she is gone.
dolores
P.S. Noooooooooo.........you're 'this' close to Hieronymus Bosch????? Hoo boy, am I jealous!
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mrsl, you acclimate just fine and TCM does seem to be moving away from their niche programming. They have to, as we've been told, so we'd do best to get used to it. I just happened to love the promo and its music and what I've seen so far of the shorts, but as you've no doubt read, I dislike just a wee few things on the station of late.
Then again, I've decided to run for Mayor of NegativeLand, so you know how us politicians are. My platform against the candidate from PompousVille will be:
A personally pleasing TCM in every pot.
Care to vote for me?
dolores
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Hah! Thanks Fred for confirming that the Belgian waffle was only $1.50. We weren't down to our last $1.50, thankfully, so that waffle in hindsight was not worth the childhood trauma.
I agree, moirafinnie6! I have had Buddleias on my property for a few years now, with nary a butterfly in sight. This year, they are making my eyes happy with their visits. I hope they are successful in their migration.
SusannO, I crieeeeeed when I saw Lion King, so take my advice with a grain of salt. Thanks on the waffle story...funny how small events in childhood make such a big impression on the brain, isn't it? And I love that about not seeming to force your daughter to leave with you, but she does make up her own mind to do so!
Agreed, this is a lovely thread.
dolores
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Judith? Sure you do! I didn't know the name either but on looking him up -- he was the guy whom Edmund Gwenn replaced as the Santa in Miracle On 34th Street.
Now, can't you just HEAR that voice in your head???
See, you knew Percy Helton all along.
dolores
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Ned, I gotta tell you. I love your style of writing and absolutely have to run not walk to find your book/books in the library. Your self-deprecation is very appealing, probably because I am prone to it, but I hope it doesn't translate into your everyday life. Well, not too much anyway, because there are a lot of people who aren't who should be self-deprecating.
I love Jack Carson...nope no crush!
... and just about most character actors. Of course Cary Grant was beautiful and amazingly versatile (I think) in his acting abilities, but Carson and his peers made the films for me. I didn't think much of Flynn or Gable or Cooper, so the Walter Brennans and the Frank McHugh's illuminated the films they were in that contained 'big' stars.Two of my favorite current character actors are John C. Reilly and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I'm interested in your opinion on character actors I should be watching out for.
Interesting on Neil Simon. I never realized that about his plays.
Thanks for taking the time to talk here. By the way, your father and grandfather were really cool actors, I'm sure you've heard that before!
dolores
P.S. DO you know Robert Fuller? Can you tell him I think he's gorgeous and have since I was 14 and he was Jess Harper and I like my hamburgers rare because that's how he ate his before he was killed by The Brain From Planet Arous? OH, and do you know Lizabeth Scott? Can you give her my eternal appreciation for all she did for the genre of film noir? Thanks!
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Seems it doesn't please anyone.
kiala, I have been listening to Time Is Running Out almost nonstop since I found out the name of it. Never say never.
I am 56, a curmudgeon, love Pink Floyd, Perry Como, Bach, Grieg, Glenn Miller...well, you get the point. Now I also love whatEVER the name of that band was that did the Volkswagen commercial of some years ago and now Muse and Radiohead too.
So, one never knows, do one?
NortBanba, excellent point, I hadn't thought of that. I'm not sure where those who like anime saw that TCM was playing it when they came to the channel...unless they too were already here...but those who think Black. White. is high art will not be finding their way to TCM because of a promo that I only saw from being directed to it online here because of all the hubbub.
Again, you make a good point, that TCM is trying to keep the demographic that spends the most whom they already have as an audience.
And as I've said before, the furor this has all generated translates into 'eyeballs', doesn't it? And 'eyeballs' translate into a positive for TCM?
Makes your head spin, doesn't it? Well, it does mine. :0
dolores
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SusannO, loved your sharings about your daughter.
If I may, I vote for allowing your little doll breakfast in bed. As a special treat, of course, not as a normal occurrence. Allow me to share: the year is 1964. I am 14, my brother is 7. We're at the World's Fair in New York with my parents, my father a very strick disciplinarian, my mother a pacifist at all costs.
During the course of the day, we happened upon something we had never seen before at one of the exhibits -- a Belgian waffle. Could we have one each, we inquired? No, absolutely not, I think at the time they cost $1.50, something like that. We got all the waffles we needed at home, he wasn't going to pay a whole DOLLAR and fifty cents for one waffle. I believe it even included ice cream.
My point? Here it is, FORTY TWO YEARS later, and my brother and I STILL remember the incident, and not in a pleasant way. Of course, we can laugh about it, but long story short? Yes, please give your angel breakfast in bed and she will no doubt remember it as a lovely day (in addition to many others I'm sure from reading your posts) in her childhood.
Oh, and on your other topic? Never. I am 56 and STILL cannot watch The Yearling or Old Yeller. Depends on the person, I guess.
dolores
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Anyway, that ought to give you a little example of how obsessed people in show biz - even marginally connected ones like myself - really are.
Ah, but aren't we all? Some just get to express it better than others, and some get to exorcise their demons on the screen.
How very cool that you knew Jack Lord, and yes, even though there is no tangible evidence that you were there, you were! Kind of like the tree in the forest.
I had such a crush on Jack. Another of my early crushes was on Robert Fuller, who is still very lovely. Do you know him?
I also have a posthumous crush on Warren William, who was before both our times.
I enjoy reading your posts very much, thank you.
dolores
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Lovely indeed.
And until TCM brings in censoring moderators, we who want to say whatever we like about movies or TCM are free to do so. Hopefully, however, without the namecalling of late, which is quite hurtful to some.
Rock on, RobertEmmettHarron. Long live the freedom of speech in America, God bless her, it and us. Long live the freedoms of expression in art, music, drama and word in America, again God bless her, them, and us.
dolores
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Fascinating remembrances, Ned. The actors become Everyman when such stories are told about them.
Are you putting these anecdotes together for another book, if they're not already in one?
If not, you should.
dolores
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Thanks, Rusty -- except for one 15 minute period, I think I have the entire 24 hours recorded. Lots of hubbub about the day, so I will think of all this fondly when I finally get around to watching them!!!! :0
I love Buster Keaton's physical comedy...so effortless, so perfectly timed and executed.
I am ashamed to say I am not that familiar with Charley Chase and I'm also afraid I have a biased eye towards Fatty Arbuckle, based on his past.
dolores
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subvet, I found this at imdb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063625/board/nest/25407448
Not sure how dated this info is, but you may have some luck with emailing the person.
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Oh, okay, thanks for clarifying.
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sweetbabykmd, absolutely.
And to think there are still those here who think TCM is NOT changing.
How very funny. La di da.
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Huh? A hardcore porn movie should be avaiable to widdle kiddies?
I'm confused.
You're not advocating the abolition of hard core porn, are you? Empires have been built on the proceeds from these films!
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As everybody who is nice enough to know my style here by now knows...thanks for the 'popsicle' shoutout...I don't like change. Ever. Well, except for indoor plumbing.
To me, TCM is changing. But that's for another thread.
However, I'm interested in again being on the other end of the argument again, just this once. I liked their September promo, a lot, and I admire them for the herculean job of finding, queueing, and programming the 24 hours of shorts.
No, I haven't viewed them, so I can't be objective, but I did see some of the Charlie Chaplin short and then later some of a realllllly weird British short. As I've shared, I love weird. Well done weird, that is.
So, perhaps I am being a traitor to myself, but if all the shorts are interesting...please tell me I am not understanding that Dick Cavett was thrown into the middle of the mix?...then I have to applaud TCM for this. Yes, it's IFC-ish, but at least it's only once.
I'm sure I'll be back to my old self shortly and start complaining about the anime or the Cher movie that TCM will no doubt again program.
dolores
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I loved Stan Freberg!! I remember his Jeno's Pizza Rolls...good stuff, the commercials that is.
Are the pants Laura Petrie capris? Are they what was old is new again?
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Since this thread got lost, I didn't have a chance to thank everyone for their opinions. Duly thanked.
I decided to use three 8 hour tapes and go for it.
Even though I saw Charlie Chaplin in one of them...
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I agree about Judy.
Funny, I have the same impression with Jean Harlow, but not from any cerebral contemplations, rather just from seeing a candid video (uh oh, there's that word again
) from that guy who used to record home videos of the stars, I think. Anywho, it showed Jean Harlow on the studio lot, sans a bra, and she just radiated individuality and it.It's that it that an actor has to have, I think, if they want their star to shine in the Hollywoodland heavens. No rhyme or reason to it, it just is.
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Thank you, oobleckboy, exactly the kind of stuff I like. Never heard of Jan before.
Raygun would do well to note his stuff for their next promo. After, that is, they produce a more traditional piece.
Jan's been doing this stuff since the mid-60s???!!!
Thank you, TCM. IF you didn't program the telescope lady, oobleckboy wouldn't have shared his knowledge of Jan Svankmajer.
Anthony Lane is right:
http://www.illumin.co.uk/svank/
oobleckboy, do you know and like Aubrey Beardsley (art, not video)?
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inglis, how does it work with taxes there?
We (mr. dolores and I) have been in this town for almost 17 years now and have been paying School Taxes since we got here. Years and years and years and years....but we have no kids. Fair? Of course not, but thems the rules.
I have a recipe for a truffle with peanut butter (verrry easy) that is to die for...PM me if you'd like it. In exchange, can I have your recipe for Shepherd's Pie???
Meanwhile, some areas are so bad when it comes to education that a family has to pay school taxes to support the public school system AND (their choice) send their kid/s to private/religious schools to give them a better chance.
It's tough, for sure.
dolores
What is this baloney on TCM now?
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Bingo, pktrekgirl.
After the hosing that fans of AMC got, we had all best be prepared for more of the same.