deeanddaisy666
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mrsl, I think 'my bad' is one of the pet peeves of someone here, as a matter of fact!
My bad is the new lingo for what is, in effect, "I'm sorry, I have committed a faux paux, will you be so kind as to forgive me, thank you very much'.
As with 'yo' and 'duh', 'my bad' is a shorthand way of communicating the above.
Um, like, you know, do you get it?
dolores
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I don't think I've never NOT liked Pacino or DeNiro (so far) in any of their movies. Their intensity and style of method acting was phenomenal. I can equate John C. Reilly and Phillip Seymour Hoffman with them, without however (sorry John and Phillip) the SAAM.
My claim to fame...I saw Pacino having lunch with his then girlfriend perhaps a dozen years ago (he IS short) at a French restaurant in NYC. I wasn't allowed to act like a tourist, however, since I was at a business lunch and also, gushing over a celebrity isn't DONE in NYC.
So I had to sit there, quietly (well, almost) watching until I left.
dolores
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Interesting. As much as I love ALL Hitchcock movies and television shows (with the exception of The Trouble With Harry), most especially The Lodger and Shadow Of A Doubt and The Lady Vanishes and Sabotage and Saboteur and The 39 Steps and the one with Lloyd Nolan and the Statue of Liberty (probably already named) and the original Man Who Knew Too Much (not Doris Day's version, blech) and The Foreign Correspondent and even Torn Curtain (I didn't love that one, I liked it, as I did Psycho and Rope and Rear Window and The Birds and Vertigo), I HAVE to say, oddly enough, that I love, love, LOVE to death,
North By Northwest.
I am wondering if, as Wizard Of Oz isn't THE most perfect movie in the history of the world to me, that North By Northwest isn't THE most perfect Hitchcock movie to me.
I know, overly dramatic. But these threads always get me, happily, to thinking on one of my favorite subjects, films.
So, I have to go with North With Northwest as THE most perfect Hitchcock movie.
To me.
dolores
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Jack Klugman and Tony Randall.
Jackie Gleason and Art Carney.
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck.
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Does anyone else find that, when clicking on the name in the 'respond to', that this site does NOT bring you to the original message that is being responded to? Is it me, or not?
At any rate, as I've shared, I was just deeeelighted when DeCaprio showed up as a popsicle in Cameron's Titanic. The movie and the acting were idiotic.
Meanwhile, the scene with the little boy being comforted by the staff member as they face death in A Night To Remember brings tears to even the most vicious cynic, namely moi.
I can't watch Old Yeller, never have, I now have a dog but could never watch it.
I can't watch Bambi, I love deer and I hate hunters.
Schindler's List makes me cry. Fatso makes me sad.
Edward Scissorhands make me bawl, every time. I LOVE the Seinfeld episode about this movie....ooooh fah.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show brings tears to my eyes, every time, when Tim Curry is being called into the hereafter. Meanwhile, I laugh at Meatloaf's demise. As I'm sure he does too.
Penny Serenade is verrrry sad, is as Cary Grant in None But The Lonely Heart.
I tend NOT to cry at movies in which the studios EXPECT me to cry. Animals buying the farm....Shrek and The Iron Giant had me bawling like an idiot...will do it every time, as will Of Mice And Men. I hate Bette Davis's sad movies, I am happy when she croaks. I have a hard heart towards Doris Day. But you get my point.
The understated sad movie is a sure bet with me. Oh, and I can't watch Dumbo. No way, no how. Heck, even The Lion King was a tearjerker, imo. Hmmm, come to think of it, I can't even watch the Animal Planet, most particularly the dog cops in NY.
Okay, enough.
dolores
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Guess she had to do what she had to do, considering the idiots heading up the studios (fat, bald, white guys in their 50s, no doubt) at the time. However, she was a survivor.
She made a movie recently (recently?) with hunk Robert Forster that positively crackled.
So the girl can act. Notwithstanding her needlepointing two-headed-with-Ray-Milland brother who is where exactly?
dolores
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TCM is already doing this in Europe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Classic_Movies
Be careful what you wish for, however, because they are allegedly 'censoring' Bugs Bunny in Europe. Perhaps no correlation, or perhaps dilution like familiarity breeds contempt.
Then again, I don't believe Oswald acted alone, so you can't go by me.
dolores
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Wow, thanks sandykaypax -- a very Moody Blues-ish song.
Is the entire 'album' similar?
And TCM used that song? I would have liked to see the context in which they used the song.
dolores
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Thank you, inglis, very kind of you.
When I retire...yes, of course from IBM!...one of the things on my to-do list is a writing course. Something I've always wanted to do but am too tired right now.
Maybe I have a short story in me, who knows???
As I've shared, Time and Again is one of my favorite books -- I reallllly am an anachronism.
dolores
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sandykaypax, I've tried Googling all which ways...but can't find a song by Radiohead with Triangle in the title. What is the song of which you speak?
Thanks.
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Thanks, movieman1957!
Hmmmm.....well, if it's not too small a movie for her, I'd like to see Ann Harding. And for the love interest who will light up her life?
Tough one, eh?
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The year is 1935. The time is Autumn. I have an apartment in New York City, for which I'm paying almost $20. a month. I'm a working gal, in an office of a fairly new computer company, IBM. I am not thrilled that women can only be secretaries or clerks, but my folks didn't have the money to send me to college, and even though I am upset at that, I get over it and find whatever work I can. IBM will do for now.
I wear long dresses and short wraps and enjoy walking to work, since I can't afford a cab or even the subway. I like looking at people. I like the men in their fedoras and long coats, although if I stare at them too long, they think I am being forward, so I have to drop my eyes.
Everyone seems wrapped up in their own lives, so I can only attempt to be friendly when I am having my morning cup of coffee at the local java joint. I can't even boil water, so I only have coffee for breakfast. Keeps my weight down, dontcha know! The guy across the counter is very nice.
It's all so new to me, living in a city. I'll be going to the Empire State Building this weekend with some girlfriends. It's newly built and I can't wait to see what all the fuss is about.
There is an odd electricity in the air. I try not to read the news, but something is afoot. I don't like reality, I like to bury myself in the movies whenever I can. The darkness, the sound of the chairs as they creak, the smell of the velvet cushions, the whoosh as the great big curtain opens...all of which lead up to seeing my favorites Cary and Carole and Fredric and Warren and Jimmy and Ann on the big screen.
I can forget about my hohum job for the moment and whatever else is going on in the world and immerse myself in fantasy for awhile. It's a good time to be alive, and who knows what the future might hold?
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They're not stars, as such, but they deserve to still be acting in 20 years:
John C. Reilly
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Paul Giamatti
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I haven't seen all the Maisie films but the few I have seen I enjoyed. Why were some an embrassment?
I only have two taped, Maisie Goes To Reno and Maisie Was A Lady. I have a feeling it was the latter, which pitted her against a rich family.
I don't remember the exact dialogue, but I felt embarrassed for her, and turned it off.
As I said, she rose above any fault in the dialogue and always turned in a wonderful performance.
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Oh, no matter, susanlenox, I will eat it anyway. If what's his name can eat 57 hot dogs and still survive (and we all know what is in hot dogs) I feel safe in eating Scrapple and SPAM.
Yes, I can still find pig's feet, pickled, and pig's knuckles, smoked (delish with fresh made sauerkraut from a German store), but it's pig's ears I can't find.
I loved crunching on the cartilage that goes down the middle of the ears. I miss that.
Weird, yes, I am.
dolores
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feaito, some of the Maisie films are an embarrassment to her. I forget which one right now, but I had to turn it off. She tried to rise above the idiotic dialogue, but in this one case it was a losing battle.
No matter, any preservation of this lovely lady is worth having.
Yes, she deserved stardom as much as Crawford and Davis, if not more.
dolores
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Too bad, I thought scrapple really was the scrapings off the floor of the slaughterhouse. As I pictured SPAM.
No matter, I love both, and ate them as a kid. Along with fried baloney. And pigs ears.
Anyone see jarred pickled pigs ears anymore? I sure don't. I see them smoked in the pet store, but I don't want to fight my dog for a pig ear. Note: they are not supposed to even be good for dogs, they have some bacteria or other. Speaking of unhijackable, who here loves dogs?
Anywho, interesting on Scrapple. How about snails? And the crackling skin on ham, which is almost unchewable (not a word, I know). Gizzards? Chicken feet? I will try any foodstuff at least once.
Great thread.
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Thankfully, SusannO, although Turner bastardized many movies in the process, Alastair Sim's A Christmas Carol among them, fie on CW11 or whatever it is that WPIX is now (god help me if I don't get the term right for networks and their associates), it wasn't economically feasible to colorize wonderful, classic, gorgeous movies.
Make no mistake about it, if the morons out there (and there are some) thought colorization was a good idea, you'd see Bogart with a pale beige suit and color in his cheeks. Stupid idea, stupid implementation, and greed was behind it. Poor Turner, the rich wasn't able to get richer.
Luckily, the idiots whom Turner THOUGHT would like colorization probably didn't have the brains to admire classic movies, so it fell flatter than his marriage to Hanoi Jane.
dolores
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I agree. I've liked her since watching reruns of her television show, and thanks to TCM, came to appreciate Ann in her movies. Little did I know, as a kid, that many of the television stars I revered were big hits in movies before they were forced to turn to television to eat. Then again, those who were big hits in vaudeville were forced to turn to movies!
As to April Showers...I'm not missing something, am I? I don't see this in TCM's lineup.
Yup, my VCR will be verrrry busy. Ann was gorgeous when young and a very, very good actress. Very natural. I hope she wasn't underrated, because I found her wonderful.
dolores
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How ludicrous. Next to go will be the scene with Bugs in a bra singing the Now Voyager song.
Yes, let's all sanitize ourselves just to appease the PC maroons.
Personal responsibility? What's that?
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filmlover, I can't even find the original note anymore. I wasn't speaking to you initially, I was speaking to path, who attempted to send all of what he called 'party messages' to the Private forum.
RockyRoad, no one here could dare to understand what you, GarboManiac and TMN are going through if they haven't experienced it.
If we have lived, we have experienced loss in one fashion or another. As I said, the fact that you all have come here to share your experiences and your pain is a testament to this board.
The fact that there are those here who have dared to stifle your posts is indefensible.
dolores
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Whoa! WHEN did this board suddenly turn into a version of Television Without Pity without the Gestapo moderators?
Suddenly there are POSTERS here who think they wield the power of God over what is written and who writes it?
TOOMANYNOTES, don't go anywhere. It's not 'many' who resent this thread, it's those who have a God complex. Ignore them.
Any of you who don't like what is written, skip over the threads. There, did that take the use of too much grey matter to figure out?
Give me a break. This is a message board, it skips into personal stuff. How many freaking times can a poster write I love Charlie Chaplin and ONLY I love Charlie Chaplin? If the topic veers off into whatever, so freaking what?
Lighten up, people, it's the Internet. And it's an unmoderated board, so kindly don't be telling people to take it to the private message forum. If a person wants to share the fact that their toenail is ingrown on this board, then so what. If you don't like that, don't read it.
TOOMANYNOTES, ignore them and please don't go away. I can't imagine what you and your wife are going through. However, the fact that you come here to share your trials with us is a testament to this board and to we who welcome you. Those who don't like what is written can go become a moderator on Television Without Pity, they will fit right in.
Please don't go away.
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Sorry, filmlover!
Good news, though....now Dix is all mine again.
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Ohhh, how cool, Larry, that you knew her.
*sigh* To have known Warren..........
Thank you on her information, that is a shame.
A movie you could never get tired of!
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Yo, yo, bro Jack, 'scuse me, I didn't put my peeps on your post. I didn't know you had already scooped mrsl on like, you know, whatever, um, what 'my bad' meant.
My bad!! :0
Twenty three skiddo, kiddo.
dolores