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I switched it off after a while. I have never liked Geoffrey Rush for some reason, and this show reminded me too much of Christina Crawford's book. Was he REALLY such a nutjob? Who knows, he's not here to dispute it, is he. Was he bi-polar? The boy playing his son was adorable, though.

I'm glad you're glad. If all the current stations will still be viewable by those without a HD receiver or a new television, all well and good. So the old technology will still be there for those who don't want to trade up? I doubt it. By the way, after you're done reading 1984, try The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Thanks again, realfuster. Not to worry, technology isn't going to slow because of one old curmudgeon. Change is inevitable, but when it is shoved down our throats by the likes of corporate Hollyweird simply to fatten the wallets of the capitalists, I take exception. Suddenly it's new and better to have HD television, and I'll need a receiver to get the new signal? Or I'll need a new television to get the signal? No problem, what's a little extra money expended here and there. Create a problem, come up with a solution. At the expense of the consumer. And convince the consumer it's for their good. Ha. Like 56 ounces of ice cream for the same price as a half gallon is a good thing. And 6 ounces of yogurt for the same price as the 8 is acceptable. And bad cell phone manners are perfectly understandable. Et cetera, et cetera. And so it goes. brad519, try reading 1984, you might be surprised at the message.

Thanks, realfuster et al. I thought tcmprogrammer could explain it, but no word so far.

Channel???? As in 'we Cablevision who are a monopoly in lower NY and can do anything we want will now take TCM which is perfectly fine as it is, who needs HD for b/w movies anyway, and move it to our more expensive subscription service and you who don't want to pay us even more money a month will be SOL.' THAT kind of channel??? Oh great. Thanks for the heads up. I will pay extra attention to the movies I'm missing for my analog dinosaur VCR VHS taping in the near future on my non-HD teevee.

loveoldmovies, yes, 'Miracle on 34th St.' was colorized by Ted Turner, apparently when he was on a bender. Horrific, obscene, disgraceful, idiotic idea. I think he's come to his senses. Wonderful movie, Natalie Wood was adorable, and of course it resonates in black and white. Ted, put away your crayons, there's a good boy. Pete, thanks for the info on 'Time Of Their Lives'. It just GALLS me that I missed it (I was THIS close) on TCM, and I will stubbornly wait until they show it again rather than buy it. I have an old copy from who knows where, but it is not complete. Isn't it a delightful movie??? I'll do like Blanche DuBois, and wait on the kindness of strangers, in this case tcmprogrammer, to program it for me again.

Oh, and tcmprogrammer, if you're still here, can I ask you what this was, that I got in my email?...... "L-Soft list server at (ema3lsv01) TBS, Inc (1.8e) Subscription probe for TCM-NEWSLETTER - please ignore" Thanks. If you go over to 'Information Please', a couple of other people have gotten it as well. It looks like a virus.

LOL, sorry tcmprogrammer, I'm just being a SA and constantly using 'Tootsie' as an example of a movie which doesn't (in my mind) compute when I think 'TCM'! Oh, you are in for a treat -- 'One Magic Christmas' was schmaltzy and delightful and corny and all the rest of it, but I liked it, a lot, anyway!! Since you are here, can I ask (I didn't buy it, as I said I was going to do, it was $44.00 (($44.!!)) on Amazon), if you know when you're going to run 'The Time Of Their Lives' with Abbott and Costello again?? OT, and in line with why I love TCM (okay, I'm grovelling now) I just saw a 'B' movie with Errol Flynn as an amateur detective and it was deeeelightful! I also saw a similar movie with Robert Taylor. Now, I haven't previously liked either actor in any of their 'pretty boy' movies, so this was further validation that TCM is the best thing since indoor plumbing.

TCM isn't showing the 1951 version of 'Christmas Carol'? Absolutely, sagebrush522, there is no other. tcmprogrammer, hello? Why not? In addition, since you're showing 'Tootsie', why don't you show 'One Magic Christmas'(1985), one of the most delightful Christmas movies ever produced? Most stations (well, most stations are idiots) don't show it anymore. So? How about it? Thanks.

getting this in their email inbox? I won't open it, and I'm sure it's not coming from TCM: "L-Soft list server at (ema3lsv01) TBS, Inc (1.8e) Subscription probe for TCM-NEWSLETTER - please ignore" Is it a virus? Thanks.

LOL, I just attempted to write up my programming schedule, and saw how embarrassing it is, so I deleted it. Suffice it to say that I am obSESSed with TCM, and will never again, to paraphrase Scarlett O'Hara, be without my black and whites again. Burned once by AMC, their fault. Burned twice by TCM (if they change their format), it would be my fault. And looking at all the steps I take from newsletter to spreadsheet of the movies I've recorded, I am amazed that I STILL miss some, like 'Time of Their Lives'. Now, unless I turn into Burgess Meredith in 'The Twilight Zone' and my tapes wear out or I can't find a replacement VCR when I need one, I should have enough black and whites to keep me happy until they put the pillow over my face in the nursing home.

moviejoe.....doh!.....Amazon had it and I ordered it in VHS, thanks! Thanks, path, I'll have to keep a lookout in the Favorites Folder from now on. If you like fantasy movies, you're gonna love this one!

encanto8591, I loved their teevee series too...."he's a pump, pump him; all right, I'll pump him". Not sure who showed it, Captain Jack McCarthy, Officer Joe Bolton, or whether it was on all by itself. Remember the montage at the beginning that signalled the better shows? "happy birthday, dear Louie, you certainly are screwy".........who owns these shows, by the way? And now, I'll crawl into the hole I just dug for myself. After waiting thisssssssssssssssssssss long for TCM to broadcast 'The Time of Their Lives' (could someone warn me next time?), I forgot to tape it. Forgot nothing, I just passed by the A&C movies in the lineup, I never thought to look for this one!! "Mellllody, Melllody.....it's Tom, my Tom" tcmprogrammer, will it help to request this be programmed again? Never mind 'Suggest a Movie', do you have 'Beg for a Movie'? Because I'm begging, just begging that this one be shown again. So let me get this straight, I was at my in-laws when I COULD have been taping 'Time of Their Lives'? Oh yeah, somebody out there didn't like me yesterday. ***sigh***

Wow, good question, professorecho. Hope all our answers cheer you up a mite. I was trying to think of a human character who so impressed me that I felt enough emotion to cry for them in a 'sad' way, and I couldn't. I think I cried the first time I saw 'On Borrowed Time', but had turned cynical for the second viewing. I have a feeling I'd feel the same way if I watched 'Wuthering Heights' again. Horatio in 'The Time of their Lives' makes me tear, but he'll get into heaven eventually! And I always felt FOR death in 'Death Takes A Holiday' so I can't feel badly for anyone in that movie (and who is hotter as 'death' than Fredric March? The same goes for Paul Muni in 'Angel On My Shoulder', I feel badly for the antagonist, so I'm not sure that counts. Fantasy movies most bring out the waterworks in me, I love them to pieces (Beyond Tomorrow, Stairway to Heaven, The Bishop's Wife). But although they make me cry, no one in these movies was 'sad'. Then it hit me! It's the NON-human characters who make me cry, that make me feel badly for them, that qualify as 'sad'. I sobbed when I was little and I'd sob again.......for King Kong and Godzilla. Poor tormented creatures who only wanted to be left the heck alone!

Well, that's a relief. The pimply faced kid and I can part company now, thankfully no longer in agreement on the efficacy of Silent Films. Denying the utter wonderfulness of the Archival Films? 'Mindless' people enjoy them? Yikes, one need not underestimate your intelligence, that is for certain.

Wow, realfuster, a big mea culpa on my part. I thought the items I'd seen in flea markets made of Bakelite were shattered in parts. Not sure what they made of, now, but they appeared to be 'shredded' at different points. I have an old radio that I 'lifted' from my mother's house, and it seems brittle. Not sure, then, what it is made of. Thanks for the education, realfuster, and the invite!

for which I have to thank TCM is the backstory on the television characters I grew up with. Just two come to mind right now, I'm sure many out there can think of more. I grew up watching television in the 1950s and remember Victor Sen Yung (Sen Yung) and Howard Da Silva. Now that I'm seeing them in movie after movie, I can appreciate that actors and actresses with 30 year careers had to make the transition to a new medium in the 1950s and weren't appreciated by people like me at that time. Likewise, vaudeville stars went into radio and television in order to keep putting food on the table and water in the pool. I give them all a lot of credit.

Probably post-Breen, right, curses on his guts? LOL, yup, looked it up and not only that, but AGAIN as in 'When Ladies Meet' (drat, the Joan Crawford one) Herbert Marshall is the 'I have two women in love with me but I'll just provide the angst' husband. Here's a good review, and it sounds like the ending would annoy me as well: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026363/

ACK!!!!!!!!! The same day, the two films were on in the same day! And I missed the Myrna Loy version.......oh pleasepleaseplease TCM re-program the Myrna Loy version?

Oh, I don't know about that, realfuster. How many cars have Bakelite bumpers today? Bakelite cracked, didn't it? Funny as in ha ha? No, more along the lines of one word summing up the generation gap. That's what I meant by the word 'plastics' being replaced with 'cell phones'. It was a symbol of where the mentality was of the older generation, vs where the youth culture was in 1967. I give a great deal of credit to those who have their career decided when they graduate college, I certainly didn't. Obviously Ben didn't either. In fact, if I had, in 1967, run out after the movie and invested in the plastic that would replace chrome bumpers on cars in the future, I wouldn't be typing my own message here today. I'd have an assistant typing it for me!

moira, 'In Name Only' was an excellent example of this genre. These types of films were so much more adult before Breen got his grubby little hands on them. Then the 'good' had to be good and the 'bad' had to pay. I saw an interesting film recently, 'When Ladies Meet', where the threads were all tied up nicely at the end, but it was a good film nonetheless. Joan Crawford is the baaaad girl, she has a boyfriend, Robert Taylor, I believe, and is in love with a married man, Herbert Marshall. She and the wife meet, by accident, and pour out their hearts on love and men and infidelity without realizing who the other is. Of COURSE, the baaaaad girl has to give up the husband, who promptly returns to his wife, who promptly takes him back, and...cue the violins...Joan and Robert walk off into the sunset together. I prefer the ending of 'In Name Only', but again, one of the women had to be baaaaaaad. I can't really remember seeing a film where both women were decent and they just happened to fall out of love with the man they were with. Or vice versa. Look at Brian Donlevy in 'Impact', his wife had to be murderous in order to justify his falling in love with someone else. But that's okay, I'll take them anyway they ended them. As long as they were black and white.

Thanks, tcmprogrammer. Oh, 'Tootsie' was okay, once. It's just not re-watchable for the third or thirtieth time as, say, 'The Thin Man' series is! I posed a question on Info Please, when you have a chance. I'd love to see you all run 'Remember WENN'...can you pry it from AMC's unappreciative corporate hands, please?

tcmprogrammer, I may have asked this already, but does TCM have any plans to buy and show this wonderful series? Or is AMC doing a 'dog in the manger' with it?

Nope, you're both right. If the movie was made in 1980, he could have said to Ben "cell phones". Plastic was just not ubiquitously in use back then, and the word was a portend of things to come.

1907 is the date on the 'Teddy Bear' film, moira. I didn't watch that one, I taped it for later viewing, but I did hear Robert Osborne say that the ending was very surprising. Care to share? I just looked up the windy day film, and it is from 1903. 1903!!!!!!!!! It was apparently filmed at the base of the Flatiron building in New York. Amazing. To think that someone had the foresight to film people in a documentary style in 1903 AND that the film survived, it surVIVED, until now. Now, when everything and everyone is disposable, and you're only as good as your last idea, and everything is so '15 minutes', to quote the vernacular. TCMprogrammer, can you come here for a minute or so, and give the backstory on these gems? I'm in awe, PUHleeze tell me you have more like these planned! This is more than worth my subsciption to the worthless Cablevision, to be privy to these absolute nuggets. I'd have to drive into NY City and find a museum that had these films and showed them in order to see stuff like this. Never mind that I can't get to the Film Forum for their Film Noir series. Aaaack.