lzcutter

Happy Thanksgiving, Joe! Hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday! Lynn and Jon ps- we added a dog to our family of turtles!

Happy Thanksgiving, Barb! Hope you and BronxMom have a wonderful holiday! Saw this ad and for some reason thought of the two of you:

*The Story of Film* airs its final installment on Dec. 9th, two weeks from now (more or less).

Hey Joe, We have that record machine! Don't often get to see in photos these days! Thanks!

>It's ridiculous! Fox certainly released all their laser disc/dvd movies in widescreen so why these crappy pan and scan versions? The films that Fox released on laser disc were from tape masters. They would have to transfer those masters to digital masters to use for DVDs and Blus. Due to the age of the tape masters, they may have decided that the cost wasn't warranted or it could be that they have decided to restore the films before transferring them to a digital format. If that's the case, restorations are costly and take time to do. As for ignoring its legacy, at least Fox is better at appreciating their classic film library than Universal or Paramount. But that's not saying much.

>I'm not sure who was saying "Damn good actress," but it was a man's voice. It was MGM chief hair stylist Sydney Guilaroff. He was good friends with a number of stars, especially Joan Crawford.

Roy, I'm with you on *Chariots of Fire* ! Another one for me is the musical remake of *Lost Horizon*. I saw it on its original run and fell asleep about half way through (incredibly out of character for me). Woke up for the last part. Never need to see what I missed. What I saw of the first half and the end was enough to convince me that I didn't miss much.

The clerk from the shoe store (now much older, aren't we all?) was interviewed by Tom Brokaw and featured in Brokaw's show on NBC last night, *Where Were You* one of the many telecasts to commemorate the assassination of JFK.

>Thanks for stopping by. I do have similar threads in each of the Sci-Fi and Horror Forums on these boards, so feel free to check them out. What? I had no idea! I see a great deal of reading in my future!!!!!

Rich, That was just great! I'm not sure which made me laugh more, "Cotton Comes to TCM" starring Ben M (a movie I would pay to see, by the way) or this Richism: >Singer Eddie Cochran has a bit as one of the farm workers, and belts out "You ain't gonna make a cotton-picker outta me." Nor an actor, apparently. You owe me another keyboard, buddy!

>To be honest, I thought movies like 'WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD?' were part of the TCM library since it was an RKO film. TCM no longer owns the Turner film library. When Ted Turner merged his media empire with Time-Warner in the late 1990s, the film library was part of that merger. Warner Brothers now controls the former Turner library and leases those films to TCM.

>I'm talking about "It's a Wonderful Life", "Going My Way", "Miracle on 34th Street", "White Christmas". NBC has an exclusive multi-year contract to broadcast *It's a Wonderful Life*. That's why no other channel can show it. *Miracle on 34th Street* is one of Fox's big holiday movies and is likely on their own movie channel this season. TCM was able to get *White Christmas* a few years ago but AMC seems to have the lock on that broadcast contract again. TCM is showing the sequel to *Going My Way*- *The Bells of St. Mary* next month along with: *The Lemon Drop Kid*, *O.Henry's Full House*, *Meet John Doe*, *Christmas in Connecticut*, *Sun Valley Serenade*, *Tenth Avenue Angel*, *The Bishop's Wife*, "I'll Be Seeing You", *Holiday*, all three versions of *A Christmas Carol*, *Scrooge* (the musical), *Good Sam*, *It Happened on Fifth Avenue*, *Mr. Soft Touch*, *The Man Who Came to Dinner*, *The Shop Around the Corner*, *In the Good, Old Summertime*, *Meet Me in St. Louis*, *Little Women*, *Susan Slept Here*, and *Bundle of Joy*.

>It would seem that if Ms. Scott is able and willing to do some kind of interview it would be top priority for TCM to get together with her in some fashion. From various reports it seems that Ms. Scott is reluctant to sit down for the type of "Private Screening" or TCM FF interview that many would like to see. Perhaps she will change her mind some where down the road.

Why are you going back to Charter? Can't you just log in to WatchTCM from the app? You need to have a user name and password with Charter, which if you pay your bill online via their website, you have. If not, you should be able to register a username and password and then go back to the WatchTCM site, log in and see if that works. Here's the link to the microsite: http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/ Edited by: lzcutter on Nov 17, 2013 12:01 PM

Go to the WatchTCM app and make sure that your cable provider is on the list. If it isn't, the app won't work for you. For those whose cable or satellite provider is not listed, according to reports, TCM is working with a variety of providers to make deals that would add them to the listings.

>I'm sure the TCM presentation will have a great picture and sound, but in case anyone falls asleep, here is the film in sections on YouTube Or they could go to WatchTCM or TCM on Demand to see if if the better picture quality and sound with the Robert O intro and outro were available.

>Why did the bartender kill Books? For the fame and notoriety that came with killing Books. Dime novelists would write about it and change the story so that the bartender would look heroic taking down a famed gunman who had just shot up the shooter's bar. Newspapermen would also spread a similar story. And Gillom Rogers, who would listen to him versus a businessman just trying to protect what was his. Never underestimate the spin and those who spin the tales. Especially back then.

>Thanks for making me wait a year to see it twice in the next couple weeks. WHO DOES THE SCHEDULING???? for God's sake??? gary, TCM has to rent/lease the films it broadcasts. Not every film is available for rental and while *What Price Hollywood* has been on the schedule before, the rental/lease likely came to an end and TCM was able to rent/lease it again for its upcoming screenings. One think we have learned from these message boards-Renting/leasing films is not always as easy or happens as quickly as we would think.

Holy crap! Essential Passes are SOLD OUT!!!!!!! No joke!

> It sticks in my mind that THE RAZOR`S EDGE was an essential during the 2012-2013 season. I did research, but could not find the answer. *The Razor's Edge* aired on August 25, 2012 as part of Tyrone Power's SUTS day. It aired in the 8:00 pm/5:00 pm *Essentials* slot. Edited by: lzcutter for wrong year

>I am so glad that you posters are so eager to discuss GWTW. Let me ask a question about the scene where Rhett warns the guests at Twelve Oaks about the superiority in numbers and supplies that the Northern states enjoy: were the Southerners really that reckless? How often since those days have we heard the refrain that "our troops would be home by Christmas"? Too many.

>i think it is a disgrace to ignore vets day! lots of vets and their families watch TCM get with the program so to speak and stop with the foreign garbage we want our american film classics! johnbabe, I didn't realize that by honoring WWII veteran Robert Ryan (with a selection of films in war time) was depicting "foreign garbage". While Robert Ryan and many others fought that you might you have freedom to say that, chances are, they would be a great deal more tolerant of the films shown on TCM on Monday than you are.

I think it would be great to have his son, producer/writer Graham Yost, be a guest programmer and talk with Robert O about his dad. Elwy Yost did a number of film/video interviews with the stars of the studio era (the Errol Flynn doc that TCM did a few years ago featured clips from Mr. Yost's collection) and it would be a great way to share some of that history with those of us south of the border, so to speak, that weren't able to get his broadcasts.

>The Japanese man in question most likely might have served in the infamous 442nd regimental division made up of Japanese-Americans who fought bravely and commendably in the European theater. Here's a website with lots of information dedicated to those brave soldiers: http://www.the442.org/home.html

>It's obvious from the amount of interest in this thread that there is a problem no matter if some people continue to repeat the same useless numbers over and over again hoping that if you repeat it enough times it will become a truth. This topic has been debated here since the very beginning days of the message boards, which came online in 2002. It is a topic with many different viewpoints and different opinions. The bottom line is that from the beginning, TCM was broadcasting films from the 1920s to the 1980s. They expanded out to the 1990s when they celebrated their 10th anniversary (and will likely expand out to the 2000s when they celebrate 20 years next April). TCM does not focus on just the studio era, it never has. It has celebrated the diverse history of film over all the decades. Some viewers like only studio era films, other viewers like studio era films and post-studio era films, some only like silents, some only like foreign films. Some prefer comedy and others prefer dramas. The bottom line- TCM does not (and never has) programmed solely for any one viewer's tastes, they try to program for all our tastes. Studio era films (this month's and next month's *Story of Film* evenings notwithstanding) still make up the bulk of each month's programming. Always has. TCM strives to include all of us. It is us who too often want TCM to only program for our individual tastes and often do so without considering that others enjoy TCM as much as we do but, often, for different reasons. But too often it seems, we don't want them enjoying TCM if it takes away from our enjoyment. At the end of the day, TCM's audience keeps growing and we keep arguing over the focus of the channel. Some things, this topic especially, never change.