lzcutter
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Filmlover,
I agree. We have DirecTV, two Tivos and a Sony DVR that I can record stuff to when the Tivo gets full.
But, Bronxgirl was asking for something that was easy to use and user friendly.
That's why I suggested the Tivo if she was not going to be building a library but only wanted to record programs to watch at a later date.
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Bronxgirl,
I should amend my post to say 80 hours on the hard drive, not gig.
A Tivo can store up to 80 hours of programming and you can tell it when to delete stuff.
It is one of our favorites, we have two and we got one for my parents two years ago. My dad loves it. He can pause a program he is watching in real time (or that he recorded) if my mother interrupts him with a question. He can rewind to see a part if he missed part of the dialogue.
All hail Tivo!!!
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Ideally, I want something very user friendly and that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.>>
Bronxgirl,
Do you want to start a collection of film taped off of TCM or do you just want to be able to record them and watch them?
If it's the latter, a Tivo might be the thing for you as they are very easy to program. You don't have to set a start or stop time. Just pick the date, channel and time and tivo does the rest.
They come with 80 gig hard drives and you can store the movies for watching later for quite some time.
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Anne,
You should PM Larry and let him know. He may have stories he'd share with you. Agnes Moorehead was one of his very favorite ladies as I recall.
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Kyle,
From your keyboard to God's ear, here's hoping.
I like the idea of a few people from this forum being asked to be part of the November Guest Programmer idea.
Especially since for that month they are going outside the box to people from other walks of life besides being well known names.
I'll keep my fingers crossed.
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Kesey's dead? So - uh - what does that mean? >>
I do like the image of tying his arm up (and he probably would have too) but it means that his Estate now oversees his literary properties.
Cinesage may know if it is, in fact, being held up for broadcast or DVD because of the Abend Ruling.
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After cutting back their animation staff, laying off artists a few years back and investing 7.4 billion dollars to buy Pixar (the pioneer in CG Animation) t seems Disney has reversed course.
Their production of The Frog Princess will be a return to hand drawn animation it was announced at the annual shareholders meeting in New Orleans. Randy Newman will compose the score and songs. The lead female character will be the first African American animated heroine that Disney has had. The co-directors of The Little Mermaid who were forced out of Disney by the pre-Pixar regime will helm the movie. John Lassiter is credited with bringing them back to Disney.
Disney dropped its hand drawn animation department in 2004 when
Home on the Range failed to ignite at the box office.
Because Disney laid off their hand drawn artists they will have to find new artists or hire the old ones back.
Read about it here in today's LATimes:
Remember when posting links tinyurl.com is your friend!
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If I could get Paul Newman, then I'd also find out who I'd have to tar-and-feather in order to get his first directorial effort SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION on-screen. And if that's Ken Kesey, fine, I'll get him on-set, too. >>
Ollie,
I think Ken Kesey was not pleased with the movie adapted from his book. The film may be subject to the Abend decision or it could be a similar situation to the Gershwin estate and "Porgy and Bess".
Ken Kesey passed away a few years back so his estate would have to be contacted.
I saw the film on its initial release years ago. The scene in the river with Newman and Richard Jaeckle has stayed with me ever since.
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Kyle,
I agree with Chris. I think you'd make a great Guest Programmer. From many of your Challenge schedules I can only guess what films you would pick but I'm willing to bet we would all be watching!
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I understand "poverty row" was a real location in Los Angeles...I forget the name of the street.>>
Rusty,
The name of the street is Gower. The building and lot are still there though now used mainly for television production. It is located at Sunset and Gower just north of the cemetery and Paramount Studios.
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I, for one, am not likely to buy another Fox DVD set again, at least not without making sure there hasn't been some hideous problem with the video transfer.>>
Have you watched a copy of The Gang's All Here yet?
I ask because there is alot of controversy about the look of the latest transfer. You posted a critique of the DVD and since the national publication of that piece, evidence has come forward that the DVD transfer may not be as bad as the critic thought and that other elements exist rather than being completely destroyed.
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I can't understand the copyright on those Universal Holmes films. The CBS/Fox Key Video tapes had the Lorimar logo on the reverse of the sleeves, and Lorimar's library is (I thought) held by Warner. However, the copyright lines on those Key tapes showed various parties as the owners, including an individual person in the case of one film.>>
Dan,
Often films can beset by rights hell. In the 1970s an individual contacted 20th Century Fox about The Gang's All Here.
He was granted a license by Fox for the film. He did some restoration and by all accounts has one of the best looking prints (legally) of this film.
When it came time to for Fox to author this film to DVD last year, they instead used another version in their vaults rather going with the one of the best sources.
Why? Probably had something to do with the dollars involved.
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I was referring specifically to the process by where other studios with film libraries that have classics in them are slowly starting to see TCM as a viable option for the purposes of selling classic programming. >>
But with that often comes making the archiving and restoration to make it possible for DVD releases.
TCM has a digital server. All that it airs must be on a digital format. For a studio to undertake putting a film, previously on a analog format like Betacam SP or 3/4", on a digital format they at least have then have the material available for a DVD release.
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See previous post. >>
Still asking for the link to the Julie Andrews thread where you think he used sexually explicit language in posting his photos of Julie Andrews.
I ask this because I have yet to see the difference between his posting photos of Julie Andrews and the photos in the Gary Cooper or Cary Grant threads in Favorites.
The only difference I have been able to figure out is:
1) JohnM posted photos of Julie Andrews in the Musical Genre forum
2) Women have posted photos of Gary Cooper in the Favorites forum.
So, if there is more to it than that, please let me know where I can go to read the difference.
Because I have read all the pages of the Julie Andrews thread and I don't see the difference.
Johnm loves Julie Andrews and posts photos of her and provides back up material from books, films and seeing Andrews on the stage for his posts..
Coopsgirl, MrsCooper and others love Gary Cooper and provide back up material.
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We all like to think that some one, some where has their eye on the big picture of saving American film.
The reality is:
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Welcome to the world of film restoration, preservation and archiving.
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What's with all the legalese?>>
Again, I'm not asking for legalese I am asking for links or even cut and paste for examples that johnm has used sexual explicit language in his postings about Julie Andrews or in the postings of pictures of her.
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Well yeah, I guess but it can't be getting terribly unfavorable terms for the WB-pre86 MGM - RKO films, since it's part of the same corporate umbrella, right?
We don't know. It would be nice to assume that Warners gives them a break on the library (pre-49 WBros, pre-86 MGM and all RKO) that they used to own but we don't know that for a fact.
The bottom line is that TCM has to rent every film it shows. Does it get a "deal, deal" (as Don Rickles would say) from WBros who can say? I would think we would see more WBros from all decades if that was the case. But we don't.
Warners is the top of the pyramid for Home Video and TCM is the top of the pyramid for showing the classic era films.
But TCM has been on the air since 1994 and just recently Sony smacked their forehead and went "We need to do a contract with these folks for our Columbia Library!" Disney went "Damn, our live action library could have an outlet" and even Paramount (who on any given day rarely knows what they have in the vaults) went "This sounds like a good idea" (paraphrasing on my part).
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Well, in my experience people do not use sexually explicit language in the first place unless they have some kind of related frustration.>>
Again, I would ask you to provide the links to the sexual explicit language Johnm used regarding his posting of Julie Andrews pictures in his Julie Andrews thread.
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But would they ask for more money than TCM can pay, unless they thought they could go elsewhere and get that money if TCM can't pay it? I would think that if they see TCM as being the best channel for classic fare like this, they would try to come to an agreement that benefits both.>>
But TCM no longer owns a library of films so each film it shows is rented. Considering the number of films it takes to program 24/7 for a year, it may just come down to economics.
There are other cable stations that might pay, they be unwilling to compromise, it could be a number of factors.
You would think at this late date, every studio would see TCM as an ally and work with them. But look how long it took to bring Sony to the table regarding the Columbia library.
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Not just any man, but a man who likes to use sexually-explicit words to express himself when in a discussion with women with whom he does not agree. As I said in my previous post, if there is some sort of related frustration on his part, he can take it out elsewhere, not on the boards.>>
I am not sure what sexual frustration you are seeing on the JAndrews thread.
Perhaps you could provide some written details.
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Surely UCLA/MPI can come to some sort of arrangement with TCM to publicize these? >>
It may have more do with MPI asking for more money than TCM can afford to spend to rent the films.
We need to keep in mind that TCM, like every business, has a budget not only for film rentals, but the documentaries they produce, the Private Screenings they produce, the wrap arounds with Ben M and Robert O they do, the wrap arounds for the Essentials they do with Robert O and Carrie Fisher, the in between pieces they produce such as Word of Mouth, What a Character and the shorts such as the Rocky take off, the Dirty Dozen take off, the Ben Hur, Tarzan and other animated take offs.
All that costs money and each department has a budget that they must work with in.
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Well, last time I checked "spanking the monkey" was neither illegal nor unhealthy, and a practice that many guys carry out on a regular basis; and to be honest, his interest in all of these photos of Julie Andrews does bear some similarity with cases that (sadly) were known to myself and other college classmates of mine.>>
And you have yet to provide me with an proof or argument how the photos he posted in the Julie Andrews thread in Genre Musicals are any different from the photos posted in the Favorites Forum for Gary Cooper or Cary Grant.
The main difference seeming to be that those photos have been mainly posted by women while the JAndrews photos were posted by a man.
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It really doesn't seem to be the same thing at all. If one is to judge by recent depictions of male behavior in some American movies, many guys do not seem to be offended by this concept, and some indeed seem to think it's something to be made fun of. Ever watch any of the American Pie movies? These days things like that hardly seem like an insult at all, people laugh at jokes about it in movies that aren't even rated NC-17.>>
I am not referring to movie depictions or recent male behavior in the media. I am referring to comments made on these very boards. The recent use that you gave as an example of slander from Johnm and my example that was used by you of "spanking the monkey" in reference to him.
Why those original comments were made by you and johnm should be examined between yourselves more so than to ask the rest of us to take sides.
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Yes, but words like "BI*CH" and "WH*RE" are more commonly levied against women, to the best of my knowledge. >>
Comments like "spanking the monkey" are not usually leveled at women but have been, as of late, leveled against men in this forum.
Neither have any place or context on these boards.
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I just want to put something in, flick a switch, have anything I want recorded with no muss or fuss, and know that it won't be erased.>>
Bronxgirl,
Sounds like a Tivo would be just the ticket. I got the second Tivo as a Christmas present for Mr Cutter last year. Bought it off of Ebay. With shipping, it was cheaper than buying a new one.
Works like a champ.
I think Hughes now makes DVR's with Tivo built in. But if you can find one on Ebay that is a true Tivo it is worth it because they are that easy to use.
Trust me, if my folks can use it, it's easy.
You can PM if you would like the link to the seller on ebay.