lzcutter
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Chief,
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for all the hard work you put into this thread over the years. It was truly appreciated by many of us here. We miss you and hope you have a wonderful holiday!
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Joe,
I hope you and your family have a wonderful Holiday! Thank you for all the time and effort you put into this thread. It is truly appreciated!
Roy,
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you have a wonderful holiday as well!
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Helen,
Congrats on going! I bet you have a terrific time.
I can't wait to hear your stories!
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> Rothman's Fox Legacy segments are very good- and yeah he would be a perfect part time TCM host as long as he introduces Fox films!
I think the fly in the ointment on that one is that Rothman already has a full-time job running Fox's Filmed Entertainment division. He's already on the lot so that probably makes it easier to schedule his wrap-arounds than flying to Atlanta once a month to do so.
He would make an interesting Guest Programmer, though.
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It was in Douglas Shearer's contract with MGM that he be credited as Recording Supervisor on all MGM films released in North America. To his credit, Shearer did have an avid working interest in sound recording and wasn't just given the title as a sop to his sister, Norma.
Cedric Gibbons, the art director at MGM, had a similar contractual deal while at MGM. Gibbons is listed as the Art Director on the majority of classic MGM films though he did not work on or supervise the majority of them. According to IMDB, he is credited on over 1500 films of which he worked on maybe 10% of them.
During his reign at MGM, if a MGM film won a Best Art Direction Oscar, the Oscar was awarded to Gibbons whether he had done the work or not. He was the one credited with the work.
Edited by: lzcutter on Nov 21, 2011 10:36 PM
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stupid double post
Edited by: lzcutter on Nov 21, 2011 10:33 PM
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> Do you still get together as one group for many events?
Floyd,
I don't know if there is an easy answer as everyone's mileage may vary. I will say that I saw *Silly Symphonies* with friends attending the Film Festival, various panels including the Kevin Brownlow talk and the *Meet the Staff* panel, the Ghost Singers panel and the Dancing panel. A large group of us were in the house for *The Cameraman* and I saw *The Constant Nymph* and *Night Flight* with a smaller group.
We hung out in various degrees of numbers at Club TCM and, of course, at In-N-Out the unoffical gathering organized by posters from the message boards, and the offical TCM Meet and Greet that kicked off the festival on Thursday evening prior to the Red Carpet and the closing party.
I can't think of a screening that I didn't engage with someone I had met either through these boards or the first year of the Festival.
Hope that helps!
Edited by: lzcutter on Nov 22, 2011 7:47 AM because very and vary are not the same thing.
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> We also don't know why he didn't tell until now. I did hear it was a deathbed confession type thing. Maybe he just wants to clear his conscience. You can't guess until we know more.
The former captain of the Splendour isn't dying so there is no deathbed confession.
He was interviewed by cops in the LA Sheriff's Department 30 years ago.
> Maybe this capt. should just write his book and hand it out to people for free ? He was there and he would know. Maybe he was the only sober person around.
He has co-written a book that was released 2 years ago and looks like it will be re-released now.
He is now saying that he lied to police 30 years ago to protect Robert Wagner. There is no proof, other than the captain's various media interviews, to support his statement about Wagner.
The police are indicating that new information other than the captain's self serving media tidbits has been brought to their attention.
Unfortunately, the captain's recent statements are getting all of the attention because the cops are being tight lipped about the new information and trying to dial back people's expectations of re-opening the case in the wake of the heavy media blitz currently going on.
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Tom Mix had been in Arizona visiting Tucson Sheriff Ed Nichols. After leaving the Oracle Inn, he was driving faster than he should (some reports have him going at least 80 mph).
A bridge had been washed out and barriers were up. Mix didn't stop fast enough and ended up rolling the car twice.
An aluminum suitcase, filled with money, travelers checks and some jewelry, that Mix had packed on a shelf in the back seat, flew forward hitting Mix in the back of head, breaking his neck and shattering his skull.
Eyewitness reports say he died almost instantly.
Robert Birchard, a film historian, has a good book out on Mix. I recommend it!
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As someone who has called Los Angeles (pronounced without the hard g) home for almost 40 years, I just call it the City of Angels.
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> SAVING PRIVATE RYAN isn't on after MASTER CLASS tonight?
It was for American audiences. Unfortunately, Canadian viewers were shown *NBN*. There must be some rights issues involved. Perhaps another channel has the rights to *SPR* north of the border.
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> Am I missing something here? Doesn't Rupert own or at least have controlling interest in both Fox (FMC) and DirecTV?
Not anymore. Rupert sold DirecTV a while back.
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> When was the first Private Screenings interview?
I think Private Screenings began shortly after TCM debuted back in 1994 so TCM has been branching out into "original" productions since the beginning.
As for the OP, *Master Class* is a partnership between TCM and the AFI (American Film Institute). Considering some of the cool stuff in the AFI vaults, if this partnership leads to the AFI opening those vaults and making some of that cool stuff (like the original AFI Lifetime Achievement Award dinners) available to TCM, that would be terrific.
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Cinecrazy,
The url is too long and the image code using the exclamation point doesn't work with long urls.
Go to tinyurl.com and make the urls smaller then you can paste them here using the exclamation points at the beginning and end and your images should show up.
Hope that helps!
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> This is a case where the apologists and defenders will have to be more creative with their answers.
Is it really necessary to use name calling to characterize posters that don't agree with your thesis?
Even using a smiley face doesn't disguise the name calling or make it right.
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> How would a younger audience find out that someone they might be drawn to (e.g. Drew), is a host at TCM?
James,
Rest assured, TCM has a very strong presence on Facebook and Twitter. In fact, from the looks of things, they have a stronger more diverse following on Facebook than here at the message boards.
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According to the OP, she got up in the wee hours of the morning, at 1:00 am and discovered that TCM was airing a film that contained female nudity (from the waist up).
Presumably, according to her original post, her children did not see this film. She was the only one awake at that hour of the night.
What she seems to be objecting to is the airing of more modern films from the 1970s-1990s and she cloaks this age-old message board argument in a morals argument.
If she is objecting to the nudity, TCM usually only airs films with strong sexual content late at night to avoid having the films air during "prime-time" hours in any time zone.
Of course, TCM does air pre-code films that often feature sexual situations as well as post-war and foreign films that often deal with sexual situations.
Should TCM stop running those pre-1970s films because they contain sexual content?
If she is objecting to TCM airing modern classic films, well, TCM has always, from the beginning, aired films from all decades.
Either way, this "trend" towards strong sexual content on TCM seems to have always been there. Pre-codes are shown at all hours of the day. Foreign films appear on the schedule at various hours.
But, any film with strong sexual content is usually only aired late at night when children and families are sleeping.
Which would be why the film (with its nudity) that the OP saw was airing at 1:00 in the morning.
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Congrats to all who participated and a big Congratulations to Kingrat!
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> 2. TCM has been showing nudity in movies longer than just the past few months
In addition to American made films like *Last Picture Show*, they also show foreign films which also (sometimes) contain nudity. I don't think anyone here would advocate the removal of foreign films from the schedule because of that.
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Hallie brings the hat box with her on the train because she knows she is going out to Tom's old place and will bring a cactus rose back for his funeral.
She needs a box high enough for the cactus rose to fit in without damaging it.
A hat box does nicely.
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> but don't you agree that TCM, before putting a prospective guest host on the air, should make an attempt to determine whether he or she IS any good at reading from the teleprompter?
But they can only do so much. We don't know if she approached TCM wanting to pinch hit or if TCM approached her. Either way, how exactly are they supposed to "preview" someone's ability to read from the teleprompter and still not run up against budgetary constraints or insulting the potential guest host by asking the question.
As has been noted here, not everyone is good at reading from a teleprompter. The annual Award shows are great at reminding us of that. Every year, there are big stars that stumble through the readings because they aren't good at reading from a teleprompter.
We all now know that Lorraine Bracco fits in that category.
But the larger issues that Rey and Lavender raised are still pertinent regardless of Lorraine Bracco's teleprompter abilities.
And that comes down to what type of community do we want here? One that revels in negativity and criticizing everything and everyone that we see on TCM or one that shows some understanding for people's foibles?
Because between all the Bracco bashing, Ryder bashing, Drew bashing, Robert O bashing, Ben M bashing and programming choices bashing, we are awash almost 24/7 in negativity and criticism these days all under the guise of "well everyone else is doing it, I need to join in the piling on."
It's one thing to have an opinion about a guest host/program choice/regular host and another thing entirely to pile on the criticism long after the poor horse has stumbled to the ground.
At some point, the kind of community we want to be gets lost in the cacophony of piling on and bashing just because some see it as fun.
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> Got another first-timer question...are there other films running Thursday besides Cabaret?
Yes, there are films running in other theaters while *Cabaret* is unspooling in the main Chinese theater.
In the past, there has been a poolside screening at the Roosevelt as well as films running in some of the smaller Chinese theaters as well as the larger Egyptian theater.
There will likely be something similar again this year.
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> Lighten up. A lot of people are just trying to throw out one-liners.
Sounds like the perception is that they sound more like more ragging on the guest host(s) than funny one-liners.
Guess it's a real thin line. :0
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