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My favorites are anything by Irving Berlin,but "We're Having a Heat Wave" recorded in 1933 is one of the best. I also like Artie Shaw and Billy Holiday, Her song, "They Say" and "Why Don't You Do Right" are so good. The lyrics go like this---- You been goin round from door to door letin other women make a fool out of you Why don't you do right Like some other men do So get out of here And, get me some money too. Jazz Revisited on public radio plays these musicians.

Yes, it airs on HBO Signature. Go to HBO schedule to see when it airs again so that you can see it.

His film, One, Two, Three (1961)**** is my favorite. It is about a Coca-Cola company man in West Germany who panics when the Coca-Cola heiress marries a communist. It is directed by Billy Wilder so you know it's great. It aired on TCM about a year ago, its fast dialogue keeps the movie going, never letting up. I believe this was Cagneys last movie, I know he hated working on it because of the fast pace of the film.

Thanks for all this interesting information from people who are so knowledgeable on the topic. I go to the Sony web page often to see which films they are restoring at the moment and which ones they have finished working on (sonypicturesmuseum.com). I notice that the Sony MGM/UA films show up on the Showtime, TMC, and Flix channels and the Fox films on HBO and Cinemax. You never see a Fox film on Showtime and never a Sony film on HBO. There most be some kind of backroom deals going on for this to be the case. This topic is so interesting to keep up with.

Foreign films are my favorites, some of the movies that I have on My Queue that I will be viewing soon are: 1: Onibaba (1964)Directed my Kaneto Shindo. 2: Ikiru (1952) Directed by Kurosawa. 3: Sanjuro (1962)D. Kurosawa. 4: War and Peace (1967) Directed by Sergi Bondarchuk. (Russian)Don't get this one confused with the terrible one that airs on TCM. 5: Repulsion (1965) Directed by Roman Polanski. 6: The Horse's Mouth (1958) Directed by Ronald Neame. 7: Ruling Class (1972) Directed by Peter Medak. 8: City of the Dead(1960)Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey, my horror movie for the month.

I enjoy the music also, I've recorded tons of it off of public radio. It's so bouncy and goodtimes feeling that you can't help but enjoy it. The 1930's black movement is my favorite, the kind of stuff that influenced Bing Crosby during the 30's, and shows up in his early movies. I enjoy the Art of the period also, which was influence by Jazz (Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and Surrealism). I'm so lucky that I live just 2 hours away from Washington D.C., so that I can see all these great works of art on a regular basis.

And as Stan said to Ollie: "I think we made a mistake buying the Brooklyn Bridge from that guy who sold it to us", Ollie replies, "no we didn't, we are gong to make a lot of money on that bridge someday".

When casting someone as Marilyn, what has to be remembered is that she was intelligent, she took her acting serious, she was not fat. Drew fits all of these requirements better than anyone at this moment in time. Someone may come along later who is better suited, but for now Drew is the only one that comes close.

Vallo, your right about sun spots, and the sun in general. I notice with Directv that the movies I watch during the night have better reception than when the signal has to compete with the sun. I would be interested if others experience the same effect, but to me the image is a little more pixilated during the day, especially in the summer months.

Which is better, a peach or an orange? Same difference!

People are trying to make things more complicated than they really are. The 4:3 ration of older televisions were made to match the 4:3 ratio of movie theater screens pre - 1954. The 16.9 ratio is made to match 1954 to the present. The ratio may change and vary for the films depending which camera lenses are utilized, but the ratio of the screens are either one or the other. Movie theaters in the late 50's and 60's had to make sure their screen had a ratio that could accommodate all of the variations (Panorama, Cinemascope and Panavision). So in short it is the ratio of the screen which should be considered and not the movie. You can go to google and do a search for aspect ratio and get more technical information. The top and bottom used portion of the screen basically remains the same on the screen, only the sides change.

I only buy Wide Screen DVD's when the movie was released in that format. The reson I prefer the LetterBox movies is that when I replace my 27 inch TV, it's going to be a 30 to 36 inch widescreen LCD television, so I'm looking ahead when issues like this won't be a concern to me. Full screen movies will have black bars on the left and right when they are viewed on these improved televions.

Friday Night Imports and Silent Sunday Nights makes TCM the best channel in my book. Thank you for these special viewing nights that I look forward to. Maybe you could have Sci-Fi Saturday Nights too, wouldn't that be the ticket. Three great evenings in a row of special events! Thank you TCMProgrammer for all the effort you put into things to keep TCM at the top.

My personal epinion about FMC is that they show on the average about two good movies a week. For that $10.00 price tag you could get a premium channel like Showtime Unlimited and get about 10 good movies a week($12.00 a month for me on Directv).

I just want to come in and state that tcmprogrammer has answered my questions in the past about movies that I was interested in and I am thankful that he has taken the time to do so. No other channel out there would do the same and I feel gratitude that there is one, namely TCM that does so. I enjoy the movies of the 1960's and 70's also, but I will have patience in watching them show up on TCM in Letterbox format from time to time. Like someone stated earlier, there are other outlets for us out there and I can utilize them when these kind of movies show up on these channels (Flix and TMC show these movies sometimes).I will not waste time complaining when a channel plays some things I don't care to watch. Thanks TCMProgrammer for all the input you give to us.

Once again this movies plays in pan and scan just like it did about three weeks ago. I was hoping that TCM had rectified this mistake and would show this movie in its original wide screen format this time but I guess not.

Jodie Foster, Myrle Streep, and Nicole Kiddman.

I agree 100%. I have never enjoyed TCM's line-up more than I did last night. How to Murder Your Wife is the kind of movie that TCM needs to show every night at prime time(that 1960's comedy stuff that Flix usually only shows). And He Who Gets Slapped was a great silent pick by Kenny also. If we could only look at the TCM library and choose four movies, what a candy store indeed.

A movie I would like to see is "1900", directed by the same person who directed The Conformist, which aired last week(Bernardo Bertolucci). This movie stars Burt Lancaster, Robert De Niro and Donald Sutherland. It would have to be shown with subtitles and not dubbed of course. NexFlix does not have it so it may be hard to show.

Your disappointed with the October menu on TCM, I only get Flix, TMC, Showtime Shocase, ShowToo,Sundance, Flix and IFC schedules a month at a time. Watch more channels and you won't be so dissatisfied.

My favorites are: 1: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) directed by Robert Wiene. (German) 2: Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) Directed by Fritz Lang. 3: The Golem (1920) Directed by Paul Wegener (German) This is a great site for silent movie fans to visit, it lists the top 100 silent movies of all time, choosen by us, the ones who love them the most. http://www.silentera.com/info/top100.html

The Mysterious Island (1929) June 29. 3:00 AM July 18 The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth are in my Neck (1967) buried in the morning hours so that no one will see it.

I would like to see more LetterBox - Wide Screen movies from 1960 to 1999 and less Betty Davis - Joan Crawford movies. I'm sick of those two gals for sure. Play them in the mornings so that people who can't get enough of them can record them and watch them over and over at their hearts content. Play the better quality, image wise, newer movies at prime time.

therealfuster, Being There plays on HBO Signature. It will be playing this week. Maybe you can sign up to HBO for one month only just to record it- as for Osmond movies, I don't think it's in the TCM Library thank goodness.

Let me help you out on taping this movie. The Intermission begins after 1 hour and 38 minutes, therefore you can record at the best speed and change your tape or DVD during this Intermission. The movie runs 3 hours and 15 minutes.