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Hello all fans of this thread - Thanks to all of you who have tried to get me up to speed on Sunny Tufts. One of these days I'm sure I'll see him in the credits and now know who I am looking for. And thanks too for the good words on the US Govt. WWI posters from the Library of Congress. I found them only recently and I knew they could be put to good use for Memorial Day. There are a total of 8 them and they will be posted one-a-day through next Monday. I wonder what the Library Of Congress has done with the films the posters promote? I hope they have them. Kyle In Hollywood

*"Others like Mr. Deeds Goes To Town,Roman Holiday and The Man Who Knew Too Much leave me wondering why they were chosen at all."* - molo14 Let me venture a bit of analysis on these three choices. I bet the selection of *Mr. Deeds Goes To Town* is partly due to the Adam Sandler remake that many younger folks may have already seen. (I think Sandler's *Mr. Deeds* was a PG-13 film.) And if young folks liked the story with Adam Sandler, they may be interested in seeing "the original" - along with learning that some really good stories can be found in "older" movies. Young girls like movies about princesses and in *Roman Holiday* you've got a "princess story" that is much different from the Disney Princess stories with which most young girls are very familiar by age ten or twelve. At least different from the animated princesses who are looking for happiness in the form of a Prince Charming. Over the course of the movie, this princess evolves from a rebellious "child princess" into a princess who is a mature young woman and one that accepts that she has a special position in the world and that she has responsibilities that exist outside of her own self interests. And I had to be about twelve when I saw *The Man Who Knew Too Much* for the first time. I found it thrilling. The plot of a young son being kidnapped driving the story is something young people can become involved in quickly. (That goes along with the the types of films used in that "Story Of Movies" teaching program produced by the Film Foundation.) And personally, I so wanted a mother who sang to me as beautifully as Doris Day. I would hum and sing "Que Sera, Sera" for days after seeing this movie on television when I was young. Don't know if the song has the same effect for kids nowadays. And no offense to Tom Kenny but this concept already seems like an improvement over the frenetic "Funday Night At The Movies" of last year. As long as Abigail Breslin and Chris O'Donnell seem truly interested in the films being shown - which was not the case with the kids involved in last year's series - it should be successful. Kyle In Hollywood

Wednesday May 21^st^ An 8 Day salute honoring Memorial Day Including WWI selections from the Library Of Congress (1917) Thanks to the Library Of Congress

Wednesday May 21^st^ An 8 Day Salute honoring Memorial Day.

*"...the actress that played Farley's slutty wife played Darrin's boss's wife on the Bewitched TV series."* - Hibi And Bruno's mother appeared on "Bewitched" as Samantha's scatter-brained Aunt Clara. Kyle In Hollywood

*"OK, what about Virginia?"* - skimpole Here's a couple of different titles - *The Vanishing Virginian* (1942) w/ Frank Morgan & Kathryn Grayson http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=94682 "In 1913, district attorney Robert "Cap'n Bob" Yancey, the patriarch of a large, eccentric Lynchburg, Virginia family, has definite ideas about what his independently-spirited children should be." *Virginia* (1941) w/ Madeleine Carroll & Fred MacMurray http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=94856 "Charlotte Dunterry returns to her family home in Fairville, Virginia after having lived in New York City most of her life. "Charlie," a city sophisticate who is ignorant of Southern ways, is appalled at the rundown condition of her family home, a 150-year-old mansion built by Thomas Jefferson, which she has inherited and plans to sell." *Sporting Blood* (1940) w/ Robert Young & Maureen O'Sullivan http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=947 "After losing all his savings in a crooked horse race, young Myles Vanders is forced to take his two horses back to the Virginia home he has not seen in twenty years." Kyle In Hollywood

Well, I enjoyed myself - and *Hobson's Choice* - all over again last night. I hope everyone that checked it out at my urging enjoyed themselves also. Thanks the the BFI Online site Kyle In Hollywood

Tuesday May 20^th^ An 8-Day Celebration to honor Memorial Day Including WWI selections from the Library Of Congress (1917) Thanks to the Library Of Congress

Tuesday May20^th^ An 8-Day Ceelebration in honor of Memorial Day

*"The Bombdiggy"* I have to say that my man 'markbeckhuaf's linguistic enthusiasm always makes me smile. When he's happy, the verbal equivilent of "polite tennis clapping" just won't do. Enjoy those daytime scheds this week buddy! Kyle In Hollywood

Monday May 19^th^ An 8-Day Celebration in honor of Memorial Day including WWI selections from the Library Of Congress. (1917) Thanks to The Library Of Congress

Monday May 19^th^ An 8-Day Celebration in honor of Memorial Day.

bigdal8888 - I think the movie you caught was *Suburbia* by filmmaker Penelope Spheeris. It was presented as part of the TCM Underground series. Check here to see if this sounds familiar - http://www.tcm.com/2008/underground/movies/index/?cid=181171 Kyle In Hollywood

*"Was the Salute to 1939 really just five years ago?"* - lzcutter Yes. Though for me, my reaction was more like "Was it _only_ five years ago?" It seems so much longer than that to me. Besides the month-long salute to the films of 1939, July 2003 also featured Lee Marvin as "Star Of The Month" and the TCM premiere of *Le Corbeau* Kyle In Hollywood

*"It's like anti-Nazis making Nazi jokes in Germany around 1936, not realizing what's going to happen to them in the future."* Are you sure you don't want to call me an appeaser instead????????? Terrible analogy Dobbsy. Nothing is _ever_ analogous to Nazi Germany. It only serves to trivialize what _did_ happen there. Kyle In Hollywood

*"Hey..tcm is so interested in themes how about relating a particular year to the movies that were made in that year. It sure works for 1939."* - Stephen444 From the TCM Archives, July 2003 http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=29968 "It was a significant year in world history, with Hitler invading Poland, the Great Depression at last lifting and Franklin D. Roosevelt, halfway through his presidency, reaching new heights of popularity. And, because of the number of outstanding films produced that year - more than any before or since, most would agree - 1939 has become known as Hollywood's Golden Year." Kyle In Hollywood

Sunday May 18^th^

> {quote:title=Caramia wrote:}{quote} > Awesome poster, Kyle! That is one of my favorite musicals. This poster is one I had never seen, with the alphabetical description. Thank you!! You're welcome 'Caramia'. While the main figures look nothing like Howard Keel and Jane Powell, I like it too. Kyle In Hollywood

How great for you! And your impression of Joel Hodgson is the same I had when meeting him in the early 90s. He seemed thoroughly surprised that a hotel bartender would know that his show had won a Peabody Award. His deadpan delivery always made me laugh and I still remember a visual gag involving a can of peaches ("cling" peaches) that made me howl. Isn't it great when a person's idols turn out to be decent human beings in this day and age? Kyle In Hollywood

*"He will stud and it will not be done artificially Come on big guy..."* JakeHolman Hey, big guy. I wasn't mocking you or trying to instigate anything. I was only going by what I learned through conversations I had with a horse owner last year. Now he raises a different type of thoroughbred - a special type of quarter horse, I believe. But he bred a mare here in California with a horse from across the country and the two never came in contact. The most interesting thing I learned was that (in this instance anyway) the "fee" is not just for a vial of the "stuff" but for a successful pregnancy. If the mare didn't become pregnant after the first attempt, vials are continuually sent out so it could be tried again - at no extra charge - until the horse was "with foal". Kyle In Hollywood

From the NYTimes Thursday May 15^th^ - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/business/media/15turner.html?ref=todayspaper *Turner to Offer Marketers Way to Link Ads to Content* Ever smile while watching a movie on TV because, say, you just saw the scene from “The Godfather” when Vito Corleone leaves his office at the Genco Olive Oil factory and a commercial comes on for Bertolli olive oil? Turner Entertainment Networks wants to turn those coincidences into sales opportunities. At the Turner Entertainment upfront presentation on Wednesday, Linda Yaccarino, executive vice president and general manager for advertising sales and marketing, described a new system intended to pair commercials with relevant moments in the shows they interrupt. The system, called *TV in Context*, was more than a year in development, she said. Ms. Yaccarino likened TV in Context to contextual targeting, which is all the rage in online advertising and takes advantage of tracking the online behavior of computer users to serve them ads they would find relevant. The Turner Entertainment system, part of Time Warner, *“matches spots with relevant scenes,” she said, in the movies and series that are shown by the TBS, TNT and TruTV cable networks.* TV in Context involves combing through the thousands of properties in the Turner Entertainment library, cataloging scenes by subject matter and tracking the commercials that agencies deliver to the networks to run. The first placements are available in the fall. =========== Now, it's not that I want to give the honchos at Turner Entertainment any ideas about how to integrate ads into the films on TCM (Heaven forbid!) but it did get me thinking about what ads might fit well into the context of certain classic movies. With tongue firmly in cheek - I can imagine *North By Northwest* being sponsored with ads from *Jack Daniels* - The Secret Agent's Bourbon Of Choice - even when you don't have one. *Ebay* - Never worry about pesky under-bidders again *One Hour Martinizing* - Been running through a cornfield and need that suit back in an hour? and of course *Amtrak* - Bored with the "Mile High Club"? Join the "Nation-Wide Club". It's much more fun because our trips last longer. I can also envision entire films being sponsored by specific advertisers - *The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek* (with the constantly pratfalling William Demerest) being sponsored by "Doan's Backache Pills" *High Noon* being sponsored by "Timex". *The Defiant Ones* being sponsored by "Master Lock". and to be really subversive - *The Manchurian Candidate* sponsored by "Obama For President '08". Anyone else got some ideas? Kyle In Hollywood

>*"You'd think that a stable that calls its horse "Big Brown" would try to underwrite the costs of >upkeep by plastering a few UPS logos on his flanks."* - CSjr > *"That is irrelevant"* - JakeHolman Maybe so. But it cerainly made me laugh imagining a horse decaled-up like a Nascar automobile. *"Big Brown's future will be in clover and studding for the finest fillies in the country."* Well, it ain't like he is going to be pleasuring all those fillies himself. Today it's all done artificially and through FedEx. The horses never even see one another. Kyle In Hollywood

There is certainly a lot of interesting "stuff" going on this month what with two nights a week devoted to Frank Sinatra (including the wonderful music specials on Sundays). But my highlight of the month comes this Monday. http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=194374 Monday night is Guest Programmer evening with the English-born actor Tim Roth. He, like Guest Programmer before him Tracey Ullmann, has picked a Ken Loach film ( *Cathy Come Hiome* ) which I probably will skip because I expect the accents to be so thick I will only understand every third word. (As was true for the Tracey Ullmann pick *Kes* last fall.) *Roman Holiday* is a great pick and I look forward to hearing Roth's impressions of William Wyler and Gregory Peck. (And maybe a word or two about Audrey Hepburn ) And it will be great to hear an Englishman speak about the importance of David lean's *Brief Encounter* .But it is the premiere that night that has me most excited. Tim Roth has persuaded TCM to show David Lean's *Hobson's Choice* . I haven't seen the film since it was shown on the Bravo channel in the 90s. I had a grand time. It was such a surprise to see Charles Laughton play a comedic role. From the webarticle above - *Hobson's Choice* (1954) opens with the seriousness of a drama, with the camera quietly taking inventory of a quaint 19th century boot shop on a rainy night. The stillness shattered by the sound thump and a whip pan to the skylight, where a branch is thrashing in the wind. A dark shape casts a shadow on the shop door. It's a moment right out of Lean's *Great Expectations* (1946), until that shape belches and stumbles drunkenly through the door, loudly slurring his protestations as his daughter tries to whisk him off to bed. The entire tone of the film is set in that reversal of expectations. Thanks to the BFI Online site I have great expectations for seeing the film again - and a certainlty I won't be disappointed. Dare I say, anyone seeing ti for the first time won't be disappointed either? Oh, why not. Give it a look. Kyle In Hollywood

Saturday May 17^th^

*"In 1950 he was sued by two women who claimed he bit them both on the thigh."* Now that's too funny. I assumed "Sonny Tufts" was the "increible Hulk" like figure in the lower left side of the poster and then guessed he might have been a professional wrestler that made the jump to B-films. So, reading he bit people made some sense to me. And I never feel bad about being ignorant of "classic" stars. I just don't have the aptitude to remember all these folks. But I admire those that can. It's amazing to me. Kyle In Hollywood