Jump to content
 
Search In
  • More options...
Find results that contain...
Find results in...

hlywdkjk

TCM_allow
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    8,678

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by hlywdkjk

    MY SISTER EILEEN:TAKE HER AWAY PLEASE!

    in Hot Topics

    Posted

    *"I wish tcm would air the non-musical version with Roz Russell and Janet Blair. They aired it once a few months ago and I messed up the time trying to record it."* - Poinciana

     

    Good News!

    As part of the "Star Of The Month" tribute to Rosalind Russell in July, TCM will be showing *My Sister Eileen* on the very first evening (July 1^st^).

    http://www.tcm.com/schedule/month/?cid=&timezone=EST&oid=7/1/2008

     

    Get practicing on setting the timer.

     

    Kyle In Hollywood

    Jaws........A Speilberg tribute?

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    *"As best I can tell, CBS and TVLand have the same majority owner (National Amusements)."* - Fedya

     

    Thanks, Fedya.

     

    I have a faint recollection that CBS intended to give *E.T.- The Extraterrstial* the *Wizard Of Oz* treatment with annual showings on the network in the way that ABC handles *The Ten Commandments* or *The Sound Of Music* and NBC uses *It's A Wonderful Life*.

    But I don't believe that CBS still shows the film at all anymore, right?

     

    Kyle In Hollywood

    Jaws........A Speilberg tribute?

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    *"Agree about 1941, Kyle. I wanted to see it, but the film was on too late. Can the film be THAT bad?"* - SSOS

     

    I saw it once - on pay television - and it was not too funny. (Actually, not funny at all.) Thinking about it this morning, I think the film wanted to be a farce - a la *The Russians Are Coming...* - but ended up just being a poorly executed screwball comedy.

     

    Yet it might be interesting to see again in the context of being Steven Speilberg's first WWII movie. It is interesting to note that Speilberg has made more films on that subject than any other.

     

    Kyle In Hollywood

    Jaws........A Speilberg tribute?

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    *"That's why I'm a little disappointed "Jaws" and "Close Encounters" are a part of the festival again."* - SSOS

     

    And me too. It would have been nice for us regular viewers if *1941* had been incorporated into the evening a bit earlier.

     

    I also had high hopes that TCM had made an effort to spruce up the Speilberg films a bit by showing the "Special Edition" of *Close Encounters...* tonight. (TCM even showed the trailer for the "Special Edition" the other day.) But in his intro tonight, Robert Osborne made no mention that that was the case so I guess not. Oh well... I still find the film a beautifully optimistic story.

     

    And didn't CBS have a long-term lease for *E.T. - The Extraterrestial* at one point? I guess that it expired now that TVLand has been showing the film. Too bad TCM didn't get their hands on that one. THAT would've made the evening truly special.

     

    Kyle In Hollywood

    REAR WINDOW:DEFINITELY NOT HITCHCOCK'S BEST

    in Hot Topics

    Posted

    *"The Themes used in "Rear Window" are listed:*

    *male impotence - Jeff confined to a wheelchair *

     

    That's funny as I always think that _visually_ Jeff is in a perpetual state of arousal thoughout the whole film what with his leg jutting out from his waist like it does. To me, that's sexually frustrated but not impotent.

     

    Kyle In Hollywood

    Kyle In Hollywood's CENSORED Poster Gallery

    in Remembering Kyle in Hollywood

    Posted

    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

    The Essentials Jr.

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    *"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

    50 States 50 Great Movies?

    in General Discussions

    Posted

    *"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

© 2022 Turner Classic Movies Inc. All Rights Reserved Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Cookie Settings
×
×
  • Create New...