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Another Billy Gilbert
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Eugene Pallette in The Lady Eve
(Wish I had the dish/cymbals scene.)
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Edward Arnold in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
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Edward Arnold in You Can't Take It With You
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Thursday January 3rd -
In recognition of being selected to the National Film Registry.
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Hi traceyk65 -
Nice to see you, as always.
There is a link to "Buy" on the TCMDatabase page for Mr. Hulot's Holiday that I hyperlinked below. At $26.99 it is kinda pricey but then many foreign classics are more expensive.
I Hope you have a great 2008 and I also hope you have the chance to hang around here more often this year.
Kyle In Hollywood
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From my Challenge #7 Schedule theme "Men Of Few Words" (and all hyperlinked) -
The Bellboy with Jerry Lewis
Mr. Hulot's Holiday with Jacques Tati
And these others including -
Playtime with Jacques Tati
Mon Oncle with Jacques Tati
Sidewalk Stories from 1989
Kyle In Hollywood
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"Perhaps Kyle can fire up the Wayback machine and give us a better idea?"
Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman have lent me their machine for a few minutes...
Two years ago (at the beginning of the Programming Challenge) I, too, made the observation that weekend afternoons were often filled with what I called "guy films" for Ben Mankiewicz to introduce and did my Challenge accordingly. I don't find weekends to be that predictable anymore. But looking over the past few months and maybe I should go back to that idea.
During November when the weekdays were full of B-Movies, the daytime hours on the weekends were full of major A-Movies with titles like Rebecca, The Maltese Falcon and Swing Time.
But looking at this past September one finds every Saturday afternoon with a Western Double Feature. Ben Mankiewicz introduced -
Along Came Jones / Cat Ballou
The Caribou Trail / The King And Four Queens
Dodge City / Track Of The Cat
40 Guns To Apache Pass / Once Upon A Time In The West
The War Wagon / Rio Lobo
And Saturday Afternoons in July - while not full of "two-fers" - was similarly focused with titles like -
Comanche, Nevada Smith, Shakalo, Big Jake and Will Penny.
Though these films were balanced on Sundays in July with titles like -
The Best Man, Marty, High Sierra, Bathing Beauty and A Child Is Waiting.
Looking at the first Saturday for 2008 one finds another Saturday Afternoon full of guns.
Man Of The West (1958)
A reformed outlaw is among the hostages when his former colleagues rob a train. Cast: Gary Cooper, Lee J. Cobb, Julie London. Dir: Anthony Mann. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
Tall Stranger, The (1957)
When rustlers leave him for dead, a Westerner throws in his lot with the wagon train whose inhabitants have rescued him. Cast: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Michael Ansara. Dir: Thomas Carr. C-83 mins, TV-PG
Hell In The Pacific (1968)
Stranded soldiers from opposite sides fight a private version of World War II on a remote island. Cast: Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune. Dir: John Boorman. C-102 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
During World War II, a marine sergeant must turn his recruits into fighting men. Cast: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara. Dir: Allan Dwan. BW-109 mins, TV-PG, CC
But looking over the entire month's weekends one will also find important titles like Sweet Smell Of Success, The Sterile Cuckoo, The Thomas Crown Affair, Love With The Proper Stranger, Indiscreet and 2010 during the Ben Mankiewicz hours. (Of course, that gives ammo to the anti-Sixties movies crowd, doesn't it?)
Kyle In Hollywood
ps - Was this past Saturday's showing of the Disney Treasure Island a "premiere"? I don't remember that version being shown before and was sad to have missed seeing it from the beginning.
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Wednesday January 2nd -
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And one of my favorites, Billy Gilbert.
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"Please feel free to post pictures. I don't know how, and I would love to see my favorites posted here."
OK. I'll start with the obvious choice.
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"The worst that can be said about TCM is that it hardly ever is a ratings winner. Hallmark & even AMC beat out TCM."
And you just don't get it. Because TCM doesn't sell advertising it isn't important if other channels have more viewers. Ratings numbers are used to sell an audience to advertisers. That's all they are good for.
TCM does request information from ratings services on particular programs or presentations but only for self-evaluation. But whether more people watch Hallmark or AMC is of no concern to the viability or long-term prospects for the channel. At best, TCM is interested in cultivating a loyal audience of various ages to ensure that the channel always has an audience rather than a large audience of advertiser-attractive younger viewers..
And the fact that Fox studio gave TCM the television rights to the Ford On Fox films that were presented in December tells me that the channel is doing just fine. It has obviously created a more important (and valuable) audience for promoting classic films and film heritage than their owm Fox Movie Channel.
If Apple Computers can survive (even thrive) in a PC world, then TCM can survive in a 300 channel cable universe by developing that same brand loyalty.
Kyle In Hollywood
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Tuesday January 1st -
College Football for New Year's Day.
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"My question is.....are we stuck with Miss Fisher for the essentials????" - Anthony
Since about 2003, a new season of "The Essentials" has also brought us a new host so I would be willing to bet that there will be a new host beginning in March or April.
Kyle In Hollywood
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"Robert Osborne has been able to improve the quality of prints & broadcasts since they are now selling dvds."
While I am sure Mr. Osborne is pleased you appreciate the print quality of some recent films, I doubt that he would accept the credit for it. He only introduces the films (and chooses a night or two of programming.) Thanks belong to the staff responsible for keeping track of the library and the film acquisitions they make for presentation on TCM.
Kyle In Hollywood
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"hope you enjoyed your shaggy dog movies. that is the direction tcm is headed."
Kyle In Hollywood
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Snorky -
Glad you added the later "Merrie Melodies" poster (later based on the style of "Bugs" and the assorted other characters) to the thread. I have two other generic "Merry Melodies" posters yet to post that are in a completely different style. One of these days...
Cinemafan -
Happy to hear you are regular viewer of the thread and look forward to checking it out.
And a Happy New Year to you also!
Kyle In Hollywood
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I haven't looked at the AMC schedule in years so I don't know what films they show or if they are truly "classic". But the channel doesn't care anymore.
Last week there was an article in the LATimes detailing the upcoming "re-branding" of many different cable channels - including AMC. Here's an excerpt -
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Cable TV's search for identity
Stations such as Court TV and FX are tweaking programming and retooling
advertising campaigns in a bid to create brand awareness and build
audiences.
A few years ago, it looked like Court TV was all about courtrooms, FX
Network was for tough guys, and AMC ran only movies. In the coming months,
however, cable TV viewers will start to see things change.
Court TV will become TruTV. FX ads will explain "There is no box" its shows
fit into. And AMC will launch its third original scripted program.
Here's a sampling of what viewers can expect on basic cable in 2008:
AMC
AMC once called itself "Television for People Who Love Movies." Now it's
"The Future of Classic."
"What we're looking to do is combine the best movies with high-end scripted
originals," said general manager and executive vice president Charlie
Collier.
The movie channel tested the waters for original programming two years ago
with "Broken Trail," an Emmy-winning miniseries. Next came last summer's
"Mad Men," a Golden Globe-nominated drama. On Jan. 20, the network will
launch "Breaking Bad," a series about a "repressed everyman" diagnosed with
a fatal illness, Collier said.
Created by writer Vince Gilligan ("The X-Files"), "Breaking Bad" stars
Emmy-nominated actor Bryan Cranston ("Malcolm in the Middle") as a chemistry
teacher who becomes a manufacturer of crystal meth. Its producer, Mark
Johnson, and cinematographer John Toll have won Oscars. "This is as close as
you can get to film on television," Collier said.
Collier said he'd like AMC, like HBO, to be "creator-friendly," a network
where writers can bring smart projects they're passionate about and know
they will be produced in a high-quality, cinematic way. "We're working with
a lot of Hollywood talent," he said. He said classic movies will also be
curated and shown alongside individual projects to create an environment of
quality rather than just fill space. For instance, he said "Goodfellas" was
programmed to precede "Mad Men" since both had cinematic qualities and told
stories about "a group of men to whom the rules do not apply."
Other upcoming series and miniseries in development have been stalled during
the writers strike. "Breaking Bad," was kept to a seven-episode arc plus the
pilot. If the strike is resolved early in the year, "Mad Men" will begin to
film Season 2 and "we'll be able to keep the cadence going," he said.
In any case, he added, AMC has a core of classic movies. "If you have a
core, you have a foundation for a house. It's obviously architecturally
solid," he said.
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What's that line? "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend"? (I know. Trite, isn't it?)
I am all for accuracy in the TCM intros/outros but I can't help but be symapthetic to the idea that the truth may be difficult to discern when it comes to Hollywood history. The "studios" and their publicity departments consistently created "copy" from whole cloth. It was all part of peddling fantasy to the public. And even first-hand sources can have a motivation to lie or exaggerate.
At least TCM hasn't resorted to including some of the more scurrilous rumors out there in their intros/outros. But I hear Ben Mankiewicz has taken a job with gossip-mongers TMZ.com so who knows what might lie ahead.
(I agree with 'Chip's interpretation of Ben Mankiewicz's attitude during many of his intros.and recently was able to pass that reaction along to TCM. It is one thing to be ironic or sardonic but when you cross the line into outright mocking the material/film, you tarnish the presentation and run the risk of insulting the viewer.)
Kyle In Hollywood
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Monday December 31st -
I believe this is original artwork created for Follow The Fleet posters. Don't remember where I found it and don't know if it was ever used in an advertisement though. Either way, it is pretty special.
Have a sparkling New Year's Eve! Happy New Year everyone.
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"What happened to my last post?"
There are quirky litle things in this software. Did you try to create indentation using multiple "spaces" or hits on the space bar? Multiple spaces before a line of text can make the line of text "invisible". That - or something similar - is usually the problem.
If you go back into your message through the "edit" function, you can remove any excess "characters" and the lines of text should become visible.
Kyle In Hollywood
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kennethlawson -
Was it you who first posted of seeing old TV Shows on TCM Latin America while on a cruiseship? Someone did and I can't remember who it was. So I wasn't the one who first posted that information but I found it very interesting.
I have looked at some of the websites for overseas versions of TCM. Viewers of foreign versions of TCM have come to these Forums looking for help finding their region's schedules. What I remember most on the foreign sites is that there is a heavy dependence on very contemporary films on those channels. And some include a healthy dose of that region's own film output..
TCM overseas is pretty much a satellite-service only operation and I don't know how subscriptions run on a foreign satellite system. (Is it a "premium channel" or a "basic channel", etc.?) But on many of the systems TCM seems to be an "all-purpose" film channel appealing to any film lover and not geared to people only interested in American Classics.
But none of the websites for TCM in other areas of the world can hold a candle to the amount of information found on this website. They're not even close.
Kyle In Hollywood
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I am not defending certain tactics but thought it important people be aware that some overseas incarnations of TCM do show old American television series. I don't know if that is why this poster posts such requests in here but it is possible they believe it could happen here or that these Message Boards are associated with their foreign version of TCM.
Kyle In Hollywood
Seven "squirrely cherubs"....
in Your Favorites
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And back to the squirrely cherubs.