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Isn't it great? Just Amazing.
It's one long backroad road trip across the country with "roadside attractions" created for - and appropriate to - each of the SUTS honorees.
So go check out "Miriam's Dude Ranch For Recent Divorcees". Or "Lon Chaney's Wax Museum". Or "Montgomery Clift's Lake Tahoe Canoe Rental".
What I wouldn't give for a retro postcard or two from some of these highway haunts.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"GASP! How beautiful...*" - JackFavell
I hope you find the August Gallery I have planned just as breathtaking.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"You know I've never actually seen THE WORLD'S GREATEST LOVER, but now I want to, for obvious reasons. I hope they treat Valentino with respect, and only mock the frenzied star system, not him personally."* - Bronxgirl48
In the film, Carole Kane leaves her husband Rudy and runs away to Hollywood to be with the man she really "loves" - Rudolph Valentino. Rudy follows her and ends up at the film studio (Dom DeLuise as Studio Chief) where she has been hired to be an extra. The studio is having a talent search contest to find "The World's Greatest Lover" and will give the winner a contract. Somehow, Rudy gets entered in to the contest. As they say, Hilarity ensues.
I haven't seen the film in a long time. I don't remember Valentino being maligned in any way. Of course, that was all before I had ever seen a Valentino movie or really knew anything about him. I think he could actually be described as "the hero that saves the day".
I hope one day TCM will get their hands on it from Fox. I remember it being so much better than *Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother* which TCM showed recently (and didn't watch.)
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"Not just MGM and RKO, but a bunch of 1938 movies..."* - smileys
Gad. My brain is on the fritz. Don't know how I could write "MGM" and then post that cropped image from an RKO film and not notice that it was more than MGM involved in the contest!
*"Interesting stuff. Thanks."*
And thanks to you for the link. I never thought searching the "Movie Quiz" online would result in anything useful. Very interesting indeed. I think there could be a TCM documentary somewhere in that article. At least I'd find it interesting.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"Re: Gene Wilder in THE WORLD'S GREATEST LOVER, lol, you got that right, Kyle! Thanks to you and Jeff for all the wonderful Valentino posters!"* - Bronxgirl48
I'm glad someone liked my "Valentino" / Gene Wilder joke. But I also think *The World's Greatest Lover* is a very funny movie. Best film with Wilder after *Young Frankenstein*. ("I'm looking for a Baloney." "I'm Abaloni" "You're A Baloney?")
Thanks for stopping by. You're getting caught up "just in time."
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"Barrymore, just Barrymore."* - smileys
Yeah. I hope it is Ethel.
*"I can't read the gold ribbon in the corner, just "25000000" and "Move Gaze"or "Movie Gate". Any idea what it is?"*
I am guessing that during part of 1938, MGM was running a contest of some sort. The "Ribbon" sympbol appears on a few MGM posters from that year. I've seen it more than once on MGM posters like below on a poster for *Room Service* with the Marx Bros.
The text in the ribbon reads
"This Is One Of The Movie Quiz $250,000.00 Contest Pictures"
You can click through on the cropped image if you want to see it up close yourself.
Kyle In Hollywood
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Saturday, July 30th
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Friday, July 29th
Singing Cowboys Every Friday Night on TCM
"Stock" Poster
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*"Those Swedes always seem to come up with good posters."* - smileys
I do use some selective editting but, in general, you're right.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"Now I am really confused. Is Iranian-born actress Shohreh Aghdashloo an Arab or Persian? She would speak Farsi, not Arabic. Is Mr. Shaheen descendant of Arabs?"* - deWlidefan
Don't be too hung up on the terminology. I think the term "Arab" as used by TCM and Professor Shaheen is enlisted in place of the cumberson "Middle Easterners except for Israelis". Whether Moroccan, Egyptian, Saudi or Iranian, they are interchangeable with "Arab" for the purpse of this Spotlight Event. Also being Muslim is an inferred trait. And it probably isn't a bad "shorthand" choice as the majority of films featured this month didn't make such ethnic distinctions either.
Professor Shaheen, I think we agreed in another thread, is, by heritage, Egyptian Christian. Whether that is Coptic or Western Christian is unknown.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"She's getting better. In her first intro on Monday, she seemed catatonic."* - finance
Maybe she's like me and not a "morning person." That cracker jack TCM studio staff like to start their days early. I bet she was in the studio by 9am. Or maybe even 8am for all that "hair and make-up" stuff.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"I noticed that Tippi Hedren was standing for her introductions last night."* - MN
I caught the intro to *Sitting Pretty* and saw her standing next to (behind) a chair to deliver her remarks. It looked good. I wonder if she had some comfortable shoes on which were hidden out of view?
And where did that chair come from? I don't think I've ever seen it before. It definitely wasn't one of the fabled "red chairs" we all know.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"In my opinion, TCM should stop its inevitable futile efforts to redefine the classic movie to snare those who cannot now, and never will, identify with the "culture" of the classic movie fan. Will giving them such political propagandizing "classic" movie as Three Kings (recently shown here, released in 1999) with the "name" idol George Clooney do the trick? I think not."* - 'gr'
"In the proper context, TCM will program virtually any film. If TCM is presenting a night of "Great Prison Break Movies", then it would be perfectly appropriate for TCM to show *The Shawshank Redemption*. It is a great film. But we don't program such fare without that over riding reason or simply because we want to show recent films.
It is always about the context."
Tom Brown, V.P. of Original Programming for TCM
TCM Classic Film Festival, April 2011
*The Jewel Of The Nile* and *Three Kings* in an "Arab Images" event definitely fall within that parameter. And that is true for most all recent titles that TCM presents.
Kyle In Hollywood
Edited by: hlywdkjk on Jul 28, 2011 2:23 PM
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Thursday, July 28th
*Sons O'Guns* (1936) Sweden
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Race In Hollywood: Arab Images On Film
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*"...just the smell of MGM brings on dry heaves."* - "MrZither"
There certainly is a strange outbreak of gastro-intestinal problems around here tonight.
Did you and 'darkblue' share Thai food earlier today?
Kyle In Hollywood
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*" Every time I see his face I want to throw up."* - darkblue
Have you been to a doctor and had that checked out? A physically violent reaction is definitely not normal.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"This professor and the constant promo with him is on between what feels like every movie - all day, every day..."* - darkblue
In past years, TCM created multiple promotional pieces for the "Race And Hollywood" series featuring the series co-host and multiple actors or other film professionals of the featured race to offer additional commentary on the major themes in the series. This year there is only one person performing those duties, Iranian-born actress Shohreh Aghdashloo. For this series, Professor Shaheen has shouldered much more of the promotional work than was the case in series past.
I don't know why others weren't enlisted to participate.
Kyle In Hollywood
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TCM presented the first installment of the "Race And Hollywood" initiative in 2006.
That edition in 2006 surveyed "Black Images on Film" and was co-hosted by author Donald Bogle. Two years later, in 2008, TCM presented "Race And Hollywood: Asian Images on FIlm" co-hosted by author Peter X. Feng.
In 2009, TCM presented "Race And Hollywood: Latino Images on Film" co-hosted by UCLA professor Chon Noriega and last year TCM's look at racial stereotypes on film delivered "Race And Hollywood: Native American Images on Film" with Professor Hanay Geiogamah of UCLA.
Additionally, in 2007 TCM invited author Richard Barrios to co-host a thematically similar series titled "Screened Out: Gay Images on Film."
Including this year's series on "Arab Images on FIlm", TCM has programmed six different Spotlights on minority images in Hollywood films.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"Bowery to Bagdad"? Must have missed that one. Was it as bad as it sounds?"* - David In Seattle
Not to fans of of the Bowery Boys.
Kyle In Hollywood
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*"...I wonder if Dr. Shaheen selected this film as part of the series, or if it was just tacked on at the end of the night focusing on sheiks by TCM programmers."* - David In Seattle
There are some films that were added by the TCM Staff to augment the selections of Dr. Shaheen. I heard RO acknowledge an upcoming film with that "disclaimer". I think it might have been for *The Four Feathers*.
TCM has added thematically appropriate films to the end of many of the "Race And Hollywood" nights this month. *Sinbad The Sailor*, *Sahara*, *The Lost Patrol* and *Bowery To Bagdad* were all shown in the overnight hours after the the evenings' hosted line-ups were completed.
Kyle In Hollywood
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Wednesday, July 27th
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*"Come to think of it, GO WEST did run on TCM during the SUTS a few years back. I totaly forgot about that! D'oh!"* - Scottman
Don't slap your forehead too hard...'cause you haven't earned it.
Here's the webpage for the 2007 SUTS Keaton Day -
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/161351%7C0/Buster-Keaton-8-30.html
On the right side, click where it says "Expand Complete Movie Line-Up".
The page lists all 19 fiilms shown that day and *Go West* wasn't one of them. I do remember watching *The Blacksmith* and *The Balloonatic* that day.
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