movieman1957

You are correct about Mongo. I think if you look back through this thread you will find the rest of them.

There is a thread Kyle put together ( which I'll have to find) but here is a list of past winners. Challenge No. 1 - Lzcutter Challenge No. 2 - Kyle Challenge N0. 3 - Lzcutter but abdicated in favor of 2nd place finisher MattHelm. Challenge No. 4 - filmlover Challenge No. 5 - allieharding Challenge No. 6 - sugarpuss Challenge No. 7 - Kyle Challange No. 8 - lzcutter Challenge No. 9 - Fedya Challenge No. 10 - filmlover Challenge No. 11 - Me Challenge No. 12 - Patful Thanks Kyle http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=8104171 This post from Kyle only runs through #10. Message was edited by: movieman1957

I thank all of you for your kind words about me and how it all went. Thanks also go to Kyle and Lynn and "filmlover" for their gentle guidance in helping me through this little contest of ours. Everyone has been wonderful. Pat, congratulations. Hopefully I can think of a few things though this group will be hard to follow.

Re: dissapointing changes to tcm the last few months- is tcm turning into amc? No. Nor has it changed over the last four threads that this has come up.

Thanks for voting Molo. Patful - 5 Chip - 4 fredmill38 - 2 fedya - 1 Norma Desmond - 1 pancakes barbara - 1

It's the last day. Take a few minutes and look over some very impressive work. The TCM programmer thought enough of them to make a comment in the original thread. It's a tight race.

You certainly don't sound it. That's the beauty of this is that you can be as young or old as anyone thinks you are.

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Thanks for voting. Update: Patful - 4 Chip - 4 fredmill38 - 2 fedya - 1 Norma Desmond - 1 pancakes barbara - 1

Theresa: Please join in all you want. The Dvorak Cello Concerto is being played in Baltimore this weekend but I won't be going. I always enjoy Rostropovich. I have several of his recordings including the Bach Cello Suites. Magnificent music. I did get to see him as conductor once as he was the music director for the National Symphony. Carlo Maria Giulini is the conductor in that clip and I enjoyed his work too. I had a Brahms concerto he conducted and liked it very much. I think I have Sibelius' "Karelia Suite" but it has been so long. Like Wendy I enjoy Mendelssohn and Schumann (there's a story there with Brahms that is interesting), Haydn, Vaughan Williams and others. Being a bad piano player I marvel at the ability to write those works but am always astounded at artists ability ot play them, and from memory.

Thanks so much for your vote Mongo. Revised totals. Patful - 4 Chip - 4 Fedya - 1 Norma Desmond - 1 Pancakes Barbara - 1 Anyone can also PM me with a vote if you would rather it remain hidden. (And I just received one.)

Wendy: We seem to have silmilar tastes. I am a fan of Dvorak and Sibelius as well. They are late romantic period. Dvorak had a sponsor in Brahms so that was a big help in addition to his great talent. Sibelius is best discovered by his symphonies. I especially like his 2nd and 5th. Any Dvorak will do. My kids played Stravinsky in their band years so that wore me out. Not too many modern composers but in addition to those you mentioned I get the occasional Prokofiev. I don't own any of their works. Those I do like I try to be a completist in certain areas of their music. I own mostly Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and lots of Mozart but mostly his major works. Lots of others too. I just wish I had time to listen to them. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks so much for voting. The Hitchcock idea is terrific. (Hold on to it. Thereshould be another contest in May or so.) You may the right choice in doing your school work. Totals Patful - 4 Chip - 3 Fedya - 1 Norma Desmond - 1 Today and tomorrow are left to vote.

Wendy: Mentioning your love for "romantic" era composers, who do you like to listen to? It is my favorite period though Beethoven, my favorite, is not quite of that period. Chris

For "romanticism" than you go directly to Brahms and Tchalikovsky. They have written two of the most emotional pieces I know. Brahms' First Piano Concerto and Pete has his 6th Symphony. I'll drop you a note in the Off Topic music thread.

Lafitte: I knew you were being silly as I know you know a thing or two about music. Save for Copland and a very few others my love of classical music didn't run much later than Rachmaninoff and a the occasional Shostokovich. Ladies: No "sheesh" allowed for Chopin or Beethoven. There is way too much too admire about both, especially Ludwig.

I have some old albums from Andy Williams and others where they do nothing but movie songs. You can go back to "Tender Is The Night", "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" and "Moon River." Themes like "Midnight Cowboy" and "Summer of '42" and "Romeo and Juliet." Someone mentioned "Live and Let Die" but the whole Bond franchise specialized in producing hit songs. One of my favorite songs is from "The Last Time I Felt Like This" from "Same Time, Next Year."

Courtesy of Netflix.

*Dancing to my favorite songs from mozart? Absolutely ridiculous! I should really dance to my favorite songs from Schubert. Yes, Schubert...I mean, really, Mozart...sheesh!* "Sheesh!" That may be the shortest critique I've ever heard of W.A. Mozart. My "sheesh" always went to modern composers like Schoenberg. (Schubert was the better songwriter.) Mozart may have been too busy writing everything else. (We'll pick this up over in the Off Topic - Music sometime.)

Totals so far are Patful - 4 Chip - 2 Fedya - 1 Norma Desmond - 1 There is still time to vote. It ends Saturday night at midnight your local time. Please join in and let these particiapnts know what a great job they did by giving them your vote. It's important. The winner gets to host the next challenge.

Let's try one here. "Where The Sidewalk Ends" reunites Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney and director Otto Preminger in a police/crime drama that is a nice piece of work but is no "Laura." From the files of "It's a small world" and "what a coincidence" Andrews plays a cop who gets more involved in a case then he plans to. He's half gentleman and half nightmare. Police brutality is a way of life for him and it gets him in trouble. The crux of the movie deals with Andrews trying to fix a situation he never should have been in in the first place. Andrews does some fine work. Gary Merrill is a pleasant surprise as a smart aleck mobster. Gene Tierney has little to do but look beautiful but that's ok. It seems shot in a typical noir fashion which is fine but I;m not familiar enough with Preminger to know what makes it distinctively his. Nothing jumps out. Anyway, good film but I don't think it will bowl anyone over.

>you just want to watch and giggle at him. am i right? I thought we were going to watch and giggle at you.

Another vote! Thanks for commenting and voting.

Well done Kathy. And so timely...

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