movieman1957

Miss T: I'd love to talk Beatles with Angie and anyone else that has an interest. As far as "I See The Cross" you might have heard on any number of Christian radio stations. It's a song that has a very good driving beat until it hits a soft bridge section. If comes back to the chorus after that section and finally builds with a huge choral section doing the chorus. It's a powerful song for me. When we do it I get to do a big string part instead of using the organ.

Pia: Chip is right in that it gets easier. I finally won on my seventh try. Sometimes one movie you love can breed a whole evening. If you don't have time to do one, which is possible as these can be time consuming, be sure to look at some of the old contests I linked to at the beginning of the thread. You'll get some good examples there.

Hi Nica. It's always good to meet someone new. The good thing about this place is you don't need to know a lot about movies. You share your thoughts on them and see what happens. You'll be surprised what you might learn. Enjoy.

Hi Miss T: Happy to see your song list. Sad to see you don't like chocolate. (Oh well, more for me.) I've been having trouble coming up with a song list on the uplifting/happy side. I think some of the most beautiful music is written from the sad or wishful look of things. So far - The Beatles - "Hey Bulldog." Mason Williams - "Classical Gas." David Benoit - "Linus and Lucy." Brian Doerksen - "I See The Cross." I don't know. This is something I need to think on some more.

I feel better already.

I know there is one from 2001. That year I wrote them to find the music info. I don't know if it is any older.

I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together." (Red Green - The Red Green Show..)

Chocolate!!!!! Hmmmm!

Another fun Edward Arnold project - "Easy Living." He gets to play Ray Milland's father and mistaken "friend" of Jean Arthur. A fun film.

Plenty of good ones to catch. Comedies - "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" and "The Teahouse of The August Moon" as well as those mentioned. Westerns - "Jubal", "The Fastest Gun Alive", "The Violent Men."

I remember it too as being an enjoyable film. Not great but good ennough. I think this was the forst film Poitier made after a good deal of time off. At the time that made it even more interesting.

Welcome. Be sure and share many of your rambles as we may share a fondness for some of the same movies.

My first schedule. Yea!. Deanna Durbin was sort of the idea behind the interview, though not consciously. You know someone would never do it but you can dream. Thanks so much.

>Hey there, Musicman! -- So would you say you are more familiar with movies >or music? I'm very impressed with your knowledge in both worlds, but the kind of >details you have shared about music has amazed me. Thanks again. I'm really flattered. This sounds stupid but for what I know I know pretty well. The problem is that I don't have a very broad range of musical styles (or movies) I listen to. I listened to a lot of things when I was in high school and after but after a point I lost interest in anything beyond the artists I was interested in. I love classical music too. It's the same with movies. I don't know anything about horror, foreign or much about silent pictures. What I know is probably fairly narrow compared to some people on this board, you included. I hope that is answer enough. I love music. I really enjoy making it and I'm always looking to write the next good song. (Once in awhile I get one.) BTW, as stupid facts go the Paul Simon song Barbara listed "American Tune" is based on a melody by Bach. So three hundred year old tunes still work.

Pia: Programming any week is fine. As far as help with movies you might list the TCM data base is a big help. The libraries listed at the start of this thread contain films you won't have to count as premieres even if they have never been shown. If it comes from a another studio the TCM data base will often have an article written about it. When looking up a film the left hand column in the data base has a list of things related to a movie. If there is an article it will show in bold lettering. This is generally given it has already been shown on TCM. I hope that helps. Good luck.

If you want to count them as premieres that is fine with me. Just label as you would any other premiere. Shoot, I'm just glad you're doing one.

My only concern is that everyone knows what they are. If they weren't counted before then that is fine by me. I don't want to overturn precedent. Based on Chip's link for a list, which I appreciate, then we won't count them toward the eight. (I don't know why I don't remember that.) The only thing would be to then indicate the film is in the public domain on your schedule. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks to all for your help. Message was edited by: movieman1957 I have pasted the PD link to the original instructions and have noted the PDs won't count against the premieres there.

To be safe I would say yes to counting them if they were not produced by the core studio libraries. NOTE: SEE CORRECTION ABOVE. Message was edited by: movieman1957

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, people across the country are working hard planning a schedule that could be the winner of The 12th Edition of The Programming Challenge. Yahoo!

While I appreciate the point you are trying to make you don't really need a list to do this game. If you are interested all you need to do is see the rules at the start of this thread. There are also links to previous challenges to give you an idea of how it is played. (The rules have pretty much been the same in the previous challenges.) The contest has about three weeks left but you only need to do a schedule for a week. If you have any questions about doing a schedule let us know and any number of us will be happy to help. This runs through Feb. 11. After the contest your fellow board members will vote for their favorite schedule and the winner gets to host the next challenge.

Thanks. Life got in the way today.

While I am no fan of the prime time intro I would disagree that it is all that bad. I prefer they keep the old intro but I that's me. As far as the TCM Remembers, I see no problem with the mood as is refective of one having died. Being a sad time it seems fitting. The celebration comes on the day TCM shows the fims. (In Mr. Montalban's case - Jan 23.)

"Easy Living." 1937. Jean Arthur and Ray Milland. In fact most of Jean's post "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" catalog ,might work.

I saw this one when it was first aired and it was a good show. Reminded me of a groupe at a reunion. All seemed very fond of each other. They found out some new things about each other. They seemed to have a genuinely good time.

And to think I was watching "Law and Order" with my bride while all this excitement was going on. Darn. I wish I had something to contribute but it has been so long since I've seen it. The most striking thing I remember is visually that it was almost in a terminal fog. I know that is representative of more than just the weather but I wonder if it had a technical application with "covering" up the limitations of a set. Thanks so much for the interesting read.