movieman1957
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Over the course of the last several years members of this board have participated in a contest called "The Programming Challenge." The most recently completed was number 8 and ended around Thanksgiving.
This is a self serving contest where the participants schedule a week of "programming" on TCM. Other board members then vote on the schedule they like best. The winner gets to host the next contest. Kyle in Hollywood was the recent host and this contest was won by "lzcutter."
"tcmprogrammr" has, on occasion, and to our delight, used ideas submitted in the challenges by the participants. It has also been fun for us who played to look at future schedules to see if we have been a source of inspiration.
I think that one or two of mine have been used. Kyle certainly has a better idea as to what has been used but we are thrilled when they have been.
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Thanks for the article Kyle. Sragow is from my hometown and I missed it. To his credit he does write on classic movies from time to time. One of the few who will.
Nice to know other papers pick him up.
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Here is one that would make a good "War of The Roses" type movie. It happened in Poland where a husband (for some reason) goes into a brothel and to his surprise finds his wife there, She is an employee. A divorce is in progress.
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My mother has the piano sheet music to it from that time and it also includes lyrics. There were times when movie themes had lyrics that weren't always included in the movie.
More often a great deal of movie songs had a kind of lyric intro that preceded what would be the famous chorus. Among the most notable "White Christmas" and "Over The Rainbow,"
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The living one.
(Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis.)
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"Midnight" and "Easy Living." Hooray and it's about time!
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Hi Frank:
I agree with you on "The Naked Spur." I saw it again recently and was again struck by not only Stewart's performance but by Ryan's as well. Mentioning Duryea, he might have done as well in Ryan's part.
I mentioned once that I caught a "Bonanza" episode with Duryea and he couldn't avoid being the slime ball in that episode either. Poor guy. I also saw a few minutes yesterday of what looked a bad "spaghetti" western he did in the mid-60's, I think it was "The Hills Run Red." Just saw a shootout sequence and was and unrealistic but he looked menacing for a man his age.
I like "The Man From Laramie" more than you but I agree it suffers from lack of a better villain. If "Dave" the son had been less whiny and less of a brat it might have carried better.
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It's hardly a sympathetic role but I think among his best work is Cat. Queeg from "The Caine Mutiny." I think he's convincingly wacko.
I also like him in "Key Largo."
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Youngsters not knowing anything about movies is far too prevalent. My teenage daughter was stunned when none of her friends knew who Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart were. She was also surprised at how many would not watch a black and white movie.
She's tried to get her boyfriend to watch old movies but he was not too interested until I showed him a Laurel and Hardy short. We are making progress.
As far as our new co-hosts age, I don't care as long as she is informative and entertaining. The worst thing they could do would be to put on an older person and have them be boring.
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>winners could compete to see who is best on camera and chemistry with Robert, and actually try to get someone who is knowledgeable and good on camera,
That's why I'm putting up Kyle's name for next year.
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Re: "Come To The Stable."
Since it's a 20th Century Fox production there is no teliing how long you'll have to wait.
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You can find the entire month by going to the "schedule" tab at the top of the page and selecting the appropriate month.
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It's in the media room. Just type in TCM Remembers in the search box and it should come up.
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Hibi:
From what I've heard (and this includes Osborne's info when "Angel and The Badman" was shown the other night) is that Wayne's wife did think they were having an affair and was planning to name her in the divorce petitition.
Osborne said that Russell said Wayne was the only man who didn't make a pass at her. They were good friends and Wayne tried to help her. In addition to "Wake" he also hired her to play in "Seven Men From Now" after she had a rough couple of years. Eventually the alcohol took over and apparently played a large part in her early death.
They did make a nice on-screen couple.
That's not much but that's what little I can add for you.
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Frank:
I'm fond of "Winchester '73" as well. As you pointed out Duryea is a main reason. Any movie that can give you someone that nasty to hate is doing its job. I think it was, for me, the first Stewart movie to really have a dark side to one of his characters. (Parts of It's A Wonderful Life" notwithstanding.)
The story line about his brother is pretty interesting and I think the gunfight at the end is very well staged. My only reservation is with Shelley Winters. It's a personal thing where I've never found her that appealing. Apart from that it's a fine film with a first-rate supporting cast.
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Re: "Death Race 2000."
Is it a classic? No, but none of the other movies they show on "TCM Underground" are either.
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Many of those short films were shown over the last year or so. TCM appears they may start a cycle of Laurel and Hardy so I'm not sure when Pitts/ Todd adn Todd/Kelley shorts would run again.
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There are any number of threads you can research where you will find this is well covered ground. It's not always pretty.
Proceed with caution.
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My opinion is the same as yours.
Although it now seems Hollywood thinks the longer the movie the better the movie.
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Redriver:
I only found this movie about three years ago. I really like it too. It does seem like everyone has their counterpart. Connors was good as a tough sounding coward. I knew Ives had a mean streak but nothing like he shows in this one.
Peck's character is a very confident man. Unsure why no one else trusts him but it sure does lead to trouble. Peck is always waiting for the right moment to show he is a "man."
I'm not sure why it doesn't have a better reputation but, while maybe not a masterpiece, it's still a pretty entertaining movie.
Chris
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I can't come up with it for sure but you can watch it anytime in the TCM Media Room. Click on the "Video" link at the top of the page. Good luck.
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Kyle in Hollywood posted this statement from TCM in another thread.
Re: Why is TCM Showing Modern Movies???
Posted: Nov 14, 2007 10:08 PM in response to: Metropolisforever in response to: Metropolisforever
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From the Turner / TCM Corporate website -
About Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies, currently seen in more than 70 million homes, is a 24-hour cable network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., A Time Warner Company. TCM presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from the largest film library in the world, the combined Time Warner and Turner film libraries, from the ?20s through the ?90s, commercial-free and without interruption.
(emphisis added)
If you believe that TCM hasn't shown "contemporary" until recently, then you haven't been paying attention. Until three years ago, the phrase highlighted above read "from the '20s through the '80s". Shortly after TCM celebrated its 10 Year Anniversary, it was updated to read "through the '90s".
(end copy.)
Some of you are going to hate March.
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Many an argument has been had on this board over this very thing. Indeed many people have different opinions. Some here think they shouldn't show anything after 1959. Others think maybe 1969.
That being said TCM has always, to some degree, shown newer movies. This is not a recent thing. My own opinion is that many of these newer films have a feel of a classic film. Costume dramas such as "Emma" have been made through the decades so, thematically, it would fit. Granted that is not the case of all newer movies.
One could make an argument that stars (and directors) that fit back in the classic era and lived long enough to make newer movies, if you set an arbitrary deadline, would be excluded.
It's not really about how good a film is. If that were the case you could throw out a lot of the films they show now. They are "programmers" or "B" films that were originally intended to fill out a bill. Then there are some new films that probably show up in a lease package and as long as they are handy they might as well show them as long as they are not too out of line.
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They are not based solely on talent. The authors even acknowledge that there will be disagreement over the list as there are easily more than 50. While not in complete disagreement with leaving Sullavan off I'll agree with you about Horne and Novak.
More imagination in programming
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Quite a dew Fox films show up on Cinemax to fill out their late night/early morning schedule. Fox may not care who sees them as long as they get paid handsomely for them.