Sukhov
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On 2/1/2019 at 11:20 AM, Sepiatone said:
If a "host" IS needed, then it should be someone like ALEX TREBEK, PAT SAJAK or any other GAME SHOW HOST, who usually ARE more entertaining than the "hosts" they usually foist upon us every year.
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They should get that toupee wearing man from the Apprentice to host. That would be something!
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1 minute ago, sagebrush said:
I wonder how many folks over the years who have been banned have come back under a new profile name. 😄
Well the one I'm talking about out right admitted he used multiple accounts. He still posts here too but only in one certain section of the forums.
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11 minutes ago, sagebrush said:
What do members do to get themselves banned? Use profanity or post indecent photos?
One poster was apparently banned from two accounts for harassing another poster. Most bans are probably for engaging in flame wars.
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Black Orpheus and Letter From an Unknown Woman are already on relatively frequently.
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1 minute ago, GordonCole said:
If someone is banned here, does it show up on their profile or does their profile just disappear with the banning?
The "last time on" part should say "Banned" I think.
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57 minutes ago, Stephan55 said:
Saw Caligula during it's first run, was amazed to see such a high brow cast in such a low brow movie. But then again, it was a Bob Guccione production, so I got what I paid for.
I keep waiting for you to give us a review of My Friend Dahmer?
I read the ummm book, but have yet to see the picture. I hear that it appeals to those with an ummm, particular discriminating taste. Though not a musical, I'm told it does have a few "comical" moments, a little something for almost every audience to "enjoy."
Sounds like a perfect pic to pair with a carafe of nice Lechter red Cannibal Chianti and a side of fava beans.
I have seen that one and recommend it. Luckily it only shows a few animal "slayings" from Dahmer's childhood and nothing more graphic that may creep people out. There are some funny scenes like when Dahmer runs around in that one scene but it is also a very sad, moving film about the struggles of that adolescent age.
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6 hours ago, TikiSoo said:
Wow you sound like a fun guy, Gershwin!
Mmmm, no musicals for Gershwin?😉
Not the Disco ones at least.
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Montgomery, Robert
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My top FF films of 1986
1. Kin Dza Dza, Georgiy Daneliya, USSR
2. Ginger and Fred, Federico Fellini, Italy
3. Otello, Franco Zeffirelli, Italy
4. Martial Arts of Shaolin, Liu Chiang-Liang, Hong Kong/China
5. Rosa Luxemburg, Margarethe von Trotta, West Germany
6. The Grandfather, Majid Gharizadeh, Iran
7. Baragua, José Massip, Cuba
8. Shadows in Paradise, Aki Kaurismäki, Finland
From the foreign editions-
Manon of the Spring, Claude Berri, French edition
Abel, Alex van Warmerdam, Dutch edition
The Assault, Fons Rademakers, Dutch edition
The Mozart Brothers, Suzanne Osten, Swedish edition
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https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47095343
Actor Clive Swift, known to millions as Hyacinth Bucket's hen-pecked husband Richard in BBC One's 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 82.
Swift, who spent 10 years at the RSC before breaking into television, also acted in such series as Peak Practice, Born and Bred and The Old Guys.
He spent six years playing Richard opposite Dame Patricia Routledge.
The role saw him patiently tolerate her ham-fisted and invariably thwarted attempts at social climbing.
Off-screen he co-founded The Actors Centre, a meeting place for members of his profession in central London.
Born in Liverpool in 1936, he had three children with his ex-wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.
Swift's many roles included a part in Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 film Frenzy and as King Arthur's adopted father in 1981 film Excalibur.
Many years later, he would play Hitchcock in a BBC radio play called Strangers on a Film.
Swift made a number of appearances in Doctor Who, most recently in the 2007 episode Voyage of the Damned.
According to his agent, the actor died at his home on Friday after a short illness, surrounded by his family.
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1 hour ago, Swithin said:
The "Moorish" argument is an old and interesting one. In some ways, Shakespeare is unclear. The Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice is the subject of Portia's racism: "Let all of his complexion choose me so." In Othello, the argument is whether Othello is from the Maghreb, or from Sub-Saharan Africa. He is referred to as thick lips, which might support the latter.
Also, Othello himself has a telling line, just before he kills himself:
"And say besides, that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him, thus."Stabs himself
If Othello had been from North Africa, i.e. a Mohammedan, he would be circumcised and would not refer to the Turk in that manner.
Othello also says "Dian's visage is now begrimed and black/ as my own face." Orson Welles definitely makes this line very prominent in his film.
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22 minutes ago, Dargo said:
Actually Swithin ol' boy, this shot of snow at the lower elevations of AZ and where these saguaro cactususus, err, I guess that's cacti grow, is a pretty rare sight.
BUT yes, up here in beautiful picturesque Sedona which sits at about 4500ft, yeah, we do get on average about three snowfalls each winter.
Here's a shot from what would be a very similar view from my home and looking northwest after one of the better snowstorms have fallen...
Have to admit this ol' L.A. boy now days actually looks forward to seeing the white stuff falling, as I now believe it makes this place even more beautiful for the day or so that it lasts.
The best thing about it though is that it's pretty much all gone within a couple of days and I'm then right back out there on the tennis courts again.
(...but to answer you question here, no, the Southwest has not been hit by that so-called "Polar Vortex" like much of East has been...this past week it's been fairly sunny and in the 50s and 60s around here)
You're lucky to live in such a warm place. I've got the heater on and the fire place running and it's still pretty cold.
Though then again, the good thing about this is it's the perfect weather for drinking hot chocolate or coffee (but then again EVERY sort of weather is good for me to have coffee
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14 hours ago, SansFin said:
Next up - sunburn is offensive to Native American people.
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14 hours ago, cigarjoe said:
The only Graphic Novel based films that I've liked are the two Sin City films for obvious reasons to those that know my predilections. 😎
I've seen those and the Watchmen. I like the Watchmen a lot.
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5 minutes ago, shutoo said:
And the old links are..gone. .lots of people are probably hitting refresh, and nothing's happening. Server snafu?
What old links? The boards were vanished for me for a few minutes but everything's back now.
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Pretty much every Shaw Brothers Kung Fu film has an elite assassin disguised as a woman, blind man, butcher, or some other "unexpected" disguise.
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9 hours ago, TheCid said:
I watched the first episode and found it interesting, but did not really tie in to the Black Dahlia case that I saw.
The girl's adopted "mother" tells the journalist he was on to something when he wrote the article about the grandfather being the murderer. I think that's what they're talking about.
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I saw the first episode and it was very good. The Korean War vet photographer is my favorite character. The "comedic" scene with him in the morgue reminded me of a certain scene from Twin Peaks Season 3.
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https://www.rt.com/usa/450179-mary-poppins-racist-nyt/
NYT flirts with irrelevancy after publishing Mary Poppins blackface exclusive
Does the new Mary Poppins film feature blackface? No, but the NYT has nonetheless argued that the movie somehow borrows from racist 1930s minstrel jokes, the latest outrage-laden interpretation of a children’s classic.‘Mary Poppins Returns’ is an “enjoyably derivative film,” but the story of the vivacious flying governess has a dark, racist side, the New York Times opined. The Gray Lady – known throughout the world for reporting “all the news that’s fit to print”— explained itself thusly: In the 1964 film, Poppins accompanies her young charges, Michael and Jane Banks, up their chimney, resulting in her face getting covered in soot. Instead of cleaning her face, however, the magical nanny powders her nose and cheeks to make them even blacker, then launches into a song and dance routine with Dick Van Dyke.
To be fair, there are racist undertones to the 1964 film (“We’re being attacked by Hottentots!” shouts one of the characters when he sees the soot-covered Poppins and her entourage, using an archaic slur for black South Africans), but does this scene appear in the latest rendition?
No. Instead, the Times is outraged that a verse from one of the film’s many songs mentions a wealthy widow named Hyacinth Macaw – a clear reference to a talking parrot featured in the 1981 version of the Mary Poppins story, which in turn secretly represented a “negro lady” from the original 1934 version! Scandal of the century indeed.
With print revenues tanking across the board, The New York Times and its ilk seemingly regard outrage as currency, and taking a modern lens to hokey children’s classics is a guaranteed source of profit.
Last year, the Association for Library Service to Children dumped an award named after author Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose timeless ‘Little House on the Prairie’ series was apparently peppered with “anti-Native and anti-Black sentiments."Likewise, Mark Twain’s ‘Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and Harriet Beecher’s ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ have both come under the hammer for their (period-typical) descriptions of black people.
In fairness, these books could actually be read as racially insensitive, unlike 2019’s Mary Poppins. But the media has picked even more ridiculous battlefields to fight the culture war on. Whether it was the Weather Channel reporter calling a snowman a “snowperson,” or a Slate columnist demanding Santa Claus be stripped of his white, masculine identity and replaced with a gender-neutral penguin, journalists have always been at the forefront of the social justice movement.
On Twitter, commentators ridiculed the New York Times’ latest effort. “I didn't know the NY Times did parody articles now. Cool,” said one. “I suppose it's too much to hope this is satire,” another said. “The world has gone mad.”
But the line between satire and reality is even more blurred than you’d think. Turns out, the New York Times’ article made almost the exact same point as a tweet by transparently satirical social-justice account Titania McGrath last year. In the original tweet, ‘McGrath’ used the same photo as the New York Times to mockingly call out Hollywood’s lack of racial diversity.
Parroting satire accounts is a new one for the New York Times, but its writers better watch out. According to its own interpretation of Mary Poppins, parrots are racist.
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1 minute ago, LawrenceA said:
Yes, but the month in question (discussed in the posts above) is April.
Ah okay, the post above his was about February so I got confused. Yeah, less April premieres. Hope it doesn't keep up. As for the TCM wine ads and everything, I think the income was supposed to come from the ad space allotted and not the actual products themselves.
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I think it's just because February is when they show the Oscar films so there will be many repeats. The other months, they have been very good with premieres.
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Speaking of black face examples, the Orson Welles' Othello which features him in the title role of "the Moor" was on just last night too.
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Gillen, Aidan
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11 hours ago, Thenryb said:
I actually liked the movie when it first came out, probably because of the absolute beauty of Catherine Deneuve. But years later I saw it on some late night movie channel in B/W, dubbed in English. That was, indeed, painful. (Guy leaving the garage and singing "Ciao, you guys")
10 hours ago, Hibi said:Were the lyrics dubbed too?
To stray away from Legrand a bit, it's a shame Françoise Dorléac died so young. She was a real beauty.
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New cartoon from China
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