FredCDobbs

Somewhere in-between. It depended on the girl and the circumstances.

Yeah, well?

Do 15 year old kids own their own homes, pay for all their own clothes, have high paying jobs, buy new cars, and pay their own cable bills?

I had a Bozo the Clown record album in 1949.

mr6666 and jamesjazzguitar, Hey, fellas, it was a joke. Fred

That doesn't have anything to do with what I was talking about, which was: The bikers are tough guys so let's send them to get ISIS. I think they would have ISIS on the run within a couple of days.

I'm sure TCM did not censor the scenes. They get the films this way from the distributor and the distributor probably doesn't know if some films have a few cut scenes. One time I saw the second Tarzan film, the one with the nude swimming scene, and Mr. Osborne called attention to it in advance, and we've all seen it on TCM lots of times, but that one time the scene was totally missing from that print. Edited out by someone long before that print was shipped to TCM One time I saw a print of THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI on TCM, and the ENTIRE fun house mirror scene had been cut out. I figured a film student or documentary maker stole it from the print and the distributor and TCM didn't realize it in advance. And then there is the weird thing that happened to THE THING. The studio released the film on DVD and used a heavily edited and shortened 35 mm print. BUT, the studio filled in the missing scenes by using those scenes that were found still in a 16mm print. So now that film is shown on TCM and about half way through, it keeps jumping from 35mm high quality to 16mm bad quality then back to 35 then back to 16, and this is very distracting.

I think the feds should take all of those guys and send them to Syria as an elite unit, and let them kick the heck out of all the ISIS butts they can find. Of course, let them wear their own colors and NO military uniforms. Give them armored hogs with machine guns mounted on the front.

LOL, I get it!

Maybe a musical, like WEST SIDE STORY?

Is that Baby Leroy, from the WC Fields films??

Strange thing about that.... about long hair on young men. I think I first wanted to have long hair and a beard when I saw them on certain historical characters in old movies, starting in the late 1940s when I was a kid. From the age of 10 I wanted to look like Buffalo Bill and General Custer. I couldn't explain "why". I just liked the look on those men and the actors. It was in NO way a feminine look. It was a manly look, a classic historical look.... like the bearded vikings with their metal helmets with the big long horns on top.

Same here. I never liked the term "peer pressure". I think it was a term invented by adults who thought all us kids and teens did what we did and liked what we liked because we were "pressured" to do it. In my schools we had many different cliques, different interest groups, different types of kids. There were those of us who liked rock and roll music, there were the sports guys (the "jocks"), the "weird" guys who we avoided, the band members, the custom car guys, the intellectuals, the straight-A students, the C students, and lots of individualists like me. In some cases we individualists associated with our own individualist cliques because we learned a lot by talking to each other, because each one of us had different knowledge. My main hobby was photography, and I was good at it. I shot my first newsfilm that aired on CBS Network when I was 18 years old and just entering my first year of college. I worked with Dan Rather when he was 30 and had just been hired by CBS, and I was 19 years old. Of course there were other kids in my school who were working on their special talent, such as some wanting to become doctors, businessmen, professional football players, band leaders (both rock and traditional), and other professions. Funny thing.... my best high school friend was a Catholic, while I was a Baptist. We had little in common, except that we were both individualists. He loved a Protestant girl and I loved a girl whose mother hated me. So my pal and I worked out a deal together. For a date, he would go pick up my girl and say hello to her parents, and I would go pick up his girl and frequently mention to her parents that I was a Baptist. Then we would all meet in a certain parking lot and exchange dates. LOL! Conniving teenagers! He later married his girl, and I went on to serial dating of other girls.

Are you watching other classic channels more now than you watch TCM? No. But I am watching more news channels now than TCM. I can't afford to rent the Encore channels that occasionally show old movie, and the Fox Channel is nearly useless, since they show their old movies in the middle of the nigth when I am asleep. However, I'm watching much more news now that TCM is showing so many films from the 1960s-80s and much fewer films from the 30s-40s. I split my viewing time between CNN and Fox. I watch a little more CNN than I watch Fox. I wach about 3/4 news and 1/4 TCM. 10-20 years ago I watched 90% TCM and 10% news.

I don't remember. I heard him talking about it years ago because CNN and other TV news agencies interviewed him about it, since several big people in Hollywood began to complain about it. That's when I heard him say that for us old timers, we could simply turn the color off using a button on our TV remote control, and that is what I did, so the colorization never bothered me because I never saw it. I always turned the color off on my TV when an old B&W film was on. Also, Turner started the process slowly, since it was costly to colorize each film. Many TCM viewers today don't realize that the anti-Turner alternative plan was to simply STOP SHOWING so many old black and white films and start showing MORE COLOR FILMS made in the 1960s-80s, which are NOT CLASSIC films. Turner was right all along. Now we've lost hundreds of great old B&W films that TCM used to air, and they have been replaced by bad, cheap, sleazy, non-classic 60s-80s films. (This is all my opinion, of course.)

I think Ted Turner's original theory was that young viewers just wanted "color" and no B&W, and they didn't care anything about "art". His overall plan was to give them all color and give us the right to turn off the chroma (the color) on our own TVs so we could wach old films in their original B&W. The adverse reaction to his colorization was due to a misunderstanding. He never expected all of us old-timers to watch any of the old films in color, if they had been made originally in B&W. Now we are stuck with a more color-conscious TCM, to cater to the younger demographics, which means FEWER old black and white classics shown on TCM, and more junky color movies from the 1960s-80s. The anti-Turner concept has destroyed the old original "old classic" TCM and has brought us hundreds of poorly made, trashy, and non-classic movies from the 60s-80s, ONLY because they were made IN COLOR.This anti-Turner technique has driven lots of us away from TCM for hours and hours every week, except on rare occasions when they do show a week of mostly old B&W films. The TV channel I used to watch the most, for many years, was TCM, but now I watch two news channels more than I watch TCM, because I generally can't stand most films made in the 60s-80s.

I've been to a small town in Michigan named Acme. It's up north near Traverse City http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Township,_Michigan

Ha Ha. The perfect thread title for that movie! COMING SOON! TOMORROW! YESTERDAY TODAY AND TOMORROW!

WEEKEND AT THE WALDORF, with Lon Chaney Jr., Tor Johnson, and Bela Lugosi.

I agree with your complaint. That's why I use specific dates in thread titles, such as: Coming up, TEA FOR TWO Thursday 5/21/15

No, if conservatives say we can't use a word, such as F**K or S**T, then that means we all CAN use the word everywhere... especially in public places, at parties, in movies, in music recordings, etc.

THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT, with Tor Johnson:

Yes, sometimes I get the mugshot photos mixed up with my message board "friends" photos.