FredCDobbs

> No, I don't think I used quite those words, but I'd > imagine being described as a "hot tamale" can be just > as offensive for Latinas as "juicy watermelon" would > be for African-American women. When you think of African-American women, you think of watermelons?? Hmm, I think of Egyptian Queens.

Cinemascope chewed me out for calling Dolores Del Rio a "Hot Tamale". She went on and on, called me a racist fascist pig and nasty things like that.

I'll bet you are a real Hot Tamale.

> My last post cause i can tell when folks are looking > for a fight and stir up trouble, cause conflict and > such. Don't pay any attention to Cinemascope. She's always grumpy.

Actually, it's the method of taxation that seems a little odd. British government spies dirving around neighborhoods with special vans searching for people who have TVs turned on. In the US our government taxes everybody and then gives a little of that money to our PBS network.

In case some Americans don't know, people in England who own TV sets have to pay a tax to support the BBC. The British government will track people down and find out if they own a TV in order to get them to pay the tax. A person can't watch TV free in England.

> Here is my question. How do you know whether your TV > is up to date or not? It would have cost you $500 more to have a digitial tuner built into it. Here is a list of TVs from Wal Mart. Regular TVs that can show high definition pictures, but they DON'T have the digital tuners in them. You have to buy one extra and Wal Mart doesn't sell them yet. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.do?cat=548996 It's called an ATSC tuner. Here are the Wal Mart sets that already have them built in: http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_constraint=3944&search_query=ATSC+tuner&ic=24_0&Continue.x=22&Continue.y=14

> I am curious being new to Us society, are > terrestrial board cast Free ie unlike cable you > don?t have to pay, even for a license. In cities people can receive up to 6 to maybe 10 free TV channels. In rural areas it might be two or three, what we call "the major networks" or "the broadcast networks". >if so > then this would be forcing many people who do not > watchTV viva cable or satellite to take a paying > service with cable or satellite provider. I think the major networks will still be free. Some people in rural areas do have to pay for them if they have to get all their signals via Satellite, such as if they live 30 or more miles away from a TV transmitter. I'm 20 miles from a small town, so I get 5 broadcast channels free, and the other special channels for about $49 a month via satellite.But I also get about 150 satellite channels I never watch.

Well, obviously, they?ll need to set up a National Bureau for Elderly and Stupid Television Viewers, with teams of social workers who will go out and set up their converters for them. The bums and non-working hobos will have federal offices where they can get the converters for free. The tax for this service will be attached to the telephone bills of all us middle-class people, just as we now pay for free home phones for Indians via our telephone taxes. Out where I live, it is too expensive to run long telephone lines to remote homes on the reservation, so the feds give out free cell phones to them here. The new hidden cameras in the HD TVs and the reverse transmitters will keep the feds informed as to what we are doing and saying in our own homes, so remember never to complain about the government.

> I'm sorry, Fred, but I thought the ending was a > horrible deus ex machina. > > Better (in my opinion) would have been for Sadie to > be put on the junk, and then when Davidson wondered > where she went, have the response be that, well, he > wanted Sadie off the island on the first boat -- and > Sadie did indeed leave the island on the first boat. That would have been a nice ending. But there have been other types of endings to real stories that resemble this one. They are rare but I've heard of them happening. I think this film should have been nominated for a few academy awards, but it wasn't. I think the whole package was good, the music, the filming, the editing, the acting, the script, and the editing.

What did you think about the whole movie?

Well, did you see it? I haven't seen this film in many years, and it is even more powerful than I remember it to be. This is one of the most classic films of all time. I got up early this morning to watch it.

You should be able to buy a cheap tape machine for about $69. Tapes cost about $1 and they last up to 8 hours.

With Warren William.

> I think the people who were interviewed in the > documentary that TCM showed with the latest batch of > Forbidden Hollywood made a pretty compelling > case that there were better and stronger roles for > women before the code than those made after the code, I dated some of those kinds of women. Woopie, but they are not the kind to marry. > where women were often put in more unfavorably > conditions Yeah, like mother, wife, decent girls.

Maybe someone at TCM doesn't like 1930s movies. Modern movies get shown in prime time, while classics from the '30s often get shown in the middle of the night when nobody is watching TV.

The Becall character gets mad at Marlowe and shoots him. Carmen comes in and shoots Becall. Eddie Mars shoots Carmen, and Canino shoots Mona Mars.

Rapid City out of New York or Chicago would be more like West by Northwest on a map. Northwest would be 45 degrees. West by Northwest would be 30 degrees. North by Northwest would be 60 degrees.

What I would really like to see is a longer version of The Lady From Shanghai. Osborn said that the studio made Welles cut out about 45 minutes of the original film.

Several years ago TCM aired the short version, then a documentary about the reconstruction of the long version and then they showed the long version. Now I'm mixed up about which is which, but I think I have copies of both.

Yeah, the taxi driver was cute. All the girls in the film seemed to be available.

I might add that back in the 1930s, '40s, and into the '50s, the original novels these stories were based on were published in the form of very cheap paperback novels, printed on crude pulpy paper, and they were sold in bus and train station newsstands and at other news stands. Before TV, news stands were a big business, selling cheap books, magazines, and newspapers from around the country. So, many men read the original books which were mostly uncensored and were very explicit in dealing with matters of sex. So, for .05cents or .10 cents a guy could buy one of these novels and read it on a bus or train trip. Then when he went to see the movie version, he knew every part of the plot that was censored out of the movies. For example, when Carmen was dressed in a kimono in the movie in the photo house, she was actually naked in the novel. While the drug she was high on was not mentioned in the movie, the book said it was ether. The books weren't censored in those days and they always served as "guides" for men who went to see the Hays Code movies but wanted to know what was really going on in the films. But the books weren't allowed to be sold to anyone under 18 or 21, depending on state law.

This plot guide is about the original book, but it might help people understand what's going on in the movie. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/bigsleep/summary.html

Hmm.... I wanted to make you something outstanding or make you into something outstanding? Sounds a little like what Kane said to his wife, but not the same words. How about Clark Gable talking to Scarlett about the new house he built for her? Maybe Svengali to Trilby?

Lol, I always wanted my name up in lights.