FredCDobbs
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Regardless you noticed your reply wasn't consistant and apologized.
Thank you for the kind words, James. I think my problem was that as I’ve grown older and physically weaker, I’ve grown more “tough”, verbally, as part of my attempt to try to “struggle to survive”. But believe me, I’m not a tough mean guy at all. I’m nothing more than an old crabby Gabby Hayes.
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There is a slight "factory" quality about even the best films of 1939- many even coming from MGM and bearing the same, lion-embossed title card. and yet, it's a factory that's got their routine down.
I wonder if the great old Hollywood movie "factory" was the only art "factory" that actually produced better art than non-factory movies?
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It has always seemed to me that birds are not creepy enough.
How about rats?
Or, how about wild dogs, with everyone's own pet dog runing away to join the attacks of the wild dogs?
Many dogs attack humans anyway. How about ALL dogs suddenly attacking humans.
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There is absolutely nothing about the film version of *The Birds* that remotely resembles that radio play.
Hi John,
I think my remarks of 2008 were rather rudely expressed, and I apologize.
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didn't read up about it, but first blurb that came up on computer says it's 1953, no wonder I didn't remember seeing it. Did it run for a few years and in 1957?
They might have re-made it, and also there were different kinds that showed in theaters all during the 1950s. I remember that a lot of drive-ins had intermissions so we could walk to the concession stand without missing any of the movie.
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you old horse thief
Well, I'll let that pass. As long as you are telling the truth about me, I won't complain.
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everybody likes fred. he's the coolest guy in the room. even when he's cranky and gets cross with you, you like it cuz its fred bawling you out
Well thank you, Lucky.
Just think of it like I'm Gabby Hayes balling you out, you gall-derned son of a rattlesnake!
I think I'll change my name and my avitar to Gabby:
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Fred,
I don't understand why you are making light of people using the ignore comment-- especially when a few people think you have them on ignore because you do not directly post with them. I think some of these people do like you and didn't know why you seemed to be ignoring them. When feelings get hurt, it doesn't seem like something to joke about. Is it too much for all parties involved to practice a bit more sensitivity and empathy? Just wondering...
Sorry, I was just sort of babbling. It had nothing to do with you, or the other guy.
Just babbling while I waiting for a good movie to appear on TCM. Just a joke, but not a joke about you.
I read a lot of your research stuff. Interesting stuff.Fred
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a who's who sorted by state of residence and forum most frequently posted in
Yes, and we need an index of people who have other people on IGNORE, and a separate index of people who THINK other people have them on IGNORE, split into two sub-indexes: 1) those who are right, and 2) those who are wrong, and a full list of who is ignoring whom, and why, and a separate Index telling us if not, then why not? And another that tells us if so, then why so?
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How about an Index of Indexes?
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I wish they'd show Cluny Brown again. It's the great unsung Lubitsch triumph.
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I don't know if that is what is going on with me. I have a Mac PowerBook, with Mavericks operating system. I use Safari for my browser, and my internet is through TimeWarner.
Well, since everyone is not having the exact SAME problem with this board at the same time, then it couldn't all be the fault of this site or this board.
I still think it is a big and growing incompatibility problem with too many different operating systems, browsers, ISP software, etc., etc.
There have been times when my internet went off line and my red light was on my DSL modem, and I've called my local ISP guy and he told me that "two three other guys" had called in with the same problem. Not everyone on his system, just me and two or three other guys. So he worked on something with his software, and got it all fixed within a few minutes. So there are different problems that turn up for different users at different times, while the majority of people are not having any problems at that time.
It is only when EVERYONE is having the same problem with the same board at the same time, then THAT is the board's problem.
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Here is A FINE PAIR in Italian, in semi-wide screen, with English sub-titles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MmKtri6fDE
Hey! Andiamo! Andiamo!
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JIGSAW 1949
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Who watched the NOFMB movie, with Jack actually being a bit of a love interest? It was super as was Ms. Raines last night in a flick I've never seen where she gets facial surgery and then cleans up on the local man market?
But the highlight of the week for me had to be "Sanders of the River" with the literally frozen-faced and eerie Leslie Banks and a regional cast which made the natives in "King Kong" look hokey. As soon as I saw the Janus two-headed god at the start I knew I was in for a good time, and this film footage under the direction of Zoltan Korda was almost as interesting as the only extant footage of how to make a truly shrunken head.
I'm a sucker for jungle films; anyone else so addicted here?
Yeah, me too. I grew up watching them in Theaters and on TV. My first out of the country trip when I was 21 years old was to the jungles of Yucatan in Mexico. I loved it, wonderful place, friendly people, lots of jungle and Mayan ruins, and beautiful young native girls!! I even got to ride into the jungle in an old fashioned British Land Rover!! Yay!
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While I was watching Sanders I was wondering why Paul Robeson
would play a useful idiot for the Brits. Then Uncle Bob in his outro
explained how mad Robeson was about his role in the film. Didn't
he read the script of pay attention during filming? I mean the utter
subservience of his role was pretty obvious.
Robeson got fed up with making movies in Hollywood, because he was a MAN, a MALE LEAD actor, yet Hollywood always made him a 2nd class citizen.
Robeson made several films in England where he played the top male lead, but Sanders (the movie) didn't quite work out for him, and Sanders (the character) had almost NOTHING to do with the film. The hero was Robeson, yet he got hoodwinked into playing a lackey for Sanders (the character).
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Gangster Story (1959)
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For the past few months, almost every night, there is a point at which the Message Boards, the different forums, and their threads won't open. They start to open, then bog down. After repeated attempts, I eventually get a massage from the browser that the page cannot be found. I encounter this with almost no other site on the internet. What's going on with TCM that it happens here?
That does NOT happen to me unless I have some trouble with my local ISP.. It happens on TCM but also on other websites too.
I have to call my ISP and get them to straighten things out. In MY OPINION, this is a combination of incompatibility between various software computer program problems. Such as IE 8, IE 10, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows XP, Firefox, etc, etc.
When XP stopped being supported, I had a lot of trouble with IE 8, and I had to have a technician come out and "adjust" my computer for use with XP and Firefox, and now I almost never have this problem. And my technician had to call my ISP and work something out with them.
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Very funny. So I give Fred a high five on this one!
Thanks.
I did intend for it to be funny.
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But no, I didn't call my detractor "silly" but I sure managed to show him up to be so.
(my bold...Fred)
Good for you. That's the way to do it. I often found that that technique worked out best for me too, in the business world.
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Don't be silly, Fred.
That’s my point, Dark. I’m NOT talking about US thick skinned survivors. I’m talking about all the nice polite people this TCM message board keeps losing because MOST people don’t have skin as thick as us.
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Ok, I can see how one shouldn't say someone's idea is 'silly', but some ideas are so 'out there' that it difficult for one to say they disagree with an idea without providing some type of label.
How about saying, “Your idea is very intriguing, but I’m not quite sure it will work.”
Will George Clooney Be Attacked by 'The Birds'?!
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obrienmundy,
In the climate I live in, spiders of all kinds like to live inside my house and especially around the back of my warm computer. Sometimes, without warning, a big one comes running across my desk and keyboard and over my hands, and I jump back and fall out of my chair.
There is a small kind of spider I keep as pets. They stay in their webs in my kitchen. They catch flies, which we have a lot of in the fall.
Then one day I found a black widow in her nest near my closet in my bedroom. Very bad for a house spider.
Consequently, I never went to see that movie.
Fred