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I looked but I didn't see anyone else mentioning the announcement of The Three Stooges vol. 3 (1940-1942), due in stores August 26 for $24.96. episodes include: You Nazty Spy! I'll Never Heil Again Rockin' Thru the Rockies An Ache in Every Stake A Plumbing We Will Go In the Sweet Pie and Pie Nutty but Nice Some More of Samoa How High is Up? Loco Boy Makes Good From Nurse to Worse Cactus Makes Perfect No Census, No Feeling What's The Matador? Cookoo Cavaliers Matri-Phony Boobs in Arms Three Smart Saps So Long, Mr. Chumps Even As I.O.U. Dutiful but Dumb Sock-A-Bye Baby All The World's a Stooge

I just don't understand how they could leave "Inherit the Wind" out of the top ten courtroom dramas.

calvin, this was posted back on June 4th.

film fatale, the Bond confirmation verifies what I posted back on the 5th or 6th. It will be worth buying these titles on Blu.

Just annouced: Popeye the Sailor vol. 3 (1941-1943) for September 30. It will contain 32 cartoons, including many of the wartime years. No listing yet extras. Price will be $34.98. A picture of the cover can be seen here: http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Popeye-Volume-3/9823 DISC 1: Problem Pappy Quiet! Pleeze Olive's Sweepstakes Ticket Flies Ain't Human Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle Olive's Boithday Presink Child Psykolojiky (final cartoon with ship door titles) Pest Pilot I'll Never Crow Again The Mighty Navy Nix on Hypnotricks Kickin' the Conga 'Round Blunder Below Fleets of Stren'th Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix DISC 2: Many Tanks Baby Wants a Bottleship (last Fleischer cartoon) You're a Sap, Mr. **** Alona on the Sarong Seas A Hull of a Mess Scrap the Japs Me Musical Nephews Spinach Fer Britain Seein' Red, White 'N' Blue Too Weak to Work A Jolly Good Furlough Ration Fer the Duration The Hungry Goat Happy Birthdaze Wood-Peckin' Cartoons Ain't Human There was a rumor that it would be minus You're a Sap, Mr. **** and Scrap the Japs, but Jerry Beck, a contributor to the series, says all the titles will be there and uncensored. Yay!

Hi, everyone, Thanks to all for your congratulations. I think everyone pulled out all the stops this time to produce amazing schedules. I could feel the heat and knew I had to really try harder than ever. Frank, the winners of the past Challenges (hence winners) have been: 1st: lzcutter 2nd: hlywdkjk 3rd: MattHelm 4th: filmlover 5th: allieharding 6th: sugarpuss 7th: hlywdkjk 8th: lzcutter 9th: Fedya 10th: filmlover If memory serves me right, lzcutter actually won three of the Challenges but gave the honor to the runner up on her second win)(I don't remember whom, so everybody is a champ). And we must NEVER forget the person who started the Challenge in the first place...path40a. We are all winners because we have had the chance to create special schedules that the TCM programmer has looked at it and even borrowed some ideas to use in the TCM lineups (nothing is more exciting than that).

I'm shocked...shocked...to find there is voting going on in here! Actually, I *really* am shocked to find out I won! Unbelievable. I thought sure Lynn had it going away. Thank you again to Lynn, mongo, and FrankGrimes, and also to the two unknowns who voted for me, your votes really meant a lot. And thanks, Fedya, for running this current Challenge. That said, I hereby declare the next Challenge to start in September after we all get the summer and vacations and ice cream out of our system. Happy Summer, everybody! P.S. -- I've created the four faux Now Playing covers, but due to problems with AOL uploading they won't be posted at this time. Sorry. Will do it once I get this figured out.

While we wait for the tally, I want to say thanks to lzcutter and FrankGrimes (and, again, mongo) for their votes. It's great knowing you appreciated the schedule. Another Challenge done. I may get the faux covers in here today for each of the schedules..

I was checking ot the weekend's flyer for Best Buy and for coming on Tuesday they show a picture of the Popeye the Sailor DVD collection for $24.99 with the words underneath it: Volume 2, 31 Episodes Volume 1...$9.99 Well, unfortunately, the ad's a total screwup. For starters, they don't picture vol. 2's cover. Instead, they show a steelbook edition of vol. 1. However, don't be fooled into thinking you will get this one for the vol. 1 $9.99 price. No, sirree. A check on the website shows the "Vol. 1" they are talking about (and not correctly identified or pictured) is "Popeye & Friends," a small collection of the TV series's cartoons. Don't you love Best Buy?

Word is Fox will be releasing all five of the original Planet of the Apes movies as a set on Blu-ray in November. A book will also be in with the set. (Also, a little more recent, but with a retro look to the films, L.A. Confidential and Kill Bill 1 & 2 supposedly will be released in September on Blu.)

No, it's in #13, which is still a good size screen. I think they keep the Dome for the big current hits now. (I think the audience for Indiana Jones will be bigger than WSS and bring in more money.)

I am sure the AFI series is here somewhere in these threads, but I wanted to post something I got in an email from the Arclight today about the Wednesday night AFI screening of a new print of West Side Story. If you are an Arclight member, you accumulate points every time you see a movie. Normally 200 points gets you a free movie (so I make that out to be worth about $14). Well, today the email said for this film, "ArcLight members...can redeem 100 points and purchase 2-tickets-for-the-price-of-1!" So, 100 points would be about worth about $7, so getting two tickets means you are seeing the movie about $3.50 each).(but remember you can't buy the tickets for that, you only get the ticket by redeeming the points. If you want to really BUY a ticket, it will cost you about $14, probably.) That's for the Arclight in Hollywood. If you are nearer the Arclight in Sherman Oaks, they will be showing Shampoo and you can use this deal there. This special also applies to seeing Iron Man (wow!) in either theater. .

mongo, Many, many thanks for your vote. Because I was so close to deadline (and exhausted after getting in so many decades of Paramount history), I didn't get to add in Popeye cartoons I love. For you, though, I would assign you as guest to the guest programmer and fill in your favorites. (I'd love to include the Ali Baba, Sinbad, and Aladdin cartoons, plus the one where Popeye and Bluto go to Rio.).(The second DVD volume comes out on Tuesday. Yay!) filmlover

It's occured to me that the reason there may not be more votes is that the general community here isn't aware they are allowed to vote. _Per Fedya's notes in the first post, here is the only eligibility to vote:_ *Voting is open to anybody who was a member of the TCM boards as of May 1, 2008, as well as to anybody who submitted a schedule.* To vote, state your vote for the one schedule you most prefer here. So, in the words of John Adams in "1776": "Now, VOTE, damn you!" Voting closes on the 14th.

I thought I better rescue this from page 3...because nobody will vote if they can't find it. Voting closes in a few days.

*?Hi Frank, it's nice to see you too! I believe you were the very first person to welcome me to these boards.?* *?Your comments are very kind! That is fun we have such similar viewing interests.?* *?Thanks. I'm always attracted to those who enjoy DVD audio commentaries. It's actually a smaller group of people than I first realized.?* *?I printed your list of recommendations and it's sitting next to the TV with my "viewing ideas" list.?* *?That's very flattering. Thank you.?* Come on, people, get a room! LOL! Seriously, though, this is a conversation going back and forth, and should be done using the Private Messages feature. The upcoming news is getting lost in the posts. As far as the commentary tracks for Thief of Bagdad, one track is Coppola and Scorsese (though it sounds like they were at two different sessions, just spliced together). The other track is a very detailed history of the production by Bruce Eder, I think it was, truly the one to listen to for details. I am still going through it.

I think they don't list the 20% off sale info on the website because they don't want EVERYBODY saving money. They probably figure if they just announce it to a few, it will not be that big a drop in income. But you can go ahead and use any of the codes that are here when you get to the checkout area.

Frank, yes, I was at the Los Feliz branch tonight and they had several of the Ford at Fox big box sets. It says on the sign they are $179, but they also note if you have the coupon, you get $60 off right then and there. Edgecliff, yes, you pay a membership fee each year. I think it is about $50, but it may vary. It may seem high at first but in the long run, it is definitely worth it. I have saved so much buying things there. I don't know if it is still a policy but they used to require you to be invited to join. They may be more lax on that now, but you do need to be a member to buy from them, even online.

Good rumors are cirulating about six James Bond films being released by the end of this year on Blu-ray: Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Thunderball, For Your Eyes Only, Live and Let Die, and Die Another Day. They will be released in France on November 5th by Fox (the distribution arm for MGM there), which could mean a concurrent release in the States. The other 14 could be released on Blu at the time of the release in theaters of the newest Bond film, Quantum of Solace. http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/MGM/James_Bond/Rumor_Mill:_MGM_Readying_Bond_Titles_For_Blu-ray_Release_(UPDATED)/1802

I was at Costco this afternoon and noticed some excellent bargains: The Fox Studio Collection 4 DVD set of All About Eve, Gentlemen's Agreement, How Green Was My Valley, and Sunrise...only $12.99! Heck, its worth that just to get Sunrise. John Wayne Legendary Heroes Collection $19.99 (almost bought this today through dd.com at a buck or two more; glad I held off) Michael Shayne Mysteries $12.99 John Wayne Century Collection $56.99 Screen Legends Collections: James Stewart, John Wayne, and Cary Grant...$14.99 each Gary Cooper Signature Collection $19.99 James Cagney Signature Collection $19.99 Gary Cooper Signature Collection $19.99 Frank Sinatra: the Early Years and the Golden Years box sets...$26.99 each Dirty Harry Ultimate Collection box set $49.99 plus some two packs of DVDs for $12.99: War Wagon/Rooster Cogburn, Destry Rides Again/Far Country, Plainsman/Spoilers, and a few others. And, of course, if you have the coupon booklet they sent out free, the gigantic Ford at Fox set is $119 (same price for the complete James Bond box set). I also found a bargain at the last place I would pick for bargain hunting: Best Buy. They had a rack of "Father's Day" type movies, marked at $8.99. Nothing amazing, except for one item on the rack that wasn't advertised in the flyer at that price: the new 2-DVD edition of The Big Trail. I had to verify that but the cashier scanned it and it was indeed $8.99, instead of the usual $14.99.

I noticed that a few prices I had been watching went up about a buck, but I still bought two things so far: The Rat Pack Ultimate Edition and the John Wayne Icon Collection. There are some others but I haven't decided what yet. edgecliffe, keep an eye out at Costco for the Chan sets because I am sure they will show up there again cheap. They have the two Moto sets for $15.99 each.

I have this in the Classic Film DVD Reviews section in the Genre Forums section of the TCM Board, but thought it important enough to add to the General Discussion board because so many of us buy DVDs and a lot of us here get excited about (and go broke on) the deepdiscount.com 20% off sale, which is only held twice a year. Their normal low prices are often on a par or lower than Amazon already, so when they offer the extra 20% off all DVDs (including box sets), it makes incredible shopping. Well, today is the start of the new sale, and runs from today until June 22. (So, for example, say you want the Criterion title, "Ace in the Hole." Normal street price: $39.95. Their regular discount price: $25.39. With the sale, that would then be approximately $20.31.) You will need to insert a discount code to get the 20% off the total of your order after you have everything in your cart. Remember, you can do several orders from now until the 22nd, but you can only use one code per order and then that code becomes invalid for you. Here are codes I have comes across so far: DDAF DVDTALK USATODAY GAMER You can only use it on currently released titles, not future releases. (However, remember, that if there is something that you want coming out on June 17th, for example, then order it from the 17th to the 22nd.) There is no minimum order. Free shipping, no taxes. YAY!

I just an email saying the deepdiscount.com 20% off of their regular low prices starts today (the 5th), not tomorrow. You will need to insert a discount code to get the 20% off the total after you have everything in your cart. Remember, you can do several orders from now until the 22nd, but you can only use one code per order and then that code becomes invalid. Here are codes I have comes across so far: DDAF DVDTALK USATODAY GAMER You can only use it on currently released titles, not future releases. (However, remember, that if there is something that you want coming out on June 17th, for example, then order it form the 17th to the 22nd. There is no minimum order. Free shipping, no taxes.es out on June 17th, for example, then order it on the 17th.

Well, I guess I am the first to vote. I've looked the schedule and am impressed on different points in each. It was close but I have to cast my vote for *lzcutter*. It was the Cusp of Sound section, along with those great early Westerns, women, and the Hearts and Mind documentary, that clinched it for me. Congratulations to all for doing a schedule. I know how hard it is to do the Challenges, but it is worth it.

I was a seat filler for the Academy Awards show one year in the early 1990s. While waiting in the lobby with other seat fillers, I was looking around at the stars present, trying to make a mental note of everyone I saw. But that was quickly knocked out of my head when I saw Sophia Loren. On her way into the auditorium, she passed right by me. I was awestruck. She was still more beautiful than any modern star there. And who else was in the lobby at the same time to make it all complete for me as far as star worshipping? Gregory Peck. You just don't get much better than those two. As seat fillers, we were not allowed to talk to anyone there unless they spoke to us first. I never got a chance to talk to either of them, but I know if the opportunity had been there to talk to Sophia Loren, I would have not known a single thing to say. I would have just been stammered.