filmlover

mariah, Here's one thing that will help. Create your full schedule in Microsoft Word, save it, then copy and paste it in here. I discovered that trick after going through the same thing you did. And welcome to the Challenge! I look forward to seeing your schedule. filmlover

Great schedules, everyone! Important notice: Tomorrow, I will be posting a new thread for voting with links in it to your schedules. I am already at work on the links and, in order to make this easier for me, I ask that no more edits be made nor any more schedules be moved forward effective as of this moment. Thanks. : ) If you have moved your schedule forward recently, please make sure you go back a few pages to your first posting of your schedule and use the edit button to remove completely that first version (you can just type in its space that it was moved forward). This will stop me from linking to the wrong one. Thanks! filmlover P.S. -- If anyone who hasn't posted a schedule yet would still like to join in, you have until midnight tonight (Pacific time). Come, join the fun.

The contest ends at midnight PT tonight. Still time to enter a schedule.

Really great schedule, SinatraFan86. I love the idea of a Joan Blondell set. I think I have heard that they are coming out with a Powell/Loy non-Thin man set, so the fact that you changed it to Blondell leaves things more open to pick new to DVD films.

I've never seen "Full of Life" although I swung over to Amazon and bought a copy of the book two weeks ago. I'm still waiting for it to arrive. Stupid Free Shipping, I could have written a novel of my own by this time! lol, I think you just did! Great notes, sugarpuss. I think you have a fabulous schedule.

That memory of yours instantly made me think of CINEMA PARADISO. Have you seen it, Filmlove? Very much so. I felt like I was watching my life up there on the screen.

As I write this, there are only 38 hours and 31 minutes left before the contest closes (at midnight PT on March 7th). If you have been thinking about submitting a schedule, now is the time to do so. I would love to see more people try their hand at it. Instructions are in the first post on this thread.

I think many of us are a special breed. There is something in us that is different from the ordinary movie fan (i.e., they go to a movie as just something to do). Somewhere, sometime, something clicked within us and we became movie devotees, that it was as much a part of our lives as breathing. We weren't satisfied to just see a movie. We wanted to be part of the whole thing. Whether this meant working at a movie theatre or collecting posters or whatever, MOVIES became a passion for us. I'll start it out. For me, it would have had to be Saturday afternoons when I was a kid. Going to double-bill matinees, that also included a short, a serial chapter, and cartoons. I don't recall the first movie I ever saw, but I do remember those Saturdays. Hundreds of screaming kids, running up and down the aisles before the movie started, or cracking toffee bars on the wooden arm rests, arms filled with soda and popcorn. Looking back, I know the love must have developed then because that theater, the Atlas, had a policy that if you helped go around the theater seats with a garbage bag and clean up the junk, you got in free the next week. You had to have courage to do that because other kids in the audience, your peers, would call out, "Hey, garbageman, over here." From there, I would hang around the projection booth, occasionally tear tickets at the door when the doorman was occupied, etc. What's your story? When did you fall in love with the movies?

Allie, What a terrific, terrific schedule. A tribute to Glynis Johns...well, there goes my heart. I think she is such a delight (but, gasp, how could omit The Court Jester?!). And I haven't seen any on the list except The Magic Box, which everyone should see. I would be watching all of them. Constance Bennett would make a very interesting Star of the Month. Good choice. I enjoyed your choice under Take Five. Though four films have Five in the title, the fifth film, Waterloo, definitely fits in because Napoleon was being made to "take five." And a DVD set of Helen Hayes, to boot. Totally wonderful. Very clever using "To Be Continued Next Week" on your serial choice. Looking over the whole week, I see SO MANY titles I have never seen, and you have created a great selection from all periods and different genres, I would be hardpressed to get away from the TV. Absolutely top-notch work, Allie! Congrats.

A Stanwyck collection will be great. I hope they focus on her early works, but they probably have to mix in some later films because regular TV viewers (non-TCM) would be used to the way she looked in The Big Valley.

I was off a bit yesterday when I said there were two and a half days to go. NOW, there are two and a half days. People have until Wednesday, March 7th, at midnight PT, to enter a schedule.

Call 1-800-TCM-1002

patful, I think everyone is a winner. I've seen such great schedules in the Challenge. I am very proud of everyone who is in the contest. Two and a half days left. Still time for everyone to enter their schedule.

There is a PBS special that is running on several stations that deals with the "jukebox videos" from the 1940s. The L.A. Times had an article about it yesterday and said, in part..."music videos (of today are) just a hipper, glossier version of the 1941-47 phenomenon called soundies ? three-minute, low-budget black-and-white musical films that featured big band, jazz and swing artists. Viewed for a dime on a movie jukebox machine called a panoram...Over six years about 1,800 soundies were produced featuring Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller and Les Paul. Doris Day, Yvonne De Carlo and Cyd Charisse made early screen appearances on soundies. Newly restored versions of several of these jukebox movies are featured in the new PBS documentary "Soundies: A Musical History,"

Take a look at the link to what I wrote in the DVD area.. I bought these today.

kubrickbuff, you didn't hurt my feelings, because I was stating a fact of human decency in society.

You don't think that rape is funny because your sence of humor is not dark enough. kubrickbuff, I haven't said anything about the subject of A Clockwork Orange before now, but I am spilt on the decision if TCM should run it or not. I had it in a schedule once because it is a classic of its kind, but I think there are moments in it that go beyond what should be shown on TCM. The reason I am writing now is the quote above. If you truly do think rape is funny, then you have crossed the line. I have known real victims of rape, and seen the psychological damage that can haunt them for so much of their life. One can have a very dark sense of humor but still know rape is never funny. It is only when one's humor is sick can rape ever be regarded as funny.

If you are interested in the info on these, go to the Box Sets section of the Classic Films DVD Reviews Forum section, or click on the link below: http://forums.tcm.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=88261&tstart=0

Was over at Costco today and saw they had four new boxsets featuring the above stars, under the heading Columbia Screen Legends Collection. Each star gets three films. The good thing is that each set is selling at Costco for $19.99, which is far less than the $65 to $75 street price to get all three titles in each set. What caught my eye was what was written on the back of the box sets, that each film is listed as "Mastered in High Definition." I don't know if that is the case, because the covers of the actual DVD state differently at times. The extra features, what there is of them, are the same as in previous DVD editions. Here is how the sets break down: Rita Hayworth: Gilda (listed as "Digitally Mastered Audio & Video") The Lady from Shanghai (listed as "Digitally Mastered Audio & Video") Pal Joey (no mention of any manstering or remastering) Humphrey Bogart: In A Lonely Place (listed on the individidual DVD as "Digitally Mastered Audio & Video" and "remastered in High Definition) Dead Reckoning (listed on the individidual DVD as "Digitally Mastered Audio & Video" and "remastered in High Definition) Sahara (listed on the individidual DVD as "Digitally Mastered Audio & Video") James Stewart: Anatomy of a Murder (listed on the individidual DVD as "Digitally Mastered Audio & Video") (also on the box it says widescreen, but the DVD says the correct aspect of 1:33 to 1 for this film). Bell, Book, and Candle (listed on the individidual DVD as "Digitally Mastered Audio & Video") The Man from Laramie (listed on the individidual DVD as "Digitally Mastered Audio & Video" and "Remastered in High Definition) Glenn Ford: I didn't purchase this set, but I remember two of the titles were 3:10 to Yuma and Jubal. The third was also a western but I don't recall the title. It would take someone with a HD setup and the previous DVD releases of these titles to state whether or not there is a difference. But for the price, it is still a bargain.

Hi, allie, It will be a wonderful schedule, I am positive. I look forward to seeing it. Great to have you back in the Challenge! filmlover

After this contest closes, I will post one last thing in this thread that will indicate a brand new thread just for the voting. It will also include links to each of the contestants' schedules so people will see what they are voting on. Instructions in that new thread will explain everything. The voting will last for one week. All other details will be given in time.

mrsl, I was just thinking that, actually, maybe you wouldn't like it. I know you have a distaste for the Marx Bros. and the Three Stooges because, if I recall corretly, you consider them mean-spirited. If that is the case, Black Adder would not be something you would enjoy. The main character is as nasty as they come, although hilarious.

Starting next week, we get all the great B-series detective films. YAY! In keeping with that, I just got an email listing a bunch of lobby cards that someone is auctioning off, but I am NOT endorsing that here on TCM. I only want to put in this link so people can see a gallery of the great graphics of title and scene cards from Falcon movies back then. http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/currentauctions.php?gallery=currentauctions&keywords=falcon&Submit=Submit

5 days to go before the 5th TCM Programming Challenge closes.

hi, mrsl, I love films by Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love, Actually). One thing I find is that he has this incredible talent for making all the characters so well defined. If you haven't yet seen Notting Hill, you must, it is the very best of his work. (And if you get in a silly mood, rent the Black Adder TV show DVDs.)