filmlover
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Thanks for the kind words, movieman.
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knitter, I hate to be the one to say it, but the voting ended at midnight last night PST (or 3 AM ET today).
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Okay, here are my faux Now Playing covers for this Challenge:
For my schedule:
For Benwhowell's schedule:
For Movieman1957's schedule:
For ChipHeartsMovies' schedule:
For Fedya's schedule:
And for Hlywdkjk's schedule:
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Sandy,
Thanks so much for your vote. I am glad you enjoyed the Ellis Island theme. It truly is amazing how many celebrities came through there and then became stars the whole world adored.
filmlover
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Sandy,
Thanks so much for your vote. I am glad you enjoyed the Ellis Island theme. It truly is amazing how many celebrities came through there and then became stars the whole world adored.
filmlover
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Sandy,
Thanks so much for your vote. I am glad you enjoyed the Ellis Island theme. It truly is amazing how many celebrities came through there and then became stars the whole world adored.
filmlover
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Good catch, thanks!
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Moira and Rusty,
Thank you so much for your votes. I realize how hard it is to choose just one schedule, and the fact you picked mine out of all them means so much. This particular schedule is one I had wanted to do for some time. I am so glad you liked it.
filmlover
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First, let me say that the TCM programmer is terrific in programming so many of our series film choices from our past Challenge schedules. So many of them are in the November month. The Carry On films was a series I had in one of my Challenge schedules, but the series took a very drastic turn after about 1964 or 1965. While they had a great deal of humor and were occasionally bawdy, the series post-1965 basically was all bawdy and not viewable at any time on TV. The ones I had mentioned in my Challenge schedule were pre-1965. Unfortunately, when I saw the November schedule, I realized that the ones listed were post-1965. I wrote to the TCM programmer to let him know about the post-1965 series and I suggested they be replaced with any other film series. The pre-1965 ones were not available from MGM, it turned out, so he did replace them. That is why the Carry Ons are not on the schedule.
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I haven't been able to get into my PM section for a few days. There's one sitting there but I can't get the section to open. I am hoping when I am at my workplace during the week that I will be able to do it from that computer. For whomever is waiting for a reply, please bear with me and the tricks of the board.
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Wow, I can't believe how long it has taken me to get in to post this. Lynn, I know how you feel. Name the person and get out before it messes up again.
Okay, while so many schedules were terrific, after examining them all several times, I chose Fedya. There are movies on here I definitely would look forward to seeing (a major thing for me), but most importantly anyone who would do a birthday tribute to Una O'Connor gets my vote.
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You're absolutely right. See, that's how bland he was, I even got his name wrong. (Actually, I tried to correct it but this damn system wouldn't let me get back in to edit it in time.)
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Watching "Flying Down to Rio" again last night, I was again amazed at the brilliant dancing of Astaire & Rogers. But this time I found two other things that made their performances breakthough so extraordinarily in the film...and that is how bland Gene Lockhart was and how irritating Dolores Del Rio was. I couldn't wait for the latter pair to end their scenes.
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Could we PLEASE keep this and the other threads here to what they are supposed to be about, TECHNICAL ISSUES with the message boards! I've listed things below that need to be fixed but the TCMWebAdmin seeing the follow-up comments and the trivia thread also in the General Issues is going to disregard all of them if he thinks they have nothing to do with what this forum is about, helping to fix the board.
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Since we got the Ignore feature (which I love!), the posting to the board has turned into a nightmare.
1. It is very difficult to be able to get a post in
2. When one is able to post, instead of showing that most recent page of a thread, the view then goes automatically to the very first page of the thread (which can be months or years before), and you have to click above to make your way back to the most recent.
3. The "See First Post" feature to click on has been deleted, (lol, unless you post something, where you have no choice but to be put back on the first page of the thread - see #2 above). This makes it time consuming to go back to see what the tread was all about.
4. Editing is the worst. Let's say you are able to post something. Okay, good. Then, as mentioned,you are put automatically back to the very first page. You finally click enough to get back to your most recent post...but see something you want to edit. Well, you better forget about that. Because clicking on the edit button will likely eventually after a long time get you to "Internet Connection Problem". You have to basically go all the way out, then come back in and, if lucky, you can edit your post. But what happens after you edit, and you see something else you should edit? Click on Edit and it takes you to "Internet Connection Problem." That's right, you have to go out again and back in to try to edit anything. 5. I won't even mention again how the most popular forum, "General Discussion" was moved down to the #2 slot. Actually, it was moved down to #2 after the fix, then GD got moved back up to #1, then down to #2 again, where it is now. My question is, "Why?"
6. Is it just under AOL, or does anyone else find the Bold, Italics, Underline, Quote, and Spelling features in the Post Message section just don't respond?
TCMWebAdmin, please have them fix the board. Currently, it's very difficult to work with it.
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I finally got around to seeing a film on my DVR that was shown on TCM in late July called ?Washington Merry-Go-Round?. It was from Columbia Pictures in 1932 and starred Lee Tracy as a new congressman who tried to make people aware of corruption in Washington, D.C., while also courting a senator?s daughter.
While the congressman played by Lee Tracy was pretty wised up at the beginning, instead of the na?ve James Stewart in ?Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,? there were so many instances in this film that struck me as a Capra film that I had to go back and check the opening credits to see if his name was there, but wasn?t. It was a combination of ?Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," ?Meet John Doe,? and ?Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.? It has a political boss, the real power behind several senators (?Mr. Smith?). It has the new congressman rallying the homeless (?Mr. Deeds?) to stop that power-mad political boss named Norton from becoming ruler of the country (just like the similarly named D.B. Norton in ?Meet John Doe?). At one point, totally dismayed, the congressman, ousted from Congress, even goes to the Lincoln Memorial.
And the film came from Columbia Pictures, where Frank Capra was working and made his reputation at, but didn?t direct Mr. Deeds until 1936, Mr. Smith until 1939, and Meet John Doe until 1941 (Doe was the only non-Columbia film, released instead through Warner Bros.)
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Lynn,
I think we will always have that one troublemaker with us, and he knows who he is (or should I say he knows who his screennames are...though, lol, I suspect even he has forgotten some of his active names and passwords).
Anyway, I have found the Ignore feature a real blessing. The person I am speaking of probably hates the Ignore button because it means he can rant and rave all he wants but nobody who uses the Ignore button on him fights back. He wants that fight, he loves to tear apart the board, but we are cutting off his main source of fun by ignoring him. And he will continue to rant and go ballistic until the TCMWebAdmin sees it and gets rid of him.
I find intelligent conversation exists in plenty on the board. I know who are the good people on the board. The troublemaker(s), however? On Ignore. I find things much calmer.
filmlover
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There is only one film I think of for Labor Day, and that is "Picnic."
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You're very welcome, Frank. My philosophy is, "If there is a good sale, let others know about it...as long as I am able to get there first to buy mine." : )
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I went to another Costco tonight and they have exactly the same sets, so that's all they will have. It'd be great if they could do that with the Fox Film Noirs, too.
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Speaking of sales and DeepDiscount.com...has anybody started thinking about what they are going to buy when the November sale comes in (20% off the already discounted prices)?
I'm looking at:
The Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland Collection
The Esther Williams Collection
Shakespeare Collection
maybe The Fugitive Season One Vol. 1
The Hemingway Classics Collection
Looney Tunes Golden Collection vol. 5
Some things for the price I want to recommend to others:
And Then There Were None (reg. $9.99, currently at DD: $6.04; with sale in November, it will be about $4.83)
Romeo and Juliet (Olivia Hussey) (reg. $9.99, currently at DD: $6.04; with sale in November, it will be about $4.83)
Shane (reg. $9.99, currently at DD: $6.04; with sale in November, it will be about $4.83)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (reg. $12.95, currently at DD: $6.62; with sale in November, it will be about $5.30)
Hud (reg. $9.99, currently at DD: $6.08; with sale in November, it will be about $4.83)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (reg. $9.99, currently at DD: $6.08; with sale in November, it will be about $4.87)
Once Upon a Time in the West (reg. $9.99, currently at DD: $6.08; with sale in November, it will be about $4.87)
Sunset Blvd. (reg. $9.99, currently at DD: $6.08; with sale in November, it will be about $4.87)
Stagecoach (reg. $12.95, currently at DD: $6.62 with sale in November, it will be about $5.30)
The Greatest Show on Earth (reg. $9.99, currently at DD: $6.08; with sale in November, it will be about $4.87)
Well, that's something to think about.
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deepdiscount.com has a repeat of a Universal sale with some good bargains in there for $10.98 each:
http://www.deepdiscount.com/DVD---Universal--10-98_stcVVcatId492039VVviewcat.htm
You can find the Best of Abbott & Costello box sets, the two Ma and Pa Kettle sets, a box set of four Road pictures with Crosby & Hope for the same, and a Doris Day/ Rock Hudson collection for the same. One of my favorite sets is the Don Knotts four film pack, which contains The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Take a look for other good stuff.
Thanks for Voting in the TCM "Back to Basics" Programming Challenge!
in TCM Program Challenges Archive
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Movieman, thanks for the kind words. I had posted something already to thank you and it was here but is now vanished. I sure hope nothing happens to our schedules or to the covers or to ben's slideshows.