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The Honeymoon Machine?

With a tip of the hat to Rudyard Kipling: "Tho' I've belted you an' flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a more patient man than I am, TCMprogrammer"

Oh, there is at least one good thing to come of it. The ratings must be fantastic because the naysayers apparently sit through everything, twenty four hours a day, whether they like it or not.

Hi, TCMprogrammer, Don't take too much to heart about criticism. A lot of us think you do a great job, and, sure, I missed the ending of The Clairvoyant, and was disappointed by that, but I know it will get repeated at some point. And to those who want to rake you over the coals for the timing being off by the film preceding it, what did they expect, TCM to write each and everyone here that, "Hey, sorry, we just noticed the film is running a few minutes over. You better get up and reset your timers manually." Oh, and it's not worth listing statistics about the recent movies to them. Several of us have tried. I even got old Now Playing magazines from 2000 and showed that statistically TCM has not been playing more movies made after 1970 now than when they consider "the good old days" of TCM. It falls on deaf ears. I've learned through the posts that they don't REALLY care if there are more post-1960s movies or not; they just want NO post-1960 movies. (And even the 1960s films will get a good hammering.) Besides, if you get it to being all films they do want, people will complain about the database. Or the east coast/west coast times. Or the number of pages it takes to print out the schedule. Or the pan and scan of Benji. Or that TCM is turning into AMC. Or that TCM is running too many silent movies or too many sound movies or too many black-and-white movies or too many foreign movies or too many letterbox movies or too many -- well, I've run out, but you can bet they won't. It's been mentioned in these posts and other threads, that after having done the programming challenge many of us are now more appreciative of what you go through on a regular basis, but I say if we want a real terrifying challenge...we should try manning the message boards and having to deal with the complaints on a daily basis like you do, too.

Ouch.

For another view of her, later in life, check out the excellent "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie."

Twelve Angry Men?

Well, I know we are talking about Yankee Doodle Dandy, with Eddie Foy Jr. as his father. And Cagney, of course (Give My Regards to Broadway), but is the clocks clue a reference to One Two Three?

Right, made it easy to start out Monday.

Photographer brings kids into family business, and has a friendly contest with Bull Halsey.

In the sound era, even though he is not one of my favorties, it would have to be Orson Welles for his work, Citizen Kane. I think it ihas been said that it influenced as many future directors in the sound generation as Griffith did in the silents. LOL, "Larry of Arabia" sounds like a film the 3 Stooges would have made as a satire.

Allie, I agree with you. I came close to having a repeat or two within the week. For example, I had Scaramouche in a day of swashbucklers but it was also directed by George Sidney who I dedicated a day, too, so it was tempting to put it there, thus repeating my choices.

Yeah, it's definitely a guy thing, especially if one has lost one's father.

Thinking about the "awards" references bandied about earlier in this thread, I picture myself (amongst your company) the "running naked guy inviting a David Niven bon mot" sort of fellow. I remember the joke on the Oscars going back a number of years. The winners go to the Governor's Ball. The losers go to Shakey's. I want double cheese on my pizza.

And just thought of another great ending, "Field of Dreams."

sorry, "response" (It is early Sunday morning)

by the way, that was in responce to Anonymous124's post of "why have 2 people already complained about me describing the end of The New World??? its not a thriller, mystery, or a movie with a really surprising twist, like The Planet of the Apes or The Sixth Sense or The Crying Game...you knowing how it ends shouldn't affect the film the slightest."

A movie does not have to have a surprise ending in order to be spoiled if someone tells you about it. You described the ending and how emotional it was. That is something that should not even be known, because a person going to see it - not knowing the ending ahead of time - will be feeling a series of emotions during the length of the movie, building up towards the ending whatever it will be. If someone who had seen it said to another person going into the theater, "You're going to cry at the end," well, that's one thing. But if that same person told the person about to go in, "At the end, as she is dying and says this, and then does that, etc,", there is a good chance that person going in will turn around and not see it.

Dead Ringer Bette Davis as The Nanny and Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth in either Elizabeth the Queen or The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. Peter Lawford as Nick Charles as Nick Charles in the TV series.

Exactly right. Congratulations! When you post your challenge, I may not be able to get an answer posted until Monday morning. My computer here at home goes through AOL and I think they have some firewall or something that doesn't always let me post when I want to.

You have to weed through a lot of stuff, but you do come across some nice items coming up, including a 9 DVD set called the John Wayne-John Ford Collection, containing among others something called The Searchers Ultimate Collectors Edition. There is also a John Ford Film Collection 5 DVD set containg The Lost Patrol, The Informer, Mary of Scotland, and others.

That was meant to be "A basketball player admirer"

A basketplayer admirer and a government worker try to make the best of a bad situation, while sparks end up flying between a hypnotist and a lama.

By she, I mean Ali MacGraw

Ah, Love Story. Ryan O'Neal in What's Up, Doc? and Ray Milland in X the Man with the X Ray Eyes. Is Lady Ashley a cosmetic thing she was pushing?