filmlover
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I mean, he was referring to the Al Pacino version, not the great Muni version.
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Now, the movie I would like to see on TCM would be the silent version of "The Sea Hawk".
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Actually, there is a DVD release of the original Scarface, but you have to buy the special boxed set of the newer Scarface to get it. Thanks, but no thanks. I wouldn't waste a cent on the newer version boxed set, even if one fan on Amazon called it "one of the most influential films of the 20th century." I think I must have missed that alternate universe century. In mine, Scarface (the younger) was a dog of a movie.
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A lion tamer and a sleazy lawyer hang around an art thief.
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Thanks, I have enough trouble telling reality from reelity, lol.
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Sorry, took a little longer to track down the roles and that was what the problem was, some of these were not roles, which makes it a little too hard.
Kirk Douglas really did survive a helicopter crash, Lana Turner got entangled with a gangster boyfriend, but I don't know if Barry Sullivan really was a burn victim. At least, I can identify roles belonging to Pidgeon in Funny Girl and Powell ion Murder, My Sweet.
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The Bad and the Beautiful
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Completely right. Your turn.
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A famous traveller gets caught up in a hoax, orchestrated by a carnival owner, a boxer's manager, and a rotund detective. A gnome is against it.
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TCM Programmer, may I add another title for replay? It is "Miracles for Sale" starring Robert Young. It was on the other day but I am not sure if it started early or what exactly but I didn't get the first five minutes or so on my DVR timer. I watched the rest of it and enjoyed it, but I would like to see the opening minutes of it. Thanks.
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The Honeymoon Machine?
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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"
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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.
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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.
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Ouch.
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For another view of her, later in life, check out the excellent "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie."
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Twelve Angry Men?
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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?
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Right, made it easy to start out Monday.
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Photographer brings kids into family business, and has a friendly contest with Bull Halsey.
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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.
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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.
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Yeah, it's definitely a guy thing, especially if one has lost one's father.
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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.
Check it out "Premiere Mag" votes for All-Time Greatest Performances!?
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I didn't see the magazine, but it likely had more recent references than old. lol, Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein is considered one of the greatest performances of all time? Somebody's smoking something over at Premiere.
Who would I pick...
Well, these are just off the top of my head and not in order, but:
Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird
Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Sidney Poitier in "To Sir with Love"
Olivia de Havilland in "The Heiress"
James Cagney in "White Heat" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
Broderick Crawford in "All the King's Men"
Judy Holliday in "Born Yesterday"
Charlie Chaplin in "City Lights"
Celia Johnson in "Brief Encounter"
Humphrey Bogart in "Dead End" and "The African Queen"
Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Blvd."
Henry Fonda in "The Grapes of Wrath"
Peter Sellers as "Dr. Strangelove"
Marlon Brando in "A Streetcar named Desire" and "On the Waterfront"
Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt in "As Good As It Gets"
Jack Lemmon in "The Apartment" and "Days of Wine and Roses"
James stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
Charles Laughton in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
William Daniels in "1776"
Ernest Borgnine in "Marty"
Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon in "Some Like It Hot"
Bette Davis in "All About Eve"
Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
there are so many more.