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Emotional support animals cause problems for people with trained service animals (again):
https://news.yahoo.com/airlines-veterans-riled-conduct-unbecoming-195105884.html
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Famously vitriolic film and theater critic John Simon has died at 94:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/arts/john-simon-dead.html
Edited to add:
A friend just sent me the link to the Dick Cavett Show where John Simon got into it with Erich Segal (whose Love Story he had panned) and Rita Moreno, until LIttle Richard flips the table and goes off on all of them:
I had NEVER seen this famous fight before, although I had read the essay Greil Marcus had written about it (which you can find in his book Mystery Train). Just wow. Simon comes on about 1:21:57.
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13 hours ago, Rinaldo said:
Paul Mazursky's Next Stop, Greenwich Village from 1976. If TCM gets around to showing it, catch it. Mazursky has acknowledged that it comes from memories of his own early days as a struggling actor in the city: going on auditions, going to classes, working survival jobs, having romances that don't last, and hanging out with like-minded friends.
I can't even tell you how much I love this movie. The mind-blower for me is the scene where the acting class is having the worst hell of a time trying to do Clifford Odets' Golden Boy - because of the poetic elevated language, maybe even more because the poetic elevated language is coming out of the mouths of working class ethnic characters. They are embarrassed and uncomfortable and don't know how to make this real.
The director/teacher's response:
"Joking is what's doing you in. Joking is the American actor's disease. It's the American person's disease. Because what you're doing is you're keeping reality out so that it won't touch you. The worst kind of joking you can do is keep life out. Commenting, editorializing, joking - terrible! Don't do it. It's fatal."
This just made my whole head explode when I first saw it in the early 80's. Because it IS the American artist's and person's disease and because as an American it's my problem too. When I hear that the majority of younger Americans get their news from The Daily Show, Colbert, etc. this runs through my head immediately. That's just as big a problem as being addicted to Fox News. As an American I always instinctively feel that if you've mocked evil sufficiently well, that you're done.But this is wrong. You're not, which is something we should allow ourselves to learn from art (and life). Sorry for the politricks😔.
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13 hours ago, MikaelaArsenault said:
Oscar Nominated ‘House of 1000 Corpses’ Actor Michael J. Pollard
First, that headline makes it sound as though he had been Oscar nominated for House of 1000 Corpses - which, well we all know that super bloody violent exploitation horror movies are total Oscar bait so I guess that makes sense 🙄.
He is completely associated with Bonnie and Clyde to me since he was treated as The Next Big Thing in the press after that, for about a year.
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On 11/18/2019 at 8:03 PM, Mabinogia said:
the only time periods are referenced 1) when a young girl gets her first one in school and has blood on her skirt/pants, 2) a dad has to buy tampons, or 3) a woman is being less than nice and someone snidely comments about her "time of the month".
Or 4) when she misses a period or is late and has pregnancy panic.
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On 11/17/2019 at 10:29 AM, Rinaldo said:
e that coming up on Saturday morning, we have Summer of '63, whose complete summary is "Teenagers spread syphilis among their friends."
Since these are the shorts that follow the exploitation slot the key word is always "campy." At least this STD one isn't screened over and over, unlike the one that follows, The Corvair in Action which hand to God I swear they run every other fucking week.
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On 11/4/2019 at 10:25 AM, benteen said:
Saw a fun precode film on TCM Demand, The Penguin Pool Murder. Anyone ever see that?
One of my very very favorite romantic comedies. Seriously it's up there with Ninotchka for me. The unlikeliness of the two leads is everything - that of course they don't look the part but the way they fall in love through the sheer delight of each discovering a brilliant mind in the other. So wonderful. Also as a bonus look at the racial diversity of Hildegarde's class - much more the way a NYC class would look in the early 30's than what we generally saw.
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10 hours ago, kariyaki said:
I would never expect any old TV movies to ever air again. Tv has seemed to evolve past the cheesy movie of the week format — except for Hallmark and Lifetime, they picked up the mantle and ran away with it.
If you can find them on dvd, great, but I was talking about the ones that you can’t find anywhere: not on dvd, not on streaming, nowhere. Those are the ones that are probably gone forever.
Or they may just be in a vault, unreleased because the market is too small to make it worth clearing the music rights. This is the case for the PBS American Playhouse films, for example, which aren't cheesy (mostly, LOL). The only one ever re-released AFAIK was Ursula Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven after years of SF fans begging. It's shocking, really, given the caliber of the talent involved, the actors and the playwrights both, that they've never been made commercially available.
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On 10/18/2019 at 4:32 PM, AuntiePam said:
Did you watch Detour? I know that noir films are required to have a downer ending, but I fail to see why
Roberts was picked up by the highway patrol in Nevada. He left no traces. He had no criminal record. He looked like the proverbial everyman. He didn't use his real name anywhere that could be traced. I choose to believe that he was picked up for hitch-hiking and that he's so relieved to be 'caught' that he'll blab everything that happened and end up in the gas chamber.
Or did I miss something obvious?
Logic and realistic legal procedures don't always come into play in these films. And of course one possibility is that the Tom Neal character is not a very reliable narrator (i.e., he actually is guilty):
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19 minutes ago, FinnishViewer said:
Back in the days I remember seeing cassette tapes that have either 30, 45, and 60 minutes on each side. So if the tape in the player has 60 minutes on each side, then it's 2 hours worth of songs, assuming the player is the kind, that does not require manually ejecting the tape to change the sides.
Not on each side. That was the total on the tape.
There were C180 cassettes as well but they weren't as easy to find.
I thought the car deck was an eight-track.
I love and ADORE Donal Logue and I wish he were likely to play a bigger role on this show since I really enjoy it.
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GetTV has just started running the 1981 series Bret Maverick. I never saw this when it was first on and I'm thrilled to get to see it now. The first episode directed by Stuart Margolin who also plays a shifty character who is almost certainly pretending to be Native American.
I wish some channel would re-reun Nichols, which I remember loving but haven't seen since it first ran.
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19 hours ago, Lugal said:
Not to defend ripping out pages, but I remember when new phone books appeared at the end of the driveway every few months, so I could see why people thought they were replaceable.
Yes that's my memory too. Which made it all the weirder when we watched an episode of Our Miss Brooks (which ran in the early 1950's) and the whole plot was that today was New Phone Book Day, when the man from the telephone company would come to the house and deliver the new phone book - but ONLY if you surrendered your LAST year's phone book (yes he had a clipboard with which he had to check off each household)! which of course Miss Brooks and her landlady didn't have since they had lent it to somebody - but who? and the crosstown hunt as everybody tried to remember where they had put last year's phone book, who had borrowed it, where they went, etc.
This was SO bizarre to me and Mr Rat since neither of us remembered this ever being a thing. My parents like his are dead so we couldn't really ask anyone about it.
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12 hours ago, MikaelaArsenault said:
It's only the Central division that are losing it.
That's a huge drag for them.
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23 hours ago, ruby24 said:
I watched One Way Passage today (1932). What a lovely, bittersweet movie. So different in tone from Jewel Robbery.
Absolutely. A favorite of mine and to quote myself from (months) earlier in the thread:
".....One Way Passage, which I saw about a year ago when it was a viewer choice. It would have made a great film for New Year's Eve. It's not just that they don't make romances like this any more - for the most part even back then, they never did. Thank god they made this one. Watch it, and get ready to laugh and cry. William Powell, Kay Francis, Frank McHugh, Aline McMahon. Essential, and I'm still trying to figure out what's in a Paradise Cocktail."
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1 hour ago, BuyMoreAndSave said:
Needs more Sour Patch Kids (fun fact: as a general rule, opiate users LOVE Sour Patch Kids...none of them can really explain why, they just do).
In MY ancient old punk rock days it was Jolly Ranchers. The joke was that the punk rock food pyramid was heroin, ramen, and Jolly Ranchers.
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I guess I'd have to go with Ridiculousness, although I don't feel guilty about it or anything. Although Rob Dyrdek has mellowed out he still seems like kind of a dick. And yet I laugh my head off. Also, I do feel guilty that I no longer watch World's Dumbest, which a show I used to love. It was a much better show once upon a time and has kind of disintegrated into something kind of tiresome.
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13 hours ago, Forsaken said:
Yeah they try and be vague about it. It does mean non Jewish woman but in a derogatory sense as in all non Jewish women are unclean/whores.
The word they use is "shiksa" which means in Yiddish, literally, a non-Jewish woman, and in literal terms it means nothing more than that. However, for an Orthodox Jew that would mean she was unthinkable as a marriage partner. For people like Jerry and George this is not the case, given that they aren't really observant and are a couple of generations away from it being a serious thing. However those couple of generations may be family members who are still alive with strong opinions.
The best film exploration of this theme I have ever seen is the ORIGINAL 1972 version of The Heartbreak Kid, written and directed by Elaine May:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068687/?ref_=nv_sr_2?ref_=nv_sr_2
Brilliant and funny but uncompromisingly realistic, meaning painful and cruel to watch.
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On 10/5/2019 at 6:08 PM, xaxat said:
. At one point, one of the characters said she survived the US nuclear bombing of Nagasaki. I don't know if the actress actually did, but it is entirely plausible considering the movie was filmed less than ten years after the bomb was dropped.
Well, she was an actress so it doesn't matter whether that was literally true since since this was not a documentary. The line as I remember it was "I survived Hiroshima (or Nagasaki, don't remember), and damn I'm going to survive Gojira too."
I first saw this version of Gojira I guess in the late 90's early oughts? at the Film Forum in NYC and it was a revelation to me and my friends, who were in tears. Godzilla and friends was so firmly in my fun monster zone that I had not even quite realized, for example, that Dr. Yamane was played by Takashi Shimura, who played the heartbreaking lead in the great Ikiru. I just had never watched it that carefully until then. It was great how TCM showed the original version and followed it with the Raymond Burr version.
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Well. I love her. She is a totally direct Bronx Nuyorican meaning she is BOSS. The only two-time winner - and yet, bizarrely, the show thinks Rob is her equal. As Sandra would say, FUCK that.
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What I liked most on this episode, and weirdly nobody has mentioned it - was the CUMIN discussion. A woman whose name I can't remember said the rice would have been improved with the addition of CUMIN, then Elaine said she never heard of CUMIN and it must be some kind of big-city bourgeois shit, and - then it just turned into one of those THINGS that happen when people are talking and messing around together. Person number one didn't actually feel strongly in any way about CUMIN so when CUMIN started being thrown around as first a SNOB word and then almost immediately a JOKE word, where the very use of the word CUMIN was funny - well as I said to Mr. Rat we really very rarely get to see the kinds of freewheeling fun conversations that develop friendly relationships on this show. So that I really loved.
I don't care about mentor anything. I much prefer Sandra to Rob, but they're had worse twists in the past.
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1 hour ago, voiceover said:
Eeeeeuuuueeeewwwww!!!!
I flipped over to Silent Sunday Nights about halfway through tonight's screening (I've already seen this Cleopatra several times), and suddenly my *ears, of all things, were assaulted by some kind of bizarro Enya/CW channel-vocal playing over the scene.
I've heard some terrific new orchestrations laid down as soundtracks for silent films I love, but this stuff is just...no. It's the silent cinema form of colorizing. It's crap and I hate it!!!
Oh, voiceover, how I feel your pain. I've seen and heard this Cleopatra on TCM before and I just shut off the sound. You are correct -it is wildly distracting and just kind of awful. Having contemporary musicians score silent films is a thing these days, and wow is it ever a mixed bag. I saw one in a Williamsburg theater (NIghthawks) some years back (The Black Pirate with Douglas Fairbanks) and although it definitely had a kind of Downtown Improviser feel to it, it was actually very well done and meshed beautifully with the film. On the other hand I went to a program another time at the Astoria Museum of the Moving Image where some joker was stinking up a bunch of Krazy Kat cartoons with his modern musical stylings- beyond horrible.
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6 hours ago, Katy M said:
It's hard to believe that less than 30 years ago we had no way to get instantaneous answers. I kind of miss those days in a way.
You could have called, as you still could today, the public library. I gave instantaneous answers to information questions for many many years. In fact until about a year and a half ago.
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TCM: The Greatest Movie Channel
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All of these have been shown on TCM in the last few years. Cold Turkey was on this summer.