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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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12 hours ago, Chaos Theory said:
ya know the one with the cop/detective/secret agent tailing the other guy in the very obvious one of a kind expensive as shit car.
Alive and well on the current iteration of Magnum PI. Too funny.
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I'm never gonna remember the title or anything of the specific episode - but there was this episode of the Bernie Mac Show where Bernie Mac is finally getting to go to an adult party after months of looking after the kids - and he is so freaked out that he basically can no longer have a conversation with other adults about what's on TV or the radio or anything - because he has spent all his time with people under the age of eight. Bonus because when they do the trivia game he of course nails all the children's stuff, which just makes it all worse.
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14 hours ago, meowmommy said:
Am I crazy? Even though I watch plenty of old movies where the entire cast is now gone, I find it very hard to watch a movie more than 15 or 20 years old that features cats or dogs, knowing they are all gone.
This is an equally odd take I suppose - but I love watching animals in really old films because unlike the humans, they are always EXACTLY like the cats and dogs and horses and pigs and bears and monkeys of today. You have a Mack Sennett film with these extremely 1917 looking people (brilliant people of course) and 1917 cars and streetcars and houses and then you have Teddy the dog and Pepper the cat looking and acting so contemporary that it's as though they'd beamed in from the present.
As with everything else STAR animals are better remembered than character animals. Trigger, Lassie, and Rin-Tin-Tin have active fan clubs. Of course there were the Patsy Awards:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-glorious-30year-starstudded-past-of-the-oscars-for-animals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATSY_Award
And there are film animal fan pages. I like this one, about film cats:
Honestly I"ve never really delved that deeply into the film animal fan pages. I know there are a lot.
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29 minutes ago, SmithW6079 said:
didn't realize until several seasons in -- with their nonchalant reaction to Susan's death -- that the main characters in "Seinfeld" were assholes. After that, I hated the characters and stopped watching the show.
It's true that the characters were assholes and you had to accept that and enjoy it for what it was, or bail.. But DUDE - Susan's death was in SEASON SEVEN. I understand that this is the Late In the Day thread but how were you able to get through the previous seasons? I know I would have bailed if I hadn't figured out the characters were assholes back in season one.
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8 hours ago, theredhead77 said:
when people get the reference.
You mean to Schrodinger's original 1935 article? Okay, of course you're right, me neither. My introduction to the idea was Robert Anton Wilson's Schrodinger's Cat trilogy circa roughly 1980?
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5 hours ago, Haleth said:
She was amazing.
When one of the clone sistra characters who hadn't been on the show for a while would reappear, I would think to myself, I'm so glad this actress is back! and then remember that the actress had never gone anywhere. Amazing on every level.
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20 hours ago, aradia22 said:
I am old and less desirable
OH FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. If you have been honest about your age over the last three sites I've been on along with you - you are not anybody's idea of old let alone undesirable. GRRRRRRRRRRRR.
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I think it might be a reference to a beautiful if somewhat disturbing song by the Velvet Underground:
I have loved this song myself since I was twelve. If the reference is to this song I don't think it is creepy necessarily.
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5 hours ago, Milburn Stone said:5 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
Caught Kubrick's Lolita and really hate how they try to justify the guy leching after his stepdaughter by making the wife out to be a bitch. He's still a pervert grooming an underage girl for sex. Gross.
I guess it's a Rorschach test, but I didn't think the Shelley Winters character was made out to be a bitch. A figure of ridicule, yes. But portrayed with empathy, by Shelley Winters with Kubrick's full participation. She had needs, and it wasn't her fault that Humbert Humbert deceived her into thinking he would fulfill them. And the reason I feel that way about her is that the movie made me feel that way about her.
It is hard to watch for sure. On the one hand, the young and gorgeous Sue Lyons - and on the other - Shelley Jesus fucking christ 1960's Winters - and on the third hand the very handsome James Mason choosing between them, like there was any question, haw haw haw.
However I agree with Milburn Stone that as hard as that is to watch the movie shows us Charlotte Haze as a human woman and not the distorted caricature that she is in the book (not that Nabokov thinks she is a caricature, but that the book is Humbert Humbert's version of events and he is the most unreliable of narrators) and I do think the movie has sympathy for her character. In other words it is hard to watch because we know Humbert is a predator and pathetically Charlotte does not. It reminds me of the awful wedding night between Shelley and Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter, in which she is mocked and degraded by Mitchum for her normal human desires, because he is a criminal and a psychopath.
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1 hour ago, Spartan Girl said:
Last month I was listening to an interview with Aaron Sorkin about his stage version on Broadway, and he mentioned that Atticus Finch's flaw -- maybe more so in the original novel -- is kind of a racist apologist.
I haven't seen Sorkin's adaptation, so I won't comment on it. But I can say, because he has talked about it, that this adaptation integrated elements from Go Set A Watchman, a first draft of Mockingbird that was published after Harper Lee's death and sold as being a "sequel" to Mockingbird. The Atticus in Watchman is racist and kind of an asshole and the whole story is different - set in what was the present day (late 50's) as opposed to the 1930's.
IMO it shouldn't have been published, at least not in the way that it was. It's a first draft and she had reasons for changing the story. If it had been published as an example of how writers change and develop their stories, that would have been cool. But that's not what happened. It's a shitty trend in publishing - they did the same thing with Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men back in 2002 - published the first draft as though it were the Author's Intended Version - which it was not.
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1 hour ago, Charlie Baker said:
-he's really good and somewhat out of the type of vehicle that made his career in Seconds.
That's a favorite of mine.
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In American Bible movies the Romans (oppressors) speak with British accents and the Jews (our Bible heroes) speak with American accents. Examples : Ben -Hur, The Robe.
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On 9/17/2019 at 4:51 PM, biakbiak said:
Stop the fucking madness!
This goes beyond my usual just not understanding why they bothered with a sequel to a popular show. In this case I really cannot wrap my mind around the idea of a sequel to this program set in the present day. WTF? Unless it's set in some alternate universe or something.........
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7 hours ago, Cobb Salad said:
Edited to add - I think Antenna TV is already showing the Jack Benny show along with Burns and Allen.
Jewish Life TV shows Jack Benny, Soupy Sales, and The Goldbergs.
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On 9/4/2019 at 1:51 AM, Hyacinth B said:
Anyone who has Ovation on their Comcast system should be able to catch 3 full episodes every Thursday morning, starting at 8AM Eastern, 7AM Central. They're repeating some of the early seasons and just re-ran Series 4's Garden of Death (with Neil Dudgeon as a horny gardener!) and Destroying Angel for at least the second time. Each episode runs 2 1/2 hours with commercials. Ovation MAY be fiddling around with the schedule so check your cable listings, mine from TitanTV are showing 2 new time slots this Sunday AM and one less 2 1/2 hour episode on Thursday AM. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Ovation shows 3 episodes every Thursday morning - and they are always from the first five seasons, never anything later. This has been true for at least the past year.
One of my local PBS stations is showing season 15. Since I'd like to watch the seasons in between five and fifteen and I don't want to pay for Britbox I've been scouring my local public libraries.
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13 hours ago, janie jones said:
FWIW, according to the Wikipedia entry on the matter, contemporary westerns "utilize Old West themes and motifs (a rebellious anti-hero, open plains and desert landscapes, and gunfights)."
Wikipedia is often wrong, and I don't agree at all with this. Frontiersmen and women, homesteading settlers, a wilderness that isn't actually unpopulated are more basic elements to me. People creating communities, maybe with new standards of behavior. Little House on the Prairie is a Western to me for example. Gunfights and cattle drives and water fights and bank foreclosures are also common themes but not the only things you need in a Western. I don't want this to drag on so I will let this drop.
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14 hours ago, kariyaki said:
Westerns are period pieces
Except when they're not. LIke I said, it's a modern Western, like Longmire and Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia are modern Westerns. Like Gene Autry's and Roy Rogers' Westerns which take place in a West that has cowboys and horses but also automobiles and airplanes and radio and singing cowboys with radio shows. There are so many kinds of Westerns.
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9 hours ago, benteen said:
I've heard it said that if Connery had done Her Majesty's Secret Service it would have been an incredibly well remembered James Bond movie.
Yes, in fact I said it just a few posts above.
On 9/8/2019 at 3:52 PM, ratgirlagogo said:If it had starred Sean Connery I believe it would be almost universally considered to be the best Bond film.
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On 9/3/2019 at 5:30 PM, kariyaki said:On 9/1/2019 at 6:00 AM, bmasters9 said:
I do like Westerns, but only certain ones (and per what you said, I never knew that Northern Exposure was a Western).
It’s not.
It's about a tenderfoot who settles into a frontier town in the Alaskan wilderness where the settler population has figured out how to live (mostly) with the Native American population. How is this NOT a Western?
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22 hours ago, voiceover said:
How can anyone who's a fan of Jungle Girl movies, not get behind sledding on a cello? Wasn't something like that featured in Jungle Girl Goes to Anchorage?
Oh, I AM a ride or die fan of such things of course. But Jungle Girl films like so many other films I favor are B-movies - and Bond films are supposed to be A films by definition. Like I said, I love Timothy Dalton as Bond and I get shirty when people sneer at him. I think he's the best thing in his 007 films.
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On 9/6/2019 at 2:42 PM, Rinaldo said:
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is my favorite of the series
If it had starred Sean Connery I believe it would be almost universally considered to be the best Bond film. It has this shocking emotional punch that was very unexpected and would have been even greater with Connery in the role. And as you said - Diana Rigg!! who is the only actress who could have plausibly played the character who plays the role in Bond's life that she does in this film (whew! that was a hard line to write to avoid spoilers!😀) Plus "All the time in the world" is one of the best Bond songs and for once, emotionally important in the film.
I love Timothy Dalton as Bond but those films unfortunately are weaker and have some silly things (sliding down in the snow on the cello, etc.).
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Years ago I know we had a long set of posts about service animals and some people's abusive use of emotional support (as opposed to service) animals. I enjoyed this article:
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/8/30/20838400/mini-horse-service-animal-policy-advocacy
And BTW here is the blind guide horse user on emotional support animals:
Recently, the US government has made it clear that service horses are allowed on planes. You’re a pioneer in this, so does it feel nice to see that airlines are clarifying that mini horses are allowed to fly?
Yes, yes it does. I just hope that they make sure that it’s a service horse, and not an emotional support animal, because people can abuse that. I’ve had friends who’ve said, ‘I’m going to take my dog and put a vest on it and say it’s a service dog.’ And I’m like, ‘No, no you’re not; you’re not screwing it up for me. I worked way too hard to do this.’ Taking a horse on a plane — you wouldn’t do this unless it was absolutely necessary.
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15 hours ago, methodwriter85 said:
Out of curiosity, I've wanted to see the 1981 t.v. remake of Splendor in the Grass starring Melissa Gilbert (and a young pre-fame Michelle Pfeiffer), but other than a short clip, I can't really find it. I heard it doesn't have near the amount of impact that the Natalie Wood movie does, but I'd be interested in seeing what it's like.
Older TV movies are really one of the hardest media things to find. Very much in The Land That Time Forgot. Why?
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TCM: The Greatest Movie Channel
in Movies
· Edited by ratgirlagogo
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.