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- Yesterday, 6:31 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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- Yesterday, 10:10 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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Re: I Just Watched...
I came across this article about David Manners. Very strange his star was removed. Has that ever happened before? I know some have been removed over the years at the Chinese, but they have limited space, while the Walk of Fame does not. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hollywood-star-removed-when-gay...
- May 10th, 2024, 7:33 pm
- Forum: Noir Alley
- Topic: Noir Alley
- Replies: 1311
- Views: 112352
Re: Noir Alley
Even going back further to one of Hitchcock's silents, from 1926: The Lodger.
Who would've imagined Hitchcock to make a film about a Jack the Ripper-like character?![think :smiley_chinrub:](./images/smilies/smiley_chinrub.gif)
Who would've imagined Hitchcock to make a film about a Jack the Ripper-like character?
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- May 10th, 2024, 1:02 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3611
- Views: 215890
Re: I Just Watched...
I came across this article about David Manners. Very strange his star was removed. Has that ever happened before? I know some have been removed over the years at the Chinese, but they have limited space, while the Walk of Fame does not. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hollywood-star-removed-when-gay...
- May 9th, 2024, 9:29 am
- Forum: Site Talk
- Topic: Question about site function
- Replies: 5
- Views: 385
Re: Question about site function
When I log in, I always click the "Remember Me" box, which I thought meant I wouldn't need to sign in on every visit. I believe back when I used the site more, it stayed logged in. However, for the past month or two since I've been posting again, it asks me to log in every time I return. ...
- May 7th, 2024, 8:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Opera
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10543
Re: Opera
This is not opera, but operetta, from a turn of the 20th century Hungarian piece, based on an old Hungarian epic poem Janos vitez. It's an "I am" number. The character is introducing himself singing (repeatedly) "My name is, my name is, Kucorica, Kurcorica Janos." It reminds me a...
- May 7th, 2024, 5:39 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
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Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
That particular scene in FRENZY gave me nightmares. When Judy opens her hotel door in VERTIGO she has no reaction. Did she already spot him out of the corner of her eye while chatting with those co-workers? I must admit I do like MARNIE even though I cannot stand Sean Connery's performance. So obno...
- May 7th, 2024, 10:14 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
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Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Mandy Patinkin is hot as Avigdor in YENTL. BUT, evidently NOT hot enough for Babs' tastes, anyway. I say this because when she was recently interviewed by Stephen Colbert about her newly published autobiography (when they taped it at her Malibu mansion and shown later on his program), she mentioned...
- May 7th, 2024, 10:08 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: A Glimpse of Golden Age Hollywood
- Replies: 91
- Views: 26848
Re: A Glimpse of Golden Age Hollywood
T C M's screening of " THE FIRST AUTO " last night reminded me of the Riverside International Raceway as Charles Emmett Mack is said to have been killed in an automobile accident enroute to a Riverside racetrack during filming of the 1927 movie. I wondered if there was going to be expound...
- May 6th, 2024, 10:11 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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Back to Perry Mason. Bette was on last night pinch hitting for Perry defending Michael Parks. (Does anyone know what his operation was about when he was out of the show for awhile? It's not a very good episode (I'd seen it before). It must've been shot around the time of Dead Ringer as she's wearin...
- May 5th, 2024, 9:51 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
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- Views: 215890
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This short story has a quote from Griffith himself on his temper..Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑May 5th, 2024, 9:45 pm Oh my gosh, txfilmfan, I got a chill reading that! Had no idea...
Or, to quote Lonesome, "Moly Hoses!"
https://www.metv.com/stories/andy-griff ... dy-taylor
- May 5th, 2024, 9:48 pm
- Forum: Noir Alley
- Topic: Noir Alley
- Replies: 1311
- Views: 112352
Re: Noir Alley
The plastic surgery segment in DARK PASSAGE always creeps me out, including a scary looking Bogie with those bandages. It almost seems like a nod back from Warner's to their 1930's urban horror thrillers, DR. X, MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM and THE RETURN OF DR. X. Scary looking Bogie? How about scary...
- May 5th, 2024, 9:47 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2647
- Views: 158654
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Wow, I never knew about that coda, txfilmfan! What a great post, thank you. Raises more (important) questions! Not only the ones you mentioned, but Madeline's car supposedly parked at the hotel but which desk clerk Ellen Corby refutes. Was she paid to say that? For some reason I always enjoy the se...
- May 5th, 2024, 9:40 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3611
- Views: 215890
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Lonesome Rhodes is one of those come-from-nowhere performances that always astound me. I wonder where Andy pulled that darkness from? Great acting. I can understand your feelings, jimimac, about NTFS but I do think AFITC is one of Kazan's best. One never expects to see Walter Matthau as "Vande...
- May 5th, 2024, 9:22 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2647
- Views: 158654
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
It was very hard believing someone like Judy could pull off being Madeline, no matter how much "coaching" she had. That jumping into the ocean bit fascinates me because when Scottie phones Elster to tell him about it, there is a pregnant pause from Elster's end, which I took to mean he di...