Did you ever find a reference to "King Bushwick the Toidy-Toid?" Can't say. My memory is almost non-existent these days, all I remember is the Ruby Yacht. Haven't seen an episode in at least thirty years. I know from our old friend RockyRoad that Bushwick is in New York. Toidy-Toid is 33r...

Van Cleef wasn't the engineer???

Yes, I studied under Mr. Peabody and helped develop the next generation WABAC machine.

Did anyone else get the updated "Friends of TCM" message?

The original "Friends of TCM" was the last communication I had with them. Maybe they'll send something to my new account. Or maybe they're on to me and are plotting new ways to mess with my head...

...we should know this stuff; and it's not difficult to find it out if we don't.

Cheating will not be tolerated!

Well, being a geek myself, I would guess Lee Van Cleef was an engineer. Seemed the type.

Hollis, I place "Rocky and Bullwinkle" above all other television fare, sheer brilliance. I watched it every morning before school from first through third grade. I knew the context was over my head, but I always dragged out the dictionary and encyclopedia to figure out the references. &qu...

Disregard.

...after my feelings of abandonment by "patful" have healed. Ouch. :cry: But I'd be willing to bet that things have calmed down a great deal since I left, no? Our old friend knew how to get my goat, and without me there to complain, he's bored. I thought my departure would be for the grea...

Nothing from TCM after four days, Lynn. On Nancy's advice, I opened a garbage account and have TCM's emails forwarded to my old address. Works fine so far.

The penalties for leaving a clique are quite severe!

As you said in your earlier post, the AFI, critics, hosts...

I'm just a bumpkin that enjoys watching a good (or more often bad) flick. Others' opinions are always welcome, but I usually slam the door on condescension, and those lists often smack of it.

I don't mind if someone compiles a list of their favorites, but my blood boils when someone releases one under the headings "the best", "the worst", "must see", etc.. To me, it just comes across as awfully arrogant.

Lynn, I think the confirmation is upon reading, but the three previous times I wrote to them on various topics, I think I had an initial response within hours. If they have indeed drastically cut back the staff, then I can understand a delay. Just getting really impatient, missed another movie last ...

Okay, the time for paranoia is here. Now I haven't received my monthly schedule by email. I even logged in online to check all of my ISP-deleted spam, and there was nothing from TCM. I contacted TCM to ask about my problem, and checked the little box asking for an email confirmation that they receiv...

"On Borrowed Time" is probably my favorite Lionel Barrymore movie. I never miss an opportunity to see it. Another take on the cheating Death story.

I think that the best of the arts will survive and be rediscovered......There is, if you look for it, something of more value in the average movie from the '20s-50s, even if it is just a clumsy attempt to entertain people for a few ephemeral moments. Thank you! That's my great fear about TCM. They ...