Couldn't agree more. It's my guess that they're hoping esubscriptions will be the future of publishing.
But, what do I know? I was sure Cable would never catch on, at least not unless the kept advertising off all the pay sites.
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- September 4th, 2014, 11:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: New Design of the SF Chronicle
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13817
- August 30th, 2014, 2:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: HOT OFF PRESS!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24543
Re: HOT OFF PRESS!
Wish I could take the blame for a mistyping, but that's the way it was in print. Maybe they were trying to throw guessers off?
- August 29th, 2014, 9:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: HOT OFF PRESS!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24543
Re: HOT OFF PRESS!
GUESS THE MOVIE! Couldn't resist passing on the following item in its entirety from today's San Francisco Examiner : Epic cinema: David Lean's Academy Award-winning blockbuster from 1961, which follows T.E. Lawrence's adventures in the Middle East during World War II, is being shown in a high-defin...
- August 28th, 2014, 7:17 pm
- Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
- Topic: Favourite Time Travel Yarns
- Replies: 33
- Views: 34609
Re: Favourite Time Travel Yarns
Let us hope (however unlikely) that it is necessary to save a spot in this record of favorites. From a listing of upcoming Fall films: " Interstellar (Nov. 7) Matthew McConaughey - already an expert on time being a flat circle, thanks to True Detective - has his first post-Oscar turn in Christo...
- August 24th, 2014, 1:27 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Basil Rathbone
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10437
Re: Basil Rathbone
L.V., Rathbone in Witness for the Prosecution. Sounds fascinating. Which part did he play (I'd guess Sir Wilfred)? That's right, and he spent most of the play sitting at the Defendant's Table and looking at (reading?) papers that might have been the script. Old age is a beast! Even Lord Olivier adm...
- August 24th, 2014, 1:13 am
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: Basil Rathbone
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10437
Re: Basil Rathbone
Thanks, Joe, for rewaking this thread so that I read the whole thing. He was one of my favorite actors, even after one reviewer referred to him, typesetter error I'm sure, as Rasil Bathbone! And thanks, Moira, for filling us in on his later years. At least now I know why, when I spent a summer doing...
- August 22nd, 2014, 8:50 pm
- Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
- Topic: This week on SVENGOOLIE...
- Replies: 1111
- Views: 335602
Re: This week on SVENGOOLIE...
Guess my age is showing. Well, it was quite a few years ago.Western Guy wrote:You're thinking of the closing to ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, Lucky. Although A&C MEET DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE also ends on a pretty funny note.
- August 21st, 2014, 10:13 pm
- Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
- Topic: This week on SVENGOOLIE...
- Replies: 1111
- Views: 335602
Re: This week on SVENGOOLIE...
If I remember correctly, that's the film with what was my favorite closing gag until "Nobody's perfect." I mean, of course, the discovery that the cigarette-smoking Invisible Man is in the boat with them.
- August 21st, 2014, 10:02 pm
- Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
- Topic: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 63869
Re: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
There sure have been a lot of actors who tried to live up to the character, with varying success. The problem for most seems to be that they're thought of as too nice for Hyde or too sinister for Jekyll It's really a part you can sink your teeth into. (Oops, wrong monster!) I' greatly enjoyed Mary R...
- August 21st, 2014, 9:50 pm
- Forum: General TV and Media
- Topic: Truly Guilty Pleasures
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25934
Re: Truly Guilty Pleasures
A great idea, and well worth lots of contemplation. For now, I agree with you on "The Waltons." Maybe a little sugar helps the medicine go down, but too much equals diabetes. Still, I suppose they didn't feel they'd keep their audience if they didn't lighten things up. (Can anyone who saw ...
- August 16th, 2014, 10:41 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: *CANDIDS*
- Replies: 14682
- Views: 5998225
Re: *CANDIDS*
Hi, Judith, from one of the older new members (or is that newer old?).
Anyone who loves Stan has got to be a lot of fun to know. Will be looking forward to your posts.
And, by the way, you're not alone. Before I checked the caption, I, too was sure it was Sir Paul.
Anyone who loves Stan has got to be a lot of fun to know. Will be looking forward to your posts.
And, by the way, you're not alone. Before I checked the caption, I, too was sure it was Sir Paul.
- August 16th, 2014, 10:33 pm
- Forum: Games and Trivia
- Topic: On-Line quizzes of newer movies.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 13142
Re: On-Line quizzes of newer movies.
Thanks for finding and posting this. Lots of fun on the first two, although they were all either too easy or just a wild guess. By year is just too difficult for me.
Wish they'd do something with more classic films.
Wish they'd do something with more classic films.
- August 16th, 2014, 10:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The end of an era
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13010
Re: The end of an era
LEONARD MALTIN.... Like with any author or critic, I don't always agree with every one of his reviews I, too, still depend on him for fast answers. My favorite review of his, and one he most certainly got right, was when he was doing oral reviews on Entertainment Tonight. In total: "Transylvan...
- August 6th, 2014, 11:39 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
- Replies: 8122
- Views: 1766283
Re: WHAT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN LATELY?
Agree that Detective Story is a prime example of how to turn a play into film. My favorite story about the play/film comes from George Voskovec, who was appearing in The Chalk Garden in Ogunquit when I was doing a season of Summer Stock some 60 years ago. He told us that he had been up for a part in...
- August 3rd, 2014, 4:53 pm
- Forum: Dramas
- Topic: The Lost Chase-Helen Mirren
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11492
Re: The Lost Chase-Helen Mirren
It's a 1996 TV movie known as Losing Chase in the US.
I love everything Mirren does, and will certainly search this one out.
I love everything Mirren does, and will certainly search this one out.