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- April 14th, 2024, 4:24 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2647
- Views: 158179
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
We're almost at the exact hour of TCM's first sign-on. They signed on the air at 6 p.m. EDT on 14 April 1994.
- April 14th, 2024, 4:09 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Streaming on Criterion in April.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7058
Re: Streaming on Criterion in April.
Anyone notice that the Criterion Channel now has a programmed streaming channel? They call it Criterion 24/7. When I started the Criterion app on my TV last night, I noticed that the layout was slightly different. There's a new option at the top called Criterion 24/7. It's programmed, meaning they d...
- April 13th, 2024, 7:16 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3600
- Views: 215044
Re: I Just Watched...
To add to the sitcom discussion, add another vote to the column for The Nanny. That show was hilarious, and the ensemble was perfectly matched together. I saw a couple of episodes of Cybill online and wanted to see more because it seemed fantastic (and I loved Cybill on Moonlighting), but never got...
- April 13th, 2024, 10:12 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3600
- Views: 215044
Re: I Just Watched...
There are also regional differences, like Southerners (me, for one) who thought All in the Family was WAY TOO LOUD!!! PEOPLE SHRIEKING AT EACH OTHER IN UGLY ACCENTS!!!!!! Whereas Designing Women, so brilliant and funny in its early years, might not have made as much sense to people in other parts o...
- April 12th, 2024, 11:02 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3600
- Views: 215044
Re: I Just Watched...
I had the "Elaine at The English Patient " experience with Pirates of the Caribbean . People had low expectations of the film, based as it was on a Disney theme park ride, but because it was better than that, suddenly it became a phenomenon. When I saw it, I was expecting a really enterta...
- April 12th, 2024, 10:04 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3600
- Views: 215044
Re: I Just Watched...
I'd never heard of Stopette until I started watching WML reruns on the Game Show Network years ago. They would show the entire original show with period commercials (and then add their own modern ones too), so a 30 minute episode ran 40 minutes. It is currently shown on: Buzzr. It retains the origi...
- April 11th, 2024, 7:19 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3600
- Views: 215044
Re: I Just Watched...
What's My Line (1950-1967) was sponsored by: 'Stopette' (Poof! There goes perspiration!) These commercials were usually a talking head but there was one which had a lady in a unitard doing an interpretive dance. It is ... interesting. Stopette is referenced in Sabrina , of all things. As I understa...
- April 11th, 2024, 4:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Theater
- Replies: 98
- Views: 26182
Re: Theater
Old Friends, Cameron Mackintosh's love letter to Stephen Sondheim, will be coming to America. It began life as a one-off event in London with an all-star cast, to benefit the Stephen Sondheim Foundation. It was later mounted with a mostly different cast for a run in the West End, which is where I s...
- April 11th, 2024, 4:44 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3600
- Views: 215044
Re: I Just Watched...
THE THING ABOUT MODERN COMMERCIALS that gets me is THAT THEY ARE soooooooooooooo PUNISHINGLY DREADFUL- and there is NO NEED FOR THEM TO BE. I was recently looking at commercials from the 70s 80s and 90s ON YOUTUBE and was taken aback by how INNOCUOUS AND INNOFFENSIVE AND TO-THE-POINT THEY ARE. No s...
- April 11th, 2024, 4:35 pm
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: April 2024 Schedule Posted, Marlon Brando is SOTM
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7719
Re: April 2024 Schedule Posted, Marlon Brando is SOTM
It's been on Sundance, AMC and BBC America lately (with ads), along with on-demand copies on MGM+ and YouTube Movies. I DVR'ed it off Showtime when they had a free week offer some time ago, and my DVR still picks up copies from various networks. The ad networks have about 45 mines of ads, based on t...
- April 11th, 2024, 4:24 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: OBITUARIES
- Replies: 514
- Views: 75388
Re: OBITUARIES
I'm one of the few Americans who never saw any of the trial, so my filter is just based on what the media & others have said afterwards. I was living in London almost the entire time. I returned to the US just a day before the trial ended. You never heard anything about it on TV or radio in the ...
- April 11th, 2024, 10:29 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3600
- Views: 215044
Re: I Just Watched...
I don't watch any network shows, but the news shows (network and cable) are also awful. Many long commercial breaks. It seems there are more commercials than actual news stories. Often they'll come back from a commercial break, tell one news story and go on break again! I'm constantly switching sta...
- April 11th, 2024, 9:55 am
- Forum: Movies and Features on TCM
- Topic: I Just Watched...
- Replies: 3600
- Views: 215044
Re: I Just Watched...
Most network shows now have about 9 minutes of breaks per half hour - ads, promotions for other shows, PSAs. That's nearly a third of the time slot wiped out. Older shows had about 5 minutes of breaks per half hour - even less in the 1950s. The FCC doesn't regulate this, except for children's progra...
- April 10th, 2024, 4:40 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2647
- Views: 158179
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
Okay, sorry, but I now have one more comment to make about David Janssen. Well okay, not particularly about him, but an observation about the TV series he will forever be most associated with. I noticed that these bikers were mostly riding Triumphs and Hondas (c'mon, everybody knows that outlaw bik...
- April 10th, 2024, 4:21 pm
- Forum: The People of Film
- Topic: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
- Replies: 2647
- Views: 158179
Re: MUSINGS, PONDERINGS, RUMINATIONS AND FANCIES
You and Hot Lips Houlihan, apparently...Bronxgirl48 wrote: ↑April 10th, 2024, 4:15 pm Dargo, you know me so well, lol! Actually Troy is more like a brother figure for me. But it's also because of his fish lips. Let's face it, they're blubbery, and I am a thin-lipped guy kind of girl.