The Silver Screen Oasis

LawrenceA wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 1:23 am

LostHorizons wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 1:15 am
He didn’t like me very much but also I don’t blame him. I found him knowledgeable and funny sometimes. What I just don’t get is why he never outright admitted being Persian even though he clearly supported Iran heavily and is probably from there. He always stuck to “I’m Irish American and I just really support Iran and Hezbollah because they are downtrodden like us.”

That's weird, because I don't recall him being super pro-Iran. I'm not saying he wasn't, just that I don't recall it, nor him expressing any sort of dislike for you.

I recall him being pretty consistent in his disdain for US foreign policy, and being pro-Palestinian, and of course his dislike of the English in general and Churchill in particular.

Thompson wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 7:30 am What I don’t want is that same shot of Shirley MacClaine. No thanks. She is mean and spiteful and not near as sexy as she thinks she is.

LawrenceA wrote: ↑December 12th, 2022, 4:52 pm I was simply curious what caused this site to go "dark", while the TCM message board continued until the plug was pulled. There were occasional new users at the TCM board, but not many, and most quit after a short time. It was primarily the same group of people who had been posting for many years, and despite repeatedly going over the same topics, they still kept posting.

Lomm wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 10:17 am

LawrenceA wrote: ↑December 12th, 2022, 4:52 pm I was simply curious what caused this site to go "dark", while the TCM message board continued until the plug was pulled. There were occasional new users at the TCM board, but not many, and most quit after a short time. It was primarily the same group of people who had been posting for many years, and despite repeatedly going over the same topics, they still kept posting.

What happened here is that the user base was very small (VERY small) and the main contributors went to Facebook, which dropped the traffic of most of the rest of us, and so that was that. There were one or two posters generating most of the topics and content that the rest of us were responding to or viewing, and when they went to Facebook, there really wasn't much to see here. We had one poster who posted a huge thread every day with pictures of movie stars, usually on their birthday, which generated discussion in the thread about that person...that kind of thing. Another member grew up knowing a lot of golden age greats, and shared stories. I found his posts fascinating. I wish I could remember who, and get him back if he's still with us.

Anyway, please don't take my comment about overwhelming support as a discouragement to voting in the poll! If we have a significant majority for it, then we can rethink things. "Overwhelming" is a subjective term, after all.

Lomm wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 10:17 am
What happened here is that the user base was very small (VERY small) and the main contributors went to Facebook, which dropped the traffic of most of the rest of us, and so that was that. There were one or two posters generating most of the topics and content that the rest of us were responding to or viewing, and when they went to Facebook, there really wasn't much to see here. We had one poster who posted a huge thread every day with pictures of movie stars, usually on their birthday, which generated discussion in the thread about that person...that kind of thing. Another member grew up knowing a lot of golden age greats, and shared stories. I found his posts fascinating. I wish I could remember who, and get him back if he's still with us.

Anyway, please don't take my comment about overwhelming support as a discouragement to voting in the poll! If we have a significant majority for it, then we can rethink things. "Overwhelming" is a subjective term, after all.

Cuthbert wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 10:09 am Forgive me for not having read all the comments here, I thought this was merely a "poll" thread. Is he dead? The comments sound like eulogies! In any case, I never found his arguments or comments to be particularly coherent. Even when I agreed with him, I thought his ability to be articulate was lacking.

Hibi wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 11:56 am
No. He hasn't turned up here or at the other site, but he was posting till the end.

LawrenceA wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 12:23 pm

Hibi wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 11:56 am
No. He hasn't turned up here or at the other site, but he was posting till the end.

Vautrin said he was going to take a break until after the holidays and then try it out here, maybe.

I feel kind of bad for bringing him up just to make a joke, and then he got dragged a bit. I usually thought he was amusing.

Cuthbert wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 1:11 pm

LawrenceA wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 12:23 pm

Hibi wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 11:56 am
No. He hasn't turned up here or at the other site, but he was posting till the end.

Vautrin said he was going to take a break until after the holidays and then try it out here, maybe.

I feel kind of bad for bringing him up just to make a joke, and then he got dragged a bit. I usually thought he was amusing.

I've amended my comments about Vautrin.

Dargo wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 1:46 pm

Cuthbert wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 1:11 pm

LawrenceA wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 12:23 pm

Vautrin said he was going to take a break until after the holidays and then try it out here, maybe.

I feel kind of bad for bringing him up just to make a joke, and then he got dragged a bit. I usually thought he was amusing.

I've amended my comments about Vautrin.

Don't think that was really necessary, Cuthbert. And the same goes for your bad feeling here as well, Lawrence.

Ya see, because I never got the feeling that Vautrin was thin-shinned at all nor inclined to take things personally to any great extent, I'll bet when and if he finally makes his presence known around here, he'll probably get a kick out of seeing his name having been brought up here at all.

(...the above aspect to his personally being one of the reasons I always liked the guy)

Thompson wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 4:33 pm Who needs a button.

Thompson wrote: ↑December 13th, 2022, 4:33 pm Who needs a button.