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| Catuli |
Posted - 10/21/2006 : 14:09:35
Rejection can be very disconcerting here. You wrack your brains and strive for a clever pun, inventive wordplay and then find your efforts tossed into the "declined review" bin. Sometimes the reason is "too generic" and you find that reason to be arbitraty (as many accepted reviews have quintessentially generic titles). Then sometimes the reasons is "don't understand". Ok as George Bernard Shaw observed, the U.S. and the U.K. are two countries divided by a language, so a succinct explanation might clarify matters. Of course when the reason is simply rejection and you think it's a great review, you really have no recourse. I'd venture to say that of my personal reviews, 10 of the top 15 have been declined. When you come across something, say for Romeo & Juliet, which reads "Two Lovers Die Tragically" (this is just a possible example), and you wonder why bother. Anyone share this lament?
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| redPen |
Posted - 12/22/2006 : 06:46:25
In an effort to reshape a beloved rejected review, I have resubmitted and crossed my fingers.
My original fwfr for "Taxi Driver" was:
You stalkin' to me?
I was very pleased with it, but it got spit back. I got a successful one through (which gained a buffet of votes, thank you guys very much!) with "DeNiro. De mirror." but I was still hung up on my original. I recently resubmitted it thusly:
You (s)talkin' to me?
We'll see what happens. Point is, if you really, really love a reject, keep it alive and play with it a bit. From experience, I can tell you that they do get through. |
| damalc |
Posted - 12/21/2006 : 17:48:40
i don't know if this qualifies as great, but i thought it was pretty good.
"Bridget The Midget: A Short Story" - Small skank redemption.
i reckon it didn't make the cut because there wasn't any real redemption. or was i out of line to refer to her as a skank. anyway, i thought it was darn witty. |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 11/13/2006 : 15:45:11
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Originally posted by tortoise
OK gang, does anyone know of a movie that's a musical about a south american revolutionary who discovers a quantity of superheated gaseous dairy products?
Che sing: clouds're whey.
Evereata?
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| tortoise |
Posted - 11/13/2006 : 15:27:57
OK gang, does anyone know of a movie that's a musical about a south american revolutionary who discovers a quantity of superheated gaseous dairy products?
Che sing: clouds're whey.
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| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 11/13/2006 : 01:32:52
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Originally posted by benj clews
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Originally posted by Catuli
I always thought "It's a Wonderful Life" was overrated. For my money, "Miracle on 34th Street" is thee Christmas movie.
No way- it's gotta' be Die Hard 
Yippy ti yay..... |
| benj clews |
Posted - 11/13/2006 : 01:05:59
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Originally posted by Catuli
I always thought "It's a Wonderful Life" was overrated. For my money, "Miracle on 34th Street" is thee Christmas movie.
No way- it's gotta' be Die Hard |
| Catuli |
Posted - 11/12/2006 : 21:05:07
I always thought "It's a Wonderful Life" was overrated. For my money, "Miracle on 34th Street" is thee Christmas movie.
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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 11/12/2006 : 08:39:03
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Originally posted by wildhartlivie
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
One year, I discovered the movie "Holiday Inn" when they played it sometime between those two holidays. As soon as I bought a video machine, one of my first purchases was that movie. Ever since, I've tried to watch it on New Years - for old times sake.
'Tisn't the holiday season without Holiday Inn and It's a Wonderful Life
Well, now that I live in Israel, we don't feel Xmas or New Years at all. Haven't put that old video in the machine in ages.
(And Berlin never wrote a Hanukkah song.)
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| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 11/12/2006 : 06:25:47
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
One year, I discovered the movie "Holiday Inn" when they played it sometime between those two holidays. As soon as I bought a video machine, one of my first purchases was that movie. Ever since, I've tried to watch it on New Years - for old times sake.
'Tisn't the holiday season without Holiday Inn and It's a Wonderful Life |
| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 11/12/2006 : 05:20:56
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Originally posted by Catuli
Ball State? Did you put in any quality time at the Keg? Anyway, my movie nostalgia came compliments of WGN-TV in Chicago. Remember watching Martin & Lewis constantly, but my favorites were Errol Flynn flicks, from "Captain Blood" to "The See Hawk" to "Gentlemen Jim." Sigh, I still celebrate Errol's June 20 bithday every year, in some guzzling and immature fashion.
I didn't go to Ball State until I was 26 due to a detour in my life plans to live with Mr. LaMar, to whom I was married. I worked full time and went to school full time, so I didn't have time for the colorful yet bizarre nightlife that is Muncie, Indiana (though I did get up to that bar on McGalliard in the Northwest Plaza that used to have the weekly comedy show, which is where I saw Ellen Degeneres when she won the Funniest Person in America contest from Showtime - I'm pretty sure that bar is gone now). But I did spend a bit of time each week at the Flying Tomato, eating a slice or two, nursing a soda, and studying between classes.
I used to watch a bit of WGN myself - our cable company carried it when we first got cable. |
| Catuli |
Posted - 11/12/2006 : 00:10:41
I don't know about Christmas, but I thought, way back when, that WGN ran a spate of Marx Brothers movies to ring in the New Year. Of course I usually indulged in the bubbly on those occasions, so this may have been entirely my imagination. 
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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 11/11/2006 : 20:24:18
Ah, the old days in Chicago - that toddlin' town! I remember watching late-night movies on channel 9, too. But even WGN had nothing on TV on Christmas Eve or New Years Eve (anti-semitites?). Always drove me crazy. Too bad we didn't have video or DVDs back then.
One year, I discovered the movie "Holiday Inn" when they played it sometime between those two holidays. As soon as I bought a video machine, one of my first purchases was that movie. Ever since, I've tried to watch it on New Years - for old times sake.
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| Catuli |
Posted - 11/11/2006 : 20:13:19
Ball State? Did you put in any quality time at the Keg? Anyway, my movie nostalgia came compliments of WGN-TV in Chicago. Remember watching Martin & Lewis constantly, but my favorites were Errol Flynn flicks, from "Captain Blood" to "The See Hawk" to "Gentlemen Jim." Sigh, I still celebrate Errol's June 20 bithday every year, in some guzzling and immature fashion.
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| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 11/11/2006 : 12:45:25
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Damn my US childhood education!
(And thank goodness for my London-born husband, and Fred Astaire.)
*wildhartlivie writes a short short essay*
Gee, I loved Fred Astaire. When I was a kid, they showed old MGM films every weekend on the local channels.... wait... that's all the channels there were, pre-cable. ABC, CBS, NBC, WTTV4, and the public access channel from Ball State. All of our local stations came out of Indianapolis. For a while, when I was in early grade school, Francis Farmer (remember her?) hosted a weekday afternoon movie show, wherein she shared stories about her life in Hollywood. I didn't know then what I know now about her, but I remember she was quite beautiful.
I'd sit in front of the tv all day on Saturday. They would show a musical, usually Fred Astaire or Bing Crosby, or both. Then mid to late afternoon, something dramatic...my favorites being Bette Davis melodramas. As the night came around, they would sometimes show a Martin & Lewis film - it seems like I've seen Scared Stiff a hundred times. By the time nighttime was there, they rolled out the horror movies - Dracula, The Wolfman, Frankenstein and so forth. Then just before bed time, around the time Saturday Night Live comes on now, they would tack on one or two Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chan films to round out the day. *sigh* Sometimes I miss the simpler times. |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 11/08/2006 : 14:13:37
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Tomato, tomahto!
Although you mean "Tomayto, tomato" of course! 
Damn my US childhood education!
(And thank goodness for my London-born husband, and Fred Astaire.)
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