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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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 Posted - 11/08/2006 : 10:44:51
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 11/08/2006 : 13:55:17
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 Yup, I cannot believe I have got into debating whether our variants of someone else's declined review are too similar to each other!  |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 11/08/2006 : 13:56:47
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Tomato, tomahto!
Although you mean "Tomayto, tomato" of course!  |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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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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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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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. |
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Catuli 
"Loves Film and Fun"
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Posted - 11/11/2006 : 20:13:19
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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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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 11/11/2006 : 20:24:18
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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
"Loves Film and Fun"
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Posted - 11/12/2006 : 00:10:41
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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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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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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. |
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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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 |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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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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Catuli
"Loves Film and Fun"
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Posted - 11/12/2006 : 21:05:07
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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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benj clews 
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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 |
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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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..... |
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tortoise
"Still reviewing, but slowly."
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Posted - 11/13/2006 : 15:27:57
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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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