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dracsback		#901	[-]
Jan 19 12 11:55 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Regarding the TCM HD broadcasts: GIGO. Most of what they show is NOT an HD source. In fact, I'm not sure anything they show come from an HD source. And, you are correct on the weekends maybe the tech guy is pushing the wrong buttons on that cropping issue. I don't get it. TCM HD is trying...but it ain't soup yet. "I saw what I saw when I saw it!"
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Wich2		#902	[-]
Jan 19 12 12:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>Just saw Lugosi gracefully rise out of the coffin in a wide shot. He must have been in pretty darn good shape< Retirement-age Bela was not in particularly good shape, in that way. But as folks who work with him have attested, he regularly used a VERY potent pain reliever/mood elevator.
jplibby		#903	[-]
Jan 19 12 7:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	skelton knaggs wrote: PShields79 wrote: Ted Newsom wrote: Sorry you guys don't like Abbott & Costello... you ought to try Carney & Brown some time. Or Wheeler and Woolsey. Or Noonan and Marshall. Or Clark and McCullough I think Bobby Clark is a great comedian and rather overlooked these days ... possibly because he spent his later years on Broadway, away from the cameras. Now, Paul McCullough, I don't get at all.
jplibby		#904	[-]
Jan 19 12 7:17 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wich2 wrote: >Just saw Lugosi gracefully rise out of the coffin in a wide shot. He must have been in pretty darn good shape< Retirement-age Bela was not in particularly good shape, in that way. But as folks who work with him have attested, he regularly used a VERY potent pain reliever/mood elevator. Be that as it may, he was also the very definition of an old pro! He rarely gave less than his all in a performance.
Rick		#905	[-]
Jan 19 12 7:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	True enough. Never underestimate the power of professional performance. I've heard stories of folk such as Bob Hope and Rosalind Russell who, offstage, looked and moved like any elderly civilian, but, onstage, shook it off and became years younger. I actually witnessed this myself with Imogene Coca. Onstage she was running, screaming and literally jumping up and down on a bed. But as soon as she was offstage she was met by an assistant who offered her a cane, a supporting arm, and her coke-bottle eyeglasses. She then tottered to her dressing room like an arthritic 90-year-old. Bela may have been miserably stiff and uncomfortable in that coffin, but when the camera rolled, all that fell away, and he could move with the grace and power of a much younger man. His aching muscles probably got back at him at the end of the day, though.
Wich2		#906	[-]
Jan 19 12 9:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Of course that's true, Rick. Showtime adrenalin covers a multitude of ills - it's gotten me through many.
skelton knaggs		#907	[-]
Jan 19 12 10:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	jplibby wrote: skelton knaggs wrote: PShields79 wrote: Ted Newsom wrote: Sorry you guys don't like Abbott & Costello... you ought to try Carney & Brown some time. Or Wheeler and Woolsey. Or Noonan and Marshall. Or Clark and McCullough I think Bobby Clark is a great comedian and rather overlooked these days ... possibly because he spent his later years on Broadway, away from the cameras. Now, Paul McCullough, I don't get at all. Do you know of his actual demise? Look it up. It is the stuff of true bizarre legend... "You can't smell any reefer, can you"?
Wich2		#908	[-]
Jan 19 12 10:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My God, what a story...
jplibby		#909	[-]
Jan 20 12 8:00 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wow. I just looked it up. Most of time, McCullough seemed to be in the background while Bobby Clark propelled the story. There was one short I remember seeing where McCullough was more involved and they seemed more like a team.
Joe Karlosi		#910	[-]
Jan 20 12 8:04 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Rick wrote: True enough. Never underestimate the power of professional performance. I've heard stories of folk such as Bob Hope and Rosalind Russell who, offstage, looked and moved like any elderly civilian, but, onstage, shook it off and became years younger. I actually witnessed this myself with Imogene Coca. I witnessed it with Charlton Heston when I met him in NY in 1990 (he was only 67 then). He was walking kind of shakingly awkward, yet I saw him as Sherlock Holmes in THE CRUCIFER OF BLOOD at the same time and he was running around in some scenes, as I recall. "Guy named Squeamy got thrown from the fifth floor. He's deader'n a mackerel."
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Ray Faiola		#911	[-]
Jan 20 12 9:14 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have a print of THE WHITE BIRCH, Karloff's final performance. It was filmed a few weeks before he died. For most of the show, an episode of The Name of the Game, he is in a wheelchair. But at one point he gets up and does the rest of the scene on his feet. I was amazed he was able to do this, knowing what shape he was in and that he had only a few weeks to live. Karloff, the consumate professional, rose to the scene as he always did. Classic Film Scores Restored on CD http://www.chelsearialtostudios.com
bela lugosi		#912	[-]
Jan 20 12 8:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I honestly could watch this every day (I'm older now you understand), and be a happy man!
jplibby		#913	[-]
Jan 20 12 8:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ray Faiola wrote: I have a print of THE WHITE BIRCH, Karloff's final performance. It was filmed a few weeks before he died. For most of the show, an episode of The Name of the Game, he is in a wheelchair. But at one point he gets up and does the rest of the scene on his feet. I was amazed he was able to do this, knowing what shape he was in and that he had only a few weeks to live. Karloff, the consumate professional, rose to the scene as he always did. Karloff was another old pro. So was Buster Keaton, doing an unscripted pratfall while suffering from emphysema when filming A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum."
TomWeaver999		#914	[-]
Feb 24 12 1:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The fun starts at around 1:50. Give it a chance, fellas, give it a chance. It's better than I thought it'd be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB8mcO7tqps
Ted Newsom		#915	[-]
Feb 24 12 2:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Aww, you don't unnerstan' !!! Good stuff.
dracsback		#916	[-]
Feb 24 12 4:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: The fun starts at around 1:50. Give it a chance, fellas, give it a chance. It's better than I thought it'd be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB8mcO7tqps Hey that was pretty good. Thanks for posting. Good likeness of Lon. What a hoot! "I saw what I saw when I saw it!"
Mora		#917	[-]
Feb 24 12 4:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Agree about the likeness. But the voice . . . where's that characteristic sluggishness we've all come to know and love?
Wich2		#918	[-]
Feb 24 12 4:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yeah, the voice needed much more booze & smokes... I recall this one from first-run, as The Wife was a Freakazoid fan. (Awright, go ahead with the japes, ya mooks.) And notice at about 5:10, how the shot of the moon out the window shakes like a bad composite job!
Paul Penna		#919	[-]
Feb 26 12 12:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TomWeaver999 wrote: The fun starts at around 1:50. Give it a chance, fellas, give it a chance. It's better than I thought it'd be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB8mcO7tqps Also, a nice musical Bug Bunny cartoon reference ("Rabbit of Seville") during the shaving scene.
specterman		#920	[-]
Feb 27 12 6:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Introduced a friend of mine to this film last week ( how anyone could live 44 years and not see it I have no clue) but he made an interesting remark. If they would have tossed the Andrews Sisters into the mix possibly singing something like Mr. Ghost Goes to Town or Skeletons in the Closet it would have made a great movie even better, I agreed. Opinions????
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