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Set Your Recorders: Top Naked Airplane Silencers
Thursday, April 15, 2010
This Friday, TCM is showing a line-up of films I never thought I'd see in one evening: "Naked Gun", "Top Secret", "Airplane", and the just-blogged-about "The Silencers." This marks probably the 10th time I've inadvertently rented something from Netflix I didn't need to rent because it was going to be on TCM at about the same time. The last time it was "Serpico", which started on TCM 20 minutes before we popped our Netflick into the player. And to go way off topic, I'd like to publicly announce that my husband is on super double probation for suggesting the whiny "Serpico" in the first place; he was already on regular probation for suggesting "The Duelists" a few months ago.
Keep in mind "Naked Gun" is on a 7 PM Central, meaning prime time, meaning I'm insanely curious if the "assault with a concrete dildo" bit is going to be included. I know that TCM allegedly doesn't show edited films (anymore), but I am a wee bit shocked that the word "dildo" is going to be uttered on TCM at approximately 8:10 PM Friday night.
Meanwhile, Ivan has sneaked up on me again and given me another award, this time the "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" award, which is very sweet of him. I thank you, Ivan, especially since within 24 hours of him bestowing upon me an award saying my 
"contagious positivity and creativity inspire others in the blogging universe", I posted one of the crankiest responses ever on his blog. Ahem. I blame ennui.
The rules state thusly this that you should do and the hey:
1. Put the logo on the blog within your post.
2. Pass the award on to 12 bloggers.
3. Link to the nominees within your post.
4. Let the nominees know they have received the award by commenting on their blogs.
5. Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award.
And I gotta confess,I will list 12 people I'd like to pass this on to, but I can't post on their blogs unless I find more time in the day. My apologies if you never see this. Hey, that sounds weird, but I don't know how else to put it.
The 12 terrific blogs I'm passing this award on to:
1. Allure
2. Arbogast on Film
3. D for Doom at Cult Movie Reviews
4. Edwardian Promenade
5. flapperdoodle
6. Scenes from the Morgue
7. sixmartinis and the seventh art
8. What About Thad?
9. sloth unleashed
10. Basement of Ghoulish Decadence
11. Film for the Soul (I wonder if Ibetolis is still prowling the 'net?)
12. Classic Las Vegas
I quite honestly could have pasted every link from my blogroll and RSS feed into this list, because there isn't a blog I go to regularly that isn't terrific.
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"my husband is on super double probation for suggesting the whiny "Serpico" in the first place"
Serpico was a movie that very nearly put me off movies altogether. I have very little tolerance for Al Pacino at the best of times. I don't much like Method Acting anyway, but the hysterical style of Method acting that became so popular in the 70s is one I find particularly annoying.
And I'm finding that I really quite dislike Sidney Lumet's films.
I would say the odds of the "concrete dildo" gag remaining in the film are pretty solid. TCM is showing The Naked Gun on its On Demand channel, and the scene played there intact.
Yeah, I almost did a spittake last night when I checked TCM's schedule and saw all the Zucker Abrams Zucker films on Friday night! I wonder what the occasion is? Very cool nonetheless as I love all three 3 films dearly. It's a shame that they couldn't have ended with a screening of BRAIN DONORS as well.
D: "Serpico" is a whiny pile. Ugh, I was so disgusted with the movie by the end... man, I don't even want to TALK about it, it was that bad.
Ivan: Thanks for telling me about the On Demand movies, I forget to check them because we only get 1-2 of them nowadays instead of the entire lineup. Kind of frustrating.
JD: "Brain Donors" was my go-to silly cheer-up movie for years. To this day I get the theme music stuck in my head on a regular basis. It's probably from some other movie, though, innit? All I know is that it was played during a Boston Pops 4th of July thingie with John Williams one year and I about fell off my chair.
I used to be a big fan of the "New American Cinema" of the late 60s and early 70s. I'm gradually recovering from this unfortunate addiction!
While there are still some Hollywood movies from that era (roughly 1967 to 1980) that I adore and admire unreservedly (Klute, Altman's The Long Goodbye, The Conversation, Stardust Memories and They Shoot Horses Don't They? I'm now starting to realise just how self-indulgent a boys' club the whole New American Cinema really was. With Lumet and Scorcese being the worst offenders of all.
I like Lumet's "Fail-Safe" and I do like "Network", although I completely understand why some hate it, because it has some very big flaws.
For a while I hated 70s cinema, then I saw early Mel Brooks, "The Conversation", "Taking of Pelham 1-2-3", and a few others and decided I had been unfair. Now that I'm re-watching some of the 70s classics by Lumet, Scorcese, and Altman, I'm back to really disliking the 70s as a whole again.
Apart from The Long Goodbye I thought McCabe & Mrs Miller was at least interesting. Both interesting in that they played around with their respective genres (film noir, the western). And I liked Thieves Like Us, although admittedly I liked it mostly for the wonderful Shelley Duvall. But I loathed MASH. So Altman I like bits of.
I think Fail-Safe is the only thing of Lumet's that I've liked.
And there were so many awful Jack Nicholson movies in the 70s. Horrors like The Last Detail. One of the very few films so bad I was unable to finish it. I liked Nicholson in The Shining, but then that movie had Shelley Duvall. Yes, there's a bit of a Shelley Duvall obsession creeping in here!
Oh hey! Thanks for the award! I wondered why SBBN linked to my site, and now I know!
Keep up the excellent work!
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