old black and white flicks

[Igor Loving]

TIVO is a concept that amazes me. I have friends that record their favorite 
programs. favorite programs are beyond me? As far as I can see from a 
television that has been left here and is hooked to some sort of 120 channel 
cable the only program worth watching is the local weather and even that is 
no longer a rada circle going round and around and has some computer voice 
saying stuff, Best watch it with the mute button on. In fact most television 
can be watched with the mute buttton on. There are folks that have seen 
every show known to man and they actually like some, I am still bemoaning 
the passing of shows like  "26 Men", "Boots and Saddles", "Cheyenne", "Sugar 
Foot", "Wagon Train", "Rin Tin Tin", "Roy Rogers", "The Lone Ranger", and 
all those really stupid sappy westerns.. I even miss "Capt Kangaroo", "Howdy 
Doody", (I met Calabelle in Hawaii and we ha  acouple of Mai Tais) "Combat" 
and "Victory at Sea" and "The Silent Service" in fuzzy black and white. My 
television stopped in the fifties or early sixties. I went of to the USAF 
and just quit watching anymore.>From: Connie Clark 
<connie_3c at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>Subject: old black and white flicks
>Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:01:58 -0800 (PST)
>
>Believe I saw Hester Street a long time ago.  Joe Ben has the ability to 
TIVO/record movies from the Turner Classic Movie station, and then copy them 
to a DVD/CD.  If you go to the TCM web site, you can see what movies are 
playing for the coming months.  I think that one can back up on DVD... 
pretty sure.  One of my favorite black and white movies that is not so 
frequently seen is a '55 movie called the 'Wages of Fear'.  I believe it is 
Spanish.  It is my intention to check TCM to find out when they will run it 
and ask Joe to save it for me.
>
>What video book are you using.  Heard say that the 'Hound' book is best. 
  Know which one I mean?
>CC
>
>
>Madelon Umlauf <madelon at austincc.edu> wrote:
>Connie,
>
>Its movies movies movies around here. Last night we saw Hester Street. 
Black
>& white
>set in Lower East Side in 1896. Little tiny story but fairly well made
>(where it wasnt
>kind of lame). I'd have given it 2 1/2 or at most 3 stars. But the video
>guide books give
>it 4 and 3.5 stars. Go figure!
>
>My mother was born on Hester Street in 1898 or so she said. So what? you
>ask.
>I asked myself the same question.
>
>I'll look for Love Actually at the video store. I dont think it is in 
yet.
>
>I do NOT like DVDs. Much prefer VHS format. Cant back up
>a tiny bit and catch a missed line of dialogue in DVD. This really 
sucks.
>
>Mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Connie Clark
>To: austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net
>Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 7:56 AM
>Subject: *****SPAM***** Re: Mississippi Mermaid by Francois Truffaut
>
>
>Mike,
>A movie out on video that you may not have considered checking out, is 
'Love
>Actually'. It is British and has big-time actors like Hugh Grant, Laura
>Linney and Emma Thompson, but is a small movie, not working the star 
power,
>just the story, or stories. Hugh Grant plays the British Prime Minister 
and
>at some point in the movie has a press conference in which he denies the
>American President the diplomatic and other cooperation that he expects. 
I
>guess it must be a secret wish of the Brits to see such a scene, which 
is
>not a big part of the movie.
>Some scenes you may consider a little too corny or Hollywood driven, but
>other parts I thought were offbeat and original.
>Maybe you've already seen it.
>
>Always looking for another really neat movie.
>Connie
>
>
>Michael Eisenstadt wrote:
>Lesser flick by Francois Truffaut starring clothes
>horses Catherine Deneuve et Jean-Paul Belmondo.
>
>The McGuffin is their separate dooms or fatalities
>which combine in the end as they walk in the snow to
>their death in the mountains. She brought up in an
>orphanage, he the feckless owner of a cigarette factory
>on the island of Reunion.
>
>Unsatisfying film in the seeing of it redeemed the
>next day by talking about it.
>
>
>
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