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Title: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 17, 2025, 12:36:34 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke on how to sell a movie, and now it is time for you to post until the selling cows come home.
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Post by: bk on October 17, 2025, 12:37:37 AM
And the word of the day is: ESEMPLASTIC!
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 01:54:15 AM
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 01:56:35 AM
And tonight is opening night for Evergreen Playhouse's production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical! ;D
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Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 05:13:57 AM
Notes beseeched. Besmirched.
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Post by: elmore3003 on October 17, 2025, 05:26:23 AM
Good morning, all!
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Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 05:28:29 AM
Speaking of Morton Gould and speaking of Windjammer… I can’t find that that soundtrack LP was ever released in a digital format in these here United States. Only a 2-CD deluxe set in the UK and Austria.
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Post by: elmore3003 on October 17, 2025, 05:29:23 AM
Who knows where the time goes? The alarm rang at 5:45, and I got up and dressed. I then decided I was too tired to move, so I lay back down with Stella and fell asleep. When I did get up, I had to rush to the bathroom instead of my usual turning on the TV and logging on to the computer. I then got breakfast for me and the cats, sat down at the c and saw the tie was 7:50, a full hour later than usual.
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Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 05:29:23 AM
Wonder what it was like to see Windjammer in the Cinemiracle process.
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Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 05:31:27 AM
Good morning, Elmore!  It is 5:30 here so maybe my next two hours will disappear as yours did.
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Post by: elmore3003 on October 17, 2025, 05:33:01 AM
I have much to accomplish today: basement and mail boxes, a cleanup of Stella vomit, and a letter regarding Moonshine & Mistletoe arrangements.
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Post by: elmore3003 on October 17, 2025, 05:33:37 AM
Good morning, Elmore!  It is 5:30 here so maybe my next two hours will disappear as yours did.

Good morning!
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Post by: Freddie on October 17, 2025, 05:34:11 AM
And tonight is opening night for Evergreen Playhouse's production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical! ;D


Opening night vibes for George and Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical!



Loved the photos in last night's posts, George!
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Post by: elmore3003 on October 17, 2025, 05:38:28 AM
Should someone tell Sal Mineo that Helen Fords wore the barrel first?
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Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 06:31:44 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 06:36:10 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 06:36:33 AM
Opening vibes for George and company!
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Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 06:37:26 AM
Ushering tonight for the Philharmonic. Brahms First Symphony on the program.
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Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 06:46:48 AM
Break-a-leg vibes for DR George & Co.!
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Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 06:48:04 AM
Ushering tonight for the Philharmonic. Brahms First Symphony on the program.

I don't know how in the HELL I first read that as "Brahms First Symphony on the organ" - but I'm glad to see I was wrong.
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Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 06:50:53 AM
I don’t think there’s an organ.
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Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 06:53:24 AM
Never saw Windjammer at the theeder, but I should take out the Blu-ray and watch it again in "SmileBox" format.

I bought every one of those Cinerama releases. Some parts of the films can be rather 'eh', but I love the presentations and extensive documentation. David Strohmaier is a miracle worker.
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Post by: Jrand75 on October 17, 2025, 07:00:43 AM
Opening night vibes for DR GEORGE!
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Post by: Jrand75 on October 17, 2025, 07:01:25 AM
Wow DR FREDDIE those bows take a LONG time.
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Post by: Jrand75 on October 17, 2025, 07:02:38 AM
It is 65 degrees here headed for 75 degrees.

A few clouds but mostly clear.
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Post by: Jrand75 on October 17, 2025, 07:03:03 AM
I watched the EXTRAS disc for That Thing You Do which was fun.....
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Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 07:03:47 AM
Never saw Windjammer at the theeder, but I should take out the Blu-ray and watch it again in "SmileBox" format.

I bought every one of those Cinerama releases. Some parts of the films can be rather 'eh', but I love the presentations and extensive documentation. David Strohmaier is a miracle worker.

Yes I was just watching a little YouTube video about the lengths he had to go to to restore Windjammer. Dedication!
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Post by: Jrand75 on October 17, 2025, 07:04:13 AM
I only saw MACABRE for the first time a few years ago.

Everything MR BK says about it is true!
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Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 07:04:43 AM
I watched the EXTRAS disc for That Thing You Do which was fun.....

Is there anymore Alex Rocco in the extended cut? I love his scene.
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Post by: Jrand75 on October 17, 2025, 07:08:17 AM
Publicity?

How could it be?

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Post by: Jrand75 on October 17, 2025, 07:08:57 AM
No DR RODZINSKI - just what's there.
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Post by: Jrand75 on October 17, 2025, 07:09:07 AM
Page Two.
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Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 07:13:12 AM
TOD

TV -- Well, let's see. Last night on TCM (it was Angela Lansbury night) I got through both Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray before conking out. And the first couple of scenes of The Manchurian Candidate. (I fought bravely, but Mr. Sandman won out.)

Blu-ray -- A few nights ago in my Twilight Time travels, I watched The Sound and the Fury (1959). (Did I already post this? I hope not.) I thought I hadn't watched this one, but I recognized one thread running through it, so I guess I'd simply forgotten much of it. But what a movie, and what a story. And the cast -- I'd never appreciated the young Joanne Woodward like I did in this. Confession: To the best of my recollection, I've never read any Faulkner. This makes me want to begin.

CD -- I've been listening to some of the Kritzerland / Ben Bagley albums in the car, and have been hugely enjoying a few that I hadn't previously heard. This week's pleasure was George Gershwin Revisited, but it contained a real surprise for me, which brings us to:  Confession #2. I somehow never knew about the 1928 Paul Whiteman version of the Concerto in F, so when it started playing, I was stunned ... at the arrangement, the orchestration, the playing style, the recorded sound ... all of it. This will require further study on the Big Speakers.
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Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 07:16:10 AM
I know I've watched Macabre. But I literally never remember it. The couple or few times I've watched, I always hoped it was something really great that I'd forgotten. It's too bad it's his worst, with such a perfect title.
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Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 07:24:16 AM
The first time I saw Gaslight - I believe it was my first year living in L.A. (1972) - it was run as a double feature with North by Northwest at either the Fine Arts or Music Hall. I'm thinking the latter, but I'll have to look it up. I just always remember it being on Wilshire. Anyway, I thrilled to it, and I thought that seeing NxNW after it made it one of the best revival double features ever. You got a magnificent 1940s b&w thriller followed by the most magnificent 1959 color thriller, and life didn't get much better than that.
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Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 07:28:44 AM
What's funny is that a few weeks (or a couple of months?) later, this little storefront place a block west of the Chinese showed the same double feature ... in 16mm! I was still learning the theeders around town, and went to that address not knowing what I'd find. I believe we sat on chairs set up in the room (not an auditorium, a "room"), and the projector was just behind a partition of sorts. Crazy. But you know what? I enjoyed the two films together all over again. I'd told a friend about that pairing. He went to it there and agreed it was a winner.

EDIT:  According to Cinema Treasures where I'd researched this once, it was called the Bijou from August 1971 to August 1973, showing mainstream films. For years before and after that period, it showed all-male adult movies under various names.

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Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 07:40:55 AM
Wonder what it was like to see Windjammer in the Cinemiracle process.

Wish I'd been around to see it there!
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Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 08:28:35 AM
It is 65 degrees here headed for 75 degrees.

A few clouds but mostly clear.

That's something that depresses me around this time of year - the difference between the glorious Midwest and the damned Northeast. My family in Ohio and DRs Ginny and Jrand75 enjoy an extended warm season. We're barely scraping 60 degrees these past few days, and DR Jrand75 is looking at 75. You have some cool weather, but then it bounces back.

Along with that, y'all get extended evening hours! The difference between the eastern and western edges of a given time zone makes the Ohio-Indiana daylight hours an hour or so longer than ours in the evening.

DR Jrand75, Indiana is split between eastern and central, is it not? And you're just inside the eastern portion?
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Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 08:29:56 AM
I sure have taken up a lot of space here this morning. It's time to get offen the bush my ASS and do something.
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Post by: Freddie on October 17, 2025, 08:44:00 AM
Keep going, Chas.  That nice round 39,000 Millstone could be here by the weekend if not sooner.
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Post by: Laura on October 17, 2025, 08:53:46 AM
Good morning.
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Post by: Laura on October 17, 2025, 08:54:34 AM
Went to another plant sale. I only had cash to buy two plants, which is almost a shame, because these are two non-commercially available native plants. I would have loved to have bought more.
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Post by: Jrand75 on October 17, 2025, 09:17:11 AM
Yes DR CHAS SMITH I am in the Eastern Time Zone.

Central Time is observed in the northwest and southwest counties of the state.

Every year during the legislative term, someone starts arguing that the state should be in ONE zone and the idiots spend a couple of days talking about it but NEVER reach a conclusion.

https://www.ncsl.org/state-legislatures-news/details/navigating-two-time-zones-is-a-way-of-life-in-the-hoosier-state

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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 09:21:22 AM
From DR George:
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‘Jekyll and Hyde The Musical’: Evergreen Playhouse ready for first fall performance

Thank you for the link :)
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 09:22:22 AM
Nice photo of the old man aka  Henry Jekyll's father.
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 09:23:15 AM
I especially like the photo of the "patron of the arts"
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 09:28:09 AM
George, thanks for the congrats to Keith.
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 09:32:14 AM
Bruce, I hope your day is better, and that you didn't need to call your neurologist.
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 09:32:34 AM
Wordle 1,581 3/6

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Very good :)
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 09:32:50 AM
And tonight is opening night for Evergreen Playhouse's production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical! ;D

Have a great evening.
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 09:42:09 AM
It is 65 degrees here headed for 75 degrees.

A few clouds but mostly clear.

That's something that depresses me around this time of year - the difference between the glorious Midwest and the damned Northeast. My family in Ohio and DRs Ginny and Jrand75 enjoy an extended warm season. We're barely scraping 60 degrees these past few days, and DR Jrand75 is looking at 75. You have some cool weather, but then it bounces back.

Along with that, y'all get extended evening hours! The difference between the eastern and western edges of a given time zone makes the Ohio-Indiana daylight hours an hour or so longer than ours in the evening.

DR Jrand75, Indiana is split between eastern and central, is it not? And you're just inside the eastern portion?

I did like that it stayed lighter later when we lived in Michigan.  Other than that I don't recall preferring the weather to the East Coast-lol
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 09:43:16 AM
Went to another plant sale. I only had cash to buy two plants, which is almost a shame, because these are two non-commercially available native plants. I would have loved to have bought more.

Too bad you could only get two of these. 
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 09:43:48 AM
It was a shock for us to leave at 7:00am IN THE DARK!
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 09:44:18 AM
We went to my new rheumatologist who created an early appointment time in order to see me quickly.
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 09:44:34 AM
I could cry with relief she is so wonderful.
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Post by: MichaelG on October 17, 2025, 10:12:35 AM
Break a leg, DR George!
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Post by: MichaelG on October 17, 2025, 10:14:48 AM
Last night in film class we watched I'll See You in My Dreams, a 2015 film starring Blythe Danner. It was an example of the "timeless" theme for great movies - dealing with timeless themes in a real way. It sure delivered - highly recommended.
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Post by: MichaelG on October 17, 2025, 10:16:18 AM
Originally he was going to screen Before Sunrise, but someone reminded him of this movie and he correctly surmised that lots of us had already seen Before Sunrise, but few if any of us would have seen I'll See You in My Dreams. I'm very happy he made that switch.
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Post by: MichaelG on October 17, 2025, 10:25:01 AM
As an example of how it's not enough to have timeless themes, you have to make them real, he showed three examples of the scene where Romeo and Juliet meet: Petrie's 2017 version, Cukor's 1936 version, and Zeffirelli's 1968 version. Only one of those three scenes really work.
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Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 10:32:51 AM
Oy! Dare I confess to not having seen any of those? The Before... movies or I'll See You In My Dreams?

(Confession #3. That's about enough confessin' for one day.)
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Post by: Freddie on October 17, 2025, 10:40:37 AM
We went to my new rheumatologist who created an early appointment time in order to see me quickly.


Fabulous!
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Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 11:02:07 AM
I confess I have never seen the film of The Sound and the Fury before.
I have read the book several times and loved it. Even wanted to make an opera out of it, with the overture being Benjy’s story. I saw a stage full of clocks for Quentin’s story since he’s running out of time.
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Post by: elmore3003 on October 17, 2025, 11:02:50 AM
I'm still alive but the morning has been one hell followed by another. The HRA has denied my food stamps since my monthly income is more than the $1,300/month it has decided is the limit for their clients. At the moment I need groceries, cat food, and kitty litter, none of which I can purchase.
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Post by: Freddie on October 17, 2025, 11:08:09 AM
The HRA has denied my food stamps since my monthly income is more than the $1,300/month it has decided is the limit for their clients. At the moment I need groceries, cat food, and kitty litter, none of which I can purchase.


That's an awfully low threshold for New York City!  Do they count social security when adding up to that $1,300 per month limit?
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Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 11:08:12 AM
The next Faulkner I will read is The Reivers. I enjoyed the movie but haven’t read the book
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Post by: Freddie on October 17, 2025, 11:11:37 AM
I confess I have never seen the film of The Sound and the Fury before.
 Even wanted to make an opera out of it, with the overture being Benjy’s story.


In what capacity?  Would you have produced the opera, or co-written it, or stage it, etc?
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Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 11:11:57 AM
I blow hot and cold with Faulkner. I love some of his works, really dislike others. On the plus side are As I Lay Dying, Sound/Fury, Mosquitoes and the short stories. Dislike Absolom, Absolom and Intruder in the Dust.
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Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 11:12:47 AM
Vibes and hugs for Larry. That just doesn’t sound right.
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Post by: bk on October 17, 2025, 11:34:37 AM
I'm up, I'm up - eight and a half hours of very good sleep.
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Post by: bk on October 17, 2025, 11:36:53 AM
Re Windjammer - it sounded great from the ads. My father took me as a surprise during summer vacation. It was certainly huge and impressive, but by the halfway point we were both really bored and I think we left at intermission, which, for me, would have been VERY unusual. My father told me it was also not as impressive as Cinerama but I wouldn't see THAT until the 1960 reissue.
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Post by: bk on October 17, 2025, 11:37:07 AM
Break legs for George.
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Post by: Jrand75 on October 17, 2025, 11:38:46 AM
Zeffirelli will always be my favorite R/J.
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Post by: Jrand75 on October 17, 2025, 11:38:57 AM
Good news DR JANE!
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Post by: elmore3003 on October 17, 2025, 11:40:04 AM
The HRA has denied my food stamps since my monthly income is more than the $1,300/month it has decided is the limit for their clients. At the moment I need groceries, cat food, and kitty litter, none of which I can purchase.


That's an awfully low threshold for New York City!  Do they count social security when adding up to that $1,300 per month limit?

Yep! My monthly income without help from outside work, royalties, etc., is $2200/month from Social Security and union pension. I need $200/month at least from other sources, which isn't coming down the pike at the moment. I'm still hoping I will make money from the ballet, the book or Moonshine & Mistletoe.
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Post by: elmore3003 on October 17, 2025, 11:43:07 AM
Zeffirelli will always be my favorite R/J.

Mine, too. The MGM film is really bad.
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Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 11:44:10 AM
Zeffirelli will always be my favorite R/J.

I agree.
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Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 11:45:09 AM
Zeffirelli will always be my favorite R/J.

Mine, too. The MGM film is really bad.


The one with the ancient Norma Shearer as a 14-year-old? Ludicrous.
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 11:47:16 AM
Last night in film class we watched I'll See You in My Dreams, a 2015 film starring Blythe Danner. It was an example of the "timeless" theme for great movies - dealing with timeless themes in a real way. It sure delivered - highly recommended.

Blythe Danner is always wonderful.  I know I saw the film when it was released, still I enjoyed watching the trailer just now.

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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 11:50:20 AM
We went to my new rheumatologist who created an early appointment time in order to see me quickly.


Fabulous!

It was.
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 11:50:35 AM
Good news DR JANE!

Thank you.
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 11:52:55 AM
I felt better before I was poked and checked for pain points and for muscle strength ;D
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Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 11:53:07 AM
I feel better after going to the gym.
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:56:16 AM
And tonight is opening night for Evergreen Playhouse's production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical! ;D


Opening night vibes for George and Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical!



Loved the photos in last night's posts, George!

Thanks, Freddie!
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:56:43 AM
Opening vibes for George and company!

Thanks, John!
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:57:15 AM
Ushering tonight for the Philharmonic. Brahms First Symphony on the program.

Hope you have a great time, John!
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:57:29 AM
Break-a-leg vibes for DR George & Co.!

Thanks, ChasSmith!
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:57:56 AM
Opening night vibes for DR GEORGE!

Thanks, Jrand!
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:58:39 AM
Publicity?

How could it be?

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Oh, my! ;)
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Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 11:59:16 AM
I confess I have never seen the film of The Sound and the Fury before.
I have read the book several times and loved it. Even wanted to make an opera out of it, with the overture being Benjy’s story. I saw a stage full of clocks for Quentin’s story since he’s running out of time.

It does seem like great fodder for an opera.

That "several times" is certainly impressive! I just looked, and I don't have it. I only have Go Down, Moses and the Viking Portable Library which I believe is short stories and maybe some miscellaneous writings.
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 12:01:41 PM
From DR George:
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‘Jekyll and Hyde The Musical’: Evergreen Playhouse ready for first fall performance

Thank you for the link :)

You're welcome, Jane.
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 12:02:52 PM
Nice photo of the old man aka  Henry Jekyll's father.
I especially like the photo of the "patron of the arts"

Thanks, and Thanks!
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 12:03:05 PM
PAGE FOUR DANCE!!
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 12:03:31 PM
Wordle 1,581 3/6

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🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

:D

Very good :)

Thanks, thrice!
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 12:04:11 PM
And tonight is opening night for Evergreen Playhouse's production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical! ;D

Have a great evening.

I expect to!
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Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 12:04:44 PM
Break a leg, DR George!

Thanks, Michael!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 12:06:28 PM
I'm still alive but the morning has been one hell followed by another. The HRA has denied my food stamps since my monthly income is more than the $1,300/month it has decided is the limit for their clients. At the moment I need groceries, cat food, and kitty litter, none of which I can purchase.

Nooooooo!!! :(
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 12:07:12 PM
Break legs for George.

Thanks, BK!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 12:09:33 PM
Wordle 1,581 3/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

:D

Very good :)

Thanks, thrice!

:)
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 12:10:40 PM
Ah. I also have As I Lay Dying.

I haven't looked to see if I have other movies based on Faulkner.

Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 12:26:51 PM
I confess I have never seen the film of The Sound and the Fury before.
I have read the book several times and loved it. Even wanted to make an opera out of it, with the overture being Benjy’s story. I saw a stage full of clocks for Quentin’s story since he’s running out of time.

It does seem like great fodder for an opera.

That "several times" is certainly impressive! I just looked, and I don't have it. I only have Go Down, Moses and the Viking Portable Library which I believe is short stories and maybe some miscellaneous writings.

I read it for myself first. Then I had to read it for a class. That may be it.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: elmore3003 on October 17, 2025, 12:53:25 PM
And tonight is opening night for Evergreen Playhouse's production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical! ;D


Opening night vibes for George and Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical!



Loved the photos in last night's posts, George!

Thanks, Freddie!

Ditto, DR George. This morning was too crazy and I forgot.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 01:06:35 PM
Samantha Eggar has died. I liked her in the iffy Double Indemnity remake.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 01:06:52 PM
Gratuitous post 102.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 01:36:23 PM
And tonight is opening night for Evergreen Playhouse's production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical! ;D


Opening night vibes for George and Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical!



Loved the photos in last night's posts, George!

Thanks, Freddie!

Ditto, DR George. This morning was too crazy and I forgot.

No problem, Larry.  Thanks!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 01:36:42 PM
Samantha Eggar has died. I liked her in the iffy Double Indemnity remake.

Oh, no. :(
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 01:51:17 PM
I best know her from The Collector which I've seen and loved multiple times over the years, and Dr. Dolittle which I only saw once back in the day.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 01:55:58 PM
A question for anyone who frequents the IMDb:

Does that site take way longer to load for you than it used to? Fairly recently, I mean. I'm seeing this on all my devices, so I'm pretty sure it's not just me. It's ridiculous, especially when the site first loads, the amount of lag before you can even type in your search word(s). But does anyone else notice that as well?

I know they've never stopped whoring it up over the years, but whatever they've done recently (probably adding more fancy ads 'n shit) is bogging it down something horrible.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 02:11:20 PM
Samantha Eggar has died. I liked her in the iffy Double Indemnity remake.

:(

I loved her in one of my all time favorite movies, Walk Don't Run.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 02:12:19 PM
A question for anyone who frequents the IMDb:

Does that site take way longer to load for you than it used to? Fairly recently, I mean. I'm seeing this on all my devices, so I'm pretty sure it's not just me. It's ridiculous, especially when the site first loads, the amount of lag before you can even type in your search word(s). But does anyone else notice that as well?

I know they've never stopped awhoring it up over the years, but whatever they've done recently (probably adding more fancy ads 'n shit) is bogging it down something horrible.

Only on my tablet but that is nothing new.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 02:26:10 PM
A question for anyone who frequents the IMDb:

Does that site take way longer to load for you than it used to? Fairly recently, I mean. I'm seeing this on all my devices, so I'm pretty sure it's not just me. It's ridiculous, especially when the site first loads, the amount of lag before you can even type in your search word(s). But does anyone else notice that as well?

I know they've never stopped whoring it up over the years, but whatever they've done recently (probably adding more fancy ads 'n shit) is bogging it down something horrible.

They want you to use the app.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Freddie on October 17, 2025, 03:23:11 PM
Is the Zoom going to be on a Monday at 7 Eastern?
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: MichaelG on October 17, 2025, 03:44:11 PM
Oy! Dare I confess to not having seen any of those? The Before... movies or I'll See You In My Dreams?

(Confession #3. That's about enough confessin' for one day.)

Sure, it's not like these were blockbusters or anything. More to look forward to!

I haven't seen the last Before movie as it didn't sound like a continuation of the story that I wanted to see.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: MichaelG on October 17, 2025, 03:45:15 PM
Zeffirelli will always be my favorite R/J.

Amazing how everybody knew what the great one was of those three.  :)
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: MichaelG on October 17, 2025, 03:47:52 PM
Zeffirelli will always be my favorite R/J.

Mine, too. The MGM film is really bad.


The one with the ancient Norma Shearer as a 14-year-old? Ludicrous.

Leslie Howard as Romeo was even older and just as ludicrous.

But at least they could speak the text, which is more than could be said for the Juliet in the 2017 version.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: MichaelG on October 17, 2025, 03:49:51 PM
Now we have to watch (or rewatch) movies at home this week so that we're prepared to discuss great scenes at next week's class. We have a list of 21 to choose from. Normally we'd just have to see one, but since my wife and I are both taking the class we'll need to see two if we watch them together.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 04:00:54 PM
That doesn't sound like a hardship for you ;)
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 04:02:49 PM
Keith got Wordle in four.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 05:18:19 PM
Anyone familiar with the 1954 Laurence Harvey Romeo?

I think that was the first one I ever saw, on TV in the early 1960s. I recorded scenes from it on my "Crowncorder" 5"-reel portable tape recorder (the main memory I associate with that recorder).
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 17, 2025, 06:00:36 PM
I haven't heard from many about Monday working - so, let's hear. It's fine with me.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Jane on October 17, 2025, 06:02:13 PM
Monday I am having a three part CT scan.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 06:42:52 PM
Break leg, G!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 06:43:08 PM
Page 5-0
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: KevinH on October 17, 2025, 07:04:08 PM
Good evening!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: KevinH on October 17, 2025, 07:04:25 PM
Wordle 1,581 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

:D


Great, DR George!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: KevinH on October 17, 2025, 07:04:50 PM
Break-a-leg vibes for DR George and Company!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: KevinH on October 17, 2025, 07:05:23 PM
Keith got Wordle in four.


Me too!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 07:08:33 PM
Keith got Wordle in four.

Good for Keith.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Freddie on October 17, 2025, 07:14:08 PM
Monday I am having a three part CT scan.

Sending vibes the scan goes well.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 07:22:45 PM
Break leg, G!

Thanks, Rodzinski!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 07:23:05 PM
Wordle 1,581 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

:D


Great, DR George!

Thanks, Kevin!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 07:23:33 PM
Keith got Wordle in four.


Me too!

Good for you, too!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 08:16:23 PM
The Brahms was lovely (of course it was). But here was the surprise piece of the evening for me.

https://youtu.be/6SuYImse_cs?si=ppD2xwhUerkI7GWc
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 09:37:42 PM
BK, if you are adding items to your eBay collection, could you please add another link? Thank you.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: John G. on October 17, 2025, 09:37:55 PM
Good night, all.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 17, 2025, 10:34:07 PM
Monday I am having a three part CT scan.

Certainly would not be this Monday.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 17, 2025, 10:35:13 PM
Yes, I've been very slow to add but I must start. Just a lot of describing and photos to do.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 17, 2025, 10:35:27 PM
I think this weekend will be good for that.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 10:36:54 PM
The Brahms was lovely (of course it was). But here was the surprise piece of the evening for me.

https://youtu.be/6SuYImse_cs?si=ppD2xwhUerkI7GWc

Very nice.  I'll listen to the whole piece after I get home. :)
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 17, 2025, 10:39:14 PM
Finished with my viewing but not with WHAT I'm viewing. Which is LONG.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 10:39:34 PM
And opening night has ended!  We had a great crowd and no major mistakes that I noticed...except that I was distracted and forgot to move a set piece off. ::)
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 10:39:43 PM
Most fortunately, the other person was able to move it without too much trouble.  It's just easier with two.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 10:40:12 PM
Now, I'm heading home.

Be back later.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 10:47:18 PM
Another opening of another show! Great work.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 10:49:29 PM
Let’s get this Windjammer headed seaward towards the next page
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 10:55:45 PM
I found a 45 last week, a Sherman Brothers song called “The Truth About Youth” by Annette Funicello.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 10:58:01 PM
B-side is “I Can’t do the Sum” from Toyland.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 10:58:51 PM
Produced by Camarata.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 11:02:57 PM
Bills, bills, bills…
The price of milk and eggs and bread is rising every day.
Now with our bank book in the red, these bills are hard to pay.
-I Can’t Do the Sum
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 11:03:32 PM
Some things never change.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 11:03:53 PM
Ok, this page is toast.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 11:04:17 PM
This page is The Most!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 11:04:43 PM
Page Six!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 11:05:10 PM
The place to drop all your gossip.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:22:15 PM
Another opening of another show! Great work.

Thanks, Rodzinski!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:23:04 PM
This page is The Most!

Donny Most?? ;)
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:23:17 PM
Oh, and I'm home.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:37:30 PM
A few audience members stood during the bows, but I think they mainly were family members.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:38:04 PM
I don't think the entire audience gave a standing O.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:38:43 PM
Now that opening night is out of the way, we can settle in for the rest of the run and enjoy it all.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:39:44 PM
And maybe I can a actially learn a couple of lyrics that I haven't solidified yet. ::)
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 17, 2025, 11:40:47 PM
SSHHHHHH!!!  Don't tell the music director (who is also the director...and the lighting designer)!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 18, 2025, 12:02:21 AM
Tomorrow is the all-across-America No Kings Protest (https://www.nokings.org/).
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 18, 2025, 12:02:51 AM
It could end up being the largest protest in the country ever!
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 18, 2025, 12:03:41 AM
I'm going to Olympia's protest up by the state capitol buildings on Capitol Way.

Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 18, 2025, 12:06:44 AM
So earlier tonight, I was on Twitter (currently known as X) and there was a trending subject about the difficulty of the Wordle Word that was released on October 18...which is tomorrow! 
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 18, 2025, 12:07:01 AM
AND, they showed the word! :o
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 18, 2025, 12:08:51 AM
This was before the show started, but I had to set down my phone for a bit and when I came back to it, that link/trending topic was no longer there (that I could find).
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 18, 2025, 12:28:20 AM
And now, for something completely different:
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: George on October 18, 2025, 12:29:09 AM
:))
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:40:11 AM
Did Singdaw ever get back online?
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:40:19 AM
I'm here.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:40:27 AM
New notes are up.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:40:34 AM
Up are new notes.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:40:40 AM
I've seen them.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:40:46 AM
I've read them.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:40:54 AM
I wrote them.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:41:06 AM
Glad George's show went well.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:41:24 AM
On with the show.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:41:31 AM
For those in the know.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:41:44 AM
Let's tie a bow.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:41:58 AM
I've Gotta Crow.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:42:06 AM
Where's the dough?
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:42:12 AM
Go with the flow.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:42:22 AM
Let's grow.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:42:38 AM
Even though.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:42:56 AM
Larry, Curly, and Moe.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:43:10 AM
A cup of Joe.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:43:31 AM
At least we got past page six.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:43:42 AM
That's a step in the right direction.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:43:54 AM
That's a move forward.
Title: Re: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE
Post by: bk on October 18, 2025, 12:44:09 AM
Every little bit helps.