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I defended Stanley Kramer over there, too, and they called me a $%# idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, know-nothing loser who wouldn't know a good movie if it came up and kissed his $%#@. Speaking of Kramer, something occurred to me the other day when TCM had a Kramer festival. I watched most of...

400 or 500 seats?! You must be a 40- or 50- something geezer. As a 60-something geezer, I remember when seating capacity was in the thousands, not the hundreds. The Radio City Music Hall had 6,200 seats. The Fox in my hometown of St. Louis had 5,000. The Chicago (in Chicago, obviously) had...

You so missed my point, it makes me sick. The only time one has to force oneself to be happy is when something bad happens, and ......... OH NEVER MIND!

I like "Grouch" just as much as the next guy, but that's ridiculous. What if the "event" is something horribly tragic, like having your child murdered? Do you "choose" to be happy? And yesterday is never dead. It's what we learn from so we don't make the same mistakes tomorrow, which, though...

As the voice of pessimism here, I predict a November announcement -- November of 2016. Actually, what I really think is going to happen is that the whole thing will be cancelled at the last minute due to an unforeseen legal problem.

That's why I never proclaim anything to be the "best" or "greatest." I just say it's my "favorite."* That's an inarguable fact. Of course, I still get put down and made fun of for it because I didn't say The Shawshank Redemption or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I guess. *Actually, It's a...

But 100 minutes is a full length movie in itself. I don't understand this. Why did they film so much? Were they intending to release a five hour movie? Of course not. So why go to the time and expense of doing it when they knew so much would be removed? Are all movies made that way? I...

If I'm going to be happy, that means it can only be one thing. The thing I've waited fifty years for. Thanks to R.E. for the best clue yet. :) I saw IAMMMMW in its shortened version in April of 1964. I knew as I was watching it it was destined to be one of my most favorite movies of all...

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Yes, I'll admit that the anticipation and repeated disappointment has driven me insane. However, if the announcement comes and it isn't a decent attempt to restore what opened on November 7, 1963, I'll go even insaner.

That doesn't "prove" it to me, but nothing will. But I'll trust you on this and I'm wondering what was in that almost two hours that was removed. Were there additional scenes, or did the scenes we know just run longer? Probably a combination of the two, I guess.

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Can someone prove to me, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Stanley Kramer's very first cut of IAMMMMW was five hours long? That sounds too much like an Urban Legend to me.

I use Wikipedia all the time. I even make "corrections" to it (at least, I hope they're corrections). But when I see a sentence like this, I have to wonder: "Several people on the Home Theater Forum have stated that the release is comming, however, and for people to be patient." Yes...

Don't waste your time. He doesn't like the Three Stooges. He's hopeless.

Your response to me was totally uncalled-for. It did nothing more than repeat the same points I made!

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Well, yes, and there's always December and January not to mention November of 2014. Keeping your ear to the grindstone is the most painful thing I've heard done to an ear since Van Gogh!

My brother saw Buddy Hackett at one of those movie conventions where (let's face it) washed-up celebrities sit at tables and sell their autographs. My brother said to him, "We figured it seventeen different ways and every time we figured it, somebody didn't like the way we figured it!" Buddy...

This place is just like everywhere else in the world. As soon as someone says A, someone else comes along and says Z, with just as much "authority." Do any of you really know what you're talking about? Be honest now.

Not that it matters, because it's all just opinion, but I don't agree. I don't believe for one second that Elizabeth Taylor is Cleopatra. She's terrible in that movie. And as cartoonish as some of them are, I somehow believe in all of the characters in MAD WORLD. And, of course this matters...

Speak for yourself. Hurry up. I'm not getting any younger. I can't wait.

Earlier in 1963, CLEOPATRA was cut even more than MAD WORLD, but it wasn't thrown in the waste can (although it probably should have been.)

The problem is I don't trust Picker or anyone else as a source. We've heard several stories from several sources and they all contradict each other. We'll never know the facts of the situation. I just like to think that what opened on November 7, 1963 at the Cinerama Dome is what Kramer...

Jack Benny had a career that lasted over half a century, and Terry-Thomas summed him up after meeting him for five minutes ... and we're discussing this? OK, then I'll tell you what T-T supposedly said about Ethel Merman. I wasted a couple hours of my life reading Boze Hadleigh's trashy book...

OK, I know when I'm not wanted. I also know how it is in this world -- people only want to have their own way of thinking validated with no other views allowed or tolerated. If you think my negativity is irritating, multiply that by a million and that's how I feel about your "I know something...

You're absolutely right. In fact, "If it's too good to be true, it isn't true" is something I say to people all the time. Well, that's that. It might be years before this alleged MAD WORLD comes out, if ever. I have to absolutely forget about it or I'll wind up in some kind of rest home...

So he's been waiting ten years and is willing to wait another ten. I've been waiting fifty, and don't even have another ten, much less fifty, to wait. Come on already. If it's not announced today, at least tell us one little thing: Is it the restored roadshow version or not. I don't care...

We're all hoping, yeah. And I'm hoping for peace in the Middle East. If this isn't announced tomorrow, I'm going to be the one running out into the street screaming.