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Babette's Feast (1987) The Exterminating Angel (1962) Like Water for Chocolate (1992) The Birdcage (1996)

War of the Roses Big Night The Leopard Lady and the Tramp

The Captains Table 1959 The Thief Who Came To Dinner 1973 Who's Killing the Great Chefs of Europe 1978

DINNER AT EIGHT THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (the special dinner being the one he came to when he slipped) THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (Fredric March gives a speech) REMAINS OF THE DAY DOWNTON ABBEY -- THE MOVIE, which hearkens back to the episode of UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS when the King comes to dinner FREAKY FRIDAY remake -- the conflict arises from the daughter having an audition during her mom's rehearsal dinner, and the dinner is where they switch back

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) a little Meat Loaf The Twilight Zone: To Serve Man (1962) Ratatouille ( 2007) cooking a meal for food critic Anton Ego

If you click on "more info" for this movie, this is the synopsis you get: "An assistant DA suspects one of the delinquents he's prosecuting for murder is his son." This is total fiction and is not even close to what this movie is about. I posted discrepancies like this before and what I said then I will repeat...Do the people who write these blurbs even watch the movies? Sure doesn't seem like it.

Seems Like Old Times ..trouble with 'the help' when the Governor comes for dinner Rope...interesting buffet...especially what's under it... Legally Blonde...well, it was supposed to be a special dinner.. . one of my favorite MTM episodes...Lou takes half the food at Mary's special dinner party

Christmas dinner -- SCROOGE... Fred's house, Tiny Tim's last dinner, then dinner without Tim, with most versions ending with Scrooge finally having Christmas dinner with either Fred or Bob (depending on which version) A CHRISTMAS STORY - the Bumpus dogs eat the turkey, so they have Christmas dinner at the Chinese Restaurant THE SANTA CLAUSE - Scott burns the turkey so they go Denny's NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION - the build up to carving the turkey, then epic fail

I absolutely loved Mad Men. I watched it after the series had almost finished; meaning, I didn't catch it when it was first aired , I actually took out the DVD sets from my local video rental place (which still exists !) and binged on it that way. I couldn't stop watching it, and when I wasn't watching it, I was thinking about it. All the characters are so finely drawn, so real. You care about all of them, even the dislikeable ones. Mad Men had everything...great, unforgettable characters, fascinating storylines, authentically recreated '60s culture, really funny moments, really sad ones. Great show, one of the best of the kind of "streamed" television series that are now hugely common, but were still unusual for the time they came out.

Not a series, but continuing on the sports theme. My partner and I went to London for Wimbledon one year in the early 2000s, and as he was watching the BBC coverage one afternoon, he asked "What happened to the "Wimbledon music?" He's a big tennis fan. I said "What Wimbledon music?" and he hummed a few bars of the song below. I laughed and said that was NBC's Wimbledon music. Wimbledon itself doesn't have a theme song and the BBC uses different music altogether. (Same goes for the Olympics themes we hear).

Here's a '60s TV theme that became a pop hit. It was composed by Morton Stevens. The Ventures' 1969 cover went to No, 4 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. The fast-paced editing of the opening credits presaged the MTV era.

In terms of raw sales, Boone was second only to Presley in the late 50s and early 60s. Early Pat Boone recorded a lot of R&B covers, broadening the audience. And even though Elvis eclipsed him in popularity eventually, Elvis at one time was Boone's opening act. So by that measure, he was pretty successful for a while. Boone held a record, however well into the 21st century. He had one or more hits on the charts for a consecutive 220 weeks (over 4 years). All of that pretty much ended when rock/pop veered in another direction with the arrival of The Beatles.

Greer Garson departed from her mainly "lovely" look in such movies as Goodbye Mr. Chips, Random Harvest, Mrs. Miniver, etc. to get closer to the look of Eleanor Roosevelt. I liked both Bellamy and Garson in this.

Saturday, June 19 2 p.m. Shake!: Otis at Monterey (1987). Otis Redding at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. 20 m.

Swim Girl, Swim (1927) -- with Gertrude Ederle! Next: lots of skiing

I find it just a tad dismaying that younger TV viewers, years from now, will be more immersed in discussions about Big Brother or some other reality TV show than they will a class act like The Rockford Files. And James Garner's name will probably just produce a "Huh?" from most of them. Of course, I'll be gone by then so well the hell.

LOL Well MissW, even though I'm in the same boat as you are here by never venturing into the whole "Twitter-sphere" thing, but I DO know that for about four years there was ONE regular contributor to that social media site which in NO manner of speaking could have EVER been described as EITHER an "intellectual sophisticate" OR of practicing "decency"!!! (...but enough about...well...YOU know!!!) LOL

I love that cat. I like the 5 and dime the beautiful couple go into at Halloween... but the only thing I love about that movie is CAT!

Golonka, Arlene

COMING HOME (1978)

Good point, TikiSoo, but I venture to guess that trolling and illiteracy is not limited to this TCM discussion site. In fact, I would not be at all surprised if Twitter and Facebook were at least equally blanketed with such undesirable behaviours. Can't say for sure, though, since I never visit Twitter or Facebook. Maybe they are havens of intellectual sophistication and decency.

Bruce Dern

Family Plot 1976

Karen Black

Belafonte, Harry

PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT (1972)

VIOLETS ARE BLUE (1986)

Mad Men (2007-2015) DVD TV drama set in the 1960s world of advertising. I went through every episode over the last couple of months. I think it was the third time I have done this. The only way to watch this series is to do it completely from beginning to end. It can be hard to follow at times and you really have to pay attention when watching. It also can be frustrating because it doesn't always give you answers to everything. One thing I liked about it was it gives a different side of the decade, not the counter culture but the corporate world at the time. The dialogue seems very realistic . I would imagine most people spoke this way at the time, it avoids the "groovy" or "far out" expressions which other period pieces seem to do. I also wondered if the this was an actual movie made in the early 1960s, who would been a good cast for it. Here is what I think: Rock Hudson as Don Draper Diane Varsi as Peggy Olson Keir Dullea as Pete Campbell Carroll Baker as Betty Draper Barry Sullivan as Roger Sterling Edie Adams as Joan Holloway

And, misunderstood creatures that they are, their natural predator instincts help protect the house from gremlins:

Here's one, Sans... (...btw, Courthouse Butte which these two characters are standing in front of here is pretty much in my backyard)

This thread ALSO reminds me of what JUST the transaxle off James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder that he died in went for recently on the 'Bring a Trailer' online classic and collectable car auction site... A cool $382,000. And whereas in 1955, Dean paid around $6,800 for the entire car. (...yes, a lot of money for any car back then, but still, put $6,800 in 1955 dollars in an inflation calculator, and it would "only" be about $68,000 in 2021 dollars)

This thread reminds me of an Oscar Wilde quote: "The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." (...NOT that I'm calling anyone here a cynic, mind you)

I believe that the average person understands that the prices given reflect the cost of equivalent merchandise today. I find it interesting how the cost of merchandise changes as technology and manufacturing volume changes. My very first flat-screen television was slightly smaller than the one I most recently purchased and it was more than twice the price of today's model with no adjustment for inflation/deflation. It is slightly more difficult to wrap my head around the differences when comparing prices of goods over longer time scales. I have a notation that a Medieval lord wishing tables built paid more for one hundred suitable nails than he paid in salary to the carpenter who built them. The cost of one hundred such nails today is approx. one dollar and a carpenter would have to be paid more than three hundred dollars. To add confusion is that such 2d nails were originally so named because one hundred of them cost two pennies and they are now approx. a penny each. It complicates things to no end that a penny is no longer a penny.

This show had a good energy. Shelley Fabares was the perfect foil for Bonnie Franklin.

The Undertaker and His Pals (Watch TCM) The title characters kill and dismember big-breasted women to drum up business for the undertaker, and the pals use the body parts as “specials” in their greasy spoon. Scenes vary from washed out to saturated color. Robert Lowery has a cameo, everyone else is unknown and deservedly so. The ending made no sense. However, I did enjoy looking at the chicks.

I thought of the notorious Puerto Rican gangbanger, "The Capeman", when Neil Nephew's caped character is seen fleeing in the wrecking site, even looking to see if his medallion is a Dracula cross. Sure enough, Anthony "The Batman" Aposto is said to have been loosely modeled on the real-life "vampire", Salvador Agron, who once stalked the streets of New York in a black, red-lined cape.

Glad to see you mentioning CENTENNIAL SUMMER. It has never been issued on DVD, and I don't think it even aired on the Fox Movie Channel. So there must be some sort of rights issues. It did air on the old AMC back in the day. It is basically 20th Century Fox's version of MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, with Jeanne Crain in the Judy Garland type role. Linda Darnell has a supporting part. The parents are played by Walter Brennan and Dorothy Gish. Constance Bennett is also featured.

The Courtship of Eddie's Father Next: Ed Flanders, William Daniels and Norman Lloyd

That's what's great about this thread. I'm also not a fan of longer movies, but I highly recommend you devote the time for it. I've only seen it once myself, but was blown away by Bellamy's performance. It was interesting, well made & helped make Roosevelt a real person for me to relate to. You can't ask more from a movie.

I know the thread is named I Just Watched, but how about something I didn’t watch? Sunrise at Campobello (1960). While surfing the channels last night, I parked on TCM’s airing of this one for a bit in the middle. It’s apparently about the early years of FDR and Eleanor as he faces polio. I’ve really only ever known of Ralph Bellamy as Bruce Baldwin in His Girl Friday (1940), though for some reason he has popped up for me a couple of times lately. But, as FDR, I think he does a really good job. Something about his voice… And Greer Garson got an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Eleanor. Looked really good. With a runtime of almost two and half hours, which I’m not a fan of, I’ll still put this one on my watch list. Love to hear something from anyone familiar with the film…

Silent film IS the history of film. There's basically NO part of film today that doesn't trace its history to silent films.

Family Ties Next: Meredith Baxter, David Birney, David Doyle

Richard Roundtree Next: Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Next Generation (1994)

Dakota 1945

Favorites? Definitely Rhubarb and The Cat From Outer Space. Some other selections for your consideration: Disney: That Darn Cat (1965) After a kidnapped bank teller uses a neighbor's wandering cat to send an SOS, the FBI assigns a cat-allergic agent to the case. Hayley Mills • Dean Jones • Dorothy Provine • Roddy McDowall • Neville Brand • Elsa Lanchester • William Demarest Gay Purr-ee (1962) A starry-eyed cat grows weary of life on a French farm and heads for the excitement of 1890s Paris, followed by her tomcat suitor, Jaune-Tom (Robert Goulet), and his furry cohort, Robespierre (Red Buttons). The Uncanny (1977) Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror. Peter Cushing • Ray Milland • Joan Greenwood The Incredible Journey (1963)

Here's Mel singing the Baby Boogie in LET'S GO STEADY next Another song that starts with "B"

CALIFORNIA (1947)

House of Dracula (1945) It was the end of the line for the monster franchise at Universal when the studio decided to reunite some fairly tired monsters once again for this sporadically enjoyable concoction. Dracula (a top hatted John Carradine) comes a visitin' Dr. Edelmann (Onslow Stevens) at his castle, hoping that the good doctor can find a medical cure for his vampirism. Soon afterward Larry Talbot, aka the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.) also pops in, hoping the doctor can do the same for his hirsute issues whenever there is a full moon. And it won't take long before the doctor will also stumble across Frankenstein's Monster (Glenn Strange), lying in a dormant state in a cave near his castle. The doctor is soon performing frequent blood transfusions on Dracula while working on a formula to help Talbot. As for the Frankenstein Monster, it is agreed to just let sleeping monsters lie (though he does haul him up into his laboratory). Assisting Dr. Edelmann is Nina (Jane Adams), his faithful nurse, who is also hoping that one day the doctor may be able to do something about that hunch on her back. Martha O'Driscoll is another nursing assistant of the doctor. She feels for Talbot's anguish but, unfortunately, she also captures Dracula's hypnotic eye. Dracula wants to be cured, alright, but, spot a pretty girl and, well, you know, old neck biting habits die hard. Perhaps ticked that the doctor interrupted a session he was about to have with the nurse, Dracula will reverse the flow of one of his blood transfusions with the doctor which, in turn, will cause Dr. Edelmann to start turning a little monstrous himself. Everything about this production is very familiar and predictable for those horror fans who had seen the previous monster combination flicks in the series (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man and, particularly, House of Frankenstein). However, the moody black and white photography of the impressive sets is first rate, as well as the musical score (an uncredited William Lava). Onslow Stevens, once his doctor's character starts to turn mad or whatever he is, arguably has the most effective scenes in the film, brief as they are. The doctor will also have an effective nightmare montage sequence, which involves all the monsters in the film, including a clip taken of Karloff from Bride of Frankenstein. Glenn Strange's Frankenstein Monster is the least utilized monster in the film and the picture will wrap up very quickly once he pops off those straps on his arms and chest on his lab table and starts stomping around. Oh, yes, the villagers will also get upset with the goings on at the castle (have you heard this one before?) and storm the place. Finally, Lionel Atwill is also in the cast, sadly largely wasted as a police official (a reprise, of sorts, of his memorable turn in Son of Frankenstein, only this time with two arms). This was one of Atwill's final roles, as the actor would die the following year. As I said, House of Dracula was the last of the line for the "serious" Universal monster films, to be brought back one final time three years later when they met up with Abbott and Costello for a surprisingly memorable finale. 2 out of 4

https://www.tcm.com/video/1328035/ben-mankiewicz-intro-how-to-steal-a-million-1966 I do not know if that intro is for the next scheduled airing or if it was for when the movie aired in: 2017.