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As long as TCM continues to present films uncut and commercial-free, I'll be a fan.

It was explained that Dana wrote an article for the latest Noir city magazine about Grahame. Apparently she became a huge fan and has seen almost everything Gloria has done, including TV. I enjoyed hearing her perspective and looking forward to her return in 2 weeks for The Glass Wall, another new one for me.

Metropolis (1927) - futurism Swing Time (1934) - art deco The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) - surrealism

Actually, 10 has been shown 4 times on TCM. The Super Cops? It's been shown 9 times. It's even been introduced by Robert Osborne. Is TCM changing? Sure. Always has been. As we creep into the future, what is now considered "classic" (if you can get agreement on that) also creeps forward a bit, year by year, and newer films find their way onto the channel. TCM never said they would only show films made before 1968 (or whatever cut-off year desired here). From the first day, they said more recent films would be shown. You can see that here in Robert Osborne's very first introduction on TCM: Do I think the films you listed are "classic?" No, not to me. But they might be to someone else, and still might be influential, or just entertaining to some. I don't think the "Maisie" pictures with the great Ann Sothern are "classic" either, but they can be entertaining, and I'm glad TCM shows them. Otherwise, they'd rarely see the light of day.

10 has been on 4 times before this year. Super Cops just had its 9th airing on the channel.

Did I say she was an "expert"? Does someone have to write a book to be an expert? Do they have to be book writer and expert to appear as a TCM host or co-host/presenter? How many TCM hosts, including Robert Osborne, wrote books about the people they discussed and/or presented movies featuring them? As someone noted above, she wrote a lengthy article for the Film Noir Foundation magazine about Graham and possibly more. Suffice it to say, Eddie Muller thought she was knowledgeable enough and articulate enough and interesting enough to be a presenter/co-host on Gloria Graham. I certainly think so.

Lost Horizon (1937) -- I love this film A Matter of Life and Death (1946) -- love this one, too Cleopatra (1963) The Great Gatsby (2013)

Shirley MacLaine, btw. By the way, THOMPSON, would you prefer that all women die at age 64 so you don't have to see (gasp!) 'bits' of cleavage on a woman once she turns 65?

The Wayward Bus The Big Bus

I know we don't like to think about it, but the '70s happened a looooonnnng time ago. Salutes to the golden age of Hollywood like "That's Entertainment". or "The Cheap Detective"? Those were about 'old" films that were maybe 30-40 years old! Terminator 2 is a 30 year old movie now. We all have movies that are maybe not the greatest examples of the flimmaker's art, but we love them all the same because we caught them at a certain time of our lives, and there are adults walking around who's happy childhood memories were formed at the dawn of the 21st century. TCM's been around for a while, and as they say, nostalgia ain't what it used to be. I love all the old films they show on TCM, even the not so classic classics, and I hope they continue to show them, but if they ever decide to show "Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?" I will not complain.

If I wasn't grateful to TCM for anything else, I'd love them for showing a 1993 film which I somehow missed when it was released: The Age of Innocence. It's now one of my top ten favorite movies of all time, and if TCM stuck to some hard and fast rule about dates, I'd probably never have seen it. (I don't care if it was made in 1993. It's a "classic" to me!)

1. Ed Sullivan and Topo Giggio 2. Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit ( missing Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans, LOL) 3. Mortimer Snerd and Edgar Bergen 4. Kukla and Olie ( missing Fran LOL) 8. Lamb Chop, Shari Lewis and Charlie Horse ( this is my favorite, I have Lamb Chop puppets)

Now that is what I call both sexist and ageist. And I'm an old male! What is she supposed to do, wear pants and a blouse/dress up to her throat? You might wish to get a job with the Taliban as a female clothing consultant. EDIT: I quoted what you said and hour ago - "varicose vein legs."

Read the plot summary on Wikipedia for The Glass Wall and sounds moderately interesting since I have never seen it. Plan to watch it and be sure to watch "old, lesbian hag" Dana Delaney. 😄 As I explained sometime back and has also been noted since, Delaney is a big fan of Gloria Graham and has studied her work and written about her. What do you mean be "getting younger?" Probably "spouting out fact after fact at a rapid rate" as she has a vast knowledge of Graham and trying to get as much out there as possible in the brief time allowed. And yes she did deserve to be co-hosting as much as a younger woman or any member of the army of old men TCM brings out. So, are you saying you are too old to appear on TCM? Why are males(?) here so obsessed with the small amount of cleavage Delaney was showing? Or her legs. I have a 55 inch HD TV and I did not notice any varicose veins and I used to work in a medical program.

Compromises must be made. In order to rent that film fave of yours, (you know, that one you post over and over that they don't play enough), they probably have to take on other B movies that are thrown in the deal. And if they have the film, they certainly are going to show it. And frame it some sort of way (like TCM underground or whatever). In order to keep the channel free, they have to sell wine and call it a club thing. (they should call it "whine" the way people complain about it). Or charge money to get people together for watch parties/clubs. You can't have a channel locked into a set time era or it gets old quickly. What happens when you've seen all the films from the 50's that you wanted to see ? Do you give up movies ? This channel, like any other has to evolve and adjust to the changing times. I've seen others try this format and fail (AMC, the original getTV), while TCM seems to be still growing with film festivals and cruises. We should always remember, there's much more to a story than what's reported.

Off the top of my head- I'm gonna have to go along with Elaine Benes- The English Patient Avatar as well. It made a gajillion dollars worldwide, but it was boring and ridiculous. Bubblegum for the mind. The Sixth Sense. I see dumb people Classic films? Wuthering freaking Heights. Kill me now. I don't care about Heathcliff. I don't care about Cathy. Get off the screen.

Even Ben was complaining about no Marathon Man in the dental lineup!

I realize this is a diversion since we're rightfully back to talking about Jane Powell, but going on the fact that Judy was so obviously sabotaging her "moment" as the movie camera panned to her at the luncheon, I'd say she probably found some excuse to blow off the photo shoot a couple of months later. Most everyone else at the luncheon seemed to be hyper-aware as the camera featured them, so the fact that Judy turned her back even though she was sitting next to a friend like Fred Astaire (who seemed amused at her antic) seems to indicate that she was over the whole idea of being used to promote MGM, which was taking an increasingly hard line with her. Jane was so consistently pleasant onscreen and in interviews that I have no doubt she was like that in life. As has been mentioned, her career suffered when the fate of musicals began to suffer, so she tried to look beyond the genre. A while back TCM showed her last film, Enchanted Island (1958), based on Herman Melville's first book, Typee. She was in the unfortunate position of having to play the adopted daughter (the offspring of a sailor and a native woman) of the island chief. Even though she managed the role respectably, I think it may have been a kind of final straw. The same year she had played against type as Hedy Lamarr's wild-child daughter in The Female Animal, a messy potboiler melodrama which TCM showed last year. Again, she was good but I doubt her heart was in it. The year before she was in a fun RKO musical, The Girl Most Likely, with great Catalina locations and super-energetic Gower Champion choreography, a kind of sweet final coda for her outstanding musical career. I loved reading that she performed with Pink Martini; what a fun outlet for her. And didn't she fill in on-air for Robert about a decade ago during a first bout of health problems? I remember her popping up unexpectedly.

Don't sugar coat it. Tell us how you really feel.

Okay...OKAY! I've just taken the time to get an average year of release of the movies TCM will be showing in the next four days. Yeah yeah, THAT'S right! I must have WAY too much damn free time on my hands, huh! LOL Well ANYWAY, here's the year that I ended up with after doing this little calculation: 1953 And sooooo, the NEXT damn time somebody, ANYBODY, comes on here and starts complaining that "TCM doesn't show 'classic' movies anymore" AND/OR "TCM is moving in the 'wrong direction' since Robert Osborne died and went to that big screening room in the sky" AND/OR "TCM has forgotten that they should only show movies that were made before I was born" AND/OR "TCM should only show movies made before 'America went to hell' and so I can be reminded of 'better times'", I'M gonna REpost THIS very post of mine HERE in the damn thing!!! (...NOT of course that THIS would change their freakin' misconceptions, as it seems NOW DAYS the FACTS of and about ANYTHING don't seem to matter to most people once they've made their minds up about something!!!)

Detour (1945) The Hitch-Hiker (1953) Drive a Crooked Road (1954)

This network went from being one of the Greatest ( particularly thanks to Robert Osborne) to becoming a globalist manifesto for people who know absolutely nothing about film; and further have the worst taste in movies. Cows who join wine clubs.

National Lampoon's Vacation Little Miss Sunshine Hollywood or Bust The Grapes of Wrath

Yes I remember Lori, very sweet poster. I think she was a nurse. She wanted so badly to keep John Garfield's memory alive. Someone had posted at the time that she had passed, I remember how sad we all were.

5. Willie Tyler and Lester 7. Jay Johnson and Bob featured on "Soap"

The progression of the hairstyles over the course of a soap opera is never to be underappreciated. It’s a journey. In fact sometimes The hair has more character progression than the character does.

You're correct, I would make them exit in a rapid fashion, but the analogy falters a bit. This isn't exaclty the same as someone's private residence. This is a public space. Perhaps it would be better to compare it to, say, a restaurant or a bar. After all, TCM is a for-profit company, are they not? And, being such, TCM relies on the patronage of its customers, does it not? A person's residence can survive without any guests. A business, on the other hand, cannot survive without its customers, and that is who we are- complaining or polite, we are TCM's customers, and without us, TCM would not exist. So, actually, I do feel I have the right to voice my frustrations in this venue, as long as I don't take it too far. Others here, apparently, feel the same way.

Speaking of METROPOLIS… All the German expressionist films including THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI … which went on to inspire many other filmmakers including Tim Burton

So you lack class in all areas and not just towards old people. I'm teasing you, but really that is how you're coming off IMO.

Then you absolutely don't want to see the 1974 musical version, "Mame" with Lucille Ball. Leonard Maltin rates it as a Bomb. More like an Atom Bomb.

Noir enough for me. Gloria, Vittorio Gassman, You got an alien obsessed with finding a sponsor New York City circa 1950s and Jack Teagarden Jack Teagarden

I watched it somewhat recently and was wondering why it was loved so much. seems rather silly to me now.

She was a host 2 or 3 years ago,nobody complained why she was there.She looks great so what? As for Eddie 'falling,'for her, he surely knows she plays for the other team..She will be back for The Glass Wall in 2 weeks so more eye candy.If the Gloria Grahame thing is so important they could have flown in Peter Turner from the UK (Grahame last boyfriend for several years) but TCM will not do it,they petered out their budget on lousy graphics and bad other things.

Ticket To Heaven (1981) A young man (Nick Mancuso) is brainwashed by a religious cult. His family has him kidnapped and hire a tough deprogrammer.

So, speaking of Dumbo, how would you like to launch some pitchforks in the direction of those gossipy, snobby circus elephants who make life miserable for the poor little tyke because he's got those two big, you know, because he's different?

JOHN PAYNE - UN-appreciated dancer

We've lost 4 cast members from 7 Brides for 7 Brothers in a span of 16 months. We lost Tommy Rall, last October, he played Frankencense and Jacques d'Amboise on May 2, 2021, he played Ephraim and Norma Doggett who play Martha passed away on May 4, 2020. RIP..

The sad, slow death of TCM . . . . . . is ridiculously and presumptuously anticipated, not to mention deplorably and tiresomely wished by whiny, cranky, crochety old fogies on The TCM Message Boards. I'm certain that there must be some psychological study that would explain why some folks are resistant, and unwilling, to . . . at least, accept, if not embrace, change . . . which is inevitable. Is it biological . . . neurological -- some sort of chemical reaction inside the brain or the gut -- that causes actual physical pain when something NEW is encountered . . . "TURN DOWN that #%+&$!! NOISE!! You young punks! You don't know what good music is! TURN OFF that $&+%#!! garbage!! &#$%@*?!! ADD MORONS with your woke, Hip-Hop, BLM, gender-fluid, hermaphrodite, Marvel Universe, Masked Singer $h*t!! GEEEE-ZUS H. KRIST! You got NO TASTE! No foundation for an appreciation of . . . CLASS! Not like when I was your age! THANK GOD I was raised on The Classics!" . . . Or is it a virus? Some kind of generational contagion, contracted like a social disease? I know that more than a few board members are of my g-g-g-generation ("Boomers"). What happened to some of you geezers? What the hell is w-r-o-n-g with you? Why did you turn out like this? When -- and more importantly, w-h-y -- did you become your parents? Your grandparents? Why are you such a . . . DRAG?!

One of the twelve labors of Hercules was to kill the Hydra, a monster with nine heads on serpent-like necks and venomous teeth ravaging the countryside. He cut the heads off one by one and they dropped dead at his feet. The monster was destroyed, but the ninth head was immortal, and would remain a danger. So he buried it under a big rock.

What's Up Doc? (1971) is still one of my favourite comedies, and a fine salute to the screwball comedies of the pat. I would like to add that I would be just fine with TCM showing more recent films still still have TCM relevant content. Hugo springs to mind. and that recent biopic about Laurel and Hardy would also be a good choice, I think.

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

For Newhart the third time was definitely not a charm, as his third TV show only lasted one season, if that long. The first two of course were much more successful. I've always read that Dick York quit because of a bad back which was getting worse. He injured it while working in a movie a number of years before Bewitched began.

Heck I steal the IMAGES off ebay rather than buying them. There's still a photo processing place here. I have a nifty 8x10 print collection in 4x6 album books. My few real autographed photos are framed. Although I treasure my 5x7 Robert Mitchum and 4x6 Robin Williams autographed portrait photos.

A hostage road trip — THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS

THE DESERT HAWK 1950 Universal Directed by Frederick De Cordova Richard Greene Yvonne De Carlo Rock Hudson Jackie Gleason.George Macready De Carlo looks fantastic in Technicolor in her Arabian outfits. A swashbuckling story filmed in the desert. Greene passed himself as a prince,in a pre-arranged marriage,Greene marry De Carlo the same night , After the wedding night De Carlo does her impression of Vivien Leigh in GWTW i.e waking up in the morning .Greene has disappeared ( who would ?) De Carlo she now knows she was tricked (and deflowered!), so everybody is looking for Greene who is already a wanted bandit.Hudson is 5th billed, Gleason is ok but quite lean. George Macready is the frustrated groom and of course the super villain About 78 minutes. 6.5/10

THE SISTERS (1938)