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Mort Sahl, the pioneer comic known for his astute social commentary in the 1950s and 1960s. has died at the age of 94. Sahl's longtime friend Lucy Mercer told The New York Times that Sahl died Tuesday at his home in Mill Valley, California. No cause of death was given. Sahl (pictured with Jonathan Winters and George Carlin) became an inspiration for many stand-up comics through the years. Three months before the 1960 presidential election, Sahl was depicted on the cover of Time magazine as a comic with the ability to skewer presidents and presidential candidates. "At 33, Mort Sahl is young, irreverent, and trenchant," the magazine's cover story said. "With one eye on world news and the other on Variety, he is a volatile mixture of show business and politics, of exhibitionistic self-dedication and a seemingly sincere passion to change the world. The best of the New Comedians, he is also the first notable American political satirist since Will Rogers." Sahl appeared as a wisecracking G.I. in the 1960 Korean war drama "All the Young Men," directed by Hall Bartlett ("Zero Hour!"). The film, which starred Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier and James Darren, reflected the newly desegregated military units of the time. In "Man in the Middle," a Season 1 episode of NBC's suspense anthology series "Thriller," Sahl starred as a television writer who overheard a plot to kidnap a socialite for ransom. Although he tried to mind his own business, he found himself caught in the conspiracy. Hosted by Boris Karloiff, the episode -- which aired on December 20, 1960, also starred Werner Klemperer. Julian Burton, Sue Randall and Frank Albertson. Sahl made numerous appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show," and even hosted his own television specials. He also served as a fill-in host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" during the interregnum between Jack Paar's departure and Johnny Carson's ascension. After the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, Sahl became preoccupied by the Warren Commission's controversial report. He became a supporter of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, who attempted to prove that Kennedy's death was the result of a conspiracy. Garrison's quest became the subject of Oliver Stone's acclaimed 1991 drama "JFK," which starred Kevin Costner as the prosecutor. Albert Brooks @AlbertBrooks R.I.P. Mort Sahl. Most young people have no idea who he was but he was one of the few comedians who yanked comedy out of vaudeville type humor into the modern age. One of the very first to just talk to the audience. We’ll miss you Mort. 7:10 PM · Oct 26, 2021·Hootsuite Inc. Harry Shearer @theharryshearer RIP Mort Sahl. He just invented modern American political satire, is all. Was still doing great stand ups on Periscope until very recently. And while he was best known for stinging wit, he was always an expert joke writer. 7:01 PM · Oct 26, 2021·Twitter for iPad Mark Pahlow @mcpheeceo "Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny.' -- Mort Sahl 4:20 AM · Oct 27, 2021·TweetDeck

I've worked on indie films that used real firearms that had a total budget of $100K. We didn't have crew members shooting cans before call time with the firearms that would be used that day. Horribly stupid behavior.

Swith-- She was a terrific addition to the Minnelli/Astaire musical, "The Band Wagon". I wish she could have done more of their musicals.

Tonight at 5pm PST (8pm EST) the documentary Carl Laemmle (which I'm in!) will be premiering on TCM. Following the movie, they're going to play a few of Carl's films including Dracula, Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera, and All Quiet on the Western Front. I'm excited to be on TV at all, but especially excited to see my face on TCM, and I hope you all enjoy it too! I'd love to hear your thoughts about the doc, as well as some of your favorite Laemmle films. I've included the trailer below - the first part of the video is talking about my experience filming and seeing the doc, but the trailer itself starts at 4:50. Thank you! ☺️

A comic genius. In his heyday he'd walk out onto a stage with a newspaper and riff on what he read: politics, religion, sex, Hollywood, whatever. It was all fair game. Not as jokey as Jackie Mason or Bob Newhart. He eventually rubbed everyone the wrong way and was proud of it.

The goofball comedic fist fights at the end of most of the episodes damaged the show. A story would start off in a noir vein and then morph into a phony group punchout. I still like it and watch it on Tubi TV.

...The Woman in the Window, 1944 Directed by Fritz Lang Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson 1 hr. 47 min. Film-Noir, psychological thriller Starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Dan Duryea Synopsis: As a conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder. "She's got something on her conscience, but what woman hasn't?" Largely the same cast as Scarlet Street but a different plot. I don't know which one I like more, but this one has an added bonus for me. As Robinson is being strangled, Bennett doesn't freeze in fear but actually hands him the scissors. 9.5/10 ....YEAH!

A scene notable for so many reasons, not the least of which, her hat:

One that bothered the hell out of me as a kid was Day the World Ended (1955), in which Richard Denning, Lori Nelson and some others were holed up in a canyon which temporarily was protecting them from the effects of atomic fallout. There was the typical-for-the-time atomic mutant monster roaming around, consisting of an ape suit and a head mask with three giant eyeballs, but the thing which scared me was the guy who was out doing reconnaissance who came back to the canyon with radiation burns on the side of his face. Seeing it now, I can see the cheesy makeup effects, but back then that image was the scary distillation of all the nuclear doom messages we were getting on the news, in school and everywhere else. It's the only movie I can say with certainty gave me nightmares. As an adult, one of the scariest things I remember was the placid smile on Gene Tierney's face in the rowboat while Darryl Hickman was drowning in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).

This is one of my "secret" favorite songs of all time.

LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM is available on a lot of streaming services at the present- as I recall, it's on TUBI, ROKU CHANNEL and AMAZON PRIME (for free) THE DEVILS is sadly only available as a Region 2 DVD

Bride of Frankenstein Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Young Frankenstein Strictly speaking the above are all wrong, because Frankenstein isn't the monster but the scientist Victor F. The Golem Nosferatu Beauty and the Beast The Monster of Piedras Blancas Creature from the Black Lagoon The Elephant Man Monster (2003) The Babadook

You Are My Lucy Star was written for Broadway Melody of 1936. It's heard 3 times, but twice are with Powell dancing...here in a ballet sequence: and for those who like to see her do what she did extraordinarily well, it's heard in this tap routine: next--"eyes' in the title

I noticed this was coming on tonight and have been waiting all day!

Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) Mothra (1961) Teenage Monster (1958) The Strange Death of Adolph Hitler (1943) Monsters, Inc. (2001)

On The Street Where You Live - My Fair Lady Fred and Ginger

Other titular monsters— KING KONG GODZILLA THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME THE WOLFMAN

...The Gunfighter, 1950 Director Henry King... Screenplay by William Bowers, William Sellers, Nunnally Johnson (uncredited) Stars Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Karl Malden Oscar nominated for Best Writing Notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo is tired of killing. He rides into town to find his true love, who doesn't want to see him. He hasn't come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner. "He don't look so tough to me." "Well if he ain't so tough, there's been an awful lot of sudden natural deaths in his vicinity." full movie 8/10

Un, the last few weeks, Tuesday's program was new-wave foreign films; E.g. didn't you notice that the last few weeks there were a lot of Italian films or French films? Anyhow for this Tuesday it was Japanese films. I watched two of them and enjoyed them.

These wool caps seem to be kind of popular now

I liked it for the location shooting of 1960s America. Almost every episode of Route 66 had a Hollywood fist fight dropped in. The only ones I remember that didn't was the funny monster show with Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney and Peter Lorre (my favorite episode), and one at a ski lodge with a serial killer strangling women. When Maharis quit, the fighting actually seemed to escalate with Glenn Corbett. For a show with theatrically dramatic, intellectual dialogue, there was a lot of violence. My cousin is a superfan of the show and he met Maharis and Milner on location.

I think it's wonderful that TCM showed those Japanese films, as opposed to the usual Ran, Rashamon, etc., that are readily available. The films that were shown are rarities. Also the Argentinian films of the other day. This kind of programming enhances TCM's output, makes it richer, and underscores TCM's uniqueness, in my opinion.

Mort Sahl once quipped that he was actually a very likable guy who made ex-friends easily. LOL

8 GIRLS IN A BOAT

GHOST BREAKERS KING OF THE ZOMBIES 1941 WHITE ZOMBIE 1932 BLACK MOON 1934 VOODOO TIGER 1952 VOODOO BLOOD DEATH 1965 LYDIA BAILEY 1952 HEAVEN ON EARTH 1931 THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES 1966 CHLOE, LOVE IS CALLING YOU 1934 UNCONQUERED 1917 THE CARIBBEAN MYSTERY 1945 THE MAN HUNTER 1930 KONGO 1932 THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER 1939

Forty Naughty Girls (1937)

Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)

The Great Garrick

THE BIG CLOCK (1948) Next: THE CLOCK (1945)

YES!!! I actually looked for one, but could not find it. I did find this though. Starting at 2:28 :

O'Brien, Eddie - Gene Kelly in Take Me Out to the Ball Game

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, 1951.The final script by Johnson is at the Ohio State University library for researh 119 pages .There is plenty of rare stuff all over in the Universities many stars or execs leaves hundreds of boxes of personnal papers to the universities.

My next theme will be Nunnally Johnson: Screenwriter Extraordinaire for 20th Century Fox. Most of these films are rarely shown on TCM, and cover almost all genres. For a time he was the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood. ...The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, 1951 Directed by Henry Hathaway Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson Starring James Mason, Jessica Tandy, Leo G Carroll Drama, War 1 hr. 29 min. "I'm told you once referred to me as a clown. A clown of Hitler's circus." Exciting film with realistic battle scenes, some of which WERE real. Among the British and American cast there was no trace of a German accent, so Rommel sounds just like James Mason. Thanks to his brilliant portrayal I got over it. 8/10 Full movie on YouTube with good clear print and sound quality

Yea looks like character in the book is an airhead - synopsis. Tipping My Fedora "The diary shows how Frank is, through dogged persistence and sheer luck, able to track down the driver – the utterly odious and contemptible George Rattery, quite one of the most repellent characters one could hope to find in the genre. He is married to the sister of young movie starlet Lena Lawson who was in the car on the day of the accident, and who initially comes across as a complete airhead, prone to gushing non sequiturs and making appalling anti-semitic statements like ‘We could do with a of Hitler here’. Frank, now sporting a beard and using his pen-name ‘Felix Lane’, starts a desperate course of action and dedicates himself to seeking revenge – he cold-bloodedly starts an affair with Lena so as to find a way into the Rattery home, which is ruled with an iron rod by George’s monstrous mother. She crushes the spirit of George’s son Phil and Lena’s sister Violet (who proves to be a real ‘shrinking violet’) with antiquated notions of Victorian propriety. Although Frank becomes quickly attached to the young Phil, who is close to the age of his dead son, he none the less sets about creating a full proof plan to kill George and get away with it. The diary ends just as Frank/Felix is about to set out on a dinghy on a trip during which he plans to kill George. The book then shifts to the third person as the diary’s plan goes awry and Frank and Lena have to leave the Rattery home. But when later on George does die, Frank’s secret identity is exposed and he calls on sleuth Nigel Strangways to save him from the hangman. This begins the third section of the book and is the most conventional part of the story, in which a subtle murder plan is eventually uncovered as are a variety of subplots and red herrings as it predictably emerges that nearly everyone involved had a good reason to hate George. The conclusion to the story is clever and logical and if not a complete surprise is however extremely satisfying. The integration of more mature elements into the story, with a fairly realistic handling of characters and motivation, can jar with the basic mechanics of what is outwardly a fairly standard country-house mystery – indeed, one could easily excise the diary and still have a medium-length detective story that would be no worse than so many others published in the 1930s – but it would lose not only its unique flavour but would clearly deflate the noble intention to bring the literary novel and the detective story together, which it does with considerably success even if it can’t quite overcome the breach in style from around the halfway mark once the murder has been committed. This is a fine detective novel, one that succeeds well in its modest aspiration to broaden the horizons of the genre.

Ambush

I think it's better if cities from all around the world are included.

Rami Malek Academy Award for Best Actor in Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 Christoph Waltz Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Django Unchained 2012 Naomie Harris was an Best Supporting Actress nominee for Moonlight Ralph Fiennes was an Best Actor nominee for The English Patient 1996 Thanks

Please limit your responses to Latin American , South American and African Cities. BunnyWhit is correct we already have threads for Asian, European and American Cities. I am looking forward in having Latin American, South American and African Cities be named on this thread. My Thanks to Everybody.

This reminded me of when there was the TCM Insiders and I was one and asked to take polls; one recurring question was what other channel did I use for "classic" films (which the TCM Insider site did define as pre-1970 American films). They had a list of channels and one of them was MOVIES-TV. At first I was going to check this since that my go-to channel when TCM is either showing something I've seen (which is about every MGM, WB or RKO film in their rotation), or something I just don't care for. So I selected MOVIES-TV, but the next time when I got a similar poll I didn't because I was worried that if TCM knew suckers like me would put up with commercial interruptions just to get their fix of pre-1970 films,,,, well, I didn't wish for TCM to believe they could go that way and still have me as a viewer (which would be the case if I had little other options).

What an apt phrase you coined in reference to her, ARITOSTHENES-- "twinkly wit". Exactly!

Falling from Grace (1992) -- 8/10 Source: TCM Falling from Grace is one of the few movies in the subsection where popular recording artists try their hand at directing movies. Usually, it does not work out well, such in the case of Bob Dylan's Renaldo and Clara, Madonna's W/E, or Prince's Under the Cherry Moon and Graffiti Bridge (after he did have a hit with Purple Rain). And if anything, the paltry box office grosses for this film (less than $250,000) would normally sound an alarm, as would that Leonard Maltin handed it a "BOMB" rating ,or that an obviously baffled Columbia Pictures moved it out of a planned 1991 release into a cold open in February 1992. But on the opposite end of the review spectrum, it had good notices from Entertainment Weekly and the Chicago Sun-Times, so with that, coupled with the knowledge that the script was written by the esteemed writer Larry McMurtry, I decided to give it a whirl. The result is a film that is actually pretty good, a saga of a celebrity going back to his home town and not finding a warm welcome. And the title here is literal, as the celebrity (played of course by John Mellencamp), following the weakness of the men in his family of having wandering eyes, goes headlong into a fling with his former flame (Kay Lenz), who he had left behind many years earlier, and who has since become involved with both his father and his brother, marrying the latter. This of course, upsets Mellencamp's up to now tranquil marriage to Mariel Hemingway, and provides even more friction with his lascivious, tough father (Claude Akins). The story is pretty simple, really, but it works. Although set in Southern Indiana, and filmed in the actual town where Mellencamp grew up, McMurtry's nuanced writing makes it feel more like a spiritual cousin to The Last Picture Show, with a town with a stifling atmosphere, and characters who yearn for something more. As is usual with McMurtry works, the female characters are the ones that linger in the memory, with Mariel Hemingway quite fine as the wife , the moral compass of the film, who is no pushover and who is not afraid to speak up and have her say when things are not right (or for that matter fight back when her father in law makes an advance on her). Meanwhile, Kay Lenz is just stunning in her part, a variation on the Ellen Burstyn role in The Last picture Show. Her role is not the largest, but every time she appears on screen, she gives such an assured, note perfect performance that you can't take your eyes off of her. She's the best thing in the film, a fully three dimensional character. Its awards-worthy work. Mellencamp himself does a lowkey, but good job, and Akins is formidable as the brutal father. It should be noted that this is a very low-key film for the most part, closer in mood and playing to an early 70s film instead of an early 90s one. Don't go in expecting lots of flash and bombast, because it isn't here. But what is here is a solid film, with a good sense of area atmosphere, so much more confident in feeling for the land and for the people than you would find in something made today. It's very underrated.

I was scared of nearly everything when I was a kid. Here are a few movies that scared me then, all of which aren't even meant to be scary. 101 Dalmatians (Both 1961 and 1996 versions) -- I was terrified of kidnappers, and people were kidnapping PUPPIES! 😱 Fantasia (1940) -- only the ending scene with Chernabog. Hold that Ghost (1941) -- I don't remember exactly what about this film scared me, but I remember being scared of it. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) -- The ending with Judge Doom was the stuff of nightmares. Peewee's Big Adventure (1985) -- Large Marge was terrifying! Hercules (1997) - Early CGI was really terrifying to me, so the Hydra was nightmarish! As an adult, I tend to shy away from modern movies because they tend to be too intense and graphic for me, even non-horror films. The following are non-horror movies that scare me now that I am an adult. This list is small only because I don't expose myself to films that would scare me. The Dark Knight (2008) Certain episodes of Quantum Leap (tv show), such as "Another Mother," "Nuclear Family," and "Black on White on Fire"

The Pact (2018) Spain/Dir: David Victori - A desperate mother (Belen Rueda) makes a pact with sinister forces in order to save the life of her ailing daughter (Mireia Oriol). However, the pact comes with consequences, as the mother must now kill certain people or face her own destruction. Also with Dario Grandinetti, Antonio Duran Morris, and Jordi Recasens. This is competently made and acted, but the story is too rote and the suspense negligible. (5/10)

I agree! Bette's hat in "Now Voyager" is so stunning. When she transforms her look during her trip, that hat is just perfect. Now that we've started this path, I love the hat Audrey Hepburn wears in the film "Sabrina" after she has redone her look while living in Paris. It's a simple little hat (or actually turban) but feels so French to me.

Although, I'd like to know where I could get a good Fedora for only $70! That wouldn't even get you the BAND for a Borsalino. It seems that berets for men have the same status as turbans do for women. Meaning: "Old man walking!" Most flat caps are known as IVY'S. I have a few too which are the only caps I wear backwards. Which scared my daughter who at first thought I was wearing a BERET! But wearing them frontways gives me the impression I'm trying to look "sporty". Like the only thing missing is my Morgan sports car. Especially that group of good lookin' fedoras. But back in the "day" Fedoras were as commonplace as ballcaps are now. And even worn when otherwise dressed casually. I have an old photo(taken in the early '30's) of all my great Uncles(my Grandmother's brothers) gathered on the farm, each dressed in old slacks and "dungarees", tieless shirts with sleeves rolled up and each one of them sporting a sassy tilted fedora hat. Much like the one Jimmy's wearing up there. Sepiatone

TEN LITTLE INDIANS (1965)

It's time for the lunatic CANNON episode I remember. It's called VALLEY OF THE DAMNED. Anyone reading this owes it to themself to watch this episode of "Cannon" for its sheer lunacy. Early on in the program Kaz Garas sneers "Those Wahoos are only barely civilized . . . ". In fact, the term "wahoos" is used a number of times early on. The plot revolves about an unfortunately unpaid Indian airport worker named 'Greywolf' who seriously gets the shaft at the hands of white devils! This leads to the Indian Center and subsequently an Indian bar and an APPLE (played by Jay Silverheels driving a shiny '73 Lincoln). 🍎 Guest stars on this masterwork of '70s television insanity are Leslie Nielsen, Corinne Camacho (later Corinne Michaels), Kaz Garas, Jay Silverheels, Charles Cyphers, Wesley Lau and a host of greedy scumbags who hire Indian day-laborers ("He wants them fresh off the Reservation and not too sharp!") -AND- to make matters sleazier the bad guys are also transporting heroin around + using these Indian laborers to cultivate opium poppies. What a fun bunch! Leslie Nielsen seems to be having fun as an Indian agent who tells Cannon he's chasing a "Wendigo". IF YOU ONLY SEE 1 EPISODE OF "CANNON" for the rest of 2021 let it be this one! VALLEY OF THE DAMNED! This episode gets more insane as it progresses. Guaranteed fun for all!

After reading posts on this thread, I thought I'd 'take a dip in the pool', so to speak. I have a total of 16 hats, but I had none until about 2004. I have 3 ball caps that I would only wear to cover up my 'bed head' if I ran out of gas or cigarettes and had to go to the convenience store early in the morning. Since I quit smoking in 2019, I seldom wear those anymore. I have 2 bucket hats and 1 broad-brimmed sun hat. Two of these 3 hats were gifts from other people, but I don't hardly wear them when I'm doing yard work, because they make my head too hot. If I'm mowing my yard, I most always tie a bandana into a doo-rag on intensely sunny days. If it's not too hot, I go hatless, but use sun screen on the exposed skin. I used to always wear a shirt when mowing too, but since I've been working out, I don't mind 'popping the top' when I mow. It's better for me in that, I tend to sweat a lot whether I'm doing intense work (like mowing, which takes a little over 90 minutes for me to do with a push mower), or lifting weights during my home workouts. Fortunately, the neighbors haven't called the cops on me for indecent exposure! But, I digress... I also have a stocking hat that I only wear on days when I have to get out and shovel snow. Here, I laid out the other 9 hats in my 'collection' on my dining room table. I have a man's body, but a child's head, so it's hard for me to find something that fits just right!