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Another death in the "Star Trek" family... Actress Grace Lee Whitney, one of the original cast members of the landmark 1960s television series, has died at the age of 85. She appeared as Yeoman Janice Rand when "Star Trek" made its debut on NBC in 1966, but her contract was not renewed after 13 episodes. Actor Leonard Nimoy, who played Science Officer Spock in the sci-fi series and its many other incarnations over the years, died February 27, 2015 at the age of 83. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/grace-lee-whitney-dead-star-793031 Whitney had a tough time coping with life after "Star Trek." Here's a report done in 1993 by the syndicated TV newsmagazine "American Journal," hosted by Nancy Glass.

TCM On Demand for May 3, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. ABBA: The Movie (1977) -- Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog, Robert Hughes, Tom Oliver, Bruce Barry, Stig Anderson, Calvin Cross, Ivar Dahlbom, Harry Lawrence, Michael Mansson, Sandy Mansson. Swedish fimmaker Lasse Hallström ("My Life as a Dog," "The Cider House Rules") directed this story derived from the pop group ABBA's tour of Australia in 1977. Amid scenes of the group onstage and off is the seemingly futile quest of a country-and-western disc jockey (Hughes) who's been assigned to land an exclusive interview with the pop stars. He winds up following them from Sydney to Perth to Adelaide to Melbourne. Hallstrom had a longtime professional relationship with ABBA and directed a majority of the group's music videos in the 1970s and 1980s. One such collaboration -- showcasing the talents of vocalists Lyngstad and Fältskog -- was "Knowing Me, Knowing You" (1977). Although ABBA never headlined another movie, the stage musical "Mamma Mia!" -- featuring songs by group members Andersson and Ulvaeus -- became a motion picture in 2008. The screen version, which starred Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård, Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper, Julie Walters and Christine Baranski, grossed $602,609,487 worldwide. It ranks as the highest-grossing movie musical of all time in terms of worldwide receipts. Memorable scene: The pop stars read about themselves in the Australian tabloids, which offer such headlined stories as: "ABBA's Kinky Velvet Bed!" and "Agnetha's Bottom Tops the Show." In case you were wondering: ABBA was an acronym for the first letters of the group members' first names -- Anni-Frid, Benny, Björn and Agnetha. Expires May 9, 2015.

TCM On Demand for May 3, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) -- Voices of: Sylvia Anderson, Ray Barrett, Alexander Davion, Peter Dyneley, Christine Finn, David Graham, Paul Maxwell, Neil McCallum, Bob Monkhouse, Shane Rimmer, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Jeremy Wilkin, Matt Zimmerman. Headlined by marionettes, this feature-length version of the 1960s British television series "Thunderbirds" was written and produced by the husband-and-wife team of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. They also were the creative team behind such other marionette-dominated series as "Supercar" (1961-1962), "Fireball XL5" (1962-1963) and "Stingray" (1964-1965). The Andersons called their style of filmmaking "Supermarionation." The process was lampooned by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone in their 2004 satire "Team America: World Police." Expires May 9, 2015.

Verna Felton was in "Picnic" (1955) with William Holden. William Holden was in "When Time Ran Out..." (1980) with Paul Newman. Next: Lena Headey.

Hugh O'Brian was in "The Shootist" (1976) with Lauren Bacall. Lauren Bacall was in "Harper" (1966) with Paul Newman. Next: Fay Wray.

Scott Brady was in "The China Syndrome" (1979) with Wilford Brimley. Wilford Brimley was in "Absence of Malice" (1981) with Paul Newman. Next: Vivien Leigh.

Ray Danton was in "The Chapman Report" (1962) with Claire Bloom. Claire Bloom was in "The Outrage" (1964) with Paul Newman. Next: Lilli Palmer.

Nancy Kulp was in "The Three Faces of Eve" (1957) with Joanne Woodward. Joanne Woodward was in "Mr. & Mrs. Bridge" (1990) with Paul Newman. Next: Celia Weston.

I would have guessed "True Love Ways" by Buddy Holly, but it wasn't released until more than a year after his death on February 3, 1959.

TCM On Demand for May 1, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. I Shot Billy the Kid (1950) -- Don "Red" Barry, Robert Lowery, Wally Vernon, Tom Neal, Wendie Lee, Claude Stroud, John Merton, Henry Marco, Bill Kennedy, Archie Twitchell, Jack Perrin, Richard Farmer, Felice Richmond, Jack Geddes. Directed by William Berke ("Island Women"), this hour-long, independent feature is about the relationship between gunslinger Billy the Kid (Barry) and Sheriff Pat Garrett (Lowery). The action is set in the year 1881 during the final stages of the Lincoln County War in New Mexico. This was one of six films about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid that were aired by Turner Classic Movies beginning in prime time on Thursday, April 30, 2015. Expires May 7, 2015. 2. The Left Handed Gun (1958) -- Paul Newman, Lita Milan, John Dehner, Hurd Hatfield, James Congdon, James Best, Colin Keith-Johnston, John Dierkes, Bob Anderson, Wally Brown, Ainslie Pryor, Martin Garralaga, Denver Pyle, Paul Smith, Nestor Paiva. Jo Summers, Robert Foulk, Anne Barton. Uncredited: Lane Chandler. Eleven years before "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," Newman starred in this Western drama based on the exploits of the infamous gunslinger Billy the Kid. Dehner co-stars as Sheriff Pat Garrett of Lincoln County, New Mexico. In the following scene, Billy show up at Garrett's wedding reception and ruins it -- earning the undying enmity of the bridegroom. Expires May 7, 2015.

I've always liked Billy Joel's 1983 album "An Innocent Man," in which he paid tribute to some of his musical influences and styles. The song "Uptown Girl" was a salute to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (I thought it WAS Frankie Valli the first time I heard it). "Tell Her About It" was a catchy tune done in the Motown tradition. And "The Longest Time" was a throwback to the doo_wop singers of the 1950s. But the title song of the album was an homage to Ben E. King and the Drifters:

Southern accents aren't always appropriate just because a movie is set below the Mason-Dixon line. The best example: Kevin Costner's unfortunate accent as New Orleans-area District Attorney Jim Garrison in Oliver Stone's "JFK" (1991). The accent was unnecessary. Garrison was born in Iowa and didn't have much of an accent.

Singer Ben E. King, whose song "Stand By Me" inspired the title of Rob Reiner's hit 1986 film about a memorable boyhood adventure, has died at the age of 76. He was a member of The Drifters from 1958 to 1960. http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/05/01/ben-e-king-dies-76-stand-by-me/26694079/ King co-wrote "Stand By Me" with the great songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The song was a chart hit twice -- in 1961, when it originally was released, and in 1986, thanks to the movie. Reiner's film, based on the 1982 Stephen King short story "The Body," starred Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell. They played boyhood friends who head out on an adventure during Labor Day weekend in 1959. Co-starring in the movie were Kiefer Sutherland and John Cusack. Richard Dreyfuss was the narrator and appeared as one of the lead characters as an adult.

The New York Times reported the death of Betsy von Furstenberg on Wednesday, April 29th. Other media outlets have followed suit. Kudos to Swithin for mentioning it in the forum! I've noticed her Wikipedia page is now complete, too. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/arts/betsy-von-furstenberg-baroness-and-versatile-actress-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

TCM On Demand for May 1, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 3. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) -- James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, Jason Robards, R.G. Armstrong, Luke Askew, John Beck, Richard Bright, Matt Clark, Rita Coolidge, Jack Dodson, Jack Elam, Emilio Fernández, Aurora Clavel, Paul Fix, L.Q. Jones, Slim Pickens, Jorge Russek, Charles Martin Smith, Harry Dean Stanton, Claudia Bryar, John Davis Chandler, Mike Mikler, Rutanya Alda, Gene Evans, Walter Kelley, Rudy Wurlitzer, Elisha Cook, Jr., Donnie Fritts, Dub Taylor, Don Levy. Uncredited: Bruce Dern. Sam Peckinpah's violent but well-cast Western is about the tenuous friendship between the two title characters in the New Mexico territory of 1881. Garrett (Coburn) is the straight-shooting sheriff of Lincoln County. The Kid (Kristofferson) -- real name William H. Bonney -- is a notorious gunslinger with many kills to his credit. Dylan, who plays a Bonney groupie named Alias, provided the music for the movie -- including the noteworthy song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." The tune climbed all the way up to No. 12 on Billboard's 1973 Hot 100 chart. In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine asked a special panel to select Dylan's 70 greatest songs on the occasion of his 70th birthday that year. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," which has been covered by numerous artists (including Eric Clapton and Guns N' Roses), was ranked No. 25. Sullivan, who portrayed Sheriff Garrett in the 1960s TV Western "The Tall Man," co-stars as John Chisum, the wealthy 19th-century New Mexico cattle and land baron earlier played by John Wayne in "Chisum" (1970). Robards appears briefly as New Mexico territorial governor Lew Wallace, the Union Civil War general who later wrote the novel "Ben-Hur." Expires May 7, 2015.

TCM On Demand for April 30, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Flap (1970) -- Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill, Shelley Winters, Victor Jory, Don Collier, Victor French, Rodolfo Acosta. Susana Miranda, Anthony Caruso, William Mims, Rudy Diaz, Pedro Regas, John War Eagle, J. Edward McKinley, Robert Cleaves. Uncredited: Robert Foulk. Comedy/drama starring Quinn as Flapping Eagle, a Native American (and New Mexico reservation resident) who becomes an unlikely anti-establishment activist in protest of years of broken promises and ill treatment. This was one of the last pictures directed by Sir Carol Reed, whose long list of credits included "The Fallen Idol" (1948), "The Third Man" (1949) and "Oliver!" (the Best Picture winner of 1968). The movie's screenplay was written by Clair Huffaker, who adapted it from his 1967 novel "Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian." The film's score was composed by Marvin Hamlisch. He also co-wrote (with lyricist Estelle Levitt) the opening theme song "If Nobody Loves," performed by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition. Almost four years after this film was released, Hamlisch won three 1973 Academy Awards in one night. He picked up the Oscar for Best Adaptation Score for his use of Scott Joplin rags in "The Sting" and won two other statuettes for "The Way We Were" (Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Original Song). Actor Bill, who co-starred with Quinn as Flap's young sidekick Eleven Snowflake, also won an Academy Award for "The Sting." He co-produced the Oscar-winning Best Picture with Julia and Michael Phillips. This was one of 20 motion pictures aired by Turner Classic Movies in honor of Quinn as Star of the Month for April 2015. He would have celebrated his 100th birthday on April 21st. Expires May 6, 2015. 2. Gentleman's Agreement (1947) -- Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, June Havoc, Albert Dekker, Jane Wyatt, Dean Stockwell, Nicholas Joy, Sam Jaffe, Harold Vermilyea, Ransom M. Sherman. Uncredited: Gene Nelson, Virginia Gregg, Curt Conway, Jesse White, Olive Deering, Victor Kilian, Kathleen Lockhart, John Newland, Amzie Strickland, Roy Roberts. Director Elia Kazan's drama was one of two 1947 Best Picture nominees with an anti-Semitism theme (the other was "Crossfire"). But it was Kazan's film that took home the top Oscar, as well as awards for Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Holm). The film also was nominated for Best Actor (Peck), Best Actress (McGuire), Best Supporting Actress (Revere), Best Writing, Screenplay (Moss Hart) and Best Film Editing (Harmon Jones). Cover credit: BORIS CHALIAPIN Based on the 1947 novel by Laura Z. Hobson, the drama stars Peck as writer Philip Schuyler Green, a Gentile who poses as a Jew for two months for a top-secret piece he's preparing for a New York-based magazine. His undercover work gradually has repercussions for his personal life, particularly his budding relationship with divorcée Kathy Lacey (McGuire) and the self-esteem of his young son Tommy (played by Stockwell). This film provided Kazan with the first of two Best Director Oscars he received during his career. He won the other for his work on the 1954 classic "On the Waterfront," which also was named Best Picture. On March 21, 1999, Kazan was presented an honorary Academy Award "in appreciation of a long, distinguished and unparalleled career during which he has influenced the very nature of filmmaking through his creation of cinematic masterpieces." The award was controversial because Kazan testified against members of the film industry during government hearings on Communist influences in the 1950s. Expires May 6, 2015.

Academy Award-winning cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, who frequently collaborated with filmmaker Peter Jackson, has died at the age of 59. The Australian camera operator won a 2001 Oscar for "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." He also worked with New Zealander Jackson on the two other films of the trilogy based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien -- "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" (2002) and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003). He was the cinematographer for all three installments of "The Hobbit" prequels. http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/04/29/andrew-lesnie-lord-of-the-rings-cinematographer-dies/26563077/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlwMBRP0JaE Jack Ely, lead singer of the 1960s group The Kingsmen, has died at the age of 71. It was Ely who sang the group's version of the song "Louie Louie," which became a popular -- and yet controversial -- party anthem during the decade. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32507885 The Kingsmen's version of the song, which was used to great effect in John Landis' 1978 comedy hit "National Lampoon's Animal House," is noted for its unintelligible lyrics. I still don't understand them.

I just saw Alex Gibney's two-part documentary on Sinatra for HBO, and there's a segment in which the Chairman of the Board says he was born on December 12, 1915.

TCM On Demand for April 29, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. The Harder They Fall (1956) -- Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane, Max Baer, Sr., Jersey Joe Walcott, Edward Andrews, Harold J. Stone, Carlos Montalbán, Nehemiah Persoff, Felice Orlandi, Herbie Faye, Rusty Lane, Jack Albertson. Uncredited: Val Avery, George Cisar, Patricia Dane, Abel Fernandez, Paul Frees, Robert Fuller, Roy Jenson, Mort Mills, Stafford Repp. Bogart's final film was an indictment of abuses in the fight game. Directed by Mark Robson ("Champion," "Inn of the Sixth Happiness"), the film's screenplay was adapted by Philip Yordan ("Detective Story," "Broken Lance") from the 1947 novel by Budd Schulberg. The book was modeled on the unscrupulous handling of the career of the hulking heavyweight contender Primo Carnera of Italy. Bogart stars as Eddie Willis, a veteran newspaper sportswriter who goes to work as a publicity agent for shady boxing promoter Nick Benko (Steiger). But Willis grows to dislike the mishandling of boxer Toro Moreno (Lane), a gentle giant from Argentina who gradually is being set up for failure in a big-money prizefight. Bogart died of cancer on January 14, 1957, eight months after this film was released in theaters. The acting great had hoped to star in another project with his wife, actress Lauren Bacall. The proposed movie, a satire titled "Melville Goodwin, U.S.A.," was based on a 1951 novel by John P. Marquand. But Bogart's illness forced him to withdraw from the project. It eventually was revived, revised and released in 1957 under the title "Top Secret Affair." It starred Kirk Douglas and Susan Hayward. Expires May 5, 2015. 2. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) -- Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason, John Emery, Donald MacBride, Don Costell. Uncredited: Lloyd Bridges. Directed by Alexander Hall ("My Sister Eileen"), this comedy/fantasy stars Montgomery as Joe Pendleton, a saxophone-playing prizefighter who dies prematurely because of mistaken heavenly intervention. Actually, Pendleton is not supposed to die until 50 years later, on May 11, 1991 (in real life, Montgomery died 10 years before that). Because his body was cremated, Pendleton's urbane heavenly escort, Mr. Jordan (Rains), tries to find a replacement body. Of course, Pendleton wants a fit specimen that will enable him to get back into boxing and contend for the heavyweight title. But the best choice available is an older millionaire named Farnsworth, who has just been murdered by his unfaithful wife (Johnson) and personal secretary (Emery). Keyes co-stars as Bette Logan, who has a bone to pick with Farnsworth, but eventually falls for him. The film won Academy Awards for Best Writing, Original Story (Harry Segall, whose stage play "Heaven Can Wait" was the source for the film) and Best Writing, Screenplay (Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller, who adapted the Segall play). The movie received five other Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Montgomery), Best Supporting Actor (Gleason, as Pendleton's trainer Max Corkle) and Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Joseph Walker). Hall directed a sequel of sorts titled "Down to Earth" (1947), which starred Rita Hayworth, Ronald Culver (replacing Rains as Mr. Jordan), Gleason, Horton and Larry Parks (in between Jolson movies). It was a musical comedy about Broadway and starred Hayworth as Terpsichore, one of the nine Muses of Greek mythology. In the 1970s, actor-director Warren Beatty decided to remake "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" with two-time heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali as Joe Pendleton. Ali had starred as himself in the 1977 autobiopic "The Greatest," but was unavailable for Beatty's film. As a result, Beatty, a star high school football player in Virginia, decided to play Pendleton himself and changed the character into a quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams. Beatty also tried to coax Cary Grant out of retirement for the role of Mr. Jordan, but wound up casting James Mason when Grant declined. The remake was a financial and critical success that earned 1978 Oscar nominations in nine categories. Interestingly, Beatty and Jack Warden were nominated for their respective roles as Pendleton and Corkle, just as Montgomery and Gleason had been for the original film. Another remake came along in 2001 with Chris Rock starring as a comedian who gets a second chance at life in "Down to Earth." Expires May 5, 2015. 3. The Set-Up (1949) -- Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford, Percy Helton, Hal Fieberling, Darryl Hickman, Kenny O'Morrison, James Edwards, David Clarke, Phillip Pine, Edwin Max. Uncredited: Herbert Anderson, Tommy Noonan, Bernard Gorcey. Ryan stars as Bill "Stoker" Thompson, an aging boxer with an upcoming match against a promising contender named Tiger Nelson (Fieberling). What the veteran heavyweight doesn't know is that his manager (Tobias) has been bribed by a gambler to make sure that Thompson takes a dive in the second round. Totter co-stars as Thompson's long-suffering wife Julie, who doesn't want her husband to continue fighting. Ryan with Edwards and Ford Directed by Robert Wise ("West Side Story," "The Sound of Music"), the drama -- based on a 1929 poem by Joseph Moncure March -- received the International Federation of Film Critics' award at the third Cannes Film Festival in 1949. Expires May 5, 2015.

Nominations for the 2015 Tony Awards have been announced, and, as usual, many of the nominated productions are derived from motion pictures. A stage version of "An American in Paris," for example, is tied for the most nominations with 12. CBS will televise the awards ceremony live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 8 p.m. Eastern time. This year's hosts will be Tony winners Kristin Chenoweth and Alan_Cumming. http://www.broadway.com/buzz/180570/an-american-in-paris-fun-home-top-2015-tony-nominations/

I liked the movie a lot more than you did. To me, it's one of the overlooked gems of the 1970s. But you're right about Hackman. His film career is underappreciated, but nonetheless great.

TCM On Demand for April 28, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. The Miracle Worker (1962) -- Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson, Andrew Prine, Kathleen Comegys. Uncredited: Beah Richards, Michele Farr, Dale Ellen Bethea, Michael Darden, Alan Howard. Poignant drama based on the early years of the inspirational author and lecturer Helen Keller (1880-1968). For their performances, Bancroft won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Duke received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the age of 16. The biopic also produced a Best Director nomination for Arthur Penn, who went on to film such memorable projects as "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967), "Alice's Restaurant" (1969), "Little Big Man" (1970), "Night Moves" (1975) and "The Missouri Breaks" (1976). Bancroft re-created her Tony Award-winning role as Annie Sullivan, the instructor who attempts to communicate with young Helen (Duke) -- the blind, deaf and nonspeaking daughter of a prosperous Alabama family. Duke, who became the youngest person to win a competitive Oscar (the record is now held by Tatum O'Neal, who was 10), later portrayed Sullivan opposite Melissa Gilbert's Helen in a 1979 TV version of this story. Duke died on March 29, 2016 at the age of 69. She succumbed to sepsis as the result of a ruptured intestine. This was one of five films aired by Turner Classic Movies beginning in prime time on Monday, April 27, 2015. The pictures served as a salute to the contributions of the Academy Award-winning production designer George C. Jenkins (1908-2007). Expires May 4, 2015. 2. Night Moves (1975) -- Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Kenneth Mars, Janet Ward, James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Anthony Costello, John Crawford, Ben Archibek, Dennis Dugan, C.J. Hincks, Max Gail, Susan Barrister, Larry Mitchell. Uncredited: René Enríquez, Carey Loftin. Director Arthur Penn's well-regarded detective tale -- written by Alan Sharp -- stars Hackman as Harry Moseby, a former pro football player turned Los Angeles area private investigator. Moseby is hired by a former B-movie actress (Ward) to find her daughter, a 16-year-old runaway heiress named Delly (Griffith). Although he takes the case, he becomes distracted by the activities of his wife Ellen (Clark), who apparently is being unfaithful to him. But when he begins to concentrate on his case, Delly's trail leads him to Florida and the residence of her stepfather (Crawford) and her stepfather's girlfriend (Warren). Moseby gradually discovers that this is no routine missing persons case -- and that several people connected to it have begun to die mysteriously. The film features the two-time Oscar nominee Woods in the early stages of his film career. He appears in the role of Quentin, an edgy, motorcycle-riding mechanic who once dated Delly. This was one of three early screen appearances in 1975 for the 17-year-old Griffith, daughter of actress 'Tippi' Hedren ("The Birds," "Marnie"). She co-starred as another seductive nymphet -- this time opposite a detective played by Paul Newman -- in "The Drowning Pool," the followup to the 1966 film "Harper." She also showed promise as one of many beauty queens who invade the city of Santa Rosa, California in "Smile!" -- director Michael Ritchie's satire on pageants. Griffith, who turns 60 on August 9, 2017, has enjoyed a long career in films. She received a 1988 Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in "Working Girl," the romantic comedy directed by the late Mike Nichols. Her 26-year-old daughter, Dakota Johnson, made a breakthrough in the 2015 film version of the best-selling novel "Fifty Shades of Grey." Dakota's father is former "Miami Vice" star Don Johnson. Roger Ebert, the late Chicago Sun-Times film critic, added Penn's film to his "Great Movies" list and addressed the picture's complicated storyline. "The plot can be understood," he wrote, "but not easily, and not on first viewing, and besides, the point is that Moseby is as lost as we are. Something is always turning up to force him to revise everything he thought he knew, and then at the end of the film he has to revise everything again and there is a shot where one of the characters, while drowning, seems to be desperately shaking his head as if to say -- what? 'I didn't mean to do this'? 'I didn't know who was in the boat'? 'In the water'? 'You don't understand'?" Movie crossover reference: Moseby turns down his wife's invitation to see French filmmaker Eric Rohmer's "My Night at Maud's" (1969) with her and a male friend. His reponse: "I don't think so. I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kind of like watching paint dry." Expires May 4, 2015. 3. Up the Down Staircase (1967) -- Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart, Ruth White, Jean Stapleton, Sorrell Booke, Roy Poole, Florence Stanley, Vinnette Carroll, Janice Mars, Loretta Leversee, John Callahan, Denis Fay, Otto Lomax, Martha Greenhouse, Frances Sternhagen. Uncredited: Esther Rolle, Bud Cort. This film version of the 1965 novel by Bel Kaufman (1911-2014) stars Oscar-winner Dennis ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") as a dedicated teacher who tries to cope with life at a troubled inner-city high school. Dennis The film was produced by Alan J. Pakula and Robert Mulligan, the team that brought Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" to the screen in 1962. Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Tad Mosel ("All the Way Home") adapted the screenplay from Kaufman's novel. Expires May 4, 2015.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was in "Stay Hungry" (1976) with Sally Field. Sally Field was in "Absence of Malice" (1981) with Paul Newman. Next: Faith Domergue.