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Larry King used to say that his favorite interview subjects were people who could explain what they do very well. Robin did that -- and her explanations for her movie choices were entertaining and informative. I'm sure next month's guest programmer -- Mo Rocca, not exactly a househould name if you don't watch "CBS Sunday Morning" -- will be as entertaining and informative as Robin was.

Agreed. That voice helps make her the perfect, down-to-Earth counterpoint to Stern's no-holds-barred, on-air personality. After her recent battle with cancer, it was nice to see her in fine form during her disussions with Robert Osborne on TCM.

TCM On Demand for March 11, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. The Philadelphia Story (1940) -- Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young, John Halliday, Mary Nash, Virginia Weidler, Henry Daniell, Lionel Pape, Rex Evans. Uncredited: Hillary Brooke. Stewart won his only competitive Academy Award for his performance in this romantic comedy based on the 1939 stage play by Philip Barry. Directed by George Cukor ("The Women"), the movie's screenplay was adapted by Barry, who won an Oscar for his efforts. Hepburn, who starred in the Broadway play, reprises her role of spoiled Philadelphia socialite Tracy Lord, whose upcoming remarriage has become a noteworthy event. To Tracy's surprise, her ex-husband, C.K. Dexter Haven (Grant), shows up for the event. Stewart plays Macaulay Connor, who has been assigned to cover the nuptials for a publication. On March 25, 1985, Stewart received an honorary Academy Award "for his fifty years of memorable performances. For his high ideals both on and off the screen. With the respect and affection of his colleagues." This was one of four selections by Turner Classic Movies' March Guest Programmer Robin Quivers. It aired in the early morning hours of Wednesday, March 11, 2015. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked the picture No. 52 on its list of the 100 greatest movies of all time. When AFI updated the list in 2007, the film climbed to No. 44. In 1999, AFI released its survey of history's 50 greatest screen legends -- the top 25 actresses and top 25 actors of all time. Hepburn was the was the No. 1 female. Grant was the No. 2 male, followed by Stewart as the No. 3 male (No. 1 was Humphrey Bogart). This was the last of four films that Grant and Hepburn did together between 1935 and 1940. The others: "Sylvia Scarlett" (1935), "Bringing Up Baby" (1938) and "Holiday" (1938). The story was remade in 1956 as the musical "High Society," which starred Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and (in her last screen appearance) Grace Kelly. Expires March 17, 2015. 2. A Place in the Sun (1951) -- Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brasselle, Fred Clark, Raymond Burr, Herbert Heyes, Shepperd Strudwick, Frieda Inescort, Kathryn Givney, Walter Sande, Ted de Corsia, John Ridgely, Lois Chartrand. Uncredited: Kathleen Freeman, Kasey Rogers, Ian Wolfe. George Stevens' drama -- derived from Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel "An American Tragedy" -- was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Clift) and Best Actress (Winters). It won six Oscars: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay (Michael Wilson, Harry Brown), Best Black-and-White Cinematography (William C. Mellor), Best Black-and-White Costume Design (Edith Head), Best Film Editing (William Hornbeck) and Best Original Score (Franz Waxman). In 1998, the American Film Institure ranked the film No. 92 on its list of the 100 greatest movies of all time. When AFI updated the list in 2007, the film did not make the Top 100. By the way, George Stevens, Jr., the son of the director, was a founder of AFI and its driving force from 1967 to 1980. This was the first of three films that paired Clift and Taylor, who became great friends. They also co-starred in "Raintree County" (1957) and "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1959), both of which yielded Best Actress nominations for Taylor. It was after a visit to Taylor's residence that Clift sustained serious facial injuries as the result of an automobile accident on May 12, 1956. Taylor and George Stevens, Sr. worked together again on the screen project that earned the director his second Academy Award -- "Giant" (1956), based on the novel by Edna Ferber. His last film, the 1970 drama "The Only Game in Town," also featured Taylor. Stevens directed Winters to her first of two Oscars for Best Supporting Actress in "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959). Memorable quote: "I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe I’ve even loved you before I saw you." -- George Eastman (Clift) to socialite Angela Vickers (Taylor). Expires March 17, 2015. 3. A Raisin in the Sun (1961) -- Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Stephen Perry, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett, Jr., Roy E. Glenn, Sr., Joel Fluellen, John Fiedler. This film adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's acclaimed 1959 stage play was written for the screen by the author. Directed by Daniel Petrie ("The Betsy," "Fort Apache the Bronx"), the film returned Poitier and McNeil to the Tony Award-nominated roles they created on the stage. Dee and Poitier The story revolves around the Youngers, a Chicago family that hopes for a brighter future, thanks to matriarch Mama Lena (McNeil) and her $10,000 insurance check. This storyline was revisited by Bruce Norris' award-winning 2010 play "Clybourne Park," which updated specific Chicago neighborhoods for the 21st century. The title was derived from a line in the short poem "Harlem" by the celebrated African-American writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967): What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Expires March 17, 2015.

It's a real reason if one would like to see Stern become a guest programmer someday! Talk about must-see TV! And if you want thinking out of the box, you'd likely get that with "The King of All Media"!

Why should the guest programmers have to think outside the box when TCM itself is showing the same ol' Essentials every weekend? If Robin Quivers loves "A Place in the Sun," "A Raisin in the Sun" and "Born Yesterday," then more power to her. They're all great films, but I'm more interested in hearing why they're important to her. And, of course, I'm curious to see if Howard Stern's name comes up in her conversations with Robert Osborne!

Apparently, we're on the brink of Ghostbustersmania: http://deadline.com/2015/03/ghostbusters-channing-tatum-joe-and-anthony-russo-drew-pearce-ivan-reitman-dan-aykroyd-1201388917/

Did Howard talk about Robin's stint on TCM this morning on Sirius Radio?

Imogene Coca was in "Under the Yum Yum Tree" (1963) with Dean Jones. Dean Jones was in "Somebody Up There Likes Me" (1956) with Paul Newman. Next: Carol Heiss.

TCM On Demand for March 10, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Baby, the Rain Must Fall (1965) -- Lee Remick, Steve McQueen, Don Murray, Paul Fix, Josephine Hutchinson, Ruth White, Charles Watts, Carol Veazie, Estelle Hemsley, Kimberly Block, Zamah Cunningham, George Dunn. Uncredited: Glen Campbell, Roy Jenson, Billy Strange (singing voice of Henry Thomas). Directed by Robert Mulligan ("To Kill a Mockingbird"), this drama was adapted by the prolific playwright Horton Foote from his 1954 stage play "The Traveling Lady." The film stars Remick as Georgette Thomas, who travels with her young daughter (Block) to be reunited with her husband Henry (McQueen). The Thomases have been apart because of Henry's conviction and imprisonment for stabbing a man to death. Although Henry has hopes of performing in local nightclubs as a singer, his dreams are threatened by Miss Kate Dawson (Hemsley), the controlling woman who took him in as an orphan years earlier. The title song -- written by composer Elmer Bernstein and Ernie Sheldon -- was recorded by Glenn Yarbrough, the former lead singer of The Limeliters. The song reached the No. 12 spot on the Billboard pop chart. This film marked the first screen appearance of singer Glen Campbell, who appears as a member of a band. Expires March 16, 2015. 2. Nevada Smith (1966) -- Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette, Raf Vallone, Janet Margolin, Pat Hingle, Howard Da Silva, Martin Landau, Paul Fix, Gene Evans, Josephine Hutchinson, John Doucette, Val Avery. Uncredited: Loni Anderson, Isabel Boniface, Iron Eyes Cody, L.Q. Jones, Strother Martin, Joanna Moore, Edy Williams. McQueen plays the title role in this Western revenge tale. The character is a younger edition of the 1930s film star played by Alan Ladd in the 1964 screen version of Harold Robbins' novel "The Carpetbaggers." Directed by Henry Hathaway ("True Grit," "The Sons of Katie Elder"), this prequel focuses on young Max Sand (McQueen), a mixed-race youth growing up in the West. When his white father (Evans) and Kiowa mother (Boniface) are brutally tortured and killed by three strangers (played by Malden, Kennedy and Landau), Max vows to avenge the murders. He makes the acquaintance of Jonas Cord (played by Keith), a gunsmith who becomes his mentor. We know from "The Carpetbaggers" that Cord goes on to establish an explosives empire, later inherited by his son and namesake (played in the 1964 movie by George Peppard). The first killer that Max tracks down is Jesse Coe (Landau), whom he stalks to a cattle pen in Abilene, Texas. After that, he goes after Target No. 2, Bill Bowdre (Kennedy), in a Louisiana prison camp. In order to get close to Target No. 3, Tom Fitch (Malden), Max changes his name to Nevada Smith. This picture was released six months before "The Sand Pebbles," the film for which McQueen received his only Academy Award nomination. He received an Oscar nod as Best Actor of 1966 for his performance as an American sailor amid tumult in 1920s China. By the way, Hathaway looms large in a legendary story in which he decided to teach actor Dennis Hopper a lesson during the filming of "From Hell to Texas" (1958). He made the difficult young actor shoot a scene 80-plus times before it was done to the director's satisfaction. "I was the old Hollywood. He was the new Hollywood," Hathaway once said. "I'd been making movies since 1930. But he figured that because he'd appeared in 'Rebel Without a Cause' with his buddy James Dean, he knew it all. "He figured he was the greatest young actor in the world when we made a picture together in 1958. Well, he wasn't. He was a headstrong kid, full of dope and ****. He was a self-styled enfant terrible and a pain in the ***. I didn't like the way he was playing a scene. "So I made him do it again... and again... and again. Take after take, from nine in the morning until 10 at night. Finally, he gave in and did the scene my way. But the studio dropped his contract like a hot tamale. He was on the fritz for a few years after that...I think it taught him a lesson, but he never forgave me for driving him out of Hollywood." Interestingly, Hopper became a director himself and spearheaded (with producer and co-writer Peter Fonda) the rise of "The New Hollywood" with the release of the blockbuster 1969 independent film "Easy Rider." Expires March 16, 2015. 3. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) -- Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire, Addison Powell, Astrid Heeren, Gordon Pinsent, Yaphet Kotto, Sidney Armus, Richard Bull, Peg Shirley, Patrick Horgan, Carol Corbett, Tom Rosqui. Uncredited: Bruce Glover, Johnny Silver. Director Norman Jewison's splashy, '60s-style cat-and-mouse game inspired a 1999 remake starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary and Dunaway. McQueen stars as the title character, a polished thief who becomes involved with Vicki Anderson (Dunaway), the skilled insurance investigator who becomes suspicious of him. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song -- "The Windmills of Your Mind" by Michel Legrand and Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Noel Harrison, who performed the song in the movie, died October 19, 2013 at the age of 79. Noel's father, Sir Rex Harrison, performed "Talk to the Animals" in the 1967 musical "Doctor Dolittle." It also won the Oscar for Best Original Song, giving the Harrison family an unprecedented, back-to-back achievement. Expires March 16, 2015.

TCM On Demand for March 9, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Grey Gardens (1975) -- In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Maysles brothers -- Albert (1926-2015) and David (1932-1987) -- established reputations for themselves as top-notch documentarians. Their 1968 film "Salesman" followed four Bible peddlers as they went door to door in different parts of the country. "Gimme Shelter" (1970) was a chilling account of the Rolling Stones' December 1969 concert fiasco at Altamont, California, where a spectator at the free event was stabbed to death by a member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club. The Maysles made waves again with this documentary, which updated the lives of the Beales, two former socialites related to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The mother, 82-year-old Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale ("Big Edie"), and her 56-year-old daughter, Edith Bouvier Beale ("Little Edie"), lived together in a rundown, 28-room house in East Hampton, New York. Their squalid living conditions also included numerous cats as well as occasional raccoons and opossums. In 1976, Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert called thus "one of the most haunting documentaries in a long time." "Little Edie" and "Big Edie" CREDIT: The Criterion Collection The documentary inspired a 2006 Broadway musical of the same title that won three Tony Awards, including Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Christine Ebersol) and Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical (Mary Louise Wilson). Ebersol appeared as both the young "Big Edie" and the "Little Edie" of 1975. Wilson portrayed the older "Big Edie." A 2009 HBO production, starring Jessica Lange as "Big Edie" and Drew Barrymore as "Little Edie," received 17 Primetime Emmy nominations. It won six awards, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie (Lange) and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie (Ken Howard). It also won Golden Globe Awards for Best Made for Television Movie and Best Actress in a Made for Television Movie (Barrymore). At the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Barrymore picked up the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie. The Maysles were portrayed by Arye Gross (as Albert) and Justin Louis (David). Epilog: For the July 12, 2015 edition of "CBS Sunday Morning," correspondent Lee Cowan anchored the program from a restored Grey Gardens. The residence was purchased in 1979 for $220,000 by the late Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee and his wife, journalist Sally Quinn. According to Quinn, Little Edie made them promise they would not tear down the structure. "In order to get rid of the cat smell, we had to tear out the floors and the walls," Quinn said. "CBS Sunday Morning" reported that Grey Gardens is now valued at more than $20 million. CBS News Expires March 15, 2015.

TCM On Demand for March 9, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) -- Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall, William Windom, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White, Collin Wilcox, Paul Fix, John Megna, Estelle Evans, James Anderson, Alice Ghostley, Crahan Denton, Richard Hale. Uncredited actors: Kim Stanley (narrator), Bill Walker. Peck won his only Academy Award for his performance as Atticus Finch, a gentlemanly lawyer who takes on a controversial case in his Alabama hometown. The widower father of two children -- Jem (Alford) and Scout (Badham) -- defends Tom Robinson (Peters), a black man falsely accused of assaulting a white woman (Wilcox). Produced by Alan J. Pakula and directed by Robert Mulligan, the film was based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. In addition to Peck's Best Actor win, the drama also received Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay (Horton Foote) and Best Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration (Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead and Oliver Emert). The film received nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (Badham), Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Russell Harlan) and Best Original Score (Elmer Bernstein). In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked the picture No. 34 on its list of the 100 greatest movies of all time. When AFI updated the list in 2007, the film climbed to No. 25. On June 4, 2003, CBS televised a special about AFI's survey of the top heroes and villains in movie history. Atticus Finch was the No. 1 hero, followed by Indiana Jones ("Raiders of the Lost Ark"), James Bond ("Dr. No"), Rick Blaine ("Casablanca") and Marshal Will Kane ("High Noon"). The No. 1 villain was Dr. Hannibal Lecter of "The Silence of the Lambs." Eight days after the AFI special aired, Peck died of bronchopneumonia at the age of 87. At a public memorial service in Los Angeles on June 16, 2003, Peck was eulogized by actor Peters, who had become a friend after the filming of this movie. "In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love," Peters said. "Gregory Peck gave us these attributes in full measure. To this day, the children of 'Mockingbird'...call him Atticus." In 2005, Bernstein's score placed 17th on the American Film Institute's ranking of the top 25 film scores of all time. It was one of two Bernstein compositions on the list. The other: His score for "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), which ranked No. 7. The novel was Lee's only published work until 2015. It was announced in earlier this month that "Go Set a Watchman," a work of fiction written by the author in the 1950s but presumed lost, will be released in July. The book, set in the '50s, reportedly focuses on the adult Scout Finch and her relationship with her father 20 years after the events in the first novel. This movie marked the screen debut of Duvall (as Boo Radley), who is still going strong in movies 53 years later. On January 15, 2015, 10 days after his 84th birthday, he received his seventh Academy Award nomination. He was honored in the Best Supporting Actor category for his performance as the title character in "The Judge." Duvall won the 1983 Best Actor Oscar for his work in the drama "Tender Mercies." Memorable quote: "Miss Jean Louise. Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing" -- The Reverend Sykes (Walker), speaking to Scout, who sat next to him in the courthouse balcony -- the "blacks only" section -- during Robinson's trial. As attorney Finch prepares to leave the courtroom after his stirring but unsuccessful defense, all of the people in the section rise to their feet. Finch, lost in thought, is oblivious to their tribute. Memorable dialogue: Jem: How old were you when you got your first gun, Atticus? Atticus Finch: Thirteen or 14. I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house. And that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much. And that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted, if I could hit 'em. But to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. Jem: Why? Atticus Finch: Well, I reckon because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncribs. They don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us. Observations: The character of Dill (played by Megna) was based on Lee's best friend since childhood, author Truman Capote...Actress Catherine Keener earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Lee in the 2005 biopic "Capote." The film provided a Best Actor Oscar for the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, who played the author as he conducted research on his 1965 nonfiction best seller "In Cold Blood"...Sandra Bullock appeared as Lee in another film about Capote, the 2006 drama "Infamous," in which British actor Toby Jones portrayed the author. In memoriam: Murphy, the Emmy Award-winning actress who appears as Miss Maudie Atkinson, died of cancer on July 5, 2014. She was 89. Her Emmy win was for her portrayal of FDR's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, in the 1976 made-for-television movie "Eleanor and Franklin." Would you believe? In a 1969 episode of the sitcom "Get Smart," CONTROL agents Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and 99 (Barbara Feldon) went to Mexico in search of the famed figurine known as the Tequila Mockingbird. Expires March 15, 2015. 3. Topper (1937) -- Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Eugene Pallette, Arthur Lake, Hedda Hopper, Virginia Sale, Theodore von Eltz, J. Farrell MacDonald, Elaine Shepard, Doodles Weaver, Si Jenks, Three Hits and a Miss. Uncredited actors: Lana Turner, Ward Bond, Hoagy Carmichael. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, this comedy stars Young as Wall Street banker Cosmo Topper, who makes the acquaintance of the fun-loving ghosts of socialites George and Marion Kerby (Grant, Bennett). Burke co-stars as Topper's wife Clara; Mowbray is the faithful servant. The movie received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor (Young) and Best Sound, Recording (Elmer A. Raguse). The box-office hit was followed in 1938 by a sequel (without Grant) titled "Topper Takes a Trip." Another sequel, "Topper Returns," was released in 1941 -- also without Grant. The film trilogy inspired the 1950s television series that starred Leo G. Carroll as Topper, Lee Patrick as Clara, and Robert Sterling and Anne Jeffreys as George and Marion, respectively. Expires March 15, 2015.

Arnold Vosloo was in "Progeny" (1998) with Lindsay Crouse. Lindsay Crouse was in "Slap Shot" (1977) with Paul Newman. Next: Martha Raye.

Julie Christie! Once again: Those lips, those eyes...That talent!

Wasn't Conrad Veidt an inspiration for the Joker?

James Cagney, Jr. was in "The Gallant Hours" (1960) with Richard Jaeckel. Richard Jaeckel was in "The Drowning Pool" (1975) with Paul Newman. Next: Mary Ann Mobley.

TCM On Demand for March 8, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) -- Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Dame Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan, Basil Sydney, Cecil Parker, Raymond Lovell, Anthony Eustrel, Ernest Thesiger, Anthony Harvey, Robert Adams, Olga Edwardes, Harda Swanhilde, Michael Rennie, James McKechnie, Esme Percy, Stanley Holloway, Leo Genn, Alan Wheatley, Anthony Holles, Charles Victor, Ronald Shiner, John Bryning, John Laurie, Charles Rolfe, Felix Aylmer, Ivor Barnard, Valentine Dyall, Charles Deane. Uncredited: Jean Simmons, Renée Asherson, Russell Thorndike, Sir Roger Moore, Kay Kendall, Cathleen Nesbitt, Zena Marshall. This ambitious Technicolor production of George Bernard Shaw's stage play was produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal, who filmed a 1941 version of Shaw's "Major Barbara"). The film received a 1946 Academy Award nomination for Best Art Direction (John Bryan, who won an Oscar a year later as the set decorator of Sir David Lean's black-and-white adaptation of "Great Expectations"). In the following scene, Caesar's soliloquy about the Sphinx is interrupted by Cleopatra, who does not recognize the Roman conqueror. Harvey, who portrays Cleopatra's brother and rival Ptolemy, grew up to become a distinguished director. His 1968 drama "The Lion in Winter" was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. It won for Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn, in a tie with Barbra Streisand of "Funny Girl"), Best Adapted Screenplay (James Goldman, brother of two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman) and Best Music Score (John Barry). Harvey won the Directors Guild of America Award for his work on the film behind the camera. Expires March 14, 2015.

TCM On Demand for March 8, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) -- Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, James Earl Jones, Tracy Reed, Jack Creley, Frank Berry, Robert O'Neil, Glenn Beck, Roy Stephens, Shane Rimmer, Hal Galili, Paul Tamarin, Laurence Herder, Gordon Tanner, John McCarthy. Uncredited: Burnell Tucker. Stanley Kubrick's masterful black comedy about the Cold War and mutually assured destruction earned four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Sellers became the first person to win a Best Actor nod for playing three different characters. He appears as U.S. President Merkin Muffley, British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake and the title character, an ex-Nazi scientist turned presidential adviser. The film also was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay (Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern). In its 1998 survey of the greatest movies of all time, the American Film Institute ranked the film No. 26. In AFI's updated 2007 survey, the thriller dropped 13 places to No. 39. In 2005, President Muffley's interjection while trying to stop a physical altercation between General Buck Turgidson (Scott) and a Russian ambassador (Bull) was ranked as the 64th greatest movie quote of all time. See the following clip: Memorable scene: Major "King" Kong (played by Pickens) dislodges an uncooperative nuclear bomb and then rides it to glory as if it was a bucking bronco. And you could look it up: Slugger Dick Stuart, who played first base for several Major League Baseball teams in the 1960s, was a mediocre fielder and once committed 29 errors in a season. After Kubrick's movie was released, Stuart earned the nickname "Dr. Strangeglove." Postscript: This film marked the first screen appearance by Jones, who plays B-52 bombadier Lt. Lothar Zogg. The Mississippi-born actor went on to become an industry heavyweight for his powerful acting as well as his vocal contributions to the first "Star Wars" trilogy (as Darth Vader) and "The Lion King" (as Mufasa). He is one of the few performers to achieve E.G.O.T. status -- receiving Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony statuettes -- although his Oscar was an honorary one. On November 12, 2011, he was cited by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences "for his legacy of consistent excellence and uncommon versatility." Expires March 14, 2015.

TCM On Demand for March 8, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 3. Roman Holiday (1953) -- Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams, Margaret Rawlings, Tullio Carminati, Paolo, Carlini, Claudio Ermelli, Paola Borboni, Alfredo Rizzo, Laura Solari, Gorella Gori. For her performance in this film, Hepburn won the Academy Award for Best Actress and became a major star. Directed by William Wyler, the black-and-white romantic tale stars Peck as an American journalist who becomes the unwitting companion of an AWOL European princess (Hepburn) during her official visit to Rome. The film also won Oscars for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story (credited to Ian McLellan Hunter, a front for the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo) and Best Black-and-White Costume Design (Edith Head). It received nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Albert), Best Writing, Screenplay (Hunter, John Dighton), Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Franz Planer, Henri Alekan), Best Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration (Hal Pereira Walter H. Tyler) and Best Film Editing (Robert Swink). Memorable scene: The writer tells the princess the legend of the Bocca della Verità (Mouth of Truth), which is located in the portico of the Church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin: Classy move: This was Peck's movie in terms of star billing, but he was so impressed by Hepburn's work that he insisted both their names should come before the film's title in the opening credits. Her credit says "Introducing Audrey Hepburn," although she had appeared in seven other films before this one. One of 12: Hepburn's Oscar was the first of the four major entertainment awards that she won. She became one of only 12 people to achieve EGOT status -- winning at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. She picked up a 1954 Tony for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her role in "Ondine." After her death on January 20, 1993, she was voted a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming for her PBS series "Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn." She also earned a posthumous Grammy in 1994 in the Best Spoken Word Album for Children category for "Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales." Expires March 14, 2015. 4. The Visitor (1979) -- Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, John Huston, Joanne Nail, Sam Peckinpah, Shelley Winters, Paige Conner, Franco Nero, Neal Boortz, Steve Somers, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. This science-fiction tale by Michael J. Paradise (a pseudonym for Italian actor-director Giulio Paradisi) revolves around Katy Collins (Conner), a young girl with powers of telekinesis. She becomes the target of cosmic forces that consider her a threat to the universe. Filmed in Italy and Atlanta, the movie was produced and co-created by Ovidio G. Assonitis ("Tentacles"). Turner Classic Movies aired the film as part of its TCM Underground series in the early morning hours of Sunday, March 8, 2015. Expires March 14, 2015.

I suppose I'll have to settle for the DeLorean from the "Back to the Future" trilogy. Interestingly, some lucky person could get one if the Chicago Cubs are the 2015 World Series champions. http://www.autoblog.com/2015/03/05/illinois-car-museum-delorean-chicago-cubs/

TCM On Demand for March 7, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Fiddler on the Roof (1971) -- Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, Neva Small, Paul Michael Glaser, Raymond Lovelock, Elaine Edwards, Candy Bonstein, Shimen Ruskin, Zvee Scooler, Louis Zorich. Norman Jewison ("In the Heat of the Night," "Moonstruck") directed and co-produced this screen version of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on the tales of Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916). Composer John Williams, who has earned a whopping 49 Academy Award nominations during his prolific career, received his first of five Oscars for his Best Song Score Adaptation. Oscars also went to Oswald Morris for his cinematography and to Gordon McCallum and David Hildyard for Best Sound. The British-born Morris died on March 17, 2014 at the age of 98. The film also was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Topol), Best Supporting Actor (Frey) and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Robert F. Boyle, Michael Stringer and Peter Lamont). Set in early 20th-century Russia -- on the eve of repressive anti-Jewish pogroms -- the film stars the Israeli actor Topol as Tevye the milkman, the role originated on Broadway by Zero Mostel in 1964. The movie's screenplay was adapted by Joseph Stein; the music was composed by Jerry Bock with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. Among the familiar musical numbers featured in the film: "Tradition," "Matchmaker," "To Life," "Sunrise, Sunset," "Do You Love Me?" and "If I Were a Rich Man." Expires March 13, 2015. 2. Sweet Charity (1969) -- Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis, Jr., Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Stubby Kaye, Barbara Bouchet, Suzanne Charny, Alan Hewitt, Dante DiPaolo, Bud Vest, Ben Vereen, Lee Roy Reams, Al Lanti, John Wheeler, Leon Bing. Uncredited: Toni Basil, Linda Clifford, Chelsea Brown, Bud Cort, Maudie Prickett, Judith Lowry, Henry Beckman, Lance LeGault, Lorene Yarnell, Kristoffer Tabori. Bob Fosse's film version of his 1966 stage musical, which was inspired by Italian filmmaker Frederico Fellini's 1957 Oscar-winning drama "Nights of Cabiria." The original Broadway version, with a book by Neil Simon and songs by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields, also was directed and choreographed by Fosse, and starred his wife at the time, Gwen Verdon. Fosse also directed and choreographed this screen version, which stars MacLaine as the hard-luck but optimistic New York taxi dancer Charity Hope Valentine. Among the songs used in the film are: "Big Spender" and "If My Friends Could See Me Now." Clifford, who has a small role as a dancer in the movie, recorded a disco version of the song "If My Friends Could See Me Now." The 1978 hit was used frequently to introduce the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders before National Football League games at Texas Stadium. The film received three Academy Award nominations: Best Costume Design (Edith Head), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Alexander Golitzen, George C. Webb, Jack D. Moore); and Best Music, Score of a Musical Picture -- Original or Adaptation (Coleman). Expires March 13, 2015.

TCM On Demand for March 6, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Airport (1970) -- Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Maureen Stapleton, Barry Nelson, Dana Wynter, Lloyd Nolan, Barbara Hale, Gary Collins, John Findlater, Jessie Royce Landis, Larry Gates, Peter Turgeon, Whit Bissell, Virginia Grey, Eileen Wesson, Paul Picerni, Robert Patten, Clark Howat, Lew Brown, Ilana Dowding, Lisa Gerritsen, Jim Nolan, Patty Poulsen, Ena Hartman, Malila Saint Duval, Sharon Harvey, Albert Reed, Jodean Russo, Nancy Ann Nelson, Dick Winslow, Lou Wagner, Janis Hansen, Mary Jackson, Shelly Novack, Chuck Daniel, Charles Brewer. Uncredited actors: Marion Ross, Benny Rubin, Merry Anders, Dort Clark, Eve Brent, Nick Cravat, Sandra Gould, Walter Woolf King, Pat Priest, Quinn Redeker. Produced by Ross Hunter and based on Arthur Hailey's best-selling novel, this blockbuster disaster film with an all-star cast earned 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Its only win was for Hayes as Best Supporting Actress, her first Oscar win since she received the 1931-1932 Best Actress award for her performance in "The Sin of Madelon Claudet." She became the first person ever to win Oscars in both a leading category and a supporting category. Directed by George Seaton ("Miracle on 34th Street," "The Country Girl") -- an uncredited Henry Hathaway also made contributions -- the film focuses on a busy day and night at Lincoln International Airport, a Midwestern hub run by Mel Bakersfield (Lancaster). The manager has more than enough professional and personal problems on his plate, including complications because of heavy snowfall. Things get worse when a plane bound for Rome is threatened by a distraught man named D.O. Guerrero (Heflin), who plans to set off a bomb so his wife can collect insurance money. In one of the movie's best scenes, Trans Global Airlines pilot Vern Demerest (Martin) finds out about Guerrero's scheme. He gets head flight attendant Gwen Meighen (Bisset) to enlist the help of elderly stowaway Ada Quonsett (Hayes) -- who happens to be sitting next to Guerrero on the flight. One of the film's heroes is chief mechanic Joe Patroni (played by Kennedy), who has the unenviable task of trying to move a snowbound airplane from a key runway. Kennedy would reprise the role in three all-star sequels during the 1970s -- "Airport 1975" (1974), "Airport '77" (1977) and "The Concorde ... Airport '79" (1979). The film's other Academy Award nominations were for Best Supporting Actress (Stapleton); Best Adapted Screenplay (Seaton); Best Cinematography (Ernest Laszlo); Best Film Editing (Stuart Gilmore); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Alexander Golitzen and E. Preston Ames, art directors; Jack D. Moore and Mickey S. Michaels), set decorators; Best Costume Design (Edith Head); and Best Sound (Ronald Pierce, David H. Moriarty). One of 12: Known as "The First Lady of the American Theater," Hayes (1900–1993) became the second person (after composer Richard Rodgers) and first woman to achieve EGOT status -- winning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. Only 12 people in history have accomplished the feat. Milestones: This was the final screen appearance of the Academy Award-winning actor Heflin, whose film career began in 1936. He died at the age of 60 on July 23, 1971, six weeks after he suffered a heart attack...This also was the final film score by the great Alfred Newman, who composed the music for more than 200 productions and won a record nine Oscars in 45 nominations. He died on February 17, 1970 -- one month before his 70th birthday. He received a posthumous nomination for this score, but the award went to Francis Lai for "Love Story." From Alfred Newman to Alfred E. Neuman: In a December 1970 Mad magazine parody titled "Airplot," Heflin's character sets off his briefcase bomb when the pilot played by crooner Martin begins singing to him. Surely, you can't be serious: The 1980 spoof "Airplane!" lampooned this and other air disaster films of the genre. But its biggest target was the 1957 drama "Zero Hour!" -- adapted by author Hailey from his 1956 teleplay "Flight into Danger." The first 007: Nelson, who plays co-pilot Captain Anson Harris, was the first actor -- and only American -- to play Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond. Eight years before Sir Sean Connery played 007 in "Dr. No" (1962), Nelson appeared as Bond in a 1954 television episode of "Climax!" adapted from Fleming's 1953 novel "Casino Royale." Memorable quote: "Grab him, he's got a bomb!" -- An obnoxious passenger (played by Turgeon) not only foils an attempt to wrest away the briefcase bomb from Guerrero, but he also causes the explosion by yelling those six words. Expires March 12, 2015.

Harve Bennett was in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) with William Shatner. William Shatner was in "The Outrage" (1964) with Paul Newman. Next: Donna Loren.

TCM On Demand for March 6, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. A Matter of Life and Death (1946) -- David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Kathleen Byron, Sir Richard Attenborough, Bonar Colleano, Joan Maude, Marius Goring, Robert Coote, Robert Atkins, Bob Roberts, Edwin Max, Betty Potter, Raymond Massey, Abraham Sofaer. Uncredited: Lois Maxwell. Also known as "Stairway to Heaven," this stylish romantic fantasy was a collaboration by Britishers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, whose color-rich films also included "Black Narcissus" (1947) and "The Red Shoes" (1948). Set during World War II, the film stars Niven as a downed British World War II pilot who somehow cheats death, although heavenly forces seem determined to reverse his fate. Hunter co-stars as an American radio operator who develops a bond with the pilot. Expires March 12, 2015.

TCM On Demand for March 6, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 3. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) -- Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias, Wright King, Richard Garrick, Ann Dere, Edna Thomas, Mickey Kuhn. No film in history has ever won Academy Awards in all four acting categories, but this adaptation of Tennessee Williams' stage play came awfully close. It won Oscars for Best Actress (Leigh), Best Supporting Actor (Malden) and Best Supporting Actress (Hunter). The only omission was Brando's bid for the Best Actor award, which was won by Humphrey Bogart for his performance in "The African Queen." Directed by Elia Kazan ("Gentleman's Agreement," "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), this film was nominated for 12 overall Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. The production also won for Best Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration (Richard Day, George James Hopkins). In addition, the film received nominations for Best Writing Screenplay (Williams), Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Harry Stradling, Sr.), Best Black-and-White Costume Design (Lucinda Ballard), Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Alex North) and Best Sound, Recording (Nathan Levinson, Warner Bros.). Leigh, the British actress born in India, won her second Best Actress Oscar for playing a great Southern belle character of literature. Her first was for her role as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind" (1939). This time, she won for her take on Blanche DuBois, a fading Mississippi beauty who disrupts the New Orleans home of her sister Stella Kowalski (Hunter) and brother-in-law Stanley (Brando). For his performance as Kowalski, Brando earned the first of a record four consecutive Academy Award nominations as Best Actor. He later was nominated for his work in "Viva Zapata!" (1952) and "Julius Caesar" (1953) before he finally won on his fourth try for "On the Waterfront" (1954). In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked this film No. 45 on its list of the 100 greatest movies of all time. When AFI updated the list in 2007, the film dropped two notches to No. 47. In 2005, North's score placed 19th on AFI's ranking of the top 25 film scores of all time. The composer (1910-1991) never won a competitive Academy Award despite 15 nominations (including one for "Unchained Melody," which was up for the Best Original Song Oscar for 1955). On March 24, 1986, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented him with an honorary statuette "in recognition of his brilliant artistry in the creation of memorable music for a host of distinguished motion pictures." Also in 2005, AFI ranked Kowalski's loud cries for his wife's attention at No. 45 on its list of the 100 greatest quotes in movie history. Brando had two other unforgettable quotes on the list. At No. 2 was a line from "The Godfather" ("I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse"). At No. 3 was from a scene in "On the Waterfront" ("You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am"). Every spring in Jackson Square, the five-day Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literacy Festival traditionally closes with a "Stanley and Stella Shouting Contest," in which contestants deliver their versions of Kowalski's famous scene. Many female contestants yell for Stanley. Expires March 12, 2015.

TCM On Demand for March 5, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Grand Exit (1935) -- Edmund Lowe, Ann Sothern, Onslow Stevens, Robert Middlemass, Wyrley Birch, Selmer Jackson, Guy Usher, Miki Morita. Uncredited: Iris Adrian. Directed by Erle C. Kenton ("Island of Lost Souls," "House of Dracula"), this mystery stars Lowe as Thomas Ignatius "Tom" Fletcher, a crack insurance investigator trying to get to the bottom of several costly arson fires. The blazes have something in common: They were all set at buildings insured by the Interoceanic Fire Insurance Co. And that happens to be the firm for which Fletcher is working. Sothern, Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month for March 2015, co-stars as a mysterious woman who seems to show up at the scene of every fire. Expires March 11, 2015. 2. Smartest Girl in Town (1936) -- Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Erik Rhodes, Harry Jans. Uncredited: Frank Jenks, Etta McDaniel. Directed by Joseph Santley ("The Cocoanuts"), this comedy about a mistaken identity stars Sothern as Frances "Cookie" Cooke, a model who hopes to land a wealthy husband someday. When she meets millionaire Richard Stuyvesant "Dick" Smith (Raymond) during a shoot on his yacht, she assumes he is a male model. Intrigued by her, Smith doesn't reveal his true identity and tries to win her based on his personality. This was one of five romantic comedies that teamed Raymond and Sothern during the 1930s. The others: "Hooray for Love" (1935), "Walking on Air" (1936), "There Goes My Girl" (1937) and "She's Got Everything" (1937). The actors also appeared in the 1964 political drama "Gore Vidal's The Best Man," but they had no scenes together. Raymond, who had a versatile career as an actor, writer, director, producer, performs a song that he composed: "Will You?" McDaniel, who appears as Phoebe the maid, was the older sister of Academy Award winner Hattie McDaniel ("Gone With the Wind"). Expires March 11, 2015.