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Studs Terkel was in "Eight Men Out" (1988) with John Cusack. John Cusack was in "Fat Man and Little Boy" (1989) with Paul Newman. Next: Catherine Burns.

TCM On Demand for March 4, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. The Artist (2011) -- Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller, Missi Pyle, Beth Grant, Ed Lauter, Joel Murray, Bitsie Tulloch, Ken Davitian, Malcolm McDowell, Basil Hoffman, Bill Fagerbakke, Nina Siemaszko. French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius' mostly silent picture about a fading silent era movie star received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Dujardin). Set in the late 1920s, the comedy/drama stars Dujardin as George Valentin, a major film star in the Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. mold. But his career is short circuited by the rise of talking pictures and the cataclysmic repercussions of the stock market crash on October 29, 1929. Valentin's decline coincides with the meteoric rise to fame of an acquaintance, Peppy Miller (Bejo), who becomes something of a guardian angel for the seemingly washed-up actor. The film also received Academy Awards for Best Costume Design (Mark Bridges) and Best Original Score (Ludovic Bource). It received additional nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Bejo); Best Original Screenplay (Hazanavicius); Best Cinematography (Guillaume Schiffman); Best Film Editing (Hazanavicius, Anne-Sophie Bion); and Art Direction (Laurence Bennett, production designer, and Robert Gould, set decorator). Producer Thomas Langmann, who accepted the Best Picture Oscar, is the son of the late French director Claude Berri (real name: Claude Berel Langmann), whose credits included "The Two of Us" (1967) and the two-part 1986 saga "Jean de Florette" and "Manon of the Spring." Goodman, who has never been nominated for an Academy Award, appeared in the following year's Best Picture winner. He co-starred as Hollywood makeup wizard John Chambers in "Argo." A Jack Russell Terrier named Uggie appears as Valentin's adorable dog. At the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, a group of international film critics voted Uggie the Palm Dog Award, issued for the best performance by a canine. Uggie was put to sleep because of a prostate tumor on August 7, 2015, He was 13 (that's about 68 in human years). Expires March 10, 2015.

TCM On Demand for March 4, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. The King's Speech (2010) -- Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Sir Michael Gambon, Claire Bloom, Guy Pearce, Eve Best, Freya Wilson, Ramona Marquez, Sir Derek Jacobi, Timothy Spall, Anthony Andrews, Calum Gittins, Jennifer Ehle, Dominic Applewhite, Ben Wimsett, David Bamber. This true story of how Britain's King George VI overcame a stuttering problem --thanks to a creative speech pathologist named Lionel Logue -- won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Tom Hooper), Best Actor (Firth) and Best Original Screenplay (David Seidler). The film also received Oscar nominations in eight other categories: Best Supporting Actor (Rush, as Logue); Best Supporting Actress (Bonham Carter as George's wife Elizabeth, the future Queen Mother); Best Cinematography (Danny Cohen); Best Film Editing (Tariq Anwar); Best Costume Design (Jenny Beavan); Best Art Direction (Eve Stewart, production design, and Judy Farr, set decoration); Best Original Score (Alexandre Desplat); and Best Sound Mixing (Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley). Firth's performance as George VI made him the fourth person to win an Academy Award for portraying a British monarch. The three others were: Charles Laughton as King Henry VIII in "The Private Life of Henry VIII (1932-33). Best Actor. Dame Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I in "Shakespeare in Love" (1998). Best Supporting Actress. Dame Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen" (2006). Best Actress. Seidler, who himself once stammered as a youth, had researched the story of the relationship between the king and Logue since the 1970s. But when he requested permission from the Queen Mother, George's widow, she agreed on the condition that a film not be made while she was alive. She died in 2002 at the age of 101. The movie's title has a double meaning. It not only refers to the king's stuttering problem, but also to a crucial radio message he must deliver after Great Britain's entry into World War II. Memorable dialogue: King George VI: Logue, however this turns out, I don't know how to thank you...for what you've done. Logue: Knighthood? In contrast to her father's longtime discomfort with public speaking, Queen Elizabeth II (portrayed as a child in the film by Wilson) has been adept at it for most of her life. Her annual Christmas Day message to her subjects is must-see television. And she apparently is on top of pop culture developments. For instance, she appeared with actor Daniel Craig (as James Bond) in a film short for the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Also, in her most recent Christmas address, she excited the Twitterverse by referring to her June 2014 visit to the set of "Game of Thrones" in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Queen, who succeeded her father as monarch after his death on February 6, 1952, observed her 92nd birthday on April 21, 2018 (it is traditionally celebrated in June). On September 9, 2015, she became Britain's longest-serving sovereign, surpassing the record of her great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria (1819-1901). On February 6, 2017, she observed her Sapphire Jubilee -- 65 years on the British throne, or 23,742 days. Expires March 10, 2015.

TCM On Demand for March 4, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 3. No Country for Old Men (2007) -- Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Barry Corbin, Stephen Root, Rodger Boyce, Beth Grant, Ana Reeder, Kit Gwin, Zach Hopkins, Chip Love, Eduardo Antonio Garcia, Gene Jones. Based on the 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy, this drama by Joel and Ethan Coen won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The Coens won three Oscars each for producing, directing and adapting the movie's screenplay. They were the last filmmakers to win three Oscars in one night until February 22, 2015, when Alejandro González Iñárritu duplicated the feat with triple wins for his film "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)." Set in 1980, the Coens' thriller stars Brolin as Llewelyn Moss, a West Texas hunter who stumbles onto the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong in the desert. He also discovers a leather case containing $2 million in cash, which he takes home with him. Unfortunately for Moss, he makes the mistake of returning after sundown to the scene of the shootout. He finds out quickly that he has company. A deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues when Moss is pursued by Anton Chigurh (Bardem), a mysterious hitman with a tracking device that monitors the case full of cash. Bardem won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his chilling performance as the ultra-serious killer -- one of moviedom's great villains. In addition to the Oscars won by the Coens and Bardem, the film also was nominated for Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins); Best Film Editing (Roderick Jaynes, a pseudonym for the Coen Brothers); Best Sound Editing (Skip Lievsay); and Best Sound Mixing (Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland). Jones, who co-stars as a world-weary county sheriff named Ed Tom Bell, provides monologues at the beginning and the end of the film. Brolin's experiences in working with the Oscar-winning actor apparently served him well. He played the younger version of Jones' Agent K character in the 2012 sci-fi sequel "Men in Black 3." One of 12: The Coens shared the Best Picture award with producer Scott Rudin, who became one of only 12 people to achieve EGOT status -- winning at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. He earned a 1984 Primetime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Children's Program for "He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'." Rudin has won eight Tony Awards for producing such winning efforts as "The Book of Mormon" (2011) and the 2012 revival of "Death of a Salesman." He also picked up a 2012 Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album ("The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording"). Memorable dialogue: Nervous Accountant (played by Trent Moore): Are you going to shoot me? Chigurh: That depends. Do you see me? Expires March 10, 2015.

Speaking of space weapons, I wouldn't mind having a light saber from "Star Wars."

TCM On Demand for March 4, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) -- Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Mireille Perrey, Jean Champion. Titled "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" in French, Jacques Demy's opera-style musical received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Foreign Language Film of 1964. It also won the top prize at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. The picture was an early starring vehicle for Deneuve, who became one of the great international film headliners and an Academy Award nominee (Best Actress of 1992 for "Indochine"). Set during the late 1950s, the film is the story of Geneviève Emery (Deneuve), a French teen who works in a Cherbourg store run by her mother (Vernon). Geneviève falls in love with Guy Foucher (Castelnuovo), who has been drafted by the French Army and is scheduled for active duty in the Algerian conflict. After his departure, she discovers that she is pregnant, which becomes a complication because of Guy's absence during the war. The film's four other Oscar nominations -- issued for the year 1965 -- were for Best Original Screenplay (Demy); Best Original Song ("I Will Wait for You" by Demy and Michel Legrand); Best Music, Score - Substantially Original (Legrand, Demy); and Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment (Legrand). Michel, who plays Geneviève's wealthy suitor Roland Cassard, previously appeared as the character in Demy's 1961 drama "Lola." which starred Anouk Aimée. Deneuve and her older sister Françoise Dorléac later starred in Demy's 1967 musical "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort" ("The Young Girls of Rochefort"). It turned out to be one of Dorléac's final films. She was killed in an automobile accident near Nice, France on June 26,1967. She was 25. Expires March 10, 2015.

John O'Hara was in "The General Died at Dawn" (1936) with Leonid Kinskey. Leonid Kinskey was in "The Helen Morgan Story" (1957) with Paul Newman. Next: Diana Scarwid.

TCM On Demand for March 3, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. The Poseidon Adventure (1972) -- Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Leslie Nielsen, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Pamela Sue Martin, Arthur O'Connell, Eric Shea, Fred Sadoff, Sheila Mathews, Jan Arvan, Byron Webster, John Crawford, Bob Hastings, Erik Nelson. Disaster film producer Irwin Allen brought to the screen this suspenseful tale of an aging ocean liner upended by a tidal wave on New Year's Eve. The storyline revolves around a group of desperate survivors -- led by a take-charge minister played by Hackman -- who try to climb to safety. Directed by Ronald Neame ("Tunes of Glory," "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"), the film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song ("The Morning After" by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn). It became a No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit for Maureen McGovern in August 1973. The songwriters would also win the Best Song Oscar for "We May Never Love Like This Again" from Allen's 1974 disaster film "The Towering Inferno." The disaster-at-sea film received seven other Oscar nominations: Best Supporting Actress (Winters), Best Cinematography (Harold E. Stine), Best Film Editing (Harold F. Kress), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (William J. Creber, Raphael Bretton), Best Costume Design (Paul Zastupnevich), Best Sound (Theodore Soderberg, Herman Lewis), and Best Music, Original Dramatic Score (John Williams). The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also voted a Special Achievement Award to L.B. Abbott and A.D. Flowers for the visual effects they created. There have been two remakes of the film in the past decade. In 2005, a made-for-television production starred Rutger Hauer, Alexa Hamilton, Adam Baldwin, Steve Guttenberg and Bryan Brown. In 2006, German director Wolfgang Peterson helmed "Poseidon," a feature film starring Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, Mike Vogel and Jacinda Barrett. There also was a 1979 sequel of sorts -- "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" -- that starred Sir Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Karl Malden and Shirley Jones. Expires March 9, 2015. 2. The Swarm (1978) -- Sir Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Fred MacMurray, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant, José Ferrer, Patty Duke Astin, Slim Pickens, Bradford Dillman, Cameron Mitchell, Christian Juttner. This thriller about African killer bees invading Texas is headlined by seven Academy Award winners. It was produced and directed by Irwin Allen ("The Poseidon Adventure," "The Towering Inferno"), the master of the disaster film genre. This film marked the final screen appearance of MacMurray, whose career in movies began almost 50 years earlier. It also was the penultimate picture for De Havilland. The picture received an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design (Paul Zastupnevich). Expires March 9, 2015. 3. Them! (1954) -- James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens, Sean McClory, Chris Drake, Sandy Descher, Mary Alan Hokanson, Don Shelton, Fess Parker, Olin Howland. Uncredited: Leonard Nimoy, Richard Deacon, John Beradino, Ann Doran, Willis Bouchey, William Schallert, Dub Taylor. Directed by Gordon Douglas ("In Like Flint," "Robin and the 7 Hoods"), this sci-fi drama pits American ingenuity and firepower against giant mutant ants in New Mexico. The film received an Academy Award nomination for its special effects. Arness was a year away from major stardom when this film was released on June 19, 1954. Fifteen months later -- on September 10, 1955 -- John Wayne introduced him as the star of the new CBS TV Western "Gunsmoke." Arness had co-starred with Wayne in the screen dramas "Big Jim McLain" (1952) and "The Sea Chase" (1955). Expires March 9, 2015.​

TCM On Demand for March 2, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Chicago (2002) -- Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, John C. Reilly, Queen Latifah, Christine Baranski, Chita Rivera, Taye Diggs, Lucy Liu, Dominic West, Colm Feore, Mýa Harrison, Susan Misner, Denise Faye, Ekaterina Chtchelkanova, Deidre Goodwin, Conrad Dunn. Director-choreographer Rob Marshall's film became the first musical in 34 years to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Before this movie, the last musical to win the top Oscar was Sir Carol Reed's production of "Oliver!" (1968). Marshall's film received five other Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Zeta-Jones), Best Art Direction (John Myhre and Gordon Sim), Best Costume Design (Colleen Atwood), Best Film Editing (Martin Walsh) and Best Sound Mixing (Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella and David Lee). The film also was nominated for Best Director, Best Actress (Zellweger), Best Supporting Actor (Reilly), Best Supporting Actress (Queen Latifah), Best Adapted Screenplay (Bill Condon), Best Cinematography (Dion Beebe) and Best Original Song ("I Move On" by John Kander). The film -- adapted from the long-running stage musical choreographed in 1975 by Bob Fosse with music by Kander and Fred Ebb -- also was based on the same source material as the 1942 Ginger Rogers screen comedy "Roxie Hart." It all started with the 1926 play "Chicago," written by Maurine Dallas Watkins. In this version, Zellweger stars as Roxie, a Chicago housewife and star wannabe who becomes a major celebrity in 1927 Chicago after she allegedly shoots her lover (West) to death. Her murder trial becomes a media sensation, orchestrated by Billy Flynn (Gere), a wily defense attorney. Not known as a singer and dancer before this movie, Zellweger was something of a revelation in her musical sequences as Roxie. She lost the Best Actress award to Nicole Kidman of "The Hours," but received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar a year later for her performance in "Cold Mountain." Her co-star in the 2003 Civil War drama? Kidman. Zeta-Jones and her husband Michael Douglas share a September 25th birthday. They also have his-and-her Oscars, making them one of the few Hollywood power couples able to boast that feat. In the film, she plays Velma Kelly, a vaudeville performer charged with the murders of her husband and sister. In "Cell Block Tango," Velma and other notorious women -- including Mona (played by Grammy Award-winning singer Mýa) -- reveal why they ended up in jail. Among the other musical numbers featured in the film are "All That Jazz," "Funny Honey," "When You're Good to Mama," "Razzle Dazzle" and "Nowadays" and "Hot Honey Rag." Triple bill: Reilly, who co-stars as Roxie's husband and performs the song "Mister Cellophane," had a noteworthy year in 2002. He appeared in two other films nominated for the year's Best Picture Oscar: "The Hours" and "Gangs of New York." Thomas Mitchell appeared in three of the 1939 Best Picture nominees: "Gone With the Wind" (which won), "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and "Stagecoach." Mitchell received the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in the latter film. Expires March 8, 2015.

Saul Bellow was in "Seize the Day" (1986) with Eileen Heckart. Eileen Heckart was in "Somebody Up There Likes Me" (1956) with Paul Newman. Next: Carrie Snodgress.

TCM On Demand for March 2, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. Life Is Beautiful (1997) -- Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bustric, Marisa Paredes, Horst Buchholz, Giuliana Lojodice, Amerigo Fontani, Pietro Fontani, Pietro De Silva, Francesco Guzzo, Raffaella Lebboroni, Claudio Alfonsi, Gil Baroni, Massimo Bianchi. Benigni won the 1998 Academy Award as Best Actor for his performance in this heartbreaking, Chaplinesque comedy/drama set in World War II Europe. He also received a nomination for directing the film, which was a Best Picture contender and winner of the award for Best Foreign Language Film. Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami, stars as Guido_Orefice, a Jewish waiter in 1930s Italy under the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. Orefice becomes enamored of a beautiful Gentile named Dora (played by Braschi, Benigni's real-life wife). They eventually marry and become the parents of an adorable boy named Joshua (Cantarinin). After World War II breaks out, the Orefice family is dispatched to a concentration camp run by Nazis. To protect Joshua from their harsh new surroundings, Orefice persuades him that they are playing a game. In an October 1998 review, Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert addressed some controversies about the movie. "At this year's Toronto Film Festival," Ebert wrote, "Benigni told me that the movie has stirred up venomous opposition from the right wing in Italy. At Cannes, it offended some left-wing critics with its use of humor in connection with the Holocaust. What may be most offensive to both wings is its sidestepping of politics in favor of simple human ingenuity. "The film finds the right notes to negotiate its delicate subject matter. And Benigni isn't really making comedy out of the Holocaust, anyway. He is showing how Guido_uses the only gift at his command to protect his son. If he had a gun, he would shoot at the Fascists. If he had an army, he would destroy them. He is a clown, and comedy is his weapon." Expires March 8, 2015.

TCM On Demand for March 1, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. The China Syndrome (1979) --Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Wilford Brimley, Richard Herd, Daniel Valdez, Stan Bohrman, James Karen, Michael Alaimo, Donald Hotton, Khalilah Ali, Paul Larson. Here's an instance in which real life mirrored a movie. This thriller about a potential nuclear meltdown was released on March 16, 1979. Twelve days later, on March 28, 1979, an accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant shocked the world. Directed by James Bridges ("The Paper Chase," "Urban Cowboy"), the drama received four Academy Award nominations: Best Actor (Lemmon), Best Actress (Fonda), Best Original Screenplay (Bridges, Mike Gray and T.S. Cook) and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (George Jenkins, Arthur Jeph Parker). Fonda stars as Kimberly Wells, a Southern California television reporter who longs to cover hard news instead of her soft features beat. She gets her chance when she. cameraman Richard Adams (Douglas) and soundman Hector Salas (Valdez) are assigned to do a story about the Ventana nuclear power plant. While there, they become witnesses to an accident that, according to an expert, could result in radioactive material melting "right down through the bottom of the plant, theoretically to China." While Wells tries to hurdle obstacles in order to break the story, Jack Godell (Lemmon), a conscientious plant supervisor, threatens to go public about the near-disaster. This was the first of two 1979 films in which Fonda played an intrepid television reporter. She later co-starred with Robert Redford in "The Electric Horseman," in which her character lands an exclusive story about a controversial onetime rodeo star. Brimley, who also appeared in "The Electric Horseman," has a heroic moment in the final stages of the movie. He co-stars as Ted Spindler, who works at the power plant with Godell. The actor would have an even more noteworthy performance near the end of "Absence of Malice," which starred Paul Newman and Sally Field. Expires March 7, 2015. 2. A Few Good Men (1992) -- Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak, James Marshall, J.T. Walsh, Christopher Guest, J.A. Preston, Matt Craven, Wolfgang Bodison, Xander Berkeley, John M. Jackson, Noah Wyle, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Lawrence Loew, Joshua Malina. Rob Reiner's film version of the 1989 play by Aaron Sorkin earned four Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Nicholson), Best Sound (Kevin O'Connell, Rick Kline and Robert Eber) and Best Film Editing (Robert Leighton). The film stars Cruise as Navy Lt. j.g. Daniel Kaffee, a member of the military branch's Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG). He is assigned to defend two U.S. Marines (played by Marshall and Bodison) who are being court-martialed for the death of a fellow Leatherneck at the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Moore co-stars as Navy Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, who had hoped to head the defense team herself. Sorkin, who adapted the movie from his play, came up with a memorable movie line for a pivotal scene in which the Guantanamo base commander -- Colonel Nathan R. Jessup (Nicholson) -- is aggressively interrogated by Kaffee. In 2005, the American Film Institute ranked the line at No. 29 on its list of the 100 greatest quotes in movie history. Expires March 7, 2015.

TCM On Demand for March 1, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 3. A River Runs Through It (1992) -- Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Edie McClurg, Stephen Shellen, Vann Gravage, Nicole Burdette, Susan Traylor, Michael Cudlitz, Rob Cox, Buck Simmonds, Fred Oakland, David Creamer, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Robert Redford's third film as a director was based on a 1976 semi-autobiographical story by author Norman Maclean (1902-90). Skerritt, who made his film debut with Redford in the 1962 movie "War Hunt," stars as the Reverend Maclean, a Presbyterian minister with two sons in early 20th-century Montana. The younger Macleans -- the serious Norman (Sheffer) and the rambunctious Paul (Pitt) -- are opposites. But what the family has in common is the sport of fly-fishing, a metaphor for life. Blethyn, the British actress who received Oscar nominations for her performances in "Secrets & Lies" (1996) and "Little Voice" (1998), co-stars as Mrs. Maclean. This was one of the early screen appearances in the career of Gordon-Levitt, who plays the young Norman. Redford, the narrator of the film, later returned to Montana as a movie setting for his 1998 drama "The Horse Whisperer," in which he starred as well as directed. Memorable quote: "In Montana, there are three things we're never late for: church, work and fishing" -- Paul Maclean. Memorable scene: Paul becomes involved in a battle of wills with a particularly feisty fish: Pitt, a golden boy who at times eerily resembles the younger Redford, co-starred with the actor-director in the 2001 espionage thriller "Spy Game." Expires March 7, 2015.

Aileen Quinn was in "Annie" (1982) with Bernadette Peters. Bernadette Peters was in "Silent Movie" (1976) with Paul Newman. Next: Quinn Cummings.

James A. Michener was in "South Pacific" (1958) with Ray Walston. Ray Walston was in "The Sting" (1973) with Paul Newman. Next: Eve Plumb.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was in "Breakfast of Champions" (1999) with Buck Henry. Buck Henry was in "The Secret War of Harry Frigg" (1968) with Paul Newman. Next: Maureen McCormick.

TCM On Demand for February 28, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: Gandhi (1982) -- Sir Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, Virendra Razdan, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Sir John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Sir John Mills, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson, Athol Fugard, Geraldine James, Ian Bannen, Richard Griffiths, Sir Nigel Hawthorne, Sir Michael Hordern, Bernard Hill, Sir John Clements, Daniel Day-Lewis, John Ratzenberger. Sir Richard Attenborough's large-scale screen biography of Indian nationalist Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Kingsley). It also provided one of the first screen appearances for the eventual three-time Oscar winner Day-Lewis, who plays a bully menacing Gandhi in the South African segment of the film. In addition to his Best Director Oscar, Attenborough, who had been trying to make this movie for two decades, also accepted the Best Picture award. He died on August 24. 2014 at the age of 90. The film also received Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (John Briley), Best Film Editing (John Bloom), Best Art Direction (Stuart Craig, Robert W. Laing, Michael Seirton), Best Cinematography (Billy Williams, Ronnie Taylor), Best Costume Design (John Mollo, Bhanu Athaiya). It also was nominated for Best Original Score (Ravi Shankar and George Fenton), Best Makeup (Tom Smith) and Best Sound (Gerry Humphreys, Robin O'Donoghue, Jonathan Bates and Simon Kaye). Memorable scene: As a proud young Indian attorney traveling through South Africa, Gandhi buys a first-class train ticket. When he is physically thrown off because of his race, the humiliation he feels is palpable. The incident also stiffens his resolve to battle discrimination in the country. The movie features another noteworthy train trip as the Mahatma surveys by rail the country he is determined to improve. Memorable quote: "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it -- always." -- Gandhi. The movie is one of three Best Pictures to feature Hill (Sgt. Putnam), who also appeared as the doomed ship captain in "Titanic" (1997) and as King Theoden of Rohan in "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003). Gielgud, who plays the Viceroy of India, also appeared in two other Best Pictures -- "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1956) and "Chariots of Fire" (1981). Jaffrey, the Indian-born British actor who played Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in the movie, died on November 15, 2015 at the age of 86. Expires March 6, 2015.

Gore Vidal was in "Igby Goes Down" (2002) with Susan Sarandon. Susan Sarandon was in "Twlight" (1998) with Paul Newman. Next: Lauren Chapin.

Norman Mailer was in "Ragtime" (1978) with Frankie Faison. Frankie Faison was in "Where the Money Is" (2000) with Paul Newman. Next: Elinor Donahue.

Wow! You had a color TV in the late 1960s? Sounds like privilege to me.

Rick Dees was in "Record City" (1978) with Leonard Barr. Leonard Barr was in "The Sting" (1973) with Paul Newman. Next: Billy Gray.

"Star Trek" was always in glorious color. Or are you saying that you watched it on a black-and-white television set?

I always liked this song because it sampled Spock and Dr. McCoy from "Star Trek: The Original Series."

So sorry to hear this! Here is one of his greatest moments as Spock -- in the final segment of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/27/leonard-nimoy-dead_n_6770032.html

Here's the version of the national anthem that just about everyone seems to remember with fondess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNOHSMyYUr8