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Peter Benchley was in "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" (1994) with Jennifer Jason Leigh. Jennifer Jason Leigh was in "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994) with Paul Newman. Next: Aly Michalka.

CBS Sunday Morning did a segment today on the rising popularity of movie memorabilia, and mentioned that Las Vegas casino owner Steve Wynn paid $4 million via an auction for the figurine from "The Maltese Falcon." So what items from movie history would you love to have? For me, it would be either an authentic Roy Hobbs baseball card from "The Natural" (like the one on my avatar) or the "Wonderboy" bat from the same movie. I wouldn't mind a New York Knights baseball cap and uniform, either.

Some things to consider while watching the 87th Academy Awards ceremony, which begins Sunday, February 22, 2015 at 8:30 p.m. EST on ABC: 1. Here's the annual Meryl Streep update: It's a long shot, but an Oscar win by Streep, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Into the Woods," would give her a fourth statuette. Only the great Katharine Hepburn won four acting Oscars -- all in the Best Actress category. Streep has two wins for Best Actress ("Sophie's Choice" and "The Iron Lady") and one for Best Supporting Actress ("Kramer vs. Kramer"). 2. No major screen star has ever appeared in more than three films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, but Ralph Fiennes could be the first. Fiennes, who is one of the headliners of the 2014 nominated film "The Great Budapest Hotel," previously starred in three Best Picture winners: "Schindler's List" (1993), "The English Patient" (1996) and "The Hurt Locker" (2009). Among the other actors who have appeared in three Best Pictures: Clark Gable, Sir John Gielgud, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Diane Keaton, Colin Firth and Talia Shire. 3. Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper" is the sixth-ever Best Picture nominee to have either the words "America" or "American" in its title. The five others: "An American in Paris" (1951), "America, America" (1963), "American Graffiti" (1973), "American Beauty" (1999) and "American Hustle" (2013). The films that won Best Picture Oscars were "An American in Paris" and "American Beauty." 4. The last filmmakers to win three Oscars in one night were brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, whose 2007 drama "No Country for Old Men" earned them awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Three nominees are in line to duplicate the feat on Oscar night 2015. Wes Anderson ("The Great Budapest Hotel"), Alejandro González Iñárritu ("Birdman") and Richard Linklater ("Boyhood") are all nominated in the categories of Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. In the history of the Academy Awards, only six other people have picked up three Oscars for the same film: Billy Wilder ("The Apartment," 1960), Francis Ford Coppola ("The Godfather Part II," 1974), James L. Brooks ("Terms of Endearment," 1983) James Cameron ("Titanic," 1997) and Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh ("The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," 2003). 5. Twelve people have won Academy Awards in both the leading and supporting categories for acting: Helen Hayes, Jack Lemmon, Ingrid Bergman, Dame Maggie Smith, Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Jessica Lange, Kevin Spacey, Denzel Washington and Cate Blanchett. Robert Duvall, nominated for Best Supporting Actor of 2014 for "The Judge," would join that company with a win. Duvall received the 1983 Best Actor award for his performance in "Tender Mercies." Duvall, who turned 84 on January 5, 2015, also could become the oldest person ever to win an Oscar in any acting category. The record was set three years ago by Christopher Plummer, who was 82 years and 75 days old when he received the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in "Beginners" (2011). 6. Julianne Moore is the favorite to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as a victim of early-onset Alzheimer's disease in "Still Alice." If she doesn't win, however, she will wind up perilously closer to a record for Oscars futility. In the past 17 years, she has been nominated twice before for Best Actress and two other times for Best Supporting Actress. If she is passed over on Sunday, she will be 0-for-five in nominations, placing her one loss away from the dubious record shared by Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter and Glenn Close. They were all nominated six times without ever winning. Amy Adams, who was not nominated this year for "Big Eyes," already is 0-for-five. Moore's previous nominations were for the films "Boogie Nights" (1997, Best Supporting Actress), "The End of the Affair" (1999, Best Actress), "Far from Heaven" (2002, Best Actress) and "The Hours" (2002, Best Supporting Actress). 7. Reese Witherspoon not only is responsible for her own nomination as Best Actress, but she also made it possible for Rosamund Pike to be nominated in the same category. Witherspoon, who is nominated for her performance in "Wild," co-produced the film, which was based on Cheryl Strayed's 2012 nonfiction book "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail." The 2005 Best Actress winner also co-produced the film version of Gillian Flynn's 2012 novel "Gone Girl," for which Pike received a Best Actress nomination. In a December 2014 "60 Minutes" interview with CBS correspondent Charlie Rose, Witherspoon explained why she decided to make her own movies. She and her partner, veteran producer Bruna Papandrea, started the production company Pacific Standard three years ago. They look for projects that feature interesting, complicated women in leading roles. Witherspoon said her production company optioned the film rights for "Wild" and "Gone Girl" before they became popular books. "I think right when 'Gone Girl' and 'Wild' were both No. 1 on the New York Times best seller list at the same time...and people started calling us and like, 'Wait, how did you guys get that book?' "Because we're not the big powerhouse. But we read and read and read and read." 8. Bradley Cooper, who is up for Best Actor in "American Sniper," has had three consecutive Oscar nominations. He previously received a Best Actor nomination for "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012) and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for "American Hustle" (2013). The record for most Best Actor nominations in a row is four by Marlon Brando (for the years 1951-1954). Al Pacino also was nominated four years in a row (1972-1975), but his first nomination was for Best Supporting Actor. Cooper joins seven other actors who had three consecutive nominations: Spencer Tracy (1936-1938), Gary Cooper (1941-1943), Gregory Peck (1945-1947), Richard Burton (1964-1966), Jack Nicholson (1973-1975), William Hurt (1985-1987) and Russell Crowe (1999-2001). The good news for Bradley Cooper is that Burton is the only previous triple nominee on the list who never won an Oscar at all. Cooper also is nominated this year as one of the producers of "American Sniper." 9. Music great Glen Campbell is nominated with co-writer Julian Raymond in the Best Original Song category for "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from the 2014 documentary "Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me." If the song wins, it will be a bittersweet moment because Campbell has Alzheimer's disease and now resides in a care facility near his home in Nashville. Earlier this month, the song won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song. The documentary, directed by actor-filmmaker James Keach and co-produced by Raymond, is a chronicle of Campbell's farewell concert tour in 2012 and 2013. "Here's a guy, an iconic musician, who was faced with having to hang up his guitar, his career is over," Keach told reporter Randy Lewis of The Los Angeles Times. "But instead, he says, 'I ain't done yet. I'm going out to show what this disease is' because he wants to change the conversation. He writes the song with Julian, records it, sometimes a line at a time, sometimes a word at a time, and he wins a Grammy and gets nominated for an Oscar. If that ain't a hero, I don't know what is. "So win or lose," Keach said of Campbell's Oscar nomination, "he's won." 10. If you ever watched "All in the Family" and "Archie Bunker's Place," then you'll remember Danielle Brisebois, who played Stephanie Mills, the preteen girl taken in by the Bunkers in the late 1970s. The onetime child star is now 45 and a singer, songwriter and producer. Among her collaborations as a songwriter were the Natasha Bedingfield hits "Pocketful of Sunshine" and "Unwritten." The latter song became the theme for MTV's popular reality series "The Hills." Brisebois and co-writer Gregg Alexander are nominated for Best Original Song of 2014 for "Lost Stars" from the movie "Begin Again." 11. The great American songwriter Diane Warren has been nominated for six previous Academy Awards for Best Original Song, but she has never won. Her seventh Oscar nomination in the category is for "Grateful" from the film "Beyond the Lights." Her other nominated songs were: "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" from "Mannequin" (1986). "Because You Loved Me" from "Up Close and Personal" (1996). "How Do I Live" from "Con Air" (1997). "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" from "Armageddon" (1998). "Music of My Heart" from "Music of the Heart" (1999). "There You'll Be" from "Pearl Harbor" (2001). 12. One of this year's major Oscar snubs was the omission of "The Lego Movie" from the Best Animated Feature category. But the film is nominated for Best Original Song for the tune "Everything is Awesome," written by Shawn Patterson. 13. Favored to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song is "Glory," written for the historical drama "Selma" by recording stars John Legend (real name: John Stephens) and Common (real name: Lonnie Lynn, Jr.). The song earlier received a Golden Globe award. If it wins the Oscar, Common will become the latest rap artist to claim Best Original Song honors. He would join Eminem, who won the 2002 award for co-writing "Lose Yourself" from "8 Mile," and Three 6 Mafia, which picked up the 2005 Oscar for "It's Hard Out There for a Pimp" from "Hustle & Flow." 14. "Life Itself," a much-praised 2014 documentary about the life, career and final days of the late film critic Roger Ebert, was not nominated for an Academy Award. But there's an Ebert connection in the Best Documentary category, anyway. One of the nominated films is "Finding Vivian Maier," which was co-created by Charlie Siskel and John Maloof. Siskel is the nephew of film critic Gene Siskel who, until his death in 1999, was Ebert's longtime co-host on the PBS movie review show "Sneak Previews" and several syndicated versions, including "At the Movies." "Finding Vivian Maier" is the story of a Chicago nanny who died penniless in 2009 at the age of 83. After her death, it was discovered that she had taken more than 150,000 photographs of people, places and things around the world. As a result, her life and work have become celebrated. 15. The competition for Best Costume Design could be considered a clash of the fashion titans. In one corner is Italy's Milena Canonero, nominated for her contributions to "The Grand Budapest Hotel." Canonero has earned nine Academy Award nominations, including wins for "Barry Lyndon" (1975, shared with Ulla-Britt Söderlund), "Chariots of Fire" (1981) and "Marie Antoinette" (2006). In the other corner is America's Colleen Atwood, whose 11 nominations include wins for "Chicago" (2002), "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005) and "Alice in Wonderland" (2010). She is nominated this year for the film musical "Into the Woods." 16. The last person to win an Oscar while simultaneously appearing in an American prime-time network series was Helen Hunt. When she won the 1997 Best Actress award for "As Good As It Gets," she was starring in the NBC comedy series "Mad About You." If Patricia Arquette wins the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "Boyhood," she will miss duplicating Hunt's feat by 10 days. Her new CBS series "CSI: Cyber," a spinoff of the long-running police procedural "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," does not premiere until Wednesday, March 4, 2015. 17. Oprah Winfrey not only appears in the movie "Selma," she also is an Oscar-nominated producer of the Best Picture contender. It is her second Academy Award nomination. She was honored with a Best Supporting Actress nod for her first-ever film role in "The Color Purple" (1985). Although she has never won a competitive Oscar, Winfrey previously received a prestigious honor from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. On November 12, 2011, the Academy's Board of Governors presented her the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award -- which is an Oscar statuette -- for her charitable work. 18. The full title of Alejandro González Iñárritu's Best Picture nominee is "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)." If it wins the top Oscar award, the film will supplant "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" as the Best Picture winner with the longest title based on the number of characters. 19. When last seen -- during Saturday night's telecast of the Film Independent Spirit Awards -- Best Supporting Actress nominee Emma Stone was a redhead. But she could have a totally different hair color at the Oscars tonight. The actress, nominated for her performance in "Birdman," is a natural blonde. But she was persuaded to dye her hair red for her debut performance in the 2007 film comedy "Superbad." The picture was a major box-office hit, and Stone became a star. Ever since, she has gravitated between red hair and blond hair. Which color does she prefer? "Probably red hair, even though I am blonde naturally," she told Megan Segura of dailymakeover.com in 2013. "I identify most with red hair. My mom's a redhead, so maybe I grew up seeing it more than seeing myself in a mirror. But I like blonde, too. It's just hair." For the record, Stone is a blonde in "Birdman." 20. Many of this year's acting nominees have links to famous superheroes. Best Actor nominee Michael Keaton played "The World's Greatest Detective" in "Batman" (1989) and "Batman Returns" (1992). Best Actress nominee Marion Cotillard was Talia, the daughter of supervillain Ra's al Ghul in "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012). And Felicity Jones appeared as Felicia Hardy in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," which also starred Best Supporting Actress nominee Stone as Peter Parker's girlfriend Gwen Stacy. Stone also was in "The Amazing Spider-Man" (2012) opposite her real-life love interest Andrew Garfield. Meanwhile, in the Best Supporting Actor category, both Edward Norton and Mark Ruffalo have played Dr. Bruce Banner and his big green alter ego onscreen. Norton starred in "The Incredible Hulk" in 2008. Ruffalo replaced Norton in the all-star superhero films "Marvel's The Avengers" (2012) and the upcoming "Avengers: Age of Ultron." Best Supporting Actor nominee J.K. Simmons appeared as newspaper editor J. Jonah Jameson in the three "Spider-Man" films that starred Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst between 2002 and 2007.

Stephenie Meyer was in "Twilight" (2008) with Robert Pattinson. Robert Pattinson was in "Water for Elephants" (2011) with Reese Witherspoon. Reese Witherspoon was in "Twlight" (1998) with Paul Newman. Next: AJ Michalka.

Yes. It aired on February 12th. But it will be shown again on Friday, March 6, 2015 at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time as part of a Friday Night Spotlight tribute to roadshow musicals.

TCM On Demand for February 22, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. The Ladykillers (1955) -- Sir Alec Guinness, Katie Johnson, Cecil Parker, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Danny Green, Jack Warner, Philip Stainton, Frankie Howerd. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick ("Sweet Smell of Success"), this caper comedy focuses on a gang of scheming criminals that uses an elderly woman's home as its base of operations. The group's plan is to pull off a daring heist. The movie was written by William Rose, who received a 1956 Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He would win the award more than two decades later for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967). Guinness is said to have based his character on fellow British actor Alastair Sim, who played Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 version of "A Christmas Carol." Sellers and Lom would co-star as Inspector Jacques Clouseau and Chief Inspector Dreyfus, respectively, in several installments of the "Pink Panther" film series during the 1960s and 1970s. In 2004, this film was remade (and set in Mississippi) by Joel and Ethan Coen with a cast that included Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons and Irma P. Hall. Expires February 28, 2015. 2. Patton (1970) -- George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong, Carey Loftin, Albert Dumortier, Frank Latimore, Morgan Paull, Karl Michael Vogler, Bill Hickman, Patrick J. Zurica, James Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin, David Bauer, John Barrie, Richard Münch, Siegfried Rauch, Michael Bates, Paul Stevens, Gerald Flood, Jack Gwillim, Edward Binns, Peter Barkworth, Lionel Murton, David Healy, Sandy McPeak, Douglas Wilmer, John Doucette, Tim Considine, Clint Ritchie, Alan MacNaughton. Uncredited voice: Paul Frees. Franklin J. Schaffner's unvarnished film biography of World War II American general George S. Patton, Jr. received seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film always will be remembered for Scott's riveting portrayal of the famed military officer -- and the veteran actor's decision to decline the Oscar for Best Actor. In its 1998 survey of the 100 greatest movies of all time, the American Film Institute ranked the picture No. 89. In the AFI's updated 2007 survey, it dropped off the list. Scott's Patton is a bundle of contradictions. For instance, he is alternately religious and profane. When a member of the clergy asks him if he finds the time to read the Bible by his bedside, the general replies, "I sure do. Every ******* day." And he is a disciplinarian who frequently ignores orders by his superiors. When the military brass instructs Patton not to take the town of Messina during the Allied invasion of Sicily, what do you think he does? Malden co-stars as Patton's friend and onetime subordinate Army officer Omar N. Bradley, the low-key commander who would become America's last five-star general. The differences in their styles is readily apparent. While Patton was vain and flamboyant, the nondescript Bradley earned a reputation as "the G.I.'s general." During a battle scene in the film, a soldier complains, "What silly son of a ***** is in charge of this operation?" Bradley, whom the soldier doesn't recognize, replies, "I don't know, but they oughta hang him." Scott was never complimentary of the Academy Awards, and once referred to the ceremony as "a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons." When he earned his first-ever nomination, a 1959 Best Supporting Actor nod for "Anatomy of a Murder," Scott apparently tolerated recognition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It was a different story two years later, when he again was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, this time for the 1961 drama "The Hustler." He declined the nomination because of his dislike of Oscar competition and campaigns. It all came to a head in the spring of 1970, when Scott began receiving critical praise for "Patton." Appearing on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," Scott was asked what he would do if he received another Oscar nomination. The actor responded that he would decline it, too. Sure enough, when the 1970 Oscar field was revealed several months later, Scott received a nomination for Best Actor. He sent a telegram to the Academy, declaring his intention to decline the award and not attend the ceremony. True to his word, Scott was not in attendance on April 15, 1971, when presenter Goldie Hawn announced that he had won the Best Actor award. Interestingly, Scott was nominated for Best Actor a year later for his performance in "The Hospital," a 1971 black comedy by Paddy Chayefsky. The veteran actor didn't show up that time, either. In addition to its Oscar wins for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, the biopic received awards for Best Original Screenplay (shared by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North), Best Film Editing (Hugh S. Fowler), Best Sound (Douglas Williams, Don Bassman) and Best Art Direction (Urie McCleary, Gil Parrondo, Antonio Mateos, Pierre-Louis Thévenet). The film also earned nominations for Best Cinematography (Fred J. Koenekamp), Best Visual Effects (Alex Weldon) and Best Music, Original Score (Jerry Goldsmith). Memorable quote: "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." -- Patton during the iconic address to his troops at the beginning of the film. Memorable dialogue: Lt. Col. Charles R. Codman (played by Stevens): "You know, General, sometimes the men don't know when you're acting." Patton: "It's not important for them to know. It's only important for me to know." Memorable scenes: In December 1944, Patton's attempt to rescue besieged American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge is stalled by snowstorms. He orders a Third Army chaplain (Murton) to write a prayer for good weather ASAP. Patton later reads the prayer at night while hauntingly beautiful yet brutal battle scenes are shown on the screen. When he finishes, the next scene shows American planes flying under clear skies in the morning. Patton's reaction: "Cod, get me that chaplain. He stands in good with the Lord, and I want to decorate him." This film marked the final screen appearance of Edwards, the noteworthy African-American actor who appears as Patton's personal aide, Sgt. William George Meeks. Edwards, who earned a reputation for playing non-stereotyped black characters in such films as "Home of the Brave" (1949), "Battle Hymn" (1957) and "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), died of a heart attack on January 4, 1970. The film was released four months after his death. The dog that appears as Patton's pet bull terrier Willy received a screen credit under the name Abraxas Aaran. In 1986, Scott reprised his most famous character in the CBS TV-movie "The Last Days of Patton." Directed by Delbert Mann ("Marty"), the sequel focused on the general's desperate struggle for life after a December 1945 automobile accident in postwar Germany. Expires February 28, 2015. 3. She Done Him Wrong (1933) -- Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, Sr., David Landau, Rafaela Ottiano, Dewey Robinson, Rochelle Hudson, Tammany Young, Fuzzy Knight, Grace La Rue, Robert Homas, Louise Beavers. This film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture of 1932-1933, and its success was credited with helping to save Paramount Pictures from bankruptcy during the Great Depression. The story is derived from "Diamond Lil," the racy 1928 Broadway hit written by West, its irrepressible star. In this version, directed by Lowell Sherman, she appears as Lady Lou, the No. 1 attraction at a popular 1890s Manhattan saloon that attracts both underworld figures and the police. Grant co-stars as the head of a Salvation Army-like organization who catches Lou's attention. Grant also appeared with West in another 1933 film, "I'm No Angel," but he wouldn't become a major star until the late 1930s. Memorable scene: Lou flirts with Grant's character and tries to lure him to her dressing room. The famous and very forward question she asks him was ranked No.26 on the American Film Institute's 2005 list of the 100 greatest movie quotes of all time. Expires February 28, 2015.

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TCM On Demand for February 21, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) -- Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand, Betty Field, Telly Savalas, Edmond O'Brien, Hugh Marlowe, Whit Bissell, Crahan Denton, James Westerfield. Uncredited: Leo Penn, Chris Robinson. John Frankenheimer's biopic about prison lifer-turned-ornithologist Robert Stroud (1890-1963) earned Oscar nominations for Lancaster (Best Actor, as Stroud), Savalas (Best Supporting Actor), Ritter (Best Supporting Actress) and Best Cinematography (Burnett Guffey). Ritter's nomination was her sixth and last. She is tied with Glenn Close and Deborah Kerr for the most Oscar nods by a female without ever winning. The somewhat fictionalized tale follows Stroud's transformation from hardened criminal -- he was convicted of two murders -- to brilliant and accomplished bird expert. Malden co-stars Harvey Shoemaker, the hard-nosed warden of Leavenworth who clashes with Stroud on more than one occasion. Ritter plays the controlling mother who dislikes the woman (Field) Stroud marries in prison. Brand appears as the prison guard who becomes as trusting of the inmate as anyone could. Savalas is a fellow Leavenworth inmate who learns to like birds. O'Brien plays the writer who takes an interest in Stoud's case. The movie's title is a bit of a misnomer because Stroud was no longer allowed to have pets by the time he was transferred to the prison island of Alcatraz in the 1950s. Expires February 27, 2015. 2. Easy Rider (1969) -- Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Toni Basil, Luke Askew, Luana Anders, Sabrina Scharf, Robert Walker, Jr., Sandy Wyeth, Phil Spector, Antonio Mendoza, Mac Mashourian, Warren Finnerty, Tita Colorado, Robert Ball, Carmen Phillips, Ellie Walker, Michael Pataki. Uncredited: Dan Haggerty, Carrie Snodgress, Helena Kallianiotes. Nicholson received the first of 12 Academy Award nominations for his brief but memorable performance as an attorney who runs off with counterculture bikers Wyatt (Fonda) and Billy (Hopper). Directed by Hopper and produced by Fonda, the independent effort became a box-office smash and a seminal film of the "New Hollywood" era. The picture also received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay (Fonda, Hopper and Terry Southern). In 2011, Time magazine listed its top 25 movie soundtracks of all time. This movie came in at No. 8: "A psychedelic road-trip hit that depicted the counterculture in full flower, 'Easy Rider' also captured the sound of an era. With songs from The Band, Jimi Hendrix and the Byrds (as well as Steppenwolf’s 'Born to Be Wild,' now forevermore linked to men on motorcycles), 'this was one of the first times a movie was yoked to the driving power of '60s rock ‘n’ roll,' writes film journalist Peter Biskind in 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls,' his history of the New Hollywood." Expires February 27, 2015.

TCM On Demand for February 20, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. 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 picture 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 of 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 February 26, 2015.

TCM On Demand for February 20, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. A Hard Day's Night (1964) -- John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington, John Junkin, Victor Spinetti, Anna Quayle, Deryck Guyler, Richard Vernon, Eddie Malin, Robin Ray, Lionel Blair, Alison Seebohm, David Jaxon. Uncredited: Susan Hampshire, Kenneth Haigh, David Langton, Jeremy Lloyd, Edina Ronay. This black-and-white fictional version of a couple of days in the lives of the Beatles received an Academy Award nomination for Alun Owen's original screenplay. It also was nominated for Best Adaptation Score (by Sir George Martin, the Beatles' record producer). Directed by Richard Lester, who also collaborated with the Beatles for their 1965 Technicolor followup "Help!," the stylish film became very influential for years to come. The somewhat casual storyline revolves around the group's upcoming live performance on a British television variety show. Making things difficult is Beatle Paul's devilish grandfather John McCartney (played by Brambell, star of the British TV series "Steptoe and Son"), who travels around with the band. Rossington plays Norm, a stricter version of the Beatles' real-life manager at the time, Brian Epstein. Junkin plays Shake, the full-time road manager who happens to be Norm's full-time whipping_boy. Spinetti, who plays the harried director of the variety show, co-starred with the Beatles in two other musical productions -- "Help!" (1965) and the made-for-television film "Magical Mystery Tour (1967)." Among the songs performed in the movie are the title song, "I Should Have Known Better," "If I Fell," "Can't Buy Me Love," "I'd Be Happy Just to Dance with You," "And I Love Her," "Tell Me Why" and "She Loves You." In 2011, Time magazine listed its top 25 movie soundtracks of all time. This movie's compilation of songs came in at No. 3, although the magazine noted that the Beatles' 1964 work was also a studio album: "By then, American teenagers had already succumbed to the mop-topped allure of John, Paul, George and Ringo. But 'A Hard Day’s Night' helped turn the group into more than just a passing fad. The album’s 13 songs were all written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Listen to it today -- especially the tracks 'If I Fell,' 'Can’t Buy Me Love' and 'I Should Have Known Better' -- and it’s pretty clear that these lads from Liverpool were going to go far." Memorable scene No. 1: The movie begins with the famous opening chord of the title song as three members of the Fab Four are chased by real fans through a train station. Be sure to notice that when Beatle George trips, Beatle Ringo goes down, too! Memorable scene No. 2: Beatle Paul's wily old grandfather (Brambell) gets into the act during the Fabs' performance of "She Loves You" on live television. Memorable dialogue: John: Hey, pardon me for asking, but who's that little old man? Paul: Uh, what little old man? John: That little old man. Paul: Oh, that one! That's my grandfather. George: Your grandfather? Paul: Yeah. George: That's not your grandfather. Paul: It is, you know. George: But I've seen your grandfather. He lives in your house. Paul: Oh, that's my other grandfather, but he's my grandfather as well. John: How do you reckon that one out? Paul: Well, everyone's entitled to two, aren't they? And this is my other one. Also: John: He's a nice old man, isn't he? Paul: He's very clean. Hall of Fame comments: Starr was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in April 2015, making him the last member of the Beatles to be selected as a solo act. Ringo had a notorious way with words, and the title of this movie came from a throwaway comment he once made. His best line in "A Hard Day's Night" occurs in the first seven-and-a-half minutes. There's a scene in which the Beatles are traveling by train, and a pompous commuter (played by Richard Vernon) arrives in their compartment. He offends the Fabs by closing a window they wanted open and turning off Ringo's radio. When Beatle John sasses the commuter, the older man sniffs, "And don't take that tone with me, young man. I fought the war for your sort." Retorts Ringo: "I bet you're sorry you won!" Later in the movie, an interviewer asks Ringo if he's a mod or a rocker. "Uh, no, I'm a mocker," he replies. Memorable quote: "Sorry we hurt your field, Mister." -- Beatle George, after a man admonishes the band members for romping around on private property. Be sure to notice: When Beatle John is in the train compartment with his mates early on in the movie, he pretends to snort a Pepsi-Cola bottle -- a subtle drug reference. Musical muse: One of the schoolgirls on the train is played by Pattie Boyd, who later became Mrs. George Harrison and eventually Mrs. Eric Clapton. She inspired the Beatles song "Something" (written and performed by Harrison) and the hits "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight" (written and performed by Clapton). From the Beatles to Bond: The gorgeous blonde who hovers near Beatle Paul's grandfather at the Le Cercle gambling club is actress Margaret Nolan. She later appeared as Dink, James Bond's Miami Beach masseuse at the beginning of "Goldfinger." Nolan also was the model painted gold in the opening credits of the 1964 film about 007. The gambling club in the Beatles movie was also used for the famous first appearance of Sir Sean Connery as Bond in "Dr No" (1962). Expires February 26, 2015.

How strange that she co-starred in "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935), and eventually lost Brando to Tarita, who co-starred in the 1962 version.

One of the classic examples of a studio cannibalizing its own films was when Warner Bros. released "They Drive By Night," starring George Raft and Humphrey Bogart in 1940. The drama includes a murder subplot lifted from the 1935 Paul Muni-Bette Davis film "Bordertown." In "They Drive By Night," Ida Lupino, who is married to trucking company magnate Alan Hale, Sr., bumps him off so that she can be with trucker Raft. In "Bordertown," Davis murders her casino owner husband (Eugene Pallette) so that she can have Muni. The methodology of the murders was the same. In each film, the ambitious spouse locked her drunken husband in a garage while his automobile's motor continued to run. As a result, he died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The Rock Hudson movie also borrows (pays homage to?) the scene in "Bringing Up Baby" in which Cary Grant tries to cover up Katharine Hepburn after the back of her dress is torn off.

Elon Musk was in "Machete Kills" (2013) with Bruce Campbell. Bruce Campbell was in "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994) with Paul Newman. Next: Britt Robertson.

TCM On Demand for February 20, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 3. A Man for All Seasons (1966) -- Paul Scofield, Dame Wendy Hiller, Vanessa Redgrave, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles, Susannah York, Nigel Davenport, Sir John Hurt, Corin Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Cyril Luckham, Jack Gwillim, Thomas Heathcote, Yootha Joyce, Anthony Nicholls, John Nettleton, Eira Heath, Molly Urquhart, Paul Hardwick, Michael Latimer, Philip Brack, Martin Boddey, Eric Mason, Matt Zimmerman. Fred Zinnemann's historical drama about the life and death of Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Scofield). The film also won Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay (Robert Bolt, for reworking his stage play), Best Color Cinematography (Ted Moore) and Best Color Costume Design (Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge). Nominations also went to Shaw (Best Supporting Actor) for his portrayal of Britain's King Henry VIII and Hiller (Best Supporting Actress), who appears as More's supportive wife Alice. The film focuses on the monumental clash between the king and More, his longtime counselor, who disagreed over the issue of Henry's divorce from first wife Catherine of Aragon and repudiation of the Catholic Church. One of the finest thinkers and moralists of the 16th century, More refused to support the king's actions. As a result, he was imprisoned, tried and convicted of high treason, and then executed by beheading on July 6, 1535. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI as a saint of the Catholic Church in 1935, 400 years after his death. This production provided the first major screen role for Hurt, who co-stars as Richard Rich -- an ambitious figure who betrays More in order to advance his own political standing. Hurt, whose career highlights include Academy Award nominations for his performances in "Midnight Express" (1978, Best Supporting Actor) and "The Elephant Man" (1980, Best Actor), was knighted in January 2015 for his contributions to drama. Shaw was one of three actors to win Oscar nominations for their portrayals of Henry VIII (1491-1547). The first was Charles Laughton who won the 1932-33 Best Actor award for his performance as the headstrong Tudor monarch in "The Private Life of Henry VIII." Richard Burton received a 1969 Best Actor nomination for his take on Henry in the historical drama "Anne of the Thousand Days." In the following clip, the king quizzes More's daughter Meg (York) about her knowledge of Latin: The 1966 film year was a big one for the Redgraves, Britain's renowned acting dynasty. Corin Redgrave co-stars in this drama as More's son-in-law, biographer William Roper. His elder sister, Vanessa, appears briefly as King Henry's doomed second wife, Anne Boleyn. At the 39th Academy Awards ceremony on April 10, 1967, both Vanessa and her younger sister Lynn received nominations for Best Actress of 1966. Vanessa, 30, was nominated for her performance as a chic Londoner in the comedy "Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment." Lynn, 24, was honored for playing the title character in "Georgy Girl," a Cinderella-like tale also set in London. It was the first time since the 14th Academy Awards ceremony on February 26, 1942 -- 25 years earlier -- that siblings were in competition for the same acting prize. Back then, Joan Fontaine won the 1941 Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion." Olivia de Havilland, her older sister by 15 months, had been nominated in the category for her work in "Hold Back the Dawn." Time magazine marked the occasion by featuring the Redgrave sisters on the cover of its March 17, 1967 issue. "If the prize goes to one of the Redgrave girls," the cover story declared, "it will acknowledge more than her own abilities. The rise of this remarkable sister act coincides with the emergence of a new international era in cinema and a new international species of film actor." Cover Credit: BORIS CHALIAPIN As it turned out, neither Redgrave claimed victory on Oscar night. The Best Actress award went to Elizabeth Taylor for her performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Vanessa would go on to earn five other Academy Award nominations, including a win as Best Supporting Actress of 1977 for her performance in "Julia" (directed by Zinnemann). Her politically tinged acceptance speech, in which she referred to "Zionist hoodlums," is easily one of the Oscars' most unforgettable moments. Now 79 years old, she continues to be active on the stage, the screen and television. Lynn primarily concentrated on stage and television projects before making impressive film appearances in the 1990s dramas "Shine" and "Gods and Monsters." For the latter project, she received a 1999 Best Supporting Actress nomination for her performance as "Frankenstein" director James Whale's loyal housekeeper. She died on May 2, 2010, after a long battle with cancer. She was 67. Her death occurred less than a month after her 70-year-old brother Corin succumbed to cancer on April 6, 2010. Expires February 26, 2015.

Arthur C. Clarke made a couple of cameo apperances in "2010" (1984), which featured Dana Elcar. Dana Elcar was in "The Sting" (1973) with Paul Newman. Next: Chevy Chase.

TCM On Demand for February 19, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. The Apartment (1960) -- Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Hope Holiday, Joan Shawlee, Naomi Stevens, Johnny Seven, Joyce Jameson, Willard Waterman, David White, Edie Adams. Billy Wilder's cautionary tale about the workplace won five Academy Awards, including three for the filmmaker himself -- Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay (shared with longtime writing partner I.A.L. Diamond). The film also won Oscars for Best Black-and-White Art Direction-Set Decoration (Alexandre Trauner, Edward G. Boyle) and Best Film Editing (Daniel Mandell). Also nominated were Lemmon (Best Actor), MacLaine (Best Actress), Kruschen (Best Supporting Actor), Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Joseph LaShelle) and Best Sound (Gordon Sawyer). In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked the picture No. 93 on its list of the 100 greatest movies of all time. When AFI updated the list in 2007, the film rose 13 spots to No. 80. This was the last black-and-white film to win the Best Picture Oscar until Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" (1993), which features minimal color segments. The comedy/drama stars Lemmon as C.C. Baxter, whose rapid rise at a New York insurance company is tied to how often he's allowed members of the office hierarchy to use the key to his apartment for extramarital romantic trysts. MacLaine co-stars as Miss Kubelik, the elevator operator who wins Baxter's heart, although she is secretly involved with the company's powerful personnel director, Mr. Sheldrake (MacMurray). Jameson -- cast as a sexy blonde -- does a dead-on impersonation of Marilyn Monroe, whose erratic behavior exasperated Wilder during the making of his previous film, "Some Like It Hot" (1959). Wilder, Lemmon and MacLaine reunited three years later for the film comedy "Irma la Douce," which earned MacLaine another Best Actress nomination. The film's storyline was translated to Broadway in 1968 as the musical "Promises, Promises," which ran for 1,281 performances and won Tony Awards for Jerry Orbach (as Baxter) and Marian Mercer (as Margie MacDougall, played in the film by Holiday). The book was by Neil Simon and the music and lyrics were from the songwriting duo of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The choreographer was Michael Bennett, who would go on to work wonders with "A Chorus Line," the 1975 musical sensation that won nine Tonys and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Expires February 25, 2015. 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 February 25, 2015.

Mae Whitman was in "Bye Bye Love" (1995) with Lindsay Crouse. Lindsay Crouse was in "Slap Shot" (1977) with Paul Newman. Next: Common.

TCM On Demand for February 18, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. In Cold Blood (1967) -- Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey, John Gallaudet, James Flavin, Charles McGraw, Will Geer, John McLiam, Ruth Storey, Brenda Currin, Paul Hough, Vaughn Taylor, Duke Hobbie, Sheldon Allman. Uncredited: Paul Carr, Roosevelt Grier, Paul Frees (radio announcer). Based on Truman Capote's 1966 recounting of the famous Clutter family murders in Kansas seven years earlier, this gritty black-and-white drama earned Richard Brooks Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as nods for Best Cinematography (Conrad L. Hall) and Best Original Music Score (Quincy Jones). Blake and Wilson (the former star of "The Walking Dead" now appearing in the Amazon Prime series "Bosch") play real-life murder suspects Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, respectively. Stewart plays a fictional reporter named Jensen, likely modeled after Capote. This territory was revisited in the 2005 Oscar-winning drama "Capote," which starred Best Actor recipient Philip Seymour Hoffman as the high-profile writer doing research about the Clutter case. Memorable scene: Just before his execution on April 14, 1965, Smith -- in a conversation with the Reverend Jim Post (Allman) -- declares his ambivalent feelings for his estranged father. Pay attention to how cinematographer Hall shot the scene, in which you can see reflections of the outside rain on the doomed man's face. Movie crossover reference: "Remember Bogart in 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre'?" Smith asks Hickok in a discussion about prospecting for gold in Mexico. "We could get us a couple of burros. And some tools." The actor who played Smith certainly remembers John Huston's 1948 classic movie. As a teen, Blake played the Mexican youth who sold Bogart's character, Fred C. Dobbs, a winning lottery ticket. Expires February 24, 2015. 2. Monsieur Verdoux (1947) -- Sir Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz, Martha Raye, Ada May, Marjorie Bennett, Helene Heigh, Margaret Hoffman, Marilyn Nash, Irving Bacon, Edwin Mills, Virginia Brissac. Chaplin received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for this black comedy, which was based on an idea by Orson Welles. Chaplin, who also directed, produced and composed the music, stars as a skillful con man who comes up with a risky method of finding funds to take care of his disabled wife (Correll). He marries wealthy women and then murders them for their money. This was one of the first films in years in which Chaplin did not play a character like The Little Tramp. Memorable scene: Verdoux plans to test a new poison on a streetwalker (Nash, listed in the credits as The Girl), but changes his mind after a stimulating conversation with her. Expires February 24, 2015. 3. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) -- Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Yaphet Kotto. 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 February 24, 2015.

Ellen Travolta was in "Lonely Hearts" (2006) with Laura Dern. Laura Dern was in "Fat Man and Little Boy" (1989) with Paul Newman. Next: Gong Li.

TCM On Demand for February 17, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) -- James Stewart, Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick, Arthur O'Connell, George C. Scott, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant, Joseph N. Welch. Otto Preminger's once controversial courtroom drama was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Stewart) and Best Supporting Actor (for O'Connell and for Scott, before he began boycotting the Oscars). It features a jazzy score by music great Duke Ellington, who makes a cameo appearance, and a memorable title sequence by Saul Bass. Stewart stars as Paul Biegler, a wily former Michigan prosecutor-turned-defense attorney who takes on a complicated murder case. The accused is a U.S. Army lieutenant (Gazzara) charged with killing a man who allegedly raped the officer's randy wife (Remick). The trial judge is played by Welch, a real-life attorney who became a headliner with his unforgettable smackdown of the contentious U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 1954 televised Army-McCarthy hearings. This was one of Grant's final film appearances after her marriage to Bing Crosby in 1957. Expires Febuary 23, 2015. 2. Exodus (1960) -- Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Sir Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo, John Derek, Hugh Griffith, Gregory Ratoff, Felix Aylmer, David Opatoshu, Jill Haworth, Marius Goring, Alexandra Stewart, Michael Wager. Otto Preminger's three-hour plus screen version of Leon Uris's 1958 best-selling novel about events leading up to the creation of Israel. Newman stars as post-World War II activist Ari Ben Canaan, who hopes to lead more than 600 European Jews out of Cyprus -- where they are being detained by British authorities -- and into new lives in Palestine. Saint co-stars as Kitty Fremont, an American widow and nurse who becomes involved with Ben Canaan and his cause. The film received an Academy Award for Ernest Gold's original score. At the third annual Grammy Awards in 1961, the "Exodus" theme was named Song of the Year and Gold's movie composition won Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Music Score from Motion Picture or Television. Oscar nominations also were earned by Mineo (Best Supporting Actor) and Sam Leavitt (Best Color Cinematography). The platinum blond British actress Haworth, whose name was pronounced "Hahworth," won the role of Jewish refugee Karen Hansen when she was 14 and a newcomer to acting. Seven years later, she went on to star on Broadway in the original production of the musical "Cabaret." She played Sally Bowles, the character played in the 1972 film version by Liza Minnelli in an Oscar-winning performance. As a result of this film, she began a relationship with Mineo that lasted several years. Haworth died on January 3, 2011 at the age of 65. The movie's screenplay was adapted from Uris' novel by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo, who had received his first onscreen credit in years in "Spartacus." This film was released two months after "Spartacus," and Trumbo again received a screen credit. Expires February 23, 2015. 3. Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) -- Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Ania Marson, Lynne Frederick, Candace Glendenning, Fiona Fullerton, Harry Andrews, Irene Worth, Tom Baker, Jack Hawkins, Timothy West, Katherine Schofield, Jean-Claude Drouot, John Hallam, Guy Rolfe, John Wood, Sir Laurence Olivier, Eric Porter, Sir Michael Redgrave, Maurice Denham, Ralph Truman, Gordon Gostelow, John McEnery, Michael Bryant, Vivian Pickles, Brian Cox, James Hazeldine, Stephen Greif, Steven Berkoff, Sir Ian Holm, Alan Webb, Leon Lissek, David Giles, Roy Dotrice, Martin Potter, Richard Warwick, Vernon Dobtcheff, Alexander Knox, Ralph Neville, George Rigaud, Curt Jurgens, Julian Glover, John Shrapnel, Diana Quick, John Forbes-Robertson, Alan Dalton, David Baxter, Penny Sugg. Franklin J. Schaffner's historical drama about the final years of Russia's last tsar earned six Academy Award nominations: Best Picture (producer Sam Speigel), Best Actress (Suzman), Best Cinematography (Freddie Young), Best Original Score (Richard Rodney Bennett), Best Costume Design (Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo) and Best Art Direction (John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted and Gil Parrondo). It won Oscars in the two latter categories. It was the second year in a row that a Schaffner film was nominated for Best Picture. "Patton" won the 1970 award, and Schaffner received a Best Director statuette along with it. The 1971 film was based on the 1967 biography "Nicholas and Alexandra: An Intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall of Imperial Russia" by Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Robert K. Massie. The movie's screenplay was adapted by James Goldman, whose screenwriter brother William won Oscars for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) and "All the President's Men" (1976). Schaffner's early 20th-century drama revolves around the title characters -- Tsar Nicholas II (Jayston) and his wife Tsarina Alexandra (Suzman) -- as well as their five children. The four Romanov daughters are Olga (portrayed by Marson), Tatiana (played by Frederick, Peter Sellers' fourth and last wife), Maria (Glendenning) and Anastasia (Fullerton). The youngest child, a boy named Alexei (portrayed by Noble), suffers from hemophilia, the hereditary disorder that hinders blood clotting. By 1917, the idyllic lives of the Romanovs are endangered because of numerous historical forces, including Russia's disastrous entry into World War I and the rise of Bolshevik revolutionaries headed by the driven idealogue Vladimir Lenin (Bryant). This was the motion picture debut of Suzman, a South African-born stage actress with numerous Shakespearean credits in the United Kingdom. She went on to star in "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" (1972), "Voyage of the Damned" (1976) and the 1989 drama about apartheid in South Africa, "A Dry White Season." Baker, who appears as the mystical figure Rasputin, was the fourth of 12 actors to play Doctor Who on British television. His stint on the long-running, sci-fi series was from 1974 to 1981, and he proved to be a favorite among enthusiasts of the Time Lord's adventures. A year after appearing in this film as Anastasia, the 15-year-old Fullerton starred as the title character in the 1972 musical "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." The movie's all-star cast included Jayston, who appeared as author Lewis Carroll. A decade later, Fullerton became a Bond Girl. She appeared as KGB operative Pola Ivanova in the 1985 James Bond film "A View to a Kill," which was Roger Moore's swan song as 007. Glendenning, who made her screen debut in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1969), reportedly was a strong candidate to play Regan MacNeil, the possessed girl in William Friedkin's 1973 horror blockbuster "The Exorcist." She turned it down because she had already committed to a role in "Tower of Evil," which became a British cult movie. The role of Regan went to Linda Blair. A mystery about the fate of Nicholas and Alexandra's youngest daughter became the subject of other motion pictures, including "Anastasia" (1956). Ingrid Bergman won her second of three Academy Awards for her portrayal of a woman who may or may not be the surviving Romanov heiress. In 1997, an animated musical version, also titled "Anastasia," was directed by former Disney animators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. The film became a box-office hit worldwide and received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song ("Journey to the Past") and Best Original Musical or Comedy Score (David Newman, orchestral score; Stephen Flaherty, music; Lynn Ahrens, lyrics). In real life, there were many women who claimed to be Anastasia, including Anna Anderson, a European woman who settled in the United States and argued her case until her death in 1984. Years later, DNA evidence ruled out Anderson as a member of the Russian royal family. Subsequent DNA tests on the exhumed remains of the Romanovs confirmed that Anastasia was killed with her family in 1918. Expires February 23, 2015.

There's "The V.I.P.s" (1963), in which he plays a character who comes between a married couple played by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. It's scheduled to be aired on TCM on May 11th. And as I mentioned earlier, he plays a charming villain in the 1983 James Bond movie "Octopussy."

Taika Waititi was in "Green Lantern" (2011) with Tim Robbins. Tim Robbins was in "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994) with Paul Newman. Next: Alison Lohman.

TCM has shown the short on letterboxing so many times, I pretty much know all the lyrics to "The Night They Invented Champagne"!

So sad to hear the news! I'll always remember him as a sophisticated Bond villain in "Octopussy" (1983). TCM is showing "Gigi" in the early morning hours of Tuesday, February 17. It's too bad they didn't have it scheduled tomorrow in prime time.