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Thank God It's Friday is followed at 4:15 AM by ABBA: The Movie, which is also worth watching.

Dargo granted you the usufruct of using his post to make a point of your own?

It's probably the fault of whatever service your cable provider contracts with for listing services. I remember once when TCM was running Rose Marie, my DirecTV box guide listed the program in that slot as the Sissy Spacek movie Marie: A True Story (under just the title Marie). The box guide also tends to have problems with blocks of shorts (such as the Disney cartoons or when Silent Sunday Nights is a bunch of two-reelers).

That other 84-year-old really ought to be rotting in prison, but that's another story.

If you add the word "reference" to the end of the URL, you'll get the old style of IMDb pages. See the URL that shows up in your browser for this link to Sally (1929), for example. You should be able to make that permanent under "Site Preferences" under the "General" section.

Nobody's mentioned the Joe E. Brown birthday salute tomorrow. There's Eleven Men and a Girl (6:30 AM), in which co-star Joan Bennett uses her sex appeal to get a bunch of college football stars to transfer to her (and 36-year-old Brown's) school and save it through having a successful football program. That's followed at 7:45 AM by Sally which apparently has Brown singing and dancing to "Look for the Silver Lining", as well as a two-strip Technicolor musical number. Perhaps most interesting is Broadminded at 10:45, which opens with a "baby party", complete with the disturbing image of Brown in a baby carriage with blanky and bottle. The movie also has Bela Lugosi doing comedy (fairly well, I might add).

De Havilland gives up her son, only to meet him when he's all grown up? And has to keep it a secret? Granted, she doesn't kill anybody. Then again, I'm a man, which may color my thinking on the whole Madame X genre.

Long-desired by whom? It's just another version of the Madame X story. John Lund is as wooden as ever.

I think you didn't get the joke.

One who prefers the Charles Laughton version of Mutiny on the Bounty.

Because Roxie Hart was nowhere near good enough to get it sixty years earlier.

They got their history from The Story of Mankind.

I was watching The Rifleman last night at dinner, and there was an actor who looked amazingly like a young James Coburn, only without the prematurely gray hair. It sounded even more like James Coburn. Sure enough, it was, only he was credited as "Jim Coburn". The episode also had Ted de Corsia, but I didn't recognize him. And of course, The Love Boat on MeTV on Sunday afternoons has all sorts of classic movie stars.

I take it you've never seen Fawlty Towers?

It's astronomy, not astrology. And that personality was made up for the show, from what I've read. He wasn't like that at all in real life.

You forgot Cecil Kellaway and Lillian Gish! There's also the music of Debussy used to good effect. PBS fans may remember the music being used in a different context: (Jack Horkheimer has been dead for six years; Isao Tomita, who did the music, died earlier this year.)

Deathtrap (1982). Alfie is a successful playwright, or formerly successful playwright, married to Dyan Cannon (The Muppets Go Medieval) who has a bad heart. The film opens with our playwright's latest play having its premiere and being another flop. But Alfie is in luck, as Superman, who took a writing seminar Alfie taught last summer, sent him a copy of a play he'd like reviewed. Alfie realizes it's brilliant, and if nobody else knows about the play, Alfie can kill Superman, take credit for the play himself, and make millions. The movie takes a ton of twists and turns from there, more convoluted than the 28497203758 flashbacks-within-flashbacks from The Locket. For the most part it's good, except for Irene Worth playing a Dutch psychic whom you just want to strangle every time she shows up; she's that irritating. Some people would probably love to live in the Lawn Guyland house that our playwright calls home, although having the master bedroom in the shaft of a windmill seems a bit disconcerting.

He liked Dances with Smurfs?

Did the guy in that series ever get his cup of coffee? I found Cousins to be terribly pretentious when TCM showed The Story of Film a few years back. It was good to get the movies that accompanied the series, but the series itself wasn't very good. Cousins was doing what you accuse the Coens of doing already in the very first episode when he talked about focusing on the history of Hollywood as being "racist by omission".

What if they're Snowed Under instead?

I didn't know Robert Morley married a much younger woman.

Andy Devine. (Well, he was a semi-pro football player.)

I hope I'm not spoiling too much, but in an "only in Hollywood" casting, Eastwood's character is romantically paired with... Carol Channing's. She was only in her early 30s when she made this, but already sounded like she was in her 60s, I thought.

Yuck ! Good thing you're not really catering this thread. "Buy on an apple, sell on cheese" is a proverb for wine tasting. Apparently apples (and bread) are among the foods that will bring out the tannins that make a wine taste either good or bad, while cheese will dull those senses.

Yes on the older, but I'm not so sure about the mature.