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Ack! Today is the last day to vote! I'm casting my vote for SansFin and her "through the decades" theme.

How about Won Ton Ton, the Dog That Saved Hollywood? Maybe it can save TCM too!

And I think that's the point of slaytonf's original post. They've been going at it since at least 2003 (probably longer, but I wasn't here until the end of 2006), with the same nonsense. They're impervious to facts, too; in one of the other threads somebody posted an analysis of eight months worth of TCM schedule and the response was basically that the numbers didn't matter because there were more recent movies in prime time. Ditto regarding whoever posts the statistics from 31 Days of Oscar. No, such facts don't matter; they feel TCM is rurning into AMC and nothing can change that feeling. It's as if they're sticking their fingers in their ears and screaming "La la la I can't hear you apologists!"

Skimpole: Hence the smiley. I believe there's a short fragment of The Way of All Flesh known to exist, which showed up in the "Fragments" TCM showed a few years back.

SansFin: I think I mentioned in my notes there were a few cheats, in that I've seen most of the movie, except that I turned on TCM 10 minutes in or something. That's the case with Spirit of the Beehive. Somehow I've seen the first third and last third of The Devil's Disciple but not the middle. I keep turning on TCM when the movie is an hour through already. As for Andy Devine, he did a lot of westerns in the second half of his career, and played several notable supporting roles: the cowardly sheriff in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance comes to mind (although I have seen that one all the way through so I couldn't use it). He was also Janet Gaynor's assistant director friend in A Star Is Born. And he has one of the more disturbing scenes you'll ever see in John Wayne's Island in the Sky, when he does a cannonball into a swimming pool.

Doesn't the new board software preserve the formatting if you use the Quote button at the bottom of a post? I'd think it would be easy to hit the quote button, copy the quoted material, and paste it into the compose box of the new thread. Well, you'd have to get rid of the quote tags, but that's not much work. It's a heck of lot easier than the old board, since the new one uses more standard formatting. (Other than the fact that no sane person reads from bottom to top.)

His parents didn't name him Acker, either. He took it as a nickname from local slang. And if you haven't seen It's Trad, Dad, try to get a copy of it. It's a hoot.

BBC Obituary for jazz clarinetist Acker Bilk Bilk will be most remembered for his signature tune "Stranger on the Shore", which hit #1 on both sides of the Atlantic as part of the popularity of trad jazz in the early 1960s. As such, it shouldn't be a surprise that he showed up in the 1962 film It's Trad, Dad, although he doesn't play "Stranger on the Shore" in that one: [/url]

If you looked carefully, you would have seen that Wait Until Dark followed The MGM Story at 4:00 AM. Everything from 8:00 PM on fit just fine into an 11-hour time slot.

Somebody got a good lesson in

What's the difference between the "apologists" and the "loyal viewers" anyway?

I don't think they've shown Emil Jannings' win for The Way of All Flesh before.

I'd be careful about copying and pasting. You don't want to get accused of misquoting. Funny that when I demolished that baseless accusation about misquoting, the response was along the lines of let's just drop it (NB: that's not an exact quote!).

Unless you edited your post in the meantime, tell me where I copied and pasted incorrectly. It's funny how you go around making all sorts of accusations of other posters, but when others turn the finger back at you (cue Thomas More's quote to Roper about the whirlwind turning round on him), you get ticked. I didn't mis-quote you at all.

All I was doing was parsing your post the same way you posted mine.

Let's go back and review the tape, shall we: Note the lack of use of a qualifier like "some" on "loyal viewers". One would think the poster is trying to represent all "loyal" viewers.

I'm a loyal viewer, and I've been quite happy with the programming.

I'd guess It's Trad, Dad (aka Ring-a-Ding Rhythm), in which the two young people are trying to get somebody from the BBC to keep their town fathers from banning "good" music. I put "good" in scare quotes because this is between early rock and roll and the Beatles, and some of the music has a definite "people liked that?" vibe to it. Directed by Richard Lester before he did A Hard Day's Night, the movie doesn't take itself seriously at all and that's what makes it so much fun.

2+2=5. This post is going to bring out the sycophants and apologists who insist that 2+2=4.

To be fair, Tabesh is listed as "Vice President of Programming". It wouldn't be a surprise if the "affiliate agreements" really were somebody else's job and Tabesh didn't know.

Serves me right for not watching the movies I'm programming. LOL. This might actually be worse than the mistakes Robert and Ben make.

NOTES ON A SCHEDULE I decided that for this Programming Challenge, I was going to set an extra challenge for myself: program an entire week of movies that I have not seen in their entirety. Now, there's a bit of cheating here. There are movies where I've missed the first five or ten minutes, only to have seen the rest. But there are some movies I've never seen, as well as movies that I've seen some of, but just can't sit all the way through because the parts that I've seen are unappealing. So it's not as if I haven't seen the movies at all; it's just that I haven't seen them beginning to end. We start off on Sunday morning and afternoon with a bunch of movies made in the UK that I haven't seen before. On Sunday night, we put the spotlight on Leo F. Forbstein. If you've watched enough films on TCM, you'll have seen his name a hundred times as the conductor of the orchestra that played the scores of all those Warner Bros. movies. However, IMDb says he had appearances in two of those movies, unsurprisingly playing a conductor in both. He also wrote music for a small number of movies, including the two shorts. For Silent Sunday Nights, I simply picked a movie that sounded interesting that fit the time slot and that I hadn't heard of. Of course, it wound up not fitting the time slot as well as I would have liked, and I had to figure out what foreign films to show. Widower With 5 Daughters is a movie my German relatives had on video when I visited them back in 1989, but that I never got around to seeing. (I did watch Mommie Dearest and Psycho dubbed into German on German TV, however.) When The Spirit of the Beehive aired on TCM last Labor Day, I missed the first few minutes, but that's still enough to allow me to use it here. I decided to pick several films that may or may not be about animals, based on the title. On Monday night, I picked a bunch of movies where the titles are women's names, both first and last. This was a bit difficult to program and stick to the challenge of using movies I haven't seen before, since I've seen Alice Adams, Marie Antoinette, Stella Dallas, and Annie Oakley among others. I share my birthday, June 14, with Oscar winner Burl Ives, so I programmed several of his films on that day. However, they didn't fill 14 hours from 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM, so I had to include a movie from Carl Esmond, who was also born on June 14. For Star of the Month, I immediately picked Andy Devine, and then had to come up with enough of his movies that I haven't seen before, at least not in their entirety. Seeing the opening scenes of Romeo and Juliet, which has Devine and Edna May Oliver(!) trying to deliver Shakespearean dialog, has always been enough to put me off the movie. The rest of the night's lineup is filled with movies that, for whatever reason, I haven't seen. The last of the movies in the Tuesday night lineup, Yellow Jack, is set at least in part in the Caribbean, so it leads in nicely to the Wednesday lineup of movies set in the Caribbean (including the shorts). On Wednesday night, we have some "incredible" characters, all from the 1950s. First, the idea of a talking mule is incredible. That's followed by the incredible characters of Magnificent Obsession. Rock Hudson's character is so over the top evil and selfish that nobody could be like that. And the dead doctor is implied to be impossibly virtuous. Then there's the wacky Christian guy who changes Hudson's life. It's usually around this point that I turn off the movie because it's such blunt balderdash. The Brothers Karamazov fits in this lineup because the idea of William Shatner as a Russian Orthodox priest is incredible. The prostitute with a heart of gold is also a fairly unbelievable character, which is why I included Nights of Cabiria. (Or does she lose that heart in the second half?) And the characters in Arthurian legend are all incredible. I put two movies about Arthurian legend together, because the second is a musical, one of my least favorite genres of films. So I picked a bunch of random musicals I haven't seen before to air on Thursday morning and afternoon. I didn't realize how many actresses there were named Constance. So we get a constant stream of them on Thursday night. However, I cheated a bit. As far as I'm aware, A Virtuous Vamp is not yet available in a format for viewing on TCM. The IMDb reviews state that the intertitles are only available in a foreign language. But it was selected by the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry in 2013, so I figured its existence, and being in the public domain since it's from before 1923, wouldn't bar it from use in the Programming Challenge. There are a surprising number of Oscar-nominated films I haven't seen, including some nominated for Best Actress. Friday morning and afternoon is the day for those. The month's Friday Night Spotlight is artists in various forms. That's followed by a salute to the films fo 1939, although most of the movies are B-movies or programmers, with one or two exceptions to get things to time out properly. I still haven't seen Mrs. Miniver in its entirety. I've seen the last half hour or so, and the boring first half-hour that has Walter Pidgeon going nuts over Greer Garson's roses. So it's a natural for the Essentials. It was also a good place to start a half night of films of Britain at war. A few days ago, I was listening to a program on German radio where the person being profiled mentioned the movie Just a Gigolo as being Marlene Dietrich's last movie, and with her starring with David Bowie. There's a pair. So I realized I had to use it for the TCM Underground. But what to pair it with? Imagine my great joy when I realized that Mae West's final film was released the same year. They make a natural pair. Or maybe not, since I haven't seen either. Star of the Month: Andy Devine Silent Sunday Nights: The Volga Boatman TCM Imports: Widower With 5 Daughters Friday Night Spotlight: Artists at Work TCM Essential: Mrs. Miniver TCM Underground: Sextette and Just a Gigolo Non-exempt Premieres (7): Lorna Doone Marjorie Morningstar The Tamarind Seed Red Skies of Montana Valiant Is the Word For Carrie Sudden Fear The Blue Veil

I missed the last challenge, but I'm back for another go round: June 12-18, 2016 SUNDAY, JUNE 12 British movies I haven't seen in their entirety 0600 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, The Archers, 163 min, p/s) dir. Michael Powell; stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook 0845 The Battle of Britain (1969, Spitfire, 132 min, p/s) dir.; stars Michael Caine, Curd Jurgens, Trevor Howard 1100 Look Back in Anger (1959, Orion, 98 min, p/s) dir. Tony Richardson; stars Richard Burton, Clare Bloom, Mary Ure 1245 Passport to Pimlico (1949, J. Arthur Rank, 84 min, p/s) dir. Henry Cornelius; stars Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray 1415 Get Carter (1971, MGM UK, 112 min, p/s) dir. Mike Hodges; stars Michael Cain, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland 1615 Vacation From Marriage (1945, London Film, 102 min, p/s) dir. Alexander Korda; stars Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns 1800 Madeleine (1950, Cineguild, 112 min, p/s) dir. David Lean; stars Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny Prime Time: So that's what Leo Forbstein looks like! 2000 Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934, First National, 89 min) dir. Ray ENright; stars Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers Short: Here's Howe (1936, WB, 21 min) 2200 Broadway Gondolier (1935, WB, 99 min) dir. Lloyd Bacon; stars Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou Short: Frontier Days (1945, WB, 17 min) Silent Sunday Nights 0000 The Volga Boatman (1926, DeMille, 120 min, exempt) dir. Cecil B. DeMille; stars William Boyd, Elinor Fair, Robert Edeson Short: Leave 'Em Laughing (1928, Hal Roach, 21 min) TCM Imports: 0230 Widower With 5 Daughters (1957, Göttinger Film Atelier, 96 min, exempt) dir. Erich Engels; stars Heinz Erhardt, Susanne Cramer, Helmut Lohner 0415 Drunken Angel (1949, Toho, 102 min, p/s) dir. Akira Kurosawa; stars Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Reizaburo Yamamoto MONDAY, JUNE 13 Which of these movies are about animals? 0600 Spirit of the Beehive (1973, Ella Querejeta, 95 min, p/s) dir. Victor Ence; stars Ana Torrent, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Teresa Gimpera 0745 The Sign of the Ram (1948, Columbia, 84 min, p/s) dir. John Sturges; stars Susan Peters, Alexander Knox, Phyllis Thaxter 0915 Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965, Ivan Tors, 92 min, p/s) dir. Andrew Marton; stars Marshall Thompson, Betsy Drake, Richard Haydn 1100 A Dog of Flanders (1959, Fox, 96 min, p/s) dir. James B. Clark; stars Theodore Bikel, David Ladd, Donald Crisp 1245 The Story of Seabiscuit (1949, WB, 93 min) dir. David Butler; stars Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCalister 1430 Kes (1969, Kestrel, 110 min, p/s) dir. Ken Loach; stars David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie 1630 An Alligator Named Daisy (1955, Rank, 85 min, p/s) dir. J. Lee Thompson; stars Donald Sinden, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice 1800 Two Mules For Sister Sara (1970, Universal, 116 min, p/s) dir. DOnald Siegel; stars Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Manolo Fabregas Movies named after women 2000 Lorna Doone (1951, Edward Small, 88 min) PREMIERE #1 dir. Phil Karlson; stars Barbara Hale, Richard Greene, Carl Benton Reid Short: I Love My Mother-In-Law, But... (1949, MGM, 8 min) 2145 Marjorie Morningstar (1958, Beachwold, 128 min) PREMIERE #2 dir. Irving Rapper; stars Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood, Clarie Trevor 0000 Susan Slade (1961, WB, 116 min, p/s) dir. Delmer Daves; stars Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire 0200 Presenting Lily Mars (1944, MGM, 104 min) dir. Norman Taurog; stars Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter Short: A Wife's Life (1950, MGM, 8 min) 0400 Cass Timberlane (1947, MGM, 119 min) dir. George Sidney; stars Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott TUESDAY, JUNE 14 Burl Ives birthday salute 0600 Our Man in Havana (1959, Kingsmead, 111 min, p/s) dir. Carol Reed; stars Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara 0800 Ensign Pulver (1964, WB, 104 min, p/s) dir. Joshua Logan; stars Robert Walker Jr., Burl Ives, Walter Matthau 0945 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958, MGM, 108 min) dir. Richard Brooks; stars Eilzabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives 1145 Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960, Columbia, 105 min, p/s) dir. Philip Leacock; stars Burl Ives, Shelley Winters, James Darren 1330 The Big Country (1958, UA, 165 min, p/s) dir. William Wyler; stars Gergory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker 1615 The Power and the Prize (1956, MGM, 98 min) dir. Henry Koster; stars Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Müller, Burl Ives Carl Esmond birthday salute 1800 Her Highness nad the Bellboy (1945, MGM, 112 min) dir. Richard Thorpe; stars Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson STAR OF THE MONTH: ANDY DEVINE 2000 Romeo and Juliet (1936, MGM, 125 min) dir. George Cukor; stars Andy Devine, Edna Mae Oliver, C. Aubrey Smith 2215 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960, MGM, 107 min) dir. Michael Curtiz; stars Andy Devine, Judy Canova, John Carradine 0115 The Red Badge of Courage (1951, MGM, 69 min) dir. John Huston; stars Andy Devine, Audie Murphy, Royal Dano 0230 Two Rode Together (1961, Columbia, 109 min, p/s) dir. John Ford; stars Andy Devine, Shirley Jones, Richard Widmark 0430 Yellow Jack (1938, MGM, 83 mni) dir. George Seitz; stars Andy Devine, Buddy Ebsen, Charles Coburn WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15 0600 Affair in Trinidad (1952, Columbia, 92 min, p/s) dir. Oscar Saul; stars Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby) 0745 Christopher Columbus (1949, Gainsborough, 99 min, p/s) dir. David McDonald; stars Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan 0930 The Tamarind Seed (1974, ITC, 119 min) PREMIERE #3 dir. Blake Edwards; stars Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle 1130 The Emperor Jones (1933, UA, 72 min, p/s) dir. Dudley Murphy; stars Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Ruby Etzy 1245 The Comedians (1967, MGM, 152 min) dir. Peter Glenville; stars Richard Burton, Elizaeth Taylor, Alec Guinness Short: Island Windjammers (1956, RKO, 8 min) 1530 The Cuban Love Song (1931, MGM, 86 min) dir. WS Van Dyke; stars Lupe Velez, Jimmy Durante, Louise Fazenda 1700 The Ghost Breakers (1940, Paramount, 85 min, p/s) dir. George Marshall; stars Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Paul Lukas 1830 A Lady Without Passport (1950, MGM, 74 min) dir. Jospeh Lewis; stars Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig Short: Colorful Curacao (1939, MGM, 9 min) Prime Time: Incredible Characters: the 50s 2000 Francis Goes to West Point (1952, Universal International, 81 min, IC-Exempt) dir. Arthur Lubin; stars Donald O'Connor, Lori Nelson, Francis the Talking Mule 2130 Magnificent Obsession (1954, Universal-International, 108 min, p/s) dir. Douglas Sirk; stars Rock Hudson, Jane Wyman, Agnes Moorehead 2330 The Brothers Karamazov (1959, MGM, 145 min) dir. Richard Brooks; stars Yul Brynner, Lee J. Cobb, William Shatner 0200 Nights of Cabiria (1957, de Laurentiis, 117 min, p/s) dir. Federico Fellini; stars Giulietta Masina, François Perier, Franca Marzi 0400 Knights of the Round Table (1953, MGM, 115 min) dir. Richard Thorpe; stars Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer THURSDAY, JUNE 16 Nobody watches musicals because nobody likes them ;-) 0600 Camelot (1967, WB, 179 min) dir. Joshua Logan; stars Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero 0900 Funny Girl (1968, Columbia, 155 min, p/s) dir. William Wyler; stars Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford 1145 It's Always Fair Weather (1955, MGM, 101 min) dir. Stanley Donen; stars Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse 1330 Good News (1947, MGM, 93 min) dir. Charles Walters; stars June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall 1515 Show Girl in Hollywood (1930, First National, 80 min) dir. Mervyn LeRoy; stars Alice White, Jack Mulhall, Blanche Sweet 1645 Sunny (1930, First National, 78 min) dir. William A. Seiter; stars Marilyn Miller, Lawrence Gray, Joe Donahue 1815 The Cuckoos (1930, RKO, 97 min) dir. Paul Sloane; stars Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee Prime Time: A Constancy of Constances 2000 Red Skies of Montana (1952, Fox, 99 min) PREMIERE #4 dir. Joseph M. Newman; stars Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter 2145 The Perils of Pauline (1947, Paramount, 96 min, p/s) dir. George Marshall; stars Betty Hutton, John Lund, Constance Collier 2330 Movie Crazy (1932, Paramount, 98 min, p/s) dir. Clyde Bruckman; stars Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings, Kenneth Thomson 0115 All Fall Down (1961, MGM, 111 min) dir. John Frankenheimer; stars Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Constance Ford 0315 Shock Corridor (1963, Allied Artists, 101 min) dir. Sam Fuller; stars Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans 0500 A Virtuous Vamp (1919, p/d, 50 min) dir. David Kirkland; stars Constance Talmadge, Conway Tearle, Belle Daube FRIDAY, JUNE 17 Best Actress nominations I haven't seen 0600 The Little Foxes (1941, Goldwyn, 116 min, p/s) dir. William Wyler; stars Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright 0800 Camille (1936, MGM, 109 min) dir. George Cukor; stars Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore 1000 The Constant Nymph (1943, WB, 113 min) dir. Edmund Goulding; stars Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith 1200 Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936, Paramount, 110 min) PREMIERE #5 dir. Wesley Ruggles; stars Gladys George, Arline Judge, John Howard 1400 The Rose Tattoo (1955, Paramount, 117 min, p/s) dir. Daniel Mann; stars Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan 1600 Sudden Fear (1952, Joseph Kaufmann, 110 min) PREMIERE #6 dir. David Miller; stars Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame 1800 The Blue Veil (1951, Wald/Krasna, 113 min) PREMIERE #7 dir. Curtis Bernhardt; stars Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell Friday Night Spotlight: Artists at Work 2000 The Horse's Mouth (1958, Knightsbridge, 97 min, p/s) dir. Roland Neame; stars Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston 2145 The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965, Fox, 138 min, p/s) dir. Carol Reed; stars Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento 0000 Of Human Bondage (1964, MGM, 100 min) dir. Henry Hathaway; stars Laurence Harvey, Kim Novak, Robert Morley 0145 The Girl From Jones Beach (1948, WB, 78 min) dir. Peter Godfrey; stars Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Eddie Bracken 0315 The Mystery of Picasso (1956, Filmsonor, 78 min, p/s) dir. Henri-George Clouxot; stars Pablo Picasso A salute to the greatest year in Hollywood history: 1939 0445 Full Confession (1939, RKO, 73 min) dir. John Farrow; stars Victor McLaglen, Sally Eilers, Joseph Calleia SATURDAY, JUNE 18 0600 Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939, MGM, 82 min) dir. Richard Thorpe; stars Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield 0730 Balalaika (1939, MGM, 102 min) dir. Reinhold Schünzel; stars Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Charlie Ruggles 0915 Miracles for Sale (1939, MGM, 71 min) dir. Tod Browning; stars Robert Young, Florence Rice, Henry Hull 1030 These Glamour Girls (1939, MGM, 79 min) dir. S. Sylvain Simon; stars Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown 1200 They Made Her a Spy (1939, RKO, 69 min) dir. Jack Hively; stars Sally Eilers, Allan Lane, Fritz Leiber 1315 Meet Dr. Christian (1939, Rko/pd, 68 min) dir. Bernard Vorhaus; stars Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett, Robert Baldwin 1430 The Day the Bookies Wept (1939, RKO, 64 min) dir. Loeslie Goodwins; stars Joe Penner, Betty Grable, Richard Lane 1545 They All Came Out (1939, MGM, 70 min) dir. Jacques Tourneur; stars Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell 1700 Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939, MGM, 70 min) dir. Robert Sinclair; stars Ann Sothern, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan 1815 Babes in Arms (1939, MGM, 94 min) dir. Busby Berkeley; stars Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Guy Kibee The Essentials: Britain at War 2000 Mrs. Miniver (1942, MGM, 134 min) dir. WIlliam Wyler; stars Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright 2230 The Devil's Disciple (1959, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, 83 min, p/s) dir. Guy Hamilton; stars Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier 0000 The Little Princess (1939, Fox, 93 min, p/s) dir. Walter Lang; stars Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise TCM Underground: Two legends make their screen farewell in 1978 0145 Sextette (1978, Briggs/Sullivan, 91 min, EXEMPT) dir. Ken Hughes; stars Mae West, Timothy Dalton, Tony Curtis 0330 Just a Gigolo (1978, Bayerischer Rundfunk, 147 min, EXEMPT) dir. David Hemmings; stars David Bowie, Kim Novak, Marlene Dietrich

I always enjoyed Yu-Wen ****'s performance myself. I think I've got 2-1/2 days left to time out, and think I've got enough themes to put into those days. (Thankfully those days include Sunday night, and picking a silent and an import is relatively trivial.) So barring a computer issue, I should have a schedule by Tuesday.