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I'm still getting half a dozen titles a month that are recordable. I just wish they'd go back to the old TCM on-screen logo that gets shown every 20 minutes through the movie. The new one - which reads TCM.COM is larger and more intrusive to the eye. The old one was much better, which was just a faint TCM.

It could be simply that the 3 people who want to watch an Al Jolson day just aren't enough of an incentive for TCM to schedule it for them. It's not like all kinds of people are hounding TCM to show those lousy Al Jolson movies. If TCM wants to show something that's gonna offend lots of people, at least 'Amos and Andy' is something for which there still could be an appreciable audience.

With the current necessity for digitalized media, there may be fewer titles broadcast-able.

I know I never wore one. Woulda given me hat head - and for someone with as beautiful a head of golden dirty-blonde hair as I had, that woulda been a crime.

While it played just in the one scene, once was too much. It's the flaw that lowers the appreciation of an otherwise very good movie.

Please - don't be lobbying to get words put back into the filter. We're working our **** off trying to get them out.

It's hard to believe that the same guy who came up with great novels like 'The Stand', 'It!', 'Misery', 'The Shining' and 'Carrie' also came up with that piece of nonsense.

As long as one movie per year is considered a classic by the majority of viewers and critics in America, TCM can retain its moniker. And even if there isn't one. Almost nothing that plays in the Underground timeslot enjoys such a majority reputation, so I guess you're new here.

If your mind invented some kind of "braveness" thesis that you think is supposed to apply to TCM, that's your problem. I've found no evidence that TCM has ever pledged to be brave. TCM shows what it decides to show because it wants to show it. It has no reason to show anything it doesn't want to. If you want a station to show everything that might offend someone you need to start a station yourself or find one that has that as its mission. Accusing TCM of not being something that it's never been or claimed to be is just making sh!t up for the sake of making sh!t up.

There was this movie my daughter and I watched once called 'Me and the Kid'. It was a vehicle (lead role) for Danny Aiello, if you can imagine such a thing. As far as I remember there was one song in the movie called 'Going Down to Mexico' and it played - and it played - and it played - for the last two thirds of the movie until we thought we were gonna upchuk from hearing it anymore. I'm pretty sure it would be the champion of this topic.

Bronson was notorious as being anti-social. In the commentary for Magnificent Seven it's said that he couldn't tolerate the company of more than one person at a time in a social situation. If he was with Brad Dexter (for example) he was relaxed and conversational. But if a third person should join them, he'd immediately retreat from all conversation. He was quoted once as saying "I don't have any friends in Hollywood and I don't want any". Maybe someone p!ssed him off with judgement or something for stealing David McCallum's wife during the making of Great Escape. Whatever. Who doesn't love Bronson as an actor.

I love Richard Benjamin. What I wouldn't give to see a TCM marathon devoted to him which would include such seldom seen items as 'Portnoy's Complaint' (1972), 'The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker' (1971), 'Goodbye Columbus' (1969) and 'The Last of Sheila'. Such an interesting actor - dry, often hilarious in his persona, and yet capable of intense, no-nonsense seriousness.

My daughter liked it too.

People just got bored with them and they sank farther and farther back out of sight.

Thankyou kindly! I've gone back and replaced those asterisks with "Pee". Joyfully!

What a pile of baloney. TCM has never made the claim to be "complete" in the sense of showing every movie ever made. Nor have they ever given any hard and fast definition of "classic". Neither have they ever claimed that every movie they show IS a classic. TCM is in no way "dishonest" just because you have some stupid "opinion" that the business of broadcasting movies means having to show blackface.

According to that 'Mommie Dearest' movie, Joan Crawford looked pretty nuts.

Like Paul Reubens, who became more recognized as Pee Wee Herman than himself - and Bob Einstein, who became more recognized as "Super" Dave Osborne than himself - old Charley Farquharson was played for the past 50 years by Canadian actor Don Harron. Don has passed, age 90.

He'd been listening to Little Eva while spinning that day.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to get invisible stains out of your underwear???

Liberace would be fabulous.

A homosexual slur maybe? Nah, couldn't be - not for Dargo or Groucho.

Certainly doesn't help. Doesn't exactly "smooth the way" for the showing of some movies, I wouldn't think.

Might be interesting to hear Lon Chaney Sr. talk about movies.

He'd certainly be able to talk with absolute authority about his own films. I understand he controlled every word spoken by his actors. It would be fascinating to hear his thoughts on other directors' movies.