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*Gary Cooper will be Turner Classics on Sat. Sep 20th, 2008 @ 12:00 PM in: "_The Westerner_"* *All Times are Eastern. Check Local Listings!* *_The Westerner_ was a 1940 film directed by William Wyler, and written by Niven Busch, Stuart N. Lake, and Jo Swerling. It stars Gary Cooper as fictional interloper Cole Harden and is often remembered for one of Walter Brennan's best performances, as Judge Roy Bean, which led to him winning his record-setting third Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This radio version stars Gary Cooper as Cole Harden, Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean. and Doris Davenport as Jane Ellen Mathews*.

*_Marilyn Monroe on Tv September 2008:_* AMC Fri, Sep 12, 3:45 AM _Let's Make Love_ HBOSGe Fri, Sep 12, 8:15 AM _How to Marry a Millionaire_ TCM Sat, Sep 13, 8:00 PM _The Misfits_ FMC Sun, Sep 14, 3:45 PM _Bus Stop_ FMC Tue, Sep 16, 12:00 PM _Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!_ FMC Sat, Sep 20, 12:30 PM _Monkey Business_ *All Times are Eastern. Check Local Listings!*

I always loved Ava Gardner's characters name in _Mogambo_ "Honey Bear Kelly"! Grrreeeeat name!

Christine Lahti was in the film _Running on Empty_ W./River Phoenix! *NEW STAR: River Phoenix!*

David Prowse was in _Casino Royale_ (1967) W./Peter Sellers! *NEW STAR: Peter Sellers!*

*I for one hated the film _Disturbia_ (2007), & thought it was 1 of the most disappointing films of 2007. The ending was so laughable, it took alot to get through it, trust me. Well, I wonder why it took so long for his happen, but I knew it was bound to!* *So I thought I would pass it along!* By Christopher Campbell Sep 8th 2008 // The basic plot of Alfred Hitchcock's _Rear Window_ -- man believes he witnessed a murder, has to prove it really happened -- has been reused for so many films and TV shows that it's not that surprising when another homage or ripoff comes around. Yet last year's _Disturbia_, starring Shia LaBeouf as a guy under house arrest who thinks his neighbor is a serial killer, bore close enough resemblance to be labeled an update on Hitchcock's film. And now, not surprisingly, the film's executive producer, Steven Spielberg, along with Dreamworks, its parent company Viacom and Universal Pictures, is being sued for creating an unauthorized remake. *The defendant in the case is not exactly related to Hitchcock's film, though; the lawsuit was filed by Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust, which owns the rights to Cornell Woolrich's original short story "_It Had to Be Murder_" (called "_Murder from a Fixed Viewpoint_" in the article), upon which Rear Window is based. Film business followers may remember the name Sheldon Abend from the important Supreme Court copyright case of 1990, Stewart v. Abend, in which Abend sued James Stewart and the production company Patron Inc. after Rear Window was aired on television.* If you've seen both Disturbia and Rear Window do you think the case is valid? Is Disturbia really that much more of a ripoff than Manhattan Murder Mystery, Head Over Heels and most of Brian DePalma's early career? Even Antonioni's Blow Up and Coppola's The Conversation are fairly similar in concept. Obviously some works, such as the Simpsons episode in which Bart thinks Flanders murdered his wife, are okay because they fall under the permissions of parody. And, more importantly, how will this suit affect Spielberg, Dreamworks and LaBeouf's upcoming _Eagle Eye_, which like _Disturbia_ is also directed by D.J. Caruso, and which has similarly been compared to a Hitchcock film, specifically _North by Northwest_ or broadly the whole of Hitch's wrong man films? I wonder who claims credit for that widely used plot. *.................................................................................* *Spielberg ripped off Hitchcock classic: lawsuit* Tue Sep 9, 2008 By Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steven Spielberg and major Hollywood studios stole the plot from Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 film "Rear Window" in making last year's "Disturbia," a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday said. Dreamworks, its parent company Viacom Inc, and Universal Pictures, a unit of General Electric Co's NBC Universal, are accused of copyright infringement and breach of contract for making "Disturbia" without first obtaining permission from the copyright holders, the suit said. Spielberg, a Dreamworks founder, is named as a defendant. The film grossed about $80 million at the U.S. box office. According to the lawsuit, filed by the Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust, the basis for Hitchcock's 1954 film was "Murder from a Fixed Viewpoint," a short story by Cornell Woolrich. Hitchcock and actor James Stewart obtained the motion picture rights to the story in 1953. The lawsuit argues that Dreamworks should have done the same. "What the defendants have been unwilling to do openly, legitimately and legally, (they) have done surreptitiously, by their back-door use of the 'Rear Window' story without paying compensation," the lawsuit said. A spokesman for Spielberg declined to comment. Representatives of Viacom and NBC Universal were not immediately available for comment. According to the lawsuit, "_Disturbia_" and the "_Rear Window_" story are "essentially the same." Both are murder mysteries beginning with a man who, while peering from his window, witnesses strange behavior in the home of his neighbor. The protagonist in all three of the works behaves in essentially the same way, interacts with similar characters and the plot unfolds in basically the same way, the lawsuit said. "In the Disturbia film the defendants purposefully employed immaterial variations or transparent rephrasing to produce essentially the same story as the Rear Window story," the lawsuit said. *In reviewing "_Disturbia_," the New York Times called it "a kind of adolescent _'Rear Window_.'" The Toronto Star newspaper called it "a rip off with wit."* *Hmmmmmmmmm the posters LQQk the same!!!!???!* *_Wikipedia States:_* *_Disturbia_ is a 2007 thriller film directed by D.J. Caruso and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. It is an updated version of Alfred Hitchcock's classic film _Rear Window_ (1954). Disturbia stars Shia LaBeouf as a teenager who thinks he witnesses a murder while spying on his suspicious neighbor while being placed under house arrest.*

avocado ...._Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death_ *NEW WORD: Botanophobia!*

Lee J. Cobb was in the film _Boomerang!_ W./Dana Andrews! *NEW STAR: Dana Andrews!*

Tate, Sharon

U-571

Cary Grant was in _Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House_ W./Myrna Loy! *NEW STAR: Myrna Loy!*

Paisley ...._The Da Vinci Code_ *NEW WORD: Chromophobia!*

Timothy Dalton was in the _Sextette_ W./Mae West! *NEW STAR: Mae West!*

*Timothy Dalton OR Bess Armstrong!!!!!!!!!!?????????/*

Brian Blessed was in _High Road to China_ W./Bess Armstrong! NEW STAR: Bess Armstrong!

Inca ....._Secret of the Incas_ (1954) *NEW WORD: Cyclophobia!*

Kenneth Branagh was in _Dead Again_ W./Emma Thompson. & Oliver Reed was in the film _Tommy_ W./Ann-Margret. *NEW STAR: Ann-Margret Or Emma Thompson.....???!??*

aztec .... _Secret of the Incas_ (1954) *NEW WORD: Myrmecophobia!*

Fibula - _The Bone Collector (_1999) *New Word: Dishabiliophobia!*

Vanessa Redgrave was in the film _Mary, Queen of Scots_ (I love this film!) W./Glenda Jackson! *NEW STAR: Glenda Jackson!*

On DVD Tomrrow..Tuesday, September 09, 2008...

_Ok back to the topic "TCM is going down the tubes"...._ Ok, I love Peter Sellers in _The Party_ (1968) ...but come on _The Party_ already was on last Friday 09/05/08, I understand that today 09/08/08 is Peter's Birthday, but there were so many other films that could have be shown instead..._Casino Royale_ (1967) ...... I _Love You, Alice B. Toklas_ (1968) or _The Bobo_ (1967) & really how times does TCM have to play '"_Dr. Strangelove_"..???!

Kirk Douglas was in _The Brotherhood_ (I just watched this several weeks back!) W./Alex Cord! *NEW STAR: Alex Cord!*

*Robert Mitchum & Jane Russel "Macao" (1952)*

Quaid, Dennis