path40a

In case you missed it, for some other thoughts: http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/forum.jspa?forumID=146

Support your fellow community members by voting for your favorite one week TCM schedule (only slightly more than 2 days and nights left before the polls close). While choosing only one out of the six excellent entries in this challenge isn't easy, the job they did was much more difficult. Show them that you appreciate their efforts by participating in the voting. The entries are: jarhfive - http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7787158 lzcutter - http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7785946 filmlover - http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7785902 allieharding - http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7785693 hlywdkjk - http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7784437 MattHelm - http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7783585 Thank you, and thanks to the eight (besides me) who have already participated in this final phase of the challenge.

Excellent choices, all three, allieharding. Thanks!

I can sure appreciate your dilemma scarlett, and I hope that that's the reason that others in our community haven't registered their votes yet either. I mean, it's not like anyone is shy with their opinions around her, we're certainly an outspoken bunch;-) We usually have dozens of active users per day, perhaps people are uncomfortable with the non-confidential voting (afraid of offending one of the participants)? To get to the entered schedules, click the First Post link above. Thanks;-) Message was edited by: path40a

Only seven votes so far??? We can do better than that for those that took the time to author & share their seven day dream schedule of TCM programming for us, can't we? The voting ends this Friday at midnight, so be sure to make your voice be heard by registering your vote before the polls close. Please, don't be apathetic.

This week's TCM Picks have been posted: http://www.classicfilmguide.com/index.php?s=tcm#apr6 Walter Huston's birthday is celebrated will an outstanding lineup this Thursday which is followed that evening with the first films from April's SOTM Deborah Kerr; Friday, James Garner receives a birthday salute of his own; this weekend's offerings include 3 TCM Premieres, one of which is How to Marry a Millionaire (1953); Monday, Marjorie Main fans should enjoy the B movie gem Gentle Annie (1944) and Laurel & Hardy fans should be thrilled with the plethora of their features which will air that night; City for Conquest (1940) airs Tuesday morning and this month's salute to cinematographer James Wong Howe continues with the TCM premiere of Algiers (1938) in which Charles Boyer invites Hedy Lamarr to stay with him in the Casbah!

Before registering my vote, I wanted to say thanks once again to everyone who participated. Each of you did a terrific job with a challenge that was hard enough just to participate in, let alone create such outstanding entries across the board. Perhaps your efforts were so good that they intimidated others from trying as well;-) Besides sharing something personal (e.g. which movies mean something to you) with the rest of us, your entry "spoke" for others in TCM's audience also, in the same way that one person's Nielsen ratings speak for thousands of others. It's my opinion, therefore, that you've done all of us (including TCM's programmers) a favor. Very well done indeed! allieharding - I loved your directors' showcases by genre and Dirk Bogarde as SOTM is certainly an inspired choice! jarhfive - Frank Morgan is one of my favorite B movie actors (btw, Happy early Wedding Anniversary); your "magazine to movie" themes are very well done (nice of you to credit coffeedan) too! MattHelm - the brave one who kicked things off (thanks so much), signaling that the challenge was on; many of my favorites are sprinkled throughout your schedule, some each day, and your Saturday morning idea is tops! hlywdkjk - so many great ideas crammed into a single week, it's clear you really put forth a lot of effort to produce a schedule chock full of tantalizing themes and the movies which fit them - "A World of Pure Imagination", "Damon Runyon Stories", "Pulp Fiction", & "Saturday Night Fights" among others! lzcutter - your week's grid is full of themes I'd love to see on TCM's schedule also, even mixing in original programming; I hope to see the other Robin Hoods too; Lucille Ball (one of Osborne's favorites), "He Done Her Wrong" & "She Done Him Just as Bad" (LOL!) - quick, call TCM HQ, perhaps you could replace Molly Haskell!!! Also, "Heel or Friend? Jack Carson" & "Cracking Wise: Eve Arden", wow! But my vote goes to filmlover - begins with "Happy Father's Day", honors film's most celebrated composers, swashbucklers followed by Billy Wilder, but I think my favorite day is Friday - an "All Day Look at Unlikely Subjects for Musicals", how original - finished off with the Hollywood Ten. Overall, I'm choosing your schedule because it would probably break (fill up) my Tivo and/or I'd be changing VHS tapes continuously almost every day.

Path wears glasses and he's been spotted on the TCM set. There's a picture of him there on his site, and while he mentions tcmprogrammer invited him there, there's no tcmprogrammer in the photo with him. There's also no picture of Robert Osborne (or even Ben Mankiewicz) with me either;-) Interesting speculation Matt (& filmlover), but false. Perhaps if/when I ever get invited to the set again I can get my picture taken with one or two of the others? In fact, I've been wanting to replace that camera phone photo for some time.

filmlover, how wonderfully selfless of you! Before the voting goes any further, I wanted everyone to know that tcmprogrammer really came through for us by providing six prizes, one for each entrant! They are (in no particular order): Robert Osborne's book, 70 Years at the Oscars Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer book 'Tis Herself (biography of Maureen O'Hara) book TCM sweatshirt TCM hat TCM t-shirt Whoever wins will choose first, the person who receives the second most votes will choose next, and so forth. Thank you tcmprogrammer!!!

Sorry that you will no longer be able to do your weekly trivia thread, coffeedan. I certainly have enjoyed it ... and will look forward to "Coffeedan's Trivia Extra"!

TCM's programmers have mentioned the possibility of using ideas from the entries (and may have already, e.g. in June's lineup). One vote registered for allieharding by nyoka1 BTW, it took 25 pages (for me) to print out all the grids; I inserted a page break after each one though, so it could take "you" fewer (especially if you like small fonts).

I think a link to the original challenge thread is in order (given that some of the entrants provided their logic etc. wrt their programming): http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?threadID=77842&start=210#7781430

Congratulations (& THANKS!) to all the entrants, let the voting begin! First, review each valid entry: jarhfive - http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7787158 lzcutter - http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7785946 filmlover - http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7785902 allieharding - http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7785693 hlywdkjk - http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7784437 MattHelm - http://forums.turnerclassicmovies.com/jive/tcm/thread.jspa?messageID=7783585 Then, post your vote to this thread (only one vote per pre-Feb 26, 2006 registered user) before Friday, April 7th midnight in your time zone. The usual boilerplate - the decision of the judges is final etc.. You CAN vote for yourself. There will be AT LEAST one grand prize thanks to tcmprogrammer, but there may also be other prizes (e.g. for 2nd, 3rd, etc.) as well. Details to follow ... Although I'd encourage anyone who votes to share their reasoning, let's try to keep this thread free of the usual banter and/or other non-related "conversations". Thank you.

I neglected to include this Sunday's silent feature, The Merry Widow (1925), which I've not seen. It was directed by Erich von Stroheim and features Mae Murray and John Gilbert. I apologize for this oversight.

The Princess and the Pirate?

Sherlock Jr.

Hell in the Pacific?

It's now fixed, thanks!

I too miss stella, mongo, and this thread reminded me of another 'everyman' thread we had some time ago discussing James Stewart & Gary Cooper (among others). In fact, I've just posted an old essay I'd written comparing the two on my site: http://www.classicfilmguide.com/index.php?s=essays&item=19 Thanks for the memories.

Only two more days to participate ...

'Coop' is definitely one of my favorites, another (in the long line) of Samuel Goldwyn's "discoveries". One thing I found fascinating in A. Scott Berg's biography of the producer (about Cooper) was that Goldwyn, his directors, and even some who acted opposite the actor didn't initially "see" anything to his acting technique ... until they viewed the dailies (rushes) and saw how well his little smirks and mannerisms came across, helping to make his "every man" characters so genuine. His female co-stars were attracted (overly so?) to his animal magnetism and attributes (he reportedly had, er, big hands & feet;-) I've enjoyed Cooper, who was especially adept playing real life persons, in so many films (whether the movies themselves were any good or not - and most were!): Man of the West (1958), Love in the Afternoon (1957), Friendly Persuasion (1956), The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955), Vera Cruz (1954), High Noon (1952), The Fountainhead (1949), Along Came Jones (1945), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), Ball of Fire (1941), Sergeant York (1941), Meet John Doe (1941), The Westerner (1940), Beau Geste (1939), The Cowboy and the Lady (1938), The General Died at Dawn (1936), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Peter Ibbetson (1935), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), Design for Living (1933), A Farewell to Arms (1932), Morocco (1930), and I'd love to see Wings (1927)! Funny you should mention that younger persons don't seem to know who he is - when I went to imdb.com to review the list of his films, I noticed that there's a thread about the most overrated actors of all time ... not!

sounds like Samuel Goldwyn

This week's TCM Picks have been posted: http://www.classicfilmguide.com/index.php?s=tcm and they include the TCM premiere of Fear Strikes Out (1957) before a new month begins, which starts appropriately with a salute to film's fools, one classic each from many of the medium's best comedians or comedy teams. Doris Day's birthday salute is topped by the TCM premiere of The King and I (1956), which serves as an early introduction to April's SOTM Deborah Kerr. Additionally, the work of cinematographer James Wong Howe will be celebrated throughout the month on Tuesdays; next Tuesday (really, early Wednesday) also includes Lon Chaney's The Unknown (1927) with Joan Crawford, and Wednesday's lineup includes two more TCM premieres.

pktrekgirl, I sincerely apologize if I offended you with my response(s). That was not my intent in ANY way. I always try to be respectful of other person's opinions and constructive comments. Sorry too if I sounded arrogant in anyway or that you felt somehow belittled by my comments. Yes, there are those who participate on these boards who may have seen more movies than you (certainly than ME), but most of the persons who have been participating for a while are very helpful with their film knowledge (or "hobby" if you prefer) and encouraging of others who want to "join the club", e.g. that share our passion for this art form. Again, I apologize if you feel my response to you was rude.

**** filmlover. I noticed that persons who complain that Benji was even programmed in the first place must have watched it, since they complained that it was aired pan&scan;-)