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Extraordinary as this will apparently seem to you, some people decide to whether or not to watch TCM on a given day or night based on advance knowledge of what's going to be shown!

Well, on this occasion, they COULDN'T say in advance, because the films that made the Registry weren't announced until that morning. I feel like TCM certainly must have had some advance knowledge, however. The lineup I feel surely was already planned but just couldn't be announced until the day of.

Yeah, I feel generationally, we're a relatively wide bunch around here. For example, wearing seat belts was the law of the land by the time I was old enough to drive, although I certainly remember not wearing them my entire childhood and early adolescence. Propellers on airplanes? I'd have to look into the history of that. The first time I ever flew on a plane at the age of 15, it was the same kind of jet that's still used today.

Yes, I'm also a fan of that iteration of the band as well. Their ever-revolving membership is part of the band's legend, though it has been reasonably stable since 1975. It's pretty cool that Mick Fleetwood and John McVie have been providing the rhythm groove for half a century, no matter who the singers and songwriters were.

This is taking longer than I expected. I looked at the lineups for four more days tonight. Here are the films airing between February 5 and February 8 I haven't seen: The Criminal Code (Columbia, 1931) The Front Page (United Artists, 1931) Gulliver's Travels (Paramount, 1939) The Mark of Zorro (20th Century Fox, 1940) Walls of Malapenga (dist. in US by Film International, 1950) Brigadoon (MGM, 1954) Mon Oncle (dist. in US by Continental, 1958) Tom Thumb (MGM, 1958) Through a Glass Darkly (dist. in US by Janus, 1962) The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (MGM, 1964) The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming (United Artists, 1966) The Battle of Algiers (dist. in US by Rizzoli, 1967) The Prince of Tides (Columbia, 1991) So, in the first eight days, they're airing 25 films I haven't seen. I guess I have no cause for complaint (though most of the ones I have seen, I've seen a LOT!).

Hey, what about friend of TCM Norman Lloyd? Although I think at one point he took like a 20 or 25 year break between film roles, so I'm not sure how many different decades he acted in.

I love all kinds of music from all eras. Cab Calloway is great too. I get equally exasperated with my nieces who think any music made before 2000 is so old it must be terrible as I do with people on these message boards who think everything produced in any medium after 1960 must be crap.

Holy crap, that was fast! (Can I say crap on the message boards? We're about to find out) Thanks, Dargo! Guess this actually was the case!

I, too, am pretty "meh" on Nicks' solo career. She seems to have saved most of her best material for the Mac. She's also really not my favorite person right now, because she appears to have been the driving force behind the firing of Lindsey Buckingham from the band earlier this year. I swear there is no one on these message boards who has a greater love for Fleetwood Mac than me - I am a rabid megafan - but a Mac without Buckingham is more than I can bear. I already had to endure it once, from '87-'97, and sadly this time, it's probably permanent. A scabs-loaded Fleetwood Mac is playing in my city in February, but I will not go to see them, because I am too heartbroken.

Gonna have to ponder your question for a while, scsu. I will return if I think of someone. In my opinion, this trailer looks pretty strong! I get tense just watching it! I totally plan to see this movie in the theater.

I hate to disappoint you, but I think Rafferty is an incredible long shot. Nilsson, I think he might get in some day.

This is a recurring thread lately by multiple posters. I've never heard of you because I've lived in a shell, so I reject your significance! Stevie Nicks has been around for well over 40 years. The Zombies were making hits 50 years ago. These are not punk kids we're talking about.

So says Shipmates Forever. I feel this was no longer the case by the time WWII broke out, and there were all those movies about people suddenly getting married before they shipped off. Congressional law prevented you from marrying for two years? You committed a federal crime if you were a Navy Academy graduate who got married? Someone who knows more about this than me enlighten me.

I was about to say Jack Nicholson played Jack Torrance in The Shining, when I remembered the thread was about actresses (but see how I snuck it in there, anyway?).

Yep

I made it through the first four days. I've got to go to bed. I'll have to check out the rest tomorrow. Don't know if I've seen anything that's blown me away so far. The nightly themes seem interesting, but gosh, it looks like they're only showing two films for each theme, i.e., Janet Gaynor "night" is exactly two films, and that seems to repeat ad infinitum ... well ad four days. Here are the movies airing in the first four days I haven't seen: Street Angel (Fox Films, 1928) Night Must Fall (MGM, 1937) Henry V (dist. in US by United Artists, 1946) Battleground (MGM, 1949) Bicycle Thieves (dist. in US by Arthur Mayer & Joseph Burstyn, 1949) Panic in the Streets (20th Century Fox, 1950) The Old Man & the Sea (Warner Bros., 1958) The 400 Blows (dist. in US by Zenith International, 1959) Billy Budd (Allied Artists, 1962) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (dist. in US by AIP, 1964) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (MGM, 1969) Tom Sawyer (United Artists, 1973) So, I have an opportunity to educate myself if I choose. Several lionized foreign films I just haven't caught and also a few TCM warhorses I've sort of avoided, just because they didn't appear that interesting. But there are a couple in there I feel I absolutely need to see. Okay, I'll try to look over the rest of the month tomorrow.

I was a senior in high school when this movie came out. I didn't see it, but I remember seeing the trailer, and I remember exactly what young me thought to himself as I rolled my eyes, "Oh my God, this really looks like two super-pathetic old dudes trying desperately to grab to some long-forgotten glory". Or words to that effect. My brain at that age may not have phrased it quite that elegantly. I had just enough classic movie knowledge to know who they were. I'd seen Saturn 3 and Atlantic City on HBO, so I'd seen at least one movie each with them. Now, thirty-plus years later, I'm thinking, this film is a natural for TCM to show given its two stars, and I would absolutely watch it! Crossing my fingers and hoping for the best!

Has an overarching theme been announced? I'm just beginning to delve into these, so I don't know if there's some 360 degrees kind of thing, or if it's just pot luck from day to day.

Really, if there was an emoji where I was holding my stomach a bit, I would put that, but I will go with laughing emoji instead. A noble effort, Dargo!

I'm unsure why my extremely similar comments you can find above didn't draw ire from the Sergeant, but yeah, I think it's worth saying that the extra-long period piece didn't end overnight because of Heaven's Gate.

Checked out this thread before I started delving into the lineup as a whole. I remember a memorable review I read back in the early '90s where the reviewer said, well, The Greatest Show on Earth is probably not DeMille's strongest film but, my God, the man deserved ONE film in his career to win Best Picture. He went on to say if Steven Spielberg keeps making hit films for another 25 years, he may begin to approach the success of DeMille relative to the value of a dollar at that time. Well, it's now been another 25 years, and Spielberg has kept right on cranking out hits. I don't really want to get into a who's greater debate, but the guy was just trying to make a point about DeMille's impact. Anyway, are they not showing Greatest Show at all? TopBilled, I believe you've said all those Republic films are owned by Paramount now. I'm not sure why TCM can show Quiet Man so frequently and Greatest Show (which came out later than the vast swath of Paramount films now controlled by Universal, so which I assume is still a Paramount property) so rarely. But, yeah, I don't really like the idea of TCM taking the stand of comparing the worthiness of one film to another. Though I think I will try to hold judgment until I see how they broach the topic in the intro, if I'm actually watching.

Sounds pretty dismissive and judgmental of my opinion, but thanks?

Well, that's kind of why I liked it, being so bonkers and out of place given what I was expecting going into it. It also established that the Kristofferson and Hurt characters had known each other long ago in a completely different lifetime. It worked for me!

I don't know any of your ages, but if even the TCM crowd can't watch the movie because they find the opening sequence boring, there's zero hope of ever getting a millennial to watch it. I think of my two nieces, still preteens back then, who were seriously sure they were literally going to die of boredom during the long, dialogue-free opening sequence to Wall-E, something they'd never seen before in a movie ... and probably have never seen again since. Some great movies are about atmosphere more than a strong narrative drive. I get swept up in the spectacle and the amazing sense of time and place when I watch that opening bit of Heaven's Gate. People didn't seem to mind so much the wedding that takes up at least half an hour to open The Deer Hunter, which got showered with Oscars.

I'm glad the schedule is finally up! Caught up in some stuff. I'm not going to look at the schedule or read anybody's posts until tomorrow, when I can do it at leisure. Hope there's some good stuff. If everybody's trashing it above this post (as they usually do every year), I won't know until tomorrow.