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Oh, so you are making note of the calendar day of death, not necessarily that someone died within the past 24 hours.. I get it.

I mean, I don't know that for sure, but he wasn't there and wasn't mentioned other than Russ Tamblyn once said he originally wanted the part Beymer got. It's just my impression.

This is exactly how I felt during the recent airing of West Side Story, when the lovefest between the living cast members (Richard Byemer intentionally excluded from participating as far as I could tell) went on for over half an hour before the movie started.

Since you quote a different name and a death date for the title of this thread, I must confess to confusion.

Speaking of Hackman and neo-noirs, I would love to see The Conversation. Don't suppose that's included?

I would urge everyone to listen to "Living Doll" and its fantastic guitar solo. Hank Marvin is a demigod.

I didn't remember it from the still, but I've seen Let No Man Write My Epitaph. So, I've seen two.

Ironically, this was the first Steve McQueen movie I ever saw, on HBO when I was in about seventh grade. I was vaguely aware he was a big star who'd recently died.

At the age of 83, James Stewart made his final film appearance doing voiceover work as the dog sheriff in the animated 1991 film An American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West

Do not come with me to zee Cazbahh ... we can make beautiful music together right here!

He's asking if you ever met Eva Marie Saint by virtue of the fact you were born in the same place, taking care not to disrespect the location, which has been much maligned in the Sopranos era. Granted, he's speaking in his usual Fractured Fairy Tales/haiku voice.

I'm reluctant to give Nipkow credit for an astute observation, but the other poster seems to be confusing Lancaster and William Holden.

Nine pages, and nobody has shown Archie and Edith singing "Those Were the Days"?

I don't know any of the older ones. 2496 is South Pacific. Yes. 2498 is Fun with D*ck and Jane, which I think maybe is airing on George Segal's SUTS day? I haven't seen it. 2499 is Teen Wolf. Oh, I saw part of it on HBO a million years ago, but I won't count it as one I've actually seen. 2500 looks like fodder for TCM Underground, I can't identify it. So, only one I'm absolutely sure I've seen. Edit: Oh, no, wait I think 2500 is one of those drag queen movies. There were two that came out maybe the same year. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Pretty sure it's the former. I think I can make out the faces of Leguizamo, Snipes and Swayze. I still haven't seen it.

I also thought about A Teacher, a limited series on FX last year with Kate Mara that might be the modern take on the same subject matter.

My state passed a law within the past five years that makes it a felony for anyone working in education to have sexual relations with an 18-year-old student, as this appeared to an exploitable loophole that was upsetting people.

Guess I missed all those.

Superman: the Movie was a big staple of my childhood. In recent years, there has been much ballyhood about the so-called "Snyder Cut" of Justice League, but long before then there was the "Donner Cut" of Superman II, which was filmed simultaneously with the first movie but was radically altered before release via re-shoots helmed by Richard Lester of A Hard Day's Night fame. I found this on imdb: In late 2006 a new version, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980), subtitled "The Richard Donner Cut", was released on DVD and Blu-ray by the new rights-holders of the franchise. It reinserts virtually everything that could been salvaged from what Donner shot for his intended original version of the film, such as the infamous Marlon Brando scenes, before the producers sacked him. This version uses less than 20% of material filmed by Richard Lester, and since that left a few gaps in the story with no possibility of re-shoots, Donner had to make do with just about every bit of footage he had shot some 25 years before, including some which had only been shot as screen tests.

Jabba was played by a human actor in the scene as originally filmed. I know this because I had a photo storybook of the movie when I was in second grade. Working from an early draft of the screenplay, I assume, they released the book without knowing the scene would be cut. They had scenes of Biggs Darklighter on Tattooine in the book as well. For the enhanced edition, they removed the actor and inserted a digital Jabba the way he looked in Jedi.

Thank you for explaining the term "orphans". That is a word another poster has used about 600,000 times on here without, to my knowledge, ever explaining it, maybe assuming I was smarter than I am.

I'm pledging not to rain on anybody's individual choices, so I will just vaguely say I find some of the performers selected too mannered or too stagey for my personal tastes and leave everybody to assume I'm talking about their personal favorite! Seriously, though, if a performer has done something for you, then they've at least partially accomplished their goal.

Actors who immediately come to mind for me: Dustin Hoffman, Henry Daniell and the aforementioned Claude Rains. Actresses: Piper Laurie, Patricia O'Neal and for a very good chunk of her incredibly long career Katharine Hepburn.

I'm just happy to see a first-time poster saying something other than "I hate that TCM isn't like it used to be anymore!"

Yes, that's extremely Burtonesque-sounding, all right. I'm sure everybody remembers Anthony Hopkins dubbing Olivier's voice for the restored "preferences" scene in Spartacus. I think I read Joan Plowright asked him to do it after she heard Hopkins doing an Olivier impersonation at a party.

The third SEASON is on Lucy, not the third episode of this season. But possibly you knew that.