HollywoodGolightly

That's correct, visualfeast, go ahead and post a photo.

I searched in the archives, but I couldn't find anything. And I sure did search mighty hard.

Henry Orient - Coming of Age next: The Last Remake of Beau Geste

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > I suddenly have an incredible sense of deja vu. Like we've done this before but it had a bad ending. > > Anyone else? I see a happy ending on the horizon. Now, suppose some of you Fan Programmers used your incredible clout with the programming department and somehow managed to get TCM to show Montgomery's Ride the Pink Horse ?

> {quote:title=lzcutter wrote:}{quote} > Reminds me of one of my TCM Programming Challenge entries "I Came for the Waters". I had some of the same films as I recall but I included *Five Graves to Cairo*. Wonder why they didn't include that. Maybe there aren't any prints available?

The Natural - Outta the Ballpark! next: Grease

Only Angels Have Wings

Gena Rowlands was in Lonely are the Brave with Walter Matthau

Ives, Burl

I have just read a breaking news alert saying that the World Health Organization is warning all nations to prepare for a flu pandemic. Let us hope all preventive measures that can be taken will keep the death toll to a minimum. Pirates in the seas, a worldwide depression, and now a flu pandemic... welcome to the 21st century.

Manpower

Image Entertainment has announced a re-issue of Billy Jack (DVD and Blu-ray), and The Billy Jack Collection (includes Born Losers, Billy Jack, The Trial of Billy Jack and Billy Jack Goes to Washington)

Eastwood, Clint

I took another look at the LIF promo and thought I'd make a few screencaps, this really is one of the best promos (together with the one for Sean Connery as SOTM) that I have seen on TCM recently (after the ones for the 15th anniversary and the fan programmers, of course!).

King Kong

Eleanor Powell, Ann Miller and Ginger Rogers were all very good, from what I've seen.

Hi LLouise, welcome to the forums I watched Boy Meets Girl last time TCM showed it. It's not my favorite Cagney-O'Brien movie, but I enjoyed watching it. As to its eventual DVD availability, maybe the best bet would be the Warner Archives, unless it is included in a future James Cagney DVD boxset.

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > If this year isn't bad enough Look at the bright side. If the deal went through, it would probably mean much easier access for TCM to the Universal/Paramount library, and Warner Home Video would start releasing all of those Universal/Paramount classics on DVD and through the Warner Archives (at least the Paramount titles that Universal owns).

> {quote:title=hamradio wrote:}{quote} > A *true end of an era* will be if Universal *stop* producing movies. And that is exactly what the blog entry says. If NBC-Universal is bought by Time Warner, they won't need another studio because they have Warner Bros. So in that scenario, Universal Pictures would fold. > {quote:title=myidolspencer wrote:}{quote} > To (hollygolightly), I didn't have time to read entire article. Does this mean it's film vault & theme park will also GO as well? We simply cannot afford yet another (DESTRUCTION OF HISTORY LIKE>METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER!!!) Please do comment > If Time-Warner buys them, then presumably the Universal library would be controlled by the same folks who now control the Warner library (including what it owns of RKO and the classic MGM movies). The Universal theme park might go on existing as it is, or (who knows?) could be converted to a Six Flags or something. It's really hard to say without knowing what contractual obligations Universal has previously entered into.

Interesting blog entry in Variety, if this is true it could be HUGE news for classic film fans, as Dave Kehr posted in one of the comments: *Will GE Sell NBC Universal to Time Warner?* As the reeling economy puts more pressure on Hollywood's giant conglomerates, and the Internet looms as the ultimate unknown devaluator, The Daily Beast's Kim Masters reports that at some point in time, whether it's sooner or later, General Electric will be forced to unload NBC Universal--no matter how well it's doing--and that Time Warner's Jeffrey Bewkes might not be able to resist buying it: * The main lure for Time Warner meanwhile, would be NBC Universal?s cable channels: USA, Bravo, Sci-Fi, and CNBC. Those would go nicely with Time Warner?s HBO, TNT and TBS. And while no one?s getting rich off news, CNN and NBC News could make a strong combination. Universal Pictures, on the other hand, would likely be folded since Time Warner?which owns Warner Bros.?has no need for another film studio. Yes, that would truly be the end of an era. But industry veterans believe that there?s every reason to expect a number of eras to end in the foreseeable future in the entertainment world, just as big names are vanishing in other industries. Technorati Tags: General Electric, Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner

Where's My Cat? next: Green Mansions

For those who live in Southern California.... Lynn, Kyle, Peter, CineSage_Jr, anyone else I don't know about... if any of you go, let us know how it is! *CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD* *The cinema's classic affair with North Africa* In titles such as 'Casablanca,' 'Beau Geste' and 'The Sheik,' filmmakers gave audiences an adventurous, exotic -- and often politically incorrect -- taste of life a world apart. April 29, 2009 Ever since Rudolph Valentino's nostrils flared and his dark eyes glistened in 1921's "The Sheik," Hollywood and movie audiences have been fascinated with North Africa -- or at least the romantic cinematic version of it -- especially during the golden age of the studio system when filmmakers returned again and again to the area between Libya and the western Sahara. The films were generally exotic and politically incorrect by today's standards, inhabited by troubled, complex characters -- the men usually had left their homes in America or Europe to join the French foreign legion, and the women had some sort of a shady past as well as possessing such colorful names as Cigarette or Amy Jolly. UCLA Film & Television Archive's new retrospective, "From Casablanca to Sahara: Hollywood's North Africa," isn't so much a celebration of these movies as a "closer look at these kind of depictions of the region," says programmer Mimi Brody. "We are inviting scholars to introduce the films to put them in historical context." The festival, which begins Friday with a deliciously fun Marlene Dietrich double bill, 1930's "Morocco" and 1936's "The Garden of Allah," screens at the Billy Wilder Theater. The series is being held in connection with the exhibit at UCLA's Powell Library Rotunda "America's North Africa," which explores American Orientalist narratives in North Africa in pop culture. And thanks to the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, the screening series is free. Brody selected the films with input from the center's Jonathan Friedlander. Here's a look at the films in the series: * "Morocco," Dietrich's first American film, for which she received an Oscar nomination, has, according to Brody, "one of the most memorable endings" in cinema. * "Garden of Allah" stars Dietrich as a former Catholic schoolgirl who goes to the Sahara to find a new life and falls in love with a tortured monk (Charles Boyer) on the lam. Brody loves "the over-the-top artificiality of the sets." * "The Woman I Stole," which screens Sunday evening, is a rare 1933 pre-code drama starring Fay Wray. "It's very politically incorrect," says Brody, adding that Wray is "delightfully wicked." The second feature is 1948's "Casbah," the rarely seen remake of 1938's "Algiers" -- which itself was a remake of 1937's French classic "P?p? le Moko." * William Wellman's terrific 1939 adaptation of "Beau Geste," is the famed tale of three wealthy British brothers who join the French foreign legion; Gary Cooper stars. It screens May 9. * Comedy is king on the May 14 double bill of 1942's Bing Crosby-Bob Hope comedy "Road to Morocco" and the 1931 Laurel and Hardy hoot "Beau Hunks." * On May 31, UCLA is offering a new print of the 1936 melodrama "Under Two Flags," with Ronald Colman as a legionnaire. * The series concludes June 6 with a pair of World War II classics starring Humphrey Bogart, 1942's "Casablanca" and 1943's "Sahara." "Everybody believes they know the film 'Casablanca,' " says Brody, "but what struck me about the film is that it's ultimately about a man who is struggling with his own moral and ideological issues. Bogart's character, Rick Blaine, had volunteered to fight against the fascists in Spain, but he is now a jaded capitalist who is profiting from the war. "This is not to downplay the epic romance in the film, but I believe the film is about self-sacrifice during the war." For more information go to www.cinema.ucla.edu

Sunset Blvd. nw: tarot

Billie Burke was in Irene (1940) with Ray Milland

Astaire, Fred