AndyM108

That makes sense, and I wouldn't have even mentioned it except for the fact that the change happened right before my eyes in real time. It was kind of like spotting a unicorn dashing across a field, here one second and gone the next.

Has anyone ever had this happen to them? I was copying and pasting the overnight June 1st/2nd movies onto my monthly Word document schedule for movies to record, and for my last selection of the night I copied this one: 4:45 AM Drowning Pool, The (1975) A private eye's investigation of an anonymous letter leads to murder. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa. Dir: Stuart Rosenberg. C-108 min. But when I went to the next day's schedule, what did I find but this? 6:30 AM Drowning Pool, The (1975) A private eye's investigation of an anonymous letter leads to murder. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa. Dir: Stuart Rosenberg. C-108 min. What the h---? So I return to the Monday page and now I see this, less than 15 seconds after I'd seen the 4:45 AM listing for The Drowning Pool: 3:00 AM Paris Blues (1961) Two jazz musicians deal with romantic problems in Paris. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier. Dir: Martin Ritt. C-99 min. 4:45 AM Rachel, Rachel (1968) A small town teacher tries to overcome her shyness. Cast: Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington. Dir: Paul Newman. C-101 I know these things happen, but I've never seen it happen right before my eyes. Even stranger was when I checked the complete schedule for June, it showed the "revised" schedule, even though I'd copied it at least a month or two ago. And the June Now Playing guide has The Drowning Pool at 4:45! I won't even begin to explain it, but it looks as if the online monthly schedule got corrected many weeks ago, but they didn't get around to correcting the daily schedule until I went to that page. In any event, I'm glad I didn't make my schedule a few minutes earlier!

There are better options than.......suicide. At least if you can hold out until early evening, and go to bed after the last West Coast game. And if you can avoid thinking about that grating voice. Monday August 31, 2015All times Eastern. Subject to change. Away Home Time (ET) Rays Orioles 7:05 PM Indians Blue Jays 7:07 PM Marlins Braves 7:10 PM Yankees Red Sox 7:10 PM Phillies Mets 7:10 PM Reds Cubs 8:05 PM Mariners Astros 8:10 PM Nationals Cardinals 8:15 PM D-backs Rockies 8:40 PM Angels Athletics 10:05 PM Giants Dodgers 10:10 PM Rangers Padres 10:10 PM

I'd only looked at the actors' lineup before, and not the films, so I hadn't noticed that Thieves' Highway---FINALLY! AND ABOUT TIME!!!---made it onto TCM. This 10 on a 10 scale classic used to play regularly on the Fox Movie Channel, but the last time it was there was in May of 2010. I only hope that like Laura and All About Eve, it becomes more than a one time shot here on Turner. I'd only add that in addition to Conte and Cobb, Valentina Cortese and Millard Mitchell give terrific performances. Definitely a must-see movie.

You can get the succeeding weeks by just clicking on Holden's link and then changing the "01" in the URL to "08", "15", "22" and "29". What a sorry selection. Not one foreign actor whose career wasn't primarily in Hollywood, unlike in recent years when we got Gabin, Deneuve, Mifune and Moreau. It's nice to see Lee J. Cobb and George C. Scott, but as a whole it's as if no imagination at all went into it. Just way too many of the same stale retreads like Cooper and Wayne and Hepburn. Thank God for baseball.

Now that would be something original.

Yeah, sometimes.... "In other words, a clip joint"

I love the idea of honoring character actors, who in many cases were the only saving grace in many a mediocre studio era movie, but the problem is that their appearances tend to overlap so much that it'd be hard to avoid repeating the same movies if you were having a whole SUTS month devoted to them. I think your alternate idea of having a Character Actors SOTM tribute would be much easier to program, and allow for a lot more variety without fear of duplication.

Maybe it's just that TCM realizes that seeing Bob Hope and Mickey Rooney on the screen at the same time would be too horrific a thought even for aficionados of snuff movies.

Karen Allen "homely"? I don't think so. (Now Shelley "Mayonnaise Mouth" Winters, that's another story.)

I'd think it's be more likely to be either Jackie Gleason, George C.Scott, or Piper Laurie, especially the last two. Newman had a day only 5 years ago, and neither Gleason, Scott or Laurie have ever had a day. And Murray Hamilton? I doubt it, unless you were filling a month with nothing but character actors.

So would I, but here's a prediction: Barring any wholesale arrangements that give us more Universal, Fox, Paramount, and/or Republic films, every year will find us all with fewer and fewer personal "premieres". The first year I watched SUTS (2010), I recorded 78 feature films and 20 shorts, almost none of which I'd seen before. Last year it was down to 42 features, of which only about 8 or 10 were movies I hadn't yet seen on TV. And out of those 8 or 10, only Jeanne Moreau's Bay of Angels and The Lovers were anything I'd choose to plan my day around. The point isn't that TCM didn't have a lot of great movies last August; it's simply that you can only see a movie once for the first time. The same thing holds for Oscar month: Lots of great films, but after a while they seem like old hat.

Whether a film is "controversial" depends on the time and date of its release, but in no particular order, these are the ones that might first pop into mind: ---The Birth of a Nation ---Peyton Place ---And God Created Woman (controversial only in the U.S.) ---I Am Curious (Yellow) ---The Last Temptation of Christ ---The Passion of the Christ (I'd love for TCM to show these two back-to-back. Whaddya say, Bob? Give Ben-Hur a rest.) ---Muhammad: Messenger of God ---Pink Flamingos Then there were a whole slew of pre-code films that were "controversial" only because the Catholic Church decided that it deserved to have a veto power over any movie it didn't like, but that was more of an artificial set of "controversies" than any real ones. And then there was my personal favorite, not for the movie itself, but for the tagline on the poster: The film that could only be made in South America....where Life is CHEAP!

IMO that's both Field's and Newman's best movie, which is saying a lot. I was SO glad when TCM added it to its lineup not that long ago.

On the theory that one film clip can be worth 1,000 words....

For anyone interested in more information about the movie industry in wartime, there are four very good books on the subject issued by Naval Institute Press, all with extensive details about the war records of the many men and women from Hollywood and overseas studios who served in and out of uniform. All are relatively inexpensive on Amazon and abebooks.

That makeup team was never quite so energetic as when she played Mary Todd Lincoln. She not only looked about 80 in that movie, she looked as if she were at death's door. Seeing her now on TCM is like seeing a completely different person, and I might add it's quite a relief. I never understood the contempt and ridicule she has suffered from the public through recent years-I always thought she was adorable and a very good actress & comedienne. Neither have I. Smart, funny, gorgeous and adorable. The complete package.

The topic is as overplayed as most of 1939's movies, which is saying a lot.

I think I can guarantee that far more people could pick George Costanza (or Frank Costanza) out of a lineup than Ben Stiller, given the popularity of Seinfeld and the saturation of its reruns ever since the original series went off the air.

Absolutely. And that Jawja accent of hers can pass for Texas to us outlanders.

Absolutely. The original version of The Killers is one of my two favorite noirs, and I expected to find the remake to be little more than a howler. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be a perfectly fine film, and Reagan was completely convincing. His role as Browning wasn't nearly as developed as that of Albert Dekker's Big Jim Colfax in the original, but since the plot was far from identical that didn't detract from my appreciation of Reagan's performance. And that slap! Yowzah! The movie also gave me a favorite trivia question: Who was the last person to kill Ronald Reagan?

Of course if you had a dollar for every historical absurdity and fictional invention in that allegedly biographical Gehrig movie, you could buy out Alex Rodriguez's contract. It's more than fitting that it often shows up in tandem with the William Bendix Babe Ruth Story, as they're about on the same level of incredulity.

I just watched Nadine, with Kim Basinger, Jeff Bridges and Rip Torn. I'd recorded it a few nights ago and was catching up. It centers on an about-to-be divorced couple (Basinger and Bridges) in the Austin of 1954, who get thrown back together when Basinger accidentally comes into possession of the state's secret plans for a new highway. Bridges steals the plans from her and figures on using the information to get rich, until the arch-hustler criminal Torn gets other ideas. It's a classic mix of romantic comedy and caper movie, with a pair of thugs working for Torn who might be straight out of Home Alone. It's not as if the plot is all that thrilling, and in truth if it had been shot in black and white and were 50 years older, it wouldn't stand out from some of Jimmy Cagney's potboilers from the 30's. But the three main actors are all terrific (especially Basinger), and we even get a brief cameo appearance by George Costanza's father (Jerry Stiller), who winds up in a way that George Costanza might have dreamed about.

No, but on your recommendation I'll record and watch it the next time TCM runs it.* I did like him in City Streets and in Wings, so maybe he hadn't ossified by 1935. * I'd swear I'd seen it on their schedule at one point, even though it's a Paramount.

Well, we can't like em all. I appreciate nearly all of the other marquee male non-musical stars from the same period: Gable, Stewart, Grant, Willilam Powell, Cagney, Bogart, Mitchum, Lancaster, Power, Holden, Andrews, Milland, Stewart Granger, Ryan, Ford, Taylor, and so on. But not Cooper. I think the straw that broke the camel's back was Love In The Afternoon----that was even worse (much worse) than any of his Capras. It seemed almost sacreligious to cast the radiant 28 year old Audrey Hepburn with an aging Hugh Hefner wannabee as totally unappealing as Cooper, and once that film came to its predictable end I pretty much swore off any more movies of his for good.