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If you want to know who will be a likely SOTM, just peruse the list of celebs who either participate at a TCM event (Cruise/Film Festival) or someone that might be close to death. God forbid that TCM would choose an actor/actress just because he/she was deserving.
Here's a list of the "Special Guests" actors and actresses for the upcoming TCM Cruise in October:
Shirley Jones
Richard Dreyfuss
Tab Hunter
Ann Blyth
Diane Baker
Illeana Douglas
How many times has Doris Day been SOTM?? 3?? 4??
Doris Day has been SOTM 3 times, in October of 1995, January of 2003, and April of 2012. She's had 5 SUTS days since that feature was launched in 2003: In 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, and again in 2013.
And they haven't selected George Sanders yet??
Nope, not for SOTM or for a SUTS day. What is it about bubble gum movies that so fascinates these people, and yet leaves an accomplish actor with a terrific resume like Sanders out in the cold? Did he do something to offend someone at some point that we don't know about?
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These folks were born in November 1914:
Norman Lloyd (still living)
Martin Balsam
Robert Alda
I sure hope we don't get the idea that 100th anniversaries obligate TCM to give SOTM honors to actors who otherwise would rate a SUTS day at best. The idea of giving a SOTM to any of these three while far more significant actors such as George Sanders and Susan Hayward still haven't gotten the call would be frankly hard to comprehend.
Norman Lloyd's acting career lasted for twelve whole years before he was blacklisted, during which he averaged fewer than two films per year. Many of them would be worth making into a SUTS day, or even better an interview along with a day's worth of his films to be shown on his 100th birthday, but SOTM should be reserved either for genuine stars or secondary actors with a much longer repertory to choose among.
And BTW that Maureen O'Hara interview must have shown about 10 times a day since the beginning of the month, or at least it sure seems like it. She was undoubtedly a star and seems like a very nice lady, but this really strikes me as overkill. I can't recall this level of saturation for any other actor or actress, living or otherwise.
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I was going down the list of AFI all-time comedies, and they have The Graduate listed 9th. Now I like the movie, the music is great, it is sort of what many guys dream would happen. However, I am not sure if it is really that funny of a movie. As a drama it is great, but as a comedy I would rank a lot of movies over it.
IMO The Graduate is closer to 9th Most Cringeworthy than 9th Best anything, but then we all have different tastes in comedy, and who's to say I'm right and the critics (or you) are wrong?. My taste in humor runs more along the lines of Bombshell and The Sheep Has Five Legs, but the larger point is that the AFI list is about as imaginative as a Hallmark Greeting Card. Make up your own mind about what you think is funny or serious or stupid, and you'll sleep a lot better at night.
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My only problem with Tyrone Power is with the movies he was in, not with Power himself. When he was given a meaty role like Stan in Nightmare Alley or Leonard Vole in Witness For The Prosecution, he was terrific. But when your main point is to look pretty and dress up in some antiquated costume and do sword tricks, that can get old and tired pretty fast.
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Watching the studio-era films on TCM provides a sharp contrast with today's values. Even in the so-called pre-code era, almost all the movies ended with a wink and a pirouette, endorsing conventional values. Ah, the legacy of the rock-and-roll generation. I am afraid what we have gained is not liberation, but license. We still remain as immature a culture as we ever were, but have simply removed the repression and public censure. So heists don't have to fail, foul language is a part of normal discourse, and adulteresses don't have to die.
But really, has human nature changed so much in that short span of years? Mmm, I think not. I think it has been chugging along as it always has as long as there were humans, with the same levels of lust, infidelity, generosity, greed, honesty, betrayal, selflessness, and the whole gamut human virtue and vice. Rather, it is the public morality we have draped it in that has changed, from the yards of heavy cloth of earlier times, to the tight-fitting and scanty covering we have today.
All this is pretty obvious, but what's the point? That we should re-institute the production code of the Breen years? Or that we should all just dress more modestly and curse only in private?
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The only thing that could have redeemed Five Easy Pieces would have been if Karen Black had taken a glass ketchup bottle to Jack Nicholson's skull during that diner scene.
And then go hitchhiking off with the tough chicks while Bobby goes on to visit his family? Rayette doing that wouldn't seem a little incongruous to you?
He could have been sentenced to a lifetime monogamous marriage with Susan Anspach in a no-divorce state. That would've been a fitting punishment for his behavior in the diner.
Correction, though: I should have said that Lorna Thayer should have conked him with the ketchup bottle, not Karen Black. It's been awhile since I've seen that godawful film, and I have no inclination to see it again in order to further refresh my memory.
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I didn't say FIVE EASY PIECES had a warm and fuzzy ending.
The only thing that could have redeemed Five Easy Pieces would have been if Karen Black had taken a glass ketchup bottle to Jack Nicholson's skull during that diner scene.
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Sticking to movies that I know that TCM has already shown, but are relatively unknown to the general audience. Sorry, but since they're all subtitled, they're not too well suited for multitasking.
Traffic in Souls (1913) A powerful early melodrama about a girl forced into prostitution
The Penalty (1921) Lon Chaney as a cruel and legless cripple, out to avenge his maiming at the hands of a childhood doctor.
Children of Paradise (1945) Words can't do it justice. One of the great international films of the postwar era.
Germany: Year Zero (1948) A brutally honest cinematic depiction of the German homefront in the aftermath of V-E day.
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Personally, I think the programming has been just fine in the daytime this summer.
That's great for you, but I watch TCM while working out.
I think it's safe to say that you probably represent the smallest minority around here. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you might want to consider working out in front of your computer and watching any of the many pre-1963 B&W movies that TCM On Demand provides. That way you can have a big choice of the movies you like while you're powerpacking your abs, while at the same time not forcing everyone else to cater to your singular taste.
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Has anyone truly enjoyed the daytime programing this summer? To me it has been lame starting with the whole week of John Wayne. Silent films, foreign silent films, musicals, one right after the other, I'm expecting a silent foreign musical any day now.
Now that we know what you don't like, what do you want to see in its place? More swashbucklers? More noirs? More pre-codes? More sci-fi B-movies? More Clever White Man vs. Noble Savages spectaculars? C'mon, give us a hint.
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I remember WAY "back in the day" that many "r e d n e c k s" felt that EASY RIDER had the best ending seen in any movie!
It wasn't only r e d n e c k s who didn't mind seeing a pair of lowlife drug dealers meet a bloody and fiery ending. The enemy of my enemy isn't necessarily my friend, even if that's the message that this entire sorry movie was browbeating us with for 95 long minutes.
Personally, I'd have to go along with IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Any movie in which the ending provides resolution and wrap-up of loose ends works for me...
There may be movie endings as good as that one, but it's hard to think of any that were better.
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Please try this URL I found: http://www.angelfire.../mn/nn/TCM.html
Good link, but anyone who uses it should make sure to notice the small print, which indicates that it's geared to the Pacific Time Zone, where 14.1% of the U.S. population currently resides.
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I forgot Ruby Dee and Estelle Parsons, both of whom I met and could see myself socializing with.
Okay, cancel all my previous choices and substitute Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis and Diana Sands. My late aunt knew Sands when she was starring in the Broadway version of The Owl and the Pussycat, and said she was a terrific and interesting person.
And if I get a fourth choice, I'd make it Lorraine Hansberry, even though she was a playwright and writer rather than an actress. I'd begin by asking them all to start talking about one of Lorraine's final books before her tragic early death, and let the conversation flow from there.
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TB, I replied to the TCM message board at 2:19, and yes, it did get sent. That's what I meant by "inbox".
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TB, check your inbox. I just replied to your PM.
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And that of course often extended to the ladies of the time, as the "Rubenesque model of beauty" was also considered to be highly desirable during that period.
(...and of course a sun tan sported by anybody during that time would consign them to being of the working class)
True and true. And it was really only about 80 or so years ago that the Irish, the Italians, and the Jews were considered to be truly "white".
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If Pallette believed that whites were so much better than blacks, then why was he so fat? Is corpulence an indication of superiority?
All during Pallette's childhood and through the 1910's, corpulence was considered a symbol of prosperity. Just look at our presidents. By modern standards, nearly all of them from the late 19th century through Taft were overweight. The only real "throwback" president we've had since Herbert Hoover was Bubba, and even he's finally gotten the message since his two heart attacks.
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Comparing I Wake Up Screaming to the remake Vicki is interesting. Dwight Taylor is the screenwriter for both projects so in this regard one can say that Vicki is based on the prior movie, with the Vicki screenplay being very similar to the original screenplay. I don’t know how faithful the original screenplay was to the book. E.g. did the book explain Vicki’s life in flashback or was this device added by the filmmakers?
The movie the producers of Vicki were trying to imitate, for marketing purposes, was Laura. The opening shot of the film is a complete rip-off of Laura and of course there is the change to the title. The book Laura does barrow one key theme from the book I Wake Up Screaming; the detective infatuated with a pretty girl, but that theme is used in very different ways in these movies.
I've seen both I Wake Up Screaming and Vicki several times, and my overwhelming memory of both of these films after about a three year lapse is the Cornell character that was so vividly portrayed by Laird Cregar and then Richard Boone. This similarity completely overrides anything else in the plot, including any memories of Laura.
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I've got complete schedules in Word documents going back to November of 2009, though I never bothered to update them for changes. I've also got nearly every issue of Now Playing going back to 1999 (you can buy these from TCM for $2.00 to $2.50 each), but unless someone in the DC area had the time to convert print to digital, about all they'd be good for would be for answering specific questions on a very limited number of topics, such as "Did such-and-such movie play in March of 2006?"
OTOH if anyone can tell me an EASY and low-tech way to transmit my 2009-2011 complete schedule Word documents to these forums, I'd be more than willing to share them.
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This thread reminds me of the strange disconnect I felt as a politically minded football fan in the early 70's, when the NFL included Dwight MacDonald, Drew Pearson, and Ralph McGill all in the same year.
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James Garner, Robert Ryan, Richard Widmark, Ernest Borgnine, Ida Lupino, Rosalind Russell, and Katharine Hepburn. I'd then ask Ryan and Borgnine for referrals to anyone else.
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Don't go searching for the '54 Law and Order on my account!
I'll always have a soft spot for that movie, even though I've never seen it. In early 1980 I bought a 27 x 41 one sheet poster of it on spec for $25.00 from a book shop I was working at, and then in October I sold it for (no fooling) $1,000 to a Democrat who was giddy over an erroneous poll that briefly had Carter in the lead, and thought it would make for a great gag poster in his office. Unfortunately the joke was on him, and then early in 1981 I saw the same poster (not the same copy) at at book fair for a "mere" $190. I have absolutely no idea what that poster was "really" worth then or now, but since at the time I was making $7.00 an hour I wasn't about to ask any questions.
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Take away the last 60 seconds, and there's never been a darker movie than The Housemaid. Imagine a 17 year old version of Patty McCormick in The Bad Seed with a side hobby of being a sexual predator and homewrecker, and you'll start to get the idea.
(That bottle that our girl seems to be taking a fancy to? It's rat poison.)
Any ideas who will be November's SOTM?
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I recall vividly 'discovering' TCM for the first time while channeling surfing at its inception and remember that Doris Day was SOTM. Based on where I was at that time in my life, this would be either April or May, 1994. Andy, if you have the resource, could you check this? I would swear that she was SOTM back then, probably May 1994. Possible?
Glad to oblige. Here's the complete list of SOTM honorees up through this month's Maureen O'Hara. I'll post the SUTS choices in a minute.
STAR OF THE MONTH:
May 1994: Greta Garbo
June 1994: Glenn Ford
July 1994: Greer Garson
Aug.1994: Edward G. Robinson
Sept.1994: Barbara Stanwyck
Oct.1994: Angela Lansbury
Nov.1994 John Garfield
Dec.1994: Best of ‘94
Jan.1995: Esther Williams
Feb.1995: Ronald Reagan
Mar.1995: TCM Salutes the Oscars
Apr.1995: Doris Day
May 1995: Myrna Loy
June 1995: Errol Flynn
July 1995: Gene Kelly
Aug.1995: Paul Muni
Sept.1995: Jane Powell
Oct.1995: Clark Gable
Nov.1995: Barrymores
Dec.1995: Best of ‘95
Jan.1996: Deborah Kerr
Feb.1996: Robert Young
Mar.1996: 31 Days of Oscar
April 1996: Irene Dunne
May 1996: James Stewart
June 1996: Rosalind Russell
July 1996: Fred Astaire
Aug.1996: Ann Sheridan
Sept.1996: Van Johnson
Oct.1996: Kathryn Grayson
Nov.1996: Robert Mitchum
Dec.1996: Best of ‘96
Jan.97: Humphrey Bogart
Feb.97: Eleanor Parker
Mar.97: 31 Days of Oscar
Apr.97: Ava Gardner
May 97: George Brent
June 97: June Allyson
July 97: John and Walter Huston (also Director of the Month)
Aug.97: Cary Grant
Sept.97: Ida Lupino
Oct.97: Walter Pidgeon
Nov.97: Katharine Hepburn
Dec.97: Best of ‘97
Jan.1998: Lana Turner
Feb.1998: Charlton Heston
Mar.1998:31 Days of Oscar
April 1998: Red Skelton
May 1998: Olivia de Havilland
June 1998: James Cagney
July 1998: Lucille Ball
August 1998: Joan Crawford
Sept.1998: John Wayne
Oct.1998: Cyd Charisse
Nov.1998: Claude Rains
Dec.1998: Best of ‘98
Jan.1999: Elizabeth Taylor
Feb.1999: William Powell
March 1999: 31 Days of Oscar (probably)
April 1999: Dennis Morgan
May 1999: Bette Davis
June 1999: Mickey Rooney
July1999: Natalie Wood
August 1999: Peter Sellers
Sept.1999: Norma Shearer
Oct. 1999: Gregory Peck
Nov. 1999: Ginger Rogers
Dec. 1999: Burt Lancaster
Jan. 2000: Debbie Reynolds
Feb. 2000: Robert Ryan
March 2000: 31 Days of Oscars (probably)
April 2000: Spencer Tracy
May 2000: Alexis Smith
June 2000:Wallace Beery
July 2000: Judy Garland
August 2000: film debuts
Sept 2000: Jane Wyman
October 2000: Dick Powell
Nov 2000: Frank Sinatra
Dec. 2000: Lauren Bacall
Jan. 2001: Elvis Presley
Feb.2001: Jean Hagen
March 2001: 31 Days of Oscar (probably)
Apr.2001: Knighted Actors
May 2001: Jean Harlow
June 2001: W.C. Fields
July 2001: Ann Sothern
Aug.2001: James Garner
Sept. 2001: Robert Taylor
Oct. 2001: Lana Turner
Nov.2001: Glenn Ford
Dec.2001: The Marx Brothers
Jan. 2002: Marlene Dietrich
Feb. 2002: Kirk Douglas
March 2002: 31 Days of Oscar
April 2002: Barbara Stanwyck
May 2002: Edward G. Robinson
June 2002: Greta Garbo
July 2002: Sidney Poitier
Aug. 2002: Joan Crawford
Sept. 2002: Van Heflin
Oct. 2002: Final films
Nov. 2002: Shelly Winters
Dec. 2002: Montgomery Clift
Jan. 2003: Doris Day
Feb. 2003: John Garfield
Mar. 2003: 31 Days of Oscar
Apr. 2003: Harold Lloyd
May 2003: Olivia de Havilland
June 2003: TV Actors in Films
July 2003: Lee Marvin
Aug. 2003: 1st Summer Under the Stars (See bottom of page for complete list)
Sept. 2003: James Mason
Oct. 2003: Boris Karloff
Nov. 2003: Shirley MacLaine
Dec. 2003: David Niven
Jan. 2004: Katherine Hepburn
Feb.2004: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar.2004: Charles Chaplin
Apr. 2004: Judy Garland
May 2004: Greer Garson
June 2004: Cary Grant
July 2004: Stars That Died Before Their Time
Aug.2004: 2nd Summer Under the Stars (See bottom of page for complete list)
Sept.2004: Myrna Loy
Oct. 2004: Peter Lorre
Nov.2004: Clark Gable
Dec. 2004: James Stewart
Jan.2005: Canadian Actors
Feb. 2005: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar. 2005: Claudette Colbert
Apr. 2005: Errol Flynn
May 2005: Orson Welles
June 2005: Ingrid Bergman
July 2005: Audrey Hepburn
Aug. 2005: 3rd Summer Under the Stars (See bottom of page for complete list)
Sept.2005: Greta Garbo
Oct.2005: Robert Mitchum
Nov.2005: Joan Fontaine
Dec. 2005: Bing Crosby
Jan. 2006: Robert Montgomery
Feb.2006: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar.2006: Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald
Apr.2006: Deborah Kerr
May 2006: Bette Davis
June 2006: Anthony Quinn
July 2006: Elizabeth Taylor
Aug.2006: 4th Summer Under the Stars (See bottom of page for complete list)
Sept.2006: William Holden
Oct.2006: Child Stars
Nov.2006: Lucille Ball
Dec. 2006: Gary Cooper
Jan.2007: Jean Arthur
Feb.2007: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar.2007: Gene Kelly
Apr.2007: Rita Hayworth
May 2007: John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn
June 2007: Ida Lupino
July 2007: Randolph Scott
Aug.2007: 5th Summer Under the Stars (See bottom of page for complete list)
Sept.2007: A Star is Born (starmaking/breakthrough performances)
Oct.2007: Henry Fonda
Nov.2007: Guest Programmer Month
Dec.2007: Irene Dunne
Jan.2008: James Cagney
Feb.2008: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar.2008: Acting Dynasties
Apr.2008: Hedy Lamarr
May 2008: Frank Sinatra
June 2008: Sophia Loren
July 2008: Rosalind Russell
Aug.2008: 6th annual Summer Under the Stars (See bottom of page for complete list)
Sept.2008: Kay Francis
Oct.2008: Carole Lombard
Nov.2008: Charles Laughton
Dec. 2008: Joseph Cotten
Jan. 2009: Jack Lemmon
Feb. 2009: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar. 2009: Ronald Reagan
April 2009: Funny Ladies and 15th Anniversary
May 2009: Sean Connery
June 2009: Great Directors
July 2009: Stewart Granger
August 2009: Summer Under the Stars (See bottom of page for complete list)
Sept. 2009: Claude Rains
Oct. 2009: Leslie Caron
Nov. 2009: Grace Kelly
Dec. 2009: Humphrey Bogart
Jan. 2010: “The Method”
Feb. 2010: 31 Days of Oscar
March 2010: Ginger Rogers
April 2010: Robert Taylor
May 2010: Donna Reed
June 2010: Natalie Wood
July 2010: Gregory Peck
August 2010: Summer Under The Stars (SUTS) (See bottom of page for complete list)
Sept. 2010: Vivien Leigh
Oct. 2010: Fredric March
Nov. 2010: Ava Gardner
Dec. 2010: Mickey Rooney
Jan. 2011: Peter Sellers
Feb. 2011: 31 Days of Oscar
March 2011: Jean Harlow
April 2011: Ray Milland
May 2011: Esther Williams
June 2011: Jean Simmons
July 2011: Singing Cowboys
August 2011: Summer Under The Stars (SUTS) (See bottom of page for complete list)
Sept. 2011: Kirk Douglas
Oct. 2011: Buster Keaton
Nov. 2011: Battle of the Blonds
Dec. 2011: William Powell
Jan. 2012: Angela Lansbury
Feb. 2012: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar. 2012: Karl Malden
April 2012: Doris Day
May 2012: Joel McCrea
June 2012: Teen Idols
July 2012: Leslie Howard
August 2012: Summer Under The Stars (SUTS) (See bottom of page for complete list)
Sept. 2012: Lauren Bacall
Oct. 2012: Spencer Tracy
Nov. 2012: Constance Bennett
Dec. 2012: Barbara Stanwyck
Jan. 2013: Loretta Young
Feb. 2013: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar. 2013: Greer Garson
April 2013: Laurence Olivier
May 2013: Tough Guys
June 2013: Eleanor Parker
July 2013: Paul Henreid
August 2013: Summer Under The Stars (SUTS) (See bottom of page for complete list)
September 2013: Kim Novak
October 2013: Vincent Price
November 2013: Burt Lancaster
December 2013: Fred Astaire
January 2014: Joan Crawford
Feb. 2014: 31 Days of Oscar
Mar. 2014: Mary Astor
April 2014: John Wayne
May 2014: June Allyson
June 2014: Rock Hudson
July 2014: Maureen O’Hara