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I guess if we waited long enough, Spence was right after all. R.I.P. Jerry.

Anthony Hopkins Laurence Olivier Albert Finney Daniel Day-Lewis Charles Laughton Michael Caine Cary Grant Charles Chaplin Ralph Richardson Alec Guinness Kate Winslet Deborah Kerr Maggie Smith Emma Thompson Judi Dench Elizabeth Taylor Wendy Hiller Vanessa Redgrave Julie Christie Julie Walters

Monday, May 11 8 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. No Maps on My Taps (1979). Documentary about tap dancers. midnight. The Little Colonel (1935). With Shirley Temple and Bill Robinson.

Sunday, May 10/11 2 a.m. Wajda by Wajda (2016). Documentary about Polish director, Andrzej Wajda.

Christopher Tauling, a U.N. official, is leading an effort to warn the authorities worldwide that a bacterial weapon is at the ready to wipe out most of mankind.

Saturday, May 9 10 a.m. Popeye: Olive’s Sweepstake Ticket (1941). 8 p.m. Ace In the Hole (1951). Kirk Douglas!

Friday, May 8 12:45 p.m. Mischa Elman (1926). 7 minute short with the violinist. My fascination is when this film was made - 1926. It has to be a very early sound experiment.

According to an article out today in The New Yorker the film produced by Wood and Wagner's daughter has an agenda which is to exonerate Robert Wagner. Wood's sister, Lana who had suspicions about Natalie's death is apparently portrayed as a 'hanger-on.'

Thursday, May 7 SOTM Edward G. Robinson 8 p.m. Little Caesar (1930). I have to go with breakout film. Replaced in Canada with Outward Bound (1930). And … 12:30 a.m. Key Largo (1948). This is one of my favourite Edward G. performances.

Stranglers keyboardist, Dave Greenfield has died from covid-19.

Cec Linder George C. Scott

Ignorant citizens doubt a small town doctor during a typhoid epidemic.

Wednesday, May 6 10 a.m. Popeye: The Dance Contest (1934). Popeye on a Wednesday afternoon? 8 p.m. The Dragon Painter (1919). Silent film with Sessue Hayakawa. My grandmother used to tell me about seeing some of his silents. She always mangled his name.

Liz Fraser as the factory's spindle polisher, Cynthia Kite in I'm All Right Jack (1959).

1975 The Valiant Ones (1975) King Hu, Hong Kong Decent but nothing new Chinese period martial arts film.

Tuesday, May 5 5:15 p.m. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). They don’t come much better than this.

John Hurt as Jellon Lamb in The Proposition (2005).

Monday, May 4 8:45 a.m. Mental Poise (1938). This Robert Benchley short sounds interesting.