HoldenIsHere

Since TCM has been showing clips from SUNSET BOULEVARD during their Essentials promo I see that Wiliam Holden does look 30ish rather than 40ish. But I still say that Gloria Swanson looks younger than 50. When I first saw SUNSET BOULEVARD I was struck by the fact that visually the age difference between the two did not seem be that great.

The 2015 Summer Under The Stars schedule is now available online: http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-01 1. Gene Tierney 2. Olivia de Havilland 3. Adolphe Menjou 4.Teresa Wright 5. Fred Astaire 6. Michael Caine 7. Katharine Hepburn http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-08 8. Raymond Massey 9. Robert Walker 10. Joan Crawford 11. Rex Ingram 12. Robert Mitchum 13. Ann-Margaret 14. Groucho Marx http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-15 15. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr 16. Patricia Neal 17. Lee J. Cobb 18. Vivien Leigh 19. John Wayne 20. Mae Clarke 21. Alan Arkin http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-22 22. Marlene Dietrich 23. Debbie Reynolds 24. Warren Oates 25. Virginia Bruce 26. Greta Garbo 27. Monty Woolley 28. Ingrid Bergman http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=CST&sdate=2015-08-29 29. George C. Scott 30. Gary Cooper 31. Shelley Winters

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GOODBYE, MY LADY (1956)

As I mentioned in another thread the scene where Jack Lemmon searches for the bottle he's hidden in one of the pots is very powerful and very sad. This is a movie that I don't want to see again because it reminds me too much of people I've known who've suffered from addictions.

Tonight (05/27/15) TCM is airing the 1953 version of SO BIG as part of the Sterling Hayden Star Of The Month tribute. I've never seen this version, but I really like the 1932 version. It's interesting that TCM gives the 1932 pre-code version a TV-G rating while the 1953 version made when the code was in full effect is given a TV-PG rating. I wonder what's in the 1953 version that is PG worthy?

Gore Vidal's remarks are always interesting and hilarious. I love his comment about the BEN-HUR gay backstory in the clip below: "Now the Roman Messala wants to start things up again with Ben-Hur played by Charlton Heston. Heaven knows why."

When the gang was in her room someone said "hold her legs" (or something like that) so I guess they could have been injecting her with drugs. The audience never sees what they are doing to her.

Yes indeed. "I don't want realism, I want magic!"

I just saw ORDINARY PEOPLE recently. The whole cast is great but Donald Sutherland really moved me.

This is sad news. To me he will always be "Nick" from FUNNY GIRL.

I liked the part when the mother ended up in the swimming pool and also when the snobby guy was shown up (first by having him flash his own mother and then by him getting locked the trunk of the car).

You can't see the color, Dargo?

Yes, another great Geraldine Page performance. She continued to work on the stage so she was always at the top of her game.

And, the opening skating scene underscored by "Hell On Wheels" by Cher pulled me in.

Ah, yes, plural noun and plural adjective.

Oh wow, John Wayne found the screenplay in the trash? Maybe I will have too check this one out

Yes, she did, didn't she?

And I wonder who will say "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?"

I never knew Martin Scorsese acted. Maybe I haven't seen enough of his movies though.

Right, has the "why" or the "whys" been revealed?

I wish TCM would air THE DAY OF THE LOCUST.

Is that Desi Arnaz Jr siiting to Liza's left in the audience, the one who kisses her when she's announced as the winner? I know that her father Vincente Minnelli is siiting to her right.

I just saw RETURN TO OZ for the first time yesterday. It features Fairuza Balk as Dorothy and is a very well-made fantasy that held my interest from beginning to end. Piper Laurie plays Aunt Em, and Jean Marsh plays the evil Mombi in Oz (in Kansas her character is a nurse who works with a doctor who wants to use an electrical device to wipe out Dorothy's memories of Oz). I loved the talking chicken and Jack Pumpkinhead.

John Wayne really played Genghis Kahn?