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Forces beyond my control made me post this: Yes, GREASE 2 is a guilty pleasure of mine. What am saying?! I have feel no guilt. None.

Today (05/19/15) TCM is airing a tribute to Robert Benton in the prime time and overnight hours. The tribute starts with Arthur Penn's BONNIE AND CLYDE for which David Newman and Robert Benton wrote the screenplay. This movie is followed by Benton's KRAMER VS. KRAMER, featuring the performance that earned Meryl Streep her first Academy Award. THE LATE SHOW and STILL OF THE NIGHT are airing in the early morning hours. Originally the last movie scheduled to air as part of the tribute was PLACES IN THE HEART, starring TCM's current Essentials co-host Sally Field. This movie has been replaced by NADINE featuring, in the title role, Kim Basinger, the ex-wife of former Essentials co-host Alec Baldwin.

Yes, in addition to colorizing the episodes, they are being cut to allow for more commercials.

Clarice the reindeer also said, uh, sang, something like that.

Yeah, the colorized I LOVE LUCY Christmas show has aired on CBS as well. I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, it's introducing I LOVE LUCY to people who might not watch anything in black-and-white. Ulltimately my preference is for the original black-and-white since that's way the show was filmed.

You're welcome, JeanneCrain. I'm sorry you missed the first half hour of the movie.

I never knew Lucille Ball made a movie with Clifton Webb. I definitely want to see THE DARK CORNER now.

I think his role in CASABLANCA is the one he's most known for but my favorite is Prince John in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD.

traceyk, you might enjoy the DVD collection HELEN MIRREN AT THE BBC which features some of her early work on British television. You might also like THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY (1980) with Helen Mirren and Bob Hoskins.

I got to see one of my bucket list movies very recently when TCM aired Oson Welles's CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT.

Actually in the 1959 version of BEN-HUR directed by William Wyler with screenplay by Gore Vidal, the homosexual subtext was very deliberately added by Vidal and Wyler. Stephen Boyd was directed to play this subtext although Charlton Heston was kept "out of the loop."

Richard Arlen (who plays David Armstrong in WNGS) was a pilot in Canada's Royal Flying Corps during World War I although he never saw combat as Wililam Wellman did.

I like Luciile Ball in BEST FOOT FORWARD, but, yes, during the time the movie was made a "Date With Lana Turner" contest would make morse sense than a "Date With Lucille Ball" contest. It was surprisng to me to see Rhoda Morgenstern's "mother" (Nancy Waker) playing a teenager in BEST FOOT FORWARD.

Arturo, do you recall the scene that Clifton Webb refused to film?

Yes, the one time the Maltin review was accurate.

The poster probably is referring to the 1998 Broadway revival of CABARET directed by Sam Menes, which was a transfer of Mendes's 1993 London West End revival for the Donmar Warehouse. Alan C u m m m i n g , in an a truly electrifying performance, played the Emcee in both the London and Broadway productions. In the London production Sally Bowles was played by Jane Horrocks (probably best known for her role as Bubble on ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS.). On Broadway Sally Bowles was played by Natasha Richardson. In the Mendes productions Sally Bowles was again a mediocre performer with delusions about her talents unlike the powerhouse performer that Liza Minnelli played in the movie. In addition to restoring songs that had been cut from the original stage production for the movie, he also added songs that were in the movie but not in the original 1960s production ("Maybe This Time, "Mein Herr"). (the auto censor forced me to add the spaces in the actor's surname)

Interesting. At this moment the online schedule I see shows 1:45 AM EST.

My favorite James Mason role is in THE RECKLESS MOMENT. His character starts out blackmailing Joan Bennett's character but he actually comes to genuinely care for her. Both Mason and Bennett are wonderful in portraying the bond that develops between the two characters.

Susan Strasberg originated the role of Anne Frank on Broadway in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK when she was 18 years old. I would have preferred to have had Susan Strasberg in the movie than Mille Perkins.

I show the start for the movie as 1:45 AM Eastern Time.

I think the interview with Farley Granger that I mentioned earlier (where he commented that he wasn't sure if James Stewart got the gay subtext in ROPE, especially in regard to Stewart's own character) might have been from THE CELLULOID CLOSET.

Some of the songs that were cut from the stage musical ended up as instrumental music in the movie CABARET. When I watched last night I heard the music for "It Couldn't Please Me More" and "Don't Tell Mama" playing on Sally Bowles's victrola. In the play "It Couldn't Please Me More" was a duet by Fraulein Schneider (Sally's landlady) and Herr Schultz. "Don't Tell Mama" was one of Sally's songs at Kit Kat Club that was replaced by "Mein Herr." The "Mein Herr" number (with the chairs) in the movie provided a showcase for Bob Fosse's choreography and Liza Minnelli's dancing.

Yes, I love American movies from the 1970s. There's a promo that TCM has aired about Hollywood's Second Golden Age that focuses on movies from the 1970s. I hope an actor who made a lot of movies in the 1970's is one of the Summer Under The Stars honorees this year. Last year Faye Dunaway had a day. It was my favorite Summer Under The Stars day.

I recorded HERE'S TO YOUR LIFE to watch later. I'm very much looking forward to seeing it.

The character of Ginger Grant ("The Movie Star") wasn't in the original GILLIGAN'S ISLAND pilot. There was no "movie star," only a secretary. As the new pilot was being developed, Tina Louise's agent misled her that the focus of the show would shift to "The Movie Star." Jayne Mansfield turned down the role of "The Movie Star" before it was pitched to Tina Louise.