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You recall that Simon Helberg (who plays Howard Wolowitz on THE BIG BANG THEORY) was a guest programmer on TCM a couple of years ago.

Yes!!!! NOTE: This photo is of actors that I love, not ones that I "can't get into.".

Correct, Dargo. "Numbskulls" is not an accurate term at all for the characters on THE BIG BANG THEORY. And, yes, the dialogue on the show and the actor's delivery of it are brilliant. I especially love Jim Parsons as Sheldon. Laurie Metcalf was great as Sheldon's mother.

Maybe . . . wishful thinking here . . . Dean Stockwell is being given a much deserved day during this year's Summer Under The Stars and BLUE VELVET is being moved from July to August for that reason.

There's a TCM article for BLUE VELVET which seems to indicate that it aired at least once on TCM in the past. It is disappointing that it was yanked from the July schedule.

Happy Star Wars Day. May the 4th Be With You. http://www.starwars.com/may-the-4th

I've DVRed ROLLER BOOGIE to watch later. I watched some of it this morning. The opening skating scene on the Venice Beach boardwalk was fantastic and was underscored by "Hell On Wheels" by Cher from her Casablanca years. Apparently the male lead, Jim Bray, was cast for his skating skills rather than for his acting ability. I did some research and learned that he was a competitive artistic roller skater from southern California who won several titles as a child and teenager in both singles and pairs.

It appears that PLACE IN THE HEART has now been replaced on the May 19 schedule by NADINE, another Robert Benton movie. The entire May 19 prime time and overnight schedule is devoted to Robert Benton movies.

I'm pretty sure I saw BLUE VELVET on the July Schedule before, but now it's gone.

TheCid, the influences you mention on your own speech pattern are examples of different variables that infuence a person's idiolect, an individual's unique and distinctive speech pattern. Many factors shape a person's idiolect both consciously and unconsciously. I went to college with someone from a small town in a a so-called "Deep South" state who insisted that she didn't have a Southern accent. While it's true that she did not speak with a Southern melody pattern or pronounce "time" as "Tom," she pronounced the words "pen" and "pin" identically (she rhymed both words with "skin") and her pronunciation of the word "on" usually rhymed with "phone." The pronunciation of the small word "on" is often a strong regional indicator in American English.

OLD YELLER (1957)

The boundaries of linguistic (or dialect) geography do not follow state lines so it is inaccurate to generalize that people from Alabama "sound different" from those from Mississippi. Some people from both states speak with identical speech patterns. Of course an individual has his or her own unique speech characteristics (or idiolect).

Netflix streaming is not a form of piracy.

No, because it was letterboxed on the SD channel.

That strategy would likely work against an attorney arguing cases before a Southern jury during the timeframe of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. According to the novel, Atticus did study law in the South, specifically Montgomery, Alabama.

Gregory Peck did make an attempt to sound a bit Southern. The two actors playing his children, however, speak in very authentic Southern accents so Peck sounds even more inauthentic in comparison.

The clip you've posted is from the Quentin Tarantino movie JACKIE BROWN. To be honest I didn't know there was a movie called ACROSS 110TH STREET. I first heard the song "Across 110th Street" (I agree it's a great one) in JACKIE BROWN.

Last year the Summer Under The Stars honorees were known by May 7. I wonder if TCM will make the August schedule available around the same time this year.

I didn't watch the entire movie (it didn't interest me), but I was happy to see that TCM did show it in widescreen format. I guess they erred on the side of caution when they posted the information on the schedule. Apparently they didn't know if the print was widescreen or not. They did the same thing with SILKWOOD.

You know, Dargo, I had a similar Eleanor Parker appreciation moment via TCM, but for me the movie was A MILLIONAIRE FOR CHRISTY. I'm not sure I'd ever heard of Eleanor Parker before watching TCM. She really blew me away in A MILLIONAIRE FOR CHRISTY. And that kissing scene in the moonlight with her and Fred McMurray was smoking hot especially for the early 1950s and it seemed so real.

LASSIE COME HOME (1943)

Speaking of DARK SHADOWS, I recently purchased the complete collection of the reboot of the series from 1991. It lasted for only 13 episodes, It started off with high ratings but since it premiered during the first Gulf War it was constantly pre-empted for news updates so it could not maintain its audience. I finally found a DVD set in the correct aspect ratio of 4:3. It had been released at one point in "faux widescreen" with the vertical cropped. The series, however, was shot in 4:3 so I held out for that. Anyway . . . . in the 1991 series Jean Simmons played Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the role played by Joan Bennett on the 1960s soap opera.

That's indeed a shame, Dargo. Today such cut footage would end up as "deleted scenes" on the bonus features of the DVD release of the movie. Unfortunately during the time that Disney made its first full length feature footage cut from films was typically not preserved so young Brando's turn as Sleezy is most likely lost forever.

I didn't know Ms. Page did a Disney movie. Did Marlon Brando ever work for Disney?

Bob Denver was misinformed or perhaps he thought his "routine" was funny so the truth didn't matter. Pot often makes people think they are more humorous than they actually are. Tina Louise did offer to appear in the first GILLIGAN'S ISLAND reunion movie, but Sherwood Schwartz refused to meet her salary request. Schwartz has confirmed this fact. Bob Denver has also told false stories about Tina Louise's sexual escapades in her dressing room on the set of GILLIGAN'S ISLAND. According to Russell Johnson, Tina Louise was always professional throughout the run of the show even though it was misrepresented to her when she signed her contract that she was the star of the series. As for Max Baer, he had a successful career as a writer, director and producer after his days as a "sitcom star" and retired to Lake Tahoe while he was still in his 40s.