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What a quandry this would be. Do I program what I want to see or do I attempt to program to please a wide audience? I would love see a month dedicated to Geraldine Page, but would there be enough movies to show? She preferred stage work to film work. Maybe one day she will get a day during Sumnmer Under The Stars.

I am also very much looking forward to seeing IVAN'S CHILDHOOD. I've seen the version of THE MIKADO from 1939 that's airing on July 13. If I recall in that version, "The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze" (which is a big solo for Yum-Yum) is sung by Nanki-Poo I don't remember if Yum-Yum also sings it as well in the 1939 movie. The actor playing Nanki-Poo is Kenny Baker, not the same Kenny Baker who's inside R2-D2 in the Star Wars movies.

The TCM schedule for Thursday June 4, 2015 is still not available online. I wonder what is holding up the release of this date's schedule. Still securing some rights perhaps?

Great points about Doris Day, speedracer. I too had preconceived notions about her without actually having seen any of her film work. I had thought she was a singer who appeared in lightweight movies and therefore did not consider that she was actually an actor as well. But when I actually saw her in movies I was amazed at the ease with which spoke her lines and behaved in such a natural, spontaneous way as if she was saying the words "for real." Even her "big" reactions seem to come from some very real place.

I haven't seen THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO in awhile but I remember enjoying it very much.

At one point I think that Chloë Sevigny and Harmony Korine were a romantic couple in real life.

Will we soon see NORTH BY NORTHWEST THE MUSICAL?

Hibi, HIbi, Hibi, you're the one who suggested the possibility that it might be Piper Laurie, getting up our collective hope. . . SIGH . . . "If I concentrate hard enough, I can move things."

There's no TCM article for Brian De Palma's CARRIE (featuring Sissy Spacek in the title role) so I'm pretty sure the movie has never aired on TCM. If Piper Laurie is honored during Summer Under The Stars, TCM really should show CARRIE.

Beginning on Saturday May 2, TCM will be showing the Bomba the Jungle Boy movies from the 1940s and 1950s starting with the first entry BOMBA THE JUNGLE BOY (1949). The last movie LORD OF THE JUNGLE (1955) is scheduled to air on July 25. It appears that all 12 of the Bomba movies are on the schedule from May through July except for the second movie in the series BOMBA ON PANTHER ISLAND (1949) . Some online research reveals that BOMBA ON PANTHER ISLAND has aired previously on TCM. Apparently TCM aired the Bomba movies in 2011/2012. This must have been when I saw some of them for the first time. See link below: http://www.examiner.com/article/tcm-presents-another-jungle-adventure-bomba-on-panther-island-saturday-nov-26 Why is BOMBA ON PANTHER ISLAND being omitted in 2015? (or is there an error on the online schedule?)

WATERLOO BRIDGE (1931) is scheduled to air on TCM tomorrow (April 23) at 10:45 AM Eastern.

The TCM site does have a "VOTE NOW" prompt for titles in the TCM database not currently available on DVD (according to their records) to vote for them to be released on DVD. There's an image of a crying boy next to the "VOTE FOR THIS TITLE" prompt. Here's TCM's answer to the "why vote?" question: WHY VOTE? Because we'll routinely send your votes to major Home Video distributors responsible for releasing classic movies on to DVD. So go ahead and vote and let your voice be heard! I'm attached a screenshot from the LAD: A DOG entry.

If so, maybe they'll show CARRIE: "Eve was weak!"

I saw NEWSIES when it was in Chicago last December. The show has a great score and choreography and a funny and touching book by Harvey Fierstein. Highly recommended! PS. There was also a drawing for $25 "day of performance" tickets during the Chicago run.

Thanks for the heads up on this one. I've been wanting to see SKIPPY for awhile. I missed it when I perused the schedule yesterday.

And l love my little guinea, and my guinea loves me. I'm gonna cherish my guinea ‘neath the green bay tree. My little guin' goes potarak. Little duck goes quack quack. Little pig goes mmm mmm. Llittle hen goes cluck cluck. Little rooster goes c-o-c-k-a-doodle-doo Doodle-doo doodle-doo.

If Shirley Jones had been promoting her memoirs at the time she might have a selected a Joan Collins movie just so she could mention the story about Collins from her book ---- the one that Collins said never happened and that she was ultimately able to have removed from future published editions and from the ebook.

Dame Joan Collins is Guest Programmer. It looks like she didn't select any Shirley Jones movies.

"Noooooo!!!!!" ---to quote Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader when he learns that Padmé is dead and that he killed her (the Emperor lied about the second part).

"Don't kick those rocks, you Philistine!"

Jacques Demy's DONKEY SKIN (PEAU D'ÂNE) with Catherine Deneuve is scheduled as the TCM Import on July 5 (actually early morning July 6).

For the Treasures from the Disney Vault segment on July 2, they are airing a lot of things I remember from "Vault Disney " on Disney Channel back in the day (the 1990s). I wonder if THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE will be in pan-and-scan. I hope not. The movie was shot in CinemaScope.

Yes, George Lucas has acknowledged the influence of Kurosawa on the Star Wars saga.

Yes. One of her decoys was killed in Episode II (ATTACK OF THE CLONES). The decoy took the bullet, uh laser, meant for Padmé Amidala, who was then Senator Amidala, having been elected as a representative to the Galactic Senate after completing her second term as Queen of Naboo.