HoldenIsHere
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All those "legendary" western type actors turning down roles in Blazing Saddles reminds me of how Bob Denver used to laugh derisively at Tina Louise's refusals to join in any "Gilligan" reunions because she wanted to be a "serious" actress. Denver, in a local newspaper's interview claimed he tried to tell her. "The damage is already done, Tina. Nobody is ever going to think of you as the next Ethel Barrymore. You'll ALWAYS be "Ginger" to them. Look at what happened to Max Baer!"
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.
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What would you do?
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.
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I am very happy to see: Ivan's Childhood (1962) is airing on Sunday, July 12. This is a very powerful movie. I urge all to watch it. Kanal (1957) which follows it is also very powerful and moving. I find it odd that these are followed by: The Mikado (1939). It is as if the programmers feel that viewers will need musical comedy for relief after watching these intense movies of war.
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.
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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?
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Finally, another person I've developed an appreciation for is Doris Day. For years, I avoided her films because I thought she was this goody two-shoes, saccharine personality--which was actually a really unfair assessment, because I hadn't actually watched any of her movies. Then I saw her in her trio of films with Rock Hudson and really liked her. The film that really made me like her was Love Me or Leave Me. I was happy to see that there was another side of her and see her in a grittier role. Since then, I've seen many of her films and have found her to be an enjoyable film presence.
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.
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Chloe was also in my favorite Whit Stillman film. I love his films -- TCM showed two of them recently, but not my fave -- The Last Days of Disco.
I haven't seen THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO in awhile but I remember enjoying it very much.
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Gummo features one of the earliest appearances by Chloe Sevigny, who was later nominated for an Oscar.
At one point I think that Chloë Sevigny and Harmony Korine were a romantic couple in real life.
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NBNW is on again tonight!
Will we soon see NORTH BY NORTHWEST THE MUSICAL?
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I'm almost sure I remember RO intro'ing it, but I could be wrong. More likely it's Scott day, but we'll see!
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."
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If either the Jones or Spacek Carrie has been run on TCM since late 2009, I must have been asleep at the switch.
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.
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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:
Why is BOMBA ON PANTHER ISLAND being omitted in 2015?
(or is there an error on the online schedule?)
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WATERLOO BRIDGE (1931) is scheduled to air on TCM tomorrow (April 23) at 10:45 AM Eastern.
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Just for the record, TCM does not release movies on DVD. It only has marketing arrangements with some of the studios that allows them to use TCM's brand in their promotion and packaging. I doubt TCM has much say in what gets released. So you're knocking on the wrong door.
LAD: A DOG was independently produced by a company called Vanguard productions (probably long out of business) and released theatrically by Warner Bros. You might want to contact them and see if they still have the distribution rights to the film. If they still do, they'd be the ones to grant you the non-theatrical rights so you could use it for your fundraiser. That's assuming it's available on DVD.
One other thing. TCM and Warner Bros. are both owned by the same company, but they're operated as seperate companies so contacting TCM won't help you. Good luck!
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.
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It could very well be Piper Laurie too.......
If so, maybe they'll show CARRIE:
"Eve was weak!"
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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.
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July 25. SKIPPY (1931). With Jackie Cooper. For which he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar. Its director, Norman Taurog won the Oscar for this.
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.
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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.
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well, to be fair, when Shirley was guest programmer a few years ago, she didn't pick any Joan Collins films.
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.
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Dame Joan Collins is Guest Programmer.
It looks like she didn't select any Shirley Jones movies.
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None of the four selections airing in July will be in widescreen. So like DARBY O'GILL, we will see some cropped films again.
"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).
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"Don't kick those rocks, you Philistine!"
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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).
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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.
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I didn't know Ms. Page did a Disney movie.
Did Marlon Brando ever work for Disney?