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What exactly did Ms. Werts mean when she referred to Gene Kelly as a "guy's guy" anyway?

DEATHTRAP is scheduled air again on TCM in September as part of the tribute to Sidney Lumet.

Are there any major differences in the BODY versus STAND BY ME?

I love the movie STAND BY ME, which is based on Stephen King's novella THE BODY. I've never read the book so I don't know how the two compare, but the movie is one of my favorites.

I'd never heard of THE ROMANTIC ENGLISHWOMAN either, but I see that it also stars Glenda Jackson so I definitely want to see it.

THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE is such a fun movie! It's [...] crazy in a good way.

I'll try to give it another chance as an adult. I do remember that Sinclair Lewis was critical of the heroine as well as of the townsfolk that she tried to bring culture to.

It's scheduled for 12 midnight Eastern on November 16.

THE EGYPTIAN is scheduled to air again on TCM in November.

SCARLET STREET is scheduled to air on TCM in October.

I thought Bette Davis's last movie was WHALES OF AUGUST. I remember reading (maybe on this board) that she dropped out of a later movie.

I am really, really looking forward to the night of September 25 that TCM has devoted to James Dean's television legacy.

Stuart, a newbie is only allowed ONE question. Kidding. kidding. kidding.

I recently watched SCENT OF A WOMAN for the first time in about 10 years. What an amazing movie. Al Pacino, of course, is wonderful in his Oscar-winning role as the alcoholic blind retired Lt Col. Frank Slade ("I'm in the dark here!"), but Chris O'Donnell more than holds his own as the prep school student on scholarship who becomes Slade's Thanksgiving weekend caretaker. O'Donnell's reactions to Pacino during their first scene together are so real and specific. Movie actors so often rely on the camera to do the work for them in reaction shots (and in many cases it's a valid approach), but it's nice to see genuine reactions in a mainstream American movie. O'Donnell's Charlie Simms finds himself in New York City with Slade, who states he plans to kill himself after fulfilling a number of goals during the holiday weekend. Bo Goldman's screenplay (inspired by characters in Dino Risi's PROFUMO DI DONNA, which was adapted from a story by Giovanni Arpino) is funny and moving. The movie has a Hollywood ending that somehow manages to not feel like one. The movie features an early movie performance from the late Philip Seymour Hoffman (credited as Philip S. Hoffman). He figures prominently in the prep school subplot. Gabrielle Anwar appears as a young woman who dances the tango with Pacino in one of the movie's most famous scenes.

Yes, the scene fom LONDON ROAD on the National Theatre 50 presentation was very good. I didn't know it had been adapted into a movie.

I agree: Reed and the author of that piece in the original post could play themselves in the reality show DUMB AND DUMBER. The comment about Gene Tierney is beyond stupid. Anyone interested in classic movies (and a viewer of TCM) WOULD know the name Gene Tierney and WOULD know the gender of Gene Tierney. They may or may not be fan, but they would know who she was.

Another great scene from the National Theatre 50th year special was the one from JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA.

That sounds like a great production. Dominic Cooper appeared in a scene from THE HISTORY BOYS in the National 50th anniversary presentation.

Joan Fontaine's acting, in my opinion, is amazingly "real." In THE CONSTANT NYMPH and REBECCA she has such a natural, spontaneous-seeming delivery is in stark contrast the patterned deliveries that were typically found in movies in that era.

Yes, it was amazing. I especially loved the scene from MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA with Helen Mirren.

There was a special Stage On Screen presentation celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National.

Regarding the National Theatre: I love the Stage On Screen presentations that are being made. They show them regularly at Northwestern University.

MAIN STREET was one book that I was not able to finish. Maybe I was too young to appreciate it when I tried to read it (16). Maybe I'll try it again.