HoldenIsHere
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He was brilliant in that, really chilling. Poor Charles Laughton, his stunning movie not appreciated at the time.
It's a great movie. It's not airing on Shelley Winters's Summer Under The Stars day either.
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LOL. Sure.
Tax evasion, eh?
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I bought a copy on e-bay for a dollar (amazon has started charging sales tax in my state, but e-bay is still free) I was miffed my local library didnt have a copy! Cant wait to read it. (That Girl and Phil).......
Remember you are still required to pay that tax to your state even though the merchant did not collect it.
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This is something like SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, where the aging screen beauty played by Geraldine Page, who was like 39, and the "younger" gigolo, Paul Newman, who was about 37.
I agree.
Visually there was not much of an age difference between Geraldine Page and Paul Newman in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH.
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Thanks for the recommendation...
By the way, does this song feature the song "Islands in the Stream" by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton as the title track for the film? I hope so.
"...Islands in the stream, that is what we are. No one in between. How can we be wrong?..."
Hehe. The melody of "Islands In The Stream" was also used in "Ghetto Supastar" from the 1990s:
Ghetto Supastar
That is what you are.
Comin' from afar.
Reachin' for the stars . . .
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Shirley Booth had an amazing stage career and won three Tony Awards for Best Actress. She played the lead (Leona Samish) in Arthur Laurents' play The Time of the Cuckoo but did not get to play the role on screen. The working class Brooklyn woman of the play was made more glamorous and prosperous, given the name of Jane Hudson, and played by Katharine Hepburn in the film version, which was called Summertime. The author was not pleased with the result.
It would have been interesting to see Ms. Booth play the role on screen, in the manner in which the character was originally created.
I can never get into SUMMERTIME, but I think I would have liked seeing Shirley Booth in a movie version of the play as written by Arthur Laurents.
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June 12
Nightmare Alley
June 13
Trog, this sounds amazing
These are 2 that I'm really looking forward to as well.
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go to today's full schedule and click on the description for The Cowboys. they got a leonard maltin review to an old Roy Rogers/Smiley Burnette oater.
Yes, this isn't the first time the Maltin review has been for the wrong movie.
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The first few times I watched Somewhere in Time, I kept visualizing Clark Kent - got over it though.
I really like that movie, and the ending caught me by surprise - a nice touch.
Jane Seymour was very good in the movie.
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On Robert Mitchum's Summer Under The Stars day I was surprised that NIGHT OF THE HUNTER wasn't on the schedule.
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He's brilliant if he did.
If I recall KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN aired on TCM as the selection of one of the guest programmers.
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Veronica by Veronica Lake--fascinating look at the studio system and stardom in the 1940's.
Did Veronica Lake have a ghost writer for this book?
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more bullets for Rocco.
Could this video not be embedded?
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Well, at least they didn't use a kazoo.
Kazoo music is very underated.
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I've noticed that many TCM Underground selections are recycled every three or four months. So look for it again in September or October.
They may even get the rights to NOTHING LASTS FOREVER again.
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Speedracer so eloquently said: He ends up dying broken and alone with all his worldly possessions packed in boxes or being destroyed, ready to be cleared out to make room for the next rich person who'll make their home in Xanadu.
I've always thought of those boxed possessions to be symbolic of his relationships boxed away in his heart. The need to amass "things" is often a result of not having real relationships with real people. Susan Alexander said, "Makes as much sense as collecting statues you're never going to look at"
SPOILER ALERT:
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Sophie's Choice.
I curse the day I saw that.
I've never seen it, but I've heard quite a few people say it was very painful to watch (because of the story).
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she was considered, along with Mary Tyler Moore, for the role of the Joker in the first Batman movie, but the producers thought she would be too terrifying.
The book includes an account of her angrily ripping the ornaments off a Christmas tree because was displeased with them.
I think maybe she (allegedly) even took an axe to the tree a la Joan Crawford.
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Tuesday, June 2
6:45 a.m. The Wind (1928) with Lillian Gish. Directed by Victor Seastrom - or Sjorstrom as we was known in Sweden when he acted in Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957). I've seen it a number of times but as AndyM recommends, best to record it for you never know when it will be on again - without commercials at least.
When TCM last aired it as one of the Essentials, THE WIND included some introductory comments from Lilian Gish.
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How about an "Ask the Programmers" thread, where programmers actually answer posters' questions (limited to one per week per registered poster)? It would answer questions that are only speculated on and bridge the seeming disconnect between viewers and programmers.
If they really would answer, yes, that would be nice.
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"lousy with"
As in "Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee, lousy with virginity . . ."
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She was Val's aunt. she stayed with Val in Val's house. for awhile.When Gary and Val went to Texas because they wanted to move there to get away from that crazy guy Danny that Val was married to, Danny showed up at Val's house and Betsy sent him away, he took out a baseball bat and almost smashed the door in. Betsy's character was into crystals or new age type stuff. This was after Julie Harris left the show I think.
Thanks, lavenderblue. Poor Valene sure went through a lot on that show
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An Overview in the TCM database is not proof that a movie has aired on TCM.
BOOGIE NIGHTS also has an Overview but it's never aired on TCM.
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/6058/Boogie-Nights/
HOT SPELL has no TCM article which stromgly suggests that it has never aired on TCM.
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Aug 16.
Patrica Neal. Glad to see The Breaking Point (1950) is on the schedule and hope it plays in Canada too.
I've been wanting to THE BREAKING POINT for awhile.
It's based on the same source material (novel by Ernest Hemingway) as TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT.
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I just placed a hold on That Girl and Phil at my local library.
My mother had a copy (I remember her laughing hysterically when reading it) but I don't know what happened to it.
I think my grandmother had a copy too.