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because it is inconvenient to acknowledge it and because tcm doesn't want to highlight their thought processes (whatever they might be) that go into who tcm asks or chooses to be a guest programmer. was cosby asked or chosen and surely only RO knows for sure. thankfully, bill cosby has never been on a tcm classic cruise.

that would certainly explain Leonard Part 6.

there are some bright spots in today's tcm schedule like god's little acre and picnic but tonite for me it's me tv all the way. tonite is my favorite star trek ep "that which survives". a good one from the 3rd year. they come across an uncharted planet only 10,000 years old and no evolutionary process to support it's formation..so they beam down. the enterprise gets molecularly displaced through the galaxy and kirk, mccoy and sulu encounter a computer-generated lee meriwether who likes to touch guys with her lovely nail-polished fingers. my favorite ep! followed by son of dracula with lon chaney jr. as count alucard and featuring an alluring ravishing louise allbritton who becomes a vamp. compared to louise allbritton in her black wig mary astor is miss canfield from leave it to beaver. 

tcm is hamstringing itself. they coulda gotten a hold of the complete superior BFI print of hammer studios' Dracula from 1958 they wouldn't. as far as the recent passing of the great Christopher Lee, they coulda had osborne or manckiewicz host a primetime sit-in with a hammer personage such as veronica carlson, who incidentally lives in the u.s., they wouldn't. science fiction? this island earth, a classic so imbedded in our cultural consciousness that steven spielberg put a scene or two in ET, but since tcm doan show it, can we ever expect to see a primetime sit-in with it's still living star Rex Reason? probably not. with horror and science fiction such conspicuous subject matter in Hollywood for most of the past 50 years, it ill behooves tcm imo to disregard it so. just sayin'.

yeah, and whoever would think Robby could hold his legs that far apart. and notice how the two slanted gyros in his transparent head cap are suppose to come across like eyes and the orange-colored instrumentation a nose, mouth and a temple hickey. bob kinoshita must've loved this.

completely unintended on my part but so help me this may be the last time I ever complain about tcm in any way ever again.

what does a smileboxed film look like on one of them new curved screen 4k UHD TVs?

a very good actor.

...is there a doctor ow! in the house?

one of my hank fonda western favorites, Welcome To Hard Times, is based on a story by him.

I thought sotm-izing a lot shorter than star of the month-izing. my bad?

How about Robert Newton? can't remember the last time tcm ran Hatter's Castle...if ever

jamesjazzquitar, you're alright. I can always appreciate somebody with a sense of humor.

Ed Winter deserved his own spin-off series... The Misadventures of Colonel Flagg a very missed opportunity by twentieth century-fox television.

when I said 'those' I meant those that who rate being a tcm SOTM but will not be because it is to inconvenient for tcm to facilitate. I mean how could tcm ever do complete justice to Una O'Connor as a SOTM when they doan have either The Invisible Man or Bride of Frankenstein? tcm ain't perfect. they fail to do homage to those who certainly deserve to be SOTM like Una O'Connor and continue to shortchange the horror and science fiction genres. by viewing horror and sci-fi as being on a lower pedestal than the classic crime/gangster/film noir pictures they do a disservice to the whole of cinema which includes horror and science fiction. fine if that's their choice but they shouldn't crow so much about what great unparalleled cinemaphiles they be. tcm imo really shouldn't do that if they are so willing to ignore such a large portion of cinema that is horror and science fiction.

just murneau's skull. his entire head woulda decomposed by now.

just a bone.

a Barry Sullivan windfall but I'm only interested in The Racket with one of mitchum's best performances. for knocking off cop william talman Robert Ryan gets it from frank cannon of all people. a great movie I always watch.

this tv does suck. not even their sunday nite 2 hours of the original outer limits interests me anymore.

hey, would they have John Nesbitt's Passing Parade: our old car?

to smilebox 2001 or ice station zebra? well then how was Cinerama-izing them in theaters accomplished? was there a projector that ran the film behind some fancy a ss lenses or what?

alotta John Wayne movies on tonite like Brannigan and McQ and Rio Lobo. they worked because Duke made 'em work. you have your Clark Gables and your Spencer Tracys but there was only one John Wayne. time will not diminish his screen legacy... Viva Duke Wayne! ...especially if you're the good guy.

back when he was on usa network he was showing the vampire's coffin with German Robles and Abel Salazar and he made an observation that I had been thinking also... that Abel Salazar looked like Danny Thomas!

I doan think svengoolie is so completely unfunny. (hey, I like him) but he's no Commander USA either..

I doan really mind him paying homage to sales but that dam chicken is funnier then he is...and HE'S the voice of the chicken.