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The only two things I can guess is maybe they felt Wayne had been featured a lot with the John Ford tribute this month, or because of the controversy surrounding the John Wayne airport.

John Wayne also got canned this year, replaced by Natalie Wood.

Squeaky tried to kill Ford on September 5, 1975 in Sacramento. Sara Jane Moore then tried to make a hit on him in San Francisco on September 22, 1975. The mark of Moore's bullets is still in the stone facade of the St Francis Hotel to this day.

Gerald Ford must have had some sort of complex after two women tried to kill him within a month.

For the record, the 20 shortest nominated performances: 1. Hermoine Baddeley in Room at the Top (1959) -- 2 minutes, 19 seconds 2. Ethel Barrymore in The Paradine Case (1947) -- 3 minutes , 52 seconds 3. Claire Trevor in Dead End (1937) -- 4 minutes, 22 seconds 4. Maria Ouspenskaya in Dodsworth (1936) -- 4 minutes, 57 seconds 5. Beatrice Straight in Network (1976) -- 5 minutes, 2 seconds 6. Jane Alexander in All the President's Men (1976) -- 5 minutes, 9 seconds 7. Sylvia Miles in Midnight Cowboy (1969) -- 5 minutes, 19 seconds 8. Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love (1998) -- 5 minutes, 52 seconds 9. Ned Beatty in Network (1976) -- 6 minutes 10. Carolyn Jones in The Bachelor Party (1957) -- 6 minutes, 1 second 11. John Marley in Love Story (1970) -- 6 minutes, 3 seconds 12. Geraldine Page in The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) -- 6 minutes, 6 seconds 13. Ruby Dee in American Gangster (2007) -- 6 minutes, 10 seconds 14. Basil Rathbone in Romeo and Juliet (1936) -- 6 minutes, 16 seconds 15. John Lithgow in Terms of Endearment (1983) -- 6 minutes, 28 seconds 16. Diane Cilento in Tom Jones (1963) -- 6 minutes, 34 seconds 17. Maximillian Schell in Julia (1977) -- 6 minutes, 49 seconds 18. Thelma Ritter in Pillow Talk (1959) -- 6 minutes, 58 seconds 19. Holly Hunter in The Firm (1993) -- 7 minutes, 24 seconds 20. Charles Durning in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) -- 7 minutes, 26 seconds

Burton's screentime in supporting for My Cousin Rachel is a close second in the longest performances ever nominated in leading stakes. A person I knew once made a list of the 20 longest performances nominated in supporting. I'm retyping the list here for the two of you..... the people in bold won..... 1. Frank Finley in Othello (1965) -- 90 minutes, 43 seconds 2. Richard Burton in My Cousin Rachel (1952) -- 83 minutes , 57 seconds 3. Jennifer Jones in Since You Went Away (1944) -- 75 minutes, 38 seconds 4. Ethan Hawke in Training Day (2001) -- 74 minutes, 27 seconds 5. John Ireland in All the King's Men (1949) -- 73 minutes, 18 seconds 6. Peter Firth in Equus (1977) -- 73 minutes, 1 second 7. Randy Quaid in The Last Detail (1973) -- 70 minutes, 41 seconds 8. Rooney Mara in Carol (2015) -- 70 minutes, 37 seconds 9. Gene Hackman in I Never Sang for My Father (1970) -- 68 minutes, 9 seconds 10. Charles Coburn in The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) -- 67 minutes, 35 seconds 11. Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon (1973) -- 66 minutes, 58 seconds 12. Mahershala Ali in Green Book (2018) -- 66 minutes, 38 seconds 13. Jeff Bridges in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) -- 66 minutes, 23 seconds 14. Al Pacino in The Godfather (1972) -- 66 minutes, 22 seconds 15. Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained (2012) -- 66 minutes, 17 seconds 16. Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker (1962) -- 65 minutes, 43 seconds 17. River Phoenix in Running on Empty (1988) -- 65 minutes, 12 seconds 18. Phillip Seymour Hoffman in The Master (2012) -- 65 minutes, 11 seconds 19. Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People (1980) -- 65 minutes, 4 seconds 20. Jaime Foxx in Collateral (2004) -- 64 minutes, 13 seconds Brad Pitt's screentime in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is 55 minutes, 12 seconds, making his performance the 13th longest winning performance in the history of the supporting categories , behind the five in bold above, plus in order: Haing S Ngor/The killing Fields (1984), Jack Albertson/The Subject Was Roses (1968), Christopher Walken/The Deer Hunter (1978), Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl (2015), Peter Ustinov in Topkapi (1964), Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie (1966), and, surprisingly, Shelley Winters in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) who beats Pitt's screentime by 2 seconds.

The person who plays Manson has less than two minutes of screentime in a 161 minute film. His followers are seen more often than he is.

I saw 37 films from last year, and there are still a few more i would like to see (Dark Waters, A Hidden Life, Ad Astra, The Goldfinch, etc). But as it stands, here is how I ranked things. https://letterboxd.com/bcarr95/list/2019/

Just thinking, although it has been talked about before, how nice it would be if TCM had a sister channel for classic TV shows from the major networks, call it TCT, say. Have shows air just like it used to be, an episode a week, and have a vast array of series, 96 hour long shows and 144 half hour shows, or something like that spanning from shows done in the 50s all the way through the 90s. What do you all think?

Maybe. That could be it.

Also I wish there had been more coverage of her passing on TV. It has not been mentioned much.

I gasped when I saw this on the bottom of a TV screen yesterday. (at times like this, I wish I had internet at home) It greatly saddened me, even though we all knew it would be coming some day. It feels like we have lost one of the last few greats of the classic era, and aside from Jane Withers, the last real link to the 1930s golden age.

Startling timing in a way. An episode of Jeopardy! from 1992 in which he was one of 3 celebrity contestants is set to be rebroadcast on Monday.

It's been a bit of an oddball day. This afternoon, I saw most of The Big Trees on demand which was pretty good, and I stayed up late last night for the oddball pairing of A Dream of Kings and Who'll Stop the Rain. The former with Anthony Quinn was very well acted by him, Irene Papas, and Inger Stevens and was a very moving story, but, being a 1969 film, it made some odd moves to "juice" it up with being provocative. I didn't need to see Anthony Quinn in only briefs or to hear him give a sex talk to a 14 year old boy around a certain solitary sexual activity. If it hadn't been for those scenes it could have been a 9; it will have to settle for an 8. And Who'll Stop the Rain has to be one of the more explicit films that I've ever seen on TCM. The language is very rough for a 1978 film, and given the subject matter (involving Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, and Michael Moriarty caught up in a drug carrying deal), it should come as no surprise that there are many graphic scenes of drug abuse, all presented unflinchingly. I watched it for Weld, and she delivered with an absolutely stunning performance.

Eddie is indeed an exceptional hosts with very informative intros. Of the other hosts, I feel Alicia Malone is captivating.

They really should start an internet support group for 80s kids, because its as though Hollywood really wanted to give them nightmares via films due to unsettling imagery in Superman III, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, The Neverending Story, The Black Cauldron, The Watcher in the Woods, Labyrinth, Clash of the Titans, Beetlejuice, Ghost Busters, Time Bandits, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Return to Oz, The Great Mouse Detective, Dragonslayer, The Dark Crystal, The Care Bears Movie, Legend, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Young Sherlock Holmes, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Last Unicorn, The Goonies, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. There are probably others too. In any case, a lot of these films sent kids into therapy for years.

Judging from the comment section on YouTube, a lot of people who saw Superman III as children were traumatized by the scene, so you are definitely not alone. I didn't bother to see the full scene, but I saw the images on the search engine, and that still looks creepy and freaky. the image itself is closer to some sci-fi or horror film for adults, not for a film that a lot of children were destined to go see. (But then again, the same can be said for Angelica Huston's witch makeup in The Witches, with the decaying skin, the grey dry hair, the talons for hands, and a nose that makes Jimmy Durante's look small)

I never saw Superman III, and her role was tiny in Yanks, but I definitely remember her as the self-absorbed mother of suicidal, fragile Lori Singer in Short Cuts. Memorable performance, and she got several opportunities to sing in that film, and she had a great singing voice.

I think the reason for the decline might have been because only two minor characters died as a result of that scene (Ali Macgraw and Billy Campbell). Judging from the scene as it played out on the DVD, most would have guessed at the time that Gordon Thompson's Adam would have been a goner with the shot to the chest. If they had been willing to bump off a bigger player or two (exactly who is anyone's guess or personal preference, even though we all know they would have never killed off one of the three leads) , things might have been a bit different. Even so, it doesn't strain credibility as much as "Pam's dream/nightmare" season of Dallas.

Yeah, that lily pond one was something else. i flipped ahead to the season 3 discs just to see that clip. I've been enjoying it so much actually, that i bought the reinforcement pack (seasons 5 though 7) collected to help me go forward with this. i did check out that notorious "Moldavian Massacre" scene at the end of season 5. That thing was rather cinematic feeling and completely bonkers.

Here, the catfight I saw in the one episode today (with obviously male stunt doubles for both female leads) It's a real hoot.

i heard about that in a TV book. Just a pity a long running character was written out so quickly..... And what were thouse curtains made of? Petrolium?

I think it was perhaps the best film of the 80s. Definitely one of the top 10 of that decade, that's for sure.

Speaking on intros, they recently stopped using the pop-up book intro in the morning. I miss it. Reminds me of wonderful mornings and happy times.

I've been seeing a lot of Dynasty this week. I'd never actually seen it before, although the clips I had seen seemed very juicy. So, since Sunday, I have polished off the equivalent of 22 episodes or about 10% of all the episodes they did. i think the show hit its stride when Joan Collins came in at the beginning of season 2. It became juicer, spicier, funnier, more rounded. (Plus Heather Locklear just entered so that's another delightful schemer to add into the mix) Season 1, only 15 episodes, was filled with potential and had many good things about it, but it wasted too much time on drilling at an oil rig. I think its interesting though looking at that first season that John Forsythe's character was the villain of the season, often shown in very unflattering terms. Linda Evans was touching, Pamela Sue Martin was a real hoot any time she got a catty line, Al Corley gave a very good understated performance as Stephen, but the MVP of the first year for me was Pamela Bellwood, who hit emotional notes perfectly. They must have really liked her since she ended up being the only one in her subplot not to be written out of the show at the end of that first year. Also, tangentially related, in reading about the 80s show on Wikipedia and its characters, that new version of Dynasty that they air on the CW sounds like an absolute mess. it seems on the reboot, Fallon is the main role, they have recast Alexis, Krystle was killed off in the first year, random murders taking place, oy!