lzcutter

Roy, It's been almost 30 years since I've seen episodes of *The Westerner* (thanks to a salute to Sam that we did in college) but I agree, it was a terrific western!! It's a role Brian Keith was born for! Chris, Thanks for the reminder about the series, *How the West Was Won*. It gave James Arness the chance to prove that a) he was a good actor and he could be more than Matt Dillion.

Roy, I think Timothy Olyphant of *Justified* was born for westerns, first *Deadwood* and now this one. He and Walter Goggins make up the ying and yang of *Justified*. And Margo Martindale last season as Mags, what a great season! It took a few episodes but I agree with you about *Hell on Wheels*. It is beautifully shot and scored which kept me interested until it found it found its story legs. Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis have signed on to *Ralph Lamb* which is written by Nick Pileggi and is about Nevada cowboy turned Las Vegas sheriff Ralph Lamb and dealing with the bright light city and the mob back in the day. For some reason, it's being hawked as a western. But from regular network to cable to premium channels, westerns, rather set in the real west or the modern west, are getting pilot orders in numbers not seen in years. Here's hoping some of them are as good as the ones we loved as well at least trying to be as good as *Justified*.

Hey Roy, We share some of the same faves and a few different ones: *Have Gun, Will Travel* *Deadwood* *The High Chaparral* *Gunsmoke* especially the yearly years *The Rifleman* *The Virginian* *Wagon Train* *Rawhide* *The Big Valley* *Maverick* *Wanted: Dead or Alive* *Lancer* *The Sons of Will Sonnett* *Alias Smith and Jones* and it's a modern day western but my gosh, it's great: *Justified* And for the record, more westerns, both old fashioned and modern, are making their way to the fall season line-up. Dale

The show started at 5:30 and ended by 8:45 making it 3 hours and 15 minutes. Not sure where the extra half hour comes in.

> I just saw Nick Nolte. He's not aging well. But, he still has his acting chops. Any doubts, watch HBO's new series, *Luck* where every week, Nolte provides a master class in acting.

Chief, I would also love to see *Phenix City Story* story again. I've missed it when TCM ran it last.

slayton, I agree with all your choices but it should be pointed out that contrary to the header on your last post, David Raksin didn't write the scores you listed: The Prisoner of Zenda, How Green Was My Valley, and All About Eve. Of the less often aired movies, I like The Mark of Zorro, and Anastasia. I'd also like to see Airport. Those were all the works of Alfred Newman.

I loved the shot of Karin looking out the doorway of the garage at night. Incredibly beautiful shot. This is a really good movie. Thanks, TCM!

The bonus features on the BluRay include a featurette on the Schulteis notebook. Herman Schulteis kept copious notes on the effects that were used in *Fantasia* and the featurette uses pages from the notebook to help explain how some of the more complicated effects were done by hand. The Schulteis Notebook is on display at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco.

> But a festival once in a while isn't the same as the ongoing airing of African -American films, kind of like, feast or famine. Ms W, And I didn't mean to imply that it was. I was just relating a bit of TCM history. It would be great if TCM could find a way to incorporate both.

> Don't know why they didn't keep it up. It's because of the Oscars. The Oscars used to be given out in March and TCM celebrated *31 Days of Oscar* in March to coincide with the Academy. That left February available to celebrate Black History Month. About ten years ago, the Academy moved the Oscar ceremony up to February and TCM had to move their *31 Days of Oscar* celebration as well. (That's why the *31 Days* celebration goes into March because there aren't 31 days in February). Because of that, TCM had to discontinue celebrating Black History Month. The first *Race in Hollywood* festival in 2005 focused on *African-American Images on Film*.

Joe, It's amazing to me how much Josh Charles (Will Gardner on *The Good Wife* ) looks like young William Holden.

> We had a lot of kids and teenagers come on the board from some other message board. The cartoon channel or something like that Actually, I just read the thread again. It was few new posters who came to TCM to watch the films because they were offered in both Japanese and with subtitles. They were vocal about their love of the films. And there were a number of TCM posters who were very vocal in their opposition to the films being shown on TCM. Either way, it wasn't an easy read then and all these years later it doesn't seem to have gotten any easier. http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=75591&start=100&tstart=0

> I have been told that TCM had a week which highlighted the works of Hayao Miyazaki Sansfin, If my memory is working, it was actually a month long celebration back in January of 2006. The reaction here at TCM City was incredibly vocal, both for and against the films.

There is a walking tour of old Hollywood that is getting good reviews: http://felixinhollywoodtours.com/ $30 a person and it sounds like you get a lot of history!

Chief, I'm hoping that one of Spike Lee's choices as Guest Programmer is *To Kill a Mockingbird*. He and Robert O are talking about the film in NYC as part of the *Road to Hollywood*, the annual festival that is the run-up to the festival in Hollywood. It would be great to see that conversation on the air as part of Lee's selections as Guest Programmer.

Chief, Good idea! I would love to see the following because I missed them the last time around: *The Last of the Mohicans* the silent version directed by Maurice Tourneur *The Set Up* filmed around Los Angeles back in the day. *The Maltese Falcon* the 1931 version *Track of the Cat* starring Robert Mitchum and directed by Wild Bill Wellman. and it would be great if they could get *Yellow Sky* (again, Wild Bill Wellman) and, wait for it, *Secret of the Incas* two films that have yet to come to TCM. A girl can dream.....

Cinemanut, I'm pretty sure *Hold Back the Dawn* has been on TCM. Perhaps in a salute to either Olivia, Charles Boyer or Billy Wilder? *The Great Gatsby* has long been tied up not so much in rights issues but because of the 1970s version starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. Often when a film is remade, the original or former version gets buried in the vault. Disney did a similar thing with the 1940 version of *Swiss Family Robinson* starring Thomas Mitchell and Freddie Bartholomew.

> Can someone please tell me if August 2011 was the Summer Under the Stars month? The annual Summer Under the Stars festival usually happens every August. No reason to think this year is any different. My pick, Harry Carey, Sr.

These folks might disagree with you: http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=163707&tstart=0

"Either we do not know what part of ourselves to give, or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. So it is those who we live with and love and should know that elude us. But we can still reach out to them, we can love completely without complete understanding." Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It"

The bottom line is that you can't save an addict from themselves. They have to want to get better and be willing to do the hard work involved to get clean and stay clean. Without that, all the finger pointing and blaming is just a lot of hot air.

> There's someting about this I don't understand. Did TCM air A Christmas Story recently? Not that I can find. What's even stranger is that TCM has not aired *Christmas Story* since *December 2010*. The perennial holiday favorite was not part of the December schedule this past year. Perhaps the poster is channeling his inner JonnyG to take a run at Ben M.

> I believe the original question meant how many films were actually made in the true Cinerama three-panel process. It's well-known (and accepted) that any other films shot in 70mm but presented as "Cinerama" were not TRUE CInerama movies. It wasn't my intention to imply that the 70mm films were true Cinerama movies. That's why I included the caveat that they were shot in 70mm but presented in Cinerama. And I tried to keep them separate from the films that were true Cinerama films. My apologies for any confusion I may have caused.

Anyone looking for Hedda Hopper columns should check out filmlover's *1939 Hollywood's Greatest Year- Day by Day as it happened* thread in Favorites. Each day last year, he posted movie ads, columns and reviews from that day in 1939. There are a number of columns of Hopper's included there. http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=157427&tstart=0&messageID=8478708#8478708 Edited by: lzcutter on Feb 18, 2012 9:43 AM