lzcutter
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> Mickey Rooney would be great to help fill in for Robert Osborne in his abscence. I wonder if anyone with any say-so has thought of this.
Mickey, unfortunately, is not in the best of health these days. He was in a wheelchair at the TCM Film Festival and needed the help of an aide to get around.
Also, why he is quite the character, he was not easy to keep on point during the on-air interview that Robert O did and was often going off on tangents related to other things.
None of this is meant to take away from Mickey or from his legacy. It is just to provided information about the idea of his as a guest host.
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Oh Chief!!!!
George O'Brien and Harry Carey and all this beautiful artwork!
Oh Chief!!!!!
A million and one thanks!!!!
I, as always, "heart" you!!! (It's okay, MrCutter knows why and he, too, thinks their beautiful).
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It's a remake of *It Happened One Night*.
The title you are looking for is *You Can't Run Away From It*
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> Does Turner own MGM's films before 1986 or not?
Time Warner owns the pre-1986 MGM library. They acquired it from Ted Turner in the mid-1990s when Turner merged his media empire with Time-Warner.
As MGM, the studio did have a distribution deal with United Artists for quite some time and some of the UA films were not part of the pre-1986 film library so MGM still has the rights to many of them.
In addition, MGM did a number of independent productions beginning in the 1960s that may not have been part of the pre-1986 library.
Lastly, MGMHD may also rent titles for their HD network.
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> I have no way of knowing if this is true, or a joke by Mankiewicz, or not, but an individual that I trust told me that she and her husband were at a restaurant where Ben Mankiewicz and his wife were, and that Mankiewicz and wife were laughing and bragging to their dinner guests that they create ids on the TCM message boards to promote Ben, as he does not have many employment options available outside of TCM.
And I have a cat named Bucky who was out on the town the other night with the other cats in his posse and he said he overheard you saying the same thing that you attribute to Ben M.
That's the great thing about gossip - you never have to prove it.
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> You are partially right about your impression that my post was meant as a joke.The part about Ben cringing at the thought of work is the 'joking' part of my impression that i talked about earlier in my response to you.
One thing worth remembering is that this is not some anonymous message board out in the middle of cyberspace.
This is a message board sponsored by TCM and we are invited guests. Do you guys insult the hosts when you visit their homes? Because that's what you are basically doing here with unsubstantiated "impressions" and flaming Ben M.
For the record, Ben M is doing his part while Robert O is on hiatus. He is stepping up, covering many of Robert O's tour dates of music events and film screenings in addition to hosting each day of *SUTS*. He is, in that regard, the temporary face of TCM while Robert O is away.
The men and women who work with Ben M have high regard for him and his work ethic. Anyone who has met him or seen him at the Film Festivals knows that he is gracious, funny and a hard worker.
Posters often ask why the staff of TCM doesn't interact more with this community. This thread (and others) could be Exhibit 1 why they don't.
My husband often likes to say that life doesn't really get past high school.
Welcome to the TCM version of high school where it's okay to trash talk a hard working member of the TCM staff and then say, "just joking".
It doesn't make it funny and it doesn't make it right.
We are invited guests here and as long as we are all willing to trash talk the staff of TCM (even under the guise of "joking"), the more we make it unlikely that they will ever participate in these message boards past what they do now.
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In a slightly different vain, *Wolfen*.
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> Okay. Thanks for the info...sounds like he has a busy itinerary!
As noted in another thread (perhaps), Ben is also on the road acting as host of the various Philharmonic "Movies and Music" dates that Robert O does each summer but due to his hiatus, is now unable to do.
Ben M graciously stepped up and from the sounds of things, is doing a good job.
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> Versions of THE THREE MUSKETEERS on the 14th. That looks very good.
Not just the usual suspects when it comes to the Musketeers but the wonderful 1974 version directed by Richard Lester with an all-star cast is included!
Thanks, TCM!!!! It's my favorite non-silent Musketeer movie!
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MsG,
Thank you for the kind words.
Here's a link to a thread I did on Dwan from a few years back:
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8250824
I think it has the answers you are looking for. If not, let me know!
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> Doesn't it usually play on TCM July 30 or 31st. I dont even see "Now Playing on TCM.com. I wanna know who the SOTM is and who the guest programmer will be and what will be playing on the essentials in August.
MS,
August is the annual *Summer Under the Stars* on-air festival where every day a different star is highlighted for 24 hours.
Since that is the case, there is no SOTM nor Guest Programmer.
There may not be a *Now Showing* for August due to Robert O's hiatus. Ben M will be guest hosting each evening during August as well as the weekends.
We think they will return to the guest host format in September but there has been no confirmation from TCM about that. Robert O is scheduled to return to TCM in October.
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Kyle posted about it in another thread about a week ago before it was so interactive.
What a great, big mid-century modern Valentine to all things *SUTS*! (and many here know how much I love all things MCM).
This may be my favorite *SUTS* microsite ever.
http://www.tcm.com/summer/index.html
Edited by: lzcutter for punctuation
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> Actually the first of the Dr. Kildare movies was "Interns Can't Take Money" in 1937 with Joel McCrea as the young Dr. and Barbara Stanwyck as his co star.
Roy,
Yet another reason for Joel McCrea to be a Star of the Month. Soon. I hope.
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> Actually the first of the Dr. Kildare movies was "Interns Can't Take Money" in 1937 with Joel McCrea as the young Dr. and Barbara Stanwyck as his co star.
Roy,
Yet another reason for Joel McCrea to be a Star of the Month. Soon. I hope.
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> Even with the urchin alert.
Be careful! You could conjure up Dondi!
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> Even with the urchin alert.
Be careful! You could conjure up Dondi!
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Fred,
It's not just modern films.
John Ford films, the more you watch them, the deeper you realize the stories are. I've said before it's like pulling away the layers of an onion. Case in point, *The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance* and *Ft. Apache*. Each time I watch those films, I see thinks in the characters and the story than I have before.
The same can be said for many classic films not just Ford films.
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> Has ANYONE ever seen it?
There's a short segment of it in a German documentary on Wilder. The doc shows up on TCM from time to time.
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Renee,
Here's a post of her's in the "Dr. Shaheen" thread:
"Sure glad Arab month is over. Dr. Shaheen is one biased A-rab."
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=161000&tstart=0
She's made other borderline political comments.
Thought you would want to know.
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Nick Ray's personal papers and archives are going to the Harry Ransom Center at the U of Texas at Austin:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-nicholas-ray-20110728,0,760066.story
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> Based on your experiences, there certainly is truth to your theory, especially depending on what era somebody grew up in. However, to generalize that most of us were "lonely children sitting in dark rooms" wouldn't necessarily be accurate, certainly, not in the pre-TV days.
Mark,
I agree with what you've written. I grew up in the 1960s and fell in love with what then were called "old movies". My parents both worked but
we had babysitters because I had a younger brother and those women weren't always easy to talk into letting me stay up late.
I would stay up late at night (when I could get away with it) to watch those classics, fake being sick to stay home to watch one I really wanted to see because I really liked those movies and there were no VCRs, video tape or DVDs or DVRs.
I wasn't a "lonely sitting in dark rooms" but watching because these movies captured my imagination.
There were times, usually on weekends, when my dad and I would stay up late and watch the movies together, especially if it was a western.
I carry that love of "old" movies with me to this day and now it encompasses movies from all decades not just the "old" ones.
But, like you, I'm sure that others growing up may have had different experiences.
But in the end, those experiences made us love the movies even more.
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Bonne,
Earlier this month, TCM announced that Robert O was taking some time off (his first in 17 years). He had minor surgery, is doing fine and after recuperating will take a vacation.
He will return to TCM in Oct. He had already filmed the wraparounds for the *Arab Images in Film* as well as *The Essentials* so that is why he was on seen on the channel on Tuesday and Thursday evenings as well as Saturday evenings with Alec Baldwin.
Robert Wagner, Jane Powell and Tippi Hedren served as guest hosts the last three weeks.
Beginning Monday, Ben M has graciously stepped up and will be the evening/nightly host for the annual on-air festival, *Summer Under the Stars*.
There has been no announcement yet about who the guest hosts will be in September.
For more information, here's a link to the thread in General Discussions (this is the forum for any questions about the Film Festival):
http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=160702&tstart=0&messageID=8538114#8538114
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> Okay. Duh. Still don't know what he's asking. He went to the theatre & heard a song in a movie & wants to know what song it is? Could you be more specific?
No, he went to the movies and it sounds like he saw the promo that TCM created for *Summer Under the Stars*. It's been playing on the channel and sometimes, those promos are run in movie theaters as well.
The OP wants to know the name of the song that is played during the promo.
At least, I think that's what he is asking about.
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> What's SUtS?
The annual August on-air festival, *Summer Under the Stars*. Each day, a different star is highlighted with 24 hours of programming.
Ben tonight for SUTS
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> Anyway, thanks TCM for shelling out thousands of dollars to keep him on year after year: it is money well-spent. His unending charisma and Svengali-like charm pull in big numbers I am sure. Besides, I'm sure every film that needs to be preserved has been so, just let the rest rot on their volatile silver-nitrate stock. And who wants to free up the rights issues to countless Paramount and Universal titles we haven't seen in years?
JG,
As was pointed out in that other thread, TCM's hiring of Ben M does not mean that TCM has less money to spend on film preservation.
That's like comparing oranges and kumquats and serves no real purpose except to get folks riled up again.
Like any business, each department at TCM has its own budget and Ben is considered part of the talent budget.
By this point, I think everyone at TCM City is well aware that you don't like Ben so why keep belaboring that point?
We get your point. We really, really do.