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"31 Days of Oscar Movie Posters" - with 2-for-1 Weekends Sunday February 17th

"31 Days of Oscar Movie Posters" - with 2-for-1 Weekends Sunday February 17th

"I didn't sign up for the "second tier" on Direct TV and pay extra for it to see "all eighty years of the Academy Awards". Then take your fight to Direct-TV and request they put the channel on the lower tier. (TCM has no input or control where cable and satellite systems place the channel.) When your check is written "Pay to the order of "Tuner Classic Movies", then you might have an argument to make. Right now all you have is a tiresome whine. kjk

"TCM doesn't need an excuse to air modern movies. They can damn well do as they please..." - markbeckhuaf Oh, the breeze blowing in from "reality" tonight is soo refreshing. kjk

"Who wants to see movies from the 1990s to the present? " If TCM is going to present a month saluting all eighty years of the Academy Awards, then, in that context, these films belong here as much as silent films from the 20s. I think it is audacious, enlightening and astounding that any television channel has undertaken such an event. You and others may have been happy to see the same "31 Days..." that TCM presented two years ago, five years ago or even ten years ago. But alot of us - including, obviously, TCM - would have found that repetitive, uninspired and, well...boring. And the last thing TCM would want is people thinking "Move along. There's nothing new to see here." "We come here to see old and classic movies, from the "Golden Age of Hollywood". You watch TCM for those reasons. Not everyone watches TCM for those reasons. And, thankfully, TCM is not being programmed only for those reasons either. (You make it sound like one can no longer see those films on TCM. Have you written anything appreciative about Mondays and Tuesdays this month?) You might as well get used to the idea that Charles Burnett and Abel Gance, "Bienvenue A Cannes" and "Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood" and Eighty Years Of The Academy Awards are going to co-exist on the TCM schedule side by side - today, tomorrow and just like always. It may be a bitter pill for you but you've got swallow it. Kyle In Hollywood

"This is not a thread designed for you to give us your latest political lecture. Most “white people” didn’t do what you say." Says the man who likes to "remind" everyone here that more Christians died in WWII than Jews as if the deaths in battle are equivilent to the willful extermination of a race of people (and others). Kyle In Hollywood

"Why is TCM playing 1970s films all of the sudden? Is this just for the 30 days of oscar or is it going to be like this forever?" - Chaplin1925 Ignore the rabble below. To answer your question seriously, here's TCM's official press release on the February schedule. http://www.turnerinfo.com/pressroom.aspx?P=TCM "Taking its annual 31 DAYS OF OSCAR? film festival to an entirely new level, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will showcase the depth of its movie library by devoting each night in February to a decade of Oscar?-winning and nominated films—all uncut and commercial free. Mondays in primetime will be devoted to films of the 1920s and 1930s, Tuesdays to the 1940s, Wednesdays to the 1950s and so forth throughout each week, with Sundays showcasing movies from the 1990s to the present." “In this, the 14th year we’ve presented TCM’s 31 DAYS OF OSCAR, we are really showing off our movie library, which is without a doubt the biggest and best in the industry,” said Charlie Tabesh, senior vice president of programming for TCM. “By dedicating each night to a particular decade and each day to a specific theme, we prove that no other network can celebrate the Academy Awards with the breadth of TCM.” If you are curious about upcoming programming for TCM see here - March 2008 http://www.tcm.com/schedule/month/?cid=&timezone=PST&oid=3/1/2008 which includes a world premiere documentary on Pre-code Hollywood and a Star Of The Month salute to Acting Families. April 2008 http://www.tcm.com/schedule/month/?cid=&timezone=PST&oid=4/1/2008 which includes Star Of The Month Hedy Lamarr, a documentary on Abel Gance and the premiere of Easy Living. Kyle In Hollywood

"31 Days of Oscar Movie Posters" - with 2-for-1 Weekends Saturday February 16th

"31 Days of Oscar Movie Posters" - with 2-for1 Weekends Saturday February 16th

"I hope this is a one time deal." Well, that's a nice compliment. Thanks 'movieman1957'. (Now I'll feel too guilty to use my Simon Cowell persona when voting.) Kyle In Hollywood

Along with the newly announced schedule, WebAmin also gave us a whole set of Forums for the new Essentials titles! (Scroll down the main page past the Genre Forums.) Thanks WebAdmin! Kyle In Hollywood

I have been encouraged to let all you Challengers know that I've taken a seat on the sidelines for this Challenge and won't be submitting a schedule. But I look froward to voting this time out. If you all keep up the good work I've seen so far, that will be a more difficult task than putting together a week of programming. Kyle In Hollywood

"I'll supply the M & Ms." And I'll bring the "cool, refreshing spring water". "La la lah, LAH la lah, la la la-la. Pum. Pum." Kyle In Hollywood

Sorry about the expense you incurred on your search for the "Now Playing" guide. I have watched TCM regularly for many years but I have no recollection of hearing that the monthly magazine is available in a retail shop since the days it was being offered in Barnes & Noble's - and that was three or more years ago. Of course, I could have not been paying that close of attention to recent promos for the Guide either. But the most common promos for the Guide that I have seen are telling one how to subscribe to the Guide. It would seem odd that TCM would want to place the Guide in F.Y.E. stores as it seems the company is undergoing a major retrenchment and closing many - if not most - stores in the United States. And I have never seen F.Y.E. stores mentioned or promoted on this website. In fact, the online company "Movies Unlimited" seems to have cornered the market for Video Promotion on TCM. But that is not to say it couldn't happen. (I just looked at the F.Y.E. website. It seems they have a cross-promotional event with AMC which makes me doubt that TCM also has a business relationship with the company at this time. See here - http://www.fye.com/AMC-Classics_stcVVcatId501186VVviewcat.htm) As to your email issue, it sounds like your email got "bounced" as undeliverable. (Your original email is probably the "attatchment".) If you still have the email without a subject line, right click on the blank line. Select "Properties" Click on the "Details" tab. You should be able to read the name of the sender and the intended recipient of that particular message. And by clicking on "Message Source", you may be able to also read the "invisible" contents of that email and of the attatchment. Kyle In Hollywood

I won't "pick a nit" between Bette Davis and May Robson (or William and Ford) but... while I think Peter Falk's Oscar Nomination for his role (named "Happy"?) was deserved, he is no Ned Sparks. And the second film was poorer for it. (But the A Pocketful Of Miracles script is screaming to be made into a Broadway musical. The original script, not so much.) Kyle In Hollywood

s.s. of s. - I hope you'll be jumping in August. Just keep an eye open for 'movieman1957' who will likely be jumping too. (Of course, the joke could be on us and "SUTS" could be on hiatus this year.) But if our sleuthing is correct, from the list of the films on the other Saturday nights which stars do you hope are to be honored - Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin or Paulette Goddard ? The Apartment - Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine or Fred MacMurray ? Swing Time - Astaire, Rogers (or even Victor Moore or Eric Blore) ? Woman Of The Year - Tracy, Hepburn, Fay Bainter (or even Reginald Owen) ? (I vote for Chaplin, MacMurray, Astaire and Bainter.) Sorry for highjacking your "Essentials" thread with talk of "SUTS". Kyle In Hollywood

"s.s.of s". - Thanks for posting the entire Essentials line-up. If this is correct, I think we know who four Summer Under The Stars honorees will be this year... (And 'movieman1957' is going to be soooo happy.) (In certain years past, "The Essentials" went on hiatus during "SUTS".) Kyle In Hollywood

"31 Days Of Oscar Movie Posters" Friday February 15th

There are banner ads on selected pages - but not the Forum pages - of the website. And the website even has an ad for Guest Programmer Martha Stewart this month - linking to her recipes for an Oscar Night party. See below - http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=193146 Kyle In Hollywood

I am holding out for a 'gathering' in Los Angeles during the week of the Oscars that would conclude with an "Oscar Viewing Party" - a sit down dinner to watch the ceremony with a TCM personality or Hollywood legend at each table. If the Oscars won't treat the "old guard" with the respect they have earned during the annual official festivities, then let's get TCM to do it. With Sid Ganis (head of AMPAS) as a former TCM Guest Programmer and with Robert Osborne as the "Official Red Carpet Greeter" for the Academy Awards Ceremony who knows what special perks and surprises could be arranged. Maybe the attendees could do an "arrival" on the Red Carpet a few days early and then get a sneek peak into the Kodak Theater. Maybe have a special screeening of Casablanca at the Goldwyn Theater at the Motion Picture Academy, And Ben Mankiewicz and Tom Brown can host a "Hollywood Hideaways" pub crawl. Pipe Dreams are so much fun. Kyle In Hollywood

"31 Days Of Oscar Movie Posters" Thursday February 14th

Hi FredMill38 - The schedule is all there right now. Be careful with the use hyphens / dashes at the beginning of a line of text. That can cause the multiple bullet points. And watch out that there isn't an errant "space" at the start of a line of text also. A "space" at the beginning causes the text that follows to "disappear". So glad you are part of this challenge! Kyle In Hollywood

"Have I told you how much I have thoroughly enjoyed your wonderful posters..." Ahem. How was that again? Oh yeah... "Are your lips sore yet?" (Don't tell me you've discerned all those titles already.) kjk

"...would love to see, Rasputin And The Emperess on DVD! With all the Barrymores." - TheMalteseFalcon It may not be on DVD yet but it is on TCM this coming week. "Rasputin And The Empress" Monday Feb 18, 06:00AM EST / 03:00AM PST Kyle In Hollywood

"Although, you have to be running low since you post at least one every single day." You'd be surprised what I've got to post yet. But you better be careful or Les Enchaines may never see the light of the Forums. or The Ring...or Sueurs Froids...or Le Corde...or 5 Colonne...or Les Forbans de la Nuit...or Nous Avon Gagne Ce Soir...or The Girl Was Young. kjk