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    JOHN BARRYMORE

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    One of the great treats of my life was seeing Robert Osborne and Drew Barrymore introduce the 1933 film NIGHT FLIGHT at the 2011 TCM Festival. (Holy Cow! Can it be 9 years already???)

    I often wondered if Drew Barrymore had any affinity toward her famous relatives. I was surprised and delighted that she did and spoke about her interest in their films.

    Regarding NIGHT FLIGHT. Because of legal reasons that Festival screening was the first public viewing in nearly 70 or 80 years. Robert Osborne said he had once seen it years ago via a dupey VHS  copy. He candidly admitted the film wasn't that good. The audience did a laugh-gasp because everyone had been anticipating seeing this mighty cast in a lost Golden Age classic and were surprised by his remarks. He quickly realized what he had said and  added something to the affect that it was good we were there to see it.  Another Barrymore film checked off my wish list.

    It's not the classic of GRAND HOTEL (1932) or DINNER AT EIGHT (1933) but it is impressive seeing all those folks together in one movie. Where else would you get to see a film like that, aside from a dupey VHS copy, if not for TCM?

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    JOHN BARRYMORE

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    17 minutes ago, TomJH said:

    It's a shame that one of Barrymore's earliest talkies, a comedy, The Man from Blankley's, is a lost film. The actor got solid reviews at the time playing a character in a slightly inebriated condition throughout the film. One of our fellow posters here, Arturo, said that he saw a print of this film when he was young. He may be the only one on these boards to be able to make the claim.

    From IMDB trivia - There is no surviving footage from this film according to UCLA Film and Television search page on this film. The surviving element listing for this film is the Vitaphone soundtrack disks.

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    Canadian TCM Fans, Should We Be Worried?

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    One thought -

    Since TCM will be showing a lot of newer films along with the 14 part documentary in September  it may takes some licensing for Canada to show the same thing the US is showing. There could be big gaps in programming.  Perhaps even the documentary itself!

    This information is based solely on my conjecture and not on any factual evidence!!!

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    Disney just ended the 20th Century Fox brand

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    New York (CNN Business)

    20th Century Fox, one of the most-recognized names in entertainment history, is officially no more.

    Disney (DIS) announced on Monday it would be rebranding one of its TV studios, 20th Century Fox Television, as 20th Television. The new name cuts both the "Century" and the "Fox" from the studio's name.
     
    The move follows Disney dropping the Fox name from its 20th Century Fox film brand in January. The company, which closed a $71 billion deal to acquire many of Fox's assets last year, renamed the longtime studio as just 20th Century Studios.
    The well known logo and title card, which has the words 20th Television stacked above spotlights, will stay the same minus the excluded words.
     
    The new logo and graphics will appear on new episodes of 20th Television TV series starting this fall. Older titles, which have already aired before the rebrand, will maintain the former logo and name.
    Disney cutting Fox from all of its studios makes sense since it could be confusing for consumers. The remaining assets from Fox such as the Fox Entertainment, Fox Sports and Fox News are a part of Fox Corporation, which has nothing to do with Disney.
     
    Disney will also rebrand its other TV studios with new names and graphics. That includes changing ABC Studios and ABC Signature Studios to ABC Signature and Fox 21 Television Studios will become Touchstone Television.
     
    "Our new studio names and logos mark a new day for ABC Signature, 20th Television and Touchstone Television while honoring their rich histories and the creative power of The Walt Disney Company," Craig Hunegs, Disney television studios president, said in a statement.
     
    20th Century Fox was created in 1935 as a merger between Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Films.

    Wilford Brimley, an actor and a Quaker Oats pitchman, dies at 85

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    Wilford Brimley, an actor and a Quaker Oats pitchman, dies at 85

     
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    (CNN)

    Wilford Brimley, the mustachioed actor who appeared on the big screen, television shows and Quaker Oats commercials, has died. He was 85.

    Brimley died Saturday while hospitalized in St. George, Utah, his manager Lynda Bensky told CNN. He'd been at the ICU, where he was getting treatment for medical problems and was on dialysis.
    "Wilford Brimley was a man you could trust. He said what he meant and he meant what he said," Bensky said. "He had a tough exterior and a tender heart. I'm sad that I will no longer get to hear my friend's wonderful stories. He was one of a kind."
     
    His movie credits date to the 1970s and include "Cocoon," "The Natural" and "The Thing." He also starred in several television shows, including NBC's "Our House" as a gruff widower who asks his daughter-in-law and her children to live with him.
     
    "RIP Wilford Brimley -- so many great performances, but I'll never forget seeing him sing this surprisingly tender 'It's Not Easy Being Green,'" Stephen Colbert said.
    Brimley is survived by his wife, Beverly, and three sons.
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    Rathbone's son in ROBIN HOOD

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    Ray -

    During the 1980's and early 90's I lived in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. As was often the case I'd be up early to take the train into Manhattan either to work, meet friends, maybe audition for something or to see a Broadway play. Occasionally on my return from mid-town, when the weather was decent, I would feel adventurous and get off the subway at the World Trade Center or City Hall Park. Nothing like a nice day in New York to walk the rest of the way home by way of the Brooklyn Bridge.

    It was on one such day that I was stopped halfway across the bridge by a man I remember as being tall and well-dressed. He asked me for directions to Connecticut. "Connecticut? I asked." "Yes. the man replied, I'm on my way home." "You can't get there from here.", I said. "It's too far to walk."  The man quite earnestly said, "I do it all the time." "You do? That's quite a walk." The conversation drifted to other things I can't recall now but at one point the man asked what I did for a living. I told him I was trying to be an actor. He said his father had been an actor. "Really? Who?"  "Have you ever heard of Basil Rathbone?" "Of course!" "You know who he is?" "Yes, Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes." "You really do know who he is."

    Our conversation continued for a bit until he reiterated that he had to get home. I told him I didn't think he'd be able to walk to Connecticut. He told me he stayed in Brooklyn with his daughter and grandson. We parted ways but I was afraid that he was confused and might get lost or hurt so I followed a bit behind him to make sure he got where he was going.  When he arrived home safely I made note of the address and name on the door.

    Later that night I looked in the Brooklyn phone book for the name I saw.  A very nice woman answered. I explained who I was and about my encounter with her father. I told her I was sorry to bother her but I was concerned about his wanting to walk to Connecticut and possibly getting hurt. She told me they had had this problem before. That they kept a piece of paper with their address in his pocket just in case he got lost. She started to cry. Through her tears she told me he had been an international flight navigator and now he couldn't find his way home. As our conversation was ending I asked her if his father had been Basil Rathbone. She said yes that was true.

    Though I didn't know it at the time that would be my first encounter with someone suffering from Alzheimer's. I felt just as confused as he was. In the last seven years I've become quite acquainted with this terrible disease. It's been at least thirty years now and every so often my thoughts return to that chance meeting on the Brooklyn Bridge with John Rodion aka Rodion Rathbone. Grateful, I guess, that it was I whom Mr. Rodion asked directions and not someone who might have meant to do him harm.

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