MattHelm

I was surprised to see that TCM was showing these anime movies. I wrote articles about them years ago and never thought my classic movie fetish would merge with my anime/manga/japanese/hong kong movie obsession.

I love The Stranger, it has one of the best death scenes ... I won't spoil it for you if you haven't watched it yet.

I don't know about 10, but my number 1 would be, Pal Joey.

I feel kind of depressed when watching any old movies of stars that have past when they were young and in their prime.

Days of Being Wild is a depressing movie to me, or did you pick this one to keep feeling depressed when you're depressed? This is perhaps the darkest, or least colorful of Doyle's cinematography ... maybe that's why it feels that way to me. Great movie though. I feel depressed when thinking of Leslie Cheung's suicide a couple of years ago.

The Champ ... after Wallace Beery dies and Jackie Cooper put on the waterworks.

Scarlett, the title is Kiss of Death and Widmark is great in it. He was great in other noirs too like Night and the City, Panic in the Streets, Pickup on South Street. I like all the noirs mentioned and I'd add: High Sierra The Hitch-Hiker Macao On Dangerous Ground Force of Evil Touch of Evil The Devil Thumbs a Ride Conflict In Crossfire did anyone spot the reflection of one of the film crew in a background mirror? It's in the apartment of the murder victim. The movie was made in a matter of days and low budget, so I guess they missed it at first and then couldn't refilm the scene.

Robert Mitchum on why he never saw his movies: "They don't pay you to WATCH them."

Sinatra: "You die your way, I'll die mine."

Scarlett, if those kids become alcoholics after watching The Thin Man series, where going to hold you responsible. Make that half of his movies. I always have a hangover after watching him.

Orson Welles in Citizen Kane, The Third Man, and especially The Stranger, where he's killed by the rotating figures in the town clock. Robert Walker ... Strangers On A Train Joseph Cotton ... Shadow Of A Doubt James Cagney ... The Roaring Twenties Edward G. Robinson ... Little Caesar John Hurt ... Alien Lon Cheney Jr. ... The Wolf Man Jason Miller ... The Exorcist Willian Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates ... The Wild Bunch

Sam, I think you're referring to June Foray who did the voices on those cartoons. I agree.

I always thought of June Allyson as the girl next door type. I was surprised to find that she had an affair with Dean Martin just as Martin & Lewis were making it big in Hollywood, especially since she was married to Dick Powell at the time. She and Gloria DeHaven were in NY for publicity and shacked up with M&L at a hotel and it was almost a huge scandal. I'm not a huge fan of hers, but I kind of like her better now. She may be the only actress who went the longest with the same hairdo on and off screen.

"And "art" films to me have always been more about the "artist" than to subject." I consider any classic or great movie to be an art film. Every film should be more about the artist. It's always been that way, and should always be. Capra's movies were about Capra, the vision he wanted to put to film, or they wouldn't be as easily recognizable as Capra films. Same thing goes for Welles, Ford, Hawks, Sturges, Curtiz, Huston, Chaplin, Sirk, Kubrick, Minelli, Cocteau, Kurosawa, etc. What most people mean when they refer to "art film" is just merely an artist's style. To me, that's like calling some painters, painters, and other's art painters.

"I feel bad for you people that don't drink, because when you wake up in the morning, that's the best you're gonna feel all day." Dean Martin

Thanks, I'll be there.

I didn't know the guide showed what shorts were on, too. I subscribed to the guide years ago and when I got my first issue, the cable service I had stopped carrying TCM, so I had a year's worth of guides to see what I was missing. How depressing. I have the Cooper short on the Christmas In Connecticut DVD anyway. I got the box set on Amazon for $18 while some places charge close to that for each movie separately. And with Men Of Boys Town included on the Boys Town DVD, that's four movies and all those great shorts. That's not a bad deal.

Yeah they have some good horror movies coming up. I'm surprised to see the Roger Corman/Vincent Price/Edgar Allan Poe movies like House of Usher and Masque of the Red Death popping up on there. Almost Hammer-esque.

Wait, are you saying that the name of the channel isn't OCM?

Well put. Initially, I was indifferent to the tribute, since it caught me off guard and I didn't realize that it was the infamous TCM Remembers that I've been hearing about, until they started showing the stars. The more I see it, the more I appreciate it. This isn't an obituary of people we know, it's a recognition of men and women in the film industry and their contributions to that industry. So, it is fitting that they're recognized within a vehicle that's a nod to the dramatic nature of the medium they were a part of, since that's our only exposure to them. TCM obviously wants to evolve the originality in its creative content, not stick to homogenous formulas as past "Remembers." The longevity of the channel not only relies on their consistency in the quality of their programming, but in their pushing the creative envelope and keeping things fresh. Otherwise, the content grows stagnant and people will turn the channel in between movies. I'm sure the hype over past TCM Remembers in e-mail feedback and message board posts encouraged them to give us something different this year.

Sorry Leo, I just think you were being a little harsh calling for people to be sacked over this and you sounded a bit incoherent ... I thought maybe you tied one on the night before. I certainly did.

I believe you ought to leave the sauce alone when posting.

Rathbone played the lead in the original Love From A Stranger, and Hodiak was the lead in the remake.

Pal Joey Shadow of A Doubt Ministry of Fear Ride the Pink Horse Night of the Hunter The Stranger Artists and Models La Dolce Vita It's a Wonderful Life Planet of the Apes

I would love to see a movie on the HUAC blacklisting trials ... one that shows the truth and not the Hollywood-created myths associated with it. Every movie/documentary on the subject portrays the accused as being innocent, though in reality there were mountains of evidence that incriminated them. The truth is stranger than the fiction.