doddiepink77 Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 He is and always will be the one and only best ever commentator. The only other person who comes close and is a wonderful person is Drew Barrymore. She is as wonderful to watch as he is and they are a ferfect pair for movie reviews and knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 Hmmmm...must've missed Madeleine Stowe's turn as guest programmer last week, eh dobbiepink??? (...btw, welcome to the boards) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 "Osbourne" , that must be the Canadian spelling for Osborne. Anyway, I too like RO and Drew is okay for the entertainment value, although she doesn't add a lot of insight for me, or she just isn't very good at articulating (impressive word, eh) herself. Always nice to see a new member, please stick around and join in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 Your opinion of RO is shared by most of the people on these boards. Your opinion of Drew, to put it as delicately as possible, is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 Right after I read the initial post I was hoping, for the sake of the poster, you didn't see this thread! But hey, you were gentle so that was nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 < But hey, you were gentle so that was nice > Isn't shocking James, that financeu can actually be "gentle" Yes, Osbourne must be the Canadian spelling for Osborne ! Twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 ...and so this new poster could be your next-doour neighbour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 ...one never knows eh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson95 Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 Robert Osborne and Ben Mankiewicz are both very good hosts. Drew Barrymore of course is just there because of her family's background. I always enjoy the guest programmer series - some of the people that are featured on that have very interesting insights. Take the last two guest programmers (Madeline Stowe this month and Frank Rich back in July). Each of them had really interesting things to say about the films they selected and how those pictures influenced them. Most of TCM's on-air personalities are very interesting. However, for myself and many other Canadians (and also people in U.S. border cities that got TVO), no one will ever be able to hold a candle to Elwy Yost, the popular host of "Saturday Night at the Movies" on Ontario's public broadcaster. His love and enthusiasm for the movies was just infectious. Elwy spent a few years in the mid-80s as the film critic at The Toronto Star newspaper, but he just wasn't cut out to be a movie reviewer - he loved the movies so much he could find something good to say about any film. I just wanted to mention the influence Elwy Yost had on several generations of Canadians. He is the reason I love the movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 ...so Yost never met a film he didn't like? What kind of critic is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Hmmmm...maybe the "Will Rogers" kind??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 I don't want to derail any thread devoted to Robert Osborne, but I, too, was largely raised on golden age Hollywood films brought to Canadian television by Elwy Yost. With his avuncular personality and, being a former school teacher, Yost was always "Uncle Elwy" to me because of the warmth that he emitted and enthusiasm for films. Elwy Yost felt like family, without ever even meeting him. However, one day I did meet him. A friend of mine had called TV Ontario, the channel for which Elwy worked, for some programming information. Yost answered the phone himself, they talked a bit and Elwy made an invitation for my friend to drop by any time for a visit. My friend asked if I could come along, to which Elwy was agreable. When we showed up one day (bearing gifts, a couple of video tapes of films we were pretty sure Yost didn't own), it soon became apparent that Elwy had forgotten about his telephone invitation. However, he was as gracious as could be desired, inviting us to join us in his office. We talked for about a half hour or so, and I noticed that Elwy, always a humble man who said he would gladly welcome any viewers in if he met them, allowed my friend and I to do a lot of the talking. At the end of the conversation, Elwy gave us an invitation to drop by his home some time for a beer. We always assumed that he was just being polite, so never tried to follow up on it. A few years later, though, my friend had a conversation with a good friend of Yost's, making passing reference to the home invitation. The friend said that Elwy was a shy man so that if he made an invitation of that kind he probably really meant it. And that was rather nice to hear, that Elwy liked us enough to do that. But then, Elwy was, sort of like Will Rogers, I guess, as Dargo suggested, the kind of man who never met a man he didn't like, and never saw a film of which he couldn't find some good things to say. Sorry for the ramble. But seeing Elwy Yost's name made me want to pay a brief tribute to a true movie fan who was able to convey his enthusiasm to thousands of other Canadian movie buffs, bringing them films that they probably wouldn't have been able to see otherwise at a time when only a few other stations were showing the golden Hollywood studio system nuggets. Good ol' Uncle Elwy! (By the way, Elwy often travelled to California and other spots in the 80s and 90s, doing probably hundreds of interviews with those involved in the movie making processes of Hollywood - everyone from Jimmy Stewart to Bob Hope to Greer Garson to Henry Fonda, among so many others. I wonder what has happened to those interviews). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Tom, some of Elwy Yost's interviews are on YouTube, such as the one with Greer Garson (in 2 parts) and also Jack Lemmon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFlqwa8AcrE Twink Edited by: twinkeee on Sep 22, 2013 2:00 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Thanks for the news, twinkeee. I particularly remember thinking that that Garson interview at her New Mexico home was a particularly good one. She comes across exactly as you would hope Greer Garson would be in real life. Completely unaffected and down to earth, just like Elwy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Yes, I remember watching that interview with Greer Garson on TV and I was quite surprised to come across it on YouTube so I thought you might like to know about it. I believe there is also an interview with Frank Capra on YouTube. Some stars claimed that the longest interviews they had ever had were by Elwy Yost! Given that he was Canadian and doing the interviews for a Canadian station, TVO, that always surprised me ! It was also unique that he would do these intervies in their homes! Twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddiepink Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 old movies are the best. now days there is too much sex, blood and gore. old movies didnt need to show that to get the point across. And sorry about the spelling for RO, still like Drew Barrymoore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heuriger Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 too much sex, blood and gore. Now he's doing movies? Isn't it unfortunate enough that he created the internet, now we have to watch his films? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leobertucelli Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 NOW WHEN SHOWING HITCHCOCK FILMS WHICH IS GRAND BUT WHY SLIP IN SILENTS, REGARDLESS WHO DIRECTED. SILENTS TO ME ANYWAY, IS TOO MUCH.WE HAVE SOUND NOW, SO PROGRAM FAR DIFFERENT FILMS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Could Yost be the reason for the seeming disproportionate number of Canadians on these boards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Well, a lot of Ontarians would have had access to Elwy on TV Ontario. I'm not certain how much Canadians outside of Ontario would have seen him. This is really a question for other Canadians on this message board, as well. He clearly increased my passion for old films with the often wonderful TV Ontario double bills that he had on Saturday nights. Here are a couple of YouTube links to interviews of Elwy's: with Greer Garson (Part 1): with Greer Garson (Part 2): with John Candy (in character as Dr. Tongue): with Eleanor Keaton (Buster's widow): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 I see you found the link to YouTube that I posted Tom ! I hope you enjoyed the interview with Greer Garson. Twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Yes, thanks, twinks. That's why I made the Garson interview accessible for others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heuriger Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 >Could Yost be the reason for the seeming disproportionate number of Canadians on these boards? I believe Mr. Yost was fielding his farms prior to his ascension to the University of Michigan post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Interesting, but is that a response to me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heuriger Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 I see you were upset that Cavegirl has been responding to herself in posts. Scolded her in fact. Here you seem to question my response to YOU. "Why are you posting to me?" How foolish of me to think I can crack wise here, n'est-ce pas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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