Luxor2013 Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 I really like the TCM remembers feature, but the deaths of Peter O'Toole and Joan Fontaine so late in the year make me think that perhaps TCM shouldn't mourn the deaths of cinema legends and contributors until the New Year. It was a shame when Jack Klugman died late last year, too late to figure in the 2012 remembrances; I was surprised that they managed to include Eleanor Parker this year. Maybe they'll surprise me and in a few days re-do the montage to honor two of the latest, and greatest, of the departed. My God! Link to post Share on other sites
Wayne Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 << Shouldn't TCM Remembers be in January? >> Yes. Yes, it should. It's always puzzled me why TCM starts their "year-in-review" memoriam before the year has ended. Why the rush? It just makes sense to wait. Link to post Share on other sites
Sepiatone Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 A lot CAN happen in a few days. I'm in agreement with this. No sense in recalling the past year BEFORE it's over. Sepiatone Link to post Share on other sites
edgeciff Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 I am in total agreement with this. TCM REMEMBERS should not air until New Years day, Link to post Share on other sites
SisterLuke Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 I really hope TCM edits their piece to include Joan Fontaine and Peter O'Toole now belongs at the end of the montage, not the lady that swims around the pool. Link to post Share on other sites
roverrocks Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Definitely not before New Year's Day for the complete TCM Remembers edition for the year. Individual Remembers as they occur during the year but the full and complete TCM Remembers only as the new year turns. Link to post Share on other sites
FredCDobbs Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 >Yes. Yes, it should. It's always puzzled me why TCM starts their "year-in-review" memoriam before the year has ended. It actually started more than 50 years ago when the big-3 networks (CBS, NBC, and ABC) began doing year-end retrospective reports, in December, highlighting the major news stories of that year, and also a brief tribute to famous people who died that year. This has been a tradition in television for many decades. Of course, it causes a problem for the editors and producers when several famous people suddenly die in December. Link to post Share on other sites
Hibi Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 I'm starting to think they should delay it until at least after Christmas. It's fine if no one important dies, but if they do, like this year, then TCM is left scrambling to include them or waiting till the next year........ Link to post Share on other sites
Fedya Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Because every other news outlet does their year-end retrospective in December? Flipping through the channels this morning, I saw a commercial on MSNBC asking viewers to vote for their favorite moments from one of their hosts' shows (I think it was Rachel Maddow, but which one it was is beside the point) in 2013. Those evil blankety-blanks! Don't they know they should wait until January to do it? Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Deaths in general always spike during the colder weather, so that is another reason to wait. Link to post Share on other sites
joefilmone Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 I agree. Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Perhaps the reason they do it in December is that it might seem anticlimactic to do a retrospective in January, after New Years and the holiday season have ended, and when people are looking forward to the coming year, not back at the last. Link to post Share on other sites
Swithin Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I think TCM's remembrance piece should end with the final scene from Caged: Eleanor Parker leaving prison. Link to post Share on other sites
Fedya Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Technically, isn't the last scene Agnes Moorehead saying that the Eleanor Parker character will be back? (Or is it another character?) Link to post Share on other sites
Swithin Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 The secretary says to Agnes Moorehead, "What should I do with her file?" Agnes Moorehead, who plays the Warden, says, "Keep it open. She'll be back." Parker is then shown leaving the jail, being escorted into the car by the thugs, and lighting a cigarette in the car, as jazzy music wells up. I think that's the order of ending scenes, anyway. Link to post Share on other sites
lzcutter Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 The revised end of the year memorial, *TCM Remembers*, is supposed to begin airing this evening. Link to post Share on other sites
jamesjazzguitar Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Funny how jazzy music has a sleaze type of vibe. That music along with the cig tells us she will be back to a life of crime. Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 So the assumption in '40s-'50s films was that nice girls didn't smoke?Maybe. Even Bette Davis, in more innocent roles such as THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, didn't smoke. Link to post Share on other sites
StBartsActor Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 It's actually the other way around, Swithin. I caught the end of Caged today as I came in. Parker gets into the car (and man, what a great piece of music chosen for this scene) and the film switches back to Moorehead. Link to post Share on other sites
lzcutter Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 The revised year end memorial is up on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6gXi67ueD0 Be sure to watch all the way to the end. Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Thank you, lzcutter As brief as it was, Mr. O'Toole's spot is an excellent choice as it's the very fitting scene of his swimming in the admiration of his fans from My Favorite Year (1982). If a singular TCM Remembers is done for him, I'd hope they would end it with the full version of that scene - perfect. Link to post Share on other sites
lzcutter Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Kid, Did you watch all the way to the end- after the title card? There's a coda there for fans. As for his own *TCM Remembers*, here's the link (it should be airing on the channel as well): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRjITqahTbA Link to post Share on other sites
Kid Dabb Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 lzcutter, Yes, I caught the coda; sad but beautiful message. Thank you for the link to his TCM Remembers. Seems kinda short. Though there wasn't much time, I know. Link to post Share on other sites
twister Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I had to put it on mute. The song was awful as was the singer. Perhaps they should just have complete silence while showing the wonderful people we lost this year. Link to post Share on other sites
lzcutter Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 >Thank you for the link to his TCM Remembers. Seems kinda short. >Though there wasn't much time, I know. You're very welcome. I went back and looked at some of the individual memorials and most of the individual *TCM Remembers* run about 1:11. The one for O'Toole is 1:11. The year end memorials run much longer. Link to post Share on other sites
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