Whats with TCM tv today?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

all day today...
Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan

:wtf: and WHY

didn't he die June 5,2004?

[Captain Hilts]

1. August is 'summer under the stars' and they devote an entire day's programming to One star.

Yesterday, it was Ann Miller.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

3. Thanks

[Warpy]

6. They are a disappointment this year. Instead of picking the STARS

they've been picking the B actors, supporting players, and generally less interesting people in film. Yes, they did do Jane Fonda, but really, that's not why most of us watch that channel!

In years past, they've devoted days to the real greats of the golden age of film, with sampling from the early work in one reel wonders to the work of the mature stars. There was a reason to honor those people with a full day of programming.

This year it's been pimples like Reagan, minor talents if they had talent at all, and uninteresting at that. Fonda was the high point, and they didn't even pick her best films.

Now if they'd done character actors instead of B-movie stars, it might have been much more interesting.

[Captain Hilts]

7. At least Spencer Tracy and Rossiland Russell got days.

It was GREAT to see Auntie Mame again.

[Warpy]

21. That's true, forgot about Roz

which is a little crazy since I'd set my alarm so I could wake up in time to see "The Women."

Still, it seems to be pretty thin this year.

I've been Jonesing for a Bette Davis day, I guess.

[CBHagman]

9. Are Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper chopped liver?

Come on, have a heart! It's 31 days of movies, and if they did schedule a few totally unexpected choices, they did round up the usual suspects as well: Elizabeth Taylor, Errol Flynn, Robert Mitchum, et al, and with a lot of the requisite great movies (Becket, Pride of the Yankees, On the Town, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Marty etc.).

[Captain Hilts]

10. Myrna and Spencer were good Democrats! Coop, a conservative. nt

[CBHagman]

22. Yeah, and at least we didn't have Adolphe Menjou day.

TCM has probably done one at some point, though.

Mind you, I'll watch movies with Menjou in them (He was in some great ones), but having seen footage of his testimony during the witch hunt and blacklisting era, I'm disgusted by the man himself.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0579663/bio

Adolphe's rather hardcore right-wing Republican politics hurt his later reputation, as he was made a scapegoat for his allegiance and cooperation during the Joseph McCarthy Red Scare era.

The AM profiles doesn't mention that many lives and careers were ruined during the blacklist period.

[NYCGirl]

23. I'd certainly watch his performance in "Paths of Glory" and Menjou had some

incredible comic performances in the 30s and 40s.

[Captain Hilts]

24. His name is still infamous, isn't it? nt

[AlCzervik]

2. well tomorrow it's Broderick Crawford day and yesterday it was Jane Fonda day.

[NYCGirl]

13. There's a great film noir with Crawford called "Scandal Sheet" — about the

publisher of a tabloid who accidentally kills his ex-wife. It's on tomorrow afternoon. And then "All the King's Men" is on in the evening.

[AlCzervik]

14. Oh i love All the kings men and Scandal sheet is very good.

[NYCGirl]

16. I first saw "Scandal Sheet" on the Mystery Channel a few years ago...

and then it disappeared. I think it's a TCM premiere; I'm going to TiVo it for sure and burn it to a DVD.

[AlCzervik]

17. one of these days i'm going to break down and get tivo.

[NYCGirl]

19. TiVo is a life changer! You always have something you want to watch.

And I never have to miss Countdown — which I usually watch while I'm getting ready for work in the morning.

[Bitwit1234]

4. I could stand his pictures and I groaned when I saw that

I love to stretch out on the sofa and watch some of the old movies. I love Charlie Chan, Sherlock Holmes, the musicals and old detective shows. But it seems like they too are hooked up on war, war war.

[redirish28]

5. My wife taped the rosalind russell day on the 20th and she's looking forward to

30th...Buster Keaton.

[NYCGirl]

20. I'm glad they're showing the Keaton silents in prime time — and the later

stuff like the "Beach Blanket" films early in the day!

[Mike Nelson]

8. I've been watching Ron...

He made some bad ones! They are playing King's Row now and they said it was the best, but it's an old soap opera. It looks like maybe the meant they spent more money on this one -- it looks niceer.

[Gloria]

11. God, the one with Patricia O'Neal was a real clunker! And Ron was

a pretty stinky actor.

[AlCzervik]

12. the only movie i've even seen him in that was passable in was Dark Victory

and another actor would have been so much better.

[NYCGirl]

15. I think "Kings Row" is a good movie. David Lynch cites it as his inspiration for

"Blue Velvet."

[NYCGirl]

18. Kirk Douglas is on Sunday and DO NOT MISS "Ace in the Hole", Billy Wilder's

film about sensationalism in the news business! They were talking about exploiting tragedy for news headlines even then.