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Eek! AMC and TCM Pin Me to Sofa With Fright-Flick Marathon

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:56:34 -0400

Where have all the monsters gone? As a kid, I was gung-ho for Lugosi, Karloff and Chaney, not to mention Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and the rest of the more sophisticated Warner Brothers stock company turning out classy thrillers like The Beast With Five Fingers. Eventually, the legitimate monsters of my youthful mania turned into gruesome parodies in the air-conditioned, garishly colored trash that came out of England’s Hammer Films and the hysterical comic-book...

Set Your DVR: TCM Announces Paul Newman Tribute

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:05:47 -0400

Do you have plans for Sunday, October 12? Cancel them.

If, in the wake of Paul Newman's death last Friday, you've been wishing to revisit the great actor's work and have been thwarted at your local video store, Turner Classic Movies has stepped in with a 24-hour block of Newman movies.

Per the TCM site, here's how it will go:

6 a.m. The Rack (1956) - Paul Newman plays a Korean War veteran who...

The Week in DVR: SAG Turns 75, Tila Tequila Fights for Gay Rights?, and Coldplay Does The Daily Show

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:58:05 -0400

MONDAY

Things aren't looking good in Hollywood. A week from today, on June 30, the Screen Actors Guild's contract will expire. And as Variety reported on Friday, it seems increasingly unlikely that a deal with producers will be struck by then. Anyway, time for S.A.G. to celebrate! The labor union turns 75 this year, and Turner Classic Movies will salute its birth with a marathon of classic films from the 30's and 40's—starting...

TCM Tribute: 15 Hours of Heston

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:31:18 -0400

Since Charlton Heston was the king of the epic—Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments and Touch of Evil, to name a few—it's only fitting that Turner Classic Movies honor the actor with an epically long 15-hour marathon. It'll start at 2:30 p.m., Friday afternoon, April 11, and end at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, April 12.

The programming announcement arrived on the heels of the news that Mr. Heston died Saturday night at his home in...

La Vie En Rose: Total Movie Wonkitude!

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:07:02 -0400

The name Rose McGowan calls many things to mind—red lips, curves, porcelain skin, Charmed, Scream, Grindhouse or that unforgettable barely-there chain-mail dress she wore to the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards with then-boyfriend Marilyn Manson. But old movie buff … who knew?

Starting this month, the 34-year-old beauty is taking on the role of co-host, with beloved white-haired film historian Robert Osborne, of Turner Classic Movies’ series The Essentials. “I’m not just...

My Husband, the Other Survivor

Sun, 10 Sep 2000 20:00:00 -0400

I found myself caught up in the down-and-dirty Survivor finale, which my summer was coming more and more to resemble. There was Kelly, devious manipulator, who won points for soul searching. And Rich, the self-described Fat Naked Fag, the straightforward manipulator who gambled craftily and won. The outcome, a Mars-Venus parable if ever there was one, could be a metaphor for my marriage in its latest medical-emergency phase, my husband eluding the Grim Reaper...

Diller Gets Springer … WB Gets Aliens

Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:00:00 -0400

Wednesday, July 7

Barry Diller gave the order in the spring of '98: no more fighting on The Jerry Springer Show ! Well, a couple of public outcries and media-fueled mass murders later, Mr. Diller has finally brought order to the program, which is owned by his Studios U.S.A. Nothing good lasts forever. "We will either produce a show without profanity, violence or physical confrontation, or the show won't be produced by us," Mr. Diller...

Bobcat Is Back With a Big-Ass Show … Cagney and Raoul Walsh … An Actress Speaks

Sun, 07 Jun 1998 20:00:00 -0400

Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week

In 1970–a decade before the video cassette age–Orson Welles had rented a house for a year in Beverly Hills, and one evening I brought over a portable 16-millimeter projector so that we could run a print I'd borrowed of James Cagney at his annihilating best in Raoul Walsh's amazing 1949 gangster picture, White Heat [Saturday, June 6, Turner Classic Movies, 82, 8 P.M.] . Both Orson and...