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I kind of wish The Silver Chalice was on today just to see Jack Palance’s performance and this outfit.

Great article by Maureen Lee Lenker about the fight to preserve TCM. https://ew.com/tv/tcm-insiders-detail-fight-to-protect-turner-classic-movies-network/

TCM remembers William Friedkin who passed away today. He was 87.

About damn time.

TCM Remembers composer Carl Davis who passed away today at the age of 86. I found a part of his score from Lion Chaney’s The Phantom of the Opera. I figured this was the best way to remember him

You can see her interview here:

Already starting the countdown for the (enter toy here) movie 🙄

Carole Lombard!!

Greta Gerwig is TCM’s guest programmer tonight and Ben Mankiewicz asked Gerwig what Golden Age of Hollywood star she would cast as Barbie. The winner is….drumroll please…. This lady!

It’s official: The Nanny calls for a strike. Also the cast of Oppenheimer left the London premiere in solidarity.

I bought my ticket last Friday and it’s a good thing too. Today I checked the showtime I’m going to and it is nearly sold out. For a 4:00PM showing. This NEVER happens where I live.

TCM Remembers: Alan Arkin dead at 89.

Big news for NAC: https://deadline.com/2023/06/monster-2-netflix-ryan-murphy-anthology-series-menendez-brothers-casting-1235427532/

It doesn’t. Just speculating. The news is just so bad that I don’t see her returning.

WE DID IT!!! https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/steven-spielberg-paul-thomas-anderson-martin-scorsese-guide-tcm-programming-1234879549/

She’s not coming back https://deadline.com/2023/06/haley-pullos-general-hospital-felony-charges-dui-car-crash-1235426329/

And Discovery Channel and HLN

Mods if you want to delete this then that’s okay. Here is my letter to Zaslav I sent on Wednesday THE GUTTING OF TCM I was crushed last night when I read about your firing of the heart of TCM: Pola Changnon, Charlie Tabesh, Genevieve McGillicuddy, Anne Wilson and Dexter Fedor. And for what? To save a few measly bucks?! Why don’t you write off that crappy Flash movie? There was no way I was going to pay money to sit through another mediocre attempt to start the DC universe and support that wannabe cult leader. Like many other fans, TCM is not just a favorite channel, it is a lifestyle. TCM gets us through some of the toughest times in our lives-illnesses, deaths, depression and COVID. A lot of us have formed friendships through our love of TCM. We have regular watch parties. It is because of TCM I have discovered some of my favorite performers: Barbara Stanwyck, Rosalind Russell, Katharine Hepburn, Kentucky’s own Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray and the Unsolved Mysteries guy Robert Stack. I want to introduce TCM to my future children one day and show them the silent film comedian Harold Lloyd who my grandfather was named after. You have pissed off the wrong fan base. Some of TCM’s biggest fans include filmmakers you want to join the WBD family: Spielberg, Scorsese, plus Bill Hader, Ryan Reynolds’s, Cher, Tom Hanks, etc. What other channel can boast that level of talent? You think Swifties, Synderbots and the BTS army are bad, then you haven’t met classic film fans. In closing, you, David Zaslav, don’t deserve to sit at Jack Warner’s desk. He understood the value of cinema. Miss Mariah Abell Cinephile Lover of TCM ( I did my thesis on TCM thank you very much) P.S. I am still pissed off that you let Looney Tunes cartoons expire!! TCM should take over Looney Tunes; they would treat the cartoons with the respect they deserve!!

Drewfus is going to sell Aurora…for Carly. He had earned that nickname and then some.

I’m afraid of that too. However they and others have their eyes on him. Plus Zaslav doesn’t know who he is messing with. Think the “Swifties” are bad…

UPDATE: Indiewire has quite the scoop. Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Paul Thomas Anderson have scheduled an emergency call with Zaslav to protest about the gutting of TCM! https://www.indiewire.com/features/commentary/tcm-layoffs-warner-bros-spielberg-scorsese-paul-thomas-anderson-protest-1234877220/ Also someone on Twitter posted Zaslav’s email in case you want to voice your thoughts (which I did in scathing detail) david.zaslav@wbd.com

Big TCM news I’m starting to panic https://www.thewrap.com/tcm-executives-out-warner-bros-television-layoffs/

Chris Licht is out at CNN effective immediately. Would Stephen take him back? Not that I would want him to. Stephen told him going to CNN was a bad idea...

It’s under “Brand Spotlight” now.

There are some articles out there that say the Hartman kids have turned out okay. I read the memoir written by Phil’s brother John(?) saying one of the hardest things he had to do was convince Mother Hartman that he thought the kids should be raised by Brynn’s sister and brother-in-law in Iowa.