TCM is my drug of choice
Others might wallow in alcohol, gorge on chocolate or bet it all on the ponies. But when I'm feeling blue all I have to do is turn on the TV and let the dulcet tones of Robert Osborne, or the patter of Cary Grant and Roz Russell wash over me.
Contents at a Glance
I'm so confused
Which Classic Movie Star Are You?
Elizabeth Taylor
You have had a tumultuous life, morphing into different personas through the decades. In your youth you were the lovely child, but as you grew you became the scheming vixen, the wanton woman and eventually the forsaken wife. Though unlucky in love your talent has always been your strength and you have never lost sight of you're goal, to continue being a star.
According to the Movies.com Which Movie Star Are You Like? quiz, you're:
Jennifer Aniston
America's Sweetheart? Try America's Victim! The title may help you spark that big-screen career you've long been hungering for, but we're guessing you're probably nobody's victim. You've always been the most likely among your Friends to have a big-screen career - no victimization necessary!
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You are KATHERINE HEPBURN:
You are smart, a real thinker. Every situation is approached with a plan. You are very healthy in mind and body. You don't take crap from anyone. You have only a couple of individuals that you consider "real friends". You teach strong family values. Keep your feet planted in them, but don't overlook a bad situation when it does happen.
Elizabeth Taylor
You have had a tumultuous life, morphing into different personas through the decades. In your youth you were the lovely child, but as you grew you became the scheming vixen, the wanton woman and eventually the forsaken wife. Though unlucky in love your talent has always been your strength and you have never lost sight of you're goal, to continue being a star.
According to the Movies.com Which Movie Star Are You Like? quiz, you're:
Jennifer Aniston
America's Sweetheart? Try America's Victim! The title may help you spark that big-screen career you've long been hungering for, but we're guessing you're probably nobody's victim. You've always been the most likely among your Friends to have a big-screen career - no victimization necessary!
Take this quiz at Movies.com
You are KATHERINE HEPBURN:
You are smart, a real thinker. Every situation is approached with a plan. You are very healthy in mind and body. You don't take crap from anyone. You have only a couple of individuals that you consider "real friends". You teach strong family values. Keep your feet planted in them, but don't overlook a bad situation when it does happen.
Steamy
The sexiest pinups of the 1950s
The most desirable women of the day came in two flavors: Blonde or Brunette, either way she was stacked. The look was exemplified by movie stars Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell and copied by legions of pin up girls and actresses. Best movie pairs
Are you a Fred and Ginger fan? Or do Martin and Lewis turn you on?
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Favorite movies not on DVD
Top 10 from TCM as of 5/9/08
See top 200 and vote here.
- Treasure Island (1990)
4787 votes - Notorious (1946)
4748 votes - Green Mansions (1959)
4323 votes - The African Queen (1951)
4259 votes - The Mortal Storm (1940)
4186 votes - Smilin' Through (1932)
3987 votes - Northwest Passage (1940)
3662 votes - North West Mounted Police (1940)
3099 votes - The Uninvited (1944)
2950 votes - An American Romance (1944)
2853 votes
In the noir
Barbara Stanwyck
Excellent look at six Stanwyck movies."What makes Stanwyck tick? That's a continual question regarding the actress who played, among other characters, tramps and heiresses, wives and writers, scammers and showgirls."
Hitchcock on a train
There's plenty more where these came from.
The 39 Steps - Escena
The Lady Vanishes [4 of 10]
[The Best of Hitch] - North by Northwest - 2.sexy blonde
Bring back Molly Haskell!
Rose McGowan stinks
Elegy for the slip
You don't see the full slip anymore these days--either in the store or in movies. There are camis, teddies, bustiers, thongs and tap pants, but a woman onscreen wearing any of these never packs the punch of Liz in her slip. Probably because it's not unusual to see women on the street wearing much less. A romance for adults
It all started on an ordinary day in the most ordinary place in the world - the refreshment room at Milford Junction.
Middle-aged couple contemplates adultery
Stylish stars
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Pillow Talk
Doris Day's clothesand groovy furniture never bore me. Top 10 Movie Stars
- 1. Cary Grant, 2. Clark Gable, 3. Gary Cooper: The holy trinity, the triumvirate. Each had his own distinctive style.
4. Audrey Hepburn. Sui generis, no one looked like her or wore clothes so well. When she's on screen, you don't notice anyone else.
5. Ingrid Bergman. Has anyone ever glowed the way Bergman did?
6. Myrna Loy. From the Thin Man movies to Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House to Airport 1975, for crying out loud. She worked forever and always delivered.
7. Jean Harlow. Sassy, sexy and spunky.
8. Humphrey Bogart. The one and only.
9. Russell Crowe, my favorite contemporary actor.
10. Montgomery Clift. Beautiful, brooding and doomed.
The first summer blockbuster
Robin Hood
The original man in tights, Errol Flynn became the king of the swashbuckler and the prototype for the action hero of today. When Flynn had his first star turn, in the 1935 movie Captain Blood, the reviewer for the New York Times noted that the actor playing the hero was "criminally good-looking" and praised his audacious performance. Flynn's portrayal of Sir Robin of Locksley cemented his status as a superstar. Live from Atlanta
Now playing
Comedy
Blogging TCM
What the blogs are saying
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From Here To Eternity - Kiss scene on the beach
Famous kiss scene between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr from the movie "From Here To Eternity". Burt Lancaster plays a sergeant who is having an affair with the wife of his Commanding Officer (Kerr). The scene caused an outrage in 1953 because of the context and because of the frank sexuality of Kerr's character. I think that this is one of the best kiss scene ever filmed.
Most romantic movies
An Officer and a Gentleman
He's an aimless loner who's never amounted to much more...0 points
From Here to Eternity
A war story, buddy movie, coming-of-age flick and more...0 points
The most romantic movie of all time
They'll always have Paris
Its plot is laughable: If Czech patriot Victor Laszlo could just get a hold of those letters of transit signed by General DeGaulle, he could travel anywhere and the Nazis couldn't lay a hand on him. And a scene in which an entire nightclub sings "La Marseillaise" in defiance of the jack-booted Nazi thugs who occupy Casablanca would be incredibly hokey in any other movie.And yet it works.
Links I like
Mostly movie related--blogs and other sites.
- Tinkerty Tonk
- And I meant it to sting.
- TCM Turner Classic Movies
- Turner Classic Movies presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from one of the largest film libraries in the world. Find video, photos, forums, blogs and shop for some of the best movies ever made only at TCM!
- AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES
- #1: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
- William Powell
- Extensive tribute to the great classic film star - movie stills archives, biography, filmography, posters, video and sound clips and a whole lot more.
- Clark Gable
- The man behind the movies.
- The Frank Truth
- Celebrating All Things Sinatra
- The Sheila Variations
- Books, movies and more.
- 2blowhards.com
- In which a group of graying eternal amateurs discuss their passions, interests and obsessions, among them: movies, art, politics, evolutionary biology, taxes, writing, computers, these kids these days, and lousy educations.
- About Last Night:
- Critic Terry Teachout's blog.
- l t'll Take The Snap Out Of Your Garters!
- Classic movie pix.
- Booze Movies: The 100 Proof Film Guide
- Reviews, news, and features from the world of soused cinema.
- The Criterion Contraption
- I'm going to watch every last DVD in the Criterion Collection.
- Black & White World
- "You can tell by the lines I'm reciting, I've seen that movie too."
- Cinematical
- Movies, movies, movies.
- Reel Fanatic
- Movie junkie.
- MovieMorlocks.com: Movie Blog
- The official blog for TCM features a variety of contributors; each one sharing and exploring their favorite areas of interest in the vast sea of cinema.
- Movie Blogs // BlogCatalog
- Blog catalog: Movie blogs
- The Films of Doris Day - A tribute to the film legend and singer
- "Delightful loving tribute to movie star and singer DORIS DAY, wholesome star of the fifties and sixties and skilled comedienne." - UK Plus
- C I N E B E A T S
- One woman's love affair with '60s & '70s era cinema. Or as she likes to call it, cinema's Platinum Age!
- Cinema Styles
- Blogger and amateur filmmaker.
- Drunken on Celluloid
- London-based film fanatic.
- Edward Copeland on Film
- An inaccurately named blog featuring several voices discussing books, theater, TV and music as well.
- Film of the Year
- This blog explores the mystery and history of cinema by viewing one film per week.
- Greenbriar Picture Shows
- Classic movie site with rare images (no web grabs!), original ads, and behind-the-scenes photos, with informative and insightful commentary. We like to have fun with movies!
- House of Mirth and Movies
- Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
- The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
- IMDb: The biggest, best, most award-winning movie site on the planet.
- pullquote
- is to movies what the Sound is to music.
The perfect wife
In praise of hats
My nostalgia for hats is fed by watching old movies. In Mrs. Miniver, Greer Garson's final indulgence before the war was a silly hat that she had been pining for for weeks. And in The Bishop's Wife, Loretta Young desperately wants a certain hat for Christmas. 'It makes us happy just to look at him'
Religion at the movies
- Favorite movie with a religious theme: Black Narcissus--Deborah Kerr, who also played a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, leads a group of Anglican nuns to build a mission in the Himalayas but the air is too thin up there. Gorgeous, gorgeous movie.
- Favorite movie nun: You can keep Julie Andrews. Audrey Hepburn in A Nun's story wins the movie nun title hands down. Sister Luke, who becomes a nun in order to work in a hospital in Africa, struggles with the vows of obedience and pride from the beginning. And then the Nazis come. Audrey is brilliant.
- Favorite movie priest: Has got to be Spencer Tracy's Father Flanagan in Boys Town. His motto: There's no such thing as a bad boy. Runners up: Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way.
Remaking of the classics
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The Great Ann Miller
The dancing sensation, who died in 2004, was born April 12, 1923. She started working as a dancer at age 14 after her mother moved her to LA to escape a bad marriage. Like other actresses of her time--Ginger Rogers and Bette Davis come to mind--Ann supported her mother whose hearing impairment made it impossible for her to work. Books
They don't make 'em like that anymore
The wit and wisdom of Louis B. Mayer
Sample quote:The number one book of the ages was written by a committee, and it was called The Bible.
--LBM to a complaining writer
Movie meme I
Boys, girls and the movies
"Guy" movies that I, a woman, love:
- The Great Escape
- Patton (What can I say? I love Downtown WWII.)
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Zulu
- High Noon
- Bull Durham (Not sure if this is a guy movie.)
Movie meme II
Boys, girls and the movies
"Chick flicks" that I, a chick, do not like:
- The Way We Were (But then I can't stand even the sight of Barbra Streisand)
- Ghost
- Titanic
- The English Patient (To quote Elaine from Seinfeld: Die already!)
- Pretty Woman
Movie meme III
Boys, girls and the movies
Movies that I, as a hardened, cynical, unfeeling, soulless person tend to break down in tears while watching:
- Terms of Endearment (Perhaps the world's greatest tearjerker.)
- Great Escape (I get all choked up when Donald Pleasance a) loses his sight and b) loses his life.)
- Shadowlands
- Glory
- An Officer and a Gentleman
Why do they all look the same?
Models and movie stars
Movie stars, no longer schooled by the studios on dress and deportment, took their cues from Vogue and Women's Wear Daily and hired stylists to ensure that they didn't look foolish come the Oscars. Now one year they all wear vintage, the next they all wear white. Gone are the days when Cher showed up looking like a chandelier and while there are missteps, mostly it's just boring. TCM in the news
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byEnslaved by love
In her first American film, Marlene Dietrich plays an adventuress who uses her sexuality to get gifts from men--until she meets French Foreign Legionnaire Gary Cooper. Lana Turner
Musings
Imitation of Life is the tear jerker of all tear jerkers: You know you're being manipulated and that the situations the movie depicts are preposterous, yet by the end you're bawling like a baby. New Poll Module
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