Friday, January 22, 2021

Briefs for January 22-23, 2021

There doesn't seem to be all that much in the way of obituaries this week, which I suppose isn't a bad thing. Singer and sometimes actor Jimmie Rodgers died on Monday. He had a role in the early 1960s movie The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come which was in the FXM rotation a long time ago, possible even when it was still the Fox Movie Channel. Somehow it doesn't show up in a search of the blog, although I thought I had done a post on it. There's also Nathalie Delon, a last name you'll likely recognize because she was the ex-wife of Alain Delon, and acted alongside him in Le Samouraï, a movie that would be on my "blind spot" list if I were taking part in that particular blogathon.

There's some stuff coming back to FXM, or coming to it for the first time. Already today there was Race With the Devil, which kicks off tomorrow's FXM Retro block at 3:10 AM. Later, at 8:35 AM, you can see The 300 Spartans, a subject of a post back in 2011. The daypart will end with a Biblical epic, Sodom and Gomorrah at 12:20 PM.

Over on TCM, there's East Side, West Side tomorrow morning at 6:00 AM. I mentioned that recently as the sort of movie that MGM couldn't get quite right. But that's something where you should probably watch for yourself and judge. Later in the day on TCM, there's Black Legion at noon and The Best Man at 1:30 PM, both of which are very much worth watching.

Finally, I'll leave you with a clip that's always relevant, but especially so in the last two weeks or so:

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