Briefs for February 28-March 1, 2022

A few weeks back in the Thursday Movie Picks blogathon on "second chance romance", I picked the movie The Awful Truth. One of the TCM programming themes for February has been breakups in the movies, and The Awful Truth is coincidentally one of the movies in that spotlight, tonight at 8:00 PM. So for any of you in the US who haven't seen it yet, this will be one of your chances.

Actually, you'll have another chance coming up in a few weeks. Tomorrow is March 1, and since the Oscars are apparently going to be awarded in March this year (you can see how much I pay attention), TCM's annual 31 Days of Oscar starts tomorrow and continues through March 31. The organizing principle this year is decades, with Mondays through Fridays being, in order, the 1930s through the 1970s. Well, there are a few movies from the 1920s on Mondays, and TCM's programming day isn't beginning at 6:00 AM every single day, so you might get the change in decade a little before or after 6:00 AM. On the weekends, it's only prime time being done by decade, with 1980s movies on Saturday nights and the 1990s and beyond on Sunday nights. Tomorrow being a Tuesday, 31 Days of Oscar kicks off with 13 Oscar-nominated films from the 1940s.

Over on FXM, Caprice is back in the rotation, getting another airing tomorrow at 9:40 AM, followed by an addition airing at 7:50 AM Wednesday. It's hard to believe it's been over a decade since I blogged about it.

A couple of deaths worth mentioning. One is Sally Kellerman, who is probably best remembered for playing Hot Lips Houlihan in the movie version of M*A*S*H, although she had a bunch of other interesting movie appearances, including as Diane Lane's mother in A Little Romance. That, and a lot of TV work, including an early episode of the original Star Trek. Kellerman was 84.

Fans of Hammer horror movies will probably remember Veronica Carlson, who appeared in a handful of later movies in the Hammer horror cycle, notably Dracula Has Rison from the Grave. Carlson was 77. One assumes Dracula Has Risen from the Grave or one of Carlson's other Hammer films will show up on TCM in Octobe, although that's obviously quite some time away.