Schedule update, January 22-23 2020

A movie that came back to FXM recently after a long absence -- in fact, I think the last time it had been in the lineup was when the channel was FMC 24/7 and hadn't gone to recent movies and commercials in the evenings -- is Phantom of the Paradise, a movie I first blogged about back in 2009 although I got a few things wrong in my post, inexplicably calling the main character Woodrow instead of Winslow, and misspelling The Picture of Dorian Gray. Anyhow, if you don't recall the movie, Paul Williams plays the record producer Swan who sells his soul for success, only to have a disgruntled composer (William Finley) return as "The Phantom" to extract revenge.

Speaking of Paul Williams, he got an Oscar nomination for writing the "song score" to the 1976 movie Bugsy Malone, which is running on TCM tonight at 10:00 PM as part of the channel's spotlight on the Roaring 20s. Williams would not win that Oscar, but did win a different one that year, for writing the lyrics to the dreadful song "Evergreen" from the Barbra Streisand version of A Star is Born. (They were two different categories; Williams was not up against himself.)

Kicking off tonight's lineup on TCM is a movie I've briefly mentioned once before but haven't done a full-length post on since I haven't seen it in ages, Incendiary Blonde at 8:00 PM. Betty Hutton plays entertainer Texas Guinan, who was a big thing back in the 1910s and 1920s before dying tragically young (although you wouldn't know the last bit from the movie), moving from the stage to screen to nightclubs. This one doesn't seem to be on DVD, so you'll have to catch the TCM showing.