As you'll know if you read my posts here, I have a tendency to refer to the annual TCM Remembers piece, as well as the similar in memoriam pieces other organizations like the Academy Awards show have as the "Parade of the Dead". For the past several years, TCM has had a second parade, with one night of programming dedicated to people who died in the past year, often putting a spotlight on those whose deaths may have been more unlikely to go unnoticed. This year, that programming is tonight, December 28, with six films running into the early hours of the December 29 daytime programming:
8:00 PM Pee-Wee's Big Adventure honors Paul Rubens, better known as Pee-Wee Herman;
9:45 PM Absence of Malice is in memory of actress Melinda Dillon;
Midnight Sunday Bloody Sunday is the movie TCM selected for Glenda Jackson; I wonder if they couldn't get either of her Oscar-winning performances;
2:00 AM Hair gets a playing for Treat Williams;
4:15 AM Blow-Up, not one of my favorites, was selected for Jane Birkin; and
6:15 AM Village of the Giants was produced by Bert I. Gordon, who died earlier this year aged 100.
No comments:
Post a Comment