Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett, Jr. died at the end of March aged 87. TCM is finally getting around to doing a programming salute to him, which is mildly surprising because a lot of his credits are episodic TV as opposed to movies from the era that TCM shows. Gossett is the sort of person who I think would have been a prime candidate for inclusion in the night in December when TCM highlights a bunch of different people who didn't get a full salute with one movie each.
In any case, TCM's salute is tonight, and with Silent Sunday Nights and TCM Imports being on the schedule, it's just a two-movie salute:
8:00 PM sees Gossett's Oscar-winning role in An Officer and a Gentleman; 10:15 PM is what I think the TCM premiere of the science-fiction movie Enemy Mine.
Now, I happen to like Enemy Mine despite its many flaws, because it's one of those movies that really has its heart in the right place, like Krush Groove or Gleaming the Cube. But it's not really the sort of more recent movie that TCM would normally show.
Looking through Gossett's credits list, I see he was in A Raisin in the Sun, which I have on my DVR but haven't gotten around to watching yet, so I don't recall how big his part is. But TCM shows it often enough. He's high up in the credits of the early 1970s western Skin Game, which got a DVD release courtesy of the Warner Archive, so you'd think TCM might be able to get access to that one.
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