Gene Hackman died back in February, and TCM is going to be giving him a programming salute in a couple weeks' time. When that comes up I'll be doing a brief post on it. In the meantime, I'd like to point out that his starring role in Hoosiers is coming up on TCM tonight at 8:00 PM. It kicks off an evening of sports-themed films, which concludes with two of Ronald Reagan's movies: Knute Rockne, All American at 2:00 AM, and The Winning Team at 4:00 AM. I've blogged about both of them before, of course.
There's also the passing of Richard Chamberlain some time back; when he died, I mentioned how he did the Star of the Month piece on Claude Rains because of his appearance with Rains in Twilight of Honor. That movie can be seen on TCM tomorrow (April 30) at 2:30 PM.
I'm still not certain how much FXM is pulling out of the vaults that they haven't run in a while, although I think that's in part because I've blogged about pretty much everything that's in their current rotation. I will, however, note that I don't think I've see the Perry Como/Carmen Mirand film If I'm Lucky on FXM in a while, and that gets an airing tomorrow at 6:00 AM.
It looks like today is a day with a surprising number of birthdays that might be worth mentioning if I hadn't done so before. I'm pretty certain I've done a standalone post on Fred Zinneman (April 29, 1907) before, while Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917) died after I started writing this blog so she got an obituary post. It's also the 68th birthday of three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, while both Michelle Pfeiffer and Eve Plumb were born on this day in 1958. Rather younger, but still older than me, is Uma Thurman, who turns 55 today.
Now watch somebody of note die after I put up this post.
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