I'm not certain if I mentioned it in the previous briefs post, but I've started recording some of the shorts in the Saturday matinee bloc to have shorts to post about to add to days where I might also want a post about, say, an upcoming month's Star of the Month or a TCM programming salute. Regarding teh shorts that show up in the time left over after a TCM feature presentation, I have to admit to being remiss about taking note of what shorts accompany what feature so that I can go back and watch the short at a later time, or rewatch it when I'd like to do the post on it.
This week is going to see a couple of posts on movies that are on my DVR that are getting another airing on TCM and that I haven't done posts on. However, there's other stuff on my DVR that I've already done posts on and is coming up again this week. It was only a couple of months back that I posted on Gunfight at Comanche Creek; that one you can see again Tuesday at 3:30 AM. Moonstruck and Mystic Pizza are two of the movies that are part of this week's segment on 80s actresses which serves as a pseudo-Star of the Month. But I'm also hoping to get a better copy of The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, which shows up at 6:30 AM Thursday. The last two times TCM ran it, the audio and video were out of sync.
Although she's better known for being a singer, Connie Francis had a brief career in the 1960s acting in movies such as Where the Boys Are and her remake of Girl Crazy titled Where the Boys Meet the Girls. She died last Wednesday at the age of 87.
Another death worth mentioning is that of songwriter Alan Bergman. He won three Academy Awards, notably including the title song from The Way We Were, over the years with his wife and songwriting partner Marilyn, while being nominated quite a few more times. Bergman was 99; his wife Marilyn died in 2022 aged 93.
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