Apparently TCM is running another of those AFI nights tonight; I find myself wondering what sort of relationship TCM has with the AFI to be able to keep running these things. Anyhow, this year the honoree is/was Francis Ford Coppola -- I don't pay attention to when these are recorded so I don't know how old it is. At any rate it should give me the chance to record Apocalypse Now, if YouTube TV has streaming rights to it.
Tomorrow being August 1, it means the start of TCM's Summer Under the Stars. So, as always that means no traditional Star of the Month, nor features like Silent Sunday Nights nor Noir Alley. I've got half a dozen or so films on my DVR that are showing up in August, so expect quite a few posts about films coming up on TCM, and hopefully I've scheduled them all properly. Two of the posts were written before the release of the August schedule and have been sitting in drafts for a while. You can read a bit more about Summer Under the Stars here.
As for the Summer Under the Stars schedule, it stars off with Lana Turner tomorrow, including a fun early role in Dancing Co-Ed, which isn't necessarily a great movie but still fairly entertaining.
Saturday brings Christopher Plummer, and what looks like the the premiere of The Sound of Music at 8:00 PM, followed by a movie I recently learned about, The Last Station at 11:00 PM. The Last Station deals with Leo Tolstoy and how he tried to get rid of worldly things at the end of his life.
To end the weekend, we have Audrey Hepburn. Exciting, I know, since she didn't make all that many ovies so there's not much original TCM can choose from.
Recent obituaries have been more about musicians that Hollywood types, even though some of the dead did the odd cheesy movie here and there, like Hulk Hogan. And Chuck Mangione more or less played himself on King of the Hill in several episodes.
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