Labor Day, and the unofficial end of summer here in the US, are coming as early as possible, on Sept. 1. That also means today is the first full day of a new month, with the usual new programming features on TCM and whatnot. Normally, there would be a Star of the Month to mention this week, but for some reason TCM decided on having their four nights of a Star of the Month begin next Monday. I've got a filim in that night's lineup on my DVR, in fact already watched and a post done on it, so more on that next Monday.
Tonight's lineup is a bunch of Tarzan movies, which will finally give me a chance to record Tarzan Triumphs (airing Sept. 2, 6:15 AM). This is the movie where Tarzan takes on the Nazis for World War II. I've never actually seen it before, and never got around to recording it, so now is my chance. At some point I'll get around to watching it and writing up a review on it too, but I've got way too many movie that are going to expire from the YouTube cloud DVR.
Later in the week, TCM is going to start a four-night spotlight on costume designer Edith Head, which will be airing on Wednesday in prime time, with movies running from the 1920s (Wings) through to the 1970s; it doesn't look like Head's final film, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, is on the schedule.
I can't quite tell whether FXM has freshened up its schedule and changed what movies it has out of the vault already. In previous years, I've noticed it happened in October. But then, I also haven't been paying that much attention to the FXM lineup in part because everything that they've been running is stuff that I've already done blog posts on. I mention them, however, because tomorrow at 6:00 AM you can see Unfaithfully Yours, a movie that I blogged about in 2020. By coincidence, Unfaithfully Yours will also be on TCM at the midnight between Thursday (Sept. 4) and Friday as part of an evening of movies that blur the line between noir and not noir. Rounding out that night at 5:15 AM, but part of a different programming feature, is Beast of the City, which I blogged about a few weeks back. I didn't save Beast of the City for Thursday because I'll be doing a post on Monsieur Verdoux (Sept. 4, 8:00 PM) instead.
As of right now, no major deaths to report on, thankfully. Looking through the birthdays, I didn't realize that Yvonne de Carlo and Vittorio Gassmann were born on the same day ni the same year, Sept. 1, 2022. I'm trying to imagine what it would have been like had they worked together. Lily Tomlin is still alive, and turns 86 today.
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