Monthly Archives: July 2013
Movie Quote of the Day – Alligator, 1980 (dir. Lewis Teague)
Marisa: Yeah, well, what do you need me for?
David: What does anybody need anybody for? You’re the country’s leading herpetologist, you have a wonderful mind, a doctor degree, and beautiful tits.
Movie Quote of the Day – Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, 1983 (dir. Richard Marquand)
Han Solo: Together again, huh?
Luke: Wouldn’t miss it.
Han Solo: How we doin’?
Luke: Same as always.
Han Solo: That bad, huh?
TCM’s Summer Under the Stars is Back!
I haven’t had TCM for Summer Under the Stars since 2010, but that was a good year. That was basically how I became a classic film addict and someday I will be able to afford television again if only for TCM *insert Scarlet O’Hara voice here). Anyways, there’s some great new names being celebrated this year.
Turner Classic Movies’s ultimate movie star showcase – Summer Under the Stars – returns this August for its 11th year as TCM pays tribute to 31 different stars in 31 days. Sixteen of this year’s stars are being celebrated for the first time during Summer Under the Stars, including Oscar® winners Joan Fontaine (Aug. 6), Mickey Rooney (Aug. 13), Wallace Beery (Aug. 17), Hattie McDaniel (Aug. 20), Downton Abbey star Maggie Smith (Aug. 22), Charles Coburn (Aug. 24), Martin Balsam (Aug. 27), Shirley Jones (Aug. 28) and Rex Harrison (Aug. 31). Also featured for the first time will be silent heartthrob Ramón Novarro (Aug. 8); legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve (Aug. 12), whose day features six films making their TCM debuts; Ann Blyth (Aug. 16), whose marathon will air on her 85th birthday; and Mary Boland (Aug. 4) and Glenda Farrell (Aug. 29), two outstanding character actresses who never received the recognition they deserved. They will join 15 returning favorites, including Humphrey Bogart (Aug. 1), Doris Day (Aug. 2), Charlton Heston (Aug. 5), Steve McQueen (Aug. 9), Bette Davis (Aug. 14), Elizabeth Taylor (Aug. 23) and Clark Gable (Aug. 25).
In all, more than 30 films will be making their first appearances on TCM during the 2013 edition of Summer Under the Stars, including Anatole Litvak’s poignant wartime romance This Above All (1942), starring Joan Fontaine on Aug. 6; Luis Buñuel’s steamy Belle de Jour (1968), starring Catherine Deneuve on Aug. 12; Otto Preminger’s witty The Fan (1949), starring Jeanne Crain on Aug. 26; and Burt Kennedy’s boisterous The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969), starring Martin Balsam on Aug. 27.
TCM’s popular franchises The Essentials, co-hosted by TCM’s Robert Osborne and Drew Barrymore, and The Essentials Jr., hosted by Bill Hader, will continue throughout Summer Under the Stars. The Essentials will feature presentations of Lawrence of Arabia (1962) on Aug. 3, The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) on Aug. 10, Grand Hotel (1932) on Aug. 17, The Lady Eve (1941) on Aug. 24 and Anna and the King of Siam (1946) on Aug. 31. TCM Essentials Jr. will include the family-friendly movies Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) on Aug. 4, The Grapes of Wrath (1940) on Aug. 11, The Great Race (1965) on Aug. 18 and It Happened One Night (1934) on Aug. 25.
The following is the roster of stars who will be celebrated during TCM’s 2013 edition of Summer Under the Stars. Names in bold indicate newcomers to the month-long programming event.
- Aug. 1 – Humphrey Bogart
- Aug. 2 – Doris Day
- Aug. 3 – Alec Guinness
- Aug 4 – Mary Boland
- Aug. 5 – Charlton Heston
- Aug. 6 – Joan Fontaine
- Aug. 7 – Fred MacMurray
- Aug. 8 – Ramón Novarro
- Aug. 9 – Steve McQueen
- Aug. 10 – Lana Turner
- Aug. 11 – Henry Fonda
- Aug. 12 – Catherine Deneuve
- Aug. 13 – Mickey Rooney
- Aug. 14 – Bette Davis
- Aug. 15 – Gregory Peck
- Aug. 16 – Ann Blyth (85th birthday)
- Aug. 17 – Wallace Beery
- Aug. 18 – Natalie Wood
- Aug. 19 – Randolph Scott
- Aug. 20 – Hattie McDaniel
- Aug. 21 – William Holden
- Aug. 22 – Maggie Smith
- Aug. 23 – Elizabeth Taylor
- Aug. 24 – Charles Coburn
- Aug. 25 – Clark Gable
- Aug. 26 – Jeanne Crain
- Aug. 27 – Martin Balsam
- Aug. 28 – Shirley Jones
- Aug. 29 – Glenda Farrell
- Aug. 30 – Kirk Douglas
- Aug. 31 – Rex Harrison
A complete schedule for Summer Under the Stars is available at http://summer.tcm.com.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Journey, 1959 (dir. Anatole Litvak)
Major Surov: Anything goes when people meet for the last time.
Diana Ashmore: What do you mean?
Major Surov: Go to any railway station – that’s what I mean. You’ll see people doing things they’d never do, ordinarily. They kiss, they cry, they wave. That’s the sickness of our time: people waving… Nobody waves back.
Movie Quote of the Day – Salt, 2010 (dir. Phillip Noyce)
Peabody: If I did believed you, and I’m not saying for a second that I do. But if I did, nobody else would.
Evelyn Salt: Well, maybe you can think of a way around that.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Accused, 1988 (dir. Jonathan Kaplan)
Kathryn Murphy: How were you dressed?
Sarah Tobias: What’s that supposed to mean?
Kathryn Murphy: It means were you dressed provocatively? Showing a lot of cleavage? See-through blouse?
Sarah Tobias: What the fuck does it matter how I was dressed? They tore it off of me.
Kathryn Murphy: But did how you dressed make those guys think they could have sex with you? Did you put on a show?
Sarah Tobias: What the hell are you talkin’ about? You saw me at the hospital. You think I asked for that? Is that what you think? If that’s what you think, get the fuck outta my house.
Oscar Vault Monday – Dead Poets Society, 1989 (dir. Peter Weir)
I’m trying to remember the first time I saw this film and I have a vague recollection of seeing it on TBS when I was in middle school. I do know that when I was a freshman or sophomore in high school one of my teachers showed it and we had an in-depth discussion of the film’s themes (well, as in-depth as you can in a podunk small town high school class filled with asshole 14 years old – I include myself in that description). A lot of what I’ll write about here is based on that discussion of the film, actually. I guess it was sophomore year because I think it was the class where the teacher who normally taught geography/history had to take over our English class, so mostly instead of reading books we watched films and discussed them. It was kind of a wonderful class if memory serves. At least, for me it was, because, well, movies. Dead Poets Society was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one: Best Original Screenplay (won), Best Actor Robin Williams, Best Director and Best Picture. The other films nominated for Best Picture that year were Born on the Fourth of July, Field of Dreams, My Left Foot and winner Driving Miss Daisy.
Movie Quote of the Day – Daddy Day Care, 2003 (dir. Steve Carr)
Kid: [speaks Klingon]
Marvin: [speaks Klingon]
Charlie: You can understand him?
Marvin: Yeah, he’s speaking Klingon. That’s Klingon.
Charlie: I thought the kid was an idiot.
Marvin: God, how much “Star Trek” does that kid watch?
Charlie: Too much.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Rocketeer, 1991 (dir. Joe Johnston)
Cliff Secord: Jenny, prepare yourself for a shock: I’m the Rocketeer.
Jenny: The Rocke-who?
Cliff Secord: Oh, for crying out loud, haven’t you read the papers?
Jenny: No, I’ve been working all day.
Movie Quote of the Day – Holiday Affair, 1949 (dir. Don Hartman)
Steve Mason: You were married to a man you were in love with once, you ought to know it’s impossible to be safe and secure when you’re in love. What are you trying to do, crawl into a gave and hide from everything that’s going to stir you up?
Connie Ennis: If I want to.
Steve Mason: That’s a neat trick if you can get away with it, but I don’t think you can. Life is going to crawl right down there with you and kick your teeth in.
Connie Ennis: I’ll manage all right.
Steve Mason: You gotta take everything that’s coming to you, Connie. All the surprises, good and bad.
Connie Ennis: I can’t afford surprises.
Steve Mason: Every surprise isn’t a telegram from the War Department, you know.
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