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Hollywood’s Proud Past Lives Again This Week With AFI, TCM Classic Film Festival And Danny Kaye Centennial

By PETE HAMMOND | Wednesday April 24, 2013 @ 6:37pm PDTTags: AFI Night At The Movies, Barbra Streisand, Ben Stiller, Danny Kaye, Funny Girl, Max Von Sydow, TCM Classic Film Festival, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Turner Classic Movies
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In Hollywood they say ‘everything old is new again’ and that has never been more true this week than with a massive celebration of classic films and stars. There is tonight’s AFI Night At The Movies with 13 classic titles (including Best Picture winners like In The Heat Of The Night  and Terms Of Endearment) taking up every screen at Hollywood’s Arclight Theatre complete with in-person introductions from their original stars (Shirley MacLaine, Cher, Sidney Poitier, Sally Field and Harrison Ford among them). There is a year-long centennial celebration of the great Danny Kaye and a reminder of his talent at year’s end with the Fox remake of a Kaye classic, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. And starting Thursday with the World Premiere restoration of Funny Girl, the 4th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival kicks off its four day run in Hollywood.

Even as competing fests this week at Tribeca and in San Francisco try to steal the spotlight for new films from a new generation, The Turner Classic Movies fest has become a big deal focusing on the past. And not only for the network, but as a signature event where studios can show off new digital restorations of classic films with the same hoopla that might have accompanied their original premieres. Though its stars Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif won’t be attending the Funny Girl restoration’s premiere at the Chinese Theatre tomorrow night (Sharif is in Europe; Streisand is sending a statement to be read by TCM host Robert Osborne) many vintage stars including festival honorees like Eva Marie Saint, Ann Blyth, Max Von Sydow and numerous others are expected to walk the red carpet. Competing for attention across the street at the Hollywood Roosevelt Pool will be TCM’s pristine digital presentation of 1958′s South Pacific with stars Mitzi Gaynor and France Nuyen on hand. TCM’s longtime talent exec, Darcy Hettrich has the herculean task of turning out all the great stars of Hollywood’s past  that keep these fans buzzing. READ MORE »

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TCM Makes Deal For Johnny Carson’s ‘Tonight Show’ Interviews: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 20, 2012 @ 12:57pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Johnny Carson, Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies has pacted with the estate of Johnny Carson to produce Carson On TCM, a showcase of Hollywood interviews from Carson’s three decades as host of The Tonight Show — many of which have not been seen since their original airdates. The deal licenses 50 … Read More »

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TCM To Air Ernest Borgnine Marathon

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 9, 2012 @ 12:19pm PDTTags: Ernest Borgnine, Turner Classic Movies

Ernest Borgnine TCM MarathonTurner Classic Movies has set a 24-hour marathon of movies starring Ernest Borgnine, who died Sunday at age 95. On July 26, the cable channel will devote its programming to 10 films starring … Read More »

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Andy Griffith Blocks On TV Land & TCM

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 3, 2012 @ 8:59am PDTTags: Andy Griffith, The Andy Griffith Show, Turner Classic Movies, TV Land

Andy Griffith Face In The CrowdUPDATE: TV Land just announced that it has scheduled marathon programming blocks of The Andy Griffith Show from 8 AM-1 PM tomorrow and from 11 AM-8 PM on Saturday and Sunday. The … Read More »

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Jeff Gregor Named General Manager Of TCM

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 8, 2011 @ 9:30am PSTTags: Jeff Gregor TCM Marketing, TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, Turner Entertainment Networks
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Turner Entertainment Networks has promoted Jeff Gregor to … Read More »

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TCM Paying Tribute To Tony Curtis Oct. 10

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday October 1, 2010 @ 6:36am PDTTags: Cable TV, Movies, Tony Curtis, Turner Classic Movies, TV

Talk about a fast turnaround. Turner Classic Movies will run a 24-hour marathon of 12 Tony Curtis movies on Sunday, October 10th. (In fact, Tony once joked that TCM stands for Tony Curtis Movies.) The movies to be shown … Read More »

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