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July 4th Classic TV & Film Viewing Guide
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jul 4, 2014
Most people go to the beach, or a bar-b-que, or do some sort of healthy, fresh air-y, outdoorsy activity on July 4. Well, call your loved ones (if you have any) and scrap those plans, because there’s way to much good stuff on TV on Independence Day to leave your couch. National holidays have read more
Adam West vs. “Alice” in 1976
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jul 1, 2014
Remember that episode of Alice with Batman’s Adam West as a Sex Ed teacher and Lara Parker – Angelique the witch from Dark Shadows – as a sexually permissive mom? If you’re under 40, you may have answered “no” to that question, because the 1976-85 CBS sitcom has only been broadcast sporadically read more
How the Death of Aereo Impacts Classic Film + TV Fans
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jun 29, 2014
At 11:30 a.m. (ET) on Saturday, June 28, Aereo suspended service to subscribers in the eleven U.S. television markets it served – including as many as 135,000 in New York City. I was one of them. For me, the Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday that the company violated U.S. copyright law by retransmit read more
Remembering Eli Wallach + 5 of His Films
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jun 26, 2014
Sometime in the mid-1990s, on the corner of 82nd Street and Riverside Drive, I stopped to gawk at an icon. “Yes, it’s me,” Eli Wallach said, apparently accustomed to silent, slack-jawed admirers on New York City street corners. He greeted me with a smile, shook my hand, and patted read more
TCM Remembers Ruby Dee w/ Two-Film Tribute
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jun 23, 2014
“Why can’t we image makers become peacemakers, too?” Ruby Dee asked after accepting a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2000, alongside husband Ossie Davis. Until her death on June 11 at age 91, Dee endeavored to do just that. And, on June 28, Turner Classic Movies will read more
Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones Drive Miss Daisy to the Multiplex
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jun 4, 2014
There’s a new Angela Lansbury film in theaters this week, which is news that will delight any classic movie and TV fan. But the version of Driving Miss Daisy in which the legendary actress stars opposite James Earl Jones isn’t a remake of Bruce Beresford’s 1989 Best Picture winner. It isn’t read more
Ben and Frank Mankiewicz Talk CITIZEN KANE, Bobby Kennedy, and Living up to a Famous Name
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Jun 2, 2014
As a host of Turner Classic Movies, Ben Mankiewicz is accustomed to interviewing living legends. Yesterday in New York City, he turned the mic on a legend he knows better than any other: his dad, Frank Mankiewicz. “There aren’t many fathers who have started the show Morning Edition on National read more
Classic “Doctor Who” Time Travels Back to American TV
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 29, 2014
Doctor Who fans in the United States are getting a (slightly late) 50th anniversary present. And it involves jelly babies. Starting this summer, 489 episodes from the sci-fi series’ initial, 26-season BBC run (1963-1989) will begin airing nationally on Retro TV, “the original classic programming read more
90 Years Later, Lost Marx Brothers Musical is Reborn
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 24, 2014
For Marx Brothers fans, I’ll Say She Is is the missing piece of the puzzle. Written by brothers Tom and Will B. Johnstone, and incorporating some of the team’s earlier Vaudeville routines, the Marx Brothers’ first Broadway musical comedy revue opened at New York’s Casino Theatre on May 19, 1924. read more
Mr. Magoo and More: Celebrating the Centenary of John Hubley
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 21, 2014
“John was a great lover of cinema, of the idea that film, in all its evolving forms, should be seen and valued as it is here at the Film Forum,” Ray Hubley said last night, at the downtown Manhattan movie mecca’s centennial celebration of his father, animator John Hubley. “Tonight’s films” read more
More Mitzi Gaynor Specials on @TCM Please!
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 13, 2014
“I’m having such a good time!” Mitzi Gaynor said to host Robert Osborne last night before Turner Classic Movies’ broadcast of LES GIRLS, the 1957 MGM musical in which she co-stars with Gene Kelly. “That’s why I took the job, because I really wanted to dance with G read more
The Man Who Discovered Katharine Hepburn
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 11, 2014
Today was the hottest day of the year so far in New York City, but I’m suddenly feeling nostalgic for the holidays – not for the cold weather, but for the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s epic, fifty-film George Cukor series. From December 13 through January 7, the Film Society presented every read more
Lost Marx Bros. TV Clips Headed to DVD
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 9, 2014
Remember that sitcom with Chico Marx? Or the Pepsi commercial with Harpo Marx playing his trademark harp? Or the time that Groucho Marx donned his greasepaint mustache for a duet with Jackie Gleason? If you answered ‘no’ to any of these questions, you’re not alone. To date, there’s read more
Ellen Burstyn on Women in Film: “What Women in Film?!”
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 5, 2014
Despite winning an Academy Award for ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE in 1975, star Ellen Burstyn wasn’t offered the lead in Alice, the CBS-TV spin-off that debuted the following year and aired for nine seasons. “I didn’t have anything to do with it; I was dumb,” she told Variety’s Scott read more
New TCM 20th Anniversary Promo Evokes Film History
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 5, 2014
Musicians Kristian Bush and Brandon Bush of the band Sugarland have scored a new on-air promo for Turner Classic Movies, in honor of the network’s twentieth anniversary. The thirty-second network I.D., which premieres today, pays homage to some of the most memorable scores (and opening sequenc read more
Memories of my Father and the Marx Bros.
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 2, 2014
As far as I know, my father took only one business trip in his 44 years as a mechanic (and later, foreman) for Green Bus Lines in Queens, New York. Luckily, he brought me with him. Because it was there, on the island of Puerto Rico, that I discovered the Marx Bros. To be clear, Groucho, Harpo, Chico read more
WIZARD OF OZ Dress Headlines Second TCM Auction
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Apr 25, 2014
As a classic film fan, and a collector, this was a good news/bad news sort of day. First, the good news: Turner Classic Movies announced today that they’ll be partnering with Bonhams for a second auction of movie memorabilia on November 24 in New York City. TCM Presents…There’s No read more
My TCM Film Fest Family Album
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Apr 16, 2014
I’m not a big hugger; it’s nothing personal, it’s just not my thing. But I received – and gave – more hugs at the recently completed TCM Classic Film Festival than in any other weekend of my adult life. So, what gives? Turner Classic Movies’ fifth annual conclave was read more
My Obsessive-Compulsive Guide to the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Apr 8, 2014
Here’s my favorite thing about the TCM Classic Film Festival, which kicks off on Thursday in Hollywood: there’s no right or wrong way to pick the movies you see. Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce – like Burger King in the ‘70s, the only right way is your way. This will be my fifth trip to read more
Where’s Barnabas? The Vampire-Free NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS (1971)
Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on Apr 4, 2014
Fans of the original Dark Shadows have a complicated relationship with NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS (1971), the rarely seen second film based on the popular supernatural soap opera. And that’s unfortunate, because NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS, which is now available to watch instantly on the Warner Archive stream read more