TCM Intro

[Dave Sikula]

I've been told not to plug this on social media yet, but I think it's okay to mention it in here. I taped an intro with Alicia Malone for a movie on TCM this morning. The channel has the Backlot fan club (I'm the Bay Area chapter president) and asked members to submit a list of ten films they love and could talk about. I submitted mine and they picked me to intro 1937's "Shall We Dance," with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, which is my Desert Island Movie.

We were supposed to have taped in front of an audience at the TCM Festival last month, but, well ... (to quote Elaine Stritch on her dumping Ben Gazzara for Rock Hudson) "We know what a bum idea THAT turned out to be!" In spite of my desperate need for a haircut, we did the intro and the outro over an online feed. While the experience was actually quite pleasant, I'm hopeful I don't come off as too much of a boob. It'll probably end up being a total of about five minutes, so I won't look -too- bad.

The movie itself airs on Sunday the 17th at 2:00 pm ET/ 11:00 am PT. I'd planned on recording it off the screen, but they told me they'll send links once they're edited and ready to go. I can post them here if anyone is interested.

--Dave Sikula

[PGage]

Totally interested; I like that film too ( though don’t think it is the one I would take to a desert island), and am interested in your thought on it.

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[Diner]

Congratulations!! Looking forward to the links.

As for the haircut, well, you were never going to be as cute as Alicia anyway, so I wouldn't sweat it. ;-)

[Melissa P]

So cool.   I'm reminded of the great Ann Richards quote.

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[Ben Scripps]

On May 6, 2020, at 5:48 AM, 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> We were supposed to have taped in front of an audience at the TCM Festival last month, but, well ... (to quote Elaine Stritch on her dumping Ben Gazzara for Rock Hudson) "We know what a bum idea THAT turned out to be!" In spite of my desperate need for a haircut, we did the intro and the outro over an online feed. While the experience was actually quite pleasant, I'm hopeful I don't come off as too much of a boob. It'll probably end up being a total of about five minutes, so I won't look -too- bad.

Looking forward to seeing it!

[Paul Murray]

Quite cool.

I had to refresh my memory as to which Astaire/Rogers movie that was. Unfortunately the 2004 Gere/Lopez movie dominates Google's search results.

[Adam Bowie]

It's so sad that the UK version of TCM is nothing like the original.

We don't get any intros ever, and while the range of films is OK, it tends to be on a fairly hard rotation. They even *downgraded* from HD to plain SD...

(On the plus side, there's an independently run channel in the UK called Talking Pictures TV which has done really well running all kinds of old films - starting out with old British titles, but expanding into all the sorts of films that just don't get shown on TV anymore. It's run by family. However, I know they're struggling with ad sales dropping off a cliff). 

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 4:18 PM Paul Murray <pmur...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Quite cool.

I had to refresh my memory as to which Astaire/Rogers movie that was. Unfortunately the 2004 Gere/Lopez movie dominates Google's search results.

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