TCM The Young Lions

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is on now. I never knew how attractive Marlon Brando was when he was young.

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1. geez, Montgomery Cliff is small compared to Dean Martin

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2. We spent almost the entire day

yesterday watching TCM.

The Thin Man
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
An American in Paris
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Streetcar Named Desire
The Lion in Winter

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3. If it weren't for TCM I'd have to trash our television

Honestly, it's the only cable channel I can think of that has lived up to the promise of what cable was supposed to do. It's commercial-free (well, in recent years they use promos for their own material between films, but at least it's not toilet paper or car ads, and movies are never interrupted). It is dedicated to a single area (the commercial cinema) in depth, from the silent era to today, Hollywood and, increasingly, foreign art films. It's educational, and it's entertaining. It's free.* It makes me not want to kill myself.

* OKAY, before anyone protests that it's not free, I mean it's not a premium service; it's part of most every basic cable package.

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4. It's kind of jarring when you

click from TCM over to another channel. You look at it like - what is this drivel!?

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5. wow

the Dean Martin characters' response when the Concentration Camp Survivor Rabbi asks for the chance to hold prayer service after liberation....just wow