I watched the Rock Hudson documentary on Max. Very good, but an almost rote biography. Except when Maupin and Linda Evans spoke. Also, as if we didn't already know, the Reagan's total douchebagness.
I watched the Rock Hudson documentary on Max. Very good, but an almost rote biography. Except when Maupin and Linda Evans spoke. Also, as if we didn't already know, the Reagan's total douchebagness.
The documentaries TCM's been showing are uneven, but the Tab Hunter documentary is very good, as is the one on Raoul Walsh - I actually learned some new stuff from that one.
yes, they're very good. as opposed, say, to the four-hour publicity machine on Warner Bros. now on display on HBO/Max. they dispense with the great, very interesting first 60 years of the studio in one hour and by the end of the second hour, the comic book superheroes have already arrived. TCM's two available Warner Bros. docs are actually NOT commercials, especially when they deal with what a prick Jack Warner was.
Yes, those two TCM docs on Warners and Warner were good. I have to say I wish we had Jack Warner to deal with nowadays. he might have bveen a misogynist asshole, but he knew how to make movies, unlike Reality-TV Boy David Zaslav. If Warner's was serious about solving their debt problem, they'd announce they were going to hang Zaslav at the front gate next Saturday and the public was invited at $20/person. It would be like what Sinatra said to Rita Hayworth (I believe) when she commented about the enormous crowd at the funeral of Harry Cohn (the King of Poverty Row, he ran Columbia back in the day): "Give the people what they want..."
I heard the Harry Cohn funeral story, but when I heard it (or, more properly, read it), the who said it was that extremely rich Beverley Hills rabbi...I think his name was Magnin. and he was supposed to have been playing golf.
I just checked (the digital realm does have a few things to recommend it, I suppose) and the rabbi WAS Magnin (aka "Rabbi to the Stars").
I watched the Rock Hudson documentary on Max. Very good, but an almost rote biography. Except when Maupin and Linda Evans spoke. Also, as if we didn't already know, the Reagan's total douchebagness.
The documentaries TCM's been showing are uneven, but the Tab Hunter documentary is very good, as is the one on Raoul Walsh - I actually learned some new stuff from that one.
yes, they're very good. as opposed, say, to the four-hour publicity machine on Warner Bros. now on display on HBO/Max. they dispense with the great, very interesting first 60 years of the studio in one hour and by the end of the second hour, the comic book superheroes have already arrived. TCM's two available Warner Bros. docs are actually NOT commercials, especially when they deal with what a prick Jack Warner was.
Yes, those two TCM docs on Warners and Warner were good. I have to say I wish we had Jack Warner to deal with nowadays. he might have bveen a misogynist asshole, but he knew how to make movies, unlike Reality-TV Boy David Zaslav. If Warner's was serious about solving their debt problem, they'd announce they were going to hang Zaslav at the front gate next Saturday and the public was invited at $20/person. It would be like what Sinatra said to Rita Hayworth (I believe) when she commented about the enormous crowd at the funeral of Harry Cohn (the King of Poverty Row, he ran Columbia back in the day): "Give the people what they want..."
I heard the Harry Cohn funeral story, but when I heard it (or, more properly, read it), the who said it was that extremely rich Beverley Hills rabbi...I think his name was Magnin. and he was supposed to have been playing golf.
I just checked (the digital realm does have a few things to recommend it, I suppose) and the rabbi WAS Magnin (aka "Rabbi to the Stars").