Well, it’s Saturday. The weeks seem to go by so quickly!
The rain has left – there wasn’t that much of it yesterday – and I think we’ll be rain-free until Tuesday.
We love TCM – Turner Classic Movies – but we didn’t have it for a couple of years due to our cable company changing their ‘packages.’ It’s too long a story to tell. I wrote about here on the blog at the time. Since we were streaming a lot of series, especially Nordic Noir, it was okay. But we’ve streamed just about everything we want to stream right now and we found ourselves missing old movies, which are our favorite thing to watch. So we added it to our package.
TCM has been purchased by Warner Brothers/Discovery and the guy who runs it – David Zaslow, a corporate guy through-and-through – recently let go of a lot of TCM’s creative staff. TCM already had a small staff. He was talking about letting it go. TCM has very loyal viewers and they were outraged by the cost-cutting. Stephen Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and others got involved and basically said, “You can’t mess with this channel. Leave it alone.” I know some staff have been rehired, but how many, I don’t know. I’m still nervous about it’s status, especially when the hosts now have to mention Warner Brothers a lot and even had to mention Shark Week on Discovery. Really?
Zaslow, by the way, spoke at Boston University’s graduation ceremony. I’m proud of those students, just as I was when I worked there – they chanted “Pay the writers!” throughout his speech. He earns millions and he somehow can’t pay the writers and actors what they should be paid.
Now he’s messing with TCM. He has backed off a bit since Spielberg, et al, requested a meeting with him.
In a world where Bravo, which used to be about the arts, now airs The Real Housewives of Whatever, and A & E (Arts and Entertainment) has virtually no more programming about the Arts – we need TCM.
Anyway, August has a daily focus on a certain actor and today it’s Doris Day. I’m watching Jumbo right now and tonight is one of my favorite movies ever – Pillow Talk.
Don just made me a cup of coffee (even though it’s my turn) so I didn’t have to miss this movie, which has always been a favorite, since I was around 12 or 13. Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, and Martha Raye and a score by Rodgers and Hart – you can’t lose!
Now, he’s taking a walk.
I’ve got a great guy.
Hope you have the happiest of weekends.
Stay safe.
Happy Saturday.