I've been swimming in the shallow end for quite some time, rarely coming back to Silver Screen. Getting the messages about changes, I updated my sign-on status and then went browsing through the material. Stopping to read through this one, I realized that something has been omitted. For some reason,...

Bang The Drum Slowly (1973) aired on TCM on Friday night, Oct 24. A negotiation over the coming season's salaries for a Major League Baseball Club. Star pitcher Henry Wiggien (Michael Moriarty) is offered $60,000 for the coming year, with a hint that Management may go as high as $70.000. Both sides...

Ran across this one in a search for other information. The movie Quiz Show revealed that Instructors at Columbia U. in the late 1950s worked for $86.00 a week. I was aware of the quiz show scandals at the time but paid scant attention; wasn't a fan of those shows. I remember some inane reactions, su...

I found it!

This question bothered me for a couple of weeks; then tonight TCM ran
1967's In The Heat Of The Night, and I got my answer.

Philidelphia Homicide Detective Sidney Poitier worked for a salary of
$162.39 a week, and small town Police Chief Rod Steiger was rabidly invious.

The Slender Thread (1965, and contemporary to that period):

Anne Bancroft purchases a pint of brandy for $2.50! Would that purchase even a shot from a bartender now?

Logically, I know this in not true about anybody, but I feel this way about him. He was not expendable.

The imdb site for The Magnificent Seven lists Mexican actor/director/producer Emilio Fernandez as an "assistant director, uncredited". Sr. Fernandez' imdb filmography asserts that he was placed there by the Mexican government with the assignment of making sure that Mexicans were not portra...

A recent re-viewing of Electra Glide In Blue reminded me of something. Motorcycle cop Robert Blake used his pistol left- handed and wore it on his left hip. Then I remembered a TV episode where Det. Baretta went undercover impersonating a hood named "Lefty". One of his new companions varif...

Addressing AYRES; You seem to have researched the same sites I did and to have reached a similar conclusion. My exposure to the lore was in College, Town & Gown and Community Theatre (sic; I'm spelling it the way they did) programs. Nobody I ever worked with ever took it seriously; they just see...

A Hollywood filick about Hollywood, It's A Great Feeling (Doris Day, Jack Carson, et al) went by on TCM the other morning, while I did something else and gave the movie only partial attention. I stayed with it for the cameos, mostly. Anyway, a comment about "That's bad luck!" went by witho...

ibd 1; Agreement re Service. I once had access to a library that had 2 volumes of his verse. I think I went through both of them a couple of times. After signing off yesterday I recalled two more song-based TV movies: --A 1977 hit single by Mary Macgregor was turned into a 1979 movie Torn Between Tw...

Re; our earlier discussions of movies based on poems, I thought I had a winner in Robert Service's The Shooting Of Dan McGrew (and the lady that's known as Lou), but that's a dud. There is a tape of some kids performing the poem, but I didn't try to make that count. Then I hit on the idea of movies ...

Hector Elizando, Joe Pantoliano, Stanley Tucci, Alan Rachins. These are all actors who can show up bald or with hair in almost any role. I was slow catching on, but I've seen them with little or no hair, with thinning hair, and all points in between. Never a distraction; they all manage to make it ...

The Rat Race , filmed in 1960 and aired on TCM this evening. Debbie Reynolds occupies a seedy room-with-sleeping alcove. Her landlady raises the rental to $2.50 a day, and Debbie throws a hissy fit ! Another point I almost overlooked: Debbie borrows $200 from venomous loan shark Don Rickles and pur...

(I wrote this up before; I clicked the wrong place; it created another thread; I deleted it.) short & tall: I have always been amused by this. In The Sea Chase (1955), some characters are moving around belowdecks on a ship. Lana Turner goes first through the hatches, walking straight up. John Wa...