“...this obviously COMMUNISTIC cable channel ...”
Haha! That’s stretching it a bit and I do know you’re being facetious there. They’re libs, but not all libs are commies. Some are just dumbass clueless schmucks. I happen to love TCM.... it’s one of the ONLY places left to see really good movies from a time when they MADE really good movies.
A few nights back, there was a show on with Kirk Douglas, doing a one-man retrospective of his life and career. It was pretty good right up to the point where he started whining about Joe McCarthy and “the Blacklist!!!”
He’s 93 years old and still refuses to recognize that there were in fact communists in Hollywood and some of the people he knew were in fact subversives, and Senator Joe McCarthy was proven right.
That doesn’t make Kirk a commie... but it DOES make him a clueless dumbass - and I always thought he was a fine actor (and still do).
But even so... he didn’t plant his ass on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft battery, don a North Vietnamese helmet, and take medical supplies to communist troops. Jane did.
So... I won’t watch Jane. Won’t support anything she does, except finally expire some day, and chalk her up on my list of “People I Want To Outlive”.
(And Grace Kelly was indeed a beauty too, by the way, though not in a “bodacious” way... more in the graceful, elegant sense.)
I love TCM and Kirk Douglas as well. He was not only a brilliant, dynamic actor, he was also a brilliant producer. He produced Spartacus! I’m surprised he got on Joe McCarthy’s case because that was not HUAC, that was the Senate. McCarthy had nothing to do with Hollywood - but if he’s now 93, he’s probably dotty. And he did have that bad stroke.
As a suggestion, if you can You Tube, try a British interview with Douglas from the 1980s with Michael Parkinson. Kirk was in great shape for the interview and he tells some very funny stories.