[Rummyfan]

he appeared as the guest presenter on TCM (which has gone noticeably and disgustingly leftwing lately) last Saturday to introduce "To Kill A Mockingbird" as the feature for the evening

At least Sunday evening he was apolitical and just talked about acting and the flick.

As for TCM... ugh. Saturdays now they Ava DuVernay as part of The Essentials program, which usually features pretty gold old flicks, but last week and this I skipped.

Last month they had Carl Bernstein co-introducing flicks about journalism.

And I seem to recall seeing ads that Anderson Pooper will also be appearing as a presenter.

Can't they just give us the old classics without this BS? Part of the joy of TCM is that the old flicks are totally un-PC.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Yeah, you're right - Saturday night was the "award-winning" black female director whom I've been managing to miss pretty consistently too - it must have been Sunday when I saw Daniels - he wasn't especially political in what he said, but I did pick up on the bit about racism getting its start in this country as soon as the white Europeans stepped off the boats, as though it didn't exist through the ages in every race in the world - including native Americans.

It seems TCM has gone down hill badly since Robert Osborne's passing - I sometimes tuned in when he was host just to hear his comments on the upcoming film and then went on to watch something else if I had seen the movie before - now I'm using the mute a lot to get through the first few minutes of drivel before the films begin....