[Rastus]

I was a little miffed with TCM for not mentioning President Reagan's passing on their website and for not having an immediate marathon of his movies. It seems I was a little premature, and I apologize.

If you'll hit the link above, there's a brief Reagan bio on that page. I only skimmed it, but it seems to be bereft of any partisanship.

[ambrose]

How are we ever going to get any sleep this week?

[My Dog Likes Me]

Where's the Gipper movie?!
Oh no!

[AHerald]

Bummed that the one major Reagan movie I've never seen, The Killers, isn't on that list. Guess I'll have to track it down on DVD.

[SevenofNine]

OH MAN Rastus I send email to TCM on Monday morning but I think they were plan by pass Ronnie until thousand of emails were send in

Rack itt

I love TCM

I am shock they not showing Knute Rockie All American

OR Dark Victory yeah I know Ronnie is only in few scenes HEY he was in that movie

He play Bette Davis very drunk boyfriend in that movie

[Reagan Man]

There was a time TCM reacted immediately when an oldtime Hollywood star died. Then I think they got overwhelmed with Hollywood stars dropping left and right and changed the policy. TCM usually responds within the week the star died. And they always have a short memorial piece that runs several times a day, for a period of several days.

[william clark]

It's too bad they're not including the Brass Bancroft films, although they're not exactly regarded as the high points of his career. Still, fun B-movie fluff.

In fact, the best story I know is that Reagan was so embarrassed by the second film in the quartet, "Code of the Secret Service," he implored Warner Bros. to not release it. Supposedly, the studio compromised and gave it a release that excluded Los Angeles and New York, so he wouldn't be embarrassed by it in front of his friends. Yet somewhere a young Jerry Parr saw the picture, loved it, and was inspired by it to become a Secret Service agent. Flash forward 42 years, to the day when John Hinkley attempted to assassinate President Reagan. Reagan's life was saved when Secret Service agent Jerry Parr instructed the limo driver to rush to the hospital instead of returning to the White House.

For those interested, the films in the series are:

Secret Service of the Air
Code of the Secret Service
Smashing the Money Ring
Murder in the Air

[Wiggins]

I got a DVD recorder and I'll get them all. I'm a baseball fan and I loved the movie he made with Doris Day called "The Winning Team". It's a biography based on the life of St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander. All I have to say is what a life and what a man. To act with famous actors at Warner Brothers such as Errol Flynn and George Murphy and then go on to be Governor of California and then President of the United States is so unbelievable. To me it would be a dream come true. God bless President Ronald Reagan. God bless Nancy Reagan and the rest of his family.