Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Must-see TV today: Humphrey Bogart in Deadline U.S.A. at 4 p.m. on TCM

"A big-city editor brings down a mobster, saves his newspaper and re-unites with his ex-wife."


"That's the press, baby. The press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgdE-qPv6kw



Deadline U.S.A. may well be the best Bogart film that most people have STILL not seen for themselves, so do yourself a favor before leaving for work Wednesday morning and make a point of setting your VCR or DVR or whatever electronic gadget you schedule your TV life with, and make a point of recording this film Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m. on Turner Classic Movies, DirecTV 256.
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=72550


I've probably seen this film about a dozen times by now and because I've seen all of Bogart's other films SO many more times, this is still one that surprises me with each new viewing as I find myself noticing things for the first time.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPTo_YAJ21s




Do you know the difference between a journalist and a reporter?

Jim Backus will explain it to you at a bar full of veteran reporters who've heard the same joke for decades, but who still laugh each time it's told.

I came across this short trailer for an upcoming PBS documentary called Stop the Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril while looking for something else a few weeks ago. It's already been shown in some TV markets but I don't recall it being in South Florida yet.

Hope it'll be as good as the one on the LA Times last year, even though that one started trailing off a bit towards the end, probably because there was no hero riding in on a white horse at the end -with $$$. If you don't blink, there's also a few seconds of Anders Gyllenhaal of the Herald speaking. It was uploaded on June 2nd.


AMS Pictures - Stop the Presses
Uploaded by ggallucci. - Watch feature films and entire TV shows.

I later found its website: http://www.stopthepressesdoc.com/

Some of the newspaper blogs I read include:
http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/
http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/
http://davisullblog.blogspot.com/

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