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TCM is the new MTV. Exhibit A: When singer-songwriter Neko Case set out to promote her latest album, "Middle Cyclone," she bypassed the usual channels and made a beeline for Turner Classic Movies, where she'll sit down with Robert Osborne to discuss four of her favorite films as the channel's guest programmer for December.

Um...Let me guess. Nancy Franklin is somewhat less than enamored with Glenn Beck.

If Mike Bloomberg doesn't have a Lonesome Rhodes moment in the next 24 hours, he's a shoo-in for a third term as New York City's mayor.

The Weather Channel announced earlier this week that they are adding feature movies to their programming diet of forecast updates.

The man who brought the Method to Hollywood , Elia Kazan gave James Dean his first role and got career performances from Marlon Brando , Carroll Baker , Andy Griffith , Lee Remick , and Natalie Wood , as well as Robert De Niro 's most nuanced turn in a movie directed by anyone other than Martin Scorsese .

Elia Kazan was born into a Greek Orthodox family on Sept. 7, 1909, in an ancient capital of the world, Constantinople, destined to be renamed Istanbul by the Turkish rulers.

Original intent is a murky sea indeed if one wants to consider the U.S. Constitution, but for the work of Elia Kazan it now is an azure pool of clarity.

Even icon Andy Griffith, with Liz Sheridan, can't make "Play the Game" a winner.

Patricia Neal will present AS I AM at the Vineyard Playhouse August 30th as part of the "Monday Night Specials" series.

Opie's dad demonstrated his fearlessness as a performer more than half a century ago, as a redneck celebrity with delusions of grandeur in the classic "A Face in the Crowd." Though Marc Fienberg's quasi-autobiographical "Play the Game" isn't remotely in the same class, it's good to know the erstwhile Sheriff Andy can still get his game on as a ...

Budd Schulberg died this week at the age of 95. To honor his memory, Secondsout is re-posting Thomas Hauser's profile of this remarkable man.

Budd Schulberg, the son of a studio boss who wrote a novel that defined the Hollywood hustle and later proved himself a player with the Oscar-winning screenplay for the Marlon Brando classic "On the Waterfront," died Wednesday at age 95.

Budd Schulberg, the son of a studio boss who wrote a novel that defined the Hollywood hustle and later proved himself a player with the Oscar-winning screenplay for the Marlon Brando classic "On the Waterfront," died Wednesday at age 95.

Budd Schulberg, the son of a studio boss who wrote a novel that defined the Hollywood hustle and later proved himself a player with the Oscar-winning screenplay for the Marlon Brando classic "On the Waterfront," died Wednesday at age 95.

Budd Schulberg, the son of a studio boss who wrote a novel that defined the Hollywood hustle and later proved himself a player with the Oscar-winning screenplay for the Marlon Brando classic "On the Waterfront," died Wednesday at age 95.

Americans love their movies, which is why we pause today to salute two movie greats who died this week.

Budd Schulberg, who chronicled the corrupting mores of modern American life in works such as the novels "What Makes Sammy Run?" and "The Harder They Fall," and the movies "On the Waterfront" and "A Face in the Crowd," died on Aug.

Budd Schulberg, who exposed the dark side of American ambition in his acclaimed Hollywood novel "What Makes Sammy Run?" and won an Academy Award for his screenplay depicting the mob-controlled longshoremen's union in the film classic "On the Waterfront," has died.

Budd Schulberg, the son of a studio boss who defined the Hollywood hustle with his novel "What Makes Sammy Run?" and later proved himself a player with his Oscar-winning screenplay for "On the Waterfront," died Wednesday at age 95.

My favorite movie geeks are gearing up for the new season of the AMC cable series Mad Men , set in a Madison Avenue ad agency during the the JFK's Camelot era.