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...trials and personally arrested German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl at her chalet in Kitzbühel, Austria. Following his military service, Schulberg wrote the fight-racket novel The Harder They Fall and had no more movie credits until he and Kazan teamed up for On the Waterfront, for which John Garfield, Frank Sinatra and the young Paul Newman were touted for the Terry Malloy role that Brando made his own. The project brought out the best in Schulberg's muckraking temperament, and served as an apologia for informing on fellow (Daily) workers. On naming names, Schulberg later said: "I felt that...
...Republic - an organization of former soldiers and sailors - dubbed May 30, 1868, Decoration Day, which was "designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion." On Decoration Day that year, General James Garfield gave a speech at Arlington National Cemetery. Afterward, 5,000 observers adorned the graves of the more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers entombed at the cemetery. (Read a TIME cover story on how not to lose in Afghanistan...
There's Lolcats, RolCats, Garfield Minus Garfield, and Maru, the cat with a blog. There are kittens on Cute Things Falling Asleep, Cute Overload, and The Random Kitten Generator. And now, thanks to a clip of a humiliated feline forced to play the piano, there is another one to add to the mix: the website called Play Him Off, Keyboard...
Corey Johnson, a 29-year-old computer programmer, says he and his friends have a knack for picking the next Internet sensation. If they encounter something good on the Internet, they like to "call" whether or not it's going to take off. They called Garfield Minus Garfield and Lolcats, but when Johnson saw what he considered to be a particularly hilarious clip of someone falling down and then being "played off stage" by a cat with a keyboard, his friends thought it was lame. "I said, this is going to be big." he says. "My friends were like...
...Original productions. TCM sponsors documentaries on some of the top stars in its catalog (Brando, Joan Crawford, John Garfield) and probing issues of bygone days (political messages in '50s genre films). These give context to the programming and serve as valuable extras on TCM DVDs. The policy also means that my long-TIME colleague, Richard Schickel - who's done exemplary studies of Scorsese, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard for TCM - doesn't have to go on food stamps. The channel runs some Schickel doc nearly every month. Tune in for a fun film education. (See Richard Corliss...