Unless there's Breaking News, like they dig up Anna Nicole or something, Larry King Live will devote its Friday night show to memories of Johnny Carson.
This Sunday, early in the A.M., Fox Movie Channel is running three of Laurel and Hardy's lesser efforts back to back: The Dancing Masters, The Big Noise and The Bullfighters. As we often say here, even Laurel and Hardy at their worst is still better than most comedians at their best.
Not long ago, we made a big fuss here because Turner Classic Movies was about to show (for the first time in a long while anywhere) the Billy Wilder movie, The Big Carnival, aka Ace in the Hole. A lot of you wrote to thank me for letting you know about it. Others wrote to curse the fact that they'd missed it. The cursers have another shot at it when TCM runs it again on Saturday, March 17. We'll try to remember to give you another reminder before then but may forget.
This coming Sunday evening, TCM is running The Benny Goodman Story starring Steve Allen. It isn't much of a movie but I'm fascinated by the fact that Steverino filmed it during the day while he was still doing an hour and forty-five minutes of Tonight live every night. This is not humanly possible.
Lastly for now: If your cable company or satellite dish gets The ReelzChannel, tune in my buddy Leonard Maltin's series, Secret's Out. It's a great show about movies for people who care about movies, as opposed to current movie stars. Each episode runs about nine thousand times a week so you have no excuse for missing it. That is, unless you can't get that channel on your TV. Then we forgive you.