Here's the annual TCM Remembers video noting people from the movie biz who've passed away in the past year. I don't know why they put this out in the middle of December because someone significant always dies in the last two weeks of the year and they have to go back and edit that person in.
Folks who get way too upset (in my opinion) at omissions in the "death reel" at the Academy Awards often ask why that montage can't be like the ones TCM assembles. I'd be fine with that but here's one thing to consider…
The segment at the last Oscar ceremony ran 4:21 and covered fifty names. This TCM effort runs 4:30 and covers ninety names. I would guess the difference is that the folks who assemble the one for the Academy Awards feel they have to give everyone a little more screen time, especially the really well-known faces that the live audience at the event will want to applaud. The TCM one doesn't play to a live audience — though of course, you're free to clap as much as you like as you watch this…