Here's this years "TCM Remembers" video from the network that sometimes seems to want to not remember what "TCM" stands for. And no, I still don't know why they release these around the middle of December when there are still plenty of days left for someone to die this year.
Someone asked me last year why the TCM obit reel is always so much better than the ones at the Emmy Awards and Oscars and why it covers more people. Well, one big reason is that the TCM montage isn't edited to be shown before a live audience that will want to applaud many of the people. Norman Lear has 2-3 seconds in this reel. The folks at the next Emmy Awards ceremony are going to clap for him a lot longer than that…