NBC has abandoned its bizarre idea of airing very old Jay Leno Tonight Show reruns. This week's are no older than 2004 (one is from last April) and next week's are all from 2006. I don't know what was on their mind but whatever it was, it didn't work.
Tomorrow, Turner Classic Movies is running The Jolson Story and Jolson Sings Again, back to back. If you've never seen them, at least the first is worth a peek. Both starred Larry Parks as the great singer…with the real Jolson dubbing the singing voice. (There's also one long shot in The Jolson Story where Jolson dances and it's the real guy standing in for the guy playing him.) Neither film is particularly accurate in its biographical storyline and the second one is really a case of no one having an idea for a movie but they went and made it, anyway. Still, there's something fascinating about the movies and most of the singing is wonderful.
And it's only twenty-one days until TCM runs my pick for the strangest movie ever made…Skidoo! Better start warming up the set now for that one.