April 17 movie: The Maltese Falcon. Has it really been a month since I wrote up a movie? I think it has, maybe even longer. I've watched a couple dozen movies in the meantime, and I better get to it.
So, they showed The Maltese Falcon as part of TCM's fan favorite week. They had fans on to introduce their favorite movies every night. How do they find these fans, and how do I sign up? The fan favorite movies are usually big famous classics that we've all seen a million times, but you know, there's a reason why the biggest hits are the biggest hits.
(A friend of mine said that to me about the music I play on my show. Because I mostly try not to play the biggest, most famous songs -- the station's mission is "to educate and entertain" so I try to play lesser-known songs as much as I can. But at the end of last year I did a special 4 hour "a song a year" show, and for that show I did play a really famous or really important song from each year. So it was essentially a "greatest hits" show. And people loved it! I got more calls during that show than any other. Like my friend said, the biggest hits are generally hits because they're really good songs.)
It's been a long week and I actually fell asleep during The Maltese Falcon last night. At least I made it to the part where Sidney Greenstreeet says "I'm a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk." Unfortunately I missed Peter Lorre's Ren-like tirade, "you bloated idiot! you stupid fat-head!" I had seen this movie probably a half-dozen times before I realized that Ren from Ren & Stimpy was based on Joel Cairo.
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