Paul Newman marathon on TCM Sat Aug 21st

including The Sting and Cool Hand Luke

ref: https://www.tcm.com/2010/suts/index.jsp#/paulnewman/bio

TCM also has Ben Kingsley in Gandhi (1982) Sunday. Oscars for Best Movie, Best Actor (Kingsley) and Best Director (Richard Attengorough)   

Watched Harper for the first time.  Liked it a lot.  Already think Hud and Hombre are two of the 50 best films ever, and I liked The Huslter as well.  He had a real knack for making great films starting with the letter "H."    Funny thing is that all those movies were made within a few years of one another.

Forgot to tape Gandhi.    I've never seen it straight through.

really like that TCM is in HD now BUT still shows movies like Gandhi in their original 2:1 theater format that they call "letterbox".

HBO and some of the other "premium" channels chop classic 2:1 format movies to the new HD 16:9 to "fit" the screen. that's almost as aggravating as chopping to the old analog 4:3 "skinny scope" TV screen.

btw, TCM has a Peter O'Toole marathon Saturday Aug 28th

schelule ref: https://www.tcm.com/2010/suts/index.jsp#/peterotoole/bio