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Rachel Maddow, the smartest and most deserving voice in the knuckleheaded universe of talk radio and political punditry, is getting her own television show on MSNBC.
If you've not been listening to Maddow all along on Air America Radio, you've been missing out. And the word is, she'll continue that gig, which is great news, even as she gains a new audience via television, and that's a good thing for her and for us.
Even thinking conservatives (those few who remain) will find her worth checking out. They won't agree with her always (or even, perhaps, often), but she won't insult their intelligence and she'll give them (and the rest of us) plenty to think about.
it's just amazing to think that a woman who is a lesbian, a liberal, a non-screamer, and has a brain in her head and a facility for something other than creating controversy has beend given a show. It's heartening
Reasoned and intelligent discourse, and with a liberal flair. Finally, one (admitteldy minor) network's exhibiting some brains -- and some balls, to boot.
It'll be 24 hours of Barbara Stanwyck tomorrow on Turner Classic Movies, as part of their Summer of the Stars festival this month. They're avoiding the more familiar titles, and most viewers will find a few things they've not seen (including, at 6 p.m., Stanwyck's talkie debut, THE LOCKED DOOR), so clear out some space on that Tivo.
Here's the line-up (all times Eastern):
4:00 a.m. -- BARBARA STANWYCK: FIRE AND DESIRE (1991)
Barbara Stanwyck's multi-faceted career reveals uncanny reflections of her off-screen life. Cast: Sally Field, Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper. Dir: Richard Schickel. C-46 mins
5:00 a.m. -- ILLICIT (1931)
Young free-thinkers turn conventionally jealous when they marry. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez. Dir: Archie Mayo. BW-80 mins
6:30 a.m. -- TEN CENTS A DANCE (1931)
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley. Dir: Lionel Barrymore. BW-77 mins
8:00 a.m. -- NIGHT NURSE (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she's caring for are murder targets. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Clark Gable. Dir: William A. Wellman. BW-72 mins
9:15 a.m. -- FORBIDDEN (1932)
On an ocean voyage, a librarian falls for a married man. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy. Dir: Frank Capra. BW-85 mins
10:45 a.m. -- SHOPWORN (1932)
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, Zasu Pits. Dir: Nick Grinde. BW-66 mins
12:00 p.m. -- EVER IN MY HEART (1933)
During World War I, a woman suspects her husband of being a German spy. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy. Dir: Archie Mayo. BW-68 mins
1:15 p.m. -- BABY FACE (1933)
A beautiful schemer sleeps her way to the top of a banking empire. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, John Wayne. Dir: Alfred E. Green. BW-76 mins
2:45 p.m. -- THE BRIDE WALKS OUT (1936)
A model weds a struggling engineer then has her own struggles with domesticity. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, Robert Young. Dir: Leigh Jason. BW-81 mins
4:15 p.m. -- YOU BELONG TO ME (1941)
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Edgar Buchanan. Dir: Wesley Ruggles. C-95 mins
6:00 p.m. -- THE LOCKED DOOR (1929)
A woman once kidnapped by a wealthy womanizer tries to save her sister from him. Cast: Rod La Rocque, Barbara Stanwyck, William 'Stage' Boyd. Dir: George Fitzmaurice. BW-74 mins
7:30 p.m. -- THE FILE ON THELMA JORDON (1950)
A woman seduces a District Attorney and pulls him into a web of theft and murder. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly. Dir: Robert Siodmak. BW-100 mins
9:15 p.m. -- WITNESS TO MURDER (1954)
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill. Dir: Roy Rowland. BW-82 mins
10:45 p.m. -- CRIME OF PASSION (1957)
An executive's wife barters sex for her husband's business success. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr. Dir: Gerd Oswald. BW-86 mins, Letterbox Format
12:15 a.m. -- CLASH BY NIGHT (1952)
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband's best friend. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe. Dir: Fritz Lang. BW-105 mins
2:00 a.m. -- B.F.'S DAUGHTER (1948)
A professor doesn't know his wife is an heiress. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Charles Coburn. Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. BW-108 mins