Story at Examiner.com
... Thunder Road is the kind of movie that sticks in the minds of its viewers for years after seeing it. It’s the first film maverick director Jim Jarmusch* ever recalls seeing, at the age of six at a drive-in theater. As he related in a 1992 interview in Film Comment, despite being a huge Mitchum fan he never saw the film again, so indelible was the childhood memory in his mind. Bruce Springsteen named the opening track of his 1975 Born to Run album after the movie, although he never even saw it – he only saw the film’s poster in the lobby of a theater.
Thunder Road airs Tuesday, July 21 at 6:00 PM ET on Turner Classic Movies.
*Jarmusch later directed Mitchum in his last film, Dead Man.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden dead at 97
Story at CNN.com
Veteran actor Karl Malden, who won an Academy Award for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire, has died at age 97, his manager said Wednesday.
Among Malden's films is the 1967 western The Way West, costarring ROBERT MITCHUM and Kirk Douglas.
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