Robert Osborne

Tcm Pays Tribute To Host Robert Osborne With Weekend Of Interview Highlights

... and Betty Hutton. Also featured will be the interview that his pal Alec Baldwin did with him on the occasion of the channel’s 20 th anniversary in 2014. Osborne also oversaw the annual TCM Classic Film Festival beginning in 2010 and TCM will air many of the interviews that he conducted there including those with Oscar winners Eva Marie Saint, Luise Rainer and Alan Arkin as well as honorary recipient Peter O’Toole. This one-time actor, who got his start at Desilu under the tutelage of Lucille Ball in the late 1950 s, turned to entertainment journalism in the 1970 s. To commemorate the 50 th anniversary of the Oscars in 1978, the academy asked him to pen its official history. He updated it a decade later, and then every five years with the most recent version being released in 2013. Dish movies with Hollywood insiders in our notorious forums. Osborne also wrote the “Rambling Reporter” column for The Hollywood Reporter for a quarter century (1984 – 2009). A one-time film critic for Fox 11 in Los Angeles, he served as president of the Los ...

Tcm To Mount 48-hour Tribute To Robert Osborne

... Silvia Suvadova. Doug Benc, Getty Images. Robert Osborne and Sally Field co-host TCM's 'The Essentials' on Jan. 14, 2015, in New York. John Nowak, TCM. Robert Osborne talks with Shirley Jones at the opening night gala screening of 'Oklahoma!' during the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles. John Sciulli, Wire Image. Alec Baldwin celebrates the 20 th anniversary of TCM with Robert Osborne during the Ask Robert event at the Montalban Theatre during the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. Mark Hill, Turner Classic Movies. Jill St. John and Robert Wagner celebrate the 20 th anniversary of TCM with Robert Osborne, center, during the Ask Robert event at 2014's TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. Mark Hill, Turner Classic Movies. Jerry Lewis is all smiles with film historian Robert Osborne at the hand and footprint ceremony for Lewis at the TCL Theater in Hollywood. Alberto E. Rodriguez, Wire Image. Robert Osborne and Liza Minnelli chat at the TCM Classic Film ...

Robert Osborne, A Hollywood Classic On His Own

... TCM crew; in a quirk of timing, I was among them, filming a batch of guest-host introductions to be aired next month on TCM.). I enjoyed a few dinners in New York over the years with Robert, and I hate to disappoint anyone, but dinner with that guy was as easy and delightful as you’d expect. We talked about writing, and writing for television, the sly, witty films of Ernst Lubitsch and Vincente Minnelli’s facility with musicals, melodramas and comedies. We talked about his Hollywood Reporter days, and his extraordinary good fortune in landing at TCM, one of the few things in contemporary media that everyone loves and admires. We talked about his days under contract with Desilu, and how Lucille Ball saved him from a life of being a solid, unspectacular actor by suggesting he write a book about the Oscars. The performing Robert did on screen, and on stage, ended up being excellent training for the role of playing himself, comfortably, on television. He found it hilarious that, generations apart, we played the same dull romantic lead (the young ...

Chuck Berry, More Recent Notable Deaths

... in "Everyone Hates Chris" and "Heat," died on Dec. 26, 2016. He was 54. (Credit: Getty Images / Jerod Harris). George Michael. George Michael, the British pop singer who shot to fame in the 1980 s with Wham!, died at his home in Oxfordshire, England, on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2016, his publicist said. He was 53. (Credit: Getty Images / Vittorio Zunino Celotto). Zsa Zsa Gabor. Actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor died at the age of 99 on Dec. 18, 2016. Gabor was perhaps best known for her nine marriages throughout her life. (Credit: AFP / Getty Images / Kim Kulish ). Craig Sager. Craig Sager, a television sports broadcaster known for wearing flamboyant outfits as he interviewed coaches and players during decades as an NBA sideline reporter, died on Dec. 15, 2016. He was 65. (Credit: Getty Images Sports / Ezra Shaw). Alan Thicke. The patriarch of "Growing Pains" - and the real-life dad of ...

Walking Dead,' '60 Minutes,' Charles Manson

... may be loose. Josh Mankiewicz is the reporter. CNN’s Jake Tapper and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse , D-R. I., will be interview guests on “Real Time With Bill Maher ” at 10 p.m. Friday on HBO. Former Rep. Barney Frank , D-Mass., and political commentator Andrew Sullivan will be panelists. “Saturday Night Live” offers a repeat and won’t be able to do anything with Sean Spicer’s fiery briefing Thursday with reporters, but maybe Maher can. TCM salutes the late Robert Osborne, its host for more than 23 years, with a 48-hour marathon at 6 a.m. Saturday. Fans can see Osborne’s interviews with Peter O’Toole, Kim Novak, Debbie Reynolds, Eva Marie Saint, Liza Minnelli, Betty Hutton, Alan Arkin, Ernest Borgnine and Luise Rainer. TCM also replays Alec Baldwin’s interview with Osborne. President Donald Trump talks to Jesse Watters on “Watters’ ...

Tcm Announces Plans To Honor Longtime Host Robert Osborne

... 7:30 a.m. – "Private Screenings: Norman Jewison". 9 a.m. – "Robert Osborne's 20 th Anniversary Tribute". 10:15 a.m. – "Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Alan Arkin". 11:30 a.m. – "Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Luise Rainer". 12:15 p.m. –  "Private Screenings: Liza Minnelli". 1:30 p.m. –  "Private Screenings: Robert Osborne". 3 p.m. –  "Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Eva Marie Saint". 4:15 p.m. –  "Robert Osborne's 20 th Anniversary Tribute". 5:30 p.m. –  "Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Peter O'Toole". 6:45 p.m. –  "Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival: Kim Novak". 8 p.m. –  Robert Osborne introduces "Gone with the Wind" in his first-ever on-air appearance as a TCM host. 8:05 p.m. – "Private Screenings: Robert Osborne". 9:30 p.m. –  "Private Screenings: Debbie Reynolds". 10:30 p.m. –  "Private Screenings: Betty Hutton". 11:45 p.m. –  "Private Screenings: Liza Minnelli". 12:45 a.m. – "Private Screenings: Robert Osborne". 2:15 a.m. – "Private Screenings: Norman Jewison". 3:30 a.m. – "Private Screenings: Ernest Borgnine. 4:45 a.m. – "Robert ...

Turner Classic Movies Host Dies At 84

... “All of us at Turner Classic Movies are deeply saddened by the death of Robert Osborne. Robert was a beloved member of the Turner family for more than 23 years. He joined us as an expert on classic film and grew to be our cherished colleague and esteemed ambassador for TCM,” she said. “Robert was embraced by devoted fans who saw him as a trusted expert and friend. His calming presence, gentlemanly style, encyclopedic knowledge of film history, fervent support for film preservation and highly personal interviewing style all combined to make him a truly world-class host.”. You May Also Like. ‘Bachelor’ Finalist Vanessa Teases Fans With Wedding Dress Shop Pics. Osborne started off in the late 50 s and early 60 s as an actor and was mentored by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. He appeared in the pilot of the Beverly Hillbillies, the stage play The Desilu Revue and a two-year traveling tour of the play Generation. The cinephile went on to combine his ...

Into The Badlands’ Returns To Amc

... Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). White House Chronicle (WETA at 9) Thomas A. Kochan, professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and Robert Whitcomb, former financial editor for the International Herald Tribune. Sunday Morning Futures (Fox at 10) Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, Rep. Cathy Mc Morris Rodgers (R-Wash.), Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N. C.). Newsmakers (C-SPAN at 10) Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N. C.), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. This Is America & the World (WETA at 10 and WHUT at 7:30 p.m.) Minister Li Kexin of the Chinese Embassy. Meet the Press (NBC at 10:30) White House budget director Mick Mulvaney and Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.). Prime-time listings. The Good Fight (CBS All Access streaming) “The Good Wife” spinoff takes on the free-speech debate in a storyline involving Internet trolls and tech mogul Neil Gross. Top Gear (BBC America at 8) “Doctor Who’s” David Tennant takes the show’s “reasonably fast car” out for a spin. Keeping Up With the Kardshians (E! at 9) Kim Kardashian opens up about being robbed at gunpoint last year in Paris. The Walking Dead (AMC at 9) The Saviors make an unexpected ...

An Ode To Robert Osborne

... living room, but it belonged to Robert Osborne, who I somehow can’t imagine living anywhere else. Osborne died three days ago , at age 84. For 23 years, as the marquee host of Turner Classic Movies, he brought strange babies like me into his home through a television set. “He was an angel of reason coming through a hotel television,” remembers my friend Greer Sinclair, a film presenter herself with Film Noir Foundation’s Noir City. “His manner told me gentlemen still talked about movies.” Greer and I belonged the same species growing up—awkward children, a little too old-fashioned and precise in our speech. Then we were little freaks, and no wonder we grew up into big freaks, watching that man gently deliver trivia about Bette Davis from under a perfectly salt and pepper coif. “I wanted to be wherever he was,” Greer says, “on that safe sound stage. I thought that was a place where movies were real, if that makes sense.”. It makes perfect sense ...

Tv Host, Actor And Film Historian Robert Osborne Dead At 84

... expert and friend," said Jennifer Dorian, TCM's general manager. "His calming presence, gentlemanly style, encyclopedic knowledge of film history, fervent support for film preservation and highly personal interviewing style all combined to make him a truly world-class host. Robert's contributions were fundamental in shaping TCM into what it is today and we owe him a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this time," she continued. (Photo: Facebook / TCM). Osborne lived in New York but shot his TCM appearances at the network's headquarters in Atlanta. TCM is the last movie network to regularly feature hosts who offer information about a movie before it starts. Osborne got his start in showbiz as an actor under contract to Lucille Ball and ...