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beamish14 · #76 Post by **beamish14** » Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:51 pm

Gordon Parks' Leadbelly is airing on Showtime later this month, and can be seen on demand if you have Spectrum.

Ribs · #77 Post by **Ribs** » Fri Feb 10, 2023 9:53 pm

Warren Beatty will be doing another special in character as Dick Tracy to retain the rights to the character, airing at 10:30 tonight.

#78 Post by **Matt** » Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:23 pm

Is that what that is? I saw it on the TCM schedule but it just says “No Description available, No Director Information Available, No Cast Information Available”

#79 Post by **Matt** » Sat Feb 11, 2023 3:50 am

The whole thing is Beatty in character as Dick Tracy negatively criticizing clips from his own movie on a Zoom call while Ben Mankiewicz and Leonard Maltin look on in disbelief. It’s very bizarre. And then Beatty (as himself) shows up on the Zoom call and has a low-key argument with Dick Tracy.

dustybooks · #80 Post by **dustybooks** » Sat Feb 11, 2023 3:44 pm

That sounds incredible. I read in the book Big Beat Heat about a very early public access TV show hosted by Alan Freed and someone else whose name escapes me. They sat across from each other, in front of a backdrop of painted clouds, with a record player between them, with a piano off to the side that neither ever touched, and insulted one another for several minutes before playing an R&B record on the turntable then repeating the process. I think all footage is lost but similar to the Beatty thing it sounds like my kind of accidental (?) absurdism.

#81 Post by **DarkImbecile** » Sun Feb 12, 2023 3:26 pm

Matt wrote: Sat Feb 11, 2023 3:50 am The whole thing is Beatty in character as Dick Tracy negatively criticizing clips from his own movie on a Zoom call while Ben Mankiewicz and Leonard Maltin look on in disbelief. It’s very bizarre. And then Beatty (as himself) shows up on the Zoom call and has a low-key argument with Dick Tracy.

Here it is, for those who are interested

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