TCM to Honor Alan Pakula With Special Four-Movie Tribute, Friday, November 27.8 p.m. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD mockingbird: see mimic thrush. mockingbird Any of several New World birds of a family (Mimidae) known for their mimicry of birdsong. The common, or northern, mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) can imitate the songs of 20 or more species within 10 (1962) -- starring Gregory Peck as lawyer Atticus Finch representing a wrongfully accused black man (Brock Peters) in a small town. Oscar(r)- nominated for Best Picture. 10:30 p.m. LOVE WITH A PROPER STRANGER (1963) -- starring Natalie Wood as a cynical working girl who falls for Steve McQueen. 12:30 a.m. INSIDE DAISY CLOVER Inside Daisy Clover is a 1965 motion picture based on the 1963 novel by Gavin Lambert. The plot centers on a teen-aged tomboy's dreams of Hollywood stardom in the 1930s. (1965) -- Natalie Wood stars in this biting account of an actresses's rise to stardom in 1930s Hollywood. 3 a.m. THE STERILE CUCKOO (1969) -- Pakula's directorial debut stars Liza Minnelli as Pookie Adams, who forces herself on a young freshman, played by Wendell Burton. Best known for his work in the 1976 smash All The President's Men and directing Meryl Streep to an Oscar for 1982's Sophie's Choice, Pakula began his career in films as an assistant in the Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . cartoon department. He joined MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. as an apprentice and later moved to Paramount as a production assistant. His first major producing success came with TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, which was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. In 1982, his screenplay for Sophie's Choice was nominated for an Oscar. In the 1990s, Pakula directed two legal thrillers, Presumed Innocent (1990) and The Pelican Brief (1993). Turner Classic Movies, currently seen in more than 28 million homes, is a 24-hour cable network from Turner Broadcasting System Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (often abbreviated TBS Networks or TBS, inc.) is the company managing the collection of cable networks and properties started by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner from the mid-1970s to the late-1990s. , Inc. that presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from the largest film library in the world, the combined Time Warner and Turner film libraries, from the '20s through the '80s, commercial-free and without interruption. For more information, please visit the TCM (1) (Trellis-Coded Modulation/Viterbi Decoding) A technique that adds forward error correction to a modulation scheme by adding an additional bit to each baud. TCM is used with QAM modulation, for example. website at (http://TCM.turner.com). NOTE TO EDITORS: All Times Eastern |
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