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NICK CLOONEY; AMC’s SMOOTH DUDE

As long as we’re going down the American Movie Classics rabbit hole this week, why not pay a visit to another groovy AMC set (dig the moviola with reels threaded up in the background) with its coolest announcer ever. I speak of Nick Clooney (yes, yes, George’s father). Nick’s manner

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AMC REVISITED PT. DEUX

Apropos of yesterday’s post in which I linked the ill-fated American Movie Classics to the soon-to-be ill fated TCM, here’s another clip of AMC’s Bob Dorian. This time he’s introducing the Orson Welles version of ‘Treasure Island’ which is apparently paired with ‘Isle Of The Dead’. As usual, though, Orson

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IN MEMORIAM: AMC, BOB DORIAN and…TCM?

In corporate America (and show-biz–which I guess belongs to the former and thus is the same thing) you can’t stuff the Genji back in the bottle. When a studio hints that a project might go into turnaround, that project is 99/44/100% dead. When the very whisper was made of TCM

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