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While researching an article, my husband heard about St. John Cantius Parish (Chicago), which offers the Tridentine Mass. Being only a thirty minute drive, we decided to make the trip for my first Tridentine Mass ever on January 1st, the feast day of Mary, Mother of God. Being in awe of the Mass, we decided to return on the Epiphany (yesterday). Gregorian chant was heard almost completely throughout the Mass by their choir of just a few individuals. The Tridentine Mass itself is the most beautiful, heavenly, and fluid Mass I could ever imagine. No altar girls, no Eucharistic ministers,...

Commenter Other Stories saw what I did this weekend and put it best: Love TMC! But did anyone catch the weekend host Ben Mankiewicz (had to Google to find his name) snide comments regarding “A Face in the Crowd”? If you’re not familiar with the film, it starred Andy Griffith and he portrayed an evil media personality who fools the public by coming across as a likable down to earth kind a fella. Host Mankiewicz openly wondered if the producers had been able to see 50 years into the future and witnessed how people in this country were being manipulated...

On Turner Classic Movies today, 12 pm: Ronald Reagan in "The Girl From Jones Beach" 1949 Brief Synopsis: An artist discovers a real-life version of the perfect woman he's been drawing for years. http://www.tcm.com

Million Dollar Baby (1941) A young innocent's surprise inheritance causes problems with her poor but proud boyfriend. Cast: Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Ronald Reagan, May Robson Dir: Curtis Bernhardt BW-101 mins, TV-G www.tcm.com

New research at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston suggests that ancient Chinese herbal formulas used primarily for cardiovascular indications including heart disease may produce large amounts of artery-widening nitric oxide. Findings of the preclinical study by scientists in the university's Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (IMM) appear in the Sept. 15 print issue of the journal Free Radical Biology & Medicine. Nitric oxide is crucial to the cardiovascular system because it signals the inner walls of blood vessels to relax, which facilitates the flow of blood through the heart...

A team of flyers risks their lives to deliver the mail in a mountainous South American country.

Roman Catholic, Anti-Communist Republican classic movie director Leo McCarey's "Once Upon A Honeymoon"(1942) with Republican movie superstars Ginger Rogers & Cary Grant. is airing on TCM on Monday morning. From its title, stars & director one might think it's a light romantic comedy like Grant's "The Awful Truth" and Miss Rogers' "It Had to Be You." And while it's partly in that genre, it's also a WII spy adveture. It's loads of fun to watch if you're a fan of Ginger, Cary, Walter Slezak(as Ginger's villainous Nazi husband), McCarey or 1940s WWII propaganda films. It also provides evidence that there...

"Nevada Smith"-classic western starring one of my favorite movie cowboys, the legendary Steve McQueen is on Turner Classic Movies today at 12:00 PM EST. Co-starring Brian Keith as his foster father, Karl Malden, Martin Landau, Arthur Kennedy as his adversaries, Raf Vallone as a compassionate and wise priest and the late and lovely Suzanne Pleshette(in one of her best performances as the smoky voiced Cajun named Pilar), Janet Margolin and Joanna Moore(in an unbilled part) as the women in his life. Directed by Henry Hathaway("The Sons of Katie Elder") and a great score by Alfred Newman. Definitely worth catching if...

It has been said that director Howard Hawks made Rio Bravo (1959) as a reaction to two popular westerns which angered him - High Noon (1952) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957). His comment on the former was, "I didn't think a good sheriff was going to go running around town like a chicken with his head off asking for help, and finally his Quaker wife had to save him." Hawks also considered 3:10 to Yuma, which had outlaw Glenn Ford playing psychological games with lawman Van Heflin, "a lot of nonsense." So Rio Bravo was the director's take on heroism...

A mural unearthed from an ancient tomb in the northwestern Chinese province of Shaanxi last week depicted how traditional Chinese medication was practised 1,000 years ago... Song Dynasty murals are not rare in and around the ancient Chinese capital Xi'an, but researcher Sun Bingjun at Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology said this was the first found to depict traditional Chinese medication, prevalent in China for nearly 5,000 years. The mural, about four meters square, had a man sitting on a chair, whom experts believed was the tomb owner... Two other men were sitting at the table, one of whom was...

Ronald Reagan Profile Films in bold will air in March Asked by Bob Hope what it felt like to be president, Ronald Reagan replied, "it's not a lot different than being an actor, except I get to write the script." The leading man in that script was similar to many of the screen roles Reagan played during his Hollywood career - decent, optimistic, a bit of a square, a believer in God, family and country. As a recent book of the diaries Reagan kept as president shows, he was ever mindful of the Production Code, avoiding swear words, and...

Knute Rockne, All American (1940)Biography of the famed Notre Dame coach and his fight to "win one for the Gipper."Cast: Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan, Donald CrispDir: Lloyd Bacon C-98 mins, TV-G Kings Row (1942)Small town scandals inspire an idealistic young man to take up psychiatry.Cast: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Betty FieldDir: Sam Wood BW-127 mins, TV-PG Girl From Jones Beach, The (1949)An artist discovers a real-life version of the perfect woman he's been drawing for years.Cast: Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Eddie Bracken, Dona Drake Dir: Peter Godfrey BW-78 mins, TV-G John Loves Mary (1949)A World War...

TCM honors Ronald ReaganBy Hal BoekekerMarch 4, 2009 Before he made it big in Washington, President Ronald Reagan did pretty well in Hollywood. So well, in fact, that TCM has named Reagan its Star of the Month and will play 31 of his films on Wednesday nights in March. "I didn't remember he had done all these movies," daughter Patti Davis says. "I think it will make people say there was a whole life before politics. He was made fun of for the movie with the monkey, but he was a working actor." That movie with the monkey was Bedtime...

I thought y'all might want to know, and to watch. STAR OF THE MONTH: RONALD REAGAN, He's on now. All times in Eastern. 8:00 PM Secret Service Of The Air (1939) A government agent battles smugglers. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Eddie Foy, Jr., John Litel. Dir: Noel Smith. BW-61 mins, TV-PG 9:15 PM Code Of The Secret Service (1939) Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Eddie Foy, Jr., Rosella Towne. Dir: Noel Smith. BW-58 mins, TV-G 10:30 PM Smashing The Money Ring (1939) The Secret Service investigates a fleet of gambling...

Asked by Bob Hope what it felt like to be president, Ronald Reagan replied, "it's not a lot different than being an actor, except I get to write the script." The leading man in that script was similar to many of the screen roles Reagan played during his Hollywood career - decent, optimistic, a bit of a square, a believer in God, family and country. As a recent book of the diaries Reagan kept as president shows, he was ever mindful of the Production Code, avoiding swear words, and writing "hell" as "h__l" and "damn" as "d___". Born in 1911...

It's interesting that on the same day that America's new Socialist in Chief will be inaugurated, Turner Classic Movies is featuring The Fountainhead.

6:00am Bad for Each Other (1954) 7:30am Buccaneer, The (1958) 9:32am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Wrong Way Butch (1950) 9:51am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Egypt Speaks (1951) 10:00am Khartoum (1966) 12:30pm Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1965) 4:00pm Ben-Hur (1959) 7:44pm Short Film: From The Vaults: Ben-Hur: Behind The Scenes With Glenn H. Randall & Yakima Canutt (1959) 8:00pm Big Country, The (1958) 11:00pm Major Dundee (1965) 1:30am Soylent Green (1973) 3:11am Short Film: From The Vaults: Look At The World Of Soylent Green, A (1973) 3:30am Hawaiians, The (1970) http://www.tcm.com/schedule

TCM Host Robert Osborne: Actor Was ‘Genuine Movie Star’ By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/7/2008 2:44:00 PM Turner Classic Movies slated a 15-hour marathon April 11-12 (2:30 p.m.-5:30 a.m. April 12) to salute the late Charlton Heston. Heston, who died over the weekend at age 84, was an Oscar-winning actor whose imposing frame and voice made him the film industry's choice for a number of classic roles. TCM's lineup includes an interview and lesser-known films -- The Buccaneer, Major Dundee, The Hawaiians (such tributes are circumscribed by the films to which a channel has rights) -- bracketing his...

LOS ANGELES, April 7 (UPI) -- Turner Classic Movies said it plans to pay tribute to late Hollywood film star Charlton Heston with a marathon of his movies. Heston, who had suffered from Alzheimer's disease in recent years, died Saturday at the age of 84. The movie marathon honoring him is to take place Friday and will include screenings of his famous films "Ben-Hur," "The Buccaneer," "The Hawaiians," "Khartoum" and "Major Dundee," as well as two showings of an in-depth conversation between Heston and TCM host Robert Osborne in the TCM original special "Private Screenings: Charlton Heston." "Charlton Heston was...

August 24, 2007 -- Friday Schedule 6:00am -- Love Is On The Air (1937) 7:15am -- Brother Rat (1938) 8:45am -- Code Of The Secret Service (1939) 9:45am -- Angels Wash Their Faces (1939) 11:15am -- Dark Victory (1939) 1:00pm -- Hell's Kitchen (1939) 2:30pm -- Desperate Journey (1942) 4:30pm -- One For The Book (1947) 6:15pm -- John Loves Mary (1949) 8:00pm -- Bedtime For Bonzo (1951) 9:30pm -- Kings Row (1942) 11:45pm -- Knute Rockne All American (1940) 1:30am -- Girl From Jones Beach, The (1949) 3:00am -- Night Unto Night (1949) 4:30am -- Prisoner Of War (1954)...

For the past few years, Turner Classic Movies has had a feature in August called "Summer Under the Stars". Each day features one movie actor/actress, and the whole day (6 AM to 6 AM - ET) consists of movies made by that star. This Friday (August 24th) will be 24 hours of Ronald Reagan movies. Here is the schedule of movies to be shown (ET): 6:00 AM Love Is On The Air (1937) 7:15 AM Brother Rat (1938) 8:45 AM Code Of The Secret Service (1939) 9:45 AM Angels Wash Their Faces (1939) 11:15 AM Dark Victory (1939) 1:00 PM...

Screened Out: Gay Images in Films - Mondays & Wednesdays in JuneA 44-Movie Festival that examines gay sexuality in the cinema from the silent era up to the films that challenged Hollywood's rigid CodeAt a time when the rights of gays and lesbians are being hotly debated, TCM offers a look at the treatment of homosexuals in American movies as inspired by the Richard Barrios book Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall. Our festival covers roughly the same territory as the book, with the range marked by two TCM premieres: the silent comedy Algie, the Miner...

The 1945 Movie "Love Letters" (screenplay by Ayn Rand) will be shown  on Turner Classic Movies at 8pm Eastern on Wednesday, August 16th.   Set your Tivos, DVDRs and VCRs if you haven't already gotten a copy  of this delightful film.   See: THIS page.  Also: click on the "MONTH SCHEDULE" button in the  second menu bar (scroll half way down).

I don't believe it, I am watching John Edwards being interviewed on Turner Classic Movies Channel with TCM host Ben Mankiewicz before a showing of Dr. Strangelove. Leave it to Turner to push his politics into the move channel and attaching Edwards to antiwar antimilitary movie.

On Thursday, June 10th, Turner Classic Movies will alter its programming in order to honor actor and former President Ronald Reagan with a 15-film tribute.