Turner Classic Movies Plays 360 DEGREES OF OSCAR(R) in Annual Oscar Marathon
December 14 2005 - 11:57AM
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Month-Long Festival Features 360 Nominated and Winning Movies,
Scheduled in Format Similar to Popular "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"
Game ATLANTA, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Turner Classic Movies (TCM)
has the ultimate line-up in February for a month-long tribute to
movies nominated for Academy Awards(R). This year, TCM's annual
salute to the movies nominated for or awarded Hollywood's most
prestigious prize borrows its theme from the film buff party game
"Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." For 360 DEGREES OF OSCAR(R), the cast
of each movie aired during the festival is linked to the movie
immediately broadcast after it through a common movie star Hosted
by Robert Osborne, the festival kicks off on Wednesday, Feb. 1, at
6 a.m. with Mogambo, featuring Ava Gardner, who then stars in the
next movie, Show Boat, which stars Kathryn Grason, who then stars
in the next movie, Thousands Cheer, and so on. The massive festival
ends Friday, March 3, two days before the 78th Annual Academy
Awards. The final movie in the festival, Lust for Life, features
actor Eric Pohlmann, who is also featured in the first movie in the
festival, Mogambo, bringing the entire month full circle. This
year's festival also welcomes TCM premieres such as the 1988 four-
time Oscar(R) winner Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Feb. 18), 1991
nominee Fried Green Tomatoes (Feb. 21), Harrison Ford's early
classic The Conversation (Feb. 28) and the 1973 nominee Nashville
(Feb. 21). These modern films join TCM favorites such as Citizen
Kane (Feb. 2) and the eight-time Oscar(R) winner Gone with The Wind
(Feb. 26) for a unique blend of classic films all connected by one
degree of separation. The stars connected in 360 DEGREES OF
OSCAR(R) range from ultra-popular (Robert Redford in The Sting and
Out of Africa on Feb. 12) to relatively obscure (Grandon Rhodes in
Born Yesterday and White Heat on Feb. 15), but every movie is a
gem. A complete schedule is attached. Turner Classic Movies,
currently seen in more than 70 million homes, is a 24-hour cable
network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner
company. Since its launch in 1994, TCM has presented 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.
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