PAGE 2 • TV
BY JAY BOBBIN
THE BULLETIN • JULY 29 - AUGUST 4, 2021
Bette Davis is the first
performer showcased in
Turner Classic Movies’ annual
“Summer Under the Stars”
month, which begins
Sunday.
TCM’s Alicia Malone is
ready for another ‘Summer
Under the Stars’
incredible directors like Paul Mazursky
and Robert Altman. It’s a treat to see him
in ‘King Rat,’ because that’s a film I had
on my watch list for a long time. That
was his first big break, a role turned down
by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen,
but it ended up being perfect for what
George Segal was able to do. Not only
was he handsome, he was very charming,
and he had that wit.”
Malone helps launch the 2021
“Summer Under the Stars” with a Bette
Davis day Sunday, Aug. 1. Others whose
classics and careers she covers during the
month include Kim Novak (Tuesday,
Aug. 3), Judy Garland (Aug. 15), Gloria
Grahame (Aug. 17), Tyrone Power (Aug.
22), Maurice Chevalier (Aug. 24) and
Ingrid Bergman (Aug. 29). Since Malone
also handles the Fredric March night, she
gets to both open and close the event.
Noting that she likes to give an overall
profile of the chosen actor when first
introducing one of his or her films,
Malone adds that in doing research, she
was surprised by “how young some of
these people were when they died. It
always shocks me when their careers are
doing so well and then, that happens.
Tyrone Power had ‘Witness for the
Prosecution’ just a year or two before he
died, so that always gives me pause ...
what roles may have been on the horizon
if they’d had longer lives.”
Not only is Turner Classic Movies’
annual “Summer Under the Stars” festival
the usual celebration of one performer per
day this year, it’s also a birthday salute in
certain cases.
The channel reserves all of August for
24-hour tributes to selected performers,
and this time, those fall on the birthdates
of several of the given stars. They include
Louis Armstrong (on Wednesday, Aug.
4), Robert Mitchum (Friday, Aug. 6),
Esther Williams (Aug. 8), Robert Redford
(Aug. 18) and Fredric March (Aug.
31). Armstrong and Redford are first-
timers for “Summer Under the Stars”
showcasing, as are others such as Richard
Burton (Monday, Aug. 2), Abbott and
Costello (Saturday, Aug. 7), Eve Arden
(Aug. 23) and Tony Randall (Aug. 26).
Also a debuting “Summer Under the
Stars” subject is the recently deceased
George Segal, with his Aug. 10 “day”
doubling as a memorial. The lineup that
ranges from the comedic “Fun With Dick
and Jane” to the deeply dramatic “Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (for which
Segal was Oscar-nominated) falls on the
watch of Alicia Malone, TCM’s Sunday-
afternoon and Tuesday-evening host.
“It’s a real pleasure to get to pay tribute
to him,” Malone says. “He left behind a
huge body of work since he worked so
much, particularly in the 1970s, and with
Guide to the TV grids
TV Ratings:
‘G’: General audience
‘Y’: Young children
‘7’: Children over 7
‘14’: Children over 14
‘PG’: Parental guidance
‘M’: Mature audience only
PA: Parental advisory
DVS: Descriptive video service
EI: Educational/instructional
D: Dialogue
L: Language
S: Sexual situations
V: Violence
Common symbols :
HD scheduling, please
note:
’:I n stereo
Å: Closed captioning
iTV: Interactive TV program
N: Program is new
Schedules are based on standard-
definition (SD) channels. High-
definition (HD) channels may vary
by three hours when a West Coast
programming feed is not available to
your TV provider. Please refer to your
provider’s interactive TV guide for
detailed HD channel schedules.
For a list of cable and over-the-air
channels by zip code, as well
up-to-the-minute TV programming,
please visit www.bendbulletin.
com/tv. For questions or feedback
please call The Bulletin Circulation
Department at 541-385-5800.