You earned your gold star, Bob. As primary host of Turner Classic Movies: TCM since 1994, you’ve brought joy to millions of classic movie fans. As a writer, you’ve enlightened us about the history of the Oscars and Hollywood’s Golden Age. Now, alas, it falls to others to celebrate your legacy.
This morning on WPRB, I’ll be playing music from a number of classic scores from films seen regularly on TCM, including a few that you’ve acknowledged as among your personal favorites, films like “Laura,” “A Place in the Sun,” and “Hobson’s Choice.” We’ll also hear concert works by classic film composers Jerome Moross, Elmer Bernstein, Franz Waxman, Bernard Herrmann, Miklos Rozsa, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. In fact, the music is already underway.
Next weekend, TCM will dedicate 48 hours of its programming to your long-form interviews with Hollywood legends, including a selection of those conducted at the TCM Classic Film Festival with such artists as Peter O’Toole, Eva Marie Saint, Kim Novak, Alan Arkin, and Luise Rainer (who at the time was 101 years-old!). The TCM tribute will begin on March 18 at 6 a.m.
In the meantime, rest easy, Bob. Enjoy the music, from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’ll be keeping it reel, on Classic Ross Amico.
PHOTO: Robert Osborne in 2006 with his newly-minted star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame