TCM says goodbye in a most classy way...

Turner Classic Movies--for my money, the only reason to have cable or satellite--has put together a masterful obituary piece that salutes those moviemakers who passed from this mortal coil in 2008. Even the Oscars' obit won't highlight some of those familiar people you see here--it's really a beautifully researched bit of TV. Having worked at Turner before, I know positively that the camera crew was sent to Atlanta's nearby Lake Lanier to film the wraparound bits (a man-made lake, it's drying up due to a lack of rain in Georgia). The song, by the way, is Joe Henry's "God Only Knows." Get a hanky, 'cuz yer gonna need it... (and, incidentally, add B-movie queen Beverly Garland, Oscar-winner Van Johnson, sexy Eartha Kitt, cerebral playwright/screenwriter Harold Pinter and To Kill A Mockingbird director Robert Mulligan to this mix).