
Sally Field is a two-time Oscar winner, a three-time Emmy winner -- including last year at Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for
Brothers and Sisters -- and she's bound to be in the running again this year when the nominations are announced on July 17.
Now she's taking on a new role;
she'll be guest programmer at Turner Classic Movies in July, and having gotten a look at her choices, I have to say to Sally, "I like you, I really like you" -- at least your taste in movies.
Sally will be joined by
TCM host Robert Osborne introducing and discussing her four films. The Field four are
Love With a Proper Stranger, The Awful Truth, All About Eve and
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, and every one of them features great performances by women.
To those of you who aren't movie buffs, here's a bit more information about these films -- why I like them, and I mean, I really like them.
Character: Widow FortuneShow: The Dark Secret of Harvest HomeEpisode: Mini-seriesI recently watched R.L. Stine's
The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About it with my children and I had an epiphany -- TV was a lot creepier when I was a kid. We didn't watch water-downed kiddie horror. We watched what the adults watched when they obviously didn't know we were watching.
My parents didn't allow me to see scary movies, such as
The Amityville Horror or
The Exorcist. Yet, somehow they didn't stop me from viewing all sorts of frightening TV, including the
The Twilight Zone ,
Chiller Theater,
Salem's Lot, Frankenstein: The True Story, The Dark Night of the Scarecrow, and
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.
However, it was
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home that left the greatest impression on me -- thanks in a large part to Bette Davis in the role of the creepiest senior citizen ever. Davis played the sinister Widow Fortune so brilliantly that almost 30 years later, I still remember it vividly.