Robert Osborne

You know, people comment.

Robert Osborne himself said to me when I was on TCM, well, she's not doing much.

She's just moving around with a bunch of guys around her.

You know, I mean, that's a direct quote from Robert Osborne.

And Cole knew that the camera's eye would magnify this.

Mm-hmm.

It's cool.

I remember back in the Robert Osborne days, right?

Yes.

Well, my first job out of college was working for a company called BPI Communications, which was the parent company for Billboard and The Hollywood

and they would just drop whole scenes and even important stuff and you know we don't want to do that we want to make it make sense we have respect for the films no matter what you think of them and we want to make sure that you know it's it's a valid thing it isn't like oh you know you don't need this whole scene and we've had to do that we have well again we're real careful about what we take out we have a lot of respect

for the film I remember hearing Robert Osborne, the late Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, say he remembered watching a film where it was a musical and they took out all the music.

And so, you know, it was just the comedy without the music.

And you're really, you're the Robert Osborne of, you'll forgive me, schlock and cheese in the best way.

And Rich, I tell you all the time, I love the comedy.

I love the songs.

Okay, so tonight we're going to do the 1968 Best Picture, Oliver.

And this is from Robert Osborne's 80 Years of Oscar.

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Sure.

More like Robert Osborne, I like to think.

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Um, and, uh, I put the...

I'm not sure who the host is now.

I ca- I grew up with the Robert Osborne era of it, which sadly he passed away a couple years ago.

But I just miss him so much.

Like, that was my era of TCM was, was the Robert Osborne as the host.

I just always liked learning about ...

Like, that was probably my first introduction to just learning about classic movies, was through the Turner Classic Movies channel and his hosting.

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Patricia Bosworth has a thousand stories from her days amongst the greats of stage and screen, but if anyone can give her a run for her money, it's the late Robert Osborne, host of Turner Classic Movies, and once a working actor himself.

In 1958, his luck and charm got him a screen test with Lucille Ball.

So when it was over, Lucy didn't really say anything.

actually, I have a, I have a decent tease.

And even at the end of this one, it was funny, like leading into the next one, when the, when the universal logo came onto the screen at the very end, I was waiting and expecting to hear like Robert Osborne's voice.

Like I watched so many movies on Turner classic that when I watch a thirties movie, when it fades away, cause there's not long credit, they do all the credits at the beginning.

Right.

And so it's just a logo, um, And then Robert Osborne comes on to give me like a little tidbit from the movie.

Um, so it was like, it's funny that my brain's still like dog whistled that, uh, Oh yeah, that's, that's what I expect.

And then they normally like tease what the next movie is.