I always love TCM Remembers. Absolutely the best tribute to those who passed. This one, however, was and still is my favorite. This song and the video concept were perfect!
The innocence of drive-ins--even if half of America's 60-year-olds were conceived in them--was such a fitting setting for 2012's tribute. And ending on a celestial note of stars and "stars" and that blinding light--it really pushed me over the edge. M83's song, too--a band named after a spiral galaxy--was just the right mix of warmth and elegy. As I age, I'm beginning to feel so lost and adrift amidst the new popular culture--as I'm sure we all feel in the end--and thus in this tribute, with cold Dawn bringing the forgetfulness of Youth, I appreciate the nod to my generation that is, as Kafka wrote, "now falling away from us".
Lynne Perkins: So beautifully said, your comment is a tribute in itself. It brought tears to my eyes to read this. Thank you for making me feel a connection in the sometimes too lonely world of loss and nostalgia. I'm 63 yrs old, almost 5 yrs ago felt the sharp pain of loss and the depth of the word "never" when my 35 yr old son was killed ( homicide and tragedy). If I know there are people who feel the worth of lives gone by, it's helpful for me to be strong. Thank you for your wonderfully thoughtful comments on this 2012 tcm tribute.
hollisterpatricia, my heart goes out to you. Be assured that there are millions of people who, if they knew what has happened to you, would reach across the miles to envelop you in their arms. Please add my arms to theirs. "Nostalgia" is a misleading word, isn't it? It implies merely a looking-back at the past, and not the sharp pain that often comes with it. I feel pain when I think, "But wait a minute....this had WORTH! Why isn't it appreciated now? Why can't people see it's what we need....NOW?" It's debilitating, thinking of the mores and manners we grew up with being passé--the values of the past being ridiculed. With nothing to replace them with, we are adrift. I think that's why we cling to popular culture--it's the only culture we have in the modern world! And yet blink, and it's gone. And is taken up by another generation as their one truth. Heaven help us!
Jerry Nelson / actor/puppeteer Ginny Tyler / actress/singer "The Sword in the Stone" (1963) Richard Dawson / actor "The Running Man" (1987) Donna Summer / singer/actress "Thank God It's Friday" (1978) Dick Clark / actor "The Young Doctors" (1961) Don Cornelius / actor "Tapeheads" (1988) Paul L. Smith / actor "Popeye" (1980) Frank Cady/ actor "When Worlds Collide" (1951) Victor Spinetti / actor "Help!" (1965) Sherman Hemsley / actor "Love at First Bite" (1979) Bill Rafferty / actor "Above the Rim" (1994) Gary Collins / actor "Airport" (1970) Charles Durning / actor "The Muppet Movie" (1979) Jack Klugman / actor "Two-Minute Warning" (1976)
I was born in 52....a lot of memories watching TV and movies with family and friends no longer with us. The world is a different place........ not the same. At least we have some great memories of family and friends. I hope we can have more good times but the noose is getting tighter around our necks. Take care.
The most heartbreaking loss for me that year was Robert Sherman. I was 14 when he passed, and I couldn't control my tears. As a little kid, I would always pop in a Disney VHS, and would always stick around for those "Making of" segments after the movie. My tapes of Winnie the Pooh and others that came out around that time often had interviews with the Sherman Brothers, and being an avid movie buff, I grew up familiar with his work. The loss was devastating. It felt like I had lost not only one of my first idols, but a good friend. Songwriting will never be quite the same with only one Sherman brother. RIP Robert
Kudos to the producer of this video. I hope it received several awards. The use of Drive-in movies screens and the mystical 'Wait' by M83 made for a short that is at the top of my list of all-time-best.
I think these tributes are the absolute best! They need to use these on all the other award shows then there wouldn’t be all the quibbling about who was forgotten!!
me also. First heard this song because of TCM and love it. So right for a tribute to the greats actors and all that make the movies work. Makes me realize how short life is.
The most heart breaking scene for me was watching Larry Hagman. I adored him in Dallas and its reboot. He was my favorite villain with his television portrayal of J.R. Ewing. This song is beautiful and touching to those blessed TV stars we've lost in 2012. God bless you all.
+Pamela Rose = I love Larry Hagman in I dream of Jeannie, I think he played a evil son of Bitch in Dallas. I was crazy about Davy Jones in Monkees, when I was Ten years old, that was thirty-one years ago..
Just so you knw: one of the greatest straight men ever...watch a few episodes of "I Dream of Jeannie"...he got more laughs then the character actors. In the pantheon of Jack Klugman, Eric Mormack, etc....
Hagman was originally considered by the producers of "The Incredible Hulk" TV series for the role of Dr. David Banner, but he turned it down. Hagman was offered to portray the role of J.R. Ewing on Dallas. Bill Bixby got the part to play Banner.
This video is most beautiful. The theme being the stars of the night sky. Both the literal stars who are given a place to the screen stars and those creative people behind the scenes. I get so choked up seeing these actors/actresses who have passed, along with the people who worked behind the scenes to make it all possible. Peter Break goes way back. I had a crush on him in those old westerns. Davey Jones, so sad. Ernest Borgnine. TCM movie channel is showing "Marty" in its archive until Dec. 21. Ann Rutherford who played the Ghost of Christmas Past must have lived to a very old age.
This one got to me when it first aired. I always liked him, especially in McHale's Navy (which I know was a TV show and not a movie). Will always remind me of the fact that my husband got to meet him. He was here in Vegas for an airshow to promote his Airwolf show. My husband worked for a t-shirt printing shop so he got to sit next to him at the table while he signed autographs for fans. Said "Ernie" was one of the nicest guys you could ever meet.
This scences of master piece make feel like back to time to remenber the good memories , for them and peapple leave behind makes me sentimental. I love you tcm.
+Darrell Russ She was in A movie. An un-credited bit part in "Coming to America". If the video included clips of "actors" like Donna Summer, the video would be 3 months long.
+Pernell Harrison Same as my other comment. They can't include EVERYBODY who died in a year, unless you want a 15 hour video. WTF? I loved Richard Dawson on TV, but he appeared in ONE film as of course a television game show host in "The Running Man". Come on people.
I only watched this to see if Donna was included. I wasn't hopeful but when I saw so many other musicians/pop stars included I thought she stood a chance so can't help but be disappointed they excluded her. As well as TGIF/Last Dance her music was often memorably used in the movies, eg Looking For Mr Goodbar, The Full Monty... not to mention the movie theme songs she performed, eg The Deep, Foxes.
Here i am in 2019, looking back on this because I'll never forget the music and the Starlight Theater being perfect for the way i was feeling that year. You ser, my son had died in 2011, his death was a homicide, he had been shot and killed in March 2011. It was brought about by a selfish woman's love of drama in her life. My son had no reason to think that he would have a gun pointing at him from behind a curtained doorway. The ballet struck his throat, he died within minutes.
I've heard it said that Life makes us witness our own demise. It's also a time of memories and reflecting on the good and bad things one has done. Like the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs of the scales that weigh the heart and will the good one has done cause the scale to balance. 😢
TCM should spend more time showing us the faces and less time showing production stuff that add basically nothing after we've seen it a few times! I want to see the stars! Not the heavens!
so ..... ,et me get this straight, are you telling me that Andy Griffith gets a split second of memorial? R U kidding me? This is y no one watches tcm. Cause it is deplorable the way you see greatness. Andy Griffith great Andy Williams not as much c how this works???????????
The story being told in the background... as if the projection booth was waiting for its time to release their work to the heavens. Beautiful!
I always love TCM Remembers. Absolutely the best tribute to those who passed. This one, however, was and still is my favorite. This song and the video concept were perfect!
What is the name of the song and who sings it? I'd like to read the lyrics.
The song is "Wait - M83"
This is still my favorite TCM Remembers. Fifteen seconds into it and I'm crying.
I love The Motif in this one.
A movie projector takes the Stars off the screen and gives them back to the sky.
Powerful.
The innocence of drive-ins--even if half of America's 60-year-olds were conceived in them--was such a fitting setting for 2012's tribute. And ending on a celestial note of stars and "stars" and that blinding light--it really pushed me over the edge. M83's song, too--a band named after a spiral galaxy--was just the right mix of warmth and elegy. As I age, I'm beginning to feel so lost and adrift amidst the new popular culture--as I'm sure we all feel in the end--and thus in this tribute, with cold Dawn bringing the forgetfulness of Youth, I appreciate the nod to my generation that is, as Kafka wrote, "now falling away from us".
Lynne Perkins: So beautifully said, your comment is a tribute in itself. It brought tears to my eyes to read this. Thank you for making me feel a connection in the sometimes too lonely world of loss and nostalgia. I'm 63 yrs old, almost 5 yrs ago felt the sharp pain of loss and the depth of the word "never" when my 35 yr old son was killed ( homicide and tragedy). If I know there are people who feel the worth of lives gone by, it's helpful for me to be strong. Thank you for your wonderfully thoughtful comments on this 2012 tcm tribute.
hollisterpatricia, my heart goes out to you. Be assured that there are millions of people who, if they knew what has happened to you, would reach across the miles to envelop you in their arms. Please add my arms to theirs.
"Nostalgia" is a misleading word, isn't it? It implies merely a looking-back at the past, and not the sharp pain that often comes with it. I feel pain when I think, "But wait a minute....this had WORTH! Why isn't it appreciated now? Why can't people see it's what we need....NOW?" It's debilitating, thinking of the mores and manners we grew up with being passé--the values of the past being ridiculed. With nothing to replace them with, we are adrift. I think that's why we cling to popular culture--it's the only culture we have in the modern world! And yet blink, and it's gone. And is taken up by another generation as their one truth. Heaven help us!
+Lynne Perkins this is one of the best comments I have ever read!!
So well Said!!
I agree!!
A beautiful tribute to so many beautiful people we miss.
Jerry Nelson / actor/puppeteer
Ginny Tyler / actress/singer "The Sword in the Stone" (1963)
Richard Dawson / actor "The Running Man" (1987)
Donna Summer / singer/actress "Thank God It's Friday" (1978)
Dick Clark / actor "The Young Doctors" (1961)
Don Cornelius / actor "Tapeheads" (1988)
Paul L. Smith / actor "Popeye" (1980)
Frank Cady/ actor "When Worlds Collide" (1951)
Victor Spinetti / actor "Help!" (1965)
Sherman Hemsley / actor "Love at First Bite" (1979)
Bill Rafferty / actor "Above the Rim" (1994)
Gary Collins / actor "Airport" (1970)
Charles Durning / actor "The Muppet Movie" (1979)
Jack Klugman / actor "Two-Minute Warning" (1976)
Sylvia Kristel / actress "Emmanuelle (1974)"
Still makes me cry like a baby. Such a beautiful concept, perfect music and execution... flawless.
+omgangiepants Me too. Total agreement. Come back to watch this periodically and am newly amazed.
This was the year my mom passed...so it is so emotional for me 😢
Love how TCM used this song for this video. This is how I first heard this song. I always look forward to these TCM Remembers videos every year.
What is the name of this song? group?
Found it. M83 - "Wait".
My feelings exactly. I used to pass by the Starlight Drive In and went by myself to see one of the old movies there.
I was born in 1950 and have been a movie buff since the age of 4. These remembrances always kill me. So many memories.
I was born in 52....a lot of memories watching TV and movies with family and friends no longer with us. The world is a different place........ not the same. At least we have some great memories of family and friends. I hope we can have more good times but the noose is getting tighter around our necks. Take care.
The most heartbreaking loss for me that year was Robert Sherman. I was 14 when he passed, and I couldn't control my tears. As a little kid, I would always pop in a Disney VHS, and would always stick around for those "Making of" segments after the movie. My tapes of Winnie the Pooh and others that came out around that time often had interviews with the Sherman Brothers, and being an avid movie buff, I grew up familiar with his work. The loss was devastating. It felt like I had lost not only one of my first idols, but a good friend. Songwriting will never be quite the same with only one Sherman brother. RIP Robert
may they please NEVER stop making these... People die. And they Live on...
Just excellent-thanks so much!!!!😂❤
Kudos to the producer of this video. I hope it received several awards. The use of Drive-in movies screens and the mystical 'Wait' by M83 made for a short that is at the top of my list of all-time-best.
TCM does a great job at remembering the stars that i grew up watching . The music is very touching.
I lost two brothers since November...this is my tribute to them...and their memory...
luv,
ron
I think these tributes are the absolute best! They need to use these on all the other award shows then there wouldn’t be all the quibbling about who was forgotten!!
Beautifully done!
I come back and look at this every once in a while. It is so well done, spellbinding and almost magical.
I love the eeriness....and the sadness it conveys...is as if tha theater came alive.....one....last....time
Discovered M83 on this tribute. Thank you. Besutiful
I remember this year specifically because I thought the song was so moving. It was a truly beautiful tribute.
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Almost coming up on 10 years since Michael Clarke Duncan died. RIP big guy.
Wonderful job!
Michael Clarke Duncan, RIP Big Guy.
Beautifully done.
The best one
me also. First heard this song because of TCM and love it. So right for a tribute to the greats actors and all that make the movies work. Makes me realize how short life is.
What is the name of the song? group?
Found it M83 - "Wait". thanks.
RIP also in 2012 to Patricia Medina at age 92--English-American film and religion actress.
Davy Jones in Head 💙
RIP Davy Jones ("The Monkees", "Head") 5:41
Hopefully they’ll include Peter Tork in this years video as well. Hard to believe half the Monkees are now gone.
@@rockisheaven Hell. Half the Monkees, half the Beatles, The Who. and The Door.
Best channel ever.
I hadn't seen this one 😭 Glad they mentioned Mr. Frid, but also sad 😪
So nicely done. And very sad ,I will never forget them NEVER
The most heart breaking scene for me was watching Larry Hagman. I adored him in Dallas and its reboot. He was my favorite villain with his television portrayal of J.R. Ewing. This song is beautiful and touching to those blessed TV stars we've lost in 2012. God bless you all.
+Pamela Rose = I love Larry Hagman in I dream of Jeannie, I think he played a evil son of Bitch in Dallas. I was crazy about Davy Jones in Monkees, when I was Ten years old, that was thirty-one years ago..
Just so you knw: one of the greatest straight men ever...watch a few episodes of "I Dream of Jeannie"...he got more laughs then the character actors. In the pantheon of Jack Klugman, Eric Mormack, etc....
Hagman was originally considered by the producers of "The Incredible Hulk" TV series for the role of Dr. David Banner, but he turned it down. Hagman was offered to portray the role of J.R. Ewing on Dallas. Bill Bixby got the part to play Banner.
This video is most beautiful. The theme being the stars of the night sky. Both the literal stars who are given a place to the screen stars and those creative people behind the scenes. I get so choked up seeing these actors/actresses who have passed, along with the people who worked behind the scenes to make it all possible.
Peter Break goes way back. I had a crush on him in those old westerns. Davey Jones, so sad. Ernest Borgnine. TCM movie channel is showing "Marty" in its archive until Dec. 21. Ann Rutherford who played the Ghost of Christmas Past must have lived to a very old age.
RIP Larry Hagman.
I Miss Ernest Borgnine
This one got to me when it first aired. I always liked him, especially in McHale's Navy (which I know was a TV show and not a movie). Will always remind me of the fact that my husband got to meet him. He was here in Vegas for an airshow to promote his Airwolf show. My husband worked for a t-shirt printing shop so he got to sit next to him at the table while he signed autographs for fans. Said "Ernie" was one of the nicest guys you could ever meet.
This scences of master piece make feel like back to time to remenber the good memories , for them and peapple leave behind makes me sentimental. I love you tcm.
Always chokes me up.
Revelation and excellence😊
one of the most beautiful pieces of music I;ve ever had the the pleasure, and honor to hear !!!
luv,
ron
2:28 R.I.P. to the queen Whitney Houston
A great tribute.
What happened to Donna Summer? She was in movies and sang an Oscar winning song.
+Darrell Russ She was in A movie. An un-credited bit part in "Coming to America". If the video included clips of "actors" like Donna Summer, the video would be 3 months long.
+Pernell Harrison Same as my other comment. They can't include EVERYBODY who died in a year, unless you want a 15 hour video. WTF? I loved Richard Dawson on TV, but he appeared in ONE film as of course a television game show host in "The Running Man". Come on people.
Donna Summer was also in TGIF in 1970's, singing Last Dance.
🤔 Yes,l agree. Dick Clark always said,Donna Summer is/was one of the most under appreciated performers around. 😒 TCM proves that point,yet again.
I only watched this to see if Donna was included. I wasn't hopeful but when I saw so many other musicians/pop stars included I thought she stood a chance so can't help but be disappointed they excluded her. As well as TGIF/Last Dance her music was often memorably used in the movies, eg Looking For Mr Goodbar, The Full Monty... not to mention the movie theme songs she performed, eg The Deep, Foxes.
they left out Richard Lynch, the actor with burn scars on his face who played villains in movies.
For Levon Helm they should have shown a clip from Coal Miner’s Daughter. That was a marvelous piece of acting.
Is this the Starlight Drive in theater near Atlanta, Ga? How this video affected me that year .. so sad
Here i am in 2019, looking back on this because I'll never forget the music and the Starlight Theater being perfect for the way i was feeling that year. You ser, my son had died in 2011, his death was a homicide, he had been shot and killed in March 2011. It was brought about by a selfish woman's love of drama in her life. My son had no reason to think that he would have a gun pointing at him from behind a curtained doorway. The ballet struck his throat, he died within minutes.
Really appreciate all the views and comments
No Joan Taylor (20 Million Miles to Earth, Earth vs Flying Saucers)
Life is a shitty miracle
I've heard it said that Life makes us witness our own demise. It's also a time of memories and reflecting on the good and bad things one has done. Like the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs of the scales that weigh the heart and will the good one has done cause the scale to balance. 😢
Why was Simon Ward not on here?
Borgnine.
What is the name of the song and singer in this video?
M83-Wait
Steve Sabol
Why wasn't Gore Vidal credited as a novelist / actor?
4:50 this scene from E.T. Doesn’t the trees remind anyone of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center?
Tmc remembers 2019
remember Steve Sabol
Where is Andy Griffith? He was in movies too.
2012 very first one on video
@@annemoore5004 That was him in the film, "A Face In the Crowd."
He was riding on the train car at the beginning
William Finley.
Grandma from Crybaby, 2:25
No George Lindsey
Music from
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They unbelievably forgot the greatest.....Elizabeth Taylor!
She's in the 2011 tribute :)
srprincess, not only that, but they show her, heartbreakingly, walking away from us into the rain.
No They didn't, she was at the very end of 2011 one, it was very end.
Can't make out the words from that screaming chorus. Does anyone know what they're singing about?
They sound most annoying INMHO.
TCM should spend more time showing us the faces and less time showing production stuff that add basically nothing after we've seen it a few times! I want to see the stars! Not the heavens!
Stop the idiotic quibblling. Those mentioned, we shall no see their like again.
so ..... ,et me get this straight, are you telling me that Andy Griffith gets a split second of memorial? R U kidding me? This is y no one watches tcm. Cause it is deplorable the way you see greatness. Andy Griffith great Andy Williams not as much c how this works???????????
+jetdawgs101 Andy Williams was also great.
jetdawgs101 To be precise, he got 4 seconds (same as Andy Williams), and Griffith was mentioned at the very beginning. That's pretty great, no?
I c ur point, good reply, peace,,,,,,,
jetdawgs101 You’re so wrong