# Major event upcoming on TCM

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-event-upcoming-on-tcm/389193>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 24, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-event-upcoming-on-tcm/389193 "2007-01-24T02:22:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-event-upcoming-on-tcm/389193/81 "2007-08-27T05:41:20Z")

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[QUOTE=Evil Captor]

I did find myself wishing that someone other than Kirk Douglas had played the lead. I thought Kirk did a lot of scenery-chewing, but the big problem was Kirk’s looks. He was just too fucking improbably handsome to play a loser desperate to grab an opportunity to make it big in journalism.  
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I gotta disagree. He looked just like the guy who always got by on his looks, and thus never developed any real character. He was stuck in a place where his charm was worth nothing, so he had had to grub for the first time in his life. And his past failures were due largely to hubris; the eternal failing of the too-goodlooking-for-their-own-good crowd.

At least, that’s how I read his character, which is why he seemed perfect in the role to me.

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**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-event-upcoming-on-tcm/389193/82 "2007-08-27T06:12:22Z")

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[QUOTE=lissener]  
I gotta disagree. He looked just like the guy who always got by on his looks, and thus never developed any real character. He was stuck in a place where his charm was worth nothing, so he had had to grub for the first time in his life. And his past failures were due largely to hubris; the eternal failing of the too-goodlooking-for-their-own-good crowd.

At least, that’s how I read his character, which is why he seemed perfect in the role to me.  
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And it’s not like this role was a departure for Douglas at the time. He played quite a few charming heels (e.g., **Champion** ) early in his career.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-event-upcoming-on-tcm/389193/83 "2007-08-27T12:32:10Z")

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[QUOTE=lissener]  
I gotta disagree. He looked just like the guy who always got by on his looks, and thus never developed any real character.  
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I agree. As I recall, he left his last job due to some difficulty with the Publisher’s Wife.

And Evil, we have the appropriately hillbilly sounding “Buford” and a “Bull Shoals”, but alas, no “Bugfuck”. 🙂

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