77 movies and 11 panel discussions

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The 2025 TCM Film Festival schedule dropped today! Will and I spent about an hour texting back and forth. Then Karen and I exchanged Facebook messages. We three from our movie group are making the pilgrimage to Hollywood and we've been comparing notes. At times we have 5 movies and a lecture to choose from! Fortunately we each go our own way, so we don't have to agree. Which is a good thing. Because we don't agree. For example, on the first night, Will is excited to see Teacher's Pet with Clark Gable and Doris Day, and nothing could stop me from kicking off the festival with Kate and Liz and Monty in Suddenly, Last Summer.

I'll see Michelle at the screening of the restored Cinderella. We're Facebook friends but since she lives in Colorado Springs, this is the only time we meet in person. I hope I'll run into Trudy again this year. And there's Lisa with the three names. Likewise John who loves Technicolor melodramas and his cat. And very tall Kris. (People bitch about Facebook all the time but I love how it keeps us old movie nerds connected between Fests.)

This is really happening. Three weeks from today. YAY!