I'll always connect The Wizard of Oz with Thanksgiving. When I was growing up, one of the networks always ran the classic movie at Thanksgiving time. (That was back when there were just three networks, children.)

I always wanted to see it on the big screen, and for those who haven't had the pleasure, another opportunity is coming up from the folks at Fathom. On November 17th, a live, high-def simulcast of the movie will be shown in theaters around the nation - along with a taped intro from Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne, as well as a documentary about the making of the movie.

It's in honor of the 70th anniversary of the film, one of the magical Hollywood films of 1939, and, in my humble opinion, one every movie buff will want in an essential classic movie library.

If you're into classic stop-motion cheese (I am), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is a must on Saturday for the terrific Ray Harryhausen effects, but of course check your brain at the door. And then don't miss Take the Money and Run, the hilarious 1969 Woody Allen mockumentary. (I love it when he plays cello in a marching band. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.)

On Saturday, it's got to be The Maltese Falcon. ("If you lose a son, you can always get another, but there's only one Maltese Falcon.") In the wee small hours Monday morning, try All of Me, a sweet-natured Steve Martin-Lily Tomlin fling with some of the finest physical comedy ever committed to celluloid.

Enjoy!

I love the stuff you can find on YouTube, like this excellent Tom Snyder interview with Alfred Hitchcock, way back in the '70s.

Love him or hate him, Snyder was a great interviewer, and this was probably one of the last times Hitch allowed himself to be interviewed at length on TV.

I love Hitchcock's lugubrious voice, his measured pace, and the way you can never tell whether he means something or he's putting you on -- like being afraid of getting a ticket from a police officer.

Fun, and insightful.

I've always wondered whether people buy things in the heat of an auction that they later come to regret. That may be the case with the attempts to sell the crypt directly above Marilyn Monroe's in a Hollywood mausoleum - the eBay auction has failed for a second time.

Even though several bidders pre-qualified, and even though some guy in Japan bid $4.6 million the first time and then reneged because oif "paying problems," the widow whose husband currently occupies the crypt will not be evicting him just yet.

I just have to think that in this economy, even people with millions to spend are thinking twice about buying something they can't enjoy until they're dead.

Image of Monroe in a Miami art exhibit/by Gustavo Caballero, Getty Images