Burlington, VT Something special happened 30 years ago last Sunday. Turner Classic Movies was born. It’s been a life-enriching if not life-changing experience for many of us. I became a movie buff because of TCM and its founding host, the late film historian Robert Osborne. What a delight to see a replay on Sunday of the 2013 introduction by Osborne and TCM film noir host Eddie Muller to the Michael Curtiz film, “The Breaking Point” (1950). TCM’s remarkable mid-20th-century library provides a window on many challenges we’ve long confronted as a society and continue to face today. Yes, there were ridiculous censors with heavy hands at work back then. Nonetheless, many classic movies emerged that speak to controversial subjects and, therein, some truly hideous people. Con artists and grifters playing on people’s fears and resentments, destructive megalomaniacs, deceitful sociopaths, fascists, racists, and haters using religion as a front? They were all there, brining in a real-world, m
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