Airing tomorrow afternoon (3:45PM EST) on TCM.
Tune in to see a shamed Robby Benson pull a jumper off the Tallahatchie Bridge!
Stay tuned afterwards for another classic... THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER!
Yikes. A Double Feature of Depression.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 4, 2019 12:56 PM |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was one of the saddest books and movie..... it still effects me very deeply when I watch it.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 4, 2019 1:12 PM |
Ode to Billy Joe was one of the very first depictions of a gay character that I had ever seen on my TV as a pre-teen / early teen sometime in the '80s, and as such it has a profound effect on me, despite (or maybe because of?) the less the upbeat ending!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 4, 2019 1:17 PM |
What's so sad and depressing about a deaf/mute who blows his brains out in the bedroom of a young girl who will have to quit school and work at the local 5 and Dime the rest of her life to support her gimp father?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 4, 2019 1:31 PM |
Is Billy Jo really a gay character? Never seen the film, but have read multiple synopses of it and it sounds like the kid is "taken advantage of" by an older man. Sounds pretty homophobic, which wouldn't surprise me given the director is right-winger Max "Jethro" Baer.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 4, 2019 1:32 PM |
If I had to live in a shithole Mississippi delta filled with Republicans, I'd pull a jumper, too!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 4, 2019 1:33 PM |
Pass the cornbread, please.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 4, 2019 1:37 PM |
R8 is doing the Lord’s work.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 4, 2019 1:53 PM |
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is an Academy Award-nominated movie with memorable performances by Alan Arkin and Sandra Locke.
The Ode to Billy Joe is on the level of The Beverly Hillbillies.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 4, 2019 1:59 PM |
Robby Benson was such a cutie. *sigh*
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 4, 2019 2:01 PM |
Assuming the position up on Chocktaw Ridge.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 4, 2019 2:02 PM |
Hmm, wonder why Max Baer stopped directing?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 4, 2019 2:10 PM |
[quote]Pass the cornbread, please.
It's BISCUITS you stupid hillbilly!
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 4, 2019 3:47 PM |
Benson grew to be a hot daddy type.
I'd still bugger him up on Chocktaw Ridge.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 4, 2019 10:50 PM |
I was just a kid when this came out but I knew there was something about Billy Joe I liked. As I got older, he got hotter and then I understood.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 4, 2019 11:28 PM |
Billy Joe would make excellent boyfriend material.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 5, 2019 6:04 AM |
Where is OP posting from that it's eastern standard time and not daylight saving time?
We can do this over and over again, people. I got nothing better to do. It's annoying so please stop.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 5, 2019 6:57 AM |
Anyone watching?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 5, 2019 8:41 PM |
^^^No because we are confused by OP's start time in EST while in EDT.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 5, 2019 9:19 PM |
Well if you are that retarded then it is probably best you avoid it.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 5, 2019 9:25 PM |
^^^R22 Your use of 'retarded' as a pejorative is repugnant. Please just stop.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 5, 2019 9:36 PM |
Robby Benson was my one and only celebrity crush.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 5, 2019 9:45 PM |
^^^ And then you died?
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 5, 2019 10:21 PM |
Watching “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.”
It is depressing as hell, but Alan Arkin is rather hot in it.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 5, 2019 11:22 PM |
So Billy Joe got it on with Roscoe P. Coltrane!
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 7, 2019 11:41 AM |
[quote]Is Billy Jo really a gay character?
Yes, he admitted to the girl he wanted it eventhough it was "a sin against nature, a sin against God."
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 8, 2019 2:04 AM |
[quote]Yes, he admitted to the girl he wanted it eventhough it was "a sin against nature, a sin against God."
He must have been doing it wrong.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 8, 2019 2:05 AM |
Well would you want to fuck Sheriff Coltrane?
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 8, 2019 3:41 AM |
Robby Benson
Robby Benson (born Robin David Segal; January 21, 1956), 63 years old. Took his mother's maiden name as his stage name when he was 10.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 8, 2019 3:52 AM |
So many Robby Benson TV movies in the 70s. He was ubiquitous.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 8, 2019 4:54 AM |
How did I not know he was a nice Jewish boy?
Favorite Robbie line: We forgot about the flowers!
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 8, 2019 5:50 AM |
When he jumped, he was wearing a new men's cologne called Eau de Billy Joe.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 8, 2019 6:43 AM |
R34 Hawhawhaw
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 8, 2019 5:15 PM |