TCM GUEST PROGRAMMER: NATHAN LANE
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
The first of the four films selected tonight by guest programmer Nathan Lane is predictable: At 8 p.m. ET, it’s Mel Brooks’ brilliant 1967 comedy The Producers, starring Zero Mostel, the film which Brooks turned into a Tony-winning Broadway musical, with Lane in the (also Tony-winning) leading role. The others are more surprising, but equally outstanding. At 9:45 p.m. ET, it’s 1976’s All the President’s Men, followed at 12:15 a.m. ET by 1979’s Being There, and concluding at 2:30 a.m. ET with 1931’s City Lights. Mel Brooks, Alan J. Pakula, Hal Ashby, Charlie Chaplin – what a creative directorial quartet.