This week on Turner Classic Movies

If your cable system doesn’t carry TCM, I’m sorry.  It sucks to be you.  Mine didn’t carry it until a few years ago, so I feel your pain.  And mock it.  Here are a couple of films worth checking out this week:

• Adam’s Rib (Thursday, June 21st, 12:00PM):  Tracy and Hepburn.  Enough said, right?  They had phenomenal chemistry together, which is possibly heightened by George Cukor’s directing–he directed Hepburn previously in The Philadelphia Story, and this film feels not unlike a more grown-up version of that movie, in terms of the issues explored and the banter.

• Harold and Maude (Friday, June 22nd, 4:00AM):  Worth getting up early for?  Definitely, if you haven’t seen it or don’t own a DVR.  There’s a reason the film is considered a cult classic, and it isn’t the bitchin’ Cat Stevens soundtrack.  Really, at this point? You’ve probably already seen it.  Tape it and catch up with it.  There should be more love stories like it–not in the May-December sense, but in the oh-my-but-there-is-more-here-than-meeting-cute sense.

• On the Waterfront (Saturday, June 23rd, 2:00PM):  Interesting nerd trivia: in this movie, Superman’s biological father in Superman meets his adoptive mother in Superman Returns.  I’m awfully fond of Eva Marie Saint–I may be nursing a slight crush on her from North by Northwest still.  And Marlon Brando?  People always forget how good-looking Brando was in his youth.