Do not get me started on that disgusting police state shit in Ferguson, Missouri.

To avoid any contact whatsoever with current events because the world is so fucked up I think I’m having a nervous breakdown — do NOT get me started on that disgusting police state shit in Ferguson, Missouri — I figure this is probably an ideal time to distract myself by recommending the upcoming week’s best movies on TCM’s August SUMMER UNDER THE STARS hoo-hah.

AUGUST 15: FAYE DUNAWAY. I’m not really a huge Faye Dunaway fan (are you?) but there are two movies you shouldn’t miss: Bonnie and Clyde (1967) with Warren Beatty; and Chinatown (1974) with Jack Nicholson and John Huston. Thank you.

AUGUST 16: HERBERT MARSHALL. I don’t think Herbert Marshall ever made a movie I didn’t like! Here are my favorite picks: Riptide (1934) with Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery; Trouble in Paradise (1932) with Kay Francis and Miriam Hopkins; The Moon and Sixpence (1942) with George Sanders; The Little Foxes (1941) with Bette Davis; Foreign Correspondent (1940) with Joel McCrea and Laraine Day; Murder! (1930) with Norah Baring; and two versions of the same film, The Letter (1929) with Jeanne Eagels and The Letter (1940) with Bette Davis. And they’re BOTH terrific!

AUGUST 17: JOHN HODIAK. My personal favorites are: A Stranger in Town (1943) with Frank Morgan; Battleground (1949) with Van Johnson; Two Smart People (1946) with Lucille Ball; Lifeboat (1944) with Tallulah Bankhead; and The Harvey Girls (1946) with Judy Garland.

AUGUST 18: CLAUDETTE COLBERT. Don’t miss: Boom Town (1940) with Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable; It Happened One Night (1934) with Clark Gable; and The Smiling Lieutenant (1931), a pre-Code musical gem with Maurice Chevalier and Miriam Hopkins.

AUGUST 19: PAUL NEWMAN. The Prize (1963) with Edward G. Robinson and Elke Sommer; Cool Hand Luke (1967); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) with Robert Redford; and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) with Elizabeth Taylor.

AUGUST 20: THELMA RITTER. I love Thelma Ritter! My favorites today are: Titanic (1953) with Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb; Daddy Long Legs (1955) with Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron; With a Song in My Heart (1952) with Susan Hayward; The Mating Season (1951) with Gene Tierney and John Lund; and Pillow Talk (1959) with Doris Day and Rock Hudson.

AUGUST 21: LEE TRACY. Fixer Dugan (1939) with Virginia Weidler; Crashing Hollywood (1938) with Joan Woodbury; Blessed Event (1932) with Dick Powell; Bombshell (1933) with Jean Harlow; and Dinner at Eight (1933) with an all-star cast including Marie Dressler, John and Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke and Jean Harlow.

I think it might be an excellent plan to go back to bed for a while because my work here is done. Thank you for reading this.