The Best Years of Our Lives: The 2026 TCM Film Festival – Part 2

I’m telling you – time keeps on slipping (slipping, slipping) into the future. One day, I’m in L.A. at the TCM film festival, swooning over Carol Burnett, and the next, I’m listing Halloween décor to my Etsy shop (shameless plug alert!) Oy. So, before I have to start making my wardrobe plans for the next festival, I’m taking the opportunity today to recap my experience from this year’s event, which I attended – for the sixth year – with my older daughter, Veronica. I’ll try to keep this post short (ha!) and I hope you’ll come along! DAY 1: THURSDAY I always officially kick off my personal festival with the “So You Think You Know Movies” trivia contest, hosted by Bruce Goldstein, of New York’s Film Forum. Things were a bit off-kilter this year, though – because Goldstein was the recipient of the prestigious Robert Osborne Award, as well as introducing the 1957 Fellini movie Nights of Cabiria, he was relieved of his usual trivia hosting gig. Subbing in for Goldstein was Jeopardy game…