SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: SHIRLEY MACLAINE
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Shirley MacLaine is the artist honored today by TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars,” and the roster of movies presented today and tonight includes several ones worth recording, revisiting or just plain enjoying and encountering. Today at 9:30 a.m. ET, TCM presents 1967’s Woman Times Seven, in which MacLaine plays seven different roles in a comedy anthology film. When it was shown originally on TV in the U.S., one of the seven segments was cut as being too risqué, so it actually was Woman Times Six. On TCM, the math and the movie both add up. Plenty of other fine films show up, including 1966’s Gambit at 6 p.m. ET, but the evening hours bring the real gold. Terms of Endearment (pictured), from 1983, starts things off at 8 p.m. ET, followed at 10:30 by 1989’s Steel Magnolias (sadly, another of her late-career triumphs, Being There, will not be here), and at 12:45 a.m. ET by 1969’s Sweet Charity.