7 30 P.M. (FMC) LIFE AFTER FILM SCHOOL Mark Waters, the director of "Mr. Popper's Penguins," which opens on Friday, discusses some of the challenges of working with live penguins and that funny bird Jim Carrey.
8 P.M. (FMC) MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (1994) A remake by the director Les Mayfield updates the tale of a department store Santa Claus restoring a doubting girl's childhood wonder.
8 P.M. (FMC) NO WAY OUT (1950) Sidney Poitier made his big-screen debut in this film about racial tensions as a doctor assigned to care for a wounded criminal, played by Richard Widmark (above left, with Mr. Poitier), who despises black people.
Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott called the film "the finest post-Zionist action-hairdressing sex comedy I have ever seen". 2 P.M. (FMC) PEOPLE WILL TALK (1951) Cary Grant plays Dr. Praetorius, a successful professor of gynecology who seems to have more interest in the soul than in the body.
8 P.M. (FMC) JOHN AND MARY (1969) Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow play New Yorkers who meet in a singles bar, grow infatuated while debating the finer points of Jean-Luc Godard, and spend the night together.
The ceremony is at Radio City Music Hall. 10 P.M. (FMC) TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967) -- Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney, left, play young lovers who marry, lose the magic and fret about it eloquently in Stanley Donen's portrait of a relationship.
So FMC users are likely to account for a tiny proportion of telephone subscribers and revenues for the foreseeable future.
Some FMC systems, for example, allow calls from mobile phones to be routed through a company's central switchboard.
This is called "fixed-mobile convergence" (FMC), and there have been many failed attempts at it over the years.
This makes outgoing calls, particularly international ones, much cheaper.Operators like the idea of FMC too.
FMC is, of course, a bundle: it ties together fixed, mobile and broadband services in a particularly "sticky" way that makes it a powerful customer-retention tool.Fusion or confusion?But how is FMC working out in practice?
