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True, but YT is the gold standard of the Everything good then, everything worse now meme.

I enjoy some of those too, but they sure have a lot of interruptions just as one is starting to get into the music. And some of the hosts go a bit overboard in talking about artists they probably don't know all that well. And for a $75 pledge you will get the four CD collection of rare outtakes and live performances. That's not all, for $100...

There are the occasional posters on YT who will say this about older films, but they are outweighed by the Those were the good old days folks. I've also noticed that many films which I would consider entertaining but rather routine productions of the time are called great. That might just be a disagreement, but it seems some of these folks bend over backwards to laud over any old b&w movie, however mediocre.

Many a truth is spoken is jest, or maybe it's just a joke. I have seen promos for the series and it looks interesting. It looks like it will provide detail to a historical subject that many people know little about. Beats a pledge drive every time.

Frank Booth? I like Fassbinder, but I don't think Querelle was one of his better efforts. Maybe RWF ran out of drugs that week.

Shaft would be a great title for a documentary about Reconstruction, as in that's what the ex-slaves often got.

It always fun to see the comments for a studio era film on YT. Someone will say They don't make them like that anymore. Then another person will pipe up with That's when men were men. And then Back then they had real stars not like the dopes they have today. And finally The country was better then, today's it's a PC hell on earth. Happens just about every time I watch a studio era flick on YT.

I suppose if you're into SMB it's interesting. If you're not, the umpteenth whipping, black leather accouterment, and being ridden by the dominatrix while you pretend to be a dog gets old fast. Okay, you've got a fully functional rack. Big deal. I found the Depardieu character to be a total rotter. I was hoping that M. Gautier would take him out in some high-toned, well thought out manner, but it was not to be. I will give credit for not having the screw/drive end in a fatal car accident as was occasionally the cop out of the studio era movie.

Hollywood turned out tons of these romantic comedies during the 1940s. Some are very good and others are just average, but even the average ones are entertaining to some degree. And some type of mix up in identities was a staple of these kind of movies. It's always fun to see Ruth Gordon as a middle aged woman instead of as a much more "mature" one that she is best known for.

Garbo Skis. Leaving aside the fact that his was her last film, I thought it was a somewhat above average 1940s romantic comedy. Some funny moments but nothing all that special. Not that's it's all that relevant, but that hairdo she had with the little forelock in the middle of her forehead wasn't very flattering. Probably not the film you'd want as your last movie.

The producers sure didn't have to spend much on the wardrobe. I had seen this one about a year or so ago. Payne sure had a hell of a lot of problems for a cab driver, even one who used to be a contender in the boxing ring. I must have been out in the kitchen or not paying attention because I didn't notice a scene where Payne got rid of his wife's body or moved it to the trunk of his cab. I was amused by Eddie mentioning in the intro that the folks in this movie are pretty much stock characters. Very true, but then that's true of about 80% of all movies, noir or not. After all that violence and action it's kind of an anti-climax to find out that Payne is a gas station owner. That type of business didn't work out too well for Burt in The Killers and Mitchum in Out of the Past. Just a word of warning.

Every time I have had an argument with a STOP sign I win...eventually.

Just on a purely laughs per minute basis with no regard for social commentary or profound insights into the human condition, I'd go with Airplane and This is Spinal Tap with a honorary nod to The Bank Dick.

Not hip enough but I have a few Fairport and Richard Thompson CDs. That's a small sample because I'd guess that they each have 25 to 30 albums out there. Unhalfbricking and Liege and Lief by Fairport, fairly early albums in their long career. Rumour and Sigh and Mirror Blue by Thompson. What can I say, I like them. The only Steeleye Span CD I have is a 2 CD compilation album. Pretty good. No doubt SS have a whole truckload of records out there too. I also have five or six Richard and Linda Thompson records. Of those I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight and Shoot out the Lights are, IMHO, the best. I just have to wonder, is anybody buying recent Fairport Convention albums? I kind of doubt it. Over and out, daddy-o.

Cooper's hair may be white, but he's as red as Joe Stalin. Keepin' an eye on this commie creep because one never knows what subversive activities he's up to. Five years ago he tried to put his own mama on trial for being a capitalist roader.

They call it grass, weed, maryjane, wacky tabacky, reefer, shark juice, bumble squat, whiny wam, pound puddle. But it always ends in the same three letters, DOA.

That's just what made their love so special, all the obstacles they had to overcome. I don't recall many of the details as I might watch along with my mother for only ten or fifteen minutes. I did think that Mack, even when he grew his hair longer, was a tad too old for Rachel, but to each their own. Maybe she could have whipped up a sculpture titled Old Man Descending a Staircase (at 3 a.m. to pee). But I agree, there was nothing quite like soapoperaland, though I was just a bystander.

If soap writers couldn't find a role for anybody at all they aren't real soap writers. Fritz could be the neighborhood eccentric type who seems a little weird but is shown to be harmless and even entertains the kiddies at the Christmas party with his audio tricks and is called on to say grace at the Christmas dinner.

I don't know who came first. I'd guess that Constance's coffee klatch discussions were for more mature audiences though.

Yeah, Luke and Laura was one of those TV phenomenas where just about everyone had heard of them, whether they watched the show or not. I recall that Constance Ford, who I didn't know from Eve at the time, played Rachel's mother on Another World for decades. Whenever there was a really big problem she would invite people into her kitchen for a cup of coffee and work everything out.

What's down with Anderson Cooper? Gloria isn't leaving him any dough or at least that's what he says.

My mom used to watch the NBC soap operas. I guess that after doing the housework, it was time to relax, have a brewski and watch the soaps. Like sand through the hourglass............ I would come home from school, make a few wisecracks about Mack and Rachel and then run like hell.

I don't want to be a crank, but while I enjoy many of the songs that are performed in musicals, when it comes to dancing, count me out. Life after Hollywood, at least for California Republicans.

Quicksand letdown. I had to laugh at there just happening to be a big quicksand pit in that particular part of the border. I did a quick check and, like scorpions and black widow spiders, quicksand isn't that dangerous, being more dense than the human body. So a whole plot element of many jungle movies is just a fugazi. There's still the black mamba though.

Yes. I can never remember what office he held. It was US Senator from California from 1965 to 1971. I also didn't know that John Tunney, who defeated Murph in the 1970 election, was the son of former heavyweight champ Gene Tunney. It appears that Murphy started the Senate candy desk, so he couldn't have been too bad.