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Stay at home shows, movies, documentaries.
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One of my personal favorite movies is a pretty obscure flick called Pawn Shop Chronicles. On the surface, it looks like a typical direct-to-video job, but it actually has a lot of depth to it. I've probably watched it more than 20X and each time I pick up on something different. Someone, not me, uploaded the whole flick to YouTube for people to watch for free (see below link). Not sure how long that will last.
Anyway, all the stories are kind of twisted, especially the second one. That one tries to answer the question: What do women really want? The answer might surprise you. Or not.
Anyway, all the stories are kind of twisted, especially the second one. That one tries to answer the question: What do women really want? The answer might surprise you. Or not.
HD Net is one of the channels in my Verizon FIOS package. I’m a sucker for old classics. So far this month I’ve watched “The Caine Mutiny“, “Stalag“17“, and “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly“. Seen them all numerous times, but a classic is a classic. I remember watching the first 2 with my dad back in the 60’s on the old NBC series Saturday Night at the Movies. And who can forget the summer of 1967. Eastwood went on to become an international superstar and film icon, and let’s not forget Eli Wallach’s performance as Tuco, and Lee Van Cleef (an under appreciated performer) as Angel Eyes? I remember hanging out at the local swim with my friends, laying on our beach towels ogling the 14 year-old girls in their bikinis, and hearing the theme from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly blaring from our transistor radios on the top AM radio stations in Philly. Who remembers the old WFIL, Famous 56 and the Boss Jocks, and WIBG, Wibbage 99 and Hy Litt? The movies are considered classics based on the strength of the actors’ performances, the screenplays and musical scores, and they succeed without the benefit of special effects. Just a couple of night ago I caught “Bad Day at Black Rock“ on TCM. Talk abou a classic, and the cast - Spencer Tracey, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Walter Brennan. This was Borgnine‘s first film role, and he went on the win the Oscar for Best Actor in his very next film - “Marty”. Yup, they just don’t make ’em like that anymore.
I'm a sucker for those old films too, especially the old noir classics like, "Double Indemnity," "Sunset Boulevard," "M," "The Killing" (early Kubrick), "Gilda," "The Maltese Falcon," etc. The John Ford westerns ("Stagecoach," "Fort Apache," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," "The Searchers") are also ones where I will stop what I am doing to watch. The Marx Brothers stuff is 80+ years old and still funny. You can go back even further to Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, who, with Chaplin, were the geniuses of silent film comedy. Their stuff is still funny too after all this time.
I agree 100% about "Bad Day at Black Rock." Awesome film.
Unfortunately, I'm a little too young to really remember when WFIL and WIBG were that popular. By the time I was interested in ogling girls, AOR on WMMR and WYSP had taken over.
I agree 100% about "Bad Day at Black Rock." Awesome film.
Unfortunately, I'm a little too young to really remember when WFIL and WIBG were that popular. By the time I was interested in ogling girls, AOR on WMMR and WYSP had taken over.
