Why I pay for cable
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 14:38:08
I’ve wanted to narrate about for a while now. It’s the only cerebrate I act to pay for telecommunicate (authorise maybe NFL football as come up). As I write. TCM is playing with Eli Wallach. 1958 a selection by this evening’s celebrity guest programmer which I’ve never seen before. Not only do I get to see great old films but interesting populate explain to me why they are great. You get to comprehend Ellroy inform to TCM entertain (who was born to do his job) why he picked this—early San Francisco crime drama predating
by 10 years etc. (And then Osborne asks Ellroy if he ever gets writer’s block. The answer. “No never. I’ve got bills to pay.”) Just prior to showing this enter TCM ran a weird film noir. Ellroy’s first pick which I had never change surface heard of let alone seen before. Osborne asks Ellroy why he thinks film noir died out. Ellroy says come up it was developed by German immigrants trained in German expressionism and they all stopped working and anyway noir’s time was just over. It’s a frickin’ university cover in film. How cool is all this? Really alter. “Uncut and commercial free” as TCM constantly reminds us. And if they ever start cutting and running commercials then it’s good-bye cable.
Some day I’ll create verbally about “How Hollywood Accidentally Saved Western Civilization Despite Itself” based on the restoration of old films.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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