tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895687241085948761.post7158172429706156829..comments2023-08-14T12:59:49.564-04:00Comments on It's Duck Soup: Opening OutFrederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13541101078258130096noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895687241085948761.post-3027917254777928862011-02-15T20:58:16.870-05:002011-02-15T20:58:16.870-05:00I'd take just the reverse position -- I think ...I'd take just the reverse position -- I think we need a CASABLANCA cable channel that runs the movie non-stop, 365 days a year. Because we need great, _entertaining_ movies like CASABLANCA out there, playing where today's "All-New, All-Now" generation can maybe stumble across them and maybe stop and check it out, and maybe get hooked, and maybe realize there's more to motion pictures than CGI-filled, 3-D animated, present-day twaddle like TWILIGHT or IRON MAN 2 or RANGO or whatever other brain-dead, soulless concoctions they're being fed by the bucket-load. The vast majority will never look, and will never know -- but every thirty-something, twenty-something, and teen we can hook increases the chances of what John D. MacDonald would call The Good Old Stuff keeping a presence in the generations to come. Could be that's a longshot; if so, so be it. My cinematic heroes taught me that even when the odds are against you, you press on -- because sometimes, longshots pay off.<br /><br />I don't say I'm right and anyone else with opposing thoughts is wrong -- everyone's entitled to call it as they see it. But I _am_ saying I'll sing "La Marseillaise" alongside Laslo every chance I get ...Cnwlhttp://www.libraryofamericancomics.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895687241085948761.post-68071700902300126782011-02-15T05:52:19.838-05:002011-02-15T05:52:19.838-05:00Don't you think I KNEW they'd run it yet A...Don't you think I KNEW they'd run it yet AGAIN??? I am very disappointed in TCM - no imagination whatsoever! I say put the damnable thing in a drawer for a year and then trot it out.FlickChickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351624749230610755noreply@blogger.com