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Maybe he also meant that when looking for the helpers, the first place you should look is at yourself.
I disagree with that. I'm sure many others disagree with that as well.
The first comment to this article called the new series LOTR fan fiction, and that sounds about right. Unfortunately.
Yes, after a few unverifiable stories from Vincent don't pan out, he gets a reputation as "that UFO nut" and nobody takes him seriously.
It actually happened, though.
That's as fair a reading of it as any.
I'm sorry, but that's revisionist history. LBJ famously said that when he signed the Civil Rights Act, we has handing the South over to the Republicans for at least a generation. It's proven to be more than just one generation. The Dixiecrats went with the Republicans, which over time has become the party that harbors & encourages white racism & white supremacy.
The Republicans used to be the party of civil rights to be sure--Jackie Robinson was one, actively campaigning for Richard Nixon in 1960, until the changes of the early 60s reversed things. From that point onward, the Democrats have been the party for advancing rights for all, including all previously marginalized minorities; the Republicans now boast neo-Nazis & the likes of David Duke among their avid supporters, though certainly not every Republican is that bad.
There is absolutely no need to remake an acknowledged masterpiece, which is what the original film was, is, and always will be.
There's something to be said for the done-in-one episode.
I didn't know any of that, so thank you! Cary Grant was an underestimated actor, because he made it look so easy. I've no doubt he could have played a superb villain, and I could see him in Dial M For Murder.
I think The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street has the slight edge here, just as an overall story. But having been a small boy when The Shelter first aired, I can personally testify that it also captures the pervasive underlying dread of nuclear war & paranoia all too accurately & frighteningly at that time.
I was one of those countless children doing the duck & cover drills in grade school, and even then, we knew that duck & cover wouldn't do a thing to save us. And I can remember the Cuban Missile Crisis with terrible clarity--the worst part of it was seeing just how deeply frightened & terrified all the adults were, and how they were trying their best to hide it from us children. To see one's own parents that nakedly frightened shook our world to the foundations, believe me!
Both episodes are superb examples of the nightmare undercurrent just below the surface of daily life then.
Absolutely agree! It was a perfect ending, one that stays with the viewer & actually has something meaningful to say.
Lemmon was superb in SAVE THE TIGER, still one of my favorite "little films" of the past half a century. Not that he didn't deserve more Oscars than he got, and for some of those films you mention!
You're right. :)
Well, we're dealing with the misconceptions of what makes a person gay from close to the beginning of the 20th Century, after all. Back then it was thought to be due to some emotional trauma, or damaged upbringing, or something of the sort. The fact that some people are just naturally born that way would never have entered their minds back then.
I agree with you about the lesbian vibe. The Outer Limits often dealt with human sexuality in a subtle, symbolic fashion, simply as part of the human psyche. It sailed over the heads of the kids watching, but the adults in the audience could recognize it ... not unlike the way classic films could delve into such things in a similarly subtle fashion & get around the strict Hays Code. And interestingly, that in turn gave it more intensity, a sense of something powerful & slightly taboo just beneath the surface. Far more effective in most cases than having it right up front & undisguised.
Oh, heartbreaking! Yet what other ending would have had such a powerful emotional impact? I'm so glad they chose to end that way.
This is one of my favorites as well. Poetic, bittersweet, haunting, with a great performances by Martin Landau. I could easily have seen it being expanded into a full-length B&W film back then, as it has the feeling & depth of one, at least to me.
You're right. To the current generation, TV is somewhat old-fashioned, just one minor aspect of media that's largely been superseded by the digital world of Facebook, livestreaming, Instagram, etc.
And not only was TV news immensely omnipresent, it hadn't yet been absorbed by the entertainment branch of the networks. It had no frills, no maudlin piano notes over sad stories, no flashy graphics. When Walter Cronkite was called the most trusted man in America, that wasn't empty hype, it was simple fact.
As we both remember, Chicago was broadcast live, unfiltered, unedited, so that we were indeed watching as it happened, along with the rest of the world. The news showed combat footage from Vietnam, wounded & dead soldiers & civilians; we could see the terrible human cost of the war—which was why so many of us opposed it.
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