Tag: Scarface

• A Year of Vintage Cable Box!

  

  “Our technology forces us to live mythically” Marshall McLuhan Cable television is a beautiful woman (or man, I suppose) who gets into your brain and relaxes you.  She wants you to sit back and unwind.  Just imagine slender fingers rubbing and squeezing against your tense shoulders, then forming a fist to dig into the middle…

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  September 7, 2016

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  1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, A Christmas Story, Alfred Hitchcock, Alyssa Milano, Bob Clark, Brian De Palma, cable television, cable TV, Carrie, David Bowie, David Lawler, David Naughton, Garry Marshall, Gene Wilder, horror movies, Jacqueline Bisset, Midnight Madness, Porky’s, Rear Window, romantic comedy, Rope, Scarface, sex comedy, Swamp Thing, The Deep, The House Of God, The Hunger, The Man With Two Brains, The Osterman Weekend, The Woman in Red, Vertigo, Vintage Cable Box, Wes Craven

• Vintage Cable Box: “Author! Author!, 1982”

  “Don’t you ever, ever, ever tell me I look good for my age again!” Author! Author!, 1982 (Al Pacino), 20th Century Fox Johnny Mandel’s appropriately cheesy music informs us we are about to spend an hour and forty minutes with a sensitive, high-strung, and passionate man. Ivan Travalian is your typical, over-educated New York lunatic,…

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  December 7, 2015

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  1982, Al Pacino, Alan King, Arthur Hiller, Author! Author!, Bob Elliott, Broadway, comedy, drama, Dyan Cannon, Israel Horovitz, playwright, romantic comedy, Scarface, Tuesday Weld, writers