Tag: screwball comedy
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Vintage Cable Box: Rhinestone, 1984
“All right, we’ll go to your place and you can show me your organ. But I’m warning you, it’d best be having music coming out of it.” Rhinestone, 1984 (Dolly Parton), 20th Century Fox Sylvester Stallone is a smart guy. Betraying his brutish looks, muscular physique, and propensity for violence, Stallone understands his incredible history,…
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Monkees vs. Macheen: “Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth”
“The Year of the Monkee (Horse)” One of the wonderful things about this television show is watching it with my nine-year-old daughter. I discovered The Monkees when I was five on WKBD 50 Detroit. (“In Detroit, the kid’s choice is TV 50”) Last summer, I was feeling a bit down and was looking for something…
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Vintage Cable Box: “Easy Money, 1983”
An eleven-year-old in the year of Our Lord, 1984. Hankins Drive in Lebanon, Tennessee. It was our first cable box. At first glance, a non-descript metal contraption with a rotary dial and unlimited potential (with no brand name – weird). We flipped it on, and the first thing we noticed was that the reception was…