Movies even your President would love
There have been a barrel of year-end Top 10 movie lists. This is one of the most thought-provoking: The 10 Best Conservative Movies...Good stuff. A few rebuttals, though-- 1) A liberal list could be virtually identical, depending on one's own unique definition of "honesty, loyalty, courage, and patriotism... faith, family, and freedom." What's different is not the traits about which one side or the other feels proud, but rather, which they have chosen to incorporate as political buzzwords. 2) If conservative values were truly embodied by "romantic love," those who identified themselves as possessing them would universally support committed, homosexual relationships. And 3) I've got to see "Memoirs of a Geisha." A movie about a girl sold into subservience who then "embrace(s) her destiny," but that "only hints at sex," has to be seen to be believed.
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The only upside of "Arrested Development"s short season is the cheaper price when the DVD arrives.
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Tom Snyder left the late-night airwaves seven years ago this winter. What has become of the "smokers, jokers, thinkers, and drinkers" who comprised the audience, first, for Snyder's old "Tomorrow Show" on NBC and, later, the first incarnation of "The Late Late Show" on CBS?
We've moved on, of course, spanning out across the multi-channel universe. The hopelessly square, like myself, still derive our comfort from the network colortinis of a Conan or a Craig, or Charlie Rose on PBS, rather than from the niche programs dotted along the vast cable spectrum, each with their specific and lonely audience. Most of us have simply passed out by the time the witching hour arrives.
Now Tom is returning, thanks to a new 8 episode DVD collection of "The Tomorrow Show," featuring Tom's conversations with punk musicians. May this collection be the first of many in release.
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Funny blog.
posted by CM @ 11:55 AM
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