Posted on 05/26/2014 9:34:41 AM PDT by DFG
Not meaning to hijack this thread, but I managed to buy a stand alone full feature DVD recorder before they became totally unavailable, and transferring the Dish recordings to DVDs is an ability I really appreciate.
I wonder if more modern versions of those recorders will ever again become available in the U.S.? I understand that they are available in Canada and Mexico...
One of my top-five favorite movies.
I have the DVD; can watch it anytime.
I watch it often.
...and what's even worse, smoking!!
Miss [Florence] King on smoking: "It's this: I think suicide qua suicide is weak and shameful, but maybe, if I just keep smoking, I can hasten my exit from this Walpurgisnacht called America and escape the mephitic cultural collapse that Nice-Nelly conservatism is powerless to stop.
"This is probably wishful thinking in view of my family's medical history, but it points up another benefit of cigarettes we no longer hear about: consolation. Even the word is gone from the language now, but it was what came through in World War II newsreels showing weary soldiers and refugees lighting up. In their most despairing moments a cigarette was all they had, and increasingly I feel the same way.
"There goes my chance at Keynote 2000, even if I work on my perkiness and arrange to rent a baby."
I often worry whether they censor/edit these old classic war movies.
watching now
This was shortly after the repeal of Prohibition, when it was thought sophisticated to guzzle alcohol.
There was another flick--Alice Faye, I think--in which the girls of the chorus smoked cigarettes. I'm sure the people of that time considered it terribly sophisticated.
Today it's considered sophisticated to be mindlessly decadent and nationally self-destructive--in other words, "liberal". Of course there's nothing sophisticated, intelligent, or liberal about these people or their brainless paradigms, but you'll never convince them of it.
There are stupid people everywhere and in every generation. They don't know they're stupid.
I love Florence King. The more politically incorrect she is, the better I like her.
I understand the importance of consolation. That’s why I like tea, the beverage that “soothes, but does not inebriate.”
But I occasionally like beverages that inebriate, too.
Don’t forget the Beautiful Virginia Mayo, and The talented Hoagy Carmicheal.
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