Posted on 11/16/2011 7:23:31 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
excerpts from the interview with Bradbury....
[Q]: What forms of censorship do your regard as the most dangerous today?
Bradbury: There are none in our country. We have too many groups for censorship to be possible. We have Catholics and Jews and Protestants, and Republicans and Democrats, and women's libbers, and lesbians and homosexuals and bisexuals, and young and old...We're all watching each other...The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.
[Q]: There seems to have been a decline in standards of journalistic objectivity, to put it mildly.
Bradbury: It's not just substance; it's style. The whole problem of TV and movies today is summed up for me by the film "Moulin Rouge".
(Excerpt) Read more at books.google.com ...
Later in the interview, he says he is working on a rare sequel, one for Dandelion Wine.
Montag, I’ve been meaning to ask: why the 813? Your area code, or something else? :)
Ditto. The whole swath of ad-funded media is repulsive (most of it lowest-common-denominator material); I’d rather pay for ad-free than “save” the money at the cost of my mind.
Last night I relaxed with an old 50s noir, "Bullet for Joey" with my man Edward G. Robinson. It was a simple detective story, but relaxing and fun. It's an added bonus to see the old cars and styles and whatnot from the era.
And hey, my wife and I love big cute rodents--beavers, marmots, etc. Those movies are very relaxing too. I watched a documentary the other night on "Unusual Buildings", an ode to classic roadside America. Light, relaxing. No commercials. No annoying modern sensibilities.
LOL! I love it!
That’s already been published...”Farewell, Summer”. It came out in 2006.
"Unusual Buildings", saw it, I liked it. Being near Lincoln Highway in PA, I've seen many of those. There are still a couple in Philly but a number of them when you head out to Lancaster.
Modern Sensibilities - perhaps that's it. I like educational programs/films, I like entertainment but at some point, it must have become the goal of film makers and producers to to have the audience take on their sensibilities, their belief patterns. Education, entertainment reduced to packaging.
There was a movie I saw in the theater a while back, I think is was Julia Roberts a similarly terrible actress, she was abused by her husband. She spent months on these tricky martial arts training and crazy plotting. I turned to my date and said to her; "guns!, problem solved, The End" and got up to leave...
I like Kojack. Me-TV runs it.
And it's technological. Whenever a new technology comes along, it gets overused, because it's the latest thing. Right now the novelty of digital film apparantly hasn't warn off, so we see all the new cliches, the unrealistic car wrecks, the 360 views of a bullet in midair, etc.
All tedious. No actors with charisma or originality. No stories worth watching. No directors of any talent. Just crap.
I love Kojak. I have a thing for 70s detective shows. Mostly Kojak and Columbo, but I won’t turn down a little McMillan and Wife, or maybe some Barnaby Jones. Hell, I’d watch Cannon if I ever ran across it.
Oh man, that’s weird. I just looked up me-tv because I’ve never heard of it, and what’s the first listing I see? CANNON!
Shouldn't it have been called "McMillan and Beard." ;)
Oh dang. I thought it was a streaming site.
He was pretty convincing as a hetero, as I recall.
I remember my mom telling me that she heard, off camera, Rock was very effeminate, nothing like his on-screen persona. And this was even before people knew he had AIDS
TV is great, but it depends on what you watch. I dont watch the news anymore. But history channel, science channel, etc, there are some excellent programs.
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“Why the 813?”
Can I guess? Can I guess? 813.54 22 is the LC classification of Fahrenheit 451. Thus, Montag813. (If I win, I get a cookie)
LC?
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