Rats in the Ruins My Two Cents on Cable TV By David J. Aland 5 May 2006 Do you remember when HBO first aired on the local cable television network? What an idea – to get recent boxoffice films by television, relatively soon after their release. This was genuine out-of-the-boxoffice thinking, and it caught on fast. But somewhere along the line, it looks like either Hollywood couldn’t produce enough movies, or the cable channels couldn’t afford to buy enough Hollywood distribution rights. HBO gave way to CINEMAX, and STARZ, and other movie channels, and splintered into more than a few...