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Person or Persons Unknown although to be fair he wakes up in a familiar place, but everyone else finds him unfamiliar.
[quote]I still think of it as sad, since it seems to me that life must offer other ways out of a bad situation. [/quote]
I suppose, but we can look at this two ways: Gart had no one. His wife wanted him only for his salary and the life of leisure he could provide her, his boss wanted him only to produce, he didn't have any kids (pretty good deduction from the script), and if he had any close friends, he didn't reach out to them when things got bad. He truly seemed alone. If he could get off the treadmill and go to a place where he could finally find peace and contentment, what's sad about that? I'd bet a lot of people would swap today's hectic life for an idyllic one of fishing and band concerts on the town green. Life not only won't guarantee happiness, it often denies it..
Second, the purpose of this story (other than Gart's misery) might be to imply that there could indeed be a better place after our corporeal existence ends.
Both, but be aware that the second nightmare was reality.
We have salad for most meals.
In fact, we do a night called "Pie Pie". This is where a bunch of couples meet at someone's house, each bringing a pizza of their choice from their favorite takeout, sort of a pot luck pizza night. Fortunately, we live in Connecticut which is one of those pizza hotspots (good pizza begats more good pizza). My wife also makes a fabulous home made apple pie; hence the "Pie Pie", but I digress.
In addition, we always bring a huge salad to go along with the pizza and most of it goes.
Where on the planet are you that there is no Chinese takeout?
I'm black, and while it does make me somewhat uncomfortable to see whites in blackface, I wasn't "hurt" by it. It was the sign of the times and while I can't speak for older black folks, I wonder how they felt about it back then.
Other than the song White Christmas and Der Bingle, they are nothing alike IMO.
I found Crosby's character really weird and Astaire's character creepy to the point of being an insane stalker, whereas Crosby and Danny Kaye in White Christmas were very likeable characters. I honestly figured Linda Mason wouldn't end up with either Ted or Jim as they were both so oddly flawed. It would have actually made a better movie if neither got the girl but just became better friends or learned some kind of lesson on how to treat women.
In White Christmas, everyone was rooting for Wallace and Davis to end up with the Haynes sisters.
I'm gratified that Changing of the Guard is getting more love than it used to. I've long been an advocate of this simple story so wonderfully acted. This episode is also well edited, paced, and filmed.
I also love Night of the Meek. Nice story and an Art Carney that does this department store bum and drunk Santa justice. Too bad no film of it exists.
I like it. Interesting seeing Winters playing a straight role for once and I love the typical slightly over the top acting of Klugman in all his TZ appearances.
Intelligent dialog, but I see Klugman as the ace that pushes this episode over the hump for me. I give this a solid 9.
One of my wife's favorites. Strange that some people call it sad whereas we see it as a happy ending. Garth steps off the train, but instread of the story moving directly to the conductor and engineer seeing his dead body in the snow, it first shows Garth walking around the town and interacting with several characters. To us, this means the writer had Garth indeed escaping to a better place.
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As of a year ago, I have been actively boycotting *anything* that comes out of Hollywood. Other than the percentage they collect from my cable payments, they're getting nothing further from me.
A VPN, an android box, and I can see anything I want to and not feed the scum that grows on the coast.
The Passion of the Christ
I make a lentil soup that several folks remarked that the Soup Nazi (Seinfeld episode) himself would be proud of. It's more of a lentil stew really and it's not vegetarian by any means, but that soup, some Italian bread and butter and a nice red wine makes an unbelievable dinner.
I wouldn't ordinarily respond to an 11 year old post, but I find this interesting as just last week I was wondering when the "snowflake" generation started.
This post is an example of what we see more of today; someone with issues who strikes out against others in an attempt to find (in this case) racism where none exists.
I was a young boy when this show first aired (yes, aired as cable didn't exist) and my friends and I watched this at our house because we had (oh, the delicious irony) a colored TV - and none of the white people on our had a color TV back then. I don't recall being uncomfortable about watching a white professor with his white son and his white friend/guard on all sorts of adventures when sitting with my white friends, nor did I find his adoption of a young brown child odd and neither did my white friends.
We know two incontrovertible facts about dogs: with just the most basic care they will love you unconditionally and they will eventually break your heart.
I'm not religious either and don't know if God exists or not, but I do know that when more Americans did believe in God we didn't have children bringing guns to school and shooting their classmates.
Only bad witches are ugly...
Funny, but we really shouldn't be horsing around when it comes to offenders.
Woltz was not just a sexual predator, he was a kiddie fiddler as well. Losing the nag was bad, but it's too bad he didn't get his riding crop excised at some point in the story..
touche...