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Hello Tom - 

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->> If those who produce music and movies get too greedy people
->> will just stop using their products. No one will die from
->> not seeing the next "James Bond" movie. We may turn to
->> animation for our movie viewing and that is getting to be
->> so very good it may just push 'live' movies out of the
->> theaters. 

TW> I am NO longer sure of that Charles. People are alarmingy
TW> Adicted to Rental Movies. 

Somewhat but I think they are running _away_ from commercial TV
programs and substituting videos in place of that. They are
addicted to TV but don't like what is being broadcast (neither
do I). 

TW> I for one though have NEVER rented one myself. 

Sad truth is that I worked more than 6 days a
week for almost an entire decade. When my second divorce hit I
changed proffessions and realized I had missed most of the
'new' movies that were made during that time. The family bought
me a very nice VCR and I went a bit nuts renting all the movies
I had missed in those years before they disappeared altogether. 

Lately I rent maybe one or two a month. Recently I watched "All
that Jazz" which is a semi-autobiographical musical about Bob
Fosse. Lots of eye candy and exceptional dancing (of course). 

My memory of John Wayne's over the top macho in his westerns
was begining to fade and I rented "McClintock" awhile back.
Funny to watch knowing that in it's time no one saw the over
the top macho, it was considered 'normal'. 

TW> And in fact I am concidered Strange and out of Step. But
TW> that has never bothered me. :-) :-) Now I do have a VCR for
TW> Time Shifting things I might want to watch to MY Schedule
TW> instead of theirs. 

I did that too at first. I finally had to watch some of it on
fast forward just to keep up. I was recording way too much TV
and didn't have time to watch all of it. My brother did this
with two VCRs and has an entire steel shelf unit packed with
tapes he will probably never get caught up. LOL 

I did this same thing on "The Source" when first connected via
modem to this mainframe. It allowed you to write programs and
could multitask them while you were online. I wrote software to
collect UPI and API news stories for me and compile it into one
huge text file. Same problem there - couldn't find time to read
all of it. :-\ 

I coined the expression "information overload" long before the
media did this. I would read this UPI and API text for hours
and then almost collapse into a stupor for another hour as my
mind tried to sort and analyze all of it. It was literally mind
numbing and I had to stop doing that. It was primarilly stock
market information needed for making investment decisions at
the time. 

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