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echo: crossfire
to: Mimi Gallandt
from: Ed Hulett
date: 2008-09-11 19:21:20
subject: Hmm...

Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:

 EH>>>> That movie was made in the golden age of Hollywood.
Today they pump
 MG>>> out
 EH>>>> garbage and call it art.

 MG>>> I remember it as being older than it is. I had it set in the early
 MG> 50s
 MG>>> (before television ruined movies, but according to IMDB it was
 MG> made in
 MG>>> 1960.

 EH>> That's still in the golden years of Hollywood.

 MG> Do you remember the song with the line "video killed the radio
star"?
 MG> Well television killed the movie star (system). Hollywood in the 50s and
 MG> 60s was vastly different than in the years before. The "studio
system"
 MG> was forever dead and gone. There could never again be a Joan Crawford or
 MG> Jimmy Stewart and not just because stars today can't act. :)

And Hollywood is vastly different now than it was back in the 50s and 60s.

Ed

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