For the past few nights, my wife and I have been edging into a later and later schedule. Stay up late, sleep late, stay up later, sleep still later. So it came to pass that we were up until past 3am a couple of nights ago, and in the course of the evening, we had one of the HBO channels on the entire time. Here is the schedule:
8pm. Fools Gold, for about the 1000th time. Matt McConaughy plays the stupid but rugged and loyal husband, Kate Hudson the bright and spunky bride.
11pm. Title not remembered. In a college setting, a male student is accused of rape when all that happened was that the girl passed out and he did nothing. Various other manipulative characters behave in a way that intensifies the drama. I’d seen this once before, but it was reasonably interesting.
1am. Barton Fink. Truly interesting and original story of a NYC playwright who gets a Hollywood job, set in 1941. Darkly comic, surreal, and at times Hitchcockian.
3am. Airplane! Granted, I have seen this one more times than I can count, but would probably watch it now, since it’s been awhile.
I’m not sure but I think HBO is trying to force people over to Pay-Per-View.
Network TV was just like this!
Primetime–mind numbing crap.
The Late Show. Movies that were a cut better than the regular shows.
The Late Late Show. This is when they would trot out the good Bogart, Stewart, Cagney, etc. movies.
The Dead Of The Wee Hours. Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges. If you didn’t have to work or go to school, you could see good stuff on the tube all right!
