Angelique:  "Poor, deluded Barnabas.  I can shut down the Collins industry with one finger.  I'll just dial the EPA.  It has far more power than I do."

Gerard

Barnabas:  "Mind if I smoke?"

Gerard

Dr. Hoffman:  "It's called Medicaire.  Trust me, you more than qualify."

Gerard

I don't even remember the last time I saw a double feature, Gerard. I'm glad you had fun. 

Thanks, MB!  And not stir up a hornet's nest (although it has already been stirred up here, including by me), why is it that I was able to see two movies that cost only 99 cents (or five bucks for the package, which I talked about earlier) and the studios and the theater were still able to make hefty profits, while both businesses try to justify gouging us to see a movie now to the point where many can no longer afford it, thus having those businesses charge even more which causes even less of us...well, you get the business model point.  I just don't get what's going on with the movie industry.  It wails about struggling while it makes huge profits (including from tax-write-offs) and insists that it must keep raising prices which drives more people away.  When I saw DS two previous times, the theater had no more than 5% occupancy, when everyone had to pay full price (including for a matinee, and that didn't include popcorn, drink [the size of which would've put Mayor Bloomberg in apoplexy] and a candy bar).  When I went for my third time, I could've paid just 99 cents for two movies, or spent (which I did) five bucks that included that buttered popcorn, the Bloomberg-inciting massive drink and a candy bar, and the theater was over 3/4 filled.  Is the movie and theater industry being stupid?  Are we being gouged?  Is that causing the movie and theater industry to suffer?  We lost one mega-plex theater here because not enough people were spending money to go to it.  The cheapy theater is thriving. 

Hello?

Hollywood, fire your marketers and hire me.  I'll do the job for 10% of what you've paying your marketers now.  I'll live comfortably and you'll make lots more money, like in "da good ol' days."

Gerard

Exactly why should a movie cost $300 million to make?  On what are they spending it?  Have the studio heads gone out of their heads?  In this economy, do they really think there are enough people who have the moola to pay nine smackers for a matinee and up to fifteen for a night screening?  When Titanic was made for a cost of $100 million that was considered incredulous.  Today, it seems that a B-flick showing some mask-wearing slasher chasing around and stabbing voluptuous late-teenaged doxies, made for $100 million, is considered par for the course.  I don't know if the article is correct in stating that DS cost $300 million, but if it's true, that's utterly ridiculous.  As I said earlier, it's time to role the heads of most of Hollywood's heads.  Who's hiring these guys?

Gerard

The movie is remaining in my town for one more week!  Or I should say returning for another week.  After it left the "major" theater last week Thursday, it will now start to play tonight for one week, along with The Hunger Games, at our local "cheapy" theater.  The cost of admission:  99 cents.  Or, if you want to really splurge, you can fork out five dollars for the "package" - admission (to both, a double feature! - I feel so nostalgic), a large popcorn (buttered), large drink and one candy bar.  Well, guess what I'm doing tomorrow.  I can mow the lawn any old time.

Gerard

Would this be the song?  Although, if it is, I don't think it was recorded until 1975 or after, which would make it a historical whoopsie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaehwnZsJdQ

Gerard

what's a tape?

Maybe it was here on our beloved board, maybe on another - I don't remember - but somebody recounted that they were watching a rerun of DS and it was the scene, set in PT1970 when the "Angelique's Theme" record was placed in the phonograph.  The child of the parent who was watching the scene was completely confused at what was going on regarding the record and the phonograph and asked:  "What's that?"

We're getting old, many of my beloved DS cousins here.  We're getting old.  But don't pull out the Geritol and overdose on it, my beloved DS cousins!  I've read several news reports where those vinyl discs and turn-tables are making a significant come-back.  It turns out that they still posses the best clarity of anything that has come down the pike, whether CD's or whatever.  It turns out that what we had back "in da good ol' days" is still the best.  Now, as one of the ancient cousins here, let me tell you youngin whippersnappers how I had to run home after school, in a blizzard during a June heatwave with no air-conditioning, 40 miles, uphill, to watch DS on a B&W TV set with only three viewable channels that required a rodar (e-mail me privately to explain what that was) and had knobs for on/off (and the TV had to be "warmed up" before we got any image - e-mail me about that, too), channel changing and volume.  Oh, and don't forget about adjusting the horizontal (again, e-mail...oh, never mind).

Gerard