On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:37 PM, Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:29 PM, Kevin M. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:13 AM David Risner <da...@risner.org> wrote: >> >>> Too bad it’s a very rainy day for the first time in 11 months here in >>> SoCal. >>> >> >> True, and the Batmobile doesn’t have a roof (or windshield wipers). >> >> Also, for those who liked the ‘60s Batman series, the “Hollywood Museum” >> (located in the old Max Factor building and essentially full of old props >> dug out of studio trash cans) has a new exhibit dedicated to the caped >> crusaders opening this month. >> > > I spend a lot of time thinking about this and I don't mean to be snarky in > my comments. When we were growing up all of pop culture was supposed to be > ephemeral. We would watch a TV show when it aired and then it would go away > forever and what was left was in the interplay of our memories and youthful > imaginations. When one thing went away other things would come along to > claim our attention. The exception might be movies, where we could see old > movies late at night or on weekend afternoons. > > Today we are awash in all this old stuff and it competes for our > attention. An infinite amount of old music on the music platforms, old TV > on the digital subchannels or subscription services, old radio shows > streaming from old time radio sites, movie streaming services, plus DVDs > and Blu-Ray discs. Nothing personal against Burt Ward, but how does he get > to make a living feeding off something he did for a short time 50 years > ago? Compare him to Robert Duvall or Gene Hackman who consistently worked > for those 50 years and earned our attention even now. Even Adam West popped > up here and there. But what has Burt Ward done? > Since you asked, he did an album with Frank Zappa. Warning: Once heard, cannot be unheard. https://youtu.be/AjoLQbJCPTI Which should disqualify him from any subsequent public appearances. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
