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It's WINDY!!!
What about me? I'm the Evil Colonel! You can tell I'm the EVIL colonel because I have a beard. Oh, wait...
The case is being made that you can predict the stock market by which "Law & Order" cast member is appearing in commercials for TD Waterhouse. I don't really have a comment, other than to point out that TD Waterhouse is a Canadian company. (The "TD" stands for "Toronto Dominion").
...to YTV for running "A Charlie Brown Christmas" unedited, un-sped up, in its entirety. Even though it ran over by about a minute or two.
I don't know why ANYONE would watch a movie like "Titanic" on broadcast television anymore. My beef is not with the movie (the only observations I have to make about that are the blue screen effects are really obvious, and Kathy Bates has the best line: "Now THERE'S something ya don't see every day...") Anyway, my points are on the broadcast itself.
- Don't tell ME NBC hasn't increased its spot load during movies. Time was, you'd get just about the first half hour uninterrupted; then the commercial breaks would gradually increase in frequency. NOW, they just go at it right from the get-go, even dispensing with any kind of "NBC MOVIE" intro and bumpers except for the one that cues the station breaks.
- GOOD GOD, they blurred out her breasts on the friggin' DRAWING. They're about to show fifteen hundred people die a horrendous, graphic, and sometimes violent death, and they can't show so much as a DRAWING of a woman's nipple. I do not get it. I just do not get it.
- Oops, there's a nipple. They're not even consistent about it.
- At least they left in a few seconds of Celine Dion. You know there are some fans of this movie for whom it's not complete without hearing her wail at the end.
In all honesty, if you ever plan on watching this movie on NBC, or any broadcast network, do yourself a major favor and get it on video.
...poorly laid-out parking lots. You know, you're trying to turn in... three or four people are trying to get out the same way, and you're all blocking each other... and street traffic.
I'm not sure how much longer I plan to carry this thing (to be honest, it's already gone longer than I would have bet)... but I've got a couple more months of paid web hosting. So here we go.
CBC Television is helping viewers celebrate the holidays with THREE HOURS OF HOLIDAY PROGRAMMING every weeknight starting Monday. Included in the promo are White Christmas (I think... or is it Holiday Inn?), the Grinch, the Griswolds, Frosty, Rudolph, and more!