Garbage on the screen equals garbage in the seats.

I'm not sure why a community of people would want to gather together to view the crap, cussing, vile, dark puke Hollywood produces nowadays.

 I understand there's a sort of being in the cool if you said at the time you went and saw Pulp Fiction, and apparently the masses in their hysteria loved low as you can go.

 Why would anyone expect the audience to behave when the screen is so far from behaving that only a jerk or the curious would subject themselves to such a thing in the company of their peers ? 

 Forget it.

The reason Hollywood is losing, is because it's too degrading to go see their crap in public. Public behavior isn't about the lowest of the low almost any other time. When you're sitting in the theatre, as Balboa ( of course he is the first poster in a movie thread, it's his life, duhhh ) pointed out, there is a certain expectation of public behavior, just like there is any place else open to paid public attendance. Then what comes over the screen fails all expectations of public decency and reasonable portrayal of right and wrong and all the rest.

 The result is the shoddy behavior in public. It's a natural result for the filthy crap on the screen.

 I understand why there was an uproar over SBSunday's JJ clothing malfunction. Sports seems to be nearly the only channel one can watch with their parents in the room anymore. The rest of TV is all too entirely vulgar and dirty, as are most of the commercials.

 Maybe it's lost on Hollywooders, whom I'm sure pride themselves on discussing the darkest of veins openly with strangers and subjecting their personal friends and families to the filthiest jokes and perversions their minds can imagine, it's all "art" to  them. Then they laugh and are hip and no longer considered naive, right ?

 Well whatever it is, it's disgusting, and I do admit I find myself at a loss as to how it is there are so many people that seemingly enjoy disgusting and want everyone to sit around and share it, and even after that, somehow expect others to behave.

Its so dumb that Barak needs to quit smoking b/c he is running for president. He should quite b/c he wants to for health reasons. But to be politically correct is shallow.

Sarc - I think the reason the HW journalists don't ask the tuff questions is because that would be their last interview.

Don't get me started on Jesus Camp - that movie was so biased and it's scary because it was really well done and the directors thought they were being nuetral. The whole thing was framed with the nomination of Supreme Court Judges and mixing religion and politics - but they tried to act like one Pentacostal church was represtative of the whole Christian right . Their so called balance was to have a D.J. from Air America criticizing the church but they didn't have any of the politics that go on in left leaning churches or the Nation of Islam.

If the people kept showing up for "Nativity," it would have stayed longer.

Three Wise Men, Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus, plus assorted goats, sheep and other animals

Sheesh -- how many more d'ya wanna turn up?

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Elmore Leonard, 'The Hot Kid'.

Del, I could talk all day about "SCTV" and "Andy Griffith".  Eugene Levy is great.  He did a post-stroke Floyd impersonation that is very good, however I much prefer the pre-stroke Floyd.  For those who are big "Andy Griffith" fans, Floyd had a stroke, and prior to that he was extremly hyper and super funny and talked real fast.  After the stroke, if you see him in episodes he will always be sitting down, and he talks real slow.  I've seen him standing in a few episodes, but he is always behind someone else as if he is being proped up, or sitting on somethhing behind that person.  For the "SCTV" fans how about the "Godfather" spoof they did, and Eugene Levy as Floyd came in to ask Guy Caballero for a favor in dealing with Opie, or when Rick Moranis played "Merv Griffin" as a spoof on the "Andy Griffith" show.  Classic funny tv!

"It's me it's me, it's Ernest T"

I loved the writing on MASH, although it did get a little too preachy/anti-war at times. When they did an episode that had not much to do with the Korean War (like the entire episode where Radar tries to get Colonel Potter some tomato juice) it was a comedy delight.

I assume you're talking about the "original" Bob Newhart Show, with Bob as the shrink? I would add the "Bob as Vermont innkeeper" second series as also having some brilliant writing, especially the finale.

And believe it or not, one of the shows that had some absolutely brilliant writing (not always, but when it was good it was very good) was "Married...With Children". They came up with some absolutely hilarious stuff on that show-remember when Al Bundy was visited by the moon men who wanted his stinky socks to use for rocket fuel?