Box Office Weekly #122 (MP3 - 19 MB - 27 min)

In today’s show, Weekend Box Office Figures, TV Ratings and these stories: Olympics everywhere!… Don’t invest in showbiz… and in this week’s commentary Skot offers a helpful guide to what kinds of people talk during movies. All this and the commercials you can’t forget, today [...]

 

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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. –John Tillotson (1630 - 1694)
I’m going to start by posting the rules right up front.
When attending an movie in an indoor auditorium in an American theatre, the audience is required to behave with a higher-than-average level of consideration for others. Moviegoing is [...]

Los Angeles was, in 1879, a city of about 11,000 people. The roads were dirt, the buildings were wood. But there were oranges there, and later on they found a way to harvest and market people’s fantasies, and the city grew from this:

to this.

This is the story told in Historic Photos of Los Angeles, a [...]

Box Office Weekly #121 (MP3 - 16 MB - 23 min)

In today’s show, weekend box office figures, TV ratings and these stories: news of the news… you thought it was annoying when they put forced real soft drinks in the hands of movie characters, this summer it’s the other way around… and in this week’s commentary [...]

 

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Ah, Invasion from Inner Earth. Never sat all the way through it, and growing up there were ample opportunities to do so.
Some correction to Dan’s fine and funny previous article: Invasion From Inner Earth is not Canadian, visual evidence to the contrary. It was made in and around Rhinelander, Wisconsin, a frozen outpost near the [...]