[78-L] Holiday torture (tenuous 78 connection, sorry)

[David Lennick]

I'm still getting even with my wife for choosing "Going My Way" to watch the 
other night, instead of "Holiday Inn" (both are on the same dvd). Somebody 
really should have cut 30 minutes from that thing (Rise Stevens was definitely 
in the wrong movie, for starters).

dl

On 12/26/2011 12:42 PM, simmonssomer wrote:
> Amen. Last night some cable channel purported to put on the Best of Bing
> Crosby. Turns out that most of it came
> from his, late in the game, TV specials, when this guy could barely reach
> the high notes in White Christmas.
> I turned it off in disgust. Probably many younger people who had never seen
> or heard Bing looked at this stuff and thought
> what an old geezer with a threadbare voice. Ah well. Time Marches on.
>
>
> Al S.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78L"<78-L at 78online.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 11:46 AM
> Subject: [78-L] Holiday torture (tenuous 78 connection, sorry)
>
>
>> Sometimes I wonder why I spend each lonely night..no, scratch that.
>> Sometimes I
>> wonder why the Christmas episodes of classic radio and TV programs are
>> always
>> the worst, especially (I assume) out of context. Last night we opened a
>> dvd of
>> some more classic Christmas sitcoms, most of them of series I never
>> watched in
>> the first place (Beverly Smellbillies etc). The two we watched were
>> insufferable and neither would give me the slightest urge ever to watch
>> any
>> other episodes for any reason. The "Odd Couple" Scrooge episode was mildly
>> amusing about 10% of the time. The 1962 "Lucy Show" Christmas program was
>> the
>> most strident, screaming, unfunny piece of crap I've suffered in years.
>> Please
>> tell me it wasn't always that bad. I know there were funny sitcoms in the
>> sixties because I still remember them, although I admit to being a snob
>> about
>> much tv during that decade (I also didn't have the time, and for a few
>> years I
>> also didn't own a set). I'm given to understand that The Lucy Show was a
>> hit
>> for 6 years, possibly largely because of Gale Gordon..definitely not
>> because of
>> these two screaming meemies (one of them with a bad face lift) and 3
>> obnoxious
>> kids.
>>
>> Humbug, already.
>>
>> dl
>>