Posted 1:43 PM by Gene

Speaking of Bing.com Barnes & Noble is having a "sale". (Plus you get an eight percent Bing Cashback -- enough to save me the sales tax! Wow!) Looking for "classic" DVDs I found all Sonys (i.e., Columbias) and picked eight titles including On the Waterfront (the first time I've seen it for under $10) and Lost Horizon (why can't Sony reissue the musical?); I also bought Funny Girl, the title that pretty conclusively states Hollywood was all downhill for Babs; and The Taming of the Shrew, better called The Story of Liz and Dick. One "classic" I chickened out on is Dr. Strangelove. (This from someone who owns The Ghost and Mr. Chicken! It was on sale at Oldies.com.) I confess to speak from ignorance but from its CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED REP I guess it's a smug PC "comedy" where good ol' Southern Republicans nuke the world. (YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAH!!!!!) That it came out the year some news hacks determined Barry Goldwater was a nutcase doesn't help. What's more it's from ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREAT DIREC-TORS. Besides it set Hollywood's politics pretty well in stone, not that rockheads needed help. To my thinking Dr. Strangelove provided the philosophy, Bonnie and Clyde the attitude, and ST. JACK OF VALENTI the excuses, and the movies have been genius since.

I'm not totally closed to buying it, but to paraphrase a great ad campaign, it will be eventually -- but not now.