Too bad the death of Blockbuster means that Wal-Mart has become the number one salesmaker for DVDs. I think I prefer Blockbuster.

I know many places went under because of them, but it seems that those that survived are now doing just fine, where Blockbuster is getting the crap kicked out of them, since mom and pop shops and chains don't have the massive, bloated overhead Blockbuster is now drowning under.

Also, the places that have survived tend to stock more independent and foreign films -- the kind of stuff Blockbuster never bothered with in the first place.

but they have 27 copies of Meg Ryan and them.

Plans for Prince Caspian are underway.

Also, the places that have survived tend to stock more independent and foreign films

Yes. Our favorite little video store stocks lots of classic, independant, and foreign films, as well as tons of docs, short films, and TV season collections (of which the largest selection is BBC series). They also continue to stock video tape, which many Blockbuster have stopped doing altogether, which means they also have lots of the classics/foreigns/independants that haven't made it to DVD yet.

the kind of stuff Blockbuster never bothered with in the first place.

As if that wasn't bad enough, they now almost exclusively stock new releases in the Blockbusters I've been in lately. There have been mainstream Hollywood releases that they don't stock on the shelves any more because it's too old.

We kept joking about Sandanistas and covert Iranian arms deals.

I once attended a Contra the Contras Contra which raised money for the elected government.

Hey, look what I found on the 5 minutes to Live site, Sole Survivor.

CBS’ first made-for-TV movie, Sole Survivor is a fantasy yarn founded on fact. In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert...but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood’s teleplay, the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their derelict plane, awaiting the day that their bones will be recovered and given a decent burial. The sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner (Richard Basehart), has in the intervening 25 years become a general. He joins an investigation team that has come across the wreckage, while the ghosts, headed by Major Devlin (Vince Edwards), plot to expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post and left his crew mates to die.

I saw this movie when it first aired.

In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert...but the remains of the crew were never located.

Since then, the remains of most of the crew have been found.

I once attended a Contra the Contras Contra which raised money for the elected government.

I love this. Have you ever noticed how the other side just never seem that clever?

Info on the B-24 bomber "Lady Be Good" found in the Libyan desert: [link]

Sometime in the last few years, some more crewmembers were found....