Dag...I don't think I met anyone who had it till, say, 1980.
Ditto. I think I remember being conscious of it in the late seventies because of major boxing matches, but in my mind it's an 80s thing. I'm just boggled that they had the financing to survive for so long before they took off.
I'd be interested in a history of HBO, particularly the era when they went to the challenging shows starting with Oz. They really reinvented TV with that stretch: Oz, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome, Sex in the City. But I don't really know who was responsible for that or HBO's process.
Somebody should write a book about that...I'd totally read it.
We had HBO in the 1970s. They would only be on for half a day, coming online in the afternoon.
I remember when Nickelodeon and A&E shared a channel. Only because it was a weird transition from "Kid getting slimed" to "Whoa, opera singers,"
I feel you on apps as movies, Scola. ugh.
I'm sorry, I've used up all my shitty-movie-project outrage over the news that
Mister Popper's Penguins
is underway, starring Jim Carrey as a high-powered executive. I bet the penguins teach him Important Lessons, dammit.
At least Jim Carrey is not one of the penguins....
I just joked that some friends and I should go as the Angry Birds for Halloween...but I didn't think anyone would get it.
