It's time to scale it all back

Maybe it is time to scale things back. There's so much to watch and so little time to watch it. Cinema is in upheaval. We could all benefit.

TV series are producing fewer and fewer episodes per season. They're down to ten episodes for some HBO series. They suggested this was a boon----they could go for quality over quantity and they could produce other series to fill their schedules.

They should also make everything shorter.

In the '50's there were cops shows, private eye shows, family dramas, science fiction, westerns--that were only a half-hour long. And that was in the days before computers and MTV, when people read books and supposedly had longer attention spans.

There were fifteen-minute soap operas in those days. You could watch FOUR soap operas in the time it takes to watch one today. Low budget movies back then were only about an hour long. Some were 55 minutes.

And by the way, have you ever seen a paperback book from the '50's? Most are only 150 pages. When people talk about how many books people read back then, THAT'S WHY.

Think of the miserable souls trying to find work in Hollywood. Think of how much greater their chances for success would be if there were two or three times more shows on TV and twice as many movies.

And even if Hollywood doesn't do it, the zero budget filmmakers should. It's bad enough trying to sit through a REAL movie for an hour and a half. A zero budget feature should aim for about 40 minutes. It would make it so much easier on all involved. Nobody's going to see it in a theater anyway. Even DVD's are vanishing. You don't worry anymore about getting your money's worth when you're watching streaming video.

OK, Good (2012)

 
Charles Grodin said in one of his memoirs that he was up for Dustin Hoffman's role in The Graduate. They ended up going with Hoffman in part, Grodin suggested, because he kept complaining about the money. He said that they were offering him less than he got for a TV commercial.

I guess you can do pretty well with commercials. It seems like it would be terrible work for an actor, but a good commercial can pay as good as a movie. According to the internet, actors make from $10,000 to $50,000.

OK, Good shows an actor (Hugo Armstrong) going through a series of auditions for TV commercials. He's also attending a rather intense acting workshop, and he's been overcharged by a print shop that screwed up his headshots. It pushes him over the edge.

It was pretty good, really. Watching the auditions, you realize how much skill it takes. Available on Fandor.

One last Hunter Biden thing

When his son Beau died, Joseph Biden declared that "Beau Biden was, quite simply, the finest man any of us have ever known."

Seems like a pretty obvious dig at his other, jackass son, Hunter Biden.

Hunter did pretty well getting even with his father. First, he took the position on the board of that Ukrainian oil company. That was after the United States overthrew the Ukrainian state and installed a right-wing, Nazi-infested puppet government. Joseph Biden was in negotiations with the Ukrainian "government" at the time. The vice president's office had to put out a statement that Hunter Biden was a "private citizen" and could do what he wanted. They refused to say whether Biden had simply asked his son not accept the position, but they implied that they had no control over him.

Then, by dumping his wife and children and sleeping with his dead brother's wife, Hunter apparently shamed his father out of running for president. It was around the time that Hunter abandoned his wife that Joe Biden announced that he would not run.

You have to admire Hunter. He's taking everyone down with him. His petty sibling rivalry/oedipal conflict may have changed the course of history.

Hunter Biden's wife wisely files for divorce

Hunter Biden.

Hunter Biden's wife has filed for divorce, claiming that her idiot husband has thrown away a fortune and maxed out all their credit cards on prostitutes, strip clubs and drugs. He's also walking around with an $80,000 diamond he bought. Through lawyers, he denied having the diamond, but later admitted it.

I hope he and his dead brother's wife practice safe sex.

Biden owes $313,970 in back taxes and blew $122,000 of the couple's money in less than two months. He's spent a fortune on travel and for some reason checks into more than one hotel a night.

“Throughout the parties’ separation Mr. Biden has created financial concerns for the family by spending extravagantly on his own interests (including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs, and gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations), while leaving the family with no funds to pay legitimate bills,” Kathleen Binden said in the the divorce filing.

It goes on:

“In spite of significantly reducing available funds for Ms. Biden and the children, Mr. Biden secretly continued to spend lavishly, while complaining to Ms. Biden through counsel about the financial issues of the family and Ms. Biden’s spending.”

Joseph Biden's son sleeping with his dead brother's wife

 Glassy-eyed disheveled Hunter Biden (left).

 Clueless cuckold Beau Biden being laughed at by his wife (right).

It's been revealed that Joseph Biden's degenerate middle-aged son, Hunter Biden, has been sleeping with his (Hunter's) dead brother's wife. No word on how long this has been going on.

Hunter Biden, a Catholic, abandoned his wife and three children five months after his brother's death.

This was around the time that Joseph Biden announced he would not run for president, claiming he was too upset about his son's death. Now we know the real reason.

Beau Biden died in May 2015. Hunter Biden is still legally married.

Hunter Biden joined the Navy Reserves at age 42 in 2013. He joined in May, tested positive for cocaine in June and was kicked out. He had to get a waiver to join because of his age and he needed a second waiver because of an earlier "drug incident".

"It was the honor of my life to serve in the US Navy, and I deeply regret and am embarrassed that my actions led to my administrative discharge," he said in a statement.

He was in the Navy for one month and was on cocaine the whole time. He was given a twelve-day "training course" to be commissioned as an officer. Yeah, it probably was the honor of his life.

His name was leaked in the Ashley Madison hacking scandal. That was the website for married people who still wanted to date. He claimed that someone was using his name.

When his vice president father was in "negotiations" with the puppet government Obama installed in Ukraine, Hunter Biden was appointed to the board of Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company. The White House insisted this was sheer coincidence. The vice president's idiot, drug-addled son was simply the best qualified for the job.

Imagine if this were Donald Trump's ghastly spawn. The Biden "family" is no better than the Bushes.

Hunter Biden has three children. Beau Biden had two. How do you think those cousins are getting along now?

Yella (Germany, 2007)

Watched Yella, a pretty good German movie.

I started watching it on Fandor and thought, "Is this a remake of Carnival of Souls? No, no. It couldn't be."

Yella is from eastern Germany. She's going off to work in the west and makes of mistake of letting her abusive ex-husband give her a ride to the train station in his Land Rover. He tries to kill them both by driving off a bridge. She crawls out of the water, makes her way to the train station and begins her new life of business intrigue.

Available on Fandor.

Ryan Owens, Navy SEALs

There was an 8-year-old American Muslim girl killed in the January 29th U.S. raid in Yemen. There were eight other children murdered there. I don't know why alleged liberals like Rachel Maddow who claim to stand with our Muslim neighbors said nothing about her while they droned on and on about the one Navy SEAL, Ryan Owens, who got killed, repeatedly showing his picture.

Michael Moore has joined in, also making no mention of the 20 civilians Owens helped murder.

I looked at Mia Farrow's Twitter feed. She pretends to love children---that's her whole gimmick. But the only death she's upset about is Ryan Owens'.

The American girl murdered by Navy SEALs.

Obama had already killed her 16-year-old brother

with a drone.