Re: Now cast. Re: (TV) "CGBG": New talents casted; still no Verlaine

[Emilie <emilie.t.hsu@gmail.com>]

24 Hour Party People was a great movie. It's not about Joy Division or
Happy Mondays, it's about hubris. And it's entertaining.

Just because someone is making a movie about CBGB doesn't mean that they
have to make a movie about Television.


On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Scott Simpson <SSimpson@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

> Dude, in case you missed it the first time around.
>
> People make movies to make money.  It's called show-biz.
>
> They (the people who make movies to make money) don't give a shit about
> your
> opinion about anything.
>
> But thanks for sharing.
>
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> From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On Behalf Of Rex
> Broome
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 11:56 PM
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: Now cast. Re: (TV) "CGBG": New talents casted; still no
> Verlaine
>
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Bob Beatty <bobjb2002@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >
> > I like
> > documentaries bettter than
> > docu-dramas, 'cause the fictionalized ones are virtually certain to be
> > full distortion, misinformation, & mis-characterization about people &
> > what  happened.They're typically geared to entertain with drama,
> > instead of trying to be true to facts. Not that documentaries always
> > get facts right, but they stand a better chance.
>
>
> Gotta tend to agree.  In a way it's puzzling that docu-dramas keep getting
> made because very few of them are either commercially or artistically
> successful.  The ones that are tend to be about stuff that's well and truly
> in the past (I dunno, Patton?  Lawrence of Arabia?)... Is there a single
> fictionalized rock movie about real events that's generally liked?  The
> Buddy Holly Story, maybe, and maybe but a little less so, Walk the Line?
>  Pretty slim pickings.
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