Little Georgie Lucas had just hit the jackpot with his silly little space movie about gay robots but not even a loan from that nerd was going to save the day. “ Those were the days!”įor some reason probably due to the fact that Francis Ford Coppola had decided to throw tons of money into a fiery pit of madness that he called Apocalypse “My film isn’t about Vietnam, it IS Vietnam” Now, the folks at American Zoetrope needed cash quick. In such a universe, people listened to music on vinyl and 8-tracks while best-selling books had television advertisements. Not only was it impossible for your toddler to watch their favorite Disney film 9,000 times per week, there were three television networks and PBS, which tended to actually be the most entertaining channel of all because they ran footage of a British mental asylum titled Monty Python ‘s Flying Circus. That’s right, this is actually quite an old tatarella.īack in that once upon a time of the late 70’s, before the VCR made home videos of theatrical films the norm, the world was a darker place. In fact, it speaks to how bad things are at HBO when they are scraping the bottom of the barrel and re-airing things that ran on network television back in 1977. Of course, anyone in the know should understand that this is not new territory. The big hoopla this weekend is that HBO is airing the so-called GODFATHER EPIC, a 7-hour version of the first two Coppola classics that is loaded with extra scenes (thankfully they have decided to avoid the final picture, most remembered for Sofia Coppola impersonating a bowl of spaghetti while getting into some freaky incest with her bastard cousin).
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