is there anything on, tonight?

 So - Many - Good - Shows - !

I have been wanting to list them here, as they come to my attention -

Smokey And The Bandit

American Hustle

All The President's Men

The Big Easy

I Am Jackie O

The Seven-Year Itch

The Sixties

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Smokey And The Bandit

        Netflix

One thing I really appreciate about this film is, scenery we experience as they drive around the country is real.  No green-screen, blue-screen, or CGI back in the day, when they shot this.

        One little mystery, though:  there's a song playing over the opening credits - I thought it was such a good song, I wanted to know what it was and who's singing it - Googled, and was assured that it's "East Bound And Down."

Typed in the question, re-worded several different ways, and got same answer.

I know the song "East Bound And Down" and that is not it.

So....

American Hustle

        Netflix

Christian Bale gives a tour de force performance as Irving Rosenfeld; but - every actor and actress in this movie is fantastic in their roles.

All the songs providing background / mood are perfect, and exciting.

"She knew how to live with passion and style.

She understood Duke Ellington." ...

All The President's Men

        HBO Max

Dustin Hoffman.

Robert Redford.

Jason Robards as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee.

        [Woodward and Bernstein enter an elevator, press the button for the floor.  Carl Bernstein is smoking a cigarette.

Bernstein:  You made a mistake in there.

Woodward, after a pause:  What?

Bernstein:  You said to Bradlee we haven't had any luck yet, and - and that's the thing that he jumps on, you can't talk about luck, if you can't give specifics, you shouldn't say anything.

Woodward:  Is there anyplace you don't smoke?]

The Big Easy

        Amazon Prime Video

(There are two shows titled The Big Easy, one says 1987, and one says 1996.

1987 is the one we're recommending.)

New York City is nicknamed "the big apple."

New Orleans is nicknamed "the big easy."

        This movie was shot on location in New Orleans.

        Not blue-screen-green-screen-CGI New Orleans, but actual New Orleans.

I really like that.

        The story is a fun adventure, snappily written.

I Am Jackie O

        Amazon Prime

A very good documentary about Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.  It was made in 2020 - I was surprised this has been out for six years already and I had never heard of it.

        There were items and scenarios in this which I had never seen or read about before. - a jazz concert at the White House, for one...

The Seven Year Itch

        Amazon Prime

As per the usual, at the beginning of this streaming classic movie, there's a warning in the upper left-hand corner of the screen:

smoking, sexual content, violence

        It doesn't have any of those things in it, well maybe the smoking - at least, in one scene, he goes looking for cigarettes - he has to find the pack which he has hidden from himself so that he won't smoke....

(Those warnings are ridiculous - they put them on every movie....)

Marilyn Monroe and a funny script.

Enough said.

The Sixties

(2013, 1 season)

        HBO Max

Excellent documentary.

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