At one point I was feeling pretty good, thinking I had already tried most of these. But then it keeps going and going and my percentage kept dropping.
Sure, I may be accused of taking it too seriously, but I really want it clearly stated what they're tasting so I can try them myself. The purposely sloppy nature of 10 MPH strikes again.
I said no one else had gotten to "Rocky IV," well now they have...
Did we really have robits in the 80s?
There's a running motif(?) throughout "Rocky IV" that I never noticed before. "Rocky IV" is about our ability to change.
When Rocky is trying to convince Apollo not to fight Drago:
Rocky: Let's face it, we got to change sometime.
Apollo: I don't want to change! I like who I am!
and then "You and me, we don't have a choice"
Later, Adrian tries to convince Rocky not to fight:
Adrian: Why can't you change your thinking, everybody else does.
Rocky: Because I'm a fighter [...] we can't change what we are.
Adrian: Yes, you can.
Rocky: Can't change anything, Adrian. All we can do is go with what we are.
And then after the fight, Rocky gives his speech:
"During this fight, I seen a lot of changin' - the way youse felt about me and the way I felt about you. [...] If I can change... and you can change... everybody can change!"
[And when it's time to change, you've got to rearrange.]
This running theme underscores the movie as a allegory for the Cold War itself. Rocky is told that fighting Drago means certain suicide, why is he willing to risk "everything"? But he continues on the path toward the fight, believing that there was no alternative. But the US and Soviet Union don't have to stubbornly march toward mutually assured destruction - it isn't destined, we can choose not to fight, we have a choice.
Late Show writer Rodney Rothman recalls his favorite moments on the Late Show:
The thumbnail tells the story.
This video comes with a regret. I absolutely regret not remembering all the fake bands/musical guests. As a religious viewer, I know I saw most of them but I only remember Fresh Step. I have a theory as to why. I don't think there's any way I would determine a bad musical from a real musical. Even the real ones feel like parodies to me. I mean, look at the clips, would you do any better? I also don't remember Fresh Step being on more than once.
I'm watching the Late Show and their musical guest is a boy band "Fresh Step." I'm horrified but boy bands were not a new thing on the Late Show so "it is what it is." When the performance is over it's the time when Dave goes over and shakes hands with the guests and says "that was great," "thanks for coming," etc. Except he doesn't, he stays at his desk. At his desk he says "Fresh Step, everyone" or something and it goes to commercial. Dave ALWAYS walks over to greet the guest - always. Sometimes it gets edited out for time but that's what happens every time.
As the kind of viewer that obsessed over every detail of the Late Show, I sensed something was wrong behind the scenes. Dave stayed far away from them like they were the plague. I thought it was pretty obvious he must have hated them. One theory I came up with was that he didn't want to have them on at all but got overruled and was mad about it.
I always remembered that moment as one of the interesting behind-the-scenes mysteries until many years later I found out the band was fake and... well, I can't explain why Dave wouldn't shake their hands to sell the bit completely... but at least he wasn't being rude and there wasn't some power struggle.
RIP to Don Beveridge who has passed away at the age of 90.
A week before his death, Don commented about his long life saying, "It was quite a ride."[...]
Don was drafted into the U.S. Army, serving in Korea as a Staff Sergeant during the Korean War. This is where he said he learned how to lead people...
As his Mobil responsibilities grew, so did his family. He and Betty raised a family of six children, Donna, Don, Diane, Dirk, Debbie, and Dawn. It has been a family joke that he named all of his kids after his wife, Betty...
While attending an Executive Education program at The University of Wisconsin, Madison, he was underwhelmed. He approached the program director and said, "I could do better than that." He was told to "Prove it."... And prove it he did...
Over the last years of his life, Don struggled with Parkinson's Disease and was lovingly and tirelessly cared for by his wife Betty with loving support from his long-term care giver, Grace Realbuto...
Don would appreciate donations to the Wounded Warrior Project instead of flowers.
It's been almost 3 years since I saw this video...
In case anyone is curious about what's happening behind the scenes, it appears Letterman is revving up his youtube channel. How do I know? My email inbox is a long string of copyright claims for Late Show clips. It's more than one per day at this point.
As I've said before, I wouldn't mind this (it's their stuff, after all) IF they were uploading the same clips and wanted to eliminate the bootlegs. But so far they've been taking down stuff that they haven't bothered to upload on their own channel. The end result is the viewers get screwed.
So that's that.
