I was a freshman in college in 1972 when the revamped show appeared on CBS Daytime. If there was no class scheduled in the Prue-VCR days, we'd gather in somebody's room to watch the show. It was not uncommon for residents of my dormitory to look out the window, see a friend coming, and yell their name followed by "COME ON DOWN!!!". Fast forward 34 years later to 2006, and the show has just as much-perhaps greater-following among college aged kids. And not just viewers. Look at the audience. Look at how many college students become contestants. In a day and age where everything eventually becomes old and younger generation moves on to the next biggest thing, it's comforting to see kids 18 years old enjoying the same thing I did when I was 18. (We'll address how that makes me feel old at 51 at a different time. LOL)
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Walk the Line
(2005)
Fudging With the Facts?
25 November 2005
Warning: Spoilers
The best biopic in recent years, one of the best overall. But as with most I detected two anachronisms. The movie shows Johnny and June in Las Vegas clearly identified as 1965 singing Jackson, yet according to my memory (and more important, the liner notes on the Johnny Cash Legend CD), they did the song in 1967. And shortly thereafter, the movie shows June trying to write Ring of Fire. Well it is true that she did write it for him, but he recorded it in 1963. I also need to do my research because I have no idea if the proposal scene (no spoiler here...it's common knowledge he marries her), occurs as it did in the movie or if that was literary license.
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