Quote of the Day for 2016-06-01

"Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education."

— Paul Erdős (1913-1996) Quoted by Paul Hoffman in "The Man Who Loves Only Numbers," The Atlantic (November 1987)

Banky's Videographer at 402 Main St. (corner of 4th St.), Park City, Utah (2010)

Quote of the Day for 2016-01-21

"Television is for appearing on, not looking at."

— Noël Coward (1899-1973) Interview with Edward R. Murrow on Person to Person, April 27, 1956

Opening sequence of The Groove Tube, which spoofed 2001: A Space Odyssey (1974)

Quote of the Day for 2015-11-07

"All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish."

— Clive James (1939-    ) "Postcard from L.A.," The Observer, June 10, 1979

Impressive pyrotechnics from the movie Bedazzled (2000)