So I'm watching this terrible - terrible - show that's now on between The Simpsons and Family Guy, and I'm left wondering about a show that was in that 8:30 Sunday time slot a long time ago. Roc. I've mentioned it a few times recently when talking to the kids about Fences, since Charles S. Dutton has played Troy Maxson onstage and I figure Roc is the show that they would know if they know anything with Dutton in it. Anyhow, when is that show about a Baltimore garbageman going to be released on DVD?
Dutton is from Baltimore and has a house out near Frederick. I once taught a kid who Dutton had taken under his wing. Similarly rotund and boisterous like Dutton, the kid had starred in a play that Dutton directed in the city.
Anyhow, I'm putting Roc after Picket Fences as the show I most want released as a DVD set. Then, in order, American Gothic, VR-5, and finally, The Powers That Be.
In other news, I can't stop thinking about Capote. That's some good shit. I can't stop thinking about the flaw at the end, but it pales in comparison with what the rest of the film did. I almost want to re-read In Cold Blood even though I just read it a few months ago.
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5 comments:
Epiph --
American Gothic came out on DVD about two or three weeks ago. It's available on Netflix.
you're dead right about Capote taking a few small wrong turns at the end. Like implying In Cold Blood left him creatively exhausted... such emotionally exploitive bs. and hitting the audience over the head with a mallot with what the movie itself had already explained about Capote's character, when Lee said to him "you never cared." Duh. But still, a movie has to be damn good for such small imperfections to really piss me off. it raised its own bar through its own quality.
Snay: Oh good. A recent post of yours triggered my memory of the show.
Eebmore: Well-said.
"Roc" was the only weekly sitcom that I can recall that was performed live each week (in its final season, anyway).
Frank:
Yeah, I remember that being pretty cool. All the actors - Charles S. Dutton, Rocky Carroll, Carl Gordon, and the woman who played the wife - were Broadway staples, if I remember correctly.
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