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    Default Bring Kids Up on TCM Moguls and Movie Stars

    http://www.tcm.com/moguls/

    A way to give them the culture and civilization of the USA chronologically. I guess I'm going to have to buy the DVD just for mself to remind me of my favorite trinity, Me/Myself/I.

    A way to bridge the USA generation gap and economic gap. A way to create a caring community which is legally maintained by a Board of Directors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bootsy View Post
    http://www.tcm.com/moguls/

    A way to give them the culture and civilization of the USA chronologically. I guess I'm going to have to buy the DVD just for mself to remind me of my favorite trinity, Me/Myself/I.

    A way to bridge the USA generation gap and economic gap. A way to create a caring community which is legally maintained by a Board of Directors.
    I've watched it and thought it was pretty good.
    Don't know about the rest of what you've said, but it does tell a good story as to how the movie industry started.

    I also don't know any "kids" that would be interested in watching that, unless they were really into moviemaking.

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    Bootsy...Gimme a hug !

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    Quote Originally Posted by stagefright View Post
    I've watched it and thought it was pretty good.
    Don't know about the rest of what you've said, but it does tell a good story as to how the movie industry started.

    I also don't know any "kids" that would be interested in watching that, unless they were really into moviemaking.
    Interested kids would have understanding parents.

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    Quote Originally Posted by georjec2 View Post
    Bootsy...Gimme a hug !
    Hey georjec2, right back atcha. You just gave me one. TNX.

    The personal history about all this is back about 15 years ago when I was in Garland, Dallas, TX. When I visited my daughter in Greenbelt, my son-in-law said he would not visit me if I didn't get a cable TV. I agreed to do it. Two months before the visit I watched my first two cable TV programs: How the Jews Created Hollywood or something like that, and the live Bill Gates before the DOJ. Wow, my son-in-law was so right!!

    That's why when I decided to give in and watch Moguls and Movie Stars this afternoon, the current Me/Myself/I really considered it a wonderful USA historical document. In the past 15 years I've matured a whole lot. I couldn't just stick with it and so it will be necessary to buy the collection as my autobio. I was born in 1929. I was my single mom's confident growing up and she unloaded her upbringing thoughts on me. She was born in East Bronx, NYC in 1902 and came to Capitol Hill when she was 14YO. She told me her father opened the first "drug/variety" store in S.E., D.C. It's still there at 7th&Pennsylvania Ave S.E. I don't know the truth about that though. I do know her father's brother opened one around 21st and Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. (Foggy Bottom). She told me much later in life that she managed the hardware for the store. Her father never learned English and signed with a "X". His brother, OTOH, much younger, was a good USA business man. My mother's father was a charter member of the SouthEast Hebrew Congregation now in White Oak, on Lockwood Drive, and was a neighbor of the synagogue where I had the first adult bat mitzvah on Friday night at Shaare Tefila in 1981. The conservative synagogue has moved to Olney I believe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bootsy View Post
    Interested kids would have understanding parents.
    Not so sure about that.
    Interested kids might have concerned parents.

    Any parent that found their kid watching a show about Jewish immigrant movie moguls and their bankers rather than playing Xbox might have cause to worry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stagefright View Post
    Not so sure about that.
    Interested kids might have concerned parents.

    Any parent that found their kid watching a show about Jewish immigrant movie moguls and their bankers rather than playing Xbox might have cause to worry.
    What kind of parents are these that can't do both?

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    In the 30s, there was a guy named Al Boasberg, credited w/ scripts for The General & A Night at the Opera, who made $1K a week as a "script doctor" & according to an old book on Marx Bros. movies once tacked strips of paper w/ his script revisions to the ceiling of Irving Thalberg's office because no one was there for his appointment.

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