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In Reply to: What happened to AMC's Bob Dorian?......Joe Bob Briggs? posted by RC on February 6, 2005 at 18:20:25:
RC,In the beginning, AMC was excellent- really they showed about all black and white American stuff up to the early 60s. The choices were almost always worthwhile and you're right, Bob Dorian was knowledgable, interesting, and amiable in his introductions.
Most importantly, everything was shown commercial free.
But, probably because of the competition form Turner Classics, who had the perfect prints out of the entire MGM library that Turner had bought, AMC went to commercials and whoever was making the schedule displayed a peculiarity that still exists but to a lesser degree.
Then an odd thing happened: AMC began showing only movies in which the principal actors were known to be very conservative politically. Every movie was starring either John Wayne, Charlton Heston, or Peter Graves. All of those fellows made good movies worth watching, but it became rapidly obvious there was this strange agenda at work in everything. It just looked silly when strung together. It was as though Rush Limbaugh suddenly began doing the scheduling.And our friendly uncle Dorian was gone too- without explanation that I ever saw.
And I wouldn't have minded except the commercials that broke everything up for three minutes every nine were also odd choices- Viagra, incontinence, constipation, electric scooters just drove me away completely. It's as though they had a market research and decided they should pursue only: 65+, incontinent, impotent, immobile, NeoCons with an income of $35,000 per year.
Later, they have shown films with liberals, and in colour, but the pharmeceuticals, spleen trusses, laxatives, Clappers, and adult diapers are still putting me off and I haven't watched it in months.
Maybe they know something and show us all and cash in big when baby boomers all reach 80. But until then..
My vague recollection is that Dorian was part of the original ownership, he/they must have sold to the producers that converted it to commercial trying for the $$$,$$$,$$$. I think if he was an employee that was fired, he would have reappeared as a reviewer or host somewhere.
A real pity, as when AMC started, there was something worthwhile to see twice a day. Now, it's depressing, as loud and stupid as any small independent commercial programming could be.
Now, my TV movie watching is all TCM, IFC, and Sundance. AMC is only for the dead and dying as far as I can tell..
Cheers,
Bambi B
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