There are very few things I have in common with a 70 year old, Jane Fonda loving, billionaire, atheist... except apparently our taste in movies.
I can not tell you how many times on a lazy Saturday afternoon after I have watched my third TNT "classic" of the day that I have wanted to right Ted Turner a fan letter.
I think it would go something like this:
Dear Ted,
I can call you Ted, right? I would like to take this opportunity to applaud your bravery. You who have deemed yourself and your basic cable TV stations important enough to award the title of "classic" to such movies as The Breakfast Club, Some Kind Of Wonderful and The Secret of My Success. You who have no shame in showing the same movie back to back while running commercials for that very movie on a loop with so much fervor that we the audience really will at least watch the first half hour we missed of Parenthood or Cheaper By the Dozen. How do you do it, Ted? It's as though you have read my Christmas list of movies I want but wont pay for. But, the best, when I feel closest to you is when you are able to show that movie that I do own but love so much that I still insist on watching it with commercials, formated to fit my screen and edited. You know who you are Tommy Boy and Sixteen Candles.
So Ted, from the bottom of my non accelerated lazy heart I want to thank you!
Thank you for my clothes molding in the washing machine, because I can't be bothered enough to move them to the dryer. What if I missed the commercial for the movie I am in the middle of watching?
Thank you for my not being able to find anything in my closet because I just want to hear Chris Farley say "... quite playing with your dingy!"
Thank you for all the time and energy saved not fighting the weekend crowds at H-E-B. I can grocery shop Sunday night when they have sold out of everything I need or want, it makes shopping go much faster. And as much as we agree on the movies, I don't think anyone can watch that many Law and Orders in a row.
And last but not least it is not only Saturday movies that I appreciate you for, you are my go to station November through April for basketball, you do what FSN can't or won't for the Mavs.
So, thank you Ted, though you may be totally wrong about religion and politics... you sure can pick a movie.
Yours Truly,
TNT fan in Texas
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4 comments:
You forgot "Overboard"! Love it.
SOOO funny!
In the style of Mary Catherine Gallagher on SNL circa 1995-2001 I would like to quote Chris Farley in the role he made famous, the one of Thomas 'Tommy' Callahan III, "An incompetent, immature, and dimwitted heir to an auto parts factory (who) must save the business to keep it out of the hands of his new, con-artist relatives and big business." (Thank you, IMDB...I couldn't have said it better myself):
"That was....AWE-SOME!"
There are some classic Turner movies (TBS, TNT or another affiliate) that I stop everything to watch; including:
Roadhouse (CRAZY FOR SWAYZE!!!!)
Rocky IV (Ended the Cold War)
Rush Hour
Tombstone
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