Classic movies to the rescue! – David Brussat
Photo: “John Waters puffs out a mixed message.” Wrong decade, but no matter. (Joaquín Aldeguer) by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There – a repose on Turner Classic Movies It seems that Turner Classic Movies is at risk of being canceled. A trio of superheroes (mega movie stars and producers) has ridden to the rescue , for now, of the channel for people who like old and relatively old films, but the battles between streaming giants for audience share keeps TCM in a per Pet ual shadow. I don’t know or want to know anything about the competition for audience share, which seems to me to involve too much reverence for people with minimal taste, whose need for extremely loud and tedious content seems to override the needs of those with a little more taste, at least in the minds of those who set the parameters of this battle of post-Hollywood titans. But I do know that life will be poorer for me if I cannot have my usual fix of old movies. My patience genera...