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X Games 3D: The Movie (2009)
What does "one week only" mean?
I checked the spoiler box only because this comment may spoil somebody's desire to see the movie. I interpret "one week only" as "Get as many people as possible into the theater before word-of-mouth kills this stinker." If I'm proud of my product I want to make it available to as many customers as I can, for as long as I can, so those who like it can tell the world how great it is. If the guy running the medicine show is telling the crowd they'd better buy the miracle elixir before it's all gone, I figure he's fixing to skip town before the outraged suckers send the sheriff after him. Maybe after this picture has been out for another day or two there will be pages of ecstatic paeans to its towering status as a classic of cinematic art. In that case I will stand corrected.
Frank's Place (1987)
A Boston man inherits his father's diner in New Orleans.
In the first episode, in the first scene in the diner, a Jimmy Rushing record was playing on the jukebox. I had two reactions: 1. They made this show just for me! 2. It's doomed. Sure enough, the programming geniuses at CBS White Shadowed it. For those unfamiliar with the term, the verb "to White Shadow", from the series of that name, means to repeatedly preempt a show for cartoon "specials" and move it all over the schedule so people who want to see it can't find it, then cancel it because not enough people are watching. As others have commented, this was one of the best TV series ever made. The writing was superb, the acting wonderful, and the music a delight. It can't be available on DVD soon enough.