why didn't anyone tell me that the bad news bears is a film classic? i had never seen it before this afternoon. i think i've found a new favorite movie. could you have a movie that stars a 13-year-old cigarette smoking baseball player who rides a motorcycle today? NO. could the kinds call each other "faggot" and "asshole", and other assorted profanity and slurs? NO. could you find a movie with actual ugly kids playing kids? NO. sometimes with all the political correctness that's shoved down everyone's throat, you forget that the 70s was this weird time when that just didn't exist, and it was exploited on film and television. like the repression of the 50s and 60s (circa make room for daddy and the mary tyler moore show) was over with, it was after the civil rights revolution, and people just worked out their issues in sitcoms like welcome back cotter, chico and the man, and of course the ubiquitous all in the family. it was a weird time for television. because it was the first time TV became less sanitized, more real. i think in the 80s sitcoms moved away from that realness and havent gone back since.
okay, i'll stop deconstructing television now. i am such a media junkie.