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11 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

Oh I am fully aware I will be watching a documentary about a dead art form, if that's what you're getting at. Thanks for reminding me though, I should watch this when the snowstorm blasts through town in the next couple days. 

More my point was if you were watching it wondering why it looked like it was shot on some dicey technology

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2 hours ago, hammerva said:

The entire series of the Cosby documentary is at Showtime on Demand and I guess I should spoil for the ones who are only watching it on Showtime regular

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To say that the signs were there was pretty obvious.   I mean apparently the first known case was in 1966 I believe.  I have only gotten past part 4 yet but the thing that kind of surprised me was almost all but very few white people.  But I guess that mostly changed from Cosby Show then it was anyone.    Maybe that was one of the ways he was able to get away so long with it as fucked up as that sounds.    Also as I guess a way to get away with it he didn't slip the drink sneaky in the drinks.  he handed it to the women.  It just shows the level of trust they had with him 

The other big part of this was the "Spanish Fly" joke.  Doing as far back as 1969.   Imagine doing a joke about a date rape drug for decades and nobody was bothered about it.   Just a sign of the times.  He did the Spanish Fly in his book about childhood for fuck sakes.  Then there is the infamous  'barbeque sauce" scene on Cosby that ends with Bill freaking out that little kids were having this.  

Also interesting that the person who finally put the whole mess out in the public was a comedian born in Philadelphia.   Talk about ironic

 

I haven't watched the series but the National Enquirer had the story in something like 1985.

Interesting to see you refer to "Spanish Fly" as a date rape drug.  As a kid/youth, besides thinking it was more mythical than real, I always it was just...uh...a mood enhancer rather than an incapacitator.

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1 hour ago, RIPPA said:

More my point was if you were watching it wondering why it looked like it was shot on some dicey technology

Yeah, all the way back in 2016 all they had was cameras that shot in 120p resolution at 8 fps.

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MTV True Life - The Travelers 

I taped this off TV when it aired and it didn't air again ever, I think. Funny yet heartbreaking. "Big yellow building..."

EDIT: Whoops, there are six parts to this. You know how to work Youtube though.

Incidentally this show introduced me to the music of Tom Waits. 

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IIRC they seemed to get goofier/less serious as they went along, until they completely morphed into things like Catfish and Teen Mom (the Jersey Shore is more directly the responsibility of The Real World instead of True Life). Their true heirs are probably the Vice documentaries and news shows, actually. 

To be honest I have no idea why I taped it. The guy with the Hellhammer shirt probably showed up on screen and I scrambled for a tape. Coincidentally my 20s ended up full of me partying with people like this when I discovered the local punk scene. Thankfully everyone was pretty cool and I never had any run-ins with total idiots. One time though, the friends I was going to a Subhumans/World Inferno/From Ashes Rise show with picked up a dude who had a tattoo of a yield sign that read "SPARE CHANGE" on his forehead and he ended up getting violent in the ride back with him so they dumped him off on the highway. I was busy in another vehicle getting almost ran off the freeway by a car packed with crackheads at the time haha...

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I’ll never forget the True Life about Tourette’s. A teenage girl suffering from it takes her friends to Disneyland and they yell at her the entire time for having to rest from becoming exhausted trying to control her tics. It was bleak. 

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Worst Roommate Ever

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From Blumhouse Television, the new five-part documentary series Worst Roommate Ever highlights four harrowing tales of seemingly harmless roommates turning into real-life nightmares for their unsuspecting victims when their malevolent and sometimes violent intentions are revealed. These unsettling true stories chronicle the masked menace that can be lurking right down the hall.

Worst Roommate Ever debuts March 1, only on Netflix.

 

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10 hours ago, (BP) said:

I’ll never forget the True Life about Tourette’s. A teenage girl suffering from it takes her friends to Disneyland and they yell at her the entire time for having to rest from becoming exhausted trying to control her tics. It was bleak. 

Ah yes, the "Fuck you, Grandma" episode. Yeah, True Life had some downers.

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On 2/4/2022 at 8:32 PM, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

Ah yes, the "Fuck you, Grandma" episode. Yeah, True Life had some downers.

The "I'm a Porn Star" one was pretty bad.  IIRC one of the women featured in it ended up killing herself because her family and friends found out what she was really doing to pay the bills, so the episode was pulled.

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The nominees for Academy Award Best Documentary (taken from the shortlist of 15 I posted a few pages back)

ASCENSION

Available on Paramount+

ATTICA

Available via RIGHT HERE (Via Showtime on Youtube - it might only be available during Black History Month)

FLEE

Available via Hulu

SUMMER OF SOUL (OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)

 

Available via Hulu

WRITING WITH FIRE

Available whenever PBS feels like airing it

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This is Danny Says, a doc about legendary rock guru Danny Fields. (It's restricted for being... TV-14? Okay...) Anyway, this is a riot. Danny knew everybody and was partly behind the success of the Doors, the Stooges, the Ramones, the MC5, etc. so he has ALL the dirt and it's ALL here. He's also an incredible raconteur so this is pretty much a must-watch for anyone interested in any of those bands. He was even behind the Beatles "bigger than Jesus" scandal which is mind-blowing to find out. 

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To say that We Need To Talk About Cosby has been enlightening and uncomfortable to watch would be an understatement.  Last episode airs this Sunday on Showtime and it is available on demand.

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I knew of this story - mainly about her stealing from her employees (and I'm going to have a serious problem if this is a hagiography to her, because she was probably in on the scam).  

The part I didn't know about was that one of my favorite videos (likely, possibly, maybe?) came from this scandal.  

 

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Decided to switch from fiction to stranger-than-fiction for my movie fix tonight:

Tread - Tells the true story of Marv, a guy in Granby, CO who felt he'd been screwed by the town and sought revenge by turning a big bulldozer into a heavily fortified tank and using it to try and demolish the town - and nearly succeeding. Very well-made with lots of interviews with witnesses and outstanding reenactments, and some terrific original footage. A remarkable look into the actions of a depraved mind. 9/10.

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