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Pioneer CLD-D605 with both side play. Also a karaoke function and dedicated CD tray. Not that I've ever used either of those.

I was a teenager living in Las Vegas during the same time period and back then, Vegas was about a quarter its current size and not exactly a bastion of Liberalism. Out gay kids were about as common as four-leaf clovers in the desert. On the other hand, interracial couples were not at all uncommon though they were more than likely to avoid advertising those relationships to their parents.

I still have my LD collection and player. No way I'm ever getting rid of them. Paid $1,000 dollars for the player the year before DVD hit the market. Player still works and I use it sparingly. Last time I counted, the LD collection was just north of 100 and I've acquired a handful since then. Breaks down roughly to about 20% HK imports, 20% other foreign imports, 60% domestic from silents to late 90's. Also about a dozen LD's I picked up in Tokyo in 2004. Han shoots first but there are hard-coded Japanese subtitles. It's a trade-off I can live with.

Started watching in junior high shortly after the infamous disco rape and through all of the mob and spy story-lines that followed until probably my senior year of high school. Was never a "Luke & Laura" fan per se but of many of the characters in their orbit. Team Scotty. And Jacklyn Zeman and Emma Samms were enough to keep me watching for awhile after Geary and Francis left. RIP Mr. Geary.

When I was in junior high, dudes were literally running home from the bus stop to catch the rest of that day's GH episode. Absolutely ridiculous but completely engrossing story-telling.

Too bad you weren't involved in our in our short-lived annual martial arts film review collab. We might have gotten a lot more done!

Yeah, that is pretty much how I handled it when I was running the show.

The pull of this thing for me is to be given stuff I wouldn't ordinarily watch.

I own it. I buy a lot of things that I don't need The product placement wasn't J&B but another brand. And I've only seen Zombi Holocaust because you forced me to. I actually assumed this was your pick so, in light of how much I hated ZH, I wanted the best possible version I could get so I could give a fair review. I appreciated Zombi 2 for the skill behind it and all things considered I didn't hate the film but I don't go out of my way to watch gore films. Gore in other genres isn't something I avoid and, yes, it can even elevate a film if used well. Such as in other Fulci films. Might be less of a gore thing and more of the concept of eating human flesh, whether it be zombies, cannibals, settlers, or a soccer team is completely repellent to me and almost never enjoyable to watch.

In.

It was the eightiest of 80's films.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tristan-rogers-dead-general-hospital-star-79-1236345761/ He started playing the Robert Scorpio character in 1980 when GH first began leaning heavily into the action/adventure genre and EVERYBODY was watching.

If we're not including horror then Chungking Express and Paris, je t'aime are both worth a mention. I'd also include The Beaver Trilogy. It plays like an anthology film to me, anyway.

My first exposure to Hogan came when the AWA started running Vegas when I was a teen. We had moved from Florida sometime around 1977 where we got both the CWF and Mid-Atlantic shows on TV. We only sparingly attended CWF cards because it required a long drive to Jacksonville. Vegas was very different than it is today and the best we could get as far as wrestling went was the occasional card coming out of San Francisco, with guys like Wildman Jack Armstrong and Dean Ho. It was alright but not exactly Dusty bleeding for your sins. Then the AWA All-Star Wrestling show came to our TV in the early 80's and not long after, the first Showboat card. I believe the main was Bock vs The Baron and there was a battle royale that featured Andre but I'm pretty sure the draw was an arm-wrestling contest between Hogan and Jesse Ventura, which led to a match the following month. Eventually they did the exact same deal between Hogan and Ken Patera. In the two years or so that we regularly attended those shows, I have to say, saw a lot of good Hogan matches. The Ventura one probably wasn't amongst them but everyone loved it anyway. There were also matches with Bock, Patera, Duncum, Adonis,and Saito and Shultz in both singles and handicap matches. At the time it was shocking when he jumped to the WWF. You would have thought Gagne would have done anything to keep him because he was already a different level of star than anyone else on the card. By this time though I was becoming a Bockwinkel fan and a fan of better wrestlers in general. Didn't follow WWF beyond what I read in the Apter mags and the occasional SNME or video store rental so my viewing of his major WWF matches is spotty. Didn't really start watching him again until he showed up in WCW though his act got old to me real quick until the Big Turn that made him relevant again. Didn't follow anything post-WCW. Didn't care much for Rock-Hogan, didn't watch anything from TNA or anything else. I'm too much of a film lover to ever intentionally waste my time watching Hogan movies. In the ensuing years he'd proven himself to be a less than sterling human being. But when he was big there wasn't anyone bigger. Only a handful of people had as big an impact on wrestling and realisticly only one person had more.