57 channels and nothing on. This weekend I was in a nostalgic mood. Remember those days when you had an old movie on the telly every Saturday afternoon? Or those very late Sunday nights when one of the French tv-channels (I'm pretty sure it was TF1) would broadcast an oldie, in original version if the movie wasn't French. My mother used to watch them and when i was old enough to stay up so late (never on a school night :-))we would really make a big thing out of it. Or the returning 'White Christmas' movie every Christmas: in those days we'd say 'oh no, not again' but now it's like all those old movies have simply vanished into thin air. No more Jean Gabin, Simonne Signoret, Lauren Bacall, Gene Kelly, or countless others... no more great films noirs, no more tough PI's, no more femmes fatales. All gone with the wind.
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