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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:42 AM Original message |
Has anyone else ever noticed how much time is devoted to vices in older movies? |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:50 AM Response to Original message |
1. pretty much, yeah |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. What about drinking? |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:37 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. that was the way to spend the evening |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 01:56 AM Response to Original message |
3. I remember the smoking. |
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Connonym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:09 AM Response to Original message |
4. now showing smoking is verboten so they show violence instead |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-08 12:49 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. Seems like to me in the movies they still smoke, maybe not as much. nt |
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Monk06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:30 AM Response to Original message |
5. Well back then smoking was so healthy doctors recommended it.... |
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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:45 AM Response to Original message |
7. I remember Ralph Bellamy in a movie talking about his vacation. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 03:32 AM Response to Original message |
8. I watched the original "Dawn of the Dead" recently |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 08:25 AM Response to Original message |
9. I read a lot of history of the early-mid 20th century. |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 08:40 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. yep |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-08 03:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. I just read "Revolutionary Road," which, while fiction, depicts that era perfectly. |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
10. Do you miss it? |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 08:36 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. As long as you don't have the habit |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 08:45 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I don't, but... |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 09:41 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Are you going to tell me? |
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tainted_chimp (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-08 02:57 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. here ya go... |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-08 09:48 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. D'oh! |
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tainted_chimp (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-08 09:31 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Cary Grant is irresistible. |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-08 03:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. Best Cagney scene evah!!..n/t |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
12. Well they weren't really allowed to show sex, so they had to work with what they could show. |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
15. They Didn't Call It "The LEISURE Class" for Nothing! |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-08 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
23. You don't even have to go that far back. |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-08 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
24. Yes. Back then, everybody smoked everywhere, and if someone wanted to have |
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