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Laredo Tv Show
Topic Started: Sep 2 2008, 09:50 PM (274 Views)
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I've received a couple of emails about my description of the Laredo TV series in this month's DVD Calendar. (Which, in case ya'll forget or didn't read it, read, and I quote, "Laredo: Season 2, Part 1 (Timeless Media, $34.98) If you remember this TV series, congratulations! You’re either better at remembering TV shows than I am, or you’re older than hell.")

Email #1:

"Thanks so much for the contagious spirit of fun that graces every aspect of In The Balcony. I must, however, take serious exception with the way you dismissed the television western "Laredo" in your latest DVD Calender. Although I've never seen the show myself, I've long felt that it's brilliantly conceived title represented something of a highwater mark in broadcast history. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it somehow seems infused with a stellar combination of good taste and sound judgement that sets it in a class by itself. Thanks again for all that you do. Warm Regards, Joe Laredo."

Email #2:

"I am not older than hell. It was a very good show. Check out the first season. Uninformed sound-bites are not clever or funny." [I'm not gonna mention this fellow's name.]

My response: I spent hours on my day off putting together the DVD Calendar by going through a mountain of material; this was just about the heaviest month for vintage DVD releases ever. It's not my being "uninformed" that causes me to do unfunny soundbites, it's sheer laziness. Insult me properly please. But I apologize to all Laredo fans out there, many of whom are probably (a) also named Laredo, I would guess, and (B) younger than me, or at least younger than hell, a place that is no doubt very old indeed. I'd google it and find out exactly how old it is if I weren't so lazy.

Funny, I insult TV shows all the time (That Girl, mainly, although I sometimes forget myself and insult The Doris Day Show in its place) but this is the first letter of outrage I have yet received. You would think that with the sheer number of people who visit my website daily (at least 11, more if we've been insulted by the Serial Squadron) somebody would've taken umbrage at my lackadaisical attitude before NOW...
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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Some people take this crap way too seriously. It's just a TV show.
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Now it seems like you pissed off one of those Sound Of Music fans.

Ya know....La....Re....Do.... Hey, it ain't my fault they couldn't spell Ra.

Do a deer....a female deer :lol:
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Or as the FOSOMs (Friends of Sound Of Music) say:

"Go climb a mountain, go jump in the sea..."
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I got a follow-up email from the guy who was unhappy with my Laredo description. He's a swell guy, as it turns out. A professional film editor, too.
"I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley
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Seriously, Laredo was a pretty good tv show. A wild west update of Gunga Din it had action, humor and good performances by the 3 leads: Neville Brand, Will Smith and Peter Brown. Not to mention Philip Carey as Captain Parmalee.
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