The class was TV Sleuths (man, I love that class) and the topic was "Why have police?" as in what prompted the government/people/Man to set up a formal police force.
Answer: "Because God is dead."
Side Note: If you have Turner Classic Movies, watch "In Caliente" tonight. I swear my grandmother's in it. This is based on a 5 second clip from a Busby Berkeley documentary, but the movie's not on video/DVD, so there's no way to prove it ... until now.
Side Note to the Side Note: I dreamt last night that I was watching television with my grandmother. We were watching a series of deleted scenes from "8 1/2" while my grandfather talked to Jean Renoir about what clothes to wear to church. Best dream in a long time.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Are you going to do a "critical reading" of Columbo? You do realize you've watched more episodes of TV shows with sleuths than your entire class combined. This class sounds like blast.
Oh man ... we don't even get to watch Colombo because he's a cop and we're doing detectives (although we're including Hawaii 5-0 and Prime Suspect ... go figure). Also discussed in class were how detectives had eccentricities, like Holmes and "the needle", and Nero Wolfe and food, all the hard boiled guys and the bottle/broads. But Magnum PI? The Prof suggested his weakness was wearing the short-shorts. Dude, it was the style at the time!
Post a Comment