So much stuff lost as the world evolves to DVD / Blueray

[ghouck]

I was just looking around the 'net, and I noticed that it's not just B-movies that are being lost. I was looking for Buddy Hackett's special he did for HBO 25 years or so ago and can only find it on VHS, and then it approaches $100 for what was a rental copy. I just can't believe something this great could get lost in time. I was trying to find it to show my kid, he has no idea who Buddy Hackett was.

[lester1/2jr]

1.  I thought your title said "so much for the lost world of elves"

2.  buddy hackett was 4 foot 9 inches tall and I would also like to see that special

[BoyScoutKevin]

I was just looking around the 'net, and I noticed that it's not just B-movies that are being lost. I was looking for Buddy Hackett's special he did for HBO 25 years or so ago and can only find it on VHS, and then it approaches $100 for what was a rental copy. I just can't believe something this great could get lost in time. I was trying to find it to show my kid, he has no idea who Buddy Hackett was.

Well, till you can find a copy of the special at a more reasonable price, if you want your kid to know who buddy hackett was, you might try these films from the '60's.

The Love Bug
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Both Terry-Thomas and Jim Backus appear in the last two films, as well.

Or, if you want something a little more up to date, buddy hackett did the voice for Scuttle, the seagull in "The Little Mermaid."

[Derf]

Well, till you can find a copy of the special at a more reasonable price, if you want your kid to know who buddy hackett was, you might try these films from the '60's.

The Love Bug
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

Both Terry-Thomas and Jim Backus appear in the last two films, as well.

Or, if you want something a little more up to date, buddy hackett did the voice for Scuttle, the seagull in "The Little Mermaid."

Those films (plus The Music Man) do indeed feature Hackett, but they are family features; his stand-up routines were often anything but. And it is in his stand-up routines we see the true genius of Buddy Hackett.

[ghouck]

The part I especially want my kid to see (He's 17 now), is a story Hackett told about being taught the art of making love by a Japanese man. It was this long ritual where the man and woman bathed together, dried each other off, ate rice cakes, drank wine, kissed, caressed, , all this ritual, which he completely Americanized and screwed up trying to do for his wife. It was this big fiasco that culminated with her saying to him: "You f**k like a Jap. . "

[The Burgomaster]

I remember seeing that Buddy Hackett special a couple of times . . . it was very funny.  I also remember he sang a serious song on that special and he wasn't bad.  Have faith . . . someone will release it on DVD some day. 

[Jim H]

I think that special was out of print and hard to find even before DVD was around.

The one thing I will say...  A lot of people think video on demand type services will replace things like BluRay and DVD.  I hope that is not the case, but if they ever become popular, the one upside is there will always be an outlet for stuff, and things will never go out of print again.