Fact Of The Day

[Alex]

We will wait to next week, what we said we'd post last week, so we can post this this week, ere November 12.

1. O'er 80 years
from 1937's Snow White and the 7 Dwarves to 2019's The Mandalorian, or o'er 80 years of Hollywood history.

2. 3 hours, 17 minutes, 54 seconds
in 20 second clips. That's almost 600 films and shows.

3. No one does it better.
No one has a better backcatalog, having seen the components of AT&T's HBO Max, not HBO Max. (IMHO) the only one that may come close is Comcast's Peacock, which will roll out next year.

4. An almost . . .
. . . perfect blend of the old and the new.


5. Nostalgia
That is what drags them in.

6. The last of the old line studios . . .
. . . that answers to no one but themselves.
Warner answers to AT&T (telecommunications)
Universal answers to Comcast (telecommunications)
Paramount answers to National Amusements (movie theaters)
Columbia answers to Sony (electronics)
Then there was 20th Century Fox, but, last year, they saw the writing on the wall, threw in the towel, and sold out.

7. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 =
or, why, at this moment, a half dozen reasons,  Disney+ has the edge o'er the others in the upcoming streaming wars.

Next time: what I said last time next week.

At the moment I think they (Disney) are the only service I can see giving Amazon a serious challenge. The combined Disney & Fox archives gives them a massive amount of material (although I wouldn't be surprised if the money men decided Fox should be a serperate service). The last time I looked at the figures Amazon was by quite some distance the largest streaming service having four times the subscribers of its nearest competitor (Netflix) and that was before the end of Game of Thrones and the mass unsubscribing that followed its finale.

[Rev. Powell]

According to this, the average person has sexual 5,770 time before first and last intercourse.

http://www.elitedaily.com/dating/sex/sex-average-amount-times-before-death/1744446

That article also says people fall in love an average of 6.5 times in their life (and also have an average of 6 unrequited loves, which I hope are counted separately). That sounds awfully high to me.

[ER]

According to this, the average person has sexual 5,770 time before first and last intercourse.

http://www.elitedaily.com/dating/sex/sex-average-amount-times-before-death/1744446

That article also says people fall in love an average of 6.5 times in their life (and also have an average of 6 unrequited loves, which I hope are counted separately). That sounds awfully high to me.

The more I've thought about it, some things don't sound right to me either. But then again 44.6 percent of statistics are made up.

[ER]

Ever notice how dangerous being in a plane while doing a good deed is? Think about it.

Patsy Cline and those with her died in a crash after a benefit concert for the family of a DJ who had suddenly passed away.

Peter Tomarkin, host of Press Your Luck, which I used to love (the game show with the whammies), died in a crash along with his wife while they were volunteering for a group called Angel Flight West, which provided free air travel for needy medical patients.

And of course baseball star Roberto Clemente, who crashed while on a mercy mission to Nicaragua.

I'm sure there were others but going out that way seems especially unfair.

[indianasmith]

According to this, the average person has sexual 5,770 time before first and last intercourse.

http://www.elitedaily.com/dating/sex/sex-average-amount-times-before-death/1744446

That article also says people fall in love an average of 6.5 times in their life (and also have an average of 6 unrequited loves, which I hope are counted separately). That sounds awfully high to me.

If that is true, I am about 4,000 below average!

[ER]

According to this, the average person has sexual 5,770 time before first and last intercourse.

http://www.elitedaily.com/dating/sex/sex-average-amount-times-before-death/1744446

That article also says people fall in love an average of 6.5 times in their life (and also have an average of 6 unrequited loves, which I hope are counted separately). That sounds awfully high to me.

If that is true, I am about 4,000 below average!

Yes, sir, but you found true love in your first love, and that's the stuff of other people's hope and dreams.

[indianasmith]

I keep telling myself that . . . most days I believe it.

[ER]

You've seen every Star Wars movie together, and if that ain't romantic then I don't know what is.

[Rev. Powell]

According to this, the average person has sexual 5,770 time before first and last intercourse.

http://www.elitedaily.com/dating/sex/sex-average-amount-times-before-death/1744446

That article also says people fall in love an average of 6.5 times in their life (and also have an average of 6 unrequited loves, which I hope are counted separately). That sounds awfully high to me.

If that is true, I am about 4,000 below average!

Which explains why you have so much free time to write novels and hunt for arrowheads.

[ER]

According to this, the average person has sexual 5,770 time before first and last intercourse.

http://www.elitedaily.com/dating/sex/sex-average-amount-times-before-death/1744446

That article also says people fall in love an average of 6.5 times in their life (and also have an average of 6 unrequited loves, which I hope are counted separately). That sounds awfully high to me.

If that is true, I am about 4,000 below average!

Which explains why you have so much free time to write novels and hunt for arrowheads.

  May I act as your second in the forthcoming affair of honor, Indy?

[indianasmith]

LOL at both of you!

[ER]

Aww, no duel?

I thought that was how you Southerners settled things.

I'd meet the Rev's second someplace dignified, and he'd offer me some of the Rev's select bourbon and I'd offer him one of Indy's Diet Doctor Peppers, and we'd pick a time and place, maybe Devou Park at dawn, and Indy'd bring his Roman gladius, slayer of many a pumpkin, and the Rev would bring....I dunno, something equally lethal, and they'd write their wills (being a lawyer the Rev would help Indy do his, and Indy would write him a check dated after the duel), and on the dawn we'd all meet and I'd shake the other second's hand, and a priest would be there and a doctor and some onlookers, and the combatants would face off and we'd all turn our backs so we could testify we'd not seen a thing, then there'd be chilling clashes of steel or the explosion of fighting irons, and one or both of our beloved fellas would spill earthward, and Indy's wife would weep and somewhere the beautiful woman the Rev was destined to cross paths and fall in love with soon after would feel a sudden coldness about her heart and never know why, and we'd see the doomed duelists buried at Cave Hill or First Baptist, and BMDO would grow into a less interesting place, but dayham what a way to go out....

[indianasmith]

Wow, you make it sound quite appealing!

[BoyScoutKevin]

Again, we will delay what we'd said we'd post this week from last week, so we can post this.

When Fox sold out, one of the things it sold was its film library. Thus, besides the films already mentioned, the following Fox films are expected to be shown on Disney+.
--Thumbelina
-- The Sandlot
--Never Been Kissed
--Millions
--Jouney to the Center of the Earth (1959)
--the Home Alone series
--Garfield : a Tale of 2 Kitties
--the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
--Avatar
--and, of course, The Simpsons.

That does not include these Foxs film which are expected to get a reboot, either as a film or a TV series.
--Night at the Museum
--Home Alone
--Diary of a Wimpy Kid
--Cheaper by the Dozen

And when the Fox film library was sold, so was the National Georgraphic film library, so we will get to see  . . .
--Brain Games
--The Incredible Dr. Pol
--Mission to the Sun
--Secrets of the King Cobra
etc.

And for those of you are reading this in Europe, excluding the Netherlands, Disney+ rolls out on March 31, 2020, in . . .
France--Germany--Italy--Spain--and the U.K.

It makes one wonder how many of the people living there will subscribe to the streaming service, as not there, but in some polls, as many as 81% of the people polled said that they are at least thinking of subscribing.

And an almost century later, we have arrived at this moment, where the old is new once more, as there is now a plaform to show mid-price films, $20M-$60M, such as . . .
teen romances -- slapstick comedies -- inspirational dramas -- and animal adventures . . .
to the number of about a dozen films an year.

Next time: unless something else comes up, a post of what I said I'd post last time.

[Rev. Powell]

Being a millionaire ain't what it used to be... according to Voice of America, 5.8% of Americans are now millionaires.