Huffy Flounce

Maybe they're just too controversial for Birtish television--well, some of them, anyway. I only ever saw Soul Man *because* it used to be on TV all the time. I doubt I ever would have rented it. It's not because I have a problem with it. It's just because C. Thomas Howell never did anything for me.

The only C. Thomas Howell Movie I ever rented was Mad Dogs and Englishmen. The only reason I rented that movie because this book assured me that Elizabeth Hurley a nude scene in the movie. (It was listed under its U.S. title, Shameless, in the book.)

I never bought the book, but I used to go to Books-A-Million with a golf pencil and a note card with actresses' names pre-written on it. I'd look the actresses up, write the names of movies they'd been nude in, rent the movies, fast-forward to the nudity, and record the scenes on my celebrity nude tape. This was when I was a freshman at the University of Alabama.

I was able to record tapes that had copy protection, because had a TV/VCR combo that had an override. I could record pretty much anything. I don't think the TV/VCR was designed to be able to do this. It was just my good luck. It was designed to record whatever the viewer saw on the screen. If you wired a second VCR to the TV/VCR combo, played the tape in the second VCR, and changed to the station designed to watch things on an external video source, it recorded the video signal without the fuzz or bands or negativing. (I guess the principal was similar to the software designed to screen capture audio and video today. It's different from copying from the source.) I copied lots of rented movies this way. I was carrying on my mother's piracy legacy. She'd stopped about half a decade prior, since copy protection made it harder and harder for her. These days, she pays other people to do it.

These video-copying days were from back before I had access to high-speed Internet, streaming pr0n sites, and sites like cndb.com and Mr. Skin. These days, a lot of pr0n sites have lengthy, time-stamped celebrity nude compilations.

Song Of The South. Damn. Zippety-Doo-Dah.

I saw that one in a theater in Germany when I was six or so. It was around the same time I saw the '66 Batman and ¡Three Amigos in the theater. I saw them all in the same theater, I think.

I saw Soul Man and Mandingo on VHS many years ago.