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John Oliver Says the Rent Is Too Damn High

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Dr Lizardo6/20/2022 10:35:08 am PDT

re: #14 Eventual Carrion

I don’t remember that episode right off. But in the early 60’s we lived in Canoga Park for a while when dad moved us to LA for a while before coming back to PA. Lived in Glendale for a while also.

You’re kind of a neighbor, then. I’m from South Pasadena.

BTW, Ivan Dixon isn’t just famous for his work on Hogan’s Heroes or his work in directing a good many episodes of our fave TV shows. He also has the distinction of having had one of his feature films selected by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the National Film Registry.

en.wikipedia.org

I’ve seen the entire film on YouTube - it’s probably there if you look around. It falls into the Blaxploitation genre, but as Ivan Dixon himself put it, “…when United Artists screened the finished product and saw a Panavision version of political Armageddon, they were stunned.”

Like many films of that genre, it was a low-budget affair - and it shows. But it’s still one hell of a film and what it may not have in multi-million dollar production values it makes up for in more important ways. And we can thank Tim Reid (of WKRP in Cincinnati fame) for tracking down a negative of that film and getting it put on DVD.