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Date Posted: 19:54:52 02/24/03 Mon
Author: Freddy
Subject: Radio Days

I watched Woody Allen's "Radio Days" on PBS last week and I now offer a few comments that tie in with Surf's sense of lost community due to syndication. That was one of the few Woody Allen movies I like and it is well done and very funny. You don't get the typical spoiled neurotic urbanite lemming characters so near to Hollywood's (and Allen's) heart. You get real people dealing with real problems with their radio tying them into the events of the day.

True, it wasn't talk radio but a lot of it was local and they were tied into something special. That is how it used to be in Philly and the burbs when WDDB was in its glory years. Maybe not as consuming as in Allen's movie but the talk shows catered to a plugged in subset of the population who wanted to know the "inside story" before "Enquiring" minds wanted to know.

As a sidebar: The funniest scene in "Radio Days" is when Woody's obese uncle went over to the neighbor's house to tell them to turn down the radio on the Sabbath and came back a converted Communist who had no use for religion. His wife thinks he is suffering from a heart attack for blaspheming God and it turns out to be indigestion. When his wife asks him what he had to eat he mentions the 4 course meal....Pork chops, oysters, french fries, chocolate cake.

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