>>>I assign absolutely no blame on the girl. She was raised on that. I'm ranting against whoever proscribed her diet. She can't have seen what was never shown to her.
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>>Ok, I'll bite. How is her affection for an old TV show and old movies a flaw in her upbrining? Oh, and be careful, I love the old movies too.
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>So, what do you think of Vera Chytilova, Zeman, [unspellable] Trnka and the rest of that school? No cheating - no Google, no Wikipedia. You probably know only one guy from that school, and that starts with him coming to Hollywood.

Never heard of them, and don't feel the least bit deprived. See, the thing is that I most enjoyed watching movies in which I could follow the dialog without having to read subtitles.

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>OK, let's turn it the other way around. What do you think would have become of me if I was happily isolated from the Western culture, had no Flash Gordon, no Belgian school of comics (name three authors, please), had only the works of Valter Nojgebauer, Jules [unspellable] and [unspellable] plus Mirko & Slavko and other war comics, with an icing of epic poetry from the Kosovo battle and the uprisings? Wouldn't it be nice if I was completely saved from the horrors of rock'n'roll? If I never saw Brigitte [spellable] but saw War and Peace, if I didn't see Doctor Zhivago but read [unspellable] by Pasternak, i.e. translated straight from Russian? That would have made me a much better person, indeed.

You probably would have grown up not much caring about it. At least you would have been less likely to harangue everyone else just because they enjoy things that you feel may be less worthy than other things. Maybe I missed some good movies in languages I can't understand, but since I thoroughly enjoyed the movies I grew up watching on late night TV, as I said, I don't feel deprived. What is life about if not finding ways to enjoy ones self. You enjoy what you enjoy, and I enjoy what I enjoy, and the fact that you feel I've been deprived doesn't make it necessarily a cosmic truth.

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>> I even love old music from the 20s and 30s. Should my parents be shot?
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>As much as I should have been shot because of my part in supporting Sloba.
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>For that matter, blame any (or all) of the previous Canadian governments for allowing a monopoly.

What monopoly? Are you under the impression that there were no foreign movies allowed into Canada? Confiscated at the border perhaps?