From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Ken Burns:   
   	- So Conan already has The War on DVD?   
   	   
   	+ I would really like PBS to stop telling us ``The War is   
   brought to you by $_sponsor''.  The sentence would be less creepy if it   
   were reworded: ``This Ken Burns documentary, `The War', was brought to   
   you by $_sponsor''.   
      
   	+ I had the same problem a few months back when History Channel   
   did a three-hour thing on the Spanish-American War complete with dopey   
   reality-TV interludes, and their commercial outros claimed ``The   
   Spanish-American War was brought to you by Mastercard'' (or whoever),   
   since it would be more correct to say it was brought to us by the San   
   Francisco Examiner.   
   	   
   	- The director's cut of The Interview is much longer and more   
   expensive.   
   	   
   	- World War II is the most-discussed war and there's four or   
   five cable channels entirely about it, including the Hitler Channel on   
   Disney; how can he approach it?  He tried endless anecdotes from the   
   trenches.   
   	   
   	- Veterans have only started telling their experiences of the   
   war.  Before the 50s you just didn't talk about being turned into   
   professional killers with their dearest friends killed and wounded.   
   Many of them had never told their children.   
   	   
   	- Many of them find, 60-plus years away, the war is still very   
   close and immediate.   
   	   
   	- World War II saw a huge common purpose that we haven't got   
   today.  The notion of shared sacrifice making us richer was present back   
   then.  He attempts to claim that the War On Terror is as big as the War   
   On Fascism, but there was no attempt to call for civic participation,   
   and that is part of the problem.  Burns has a vague idea that action in   
   2001 could have ended dependence on foreign oil or improved   
   infrastructure.   
   	   
   	- What's his reward?  It's a drop in a pond; what radiates out   
   is more important.  He doesn't want people to regret not asking their   
   dads what he failed to ask his dad.   
   	   
   	- You can record answers and send it to the Library of Congress   
   where it will be stored forever.   
   	   
   	- Oh, it's on DVD from today.  That's how Conan has it.   
      
      
   VHS Or Beta:   
   	- Bring On The Comets: Can't Believe A Single Word, maybe?   
      
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