There was a time—eons ago—when watching a movie at home on television was a big deal to me. In the 1970s, it meant that one of our four channels had a “movie night” that came around about once a week or the occasional Sunday afternoon Burt Reynolds flick on one of those Columbus TV stations. By the early 1980s, it meant that we got one of those free weekends of HBO that my dad hated. He didn’t like that a lot of these movies had dirty words—sometimes right in the middle of the afternoon—but they were no worse than what […]
Movie nights were a bigger deal in my youth
