Honeymooners................you're right, classic, still funny 45 years later.
The one thing I always wondered about while watching the Honeymooners
is that the Kramdens and the Nortons appeared to be living in a tenament.
I'm not even sure they had their own phone, i remember they shared a phone I think. Plus the apartment was incredibly bleak looking and small, there was the kitchen where most of the show happened, and a small bedroom.
Ralph was a bus driver for the city of New York. Not a rich guy obviously but a good steady job. And Norton worked for the Sewage Department.
I think people like that would have lived in better surroundings.
But the look of the show was cool, the opening credits of the Honeymooners with the big band music is very cool.
Gleason was a genius.
Is Art Carney still alive? I don't remember him dying but something tells me he is dead cuz i haven't heard anything about him in years.
The old black and white shows are treasures, glad most of them survived and they'll be around for future generations to see. There is a quality to black and white that is so different than color, i'd like to see some new movies made in black and white. Scorsese made Raging Bull in B & W, beautiful looking film, Woody Allen did Broadway Danny Rose in B & W. I'd like to see it done more.
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