Friday, December 30, 2005

What's On TV

So we have this new TV. NRK, the primary Norwegian network is showing The Kid, and old silent Charlie Chaplin film from 1921 at 5pm. It also stars a 9 year old Jackie Coogan, who grew up to become Uncle Fester. I seriously don't understand NRK or NRK2. If they aren't showing something like this, they show some strange live musical variety show where a bunch of people sit around a piano singing songs.

2 comments:

Christopher Smith said...

Did you know Coogan was once married to Betty Grable? Pin up girl and Uncle Fester, what a pair...

filtersweep said...

That is crazy- although Coogan was a "cute kid.". The movie was actually brilliant- it captured my attention, despite the fact that it was silent. It was creepy in how it depicted children almost being abused, and how it showed such gritty skid-row poverty- much harsher than anything shown today.