The Rickles film online? In its entirety? Really?
We're still going at it here on Sunday morning in Athens, Ga., in an air-conditioned conference room. It's called the Loyless Peabody Seminars and features two critics (Mo Ryan, me), three scholars (UCLA's John Caldwell, Michigan's Amanda Lotz, Georgia State's Alisa Perren), the director of the Peabodys (Horace Newcomb) and one prominent ex-critic (Noel Holston, now on staff) talking about "The State of Television."
So we are staring at a 10-foot projector screen with web pages that demonstrate the convergence of TV content and web content. And Mo is delving into the back rooms of Hulu and there I see it: Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project!! Look:
As you may recall, I was wildly enthusiastic about this film, which came out in 2007 and was the first to show Don Rickles performing his nightclub act. I'm just amazed to see a HBO documentary airing for free online a little more than a year after it stopped airing on pay cable.
