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Were it not for cursing and foul language, a lot of movies nowadays would be superb.  The Shawshank Redemption is one example.
We’ve come a long way down from when Rhett Butler told Scarlett he didn’t give a D..  what became of her….the old movie was Gone with the Wind.  Folks talked about that profanity for weeks.
The name of the movie escapes me, but recently on TV there was one about this smart-mouthed young man, running from the loan sharks, who came to live in a small town with his grandmother.  He pulled in, blowing his horn at the gas station attendant, badmouthing and being generally obnoxious.
Just then the local sheriff pulled in behind him. Quietly and deliberately he told the young man, “I know who you are.  I know why you have come to our town.  I know your grandmother, she is a very fine lady; but I want to tell you, we don’t take to horn-blowing… and the only time we use God’s name is when we are talking to Him personally.”
Wonderful! Right-on, well said.
Henry Winkler (the Fonz) recently played in a TV western called Dead Man’s Gun.  Sounds mean but it isn’t.  Winkler plays a down and out peddler who walks upon a dead man in the desert… the dead man’s horse is standing hereby.  Turns out the dead man is a famous gunfighter.  Winkler stripped the deceased exchanged clothes with him, and tried to give him a decent burial.  Strapping on the man’s gun, Winkler rode into the nearest town.  To his good fortune, every move he makes as an imposter works out for the good.  He even meets and marries a beautiful young lady.  Not a foul or cussword in the whole movie.  Good.
Across the great divide is another wonderful family movie.  No profanity. Of late seems like all movies on some channels are either about vampires or ghosts.  One advertised recently was called Grapes of Death.  It was about a woman who made wine out of moldy, tainted grapes.  When people drank the wine it turned them into zombies.  How’s that for a plot?
I keep seeing a TV program advertised: Drinking Made Easy.  I never did drink, but I ‘m told the drinking part is already easy.  The hard part is the Skull-Busting Headache the next morning.
The old Gene Autry black and whites are still good soul food. 
As an Army Air Corps pilot in World War II, Gene flew transports across the “hump” in India, in the China-Burma-India theater, against the Japanese.
In addition to a fine singing voice, Gene was said to have been one of the finest guitarists of his day.  Just off the ranch where he grew up, Gene’s first public job was that of a railroad telegrapher.  On the night shift when things were slow Gene passed the time playing and singing.  It’s said that the famous Will Rogers came by the depot one night and heard Gene playing.  “You are good,” Will told him.  “Good enough if you’ll stick with it you’ll go places.” Will wasn’t wrong.
“Where you sleep out every night, and the only law is right, I’m back in the saddle again.”
Kindest regards….