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Pandora's Box
- How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
- De: Peter Biskind
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Instead of focusing on one service, like HBO, Pandora’s Box asks, “What did HBO do, besides give us The Sopranos?” The answer: It gave us a revolution. Biskind bites off a big chunk of entertainment history, following HBO from its birth into maturity, moving on to the basic cablers like FX and AMC, and ending up with the streamers and their wars, pitting Netflix against Amazon Prime Video, Max, and the killer pluses—Disney, Apple TV, and Paramount.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The rise and fall of peak TV
- De AlexBenBlock en 02-16-24
- Pandora's Box
- How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
- De: Peter Biskind
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
The details
Revisado: 08-02-24
You probably need to read the Biskind books to get the total picture. Down and Dirty Pics, Raging Bulls and Easy Riders sets up this book as they are all written sequentially in real time. Also if you read Its Not TV it’s HBO that also connects dots. You will see the patterns.
New Tech comes old guard shrugs. New tech takes over. Promising they won’t be like the old tech. And boom HBO is saddling one of their more experienced writers with enough notes that could be half the script they are crying about. It comes down to risks.
The creators take the biggest risks, they offer their lives to the craft. The suits do not. So when pressure hits the suits flip flop on a dime. That’s why when new tech, cable transmission, home video, the internet, smart phones, they never see the need to at least see if the new tech is of any value. There’s no risks in trying. You put one egg in the basket and see what’s up. But you’ll see that’s not how these bozos think. They’d sit in the beach house all day because yesterday it rained.
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Crack
- Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed
- De: David Farber
- Narrado por: Kerry Shale
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Crack explains why, in a de-industrializing America in which market forces ruled and entrepreneurial risk-taking was celebrated, the crack industry was a lucrative enterprise for the "Horatio Alger boys" of their place and time. These young, predominately African American entrepreneurs were profit-sharing partners in a deviant, criminal form of economic globalization. Hip Hop artists often celebrated their exploits but overwhelmingly, Americans - across racial lines - did not. Crack takes a hard look at the dark side of late 20th-century capitalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent overview of a dramatic era in drug control
- De sally satel en 02-16-20
- Crack
- Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed
- De: David Farber
- Narrado por: Kerry Shale
He got it right
Revisado: 11-23-22
You never know exactly if an author penning a book like this actually cares about the root of the story. I’ll say this one does. I was born in 76 and was very much on deck during cracks rise and reign. The book really gives you perspective on drugs in America in the 20th century and how it lead to the crack years. It also digs into the day to day reality of why guys like some of my boys sold crack. The hip hop connection is also a good chapter as gangsters have long used the record industry to clean their money. And I like the ending. There is at times way too much romanticizing about the crack era. It was brutal. NOTHING in 2022 or 2015 or 2008 can compare. Anyone who thinks we are even remotely approaching the 90’s level of violence either wasn’t old enough to know what was going on in the streets -were of age but was in the house most of the time or was too old then to really know the ins and outs. A few years back in my old hood I had to stop and think -I hadn’t heard guns shots in a while…that’s the measure of how bad things were. Sure the violence is still in the hood. But it’s not anywhere near what it was back in 1992.
The crack era’s arms race let that horse outta the barn and it ain’t never going back.
Also the same economic conditions that produced crack has -as Slim Charles from “The Wire” said gotten more fierce. Broke people and easy access to guns (legal or not) is a bad combination.
These days the kids are doing scams, makes sense. You need less than you did with crack. Who doesn’t own a computer or a smart phone? And there are no shootouts for turf.
The only thing not discussed was the flipping money out of state phenomenon. That was huge. Most of my boys who hustled made a boat load of money “OT”. For example a quarter key (fishscale) copped in New York for $3000 could be flipped (and was) by my closet homey for 9-11 G’s. New York crews were hated for “Wal Marting” the local drug markets in the South and upstate. That would’ve been a fascinating topic to discuss.
Don’t forget these were still young boys, 16-17 going to cities and towns -far from home -they never knew of or never been to-to hustle crack! Absolutely bonkers!!!
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