It's the weekend.
Markets are closed, we're just coming off a big victory Friday evening in Ontario, California and the warm California sun is out after a rainy, windy night.
Never get discouraged. Normally we'd say something like: "Critics be damned!" But we promised our dear deceased mother never to take The Lord's name in vain.
Never get discouraged about being turned down or rejected. Let me give you just two examples from Film Land. Yea, we're talking about Hollywood, a place people love to love and love to hate at the same time.
The perennial Xmas classic starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed, "It's a Wonderful Life, "was an unparalleled financial flop." How big a flop? Well, the studio never bothered to even hold onto its rights. And that's why for years it ran hundreds of times every Xmas season because nobody had to pay anything to screen it. The film lost money, lots of money and critics panned it for being too "sappy and overly sentimental."
The other classic now considered by many as the greatest film ever made is "Citizen Kane" starring Orson Wells, Joseph Cotten and Everett Sloan. Critics called it "too dour and overly long." Today it's viewed as a "stunning example of film making."
A little inflation side note, Sloan by the way, one of the better characters actors of the era, reportedly received 2,400 in 1941 dollars for shaving his head for his role.
So there you have it, the rest of the story as the late radio personality Paul Harvey use to say. Never get discouraged. And, for certain, don't take the so-called experts too seriously. Most are too dour and overly long.
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