It was over a quarter of a century ago that I went to a video store in Brooklyn and rented a cassette with a movie on it. The film? The 1982 remake of "Cat People" with Malcolm McDowell, Nastassja Kinski, and Ruby Dee. (Yes, even then cats seemed to rule my life.) I had just carted a videocassette player up the stairs to my apartment and my fiancée - now my wife - and I were amazed at the idea that we were about to watch a movie on a television set on our schedule and without commercial...
Published on March 28, 2010 06:00