Martini Shot
Bad timing
Remember the old show business adage, give the people what they want? Rob updates it: just give three million people what they want. The rest of them will be watching home remodeling shows.
When times are bad, people go to the movies. That, at any rate, is what they did during the Great Depression of the 1930's. Those were banner years for movie studios. Audiences filled movie theaters across the globe, desperate for a few hours relief from the outside world and its relentless bad news...