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It  by gabe March 30, 2006 12:41 AM   • |  Look who showed up on
my Starbucks cup today....   ...letting me know the way he sees
it: Harry Knowles, self-proclaimed "Headgeek" of, the
entertainment website.  His bit of wisdom?  "Films today are so
calculated to their opening date, that next week, next month or
10 years from now is never considered. Do you think Casablanca
was made for a specific release date? It spent months in a can,
considered unreleasable. Hollywood used to make stories for all
time. The films you see today are made for today only. Is it any
wonder they'll be forgotten tomorrow?"  I find his quote
baffling.  For someone who made a name for himself operating a
Web site whose very success is predicated on the concept of
buzz, marketing, and pre-release secrets, it is Knowles who is
being short sighted.  He is buying, and repackaging wholesale,
the notion that films from Hollywood's bygone era are timeless
works of art. While thi