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Meat Loaf is by far the greatest rock star of the 1970s 80s 90s and beyond. This movie is based on his Autobiography of the same name. Although currently available on vhs format VH1 and Paramount Pictures are bound to give in to the demand for DVD format featuring all the promotional extras that went with it. This movie is good but as I stated in my headline summary it is mixed up in some parts. Certain people places and things did or did not happen. One piece of the book I wished they had filmed was Meat Loaf driving through Arizona to California during the mid to late 1960's and picks up a hippie drifter on the highway. It turns out in the book that Meat Loaf wound up giving a ride to Charles Manson. I don't know how fans of Meat Loaf would have taken it but it would have been one of those shock moments in Meat Loafs' life where everyone would have gone WHOOOOOAAAA dude that was unreal.

The real Gaius Caligula was a young boy thrust into power because the new order wanted to rid itself of Tiberius Caeser who represented the old decaying order. Caligula being the young boy he is goes about irresponsibly running Rome his way till he psychologically breaks down and soon after developes a nasty fever which sends him even further down spiraling into madness. His final days were closely monitored by his associates who eventually snuff him, his wife, and child out and place his stammering, limp walking Uncle Claudius into power. Claudius does bring peace to Rome but that is another story for another time.

Penthouse Films under the leadership of Penthouse Magazine Publisher Bob Guccione takes the sexually perverted murderous side of the Caligula story and thrusts it into the spotlight. So much has been said about this movie that I cannot even begin to think about what actually to say here on IMDB. Because of the MPAA and The Federal Government under fire from Right Wing Liberal Christians, this movie will never ever be fully and truly a "Director's Cut Edition" untill the Right Wing Liberal Christians stop jerking their knees about pornography and obscenity. Also the MPAA needs to go out of business so that Guccione and other film makers out there can release their movies totally uncut.

In 1985 ABC TV debuted a tv mini series that garnered everyone's attention from all races creeds and colors. North and South made Patrick Swayze an overnight success as a leading male star. James Read was already a tv star wth NBC TV's Remington Steele. This mini series is the first in three mini series based on John Jakes's civil war novels. North and South ran one whole week as did the sequel North and South Book II, Love and War. Book III Heaven and Hell ran only 3 nights and was not that big a deal as the first two books in the series. It was as if though ABC TV wanted to wrap up all loose ends that went undone with the first two series. Time Warner Home Video has declined to transfer all 3 mini series to DVD format. It is always the same sorry excuse each and every time. There are currently no plans at this time to release this series on to DVD.