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26 minutes ago, Colleenna said:
Not really. Women didn't wear slacks until around WWII. When women moved into the workforce during WWII, wearing dresses wasn't practical when crawling around welding planes and ships.
I'm remembering Joan Crawford and others (Katharine Hepburn) wearing slacks in movies from the 30's. My memory ain't what it used to be though.
My grandma always wore a dress, but that's her generation -- born in the late 1800's. It certainly wasn't the kind of dress that Mrs. Cleaver wore, or Donna Reed. And definitely no heels.
But men too -- old movies and TV show men coming home from work and keeping their suit jacket on. Or their work clothes/uniforms.
Men didn't have comfy clothes either, did they, before the 60's?
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29 minutes ago, Annber03 said:
My mom remembers being in elementary school and having to wear skirts to school. Which, considering she grew up in Iowa, really sucked whenever wintertime rolled around. It wasn't until she got to junior high that they started allowing girls to wear jeans to school.
Iowa here too. We were allowed to wear pants under our skirts in winter. I graduated in 1963 and we still weren't allowed to wear slacks/pants/jeans.
I still can't figure out the reasoning -- something to with propriety, I suppose.
Or keeping kids kids. Women were wearing slacks for 50 years by then, so why didn't it trickle down to kids?
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1 hour ago, spiderpig said:
What is with that creepy commercial of someone who looks like The Wicked Witch of the West and a little kid with her face painted like a cat? I can't recall the product they're pushing, which is a big fail in advertising.
Geico. The two roommates can't agree on a third roommate. One wants a roommate who can cook, the other wants one who likes cats. They settle on the witch, who loves cats, cooks up a brew and feeds it to the roommate who turns into a cat.
I love how the other roommate flicks the cat toy at her.
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Meh for me too. I shouldn't expect realism from animation, but if we're supposed to think of these figures as people, then their situations should be realistic, or at least possible. It lost me when the tent went up in flames, and when Jenny seemed to consider riding that motorcycle up that ramp.
I did like the Brendas, and I liked the basic premise -- that it's hard to let go.
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Watching this show makes me despair for America. Makes it seem like all the good economic news is a lie. If there are fewer unemployed people, and workers are earning more, and more people are out of poverty -- why are we seeing so many homeless, hopeless, drug-abusing people everywhere?
The Friday and Saturday shows were pretty good this week. The bears were a nice change, and there were fewer chases going nowhere. Those are a waste of time.
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14 hours ago, ratgirlagogo said:
Logic and realistic legal procedures don't always come into play in these films. And of course one possibility is that the Tom Neal character is not a very reliable narrator (i.e., he actually is guilty):
Thanks for the link. The review makes me feel better about the film's ending. And Ebert's comments make me want to re-watch some favorites, looking at the characters in a different light. I usually sympathize with them, men and women defeated by cruel fate. But yeah, they've done it to themselves. Usually.
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55 minutes ago, mxc90 said:
I was just wondering why he just didn't tell him no from the start.
It's hard to say. Maybe he was worried that Simon would just find someone else. Or maybe he was suspicious about the guy's story.
He didn't like Simon even before Simon started talking. Wouldn't shake his hand.
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On 10/15/2019 at 12:54 PM, Charlie Baker said:
The spotlight on short running times continues tomorrow--tomorrow night some noir gems: Detour, which had a restoration recently, but also The Set-Up, a corruption in boxing tale unfolding in real time with excellent direction from Robert Wise and a great performance from Robert Ryan as a has been fighter; and Narrow Margin, a strong example of high wire, suspenseful storytelling in a confined setting.
Did you watch Detour? I know that noir films are required to have a downer ending, but I fail to see why
Roberts was picked up by the highway patrol in Nevada. He left no traces. He had no criminal record. He looked like the proverbial everyman. He didn't use his real name anywhere that could be traced. I choose to believe that he was picked up for hitch-hiking and that he's so relieved to be 'caught' that he'll blab everything that happened and end up in the gas chamber.
Or did I miss something obvious?
About to watch The Set-Up which I've seen before but it's worth another look. Robert Wise is one of my favorites.
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4 hours ago, mxc90 said:
It felt like they needed to show reasons why violence is acceptable (the men at the club and Ray threatening deadbeat Simon if he doesn't pay child support).
Yep. It's hard to argue with Ray, sometimes. Those guys will think twice before they slap a woman on the ass, and Ally's brother will reconsider before he does something shitty to a kid.
On the other hand, when we're hit, our instinct is to hit back. Those people Ray hit might retaliate, and the chain begins.
That leader in the anger management group -- I'd be scared to death to draw those guys out, get them going.
Ray looks like he's seething, all the time. Maybe it's the way he grits his teeth. He never looks relaxed and calm.
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2 hours ago, mxc90 said:
Curious why Ray took the job for deadbeat Simon, he didn't seem interested at the meeting.
He pegged Simon as an asshole. Ray's not the kind of guy who's gonna kill a rich man's girlfriend, or kill anyone just to protect their reputation. I think he was offended by the request and decided to check out the guy's story.
Is it possible that Ray knew Fiona? She didn't seem at all frightened to have a strange man accost her in the parking garage.
I don't think Ray would have killed her even if what Simon said were true.
The $250,000 is about 18 years child support at $1,000 per month, eh?
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9 hours ago, Anela said:
I'm watching this one again, the last time was four years ago, I think.
I've been stressed out for a few weeks, and trying to get in the mood for Halloween, so I'm recording a bunch of movies, and found this online, because I never see it on the channels I have on cable.
Excellent movie. I've watched it three times and it still gets to me.
Along with The Changeling (the George C. Scott version, not the Angelina Jolie one), these are my go-to Halloween movies.
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The haunted house was a bit of a bust. If they hoped for some increased business because of the national TV exposure, maybe they should have cleaned the place up a little bit. There was crap all over.
No seance? No ouija board? Bummer.
Couldn't they have gotten the medium from the first season of Beverly Hills? I'm up for another Dinner from Hell.
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2 hours ago, LibertarianSlut said:
😟I will say two nice things about Kary: she looks fresher than the other ladies, and I love the fact that she can keep her cool when someone is screaming at her. I can tell it actually doesn't faze her, which I respect. But she had no place to bring up D'andra at the damn bachelorette party. Leanne has a legit beef about that.
That was my favorite take-away from this week -- Kary being so unfazed while LeeAnne just kept getting louder and louder. Hell, she wasn't even blinking while LeeAnne was raging.
I have no clue why Kary decided to be the LeeAnne/D'Andra peacemaker. Could be the "mother" in her, wanting people to get along. Is she older than the other women?
D'Andra spreading rumors about Rich -- bad, but have they all forgotten LeeAnne spreading rumors about Cary's husband Mark? And there was a difference -- we didn't hear D'Andra telling anyone that Rich cheated, only that there were rumors that he cheated. But LeeAnne said that Mark was sucking dicks -- not that she heard it, but that he was doing it.
There's a difference between "X did this" and "I heard X did this".
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58 minutes ago, laredhead said:
I'd love to see them on a future WATN episode if HH ever brings back that option. By now they have many they could show.
Heck, I'd like to see them get their own show. They were both cute as heck, and funny. I wanted to spend more time with them.
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23 minutes ago, CrazyInAlabama said:
5 p.m. episodes, first one new, second one rerun-
First (New)-
Mother's Day Drug Use-Plaintiff took defendant high school age girl into her home for over a year, never charged her rent. Plaintiff is suing for unpaid rent, and damages. As JJ says, No good deed goes unpunished, and Never take in someone who has been kicked out by their parents. Defendant lived rent free while she was in high school, when she graduated she paid nothing, including rent to the defendant. Room was trashed around Mother's Day, and defendant is blaming the plaintiff's son. Plaintiff wants room damages, and four months rent. Plaintiff has photos of the ruined mattress, $972 for plaintiff.
Fight Over Funeral-Plaintiff suing brother's widow (his wife of two years or five years, and his only marriage). Defendant is counter suing for a family heirloom's return. Funeral costs $4131, and defendant borrowed it from plaintiff. Defendant received a $7700 final expense insurance proceeds, but didn't pay plaintiff/brother in law back. Apparently, plaintiff bought the giant, butt ugly broach, and he paid the late husband $500 for it. I don't like the defendant, and think she's trying to stick the plaintiff with the funeral costs, and thought he would never take her to court for them. She also is not getting the ugly broach back, because plaintiff bought it fair and square, and her story about giving it to plaintiff for safekeeping is garbage. Defendant's daughter is a loon. $4131 to plaintiff, nothing to defendant.
Not just a loon, but very antsy and jittery. My guess is that she's the reason that the heirloom was taken to the brother's house. JJ asks who would steal from them, and she responded "Friends". So yeah.
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Well, never mind. I didn't realize until after reading a review that what looked like a bundle of laundry falling out of that second story door was actually Dud. I thought they were leaving Dud buried in the mud.
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I'd never be able to have a B&B or rent rooms in a gorgeous Victorian like the Ithaca house. I just wouldn't want to share it. The charm of living in a big old house is being able to move freely from room to room. "What bedroom shall I sleep in tonight?"
Wife's attitude was really immature. Most of us stop pretending like that when we're 12.
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I sure hope they'll be picked up for another season.
Other than Dud's ending -- which was actually quite clever and in keeping with the show -- I thought this was great.
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1 hour ago, Ubiquitous said:
No comments on the last ep yet? This is a bad sign...
I liked it. These people have heart (sorry).
But I thought the answer to the statue problem could have been to just remove the giant cigarette, or disguise it as something else.
It did help me see that there are two sides of the issue. If we removed all monuments to people and events that weren't worthy of praise, we'd have very few monuments left. Maybe that would be okay -- it costs money to take care of those things -- but it's too much like rewriting history.
On the other hand, many of those monuments involved rewriting history (or ignoring it) at the time they were erected.
It's a quandary, for sure.
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4 hours ago, ruby24 said:
Ok, I got TCM back. We negotiated a longtime valued customer deal (we've been with the damn place since 1995, they better have something for us). They reduced our price and threw in the new package.
I've been told that this is how it's done. It worked for me a few months ago, when I called to cancel HBO (GoT was finished). I told the rep that I needed to reduce my bill, save some money I ended up with a $25/month reduction for six months plus four free months of Showtime.
These carriers really need to offer some deals to longtime customers, instead of the offers they make to new ones. If they can offer X for $ to new people for two years, why can't they offer something to us old reliables?
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1 hour ago, dcalley said:
One of the Youtube rabbit holes I went down as a result of this program was for the Stoneman family. Ernest "Pop" Stoneman and his wife, Hattie, had 23 children, 13 of whom survived to adulthood. (*Turns up "The Pill" to 11* - thank you, birth control!) Roni Stoneman was on Hee Haw and is still alive, along with her sister Donna.
Roni's memoir Pressing On is available at Amazon. I'd never heard of her until I met a musician who knows her well, and he recommended the book. Lots of inside stuff, not all of it positive. (She didn't need a Me Too movement to put people in their place.) She comes across as someone who makes no excuses for anything, good or bad, that happened in her life. Lots of insight about the business, as well as making music.
I think I saw a brief glimpse of her on the show, in a scene from Hee Haw. She was usually at the ironing board.
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4 hours ago, iHateAmpersands said:
The way this Quaker Oats commercial is filmed irritates the hell out of me.
Yep. I feel a bit nauseated.
And I love oatmeal.
I'm hating the one for a cell plan (I think) where everyone's yelling "Yeah!", ending with a gal working a hula hoop.
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56 minutes ago, Byrd is the Word said:
The plaintiff in the Junk Food Junkie case may be the first of his kind to show up with an actual loan contract. Nothing fancy, just some chicken scratch on the back of an envelope and it’s a slam dunk for him. Bravo kid. And did anyone else notice the the squeaky blonde defendant woman child appears to be carrying baby number 3? Evidently the men in her life are also “on again, off again”. 🙄😉
That blonde is still probably trying to figure out what happened. Her expression would make a perfect .gif for "Duh", if I knew how to do a gif.
Did they really think JJ would fall for that text from the landlord? "How much do you think we paid for plaintiff to live in the house?" "Like, $820".
She had beautiful skin though, didn't she?
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On 10/8/2019 at 8:59 AM, Darian said:
My husband got some clippings from his mother about their family history. She is convinced Walton Goggins is a relative and she might be right. So I started the first episode for my husband to show him Walton (could be a family resemblance. He has a really distinct mouth and there is a lot of that smile in my wedding album), and he kept laughing and we watched the whole episode. I'd watched the first alone, thinking maybe a show about a widower might not be his cup of tea right now, as his wife is dying but we both watched the first and second together, and it actually makes the whole thing funnier (could be us, my sense of humor is pretty dark, and I love laughing through this). They just strike a tone I like, not cloying but not playing the dead wife for laughs. There's real heart.
I'm sorry to hear this, and yes, that's a dark sense of humor you have. I haven't tuned in since the pilot, but if you're seeing heart, maybe it's worth another chance.
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Favorite Commercials
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I can relate! One time I ate nothing but chocolate pudding cake for the entire weekend he was gone. Another time it was a huge bowl of pasta salad. It's a relief, not having to plan for another person's food preferences.
I'm finally seeing the Subaru dog ads. Didn't know about them until reading here -- I DVR everything -- but now whenever I see a Lab, I pause. Hyndai is getting into the act too, and another car company, maybe GMC, uses dogs.