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On 2/6/2024 at 4:17 PM, txhorns79 said:
Outside of Babe Paley, I really don't know much about any of these women or their background,
Here you go (mostly from Wikipedia):
C.Z. Guest only had only one marriage (resulting in 2 children), to a Churchill cousin who divorced his first wife 3 years before marrying C.Z., and remained married to him until his death.
In contrast, Babe Paley was married to:
1) her first husband (with whom she had 2 children), for 6 years
2) Bill Paley the year after her divorce (and had another 2 children with him), remaining married until his death. They married 3 days after Paley's first wife (who had started an affair with Paley while still married to her first husband, a son of William Randolph Hearst), received a divorce in Reno.
Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy's sister) was divorced for the second time (a year before La Côte Basque was published) from a Polish aristocrat whose 3rd wife she was and with whom she had 2 children. (The Polish "prince's" previous (2nd) wife later married a British earl whose previous (2nd) wife later married Lee's first husband.) Years after Capote died, Lee married director Herbert Ross.
Slim Keith:
1) had a daughter with her first husband, the director Howard Hawks (who had to divorce Norma Shearer's sister to marry her.)
2) She divorced the cheating Hawks to become the 3rd wife of producer Leland Hayward who divorced actress Margaret Sullavan (his 2nd wife, who had previously had a very brief marriage to Henry Fonda and a longer one to Director William Wyler) to marry her.
She allegedly had affairs with Frank Sinatra and others, and Hayward divorced her after 10 years to marry Pamela Churchill (ex-wife of Winston's son), as his 4th wife (or 5th, since he had married and divorced his first wife twice.) Pamela is called "Pamela Harriman" in the 3rd episode of Feud, but she didn't marry Averell Harriman until after Hayward's death, years after the Black and White Ball. Pamela was the much older Harriman's 3rd wife. And his daughter by his 1st wife married Babe Paley's first husband, a year after their divorce, the same year Babe married Bill Paley.
3) At the time of the Black and White Ball, Slim was married to British banker Kenneth Keith, whom she later divorced. Between those times, he was knighted, and she became "Lady Keith".
On 2/5/2024 at 4:19 PM, Snazzy Daisy said:C.Z. Guest is kind of boring
So maybe C.Z. Guest is boring because she had the least drama in her life of the above women? https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a46320559/who-was-cz-guest-true-story/
Has anyone seen evidence that the Guests actually had their assets seized by the IRS?
12 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:Where was Allison wright? I missed her.
She played Pamela Churchill Heyward (Harriman), currently married to Slim Keith's ex, Leland Heyward.
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On 12/15/2023 at 2:12 PM, OlderThanDirt said:
But in real life, why couldn't Princess Anne have taken him under her wing as a second child destined to spend life in the spotlight but never the star. I hope they have better ideas about preparing Charlotte and Louis for real life.
I think it was harder for a younger brother being compared to the older brother (Harry) or a younger sister being compared to the older sister (Margaret) where had the birth order been switched, the other would have been the monarch/future monarch, than it was for Anne, who was probably never really compared with Charles (unless we believe the part where Philip said she'd have made the better boy and vice versa). And once Andrew was born, despite being the 2nd child, Anne wasn't even 2nd in line to the throne anymore. I don't think she ever had younger/2nd child syndrome the way Margaret and Harry did.
And even though Charlotte would be next in line after William had she been born before George, I still don't think that a younger sister would feel as competitive with an older brother. Not sure about Louis, but it is true that Charlotte and Louis will have each other.
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3 hours ago, Sweet-tea said:20 hours ago, ItCouldBeWorse said:
Because showing the younger Harry actor drinking alcohol would have been absurd? They needed a bridge actor who could pass for 12 or 13.
Perhaps but he couldn’t pass. He looked at least late teens to me.
8 hours ago, Cheezwiz said:They should have kept the previous two actors for just the Willsmania ep, as the episodes are only supposed to be weeks apart in time. They could have done a subsequent time-jump for the remaining episodes with older actors. Regardless, the casting was terrible for Harry - no resemblance whatsoever.
Absolutely agree.
Edited 3 hours ago by Sweet-tea
The younger Harry actor was a child and the older one looked way too old (and doesn't resemble the real Harry). They needed a 3rd actor to play pre-teen Harry in this episode.
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On 12/16/2023 at 10:33 AM, Spartan Girl said:
Kudos to the show for casting of young Lilibet, Margaret, Peter, and Porchy—they really did look like teen versions of Claire and Vanessa.
On 12/16/2023 at 11:27 PM, secnarf said:So far this episode was my favourite of the series. I loved the flashbacks especially, and I couldn't believe that the actress playing young Elizabeth was not a de-aged Claire Foy. I did see on IMDb that the actress playing young Margaret is the same as from Season 1.
On 12/16/2023 at 10:33 AM, Spartan Girl said:I have to ask: where were Margaret’s kids in all this? You’d think they never existed.
Agreed. There was a young man sitting next to Margaret at her birthday party, but he was way too young to be her son, and I doubt they would seat her grandson with her table without any other of her descendants.
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On 12/14/2023 at 9:21 PM, dubbel zout said:
LOL that Lola and Kate end up as temporary allies because William was being a jerk. I enjoyed that.
Lola was played by Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Swinton's daughter.
On 12/14/2023 at 11:25 PM, Brn2bwild said:Pippa and James Middleton don't appear to exist.
Kate hugged them when she came in the door with Rupert, and they were shown playing games after dinner. James was quite young.
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On 12/15/2023 at 2:28 PM, Sweet-tea said:
The other Harry actor was also much more age-appropriate. Why did they switch to the older one? It's only been a few months since she died.
Because showing the younger Harry actor drinking alcohol would have been absurd? They needed a bridge actor who could pass for 12 or 13.
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On 12/17/2023 at 11:39 PM, Red Fields said:
I was waiting for Dodi's phone to ring while he was telling off his father.
Didn't he turn it off?
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On 8/8/2022 at 3:24 PM, possibilities said:
I think they do. Isn't that why Carmy was always having them prep it? Maybe I misremembered, but I was sure I'd heard that a few different times.
What would be the purpose of making more giardiniera right then when they were in the weeds (episode 7) if it takes 2 days in the fridge to pickle properly?
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On 11/28/2023 at 12:09 PM, Spartan Girl said:
I was not a fan of Camilla's wedding attire and I never will be.
On 11/28/2023 at 6:37 PM, Absolom said:Yikes, the recreation is worse than what she wore. This looks cheap and lacking in style.
She wore 2 outfits. The cream one was from the town hall wedding. I thought that he pale blue one she wore to the religious blessing (to me it appeared to be gray) looked wonderful on her, and i loved the coordinating hat: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/style/1590834/camilla-duchess-of-Cornwall-wedding-style-dress-bouquet-myrtle-prince-Charles
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On 11/15/2023 at 4:41 PM, HerkyJerky said:
Kristen, I wonder if our heat tolerance decreases as we age? I moved to Tampa 35 years at 33 and had NO problem with the heat. NOW it's a different story.
It's demonstrably hotter than it was when we were young.
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23 hours ago, qtpye said:
I am going to guess that Mou Mou was thinking that if Diana and Dodi had children, they would be half-siblings to the royal heirs. He thought this would be his ticket to British citizenship or perhaps something along those lines.
Even within the fictionalized context of the show, it would be pretty inane for him to think that the mother of the future head of the Church of England would be willing to have children who would be brought up Muslim. That would never happen.
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On 11/17/2023 at 1:59 AM, Roseanna said:
In this show Dodi's father lives wholly under the illusion. Far from making him closer to the BRF, the marriage would have ruined Diana's reputation among the conservative Brits with strong prejudices.
Dodi as a step-dad for a future king? No chance!
I realize this is heavily fictionalized, but in what world would a person believe that his son marrying someone's ex-wife would make him a close friend of her former in-laws? Even if she were an average person?
It also seemed strange that when Diana "appeared" to Charles after her death, she said that everyone would be better off with her dead, and he didn't reply that the boys certainly wouldn't be. (I also thought it strange that Charles would have imagined her saying that at all, knowing how much she meant to the boys. Did he think that she thought they would be better off without her? He was shown craving motherly attention himself.)
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1 hour ago, Snazzy Daisy said:
Diana says the WORST day of her life was the day she married a prince
She also told a land mine victim who lost his legs that she stepped on a land mine the day she married. I know that line was probably scripted for the show, but it makes her sound incredibly shallow.
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5 hours ago, Snazzy Daisy said:
This might be insignificant, but what’s with the lingering shot of a mouse?
Charles decided not to say anything; those who live there deserve to have a rodent infestation.
2 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:Diana throwing ice cubes at Dodi and William was cute.
To me, it seemed like she needed attention. William was having fun discussing the next James Bond movie with Dodi. Leave them alone!
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8 hours ago, PurpleTentacle said:
Shouldn't destroying the loom have freed all the timelines? Why were they dying? That was a problem never before introduced.
I believe it's the failsafe? When the Loom explodes, all the timelines besides the Sacred one are destroyed. Previously, each time that Victor Timely failed, we focused on him spaghettifying, and then the TVA. We weren't watching the branches outside the TVA turn brown and wither. However, we saw what it looks like from the inside; in Sylvie and OB's variant timelines, just like in the TVA, everything spaghettifies.
By averting the failsafe, Loki not only saved the various timelines by imbuing them with his energy, he also prevented the TVA from being destroyed.
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Yes, if he could freeze her, he could kill her. Maybe that's too easy?
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On 11/10/2023 at 5:17 PM, kay1864 said:
Could Loki have taken Sylvie through a time door to talk past-Sylvie out of killing Kang? Or is Loki the only one who can exist twice in the same place?
Or could he have asked her to read his thoughts, so she'd understand what he was trying to prevent?
5 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:Ugh, yes. Her actions messed with the balance of the universe, hurt people, and yet she gets to live happily ever after without showing any remorse. Gosh, who does that remind me of? *glares hatred at Steve Rogers*
Did Steve Rogers hurt people, or did he just get his own happy ending?
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Would Sylvie be able to visit? As Loki reminded her, she's also a god.
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2 hours ago, paigow said:
What did Adult Chicago Victor Timely do after Loki absorbed all the branches? Stayed at TVA? Stuck in a timeloop - always getting the book?
We saw that the child Victor did not get the book; he kept making candles. He may still be a genius or an impresario, but unless something changes, that Victor Timely will not have access to the TVA guide.
However the yellow-covered 2nd edition of the TVA Guide says it's authored by Ouroboros and Victor Timely, so his previous contributions remain.
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10 hours ago, Gummo said:
WHY did all the TVA people get amnesia when they were bounced out of the TVA? WHY are they all on variant timelines, not the original, sacred timeline? So were those their real lives or just more variant nonsense?
Haven't we been told they were all variants since the 1st season? B-15 got very upset when she found out, Mobius didn't want to know who he had been, etc.
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9 minutes ago, possibilities said:
I had not heard about this, so I looked it up. I am guessing the NYT article upthread has a paywall, but these don't:
https://news.yahoo.com/speaker-mike-johnson-explained-why-102654162.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/what-s-up-with-speaker-mike-johnson-s-black-son/ar-AA1iVmkt
I always "gift" NYT articles, so everyone should be able to read it, too (that's why it has a lengthy url with "unlocked" in it): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/us/politics/mike-johnson-house-speaker-son.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6Uw.IyqS.-WuvYGcYV7Fk&smid=nytcore-android-share
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9 hours ago, paigow said:
Team Loki killed this Renslayer variant before the Loom exploded... if a new / rebooted TVA emerges... will there be a Renslayer in it?
She was pruned, not killed, so she should be in the Void.
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24 minutes ago, Fostersmom said:
The bigger question to me wasn't that he had black son, it was this son is a grown man who is 11 years younger than Mike Johnson? Did I hear that right?
He uses him as an excuse for some of his political positions. And don't miss The Blind Side reference (which hasn't aged well): On Race, Mike Johnson Says His Views Were Shaped by Raising a Black Child https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/us/politics/mike-johnson-house-speaker-son.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6Uw.IyqS.-WuvYGcYV7Fk&smid=nytcore-android-share
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1 hour ago, Apathy said:
Yeah, I thought the same thing. I don't think JAJ was in any of the other sketches either, except for the Lake Beach one. Maybe he was out sick?
He was in the Washington sketch.
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S03.E01/E02: Career Day Part 1/Career Day Part 2
in Abbott Elementary
I also remember him from Sirens, where he had the same kind of delivery. (He was a good guy, not smarmy, so I'm predisposed to trust him.)