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I love Season One of Bewitched. It has a totally different feel from later seasons, which I believe is due to it first considered as a show for adults. I loved the earlier premise that witches and warlocks were far more sophisticated than mortals. That gifted talents such as Mozart and Willie Mays weren't mortals, but actually witches/warlocks, as implied by Aunt Clara in the babysitting episode. Therefore, it was disappointing to me in later seasons when Leonardo da Vinci, for example, was portrayed as a mere mortal.
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On 7/14/2018 at 5:13 PM, UYI said:
Forgive me if this was posted already--I've missed a few pages--but legendary Another World head writer Harding Lemay died back in May, even though his obituary was only made public about a week or two ago.
Oh no! I read Lemay's book about his years on Another World and how Mac Cory wasn't originally slated to be a regular character. However when Lemay saw the chemistry between Douglass Watson (Mac) and Victoria Wyndham (Rachel) he immediately switched gears and had them become a couple. I always wondered* why the writers of Sleepy Hollow weren't as smart to do the same when presented with the unexpected gift of chemistry, but the price has already been paid for that mistake. RIP, Mr. Lemay.
ETA: Actually I never did "wonder", I knew why. It was stupid on their part and they refused to listen. But, as noted, that price has already been paid.
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10 hours ago, ratgirlagogo said:
Couldn't agree more. The first VHS tape I ever bought! People will still be loving it in 50 years.
I still cry when I watch Babe. Plus, if the Academy had awarded James Cromwell Best Supporting Actor, they wouldn't have to skip showing the winner in retrospective award ceremonies (although Kevin Spacey was excellent in The Usual Suspects).
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9 hours ago, Enigma X said:
I am not into awards show but my UO is people who claim something was robbed when something they have never seen or listened to has won the award. If you have never seen it, how do you know that? Even if what you have seen was great.
<raises hand> I'm one of them!
Babe was robbed of EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!
Ryan Gosling was far better in Blue Valentine than the Oscar nominated Michelle Williams.
Belleville Rendez-Vous from The Triplets of Belleville deserved the Oscar over Into the West from Lord of the Rings.
And there's more . . . but I won't list them (Emmanuelle Riva. ROBBED).
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9 hours ago, Enero said:
Looks like Jacob's Ladder is slated for release in 2019. At least according to IMBD.
A film completed in 2016 is not slated for release until 2019? That doesn't sound good.
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https://tvline.com/2018/06/28/tom-mison-watchmen-pilot-hbo-cast/
I'm happy for Tom Mison, loved him in Sleepy Hollow. But whatever happened to Nicole's "Jacob's Ladder" reboot/remake? It completed filming in 2016 I believe. Guess it's just sitting around somewhere gathering dust. Now let me back out of my own conversation before I have flashbacks and get all heated again.
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After watching "Perry Mason" reruns, I'm shocked to discover the Rev. Alden went on a killing spree upon leaving Walnut Grove for Los Angeles.
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Damn! Kate Spade. Anthony Bourdain. Ines Zorreguieta, sister of the Queen of the Netherlands. All in one week. You never know what people are going through underneath the mask they present to the world.
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4 hours ago, paulvdb said:
Written by Alena Smith (The Affair, The Newsroom), Dickinson is set during Emily Dickinson’s era with a modern sensibility and tone. It takes viewers into the world of Emily (Steinfeld), audaciously exploring the constraints of society, gender, and family from the perspective of a budding writer who doesn’t fit in to her own time through her imaginative point of view. Dickinson is Emily’s coming-of-age story – one woman’s fight to get her voice heard.
I already know I won't be watching but, hey, at least it's not a reboot.
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When Rosanne was rehired, a friend and I started a countdown of when she would be fired.
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I have to confess I've come to prefer and appreciate the 1949 version. IMO June Allyson nails Jo and Elizabeth Taylor is perfection as Amy. For the 90's, I really like Claire Danes and young Kristen Durst is wonderful. But something about the rest of that version bugs me.
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On 5/16/2018 at 12:43 PM, giovannif7 said:
I'm holding out for the epic, sweeping saga detailing the action-packed backstory of Bruce's Aunt Harriet Cooper.
This is the story the world has been waiting to hear. LOL.
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On 5/15/2018 at 3:59 PM, BW Manilowe said:
Has he been doing anything since he got fired, or has he been laying low, or will nobody hire him, for anything now, after he got himself fired?
I have no idea. I remember reading shortly after it happened he was planning to sue but after that, nothing.
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5 hours ago, Picture It. Sicily said:
Greg Giraldo?
Nope. After experimenting with Google, I discovered it's Taylor Negron.
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Who, in my mind, am I mixing Tig Notaro up with? Because every time I see that name, I keep thinking "I thought he was dead".
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58 minutes ago, LeeLeePanda said:
I’m shocked at the amount of people calling out Wayans on Twitter. Apparently he shouldn’t be upset that he got injured because of his co-workers recklessness. Or mad that his co-worker made their work place a living hell. He’s the problem, not the jackass who got fired for being a jackass.
The very same thing happened when Thomas Gibson was fired from his show.
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For years I thought I had seen Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte from the very beginning. I was wrong! I never knew there was a scene between Charlotte's father and John. I have to know, what sort of cockamamie plan did John have anyway? He was coming to Charlotte's party with his wife and then run away with Charlotte later that evening. And do what afterward? Get a divorce and marry Charlotte or just live with her in sin (as they used to say)?
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45 minutes ago, BW Manilowe said:
With all due respect, what you called "the National Baseball League" is actually called "Major League Baseball"; the teams are separated into the National League & the American League.
I know. I'm from a baseball town. I had already changed it after the coffee kicked in. What I said still applies though.
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All of these current showrunners need to go back and learn the history of their own industry. Read back of the days when William Paley loved Gunsmoke so much, he returned it to the CBS schedule which effectively cancelled Gilligan's Island. Or CBS deciding to take the network in a new direction and rid itself of rural shows, in spite of the ratings. The power of a William Paley no longer exists, but the lessons are still there. Stop writing all these major cliffhangers in the belief your show won't be cancelled. A show can have soaring ratings and still be cancelled if a major event, such as death of the star, happens. There was a reason network chiefs used to prefer episodic TV.
As far the shows recently saved. Let's not forget Timeless was renewed last year because Sony cut the license fee for NBC. Brooklyn 99 was saved by the studio that owned it (NBC) and Last Man Standing returning to theirs (FOX). Dan Fogelman recently hinted NBC should think about returning Pitch. Fogelman obviously forgot Pitch was not only FOX owned but had the cooperation of Major League Baseball because FOX had broadcast rights. Saved TV shows stories feel good, but always "Cherchez la money" for the real reason behind the curtain.
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5 hours ago, BW Manilowe said:
It's like I said before, if your show's been on anywhere near long enough to be canceled at your network's whim & without advance warning to the showrunners & other "creatives", don't even think about putting a major cliffhanger, which is possibly never to be resolved, in the last show of a season. All it'll do is piss off at least some of the loyal viewers, if not the showrunners & "creatives" as well.
I would add if your show is on the bubble in ratings, don't do it either.
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13 hours ago, Dixie said:
"The Nutcracker" by Shana Alexander is about this case. It's very interesting.
The title "Nutcracker" is in reference to Frances's ties to the NYC Ballet and trying to groom Lavina into a world class ballerina. The second book is "At Mother's Request" written by Jonathan Coleman. Coleman was featured on ACTR. Neither Alexander or Coleman used Lavina's real name because Lavina was still a young child when the books were written. However, why they used fake names for all three decades later is a mystery because a quick google search reveals this information. Someone must have threatened to sue but why considering it's public record Larry almost killed his roommate and Marc killed his grandfather?
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What a disappointing and weak episode! Yes, the sons names were Larry and Marc. I suspect there was legal wrangling going which precluded ACTR from using their real names or images. Marc (Karl) is no longer in prison and the last I heard, Larry (Tony) was living in LA. Yes, Frances did inherit from her mother, she was the main beneficiary. The episode made no attempt to explore their mother/daughter relationship or for that matter Berenice's with Franklin's. Berenice hated Franklin and whatever Frances wanted, Berenice gave it to her, including paying for Frances's legal team. The New York City Ballet was omitted but Frances donated a lot of her blood money to them. ACTR should have skipped this one because it was way too watered down.
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14 hours ago, legaleagle53 said:
It's the end of an era. http://tvline.com/2018/04/01/steven-bochco-hill-street-blues-nypd-blue-dead-at-74/
Sad, sad, sad. Not long ago, his name popped up while watching an old episode of Columbo and I immediately thought of Hill Street Blues . R.I.P. Mr. Bochco.
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On 3/29/2018 at 11:32 AM, Mabinogia said:
I first read that and though, oh, someone got pushed off a bridge or killed on a bridge. Boy was I surprised. lol
I can see why you were surprised LOL. Someone close to me who loves bridge alerted me about it. I see ACTR is doing the Franklin Bradshaw case. That's an interesting case; I read both Jonathan Coleman's and Shana Alexander's versions long ago. I wonder if I still have one of the books around somewhere.
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Party of One: Unpopular TV Opinions
in Everything Else TV
The biggest gripe with commercial breaks comes from older TV shows on TVLAND, METV etc, adding additional breaks where there once were none. It's especially irritating when they cut entire scenes necessary for plot purposes. But the worst of the worst was what one local, late night channel used to do with movies years ago. They would cut to break in the middle of a character's sentence and, after multiple commercials, resume the film where the character left off.