Milburn Stone
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On 3/8/2024 at 8:48 PM, Snazzy Daisy said:
According to Stanley Johnston with a T, British aristocracy are the original gangsters. What were you thinking Eddie? A quid pro quo with a bigger gangster just to get away from the Glasses? It’s insane.
Especially as Eddie's aristocratic girlfriend literally warns him that Johnston is a really bad person, or however she put it.
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My new reason for watching this show is Allison Janney. I love her subtle facial expressions that say everything. If there's any reason to classify this show as a comedy, it's her. (And only her.)
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I've had to readjust my expectations of the show, which doesn't mean I've given up on it. Meaning, I've had to decide the show isn't a comedy! (Because it's not funny.) If I look at the show as a drama with the occasional mildly amusing moment, I like it better.
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Has anyone else had trouble streaming this? We get a dialog box from Apple (when viewing on our Apple TV) saying that it's not possible to stream at the current moment. Like, what I'd expect if Apple's server were completely overloaded because everybody in the known universe was trying to access the show at the same time.
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On 3/20/2024 at 4:05 PM, Charlie Baker said:
There was an evening of Cornel Wilde movies.
I've been making my way through Forever Amber, a half hour at a time between other stuff. Of course I've always loved David Raksin's score, but "received wisdom" (received by me at least) is that the movie is not that good. I don't know, I think it is! Holding me pretty enthralled at least. And I know they had to sanitize the novel for the movie, but it astonishes me that one thing the movie does not whitewash is Amber's unwed pregnancy by Bruce, and the happy couple's unabashed, public elation over the now-born little bastard! Of course there must be terrible consequences in the end, but I'm taken aback that Amber and Bruce are allowed even short-lived joy and freedom from shame about a child born out of wedlock in a 1947 Hollywood film.
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@supposebly, if that's what descriptivism is, then call me a descriptivist!
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Fascinating article by a superb writer on why the prescriptivism vs. descriptivism debate is a red herring. Short answer: Because descriptivism actually is prescriptivism in descriptivist clothing.
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On 3/8/2024 at 4:04 PM, krankydoodle said:
I laughed when Joe balked at buying someone a tea, so Vera grudgingly agreed to do it instead but still asked him for the money.
And there's the difference between Joe and Aiden. Aiden would have balked, Vera would have cut him to the quick, and Aiden would have gone to get the tea like a sad dog.
This relationship is far more interesting.
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1 hour ago, tv echo said:
"We wanted them to feel personal, and we let most of those presenters write their own copy because we wanted it to feel intimate, and we wanted it to feel like a friend speaking on your behalf. I think they succeeded at that..."
No problem with the concept. But the producers should have given each presenting actor the requirement that their words be no longer 60 seconds. That's actually a lot of time if you use it right.
1 hour ago, tv echo said:“I have to say, maybe [the In Memoriam] wasn’t perfect, but the effort was great. And it was done beautifully,” he says. “But that feedback is totally merited."
Wasn't perfect? WASN'T PERFECT?!??? Obviously this guy didn't learn anything from the feedback, despite saying that he did.
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IMO, the problem with singing during the memoriam is that it forces the viewer to evaluate "are these words appropriate?" in a way that an appropriate orchestral backing doesn't. Or put it this way: it increases the risk of a wrong choice considerably.
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2 hours ago, slowpoked said:
A huge upset would have been Sandra Huller winning.
FWIW, she's who I wanted to win. Her performances in Anatomy and Zone were both amazing and totally different from each other.
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I'm glad others liked Emma's speech, but...Call me old, but if you even have a chance of winning an award, prepare something cogent and meaningful, deliver it coherently, and thank the Academy graciously. This blubbering flood of emotion just makes it even more "about you" than winning an Academy Award!
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10 hours ago, Thumper said:
And don’t we say this [about the In Memoriam] every year?????
So aggravating!
It's like they're not listening to us!
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11 hours ago, scarynikki12 said:
This is Maestro's only chance to win something and instead Sound goes to Zone of Interest. I think Cooper needs to step back and reassess his next projects. Maybe just do producing for a little while.
Maybe a minority opinion, but I don't get why the zeitgeist turned on Maestro. Best movie against some really formidable competition? Probably not. But well-written, well-directed, well-produced, and well-acted. And it felt like a fresh way to do the biopic genre. I guess the world has to agree to pick on somebody every year.
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13 hours ago, chitowngirl said:
I feel like the past winners are presenting their candidates for elections.
Thank the LORD the speeches got shorter when they got to the Best Actor/Actress categories. That first set was excruciating.
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I thought the first episode was so good, and then have been let down since.
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What is the case against Baldwin? That even though he had every reason to think the gun had blanks, he still shouldn't have aimed it and pulled the trigger in the run-through?
If so, I don't get that, because when the director called action, the shot required him to aim the gun and pull the trigger--so the tragedy would have happened then instead of in the run-through. Right? Or maybe not. I'm looking to be educated here.
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@BetyBee, I won't spoil the character she plays, but just listen for the voice. When she came on, I wouldn't have known her at first--except for the voice.
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On 3/1/2024 at 11:43 AM, possibilities said:
...it was always their arrogance, self-confidence, and smugness that brought them down...The first episode of Elsbeth seems to follow that pattern, though the murderer seemed to realize Elsbeth was not as ditzy as she acted, which was a departure form the Columbo approach, where I don't recall the suspects ever cottoning to it being an act until the very moment he himself tells them.
I do recall Columbo episodes where the culprit caught on to Columbo's shtick well before his "reveal." That was part of the fun for me; that those episodes evolved into a game of conscious cat and mouse. If memory serves, Robert Culp usually tuned in to Columbo's cleverness pretty early. And I thought the bad guy character in this episode made a pretty good job of channeling his inner Robert Culp. (I'm not familiar with the actor but his performance made me think I ought to be.) His arrogance/cleverness actually got me through the parts where Elsbeth was a little too ditzy for my taste.
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On 3/2/2024 at 7:14 PM, Black Knight said:
And as an American, for me it was really interesting to see the way a French trial is conducted (albeit probably some liberties taken as is common with depictions of American trials). I particularly like how they can ask questions of the defendant during the examination of another witness. It's a more free-wheeling format and yet in a way feels more efficient despite the potential for it to spiral out of control.
All of this. With the one exception that for me, the near-Kangaroo Court nature of the French judicial system terrified me. Its no-doubt greater efficiency would make me very nervous as a defendant--which is why I was so nervous for Sandra. I wonder, non-rhetorically, if the central tenet of the French justice system is not, as in the U.S., "innocent until proven guilty" but "guilty until proven innocent." It could be. In any case, remind me not to get in trouble in France.
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The hearing and the trial were so suspenseful.
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3 hours ago, Wiendish Fitch said:
Too bad John Hodiak is an utter charisma vacuum.
He does carry his weight in Hitchcock's Lifeboat, to give him his due.
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I could see Parker Posey.
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You could always go with "predicted" if you can't screw up your courage.
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S01.E07: Not Without Danger
in The Gentlemen
I thought from the scene with Gabrielle in the woods that Eddie and Susie now jointly recognize Johnston as the big bad guy. So why, after that, does Susie think Eddie is in bed with Johnston?