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Me too, including coming out of my own mouth. Now I'm self-conscious. Maybe I'll start saying zo-ology. (But then people will silently think, "Oh, look at him, Mr. Zo-ology!")

I forgot Pasternak did WtBA. I was basing my guess on the panoply of musical acts, and in particular the inclusion of the arguably mid-high-brow Liberace. Pasternak was famous for force feeding a little "culture" to the masses, with such as Jose Iturbi and Lauritz Melchior turning up out of nowhere (and sometimes getting roles in the plot). (And before them, making a star of Deanna Durbin.) BTW, the IMDB on Sam Katzman credits him with inventing the word "beatnik."

I watched the trailer (thanks, @EtheltoTillie), and I'm not gonna look it up on the IMDB 'cause that would be cheating, but this has all the earmarks of a Joe Pasternak production. Am I right?

All Liberty commercials are the devil's spawn.

I think if the kid starts throwing money around town, it'll make Tosh want to know where he got it. And since Bobby knows it was stolen money to begin with, that's not great for Bobby. So they could charge him with that, but I think they wouldn't.

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I predicted that would happen in the season finale! Yay me! One week ago I wrote how I was starting to miss Jimmy again. Now I'm not. This episode was fantastic. The ending, with Ruth walking contented through Lerwick (as contented as Ruth can get, at least), could be a decent series finale, but like you, I really hope it was a season finale.

I want that to be a TV series where people can't understand each other.

I say them the same, and am curious how else to say whine. My guess is, whine would be pronounced with a soft exhalation of breath through a small round mouth on the "wh"?

You're not far wrong. Elaine had Jeannie at 17, so that's the difference in their ages.

It's her daughter, Jeannie Berlin.

I guess he feels like he's on thin ice, having been sidelined (without pay?) by Jimmy for whatever that infraction was. Maybe he feels he's lucky to be back at work at all?

If this thread had a clubhouse, that would be on the wall.

I do miss the "gravitas" of Jimmy. I don't mean just his seriousness, I mean his dramatic weight, his magnetic pull. It really anchored the show. Ruth doesn't quite provide that, and Tosh sure doesn't. It may be all due to Tosh's tentativeness in her new role. (Which I admit, does get less and less with each episode.) I'm sure the final episode of the season will see her introducing herself as DI, without the temporary. Maybe in the season after this one, she'll have that gravitas that Jimmy provided. In the meantime, I'm enjoying this season for what it is.

With a show this popular, especially in Britain as I understand it, what explains why it's taken so long for there to be a S7? (Assuming there is ever going to be one.) Non-rhetorical question. I'm not fulminating. I expect there are answers to this question, and maybe someone here knows them.

I've always been CRAZY about her singing of "Palsy Walsy" in They Got Me Covered. Crazy in a good way. And when I was a kid, her voice on the 78, singing "Who" in The Male Animal, stirred feelings in a very young male animal.

I really liked it. As moviemaking, it found a new way to do the "biopic." So much so, that it hardly even belongs in the genre. It only took me about five minutes to believe Bradley Cooper was Bernstein. Even though the movie was more focused on Bernstein's personal life inside and outside of marriage than on his career, I felt it did a more than adequate job of linking his personal life to his music. I'm not in general one of those who say "look at what the movie chose to do rather than what it didn't," because so often that can be an excuse for a movie that botches even what it chose to do. In this case, what Maestro chose to do--examine the music through the lens of the personal life--I felt to be persuasive.

What happened to the posts after December 14 in the Shetland topic? I could swear there were some.

All is lost!

The po-lice one is also part of the classic Baltimore accent. Looking back on my years growing up there, I notice that the accent was to be found in every neighborhood, but not shared by everybody in those neighborhoods. And I couldn't tell you what the factor was that made some people have it and others not. (I've been running the factors through my mind and not one is 100% predictive. Years of education? Kind of but not totally predictive. Economic status? Same. I think maybe the strongest factor is "both parents born and raised in Baltimore and never left.")

I know I've lately heard it used improperly but I can't call to mind the contexts. My understanding of its proper use is that "anymore," as one word, is time-related, referring to a thing that happened routinely but doesn't happen now. When the meaning is not "when"-related but "how-much"-related, the adverb needs to be split into two words, "any more." (E.g. "I don't go to that restaurant any more than you do." "I don't go to that restaurant anymore." Both are correct in their respective contexts.)

Matched only by the expats who come home and rag on the place they left. 😄

Who should turn up in S2E2 of Endeavour but Anya Taylor-Joy!

My form of surrender was to, against my will, allow email notifications for the threads I follow. I get one email a day listing new content in these threads, including Detective and Mystery Shows.

I've never seen the beloved Inspector Morse either. Thanks for clearing up for me that Endeavour is a prequel! For some reason, I thought Endeavour was a sequel, i.e., Endeavour Morse is the son of Inspector Morse. (But since he never has mentioned having a detective father in the episodes I've seen, I guess that doesn't make much sense.) I like knowing that he's going to grow up to be a beloved detective. :)