Milburn Stone
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6 hours ago, bmoore4026 said:
I do feel bad for Ryan Phillipe. He's a pretty good actor but he's never really had the chance to become bigger than he did. I'm a bit disappointed in that.
That is to be lamented. He had a juicy and prominent role as the baddie in one of the seasons of Damages (the great Glenn Close lawyer TV series) but nothing else pops into my mind at this hour of the morning.
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On 2/12/2024 at 8:08 AM, pasdetrois said:
I enjoyed this season. The only part that bored me was the Linda sequences, as I've seen that kind of thing before.
It reminded us of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (the Sigourney Weaver vehicle that took place in Australia).
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16 hours ago, Rinaldo said:
(and it's beyond me why it was later remade with Bill Murray)
For some reason that version resonated with me. I don't know if it would today. But maybe.
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34 minutes ago, Rinaldo said:
(though to my eye the headings on the schedule word this a bit confusingly)
My eye sees the same logic error that yours does. No doubt Zaslov fired the manager-level editor who could have cleaned it up.
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7 hours ago, bmoore4026 said:
Watching the Judy Garland version of A Star is Born. It's so troubling that Vicki is willing to give up her career to take care of Norman.
I think it's not just a matter of "things were different then." The movies have always sold an idealized version of love, and we have always eagerly eaten it up, because we want so badly to believe. The idealized version of love that the movies are selling now is different in some particulars, is all.
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45 minutes ago, annzeepark914 said:
Yup. I've also only heard zoo-ology, no matter where in the country I've lived
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!")
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51 minutes ago, EtheltoTillie said:
Seems not to be. I "cheated" and looked it up on IMDB and Wikipedia.
Anyway, it seems to be trying to capitalize on the popularity of Pasternak's Where the Boys Are...
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."
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12 hours ago, Rinaldo said:
Oh, I think anyone curious about the evolution of popular music in the 1960s needs to see When the Boys Meet the Girls...
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?
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All Liberty commercials are the devil's spawn.
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28 minutes ago, dubbel zout said:
Can Bobby be charged with anything? Do they have good enough evidence for a drug arrest? Another loose end.
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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13 hours ago, LisaM said:
Loved how Tosh finally left off the "Temporary" when answering the phone.
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.
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20 hours ago, annzeepark914 said:
How 'bout, "You tawk funny"? JK.
I want that to be a TV series where people can't understand each other.
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23 hours ago, Lugal said:
The wine-whine merger happened nearly everywhere else in North America accept southern Appalachia.
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"?
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4 hours ago, Fool to cry said:
Yeah I found that out after posting 😂. It's incredible. It's like Elaine gave birth to her twin!
You're not far wrong. Elaine had Jeannie at 17, so that's the difference in their ages.
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18 hours ago, Fool to cry said:
Watching an episode and the lady murderer's niece looks and sounds a lot like Elaine May.
It's her daughter, Jeannie Berlin.
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17 hours ago, krankydoodle said:
Poor Sandy. It seems like everyone is either ragging on him or walking all over him. I don't remember him being such a pushover.
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?
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21 hours ago, Ancaster said:
I just inwardly roll my eyes, correct them silently, and metaphorically pat myself on the back for being so unutterably and insufferably superior.
If this thread had a clubhouse, that would be on the wall.
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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.
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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.
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On 12/25/2023 at 8:44 AM, Rinaldo said:
Watching the singer there gives us a chance to see for a change, not just hear, Martha Mears, who provided singing voices for so many onscreen ladies.
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.
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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.
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What happened to the posts after December 14 in the Shetland topic? I could swear there were some.
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14 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
From the OED
— 2 of the 7 examples show the one-word version of "anymore"...All is lost!
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TCM: The Greatest Movie Channel
in Movies
I'm so glad you didn't name Images. If you had, I would have been obliged to give it a second look, and I don't want to.
I think I've only seen 5 minutes of Popeye, and reached the conclusion "too weird for it's own good," but I'll have to consider giving it a shot.
All your others, I'm in complete agreement with, and I also liked California Split at the time.