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I believe part of the problem is that having the CBS Imperial Army descend on your country is not the great experience that CBS might lead us to believe. Better to have them just redesign and rebuild the beaches in one tropical paradise than go to multiple small countries and go ravaging through without that much economic advantage. They've worked things out in Fiji and apparently it's all been sufficiently useful for the Fijians. I'd think that the lack of repeat invitations from other previous locations is an indication that this wasn't always the case.

Well, here's the line up for Thelma Ritter's SUS day back in 2014 (at the bottom of the page under some other interesting stuff: https://suesueapplegate.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/thelma-ritter-finally-has-her-day-on-tcm/ As you can see, no Rear Window, no All About Eve. Yet, bafflingly, they included How the West was Won (all two hours and 45 minutes worth, with a tiny amount of Thelma) and Birdman of Alcatraz. Neither of these could said to be "undershown" on TCM, so why on her day. Boy I remember being annoyed at the time.

Actress Cheng Pei-pei has died. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/cheng-pei-pei-crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-come-drink-with-me-actress-dead-at-78-1235952807/ Come Drink With Me is my favorite wuxia (kung fu) movie ever. It was shown a lot on the El Rey Network (Robert Rodriguez's project) some years ago as part of their kung fu weekend film slot. It deserves to be shown on TCM or the Criterion Channel but of course, pretty much can't be, because, like all the Shaw Brothers movies, it's dubbed rather than subtitled, which of course cheeses it up and camouflages the beautiful photography, art direction, dancing, fighting, even the plot. Probably the reason (at least, IMO) that the Academy didn't accept it as an Oscar entry when Hong Kong submitted it in 1966. Remember what a revelation it was 25 or so years ago when the original Godzilla was released with subtitles instead of dubbing - and all of us non-Japanese speakers could finally see what a sad, upsetting film it actually was. The story is a familar corker - all the bad guys in the province are terrified because they hear that an incorruptible government agent who is a master of martial arts is coming to bust up their criminal enterprises - what a shock when that incorruptible master turns out to be a beautiful young woman. It would be great if this ended up on TCM Imports one Sunday.

Absolutely, and that aspect of it is a skillset other players tend to ignore, in a way they wouldn't from someone who described themselves as working straight-up in sales. It's the same skillset Kim Spradlin had from running a bridal boutique.

These chefs need to stop trying to make aguachile happen. Isn't Manny the third or fourth chef who ended up on the bottom for it?

I don't remember this all-week approach to the Star of the Month from before, but I guess that just means I don't remember. I don't care for it personally. In this case I didn't watch much TCM this week because while I like Debbie Reynolds I dislike most of her films. For people who DO like her films though, I'd imagine this would be maddening. Too much not just to watch at once, but even to DVR at once.

An answer from (again!) Andy Dehnart from the excellent Reality Blurred: https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2022/04/top-chef-last-chance-kitchen-filming-survivor-torches-flint-fire/ I miss the days when there were so many websites doing recaps. Nowadays websites don't want to pay anybody to do anything, and/or they've switched over to long exhausting podcasts.

Mr Rat and I have watched every season of this show and we both agreed that we would probably not have been able to do the Journey challenge.

Michelle Yi! A favorite of mine - she was one of the few bright spots in the horrifying Fiji season. This is true. And according to Wikipedia, that's exactly how Michelle was able to do it: "Michelle finally started a fire at Ravu using Yau-Man's glasses. Michelle used Yau-Man's glasses because the thicker bifocals concentrated the light better than her own glasses."

That's also how the DVR gets filled up :( I hope the show makes a stop at Penzey's Spices in Madison.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't his intention, but Bhanu basically described the classical idea of the mermaid, which was a monster. A monster with the upper body of a beautiful woman with a beautiful singing voice - but under the water, invisible to people on land or on boats, she had the lower body of a sea monster, and would lure sailors to get close enough to her that could tear them to pieces and devour them. We only think of mermaids as angelic now because of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. That was the whole point of his story. She was raised to be a monster, but she fell in love, and developed empathy and generosity. He could have done the Little Vampire or the Little Ghoul just as easily.

For those of you who get Turner Classic Movies, they are having a month long series on representations of disability in the movies (Sunday evenings): https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/021796?source=Block

Sorry I did not get you here. Did you think she was, or was not, worthy of an Oscar for Woodstock?

I hate the Blondie films personally, but I like you so if they do run them I'll be happy for you, at least. I do love Start the Revolution Without Me.

Melanie Griffith on Jean Harlow is one of the worst ones. She repeats all of the old Hollywood Babylon nastiness, acknowledges that it may not be true, and then just says that " this is the LEGEND of Harlow." There's no excuse for this. She died of a kidney failure that would have killed ANYONE in 1937, not because her mother was a Christian Scientist. Paul Bern didn't kill himself because he had some kind of "deficient" penis, it's because he was a bigamist, which would have ruined her career. Et cetera, et cetera. Nasty lies don't help younger film fans appreciate her talent. Even worse than Cher on Katharine Hepburn.