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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.

Yep! how many times. I'd add that I love the secondary "comic" romance between Aline McMahon and Warren Hymer - and the satisfaction I feel with their happy ending helps with the grief I feel for the tragic ending of Kay Francis and William Powell, the primary couple.

Well, TIL you can live without a stomach. But I do know that you're on immunosuppressants for life when you get an organ transplant. I know that Survivors are always provided with necessary medications but still - I'm also shocked Josh got cleared to play. And yet with all that, there have been TWO medical evacuations so far from Survivors who didn't come in with anything close to Josh's health challenges!

What host? They never bothered to HAVE a host for TCM Underground in the first place. I never ever understood this since these were films that required intros and outros at least as much as the Sunday night foreign films. Many of them WERE foreign films (Hausu, Belladonna of Sadness, Valerie's Week of Wonders, Funeral Parade of Roses) or very underground (Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore, the drag romps of the Gay Girls Riding Club, the Curtis Harrington shorts), plus all the films that have only survived today through the tireless work of Mike Vraney, a.k.a. the Henri Langlois of exploitation. I'm so angry about all this I can't even bring myself to think about what other one-two punches might be hovering in the middle distance, to paraphrase Gore Vidal.

They also run a show called Toon In with ME every weekday morning at 7 AM. It's intended as something of a sibling show to Svengoolie, with a human host and a puppet host, along with live action comedy skits. I haven't watched in a while but I believe they still run a mixture of Fleischer, Warner Bros, Hanna Barbera, MGM, and DePatie Freling.

Agree. If Gabri had dumped a quart of water into Charbel's roasted onion dish he would have been pretty screwed, same as if you were pan roasting a steak and somebody dumped a quart of water on top of it. Yes, because it was raw. Cooking shrimps in the shell (with vein and head and tail) is done all the time. Victoire's calm insistence on serving al dente risotto made me think she was nuts. Then I began to wonder if it's somehow become a kind of hip happening now thing in Italy. It sure isn't here.