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On 3/28/2024 at 11:31 AM, Fukui San said:
The timing of LCK was always a bit fuzzy to me. Do they film them all in one chunk just before the return episode? Or spread out as they are eliminated?
An answer from (again!) Andy Dehnart from the excellent Reality Blurred:
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.
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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.
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16 hours ago, peachmangosteen said:
Michelle (I believe) did it in Fiji so it wasn't banned at that point at least.
Michelle Yi! A favorite of mine - she was one of the few bright spots in the horrifying Fiji season.
14 hours ago, fishcakes said:Most eyeglasses won't start a fire. They have to be magnifiers. Either glasses for someone who's farsighted, which is much less common than nearsightedness, or they have to be the old type of bifocals with a convex bottom half of the lens, and not as many people wear those anymore now that progressive lenses exist.
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."
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12 hours ago, Quilt Fairy said:
Well, I guess that's what the DVR is for.
That's also how the DVR gets filled up :(
I hope the show makes a stop at Penzey's Spices in Madison.
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15 hours ago, Chicago Redshirt said:
Someone should explain to Bhanu that a mermaid with a dragon tail would be a half-woman with a dragon tail and not much mermaid at all. Unless we are envisioning 1/3 human, 1/3 fish and 1/3 dragon. He should have gone for a fantasy creature whose top half might seem pretty and harmless like a unicorn or fairy.
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.
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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):
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On 4/30/2023 at 12:23 PM, StatisticalOutlier said:
the editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, was nominated for an Oscar. Mr. Outlier blurts out, "Nominated??"
Sorry I did not get you here. Did you think she was, or was not, worthy of an Oscar for Woodstock?
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10 hours ago, Tom Holmberg said:
Now we can still hope they'll run the "Blondie" series
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.
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12 hours ago, Charlie Baker said:
-like Melanie Griffith on Jean Harlow directly
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.
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On 4/3/2023 at 1:37 AM, voiceover said:
Here I am, eyes at half-mast, tired beyond belief but unable to resist the allure of tonight’s Late Show, One Way Passage. IIRC, I’m not the only one here, “unable to resist” rewatching a movie on TCM that I already own.
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.
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On 3/30/2023 at 12:27 AM, 30 Helens said:
It’s definitely possible to live without a stomach. Food just passes directly to the intestines, and is broken down there instead of the stomach. What really caught my attention was the mention of immunosuppressants— certainly he wouldn’t be cleared for the game if he’s still on them? Being in this game without a fully functioning immune system sounds very dangerous to me.
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!
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16 hours ago, bmoore4026 said:
found another host of TCM Underground?
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.
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On 3/22/2023 at 10:59 PM, roseha said:
A poster on another thread mentioned that MeTV airs Looney Toons at 9 AM Eastern Time on Saturdays. I don't know what era they are showing but maybe your favorites will show up.
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.
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On 3/11/2023 at 12:29 PM, Irlandesa said:
Dawn has time management issues, but I disagree with Mark here. Adding a bunch of water to a dish isn't a small thing when it comes to preserving flavor and texture even if she did dump it out.
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.
On 3/11/2023 at 3:26 PM, CrazyInAlabama said:I don't anything anyone else did was as bad as leaving the prawn poop in the dish. That was disgusting.
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.
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Late commenting on this, but the library stuff was RIDICULOUS. First of all, there are three library systems in NYC. The New York Public Library serves Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Queens Public Library serves Queens, and Brooklyn Public Library serves Brooklyn. There is, therefore, no such place as the East New York Branch of the New York Public Library.
Next, if you search the BPL catalogue you will find that there is exactly ONE copy of Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station in the entire system, and it is, predictably, at the Central Library. It's a favorite book of mine but as a retired librarian (30 plus years at NYPL) this sadly doesn't surprise me. Thus it would be ODD for the librarian on the info desk to just bark out to an apparent underling to just go get this very old book off the shelf without even giving them the Dewey number, plus we've already established it would be odd to find it on the shelf at any library other than the Central Branch.
Most comic of all - there is NO FUCKING WAY that any "early" edition of a book first published in 1940 would have survived in a circulating public library. Even if it wasn't signed by the author! It would have been worn out decades ago.
Obviously I wish that people who write for TV and the movies would get goddamn library cards before they sat down to type. But in this case the major boners could have been avoided with a little googling. I guess CBS isn't the big time network I thought it was.
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On 3/6/2023 at 3:33 PM, 12catcrazy said:
Yeah, you go Aunt Vi - show that young punk-ass owner how to cook his Mom's food (and I guess that the Vegan place had some shrimp laying around for that gumbo) and get the original neighborhood cliental back through the doors, even though they'd probably keel over from what that bowl of gumbo will now cost.
Not just shrimp, but crabs. CRABS!!!! So, Nelson walked down the corner to the bodega to pick up that fresh seafood?
On 3/5/2023 at 10:21 PM, statsgirl said:"My mom really wanted me to carry on her restaurant [but she didn't write down any of the recipes so that I actually could do it]".
Totally ridiculous. The restaurant's been around for a hundred years and the OWNER didn't make sure that her family knew her recipes well enough to keep the place going. Kee-rist.
Also, I was kind of wondering if Nelson was going to come out and tell Aunt Vi that he'd turned the place vegan because all that traditional soul food had helped push his mom into an early grave from heart disease and diabetes. At least that would have been more believable than "shucks, I never learned how to cook her food." There is for sure a black vegan movement, esp. in NYC:
https://www.theinfatuation.com/new-york/guides/black-owned-vegan-nyc
https://civileats.com/2019/11/22/portraits-of-new-york-citys-black-vegan-movement/
Not being a vegan, I thought the seafood gumbo looked great. (Although I question how many patrons of a vegan place would think cooked animals smelled delicious.) And when I looked up "gumbo" on Bon Appetit, I think the 3rd one that came up was from Toni Tipton-Martin's book Jubilee : two centuries of African American cooking. Not that Delilah would have been able to get it anyway - Bon Appetit has had a paywall for quite a while now.
Still, I'll keep hanging on waiting for this show to get back on the tracks.
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On 10/5/2022 at 2:38 PM, Rinaldo said:
Marilyn Miller is one of those musical stage performers, like Gertrude Lawrence, who were widely adored as special charismatic stars in a way that can be difficult to substantiate through their film work. Only in "Wild Rose" in Sally (coincidentally the only segment for which the original color film survives) do I see the magic happen, and understand.
Are there any others who belong in this category?
For me, I'd say Al Jolson and Frank Fay.
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On 9/30/2022 at 2:40 AM, SummerDreams said:
Thank you, that was useful. I'm just saying that it would be dangerous for someone to kick it and break it while they were in that little space.
On 9/30/2022 at 3:53 AM, Grrarrggh said:If that is why she didn't participate in the Challenge she shouldn't have been on Survivor in the first place.
On 9/30/2022 at 1:07 PM, eleanorofaquitaine said:Wow. We don't know what the thought process for her sitting out was, we don't know if it was her idea or the team's (or most likely both) but this is basically saying that someone with a disability shouldn't participate on the show.
On 9/30/2022 at 1:42 PM, Grrarrggh said:Someone with a disability that gives that person a pass on Challenges is completely unfair to the rest of their Tribe. Just as last season they took Jackson Fox out of the game because he wasn't medically fit to compete. What's next? A competitor who can't swim gets to sit out any Challenge that involves swimming? A diabetic competitor is given extra food? It's unfair to the rest of the players.
This isn't some "new" thing on Survivor. Vanatuu (season 9) had foot-amputee Chad Chittendon, Nicaragua (season 21) had leg-amputee Kelly Bruno, and Worlds Apart (season 30) had deaf cochlear-implant wearer Nina Poersch. IIRC the cochlear implant was the biggest problem, as you're not supposed to submerge them in water.
My other note for this episode would be that at least as we've been shown, Cody had already established himself as an eccentric nut with his tribemates. I thought right away that he might be the most likely to get away with this crazy bead thing just for that reason - that it wouldn't seem out of character for him. Oh, and for whoever above was wondering about when we saw Noelle give him the bead - we DIDN'T. For some reason the show chose to have Cody tell us she did during Tribal in a kind of footnote. That was a dumb editing decision IMO.
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Okay. Having seen the whole season I can say that this was just not very good. Like a late 19th-century/early 20th century melodrama, with the characters delivering long soliloquys from the witness stand, combined with 70's blaxploitation (one-dimensional good black characters fighting one-dimensional evil white characters , with a wish-fulfilling happy ending). A cast of talented actors presenting this hokum as though it were a serious drama. Woof.
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On 5/28/2022 at 12:15 AM, millennium said:
Mike's vanity was nauseating. He actually believed they all loved him and that they would not, could not ever consider giving the million dollars to somebody else. He kept talking up his likeability like it was a law of physics.
THIS. I felt like he was even less self-aware than Jonathan.
Congratulations to MaryAnne, a well-deserved victory.
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On 5/13/2022 at 5:09 PM, StatisticalOutlier said:
Is anybody else not getting captions on TCM on TV? I noticed it yesterday, during Holiday, even though the card at the beginning said it has closed captioning. And same thing today with the Bowery Boys movie and O Lucky Man!
I'm getting them on other channels but I did a re-set of my DirecTV receiver anyway, and TCM still doesn't have captions.
I'm wondering if this is something TCM is doing to everybody, of if it's just me. As usual. 😀
22 hours ago, Charlie Baker said:I have CCs now on TCM through my cable provider, FWIW.
We also went through the no-closed-captions thing a couple of years ago with TCM - and it turned out to be the fault of our cable provider. We've also gone through this with channels that kept on displaying as mostly pixelated (Ovation, H&I, some others) where we contacted the channels directly and found out it was our cable provider.
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On 5/3/2022 at 11:17 AM, Suzn said:
I really disliked The Window. I realize the the kid had told tall tales before but it seemed like he had horrible parents who wouldn't listen to anything. The last straw was locking him in and nailing the window shut. I think that could land someone in jail these days. It was just an unpleasant and frustrating movie.
As Eddie Mueller pointed out in both the intro and the outro to this film, there are excellent reasons why noir films so rarely featured children in danger. It's too upsetting - people don't want to see it. Apparently the film didn't do well at the time for just this reason, although I think it's really really good. But yes, very disturbing.
The more seriously depressing aspect of Billy Driscoll's Oscar-winning performance came much later in his life, when he was unable to transition to adult roles, and many bad things happened. As Mueller discussed in his outro to the film. Very sad.
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5 hours ago, chessiegal said:
I never got MeTV+.
Neither did I, or I guess I should say MeNeither. We have Spectrum.
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On 5/4/2022 at 3:08 PM, Tom Holmberg said:
The best TV shows that lasted only one season
Did they miss any of your favorites? (I liked "Mr. Sterling")
Firefly and Freaks and Geeks of course. Less widely lamented from this linked list are Selfie and the most painful cancel of all, Terriers (IMO one of the best shows ever on television).
Not on the linked list, I loved Eyes and just recently Stumptown.
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TCM: The Greatest Movie Channel
in Movies
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.