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Mine too. And I'm a Mets fan. I have the book and it's a favorite of mine. Here are two of my favorites: I suppose that one is a little maudlin but for obvious reasons it's kind of a 9/11 thing for me. And this which keeps kind of repeating in my head every October:

Oh, how I wish that were how this show actually worked. That you'd be rewarded for taking risks. The judges seem to kind of think that's what they're doing (e.g., Sandyha) but in general it's the completely non-mind-blowing Seans and Korinas of each season who seem to actually be going through.

Gee, seems to me like outside of Halloween night itself there are more Hammer and Amicus films than the old Universal or Paramount ones. Of course I'd be happiest if October was completely devoted to horror/supernatural films, but it also looks like they're showing a ton of early sound/pre-Code films again, so I shouldn't be a kvetch.

I liked him in The Miracle Woman, but I only discovered that within the last 8 or 10 years. Before that I only knew him as the normal guy lead (i.e. the Boring Guy you can hardly remember after the movie's over) in Dracula, The Mummy, The Death Kiss and The Black Cat so I always kind of expect him to be a bit of a blank. Even The Miracle Woman hasn't changed my mind all that much. I know! I guess they'll continue for as long as people care about her and her movies. God bless TCM for allowing us to continue ancient ship wars!

Hoo boy yeah. Aside from anything else it always makes me think of the novel/movie The Loved One - it's totally creepy in that context and that's how I hear it on Survivor.

Christ I HATE HATE HATE children's talent shows. I even skip through all the kids on America's Got Talent and wish they wouldn't let them on the show. It just is putting little kids in the worst kind of fishbowl imaginable - it's hard to say whether it's worse for them if they really do have talent or if they don't. I actually watched Project Accessory but this is one I'm gonna skip.

Ah, the glory that is Face Off. As a few of us pointed out it was hard to imagine a judge competition episode on any other reality competition show that would come off as beautifully: http://forums.previously.tv/topic/14086-s07e07-judge-match/ This was only sort of a "real woman" challenge. They were supposed to go to Wash. Sq. and pick a "muse" who then, strangely enough, would at the same time be so uninspiring as a muse as to somehow require a makeover. WTF? As everyone has pointed out other than a couple of haircuts there was no real making over going on, so it's hard to see why they called it a makeover other than, say, an enhancement or something courtesy of Mary Kay. Agree with everyone who has said that mostly the women looked better before. As far as meanness to real women goes the worst might have been season three's challenge where they had to design for another designer's family member. Yikes! Yes, none of them seemed striking enough to me to be plants. I agree that you really do find tons of actresses, singers, dancers, etc. in the park at any time, esp in nicer weather, and many of them are NYU students anyway. But also there are so many theaters and dance companies and production companies downtown that you're going to find performers hanging around there between auditions, or in fact waiting for somebody from the film school to "discover" them and put them in some student production. If they're looking for work PR would be a big step up from student films or tiny Off-Broadway theaters. I liked TLo's comment that one of the funny things about this episode was watching all those New Yorkers who had zero interest in appearing on a reality show turn the designers down so quickly. ETA: gee, forgot to make my original point. Since they were picking a "muse" they had no real reason not to pick a "real woman" who would be easier to fit given that they would not really have time to do the kind of multiple fittings you'd do if you were doing a custom outfit in the real world. It's disappointing for me as a viewer to not see more variety of body types but I can't blame the designers for making at least that part of the challenge easier for themselves.

I don't know, he was very memorable in two of my favorite movies. He's the animal-loving fur-coat hating zookeeper in A Zoo in Budapest and the condemned man on Death Row who gets his million dollar gift a little too late in If I Had A Million. In Red Dust he's playing the role of the guy the movie wants the audience to forget so I don't think it's a good film to judge him by.

I have a bigger problem with the shows that stuntcast famous assholes in the hopes of getting "buzz" or something from it. This fucking show. Sigh.

This is true. Although on the strength of his 7 Train remarks quoted above by Jersey Girl, he got an enormous amount of bad press nationally with his face plastered all over Baseball Tonight as the poster boy for assholery - and as for NYC, well I'm sure you can imagine.

I'll say. The highest possible camp film, with a "surprise" ending that would be deeply offensive if it were possible to take anything about this movie seriously : Like the movie Thirteen Women which I believe we talked about earlier this one is based on a novel I've never read by Tiffany Thayer. The main thing I know about Tiffany Thayer is that he founded the Fortean Society and because of that I was shocked at the sleaziness of his storylines, although I don't know why that would matter, I guess. What do you mean EVEN Destry Rides Again??? with her doing one of the greatest catfights in movie history with Dietrich???. Seriously I love her too. I think the first thing I ever saw her in was The Bank Dick where she plays Fields' daughter and is a perfect foil for him.

Frankly this is something that kind of annoys me about Pre-Code Mania as a whole, even though I benefit from it hugely since it means the late silent/early sound films in general get shown much more than they used to be. I'd be amazed also. Although if there was just one I'd be betting it was 42nd Street.

Yes, of course they've always kind of wanted to have it both ways with the American Girl series. To combine the educational part with the fantasy part. On the other hand the daughter of one of my friends had the Molly doll (the WW2 one) and for her birthday that first year I was assigned the Red Cross accessory kit - which included a pair of crutches, a camp bed and bandages (for the bargain price of about $45 if I recall correctly) as my designated AG gift. I was shocked that her parents wanted me to give her such a depressing gift, but that was what she wanted and she loved it. It made me remember when Pollyanna was "glad" to get a crutch for a Christmas present, because it reminded her of how awful it would be if she really needed it.

Good god. Yuck. Is that really possible? I'm thinking Sean or Korina and I'm far from happy about the idea of them winning either. Fuck this season.

What ARE the odds. Kini had the doll that has JUST been recommissioned, as of August 2014. http://americangirl.wikia.com/wiki/Samantha_Parkington Honestly I preferred the doll's outfit to Kini's. Also found it more than a little gross how much more excited the judges were to imagine a 9 year old girl with a platinum card than any of the other girls. Sean's character doll had a mother that ran a 1971 San Francisco thrift shop. !!!!!!! Truly the possibilites would be endless there, especially with fabrics. The Mercedes Benz peace sign just finished him for me. Heidi was absolutely correct in calling it a McCall's pattern - Simplicity was usually more stylish. I think Emily's mistake was not designing more for her model. That would have been a perfect outfit for a specific little girl, and she was right that an aspiring actress, like the Rebecca doll character, would go for a strongly dramatic look, including the illusion veil. But clearly her little model hated her outfit and I think that's one of the main reasons Emily was on the bottom. Probably her own daughter would have really gone for her look, but she wasn't designing for her daughter.

Tom and Lorenzo have her decoy collection up: ETA: there are a couple of other collections included with Sandhya's. No indication if they are decoys or finalists but use caution when viewing if you are only looking for Sandhya's collection.

Seconded. They can never do enough of the movies from that time period to suit me anyway, racy or not.

"You - you - you... MOTHER!" Damn, that just never gets old for me. I love Night Nurse.

Kim Kardashian already was a guest judge on Season Nine, the stiltwalker challenge.

Yes, all their farming was based on the natural irrigation and fertilization that annual flooding provided. One of the biggest ecological disasters of recent years was the (well-intentioned) building of the Aswan Dam in 1970, which prevented that yearly flooding and required the use of fertilizer in the Nile Valley for literally the first time in recorded history, among many other problems. But it doesn't bother me that Amanda didn't know that. She's not a historian. What DOES bother me is that her dress was falling apart on the runway - THAT she's supposed to know something about. What the hell did she construct the dress with in the first place?

Because they're being judged on a makeup, not their ability to craft a compelling long-form story. In this case I think the pretty girl in the French maid outfit with the bloody gunshot head wound makeup won because it will work beautifully in the haunted house walk-though context. You get the point immediately. The creepy looking guy from the Catfishing story might be much more frightening if you saw the whole movie, but just looking at him cold there's not enough there. Any more than you'd really get how scary Psycho and The Bad Seed are by looking at photos of Anthony Perkins or Patty McCormack, even with creepy smiles. Also our feelings about horrific characters lessen as we become more familiar with them. Lon Chaney's Phantom, Boris Karloff's Frankenstein's monster, Bela Lugosi's Dracula all scared me to pieces when I was a kid, and supposedly audience members fainted in the original runs of those films. Now they seem cuddly enough that they're stuffed toys and children's cartoon characters.

Maybe, but if any of these Makers of Beautiful Things is making them with some of kind of eye towards being included in the Whitney Biennial, and yet claims to NOT be an "artist" - then that is a much worse kind of pretentiousness, and a kind that is way too common here in NYC. Of course not, for all the reasons you just gave. Besides, I don't think any designer in the history of the show was more referential than Christian Siriano, and no PR winner has had a more successful after-show career.

It was even a little beyond that - he said : “Much like the murder and mayhem in my films I would like something that seems like it’s meat, but it’s fake.” This would seem to me to bring us clearly into old school Loma Linda/Worthington territory. http://www.worthingtonfoods.com/canned.aspx Seriously I was wondering if Rob would have been happier if one of them had just opened up a can of Chik or Skallops or Stake, any of which would have been a better fake meat than char siu tofu. But of course they both had to go all High End on him and prepare something fresh. I know what you mean but I also think this is exactly why he was disappointed in the cake. I'd bet it's the dessert he almost always gets from non-vegans and he's sick of it. If you go look at the Tour Rider section at The Smoking Gun a lot of acts specifically say that they will NOT accept lasagne as the vegetarian/vegan option for much the same reason - if they don't eliminate it as an option up front they will never be served any other vegetarian option.

It was that kind of show. Like I said, I watched every season and it's pretty murky for me as well.

I liked both the winning designs for this challenge. I really thought Sean was going to come a cropper with that Rit idea - and amazingly it came off pretty much the way he had wanted, apart from the initial staining, ahem. He came up with a successful way to make the most of the gimmick runway, and good for him. I also give Sandyha credit for her pinwheel idea, even though it didn't end up working, and even though that striped jumpsuit was kind of ugly. At least she recognized the point of the challenge. Kini's dress did remind me of Christian Siriano's, but not so much of Leanne's petal constructions. It reminded me even more of Anna McCraney's winning dresses from season one of The Fashion Show: http://www.ifashionnetwork.com/images/stories/itrends/anna%20mccraney%20tulip%20dress%20with%20mannequin.jpg She did that cupholder dress over and over (and yes, of course I had to look up her name - it's really hard to remember much about The Fashion Show even though I watched every season). Kini gets points from me though, because he didn't bust out the same cupholder every time - when he did it, he had an actual reason for doing it. It DID look like an umbrella and again, it was germane to the challenge. What on earth did Amanda use to put her dress together that it was just falling to pieces on the runway?