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This episode finally exploded my suspension of disbelief - I found the guy's attitude impossible to believe. I don't mean just that I found it hard to understand but that I literally did not believe that any cat owner could not know that unfixed male cats wander and get into non-stop fights and father a lot of kittens. Also impossible to believe that he was more willing to give the cat to a shelter than to neuter him. I know some here have complained that much of this show seems very staged but this episode was the first one where I just couldn't believe that this whole situation "just happened."

Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence in gay people who get married before they figure out they're gay. They're not ALL serial killers!

I'm not arguing with you that for the kind of fan this would describe, now is a good time to be a fan. I'm also aware that this kind of fandom is bigger than it used to be - one of my exes is a massively fanatical fantasy leaguer. But I wonder how many fans are that kind of fan. I don't watch out of market teams myself - it's hard enough just trying to watch all the Mets games without trying to catch all the other teams' games as well. What I know about players from teams that don't play the Mets comes from skimming the sports page or catching the occasional Baseball Tonight. Often the first time I see these players is when they do make the All-Star game and thus one of the things I like the best about the ASG. I have no evidence for this either, but as a fan of a big-market team it's hard to believe that small-market teams don't still get kind of screwed in the voting - I don't know that increased cable/online access to small market teams is really going to make up for the population disparity.

This whole episode was kind of meh. I liked the staple-gun magician but agree that it was not that special - we shall see with his next trick. Liked the trick rope guy but I have seen trick rope folks just as good before since I watch rodeo. Liked Tinka the bird. Agree that the dad comic's jokes about what a drag it was to be a dad got more and more uncomfortable - but his initial joke about how you knew you were getting old when you walked into a completely deserted bar and your first reaction was to think "Yeah! I LOVE this place! This is going to be MY new hangout!" did make me laugh, since it's exactly how I feel and I know that it IS because I'm older. It just seems like this season has WAY more singers than the last couple of years. Not a good thing.

And there's so much of it now! I know they do it to sell tickets ( the Mets/Yankees games are sure-fire sell-out games) but damn it just seems like there's so much of this interleague play these days that is essentially just exhibition ball.

PLUS A MILLION!!!!!

Too true. I also like Lana Turner as Milady - in fact she's one of the few good things in that bad version - but I just like Barbara LaMarr more.

Last weekend they showed Purple Noon with Alain Delon - the first movie version of The Talented Mr. Ripley, with Delon in the Ripley role. I had never seen it before and wow, was he ever fantastic - so beautiful and so chilling.

I love the 1973 version - at the time it came out people remarked on how gritty and authentically dirty it looked compared to previous versions. Beautifully photographed and a fair amount of emphasis on the rich vs. poor stuff, without being preachy. But really my favorite is the Douglas Fairbanks one from 1921 - now THAT is a swashbuckler. Fairbanks is perfect, plus Barbara LaMarr is probably my favorite Milady and it's a trip to watch Eugene Pallette(!) as Aramis.

I like this a lot - I like any version of this story really, even bad versions like the Paul WS Anderson one from a couple of years ago and the Gene Kelly one. My favorites are the Richard Lester ones from the 70s and the Douglas Fairbanks one from 1921, but I have a soft spot for the 1993 one as well. As they have been making a point of in the publicity, this is maybe the first version where muskets rather than just swords are actually featured, which is a nice touch. Also I like that they are keeping with the dashing heroic characterizations from the book, rather than going all fucking "DARK" as so many adaptations do today in some kind of attempt to appear more "serious."

Well, with the Clair movies, he did have a career in Hollywood. But you're right that that is not what they were showing. I think they ARE showing more non-Hollywood films, like the British films yesterday. I suppose it goes along with showing more recent films as well. In both cases I don't know what I feel about it. I love the old Hollywood films and I hate to see them pushed out when there are only so many hours in a week. On the other hand Turner has the broadcast rights to so much wonderful stuff that just does NOT play on any other channel that I just wish they'd start Turner International Classics channel and show foreign/arthouse films on it. Plus of course the Turner B-Movie Dreck Channel I keep asking for :)

I go back and forth on the spoiler thing. But on the whole I think I'm kind of in favor of non-spoiling. You do know that there are people who are going to be reading this who really and truly do NOT know that It Was His Sled and I would never want to ruin that for young and emerging TCM fans. And in keeping with that, I just want to rave about The Grand Maneuver, which I just finished watching off the the DVR - it was part of Rene Clair day over the weekend, one of his later films (1955 - and in color!) and one I'd never seen. It was so amazingly great that I'm just shocked I never saw it before. It doesn't show much on American TV and it's not available on DVD in region one with English subtitles, at least as far as I can see. But next time this shows up on TCM do NOT miss it. It looks like it's going to be a kind of predictable romantic comedy, where Parisian divorcee Michelle Morgan has to choose between two men in small-town France, one a nice-guy businessman( Jean Desailly) with two sisters who are going to do everything in their power to make sure he does NOT marry a divorced social outcast, and the other a dashing dragoon (played by the obvious leading man, Gerard Phillipe) who has bet his regiment that he will sleep with her before the regiment goes out on the Grand Maneuvers. Of course the hunter is captured by the game, as you would expect - but then, boy oh boy, does this ever not go the way I was expecting. Great script, great performances and great direction by Clair. Edited to add: if you can get Watch TCM online or if you have the app, it is available that way for a while anyway. Do it!

Plus a thousand. The woman kind of lost me when she had the pile of what looked like maybe seven or eight bathing suits on the bed and described them as "three thousand dollars worth of bikinis" that Precious had ruined by peeing on them. I didn't like either of them but he's not the one that brought those two dogs in and then refused to acknowledge that the cat was being terrorized by them.

Yeah, that's a great one. And according to her autobiography playing the part of a woman living in an abusive relationship was not a million miles removed from her own experience.

I think the hair and makeup she wore in that time period were kind of harsh and unflattering. She's only 34 in PIllow Talk! But she tends to look kind of dumpy compared to the way she looks in her movies from the forties and early fifties, or for that matter from the way she looked a few years later on her TV show. Sun damage, yeah, very likely. Also the studios didn't want her to appear with her "ugly" freckles so the pancake is pretty heavy and that kind of heavy pancake works best in stills. Too much caking when your face is in motion - it makes you look older close up because of the way it sits on the skin.

When Jackson went through the firefighting training, I couldn't understand why he didn't just go for broke and stick his hand directly into the fire. You know, just so he could understand that fire is hot. So stupid.

The best line in Night Nurse: You - you - you MOTHER!!!! Not a spoiler Aradia but you will recognize this line when it comes.

I know! I've been loving this Friday Pirate Night theme! And seriously it doesn't get better than Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk. Although the one I'm going to record (because I've never seen it) is Fortunes of Captain Blood with Louis Hayward in the Flynn role.

Ah, Thus The Sheds, as I said on TWOP. Several catfish on season one didn't want their house (or maybe just the inside of the house) to be on TV so Nev and Max would go knock on the front door, make a big deal about going around the back/side of the house and then bang on the door of one of those temporary Home Depot sheds - and out would emerge the catfish! As though they actually LIVED in these fucking sheds. Edited to add: you have GOT to see season one of this show. It is mesmerizing. Seasons one and two are out on DVD and plus MTV re-runs episodes all the time.

I felt like this episode was never going to end. I only liked the card trick guy and the lady that juggled the table with her feet. I would rather have seen that lady's family juggling act than most of the rest of this episode.

How about all those SHEDS from season one?

My favorite thing about Amanda is that she had the best line of that season - "I"m on a team with a lot of Big Personalities, by which I mean Bad Listeners."

I also worked for about a year in a research lab that did animal experimentation, many moons ago. ( I worked with the human subjects myself.) They had stopped using dogs early on because the dogs' friendliness was upsetting the experimenters. The cats and rats were just as friendly, but the experimenters were not upset by hurting and frightening and ultimately "sacrificing" (killing) the cats and rats. We all know that way too many people think of cats as more disposable than dogs.

I guess that's possible, but I think it's a really fun movie. That's a little weird - but on the other hand Giant is a movie they show at least once a month. They were showing Pillow Talk a lot on the weekends a few years back when they were on a big Doris Day kick, but not so much recently.

Well that was a first. This is the first episode ever where it really WAS the hipster/emo/punk looking dude. That's what I thought - or one of those things where everyone in some kind of art/music scene all use the same name, like "Karen Eliot" back in the 80's. Getting a huge back piece on the spur of the moment is pretty much the same kind of headlong impulsive decisionmaking involved in suddenly marrying your boyfriend you've only known for a few months.