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Honestly that hadn't occurred to me before, and it would make some sense. It's a good final three, I think, but I like Bianca the best. I also like Adore a lot but I think she is too green to win. Courtney has come across as kind of cold, but I can't say she hasn't done very well throughout.. Still I will be shocked if Bianca doesn't win, and since she's my favorite by far I'm looking forward to it.

Where on earth are these poor people finding all these terrible vets? How could a vet not pick up that poor Whisky had a physical problem? Weren't the couple that owned Foley (whose vet didn't pick up that the cat had likely had a stroke) also in Austin? Doesn't speak well for Austin's vets. I think Jackson making a deliberate effort to get clawed by the aggressive cat in each episode is getting old. The cat is terrified, you offer your hand to him, he lets you have it. Really, Jackson, we got it the first time, Also, Jackson finally mentioned his Spirit Essences on camera and acknowledged they were a product he was selling. A new era begins.

By the audience watching at home, yes, absolutely. But I'm not sure the other Survivors see her that way. We shall see soon enough.

This has always been my fondest Survivor dream. Survivor Lapland! Survivor Hudson's Bay! and yes of course Survivor Siberia! By the way that show Siberia was one of my biggest disappointments of last year - I wish it had been an actual Survivor parody.

One of my friends had an indoor cat that fell six stories off the fire escape. A week and a half after plastering the neighborhood with posters, alerting all the storeowners, etc., one of the guys in the carpet store next door to her building moved a big carpet roll and my friend's cat bolted out of it. The vet figured he must have run right into it after his fall - poor little guy was still in shock, but other than a broken canine he was OK. Edited to add, yes, lost cats would be a good topic for this show.

Yesl, I think so. It's probably not an accident that so many of us remember it that way. Reposting something I wrote on TWOP: One of the most unusual movies ever is showing this Saturday on TCM Underground (the later one at 3:45 AM) - Hausu. It sounds cliched to say this, but it really is not like any other movie I've ever seen - kind of a surreal fantasy, kind of a teenage schoolgirl comedy, kind of a spooky horror movie. It's not that old (1977) but it is truly a classic and I couldn't live with myself if I didn't urge any of you who haven't seen it to give it a go. The TCM entry on it: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/787179/Hausu/articles.html

Agree with all of this, especially about Trish as Bear, except that I think Woo is more disliked than he appears. Several boot interviews have said that he was getting called WeaselWoo.

And fucking LISI, Edgardo, Mookie, Alex. Of course their hatefulness DID lead to the Greatest and Most Satisfying Blindside of All Time, of Edgardo. Along with Yau-Man and Earl, one of my all time favorites from that season was Michelle - the first Survivor ever to make a fire by using her glasses. Tragically voted out because of a weird twist where they had Tribal Council immediately after the challenge without any chance for strategy or maneuvering. Luckily the show never used that PSYCH! move again, but unluckily my girl Michelle got voted out.

Another vote for Tasha.

I am certain that an awful lot of conversations of this kind have not made it to the show. Trish is the Natale White of this season - like Natale she is letting a "big personality" do her heavy lifting for her while she plays a superior social game and like Natalie we aren't seeing a lot of what she does. I don't know that Trish thinks of Tony as her goat, but Tony might well think of Trish as his goat, which would be a mistake. I'm beginning to think it's because she wasn't actually surprised. You see all this little things between Trish and Tony, like pointing out to Tony that he should check with Woo about strategy talk at the reward, or her telling him about his fight with Kass, "if you can, let it go." Also she seems to be working both Tony and Kass beautifully in a similar way - with flattery and encouraging their paranoia. The two I think most likely to win if they make it to the end are Trish and Spencer. Juries don't vote for the person they like the most, they vote for the person they hate the least. Tony's best shot is with Kass and Woo. Then he wins for sure.

Not at all. Apparently Ruby herself would have agreed with you. According to her interview with Richard Lamparski (for his Whatever Happened To...? series) when tributes were being held for Busby Berkeley in nine cities throughout the US, Europe and South America, Ruby appeared with her old friend and former director. As the films were being screened, she stood at the back of the theater shaking her head saying "Its really amazing. I couldn't act. I had a terrible singing voice, and now I realize I wasn't the greatest dancer either." I

I think that Trish is doing a lot more socially and strategically than we're being shown, based on the high praise she got in the post-boot interviews from Morgan, Jeremiah, LJ and Jefra. They all seemed to think she had a good chance at winning. I'm not sure she could win over Tony myself, but I think she's better off than we see. There were no HIIs until Guatemala (season 11) and that season's HII worked like the "regular" ones - had to be used before the votes were read. The "special" one they've brought back was only used in Cook Islands and Fijii (seasons 12 and 13, Yul's and Earl's seasons respectively) and then ditched for all the following seasons. They might even know he has the special idol, but I don't think anyone but Tony knows what makes it special - that he can use it AFTER the votes are read. My problem with bringing back the super-duper idol is the same one Dalton Ross at EW has - that they brought it back too late in the season. I've seen enough of Tony's gameplay to guess that he would have been almost physically unable to resist playing the super-idol earlier in the season if he had found it earlier. To have it NOW just seems a little much, even though it was just luck that he found it. At this point there are three more FTCs? And the HIIs can only be used for the next two, is that correct? It just seems almost impossible that Tony won't be able to make the finals just based on the idiols, which stacks the deck in a way I don't like. Unless he just freaks out and burns them both next week, of course.

I'm not sure I do. You mean they didn't really go to the vet initially, before the show, as they said they had? Or that the vet somehow did an MRI and missed evidence of a STROKE? Or that the vet didn't really do any testing? In any case they should permanently switch to the second vet. As I wrote on TWOP: what was the point of visiting the first couple at the fire station? What would Jackson possibly learn from that, unless they also keep a cat there? The only point that might have been made, and wasn't, was that likely the firefighter's wife is alone with the cat (i.e. feels trapped in the house alone with the cat) a lot because firefighters spend so much time away from home. The show kind of hinted at that as the problem - that it was clearly more the husband's cat than the wife's and they needed to change that.

Hmlm, I think they've never had any shortage of jerk owners on this show, Pump's owners just being the most extreme. There was the redhaired bearded guy that's part of the title footage, the one who was so excited about getting to use the airhorn to keep the cat out of the bedroom. Several who like Wolfie's owner loved their cat's bad behavior because they loved the idea of being asshole, whoops, I mean badass owners of badass cats. That dimbulb girl who had the male indoor/outdoor cat that she was unable to keep from escaping her apartment and had never had neutered. Etc. Etc. Etc. This whole episode felt slightly phoned in to me. Did any one else kind of doubt that much progress was really made with the two Savannahs? Also felt that Wolfie's litterbox issues had more to do with box design and placement than the show kind of glossed over. The most refreshingly unique aspect of the whole episode was that Jackson did NOT ulitmately jump out of a plane, as people always do on these goddamned reality shows. Such a relief.

Really? How could you tell? I couldn't fucking SEE the costumes with strobing and the blackness, not even in HD. All I could see were the background dancers in their shiny silver jumpsuits. I envy your eyes, sir or madam. All the same, I was happy and genuinely surprised that Rashaad won - the editing was suggesting a Tyler win. Go Rashaad from the boogie down Bronx!

Good analysis of The Iron Curtain, and couldn't agree more about Berry Kroeger. Part of the problem, hell, the main problem, is that he did work so extensively on the stage and on radio. And radio of course, as Fred Allen pointed out, is a Treadmill to Oblivion. http://www.radiogoldindex.com/frame1.html Above link is the Berry Kroeger entry in J. David Goldin's radio index, i.e., his catalog of his own extremely large radio collection. (It's not complete, but maybe the biggest catalog of this kind online.) 179 radio appearances! And that's not a complete listing! Note how many of them are in the prestige drama shows like Escape, Suspense, Words at War, etc. Edited to add: oh, how annoying. I can't link directly to the Berry Kroeger entry, just to the front page. But if you click on Search by Artist and go to K you will find his name and there's his page. Sorry. http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-The-Big-Story.html About halfway down this page about the radio show The Big Story you will find some nice pictures and articles about Berry Kroeger.

Yeah, I hate the "dramatic" pauses too and hope that is scaled back. I'm looking forward to the new season though I wonder what this season's focus will be. They always seemed to do kind of season-long themes - season one was cats that wouldn't use the litter box, season two was more about aggression.

At least one of her paid staff, Denise Rinaldo, made pretty much exactly this claim about four years ago. It's been removed from The Huffington Post archive, but this seems to be it: http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=9950485#page:showThread,9950485 She says she's the one that came up with the infamous Kwanzaa Cake.

Ruby's husband Al Jolson did - but of course he was a controlling jealous bastard. So I'm told.

I see that as a plus, not a minus. He is charismatic enough that we believe in his persuasive abilities and find ourselves as viewers having to fight against the character's charm, kind of like with Vic Mackey on The Shield. My only real disappointment initially was having the lead detective who was expecting a baby be male instead of female - and hey presto! Problem solved.

AND Boris Karloff, speaking of great voices. Three of my crushes all together in one film. Heaven.

I actually think this aspect of the challenge was good, in that these particular guests needed to be interviewed tactfully. You have two guests who are famous pretty much entirely because of their relationship to Cher and are kind of touchy about that - there's not a drag queen in the world (hell, probably not a person in the world) that doesn't look at them and have their brain just go CHER CHER CHER. It's not easy to interview them and somehow avoid talking about Cher in a natural-seeming way It was a great challenge of tact and poise and thinking on your feet. If the queens had had to interview a great talk show guest, somebody like Kathy Griffin or Sandra Bernard or the late Gore Vidal who does much of the interviewer's work for them, that wouldn't have been as good a challenge. Anybody can do a good interview with a great guest - that's why people like Kathy and Sandra are so often booked as talk show guests. It takes skill to do a good interview with a difficult guest.

Yes, The Thin Man is one of those movies for me too. The kind that, if you turn on the TV and it's on, you end up watching the rest of it even though you've seen it a million times. Like Stagecoach and Casablanca.

Oh yeah. It's remiinding me why I started watching in the first place. Yes, I couldn't figure out LJ's reasoning on this. Was he afraid that this would somehow escalate Tony's paranoia? The twisted thing is that Probst knows better than the audience does how and why Natalie White won over Russell in the first place. He has to have seen at least some good chunk of the unedited footage. Russell had ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE confessionals throughout the season, Natalie had FIFTEEN. More than any other season, Samoa was edited to make the audience THINK that the winner only won because of a "bitter jury." My ass. Russell got NO votes from the jury, because he didn't deserve any votes. And, yes, I agree with ProfCrash that Tony is no Russell. He's playing hard, too hard maybe, but he's playing. He's making an effort to maintain good relatioinships with the other players and not just bullying people in some kind of mistaken idea of "winning Survior through intimidation." I am still rooting for Tasha, fingers crossed. This vote leaves Spencer, Jeremiah, and her in a surprisingly good position, Spencer and her especially, I think. The thing about being on a terrible losing team and surviving a bunch of tribal councils is that you begin to get pretty good at surviving tribal councils. I'm thinking Malcolm and Denise from Phillippines.

Exactly. It was confusing from the start and never really clarified. Who watching this figured out that Tim's role was to "mentor the mentors", for example? Me neither. Poorly conceived, poorly executed, and everyone involved with it came out looking worse than they did before the show.