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I think a lot of the peeves about "stinky foods" would be lessened if more workplaces had things like toaster ovens rather than microwaves. Baking fish in a toaster oven isn't nearly as permeating as nuking it in a microwave (also, bonus, it doesn't get overcooked and rubbery). Once upon a golden time, children, the New York Public Library had full kitchens in every single fucking circulating branch of the Library. Because the Powers That Be at that time felt that having the staff cook and prepare meals of all kinds together built warm feelings and made the whole place more homey - and of course allowed for the patrons to have community-based events in the community room that involved serving food, since they had a real kitchen to prepare the food in. This was true, and then about twenty years ago there came a regime change. After that, the stoves were removed (and replaced with cabinets that didn't open) and instead we were faced with microwaves that sat on top of the fridge (at least we kept that). We did retain the sinks, but also lost anything along the lines of a couch that you could actually lie down on. I suppose this is also the place to mention that the staff was not and is not majority White American. Mostly the circulating branch staff were African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, Hispanic or Asian. There would be years at a time at my own branch where I was the only white staff person, and for that matter, about half the white people I ever worked with were European immigrants rather than American-born Euro-Americans like myself. As you might imagine a lot of these folks were cooking foods many Americans might find "stinky." I honestly don't remember any staff person complaining about some other staff person cooking fish or curry or bigos with sauerkraut or mapo tofu or whatever. I'm not going to pretend that there wasn't some trash talk among the staff about stink - but two things. First, there was SO MUCH LESS stink when we had a stovetop. Second, once we had the microwave based stink the complaints from the PATRONS (since the staff room was on the same floor as the auditorium) increased tremendously. Microwaves distort smells because they cook in a very particular way. So, simple peeve. Replace microwaves in office kitchens with toaster ovens or induction or something.

Yes, I caught that, but I thought the whole song was going to be about an old man and his cat.

Since he did acknowledge that all his overworked and underpaid workers are the ones who paid for this commercial boondoggle that, unlike the NASA spaceflights, will yield absolutely no scientific anything - maybe the "change" that he said happened to everyone in space will make him improve his labor practices. https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzp8w/jeff-bezos-thanks-workers-who-pee-in-bottles-for-paying-for-his-space-trip

You had at least one sentient helicopter that would take off a doctor's arm, and then return for its Final Vengeance to kill him.

I like Lonnie Donegan but there is a bit of a shortage of cat content in this song.

Nobody hates professional wrestling more than professional wrestling fans. Sad but true.

OMG yes. The crazy thing about it happening where I live is that basically nobody is shopping with a car. Very few of the supermarkets in NYC even have parking lots for this reason, certainly none of the four that I normally go to that are all about six blocks from the apartment. Everybody is carrying their own bags home by hand and walking (perhaps taking the bus or subway - and in the case of the subway walking up and down a couple of flights of stairs with the bags). Yet, if I don't jump up and start packing my own bags some of the kids will do this. Why?

How about Dorothy Parker's " I only require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." I also watched it again tonight after not having seen it easily 20 years. I still have to point out (as a friend of mine did when we saw it in the theater the first time around) - all these Florida millionaires and multi-millionaires. And not ONE of them has air conditioning? And Mickey Rourke - oh yeah.

#Fop

If you need the movies you watch to be "good" as commonly understood, then no. It's really not a good movie. But you're certainly going to find it at least interesting, given your knowledge of the source material and for things like this I think "interesting" is more than enough. Yep. One of the aspects, well maybe more like crucial building blocks, of the plot that seemed very antique to me was the whole Reno divorce economy angle - all these women stuck in Reno for six weeks waiting to finalize their divorces, and the entertainment industry set up to capitalize on them. In this film the ingenue's dad has a failing ranch - so the juvenile cooks up a scheme of a dudette ranch for the floods of impending divorcees. I had thought that all this Reno stuff was pretty much done by 1965, but as I have just now looked up, no-fault divorce didn't really become a thing until 1970, so this Reno divorce economy was indeed still a thing in 1965, although winding down. And, you're welcome! I found that the University of Nevada maintains the most FANTASTIC website on this whole phenomenon of the Reno divorce industry. It illuminates so much about what Hollywood films of the 20's through the 50's assume that the audience knows about divorces and how they happen. http://renodivorcehistory.org/

Yes, she and Mrs Miller are probably the best things in the film. I'd say Phil Harris since I love him but he doesn't have that big a role and honestly kind of looks like a honey baked ham. This is one of these cringey 1960's musicals that were made by people who were afraid that a pop culture they didn't understand had whizzed past them, and desperately trying to adjust. I suppose Skidoo is the "best" example of this. It's easy for me to say from here that they might have been better off sticking to their guns and just producing retro-style musicals - but I bet they would have had a hard time getting financed. A few months ago TCM ran When the Boys Meet the Girls, featuring Connie Francis and Herman's Hermits - and I discovered that the Herman's Hermits version of Biding My Time that played on the radio when I was a kid was from this film - which I was shocked to realize was a remake of Girl Crazy!

I realize this is late, but could you provide some links? I am a wrestling fanatic who spends WAY too much time interacting with the Internet Wrestling Community (just ask Mr Rat) and I never read ANYTHING about this. I don't do tumblr so maybe that is why. In my experience the stanning in the IWC is more promotion versus promotion - the big rivalry over the last couple of years being, obviously, AEW vs. WWE. Also obviously the indies vs. the TV promotions.

I guess it's got to be rough to choose a career as a comic actor when your dad is a beloved genius. I don't quite understand why he chose the "I'm going to be the most annoying character in any scene I'm in!" route, but I'd guess it's so there's no chance of anybody mistaking him for his father. See also: Ben Stiller.

Bruno Sammartino, Pat Patterson, The Fabulous Moolah (who was actively performing for WWE in her late seventies, alongside her old colleague Mae Young, who died in her nineties and was still performing in her late 80's). There are many, many wrestlers who lived to be old. The terrible period was the Attitude Era about twenty years ago, when so many wrestlers died in their 30's and early 40's. The performance style became more demanding (high flying and big bumps off the ring, "stiff" working that caused concussions, etc), and the drug use that I think had always been a thing became a bigger thing as more wrestlers were working steadily (meaning getting hurt steadily) and earning six figure salaries that allowed them to buy a lot of drugs. It's that generation of wrestlers ( Brian Pillman, Eddy Guerrero, Rick Rude, Test, Chris Candido, Eddie Gilbert, Umaga, Davey Boy Smith, Balls Mahoney, Axl Rotten, etc.) that died young. The older folks didn't abuse their bodies in the ring so much and often wrestled well into their 70s and 80s. The current generation seems to have learned from the past (shocking, I know!) and hopefully we will see fewer sad deaths.

Maybe even "hey, blow some my way."

Yes, I am too. I did think that she and the bent nose girl from the previous episode were similar in that they had relatively minor things wrong with them, but both of them felt majorly disfigured. I hope both of them will feel like their improved faces are good enough in the long run.

No, the Lower East Side initially, then they moved to Crown Heights (in Brooklyn) while my uncle was inside, ostensibly to get away from the LES Irish gangs. That didn't work, by the way.

Some of my North Dakota relatives who are farming on land divided up from the original family farm get their water from the original family well. I can tell you that this well water is incredibly minerally(mineralish? whatever), in fact tastes strongly of salt and sulfur. And they all say that normal water tastes funny - that it just doesn't have any "kick" to it. Go figure.

A favorite of mine, and yes I also think it's a masterpiece, and one of the very few mob movies I really admire. One of my uncles on the Irish side ( my mother's older brother) was in the New York Irish mob and did eight years in Sing Sing for driving the getaway car in a bank robbery, back in the 30's. He kept his mouth shut so he was taken care of, - until, inevitably, time went by, his big-time friends got killed or just died of old age, leadership changed, and the little bones he'd been thrown turned into smaller and smaller crumbs. The fact that he moved back in with my grandmother after he got out of prison and never moved out is a good example of how poorly crime can pay. That's one of the things I love so much about the movie. It's not just bleak. It's SHABBY. When you see Mitchum's house, it is SO not the classic movie mobster house - it's realistically the kind of place a mob footsoldier would be able to afford. Not glamorous at all. Nothing about his life is high style or glamorous. I can't think of that many mob movies that felt this realistic to me. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, I guess, and Mean Streets.

Didn't you see Wings of Desire? Peter Falk wasn't just an actor, he was an angel voluntarily incarnated as a human.:) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093191/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Hey, I like Brian DePalma a lot, don't misunderstand me. What would you say would be the part of the book he responded to? Mostly I get the kind of The Wrong Man feeling through the film.

That is what makes it a horror film to me. The whole idea is something I find disturbing too. I don't like torture porn either. The worst of all the ones I failed to avoid was Wolf Creek. I liked Hostel because as with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there was actually very little onscreen violence. It was the idea behind it. I've never much cared for Last House on the Left since it's IMO a much nastier blame-the-victim version of The Virgin Spring.

I feel like such a hypocrite. If this billboard were a 4-D rendering of somebody drinking a soda or driving a car, I would hate it. But since it's a CAT, I love it. There's a livecam of it by the way, unfortunately from a bad angle: Also Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of us so hard to catch it at the time they actually have it working.

I understand that, but I like the phrasing because it assumes as I do that one's political opinions should be a choice. I am a feminist because having examined my own feelings and ideas I found that other people who shared my feelings and ideas referred to themselves as feminists. I was a philosophy major (ultimately - ha!) and thus I'm always interested in the history of ideas, especially my own ideas. I'm surprised that so few of you have experienced feminists fighting with each other. I sure have. The whole ugly fight between the straight and lesbian feminists in the 70's and 80's, for example, is so well documented. Or the clashes over sex work and pornography. Not to mention race and class.

I have never read Julie Salamon's book, but I did read the original novel. And this week I did see the movie on TCM! My feeling is that the novel is a very 18th century style satire (think Swift, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett) in which ALL the characters are mocked. This isn't how the movie is made and it's fatal, IMO. I think Tom Hanks would have been willing and able to play an unpleasant, unlikeable character - but the audience would have had a hard time seeing him do that. Also replacing Alan Arkin with Morgan Freeman erased half the point of the book - that in the 80's the vast majority of criminals (and their victims) brought before the NYC courts were black and hispanic - and the vast majority of judges were white. That's the whole point of bringing the Sherman McCoy character through the system in the first place - to punish him ( one individual white guy) to "make up" for the horrors of the existing system. I really think that the career satirist Mike Nichols ( the original choice of director) would have done better with the material. But any film true to the material would not have been a big commercial crowd-pleaser. Elaine May, Terry Gilliam, Mel Brooks, Lindsay Anderson would have done better but it would have been an arthouse/midnight movie.