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45 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:
Mannix is very watchable, although I like the early seasons far better than the latter ones. The first season is my favorite.
I find them enjoyable too. The first season, though, is a completely different show - it's all Mannix versus the Machine. Starting with season two we get Peggy! who I love.
Also it's shocking just how good the show looks. Somebody spent some time and money on remastering because honestly every episode looks as though it aired for the first time last week. As opposed to, ahem, Cannon, which looks its age (not that I don't love it, because I do, but it looks, shall I say, unrestored).
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11 hours ago, festivus said:
What kind of psycho eliminates cake!
Hello, that would be me. I like sweets just fine (pies, cookies, ice cream) but cake does nothing for me.
My eliminations are cake and fries. I love potatoes cooked every other possible way. I don't refuse to eat fries but if I never had them again I wouldn't miss them.
ETA: I'm shocked at all you psychos who eliminated beer.
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On 4/11/2021 at 4:05 PM, Bastet said:
With the plethora of cop shows over the years, it really boggles my mind no one has created one about an Internal Affairs division.
Aside from the very good Line of Duty, recommended above, the only other one I can think of is the Lifetime series Against the Wall, about a woman from an Irish family in which everybody is a cop (as in Blue Bloods) who joins Internal Affairs, to the dismay of the family.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1836237/
Only lasted one season, and got way too soapy, but like you I felt a focus on IA was a solid idea for a series. I don't know why it failed - it probably would have been handled better on TNT, which did so well with female-centered procedurals back then.
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On 4/5/2021 at 3:18 PM, Bastet said:
Well, yeah, I don't advocate barking, "Get out of my way, asshole, I could have finished my shopping in the time you've spent reading labels!" instead of saying, "Pardon me, I need to grab something in front of you."
On 4/5/2021 at 3:31 PM, Moose135 said:Clearly you are not a New Yorker... 😆
Contrary to popular belief New Yorkers are LESS likely than other people to do this. We tend to be direct and in a hurry, but not up front rude. There are as many of us living in one square block here as would be living in a couple of square miles elsewhere. If you can't figure out how to get along with your neighbors you are doomed.
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On 4/4/2021 at 3:45 PM, Bastet said:
I can't stand dilly dallyers who don't maintain basic situational awareness to make sure their own aimless wandering and contemplating doesn't needlessly affect others. And, yes, we all get lost in thought, but if it manifests as a pattern in someone during a single shopping trip, it's a chronic problem.
One of my greatest feelings of loss from the pandemic is the way my food shopping habits have changed, of necessity. Food shopping is one of my great pleasures in life and I love taking my time doing it. At least, I did. Now, I rush through things and get freaked out if others stand too close to me for too long, which of course I never much cared about before. What pleasure can I take from standing in a Balkan grocery and NOT looking at the fourteen kinds of feta or olives or pasterma, etc. for a good long while? Or a South Asian grocery or a halal butcher or whatever? These kinds of leisurely shopping are half the point of living in New York.
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Wow, this is an easy one. For my mom, Barbara Stanwyck. For my dad, Chuck Connors.
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On 3/6/2021 at 6:06 PM, possibilities said:
Why did I not know sooner that 9-1-1 has a character, Christopher, who is a kid with CP???
Casting actors with CP is one of Ryan Murphy's things.
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14 hours ago, praeceptrix said:
Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died at the age of 101. This one surprises me, as I had no idea that he was still alive.
A Coney Island of the Mind, 20
The pennycandystore beyond the El
is where I first
fell in love
with unreality
Jellybeans glowed in the semi-gloom
of that september afternoon
A cat upon the counter moved among
the licorice sticks
and tootsie rolls
and Oh Boy GumOutside the leaves were falling as they died
A wind had blown away the sun
A girl ran in
Her hair was rainy
Her breasts were breathless in the little roomOutside the leaves were falling
and they cried
Too soon! too soon!I think anyone who hung on to life to the age of one hundred and one was still fighting to live right down to the end and saying "too soon! too soon!" Bless him for the support City Lights gave to poets and artists and anarchists and other weirdos.
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49 minutes ago, Blergh said:
Canals (including the Erie) used to employ teams of horses to pull boat and barges - and, not surprisingly due to their unchanging venues of trodding back and forth on the very same stretch of canal day after day, year after year,etc., they often were less docile and had worse tempers than other domestic horses. Hence, 'nerve of a canal horse' came to be.
I thought it was apt for Mr. Hilton re his pompous POV re Miss Spears.
Wow, can't agree. "Nerve" in that context would mean pluck, backbone, spirit, etc. I think a better word than "nerve" in this case would be the useful Yiddish term "chutzpah." The classic example being the man who murders both his parents and then asks the judge to be merciful since he is now an an orphan.
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On 2/20/2021 at 8:22 PM, aradia22 said:
RE: Kim Novak These quotes are so sad. There's a core of humanity here that I don't think most celebs achieve when they talk about beauty standards. She makes herself very vulnerable in these statements. It's not dressed up.
Maybe my favorite blog commentary on this:
http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/2014/03/lets-talk-about-kim-novak.html
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On 2/19/2021 at 8:30 AM, Blergh said:
Agree that Mr. Hilton DOES have the nerve of a canal horse to be commenting on this- considering his own past actions!
Geez, I don't get this reference at all. Is this like "fifteen miles on the Erie Canal" and all that? still don't get it.
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On 1/19/2021 at 11:34 AM, paulvdb said:
I just started watching the Nickelodeon series The Astronauts. It reminded me of something I originally learned from Space Camp: apparently it's very easy for a group of kids to sneak into a spacecraft and accidentally get themselves launched into space.
I always figured that if it could happen to Abbott and Costello AND the Three Stooges, it might well happen to anyone.
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Late to this topic, have you all seen the 1987 film Wings of Desire in which the character Peter Falk plays is himself, the movie/TV star Peter Falk, who in the movie is an angel who chose to become a mortal?
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13 hours ago, Andyourlittledog2 said:
And so on, with any word that could be considered bad or offensive to anyone. It's ridiculous and annoying. And this is the only show I've noticed that happening on.
All the digital subchannels do this, on every show or film. I can tell you that MeTV also does this on other shows. On the late sixties/early seventies episodes of Gunsmoke they actually bleep out words like nigger and chink - even when the use of the word is crucial to establishing the speaker of said word as a terrible person, as it always was by that time ( even BEFORE that time on TV, actually).
I'm so used to it that I jump a bit when I watch Turner Classic Movies and they just show their films unbleeped - I understand why networks are jumpy but still, it's sad that we've come to this.
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I grew up in a part of the country in which these were not the seasons that we had. But I can say that for where I live now I'm solidly behind #1.
The ONLY time NYC is ever calm and quiet is during a big snowfall, so #1 all the way.
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On 8/6/2020 at 7:23 PM, PrincessPurrsALot said:
Trope that has been annoying me lately - when the cop who is a person of color is suddenly super involved because the victim is a similar PoC.
In that case you should make sure you give a big miss to good old Love Boat. Isaac was apparently acquainted with or related to every single black passenger who ever came on board. Even back then it was noticably weird.
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Gee, there are a few. Honey West, the 1950's Sheena Queen of the Jungle, the Addams Family.
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I Lonely juggler who has a grudge against your main character. Hrrph. I only WISH I had the skills of a juggler. Grudges I can do all day.
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10 hours ago, bmoore4026 said:
Watching Jezebel right now.
Fascinating to watch right now not just because of the BLM aspect that probably most of us were thinking of even long before, but because of the pandemic/quarantine plotline.
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We just finished watching all of season four in the last week. Does anyone know if this was actually renewed? IMDB lists a season 5 but with no details.
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On 7/8/2020 at 11:00 PM, Silver Raven said:On 7/8/2020 at 10:25 PM, DrSpaceman73 said:
Breaking Away was filmed in and around Bloomington and Indiana University. The campus is prominently featured in the movie, always a fun thing to watch at the student union, seeing your local campus ad city on the big screen
Probably a bigger deal for people in Indiana, where not many movies are filmed, than say LA where a bunch are all shot.
One of my favorite movies of all time. Really well made.
A lovely film. One of the best films to deal with class distinction in American life. The scene where Paul Dooley talks about the school buildings:
"I was proud of my work. And the buildings went up. When they were finished the damnedest thing happened. It was like the buildings were too good for us. Nobody told us that. It just felt uncomfortable, that's all."
Just kills me every time.
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20 hours ago, GussieK said:
But I watched Three Godfathers, a John Ford western I had never seen (or even heard of). What an epic! You felt every agonizing moment of their journey to redemption. I had just been reading about the efforts to cancel John Wayne, so I was really curious to watch this.
I don't know if anyone here watches Better Call Saul, but this year's desert trek episode took cues from this movie. Did the silly "three men and a baby" films of the eighties also derive from this?
I also thought the "Bagman" episode from Better Call Saul drew from this, and also from The Searchers. I believe Three Men and a Baby is considered a remake. While I like this version (there were several) of Three Godfathers a LOT and have recommended it more than once, especially as a Christmas film, an even better version is the 1936 one - darker, more painful, and thus earning its redemptive ending in a harder, more moving way.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028367/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2
It shows pretty regularly on TCM, keep an eye out for it.
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On 7/4/2020 at 4:18 PM, bmoore4026 said:
I'm not happy that The Devil's Disciple and The Scarlet Coat aren't being shown today. Those are personal faves.
The Scarlet Coat was shown at 8 am on Sunday July 5th.
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So, this guy thinks that Columbo was the only admirable TV cop. I can think of others but he's got a point. Plus Columbo is my FAVORITE TV cop.
https://medium.com/humungus/columbo-is-the-only-good-tv-cop-66359478253a
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TCM: The Greatest Movie Channel
in Movies
Given the time period it's supposed to take place in (and boy do I agree that it's hard to remember given the uber-sixties hair, clothes, and makeup) I don't think Rock Hudson could be the inspiration for the Redford character, nor could Garland be the inspiration for the Wood character. Mind you I don't know who would be, exactly, and it's such a ridiculous movie that I don't care. The other two big 30's-in-the-60's howlers for me are Harlow and The Legend of Lilah Clare.