Tom Holmberg

The greatest concert film ever! If you haven't seen it, run right now to catch it.

"Clothes is what you wear. Style is what the other person wears."

Being asportual, I usually don't know current sports people, though there's the perennial ones like ORR or OTT that you can learn just doing crosswords.

I'm reading "No Crying in Baseball", it's pretty good. Interesting that none of the movie execs thought it would make back the cost to make. Also that Madonna hates Chicago (the NYC snob!).

Back in the olden days (pre-Will Shortz) they used to reference random opera stars that you couldn't guess. At least rapper names are usually actual words like Lil, Ice, Easy, etc.

R.I.P, Illya Kuryakin https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/david-mccallum-dead-ncis-man-from-uncle-1235734772/

I don't disagree with this. At this time romantic relations between the races was still controversial (to the adult world). This was a movie for my parents, not me. 1967 was the cusp of a new, franker era, GWCTD fell in the pre-change zietgeist.

It's a product of its time. It wouldn't be made that way today.

In re: "The Night of the Hangman". I always thought cattle was the main industry in the Old West, but based on this episode and previous ones it appears making mechanical toys was.

I always found it interesting that in those days someone could have a career basically playing one character in multiple shows, like Charles Lane as a curmudgeon, or Bert Mustin as an "Old Guy".

The Damned might be too disturbing as well.

She's the daughter of Vanilla Ice and Ginger Spice.

I liked him as Fantomas.

Tonite, or actually tomorrow A.M., TCM is running "The Damned" a very bizarre, depraved Luchino Visconti film about a wealthy German family during the Nazi era. Worth watching once if you haven't seen it.

I hope its not about how swell Jardiance is.

"The Night of the Samurai" had two good actors playing bad guys: Khigh Dhiegh, best known as Wo Fat on "Hawaii Five-O", and Thayer David, who I best remember as Count Petofi on "Dark Shadows" (but as usual with "Dark Shadows" he played many different roles.).

Now you can watch him for dinner at 7 & 8 CST.

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood Ed Zwick ISBN: 9781668046999 This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, About Last Night, and Glory, creator of the show thirtysomething, and executive producer of My So-Called Life, gives a dishy, behind-the-scenes look at working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. “I’ll be dropping a few names,” Ed Zwick confesses in the introduction to his book. “Over the years I have worked with self-proclaimed masters-of-the-universe, unheralded geniuses, hacks, sociopaths, savants, and saints.” He has encountered these Hollywood types during four decades of directing, producing, and writing projects that have collectively received eighteen Academy Award nominations (seven wins) and sixty-seven Emmy nominations (twenty-two wins). Though there are many factors behind such success, including luck and the contributions of his creative partner Marshall Herskovitz, he’s known to have a special talent for bringing out the best in the people he’s worked with, especially the actors. In those intense collaborations, he’s sought to discover the small pieces of connective tissue, vulnerability, and fellowship that can help an actor realize their character in full. Talents whom he spotted early include Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington, Claire Danes, and Jared Leto. Established stars he worked closely with include Leonardo DiCaprio, Anthony Hopkins, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Daniel Craig, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, and Jennifer Connelly. He also sued Harvey Weinstein over the production of Shakespeare in Love—and won.He shares personal stories about all these people, and more. Written mostly with love, sometimes with rue, this memoir is also a meditation on working, sprinkled throughout with tips for anyone who has ever imagined writing, directing, or producing for the screen. Fans with an appreciation for the beautiful mysteries—as well as the unsightly, often comic truths—of crafting film and television won’t want to miss it.

Yes when I visit family, I always stop in and get those mini-tacos. Though now 7-11 here now sells mini-tacos that are pretty much the same.

...over broken glass.

Fierce Females on Television: A Cultural History (The Cultural History of Television) Nicole Evelina ISBN: 9781538165652 A fascinating deep-dive into how shows from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Equalizer have changed the way women are portrayed on television. The last three decades of television have been a formative and progressive time for female characters, as stronger, more independent women have appeared on screen to guide a new generation of viewers into their own era of power. These characters battle vampires, demons, corrupt government officials, and scientific programs all while dealing with the same real-world concerns their audiences face every day. In Fierce Females on Television: A Cultural History, Nicole Evelina examines ten shows from the past thirty years to unveil the enormous impact they have had on the way women are portrayed on television. She reveals how Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Alias, Nikita, Agent Carter, Jessica Jones, Homeland, House of Cards, Orphan Black, and The Equalizer feature extraordinary lead characters who are at the same time utterly relatable, facing surprisingly familiar questions in their everyday lives regarding sexuality, gender, and how to fight back in a patriarchal world. Fierce Females on Television shows how, even with their captivating mix of melodrama, mystery, magic, and martial arts, these shows nevertheless represent the audience’s own desires and fears. Finally, viewers of science fiction, fantasy, spy, and political shows have strong, modern women to watch, admire, and emulate.

Season Delay. Nice picture of Sheldon and Sturgis on the picket line https://screenrant.com/young-sheldon-season-7-delay-season-8-story-good/

Funny that my sister just mentioned "uphill both ways" when we were discussing differences between when we were young and when my niece was young (specifically, my niece forwarded a podcast about having to swimming naked in high school, which I had to do. She couldn't believe that was a thing. There's no way parents would allow that today.).

I like the ad for Solo Stove, with the dog collecting sticks to go into the outdoor "stove".

Definitely, he did a good job being sympathetic as a Mexican bandido. I always like his line in "Hombre" where he says, after being gut shot by Paul Newman, "Hey, Hombre, I not have bellyache like this since I was little boy!"