Tom Holmberg

The red suits were very much a call back to the radiation suits from "Dr No". Not sure why Barclay's men need to wear anything like those outfits though. Nehemiah Persoff was very often cast as foreigners from very many different lands, esp. Eastern Europeans, in non-historical series he was often a communist (see "Mission Impossible" the series). And even if not a foreign character, he was usually a villain, often gangsters. He played Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik on "The Untouchables." Having appeared in over 200 movie and TV roles, he's definitely a "That Guy." Surprisingly, he passed away in 2022 at 102 years of age.

I would say unintended side effects. It seems that almost every birth control device heavily advertised ended up with lawyer commercials for law suits.

Napoleon was average sized for the time, 5' 6". In fact, that was the average height of British soldiers in WWI. One issue was that his height was given in French measurements and people didn't convert them to English measurements. The other issue was that British propagandists wanted to portray Napoleon as puny. Spielberg is working on a Napoleon miniseries based on Kubrick's research. At least he won't be rushing through Napoleon's life. That was the one where the Infernal Machine assassins lit the bomb with a cigarette lighter!

The Untold Story of Michael Dunn

McCarthy played "Sookie" on "Gilmore Girls". I liked her in that role, but not much in her subsequent parts.

I thought they did the "Roasts" sometime in the last year? And really, do they need to binge "Full House"?

I don't agree, but you are right, cinematically it's a masterpiece. The triptych really stuns when seen on the big screen.

That's actually what I was thinking.

The best Napoleon movie is the 1927 silent version directed by Abel Gance. I saw the Francis Ford Coppola version in a theater with a full orchestra. It occasionally shows up at universities or art houses. Supposedly a remastered (or re-remasterd) version is due out on Netflix in the near? future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoléon_(1927_film)

How long before the lawyer ads against the new Opill OTC birth control pill start running?

Phoenix is the same age as Napoleon when he died which makes it hard to accept him in the earlier scenes. Napoleon wasn't that as much of a RBF sufferer as portrayed. Besides the Austerlitz ice thing, Napoleon wasn't at the execution of Marie Antoinette (why is that even in the movie?) and he didn't shoot the Pyramids (or the Sphinx). It looks like its going to be basically the totally evil Napoleon depiction.

Maybe they're reading the post-it notes stuck to their screen?

When I was very young I went to the movies with my older sisters with a double feature of "13 Ghosts" and "Psycho" I had to stay in the lobby during "Psycho".

TikTok has a lot to answer for!

This week's "That Guy" is Arthur Hunnicutt , who usually played "rural" types and guys name "Pops" or just credited as "Old Man". He did play Butch Cassidy in "Cat Ballou". ( A "That Guy" is my name for mainly characters actors you've seen many times but you don't know their names so you say "There's that gut!")

I guess this is the place to go if you want to buy a house on an Indian burial ground. Good to know.

I think the guy in the Wendy's commercials is Jaime's brother.

The working "Petticoat Junction" train (many scenes were filmed with a prop train built in 1950 for movies and sold to the Barbary Coast Hoyt Hotel in Portland, hence the credit on the show) was Sierra No. 3, a 4-6-0 built in 1891. The train also appeared in a number of Clint Eastwood movies including "Pale Rider" and "Unforgiven."

"He was married on December 14, 1966 to Joy Talbot, reportedly a burlesque dancer with mercenary motives. (Motion Picture magazine described her as a model, in a photo caption in the March, 1967 issue.) The union was unhappy and ended in divorce after a few years. He had no children." https://tonova.typepad.com/thesuddencurve/2008/04/the-great-micha.html

That's what I assumed. It wasn't Dorin, but Dunn's fiance. The marriage date seems about right for this. Time Magazine Milestones: Dec. 23, 1966 Married. Michael Dunn, 32, actor, whose 3-ft. 10-in. size has stretched into a bright career on stage (The Ballad of the Sad Café), screen (Ship of Fools) and TV (CBS's Wild Wild West series); and Joy Talbot, 28, 5-ft. 4-in. Manhattan model; in Manhattan. * This book might be interesting THE BIG LIFE OF A LITTLE MAN: MICHAEL DUNN REMEMBERED by Kelly, Sherry (written by a family member). https://www.amazon.com/BIG-LIFE-LITTLE-MAN-REMEMBERED/dp/B00T14O8UE/

I'm thinking, if its true that there were personal issues between Dunn and Dorin (Antoinette), that maybe Dunne was in a relationship and the woman was jealous of his closeness to Dorin?

I've read that there were some personal reasons with Dunn as to why Antoinette, Loveless' frequent companion, didn't appear in this episode.

A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up Margaret Wappler ISBN: 9781668006269 Best known for playing loner rebel Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills 90210, Luke Perry was fifty-two years old when he died of a stroke in 2019. There have been other deaths of 90’s stars, but this one hit different. Gen X was reminded of their own inescapable mortality, and robbed of an exciting career resurgence for one of their most cherished icons—with recent roles in the hit series Riverdale and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time In Hollywood bringing him renewed attention and acclaim. Only upon his death, as stories poured out online about his authenticity and kindness, did it become clear how little was known about the exceedingly humble actor and how deeply he impacted popular culture. In A Good Bad Boy, Margaret Wappler attempts to understand who Perry was and why he was unique among his Hollywood peers. To do so, she uses an inventive hybrid narrative. She speaks with dozens who knew Perry personally and professionally. They share insightful anecdotes: how he kept connected to his Ohio upbringing; nearly blew his 90210 audition; tried to shed his heartthrob image by joining the HBO prison drama Oz; and in the last year of his life, sought to set up two of his newly divorced friends. (After his death, the pair bonded in their grief and eventually married.) Amid these original interviews and exhaustive archival research, Wappler weaves poignant vignettes of memoir in which she serves as an avatar to show how Perry shaped a generation’s views on masculinity, privilege and the ideal of “cool.” Timed to the fifth anniversary of Perry’s death, A Good Bad Boy is a profound and entertaining examination of what it means to be an artist and an adult.

Maverick: A History of the Television Series Linda Alexander, Steven Thompson & Martin Grams Jr. ISBN: 9798887711928 One tenant of sociable poker players was “Never trust a man who sandbags (checks and then raises) in a friendly game of cards.” The basic premise of Maverick, a professional gambler who wandered the west avoiding trouble and finding himself caught up in life-threatening adventures, was televised for five seasons over ABC-TV, and spawned a number of comic books, collectibles and sequels. ABC was poised to fire its Sunday ammunition against the competing Ed Sullivan and Steve Allen, with heavy bets to the tune of a million dollars placed by the Kaiser Industries Corp. and Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp., its sponsors. The chief asset of the show was its sense of humor. If an adult Western was to be truly adult, it could not take itself too seriously. Rather than kiss the woman and ride off into the sunset, Maverick could be expected to win a bet by kissing his horse and fleeing out of the county by riverboat. Along the way he cleaned up corruption and disruption of law and order in the unsettled old West. The goal was not to compete with other fast-drawing hotshot television Westerns, but rather to differentiate from them. That was the Roy Huggins formula. He created and produced the series, ensuring a refreshing take in an era when television Westerns were a variation-on-a-theme. Huggins wanted to avoid the clichés that populated other television Westerns. This book has been a decade in the making, having consulted very possible avenue including production files. (Yes, that means the episode guide includes the dates of production, filming locations, budgets, and more.) Fans of Maverick will find themselves wanting to re-watch the episodes once again with all the new behind-the-scenes trivia brought to light.

Then an Italian Lemonade at Mario's across the street.