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    S02.E11: So Far Away

    in The Unicorn

    Realistically, Shannon is going to live in Asheville until her kid finishes high school -- which is many years away.  I think the distance issues got telescoped into one episode so that the series could move on, but that would have been a heck of a commitment to make between people who really hardly knew each other (the almost-moving-in-together nonsense of 2 weeks ago notwithstanding).

    Is this show on the chopping block for sure?  I've been enjoying it.  It's the only network show I'm currently watching.

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    The Godfather Epic

    in Movies

    On 6/8/2017 at 10:48 AM, VCRTracking said:

    He was actually much younger than the character IRL. Brando was in his 40s but they used a lot of makeup to make him look like 60 something Vito Corleone:

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    In Godfather II, Vito's birth year is given as 1891, making the character only 55 or so at the start of The Godfather.  Perhaps they retconned his age and had initially envisioned him as older.. 

    On 8/16/2018 at 12:48 PM, VCRTracking said:

    I was late in the Memoriam thread commenting on the passing of Morgana King, who played the Don's wife Carmela, aka "Mama Corleone" in The Godfather Pts 1 and 2. She died last March but the news was only announced yesterday. She was primarily a jazz singer. I love her singing "Luna Mezzo Mare" at the opening wedding in part 1. Also in Part II where she admonishes Connie at the Communion party "You go see your children first, and then worry about waiting on line to see you're brother. Like everybody else." Or at the dinner tale when she makes a contemptuous comment about Connie's fiancee and Fredo's wife in Sicilian to Tom Hagen!

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    Morgana King didn't sound like any Italian-American lady I ever heard from that era.  I heard no Italian accent when she spoke.  

    On 12/30/2020 at 12:09 PM, GHScorpiosRule said:

    And they edited out the measly seconds of Sunny boinking Sandra along with the thumping and knocking sounds that Tom heard and smirked/laughed over, when we went to look for Sunny to tell him to get downstairs to the meeting.

    I think Sonny was boinking Lucy Mancini, who was a bride's maid.  Sandra was his wife's name.

    FFC talked about the making of The Godfather in this NPR interview earlier this year.  The story about surreptitiously auditioning Brando is great.

    Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

    in Movies

    On 2/22/2021 at 5:18 PM, Milburn Stone said:

    The movie might not be a perfectly truthful history, but basically, on a scale of 100, I feel like l went from about a 5 to about a 95 in my understanding.

    I hope I can get Mr. Inqui to watch this with me.  He grew up in Chicago and later majored in political science at UIC.  Though a bit younger than you, he has a visceral connection to these events and it's therefore sometimes hard for him to watch movie depictions.  But I would love to get his perspective, so I'll work on it!

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    Nocturnal Animals (2016)

    in Movies

    On 3/1/2021 at 7:58 PM, BlackberryJam said:

    The scenes with Hammer were...almost as terrifying as the scenes on the side of the road. 

    This must be where I stopped watching.  Scenes of impending horror/doom are not my thing.

    Friends - General Discussion

    in Friends

    On 2/22/2021 at 12:46 PM, ljenkins782 said:

    Can someone remind me why Courteney Cox had that horrible haircut in season 2 or 3? I know they did the "Phoebe gives Monica the Dudley Moore haircut by accident" storyline, but why was it necessary? I'm assuming it was a movie role, but I don't remember one that required a severe cut.

    I recall reading that Courteney Cox wanted to have short hair again, so they just worked it into the show. 

    On 2/23/2021 at 6:54 PM, sassi214 said:

    I just watched The One Where Ross Got High and it's definitely in my top 10 Friends episodes. It's almost perfect!

    I really enjoy that one, too.  I love Jacques Cousteau!

    On 2/25/2021 at 6:28 AM, YoukaiMoe said:

    The Thanksgiving episodes were definitely the ones you would show someone who is on the fence about rewatching for the first time in a while. Either those or TOW The Embryos or TOW Everybody Finds Out.

    I love all of those, and would add TOW the Videotape on my all-time fave list.  

    Rachel: How do you know about that story?

    Joey: How do YOU know about that story?

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    Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy - General Discussion

    in Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy

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    On 2/22/2021 at 8:04 AM, Melina22 said:

    I'm loving this show. Who knew Italians ate giant cream-filled buns for breakfast? 

    I hope that this show is making it clearer that there really isn't such a thing as what "Italians" eat or do.  The regional differences are enormous. No cream-filled breakfast buns in my homeland of Trentino!

    On 2/22/2021 at 4:15 PM, Rickster said:

    Preferred the Naples segment. Too much offal in Rome😝

     

    I commented to my husband that I hoped that restaurant had a vomitorium.  Sorry, offal with herbs and great olive oil just tastes like gussied up garbage to me.

    On 2/24/2021 at 12:00 PM, aghst said:

    Not sure how much legs a show about one single country has -- as wonderful as Italy is.

    I guess it depends on one's tastes and tolerances, but the diversity of the Italian peninsula is quite staggering.  And the only place I've been so far where I'd say the food was generally sub-par was Venice.  

    On 2/24/2021 at 4:55 PM, biakbiak said:

    I for one can’t wait for him to cover some of the lesser highlighted regions particularly in the northern mountains that don’t get a lot of coverage. 

    If he makes it to my homeland of Trentino, I will be truly impressed!  Our staple dishes of polenta and dumplings aren't as exotic, perhaps, but they are delicious when done right.  And the scenery is luscious.

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    In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths

    in Everything Else TV

    On 1/28/2021 at 9:21 PM, DollEyes said:

    Extraordinary doesn't even begin to describe Cicely Tyson, as an artist nor as a person. She was one of the first people I ever saw on TV who looked like me, because of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, which is currently on HBO.

    Thanks for the HBO tip.  I haven't seen that movie since it came out and would love to revisit it.

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    TCM: The Greatest Movie Channel

    in Movies

    On 12/28/2020 at 4:33 PM, caracas1914 said:

    Netflix shows so  so many foreign TV series, let alone movies, that I would think CC isn't that distracting once you get used to it. 

    I find it horribly distracting when it's not needed.  My eyes keep getting drawn to reading ahead instead of listening to the actors.  Ugh.

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    S01.E02: Exchanges

    in The Queen's Gambit

    6 minutes ago, lasu said:

    She did.  When she buys herself a new dress and chess set, we later see her wearing new saddle shoes.

    Thanks!  I thought I was watching closely, but I missed that.  It made sense that she would bow to this particular status symbol.  

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    S01.E02: Exchanges

    in The Queen's Gambit

    On 11/3/2020 at 12:34 PM, LeGrandElephant said:

    I wonder if they filmed and deleted a scene where Beth opens the menstrual product and is totally confused how to use it - because my understanding is that back then it would have involved a garter belt type thing with safety pins etc. That scene was weird to modern eyes because a modern pad is super easy to use and throwing it away would make no sense, but I gather they were more confusing and complicated back then. Unless it was something other than a pad? I don’t think tampons would have been a thing with teenage girls back then. Were there any other options? At least she knew what it was when it happened. Why did the foster mom say it was late in the day for her if she believes her to be two heads younger that she is?

    Speaking from late 1960s experience here... The pads typically did require use of a garter belt type thingy.  No safety pins that I recall -- the belt was designed to latch onto either end of the pad.  Even when I was in college in the mid-1970s, tampon usage was not widespread in my social circle.  It all seems so primitive now!  

    On 11/3/2020 at 2:12 PM, dubbel zout said:

    Tampax tampons have been around since 1933, but I imagine "good" girls didn't use them because they were inserted into the vagina. Like how riding astride somehow ruins a woman's virginity. It's nonsense, but that was the thinking.

    Yup, this kind of thinking was prevalent.  

    I read that membership at chess.com has doubled since this show debuted.  Sales of chess sets are on the rise as well.  I doubt we'll see a resurgence in sales of menstrual garter belts.  🙃

    Did Beth ever buy herself a pair of saddle shoes?  I like the way she prioritizes.  And the way she deliberately bumped through that gaggle of girls in the school hallway, as one had done to her at her locker earlier.

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    The Trial Of the Chicago 7 (2020)

    in Movies

    13 hours ago, snarktini said:

    So so hard to watch. How can any judge be that willfully terrible and stay on the bench? I know, I know, there are plenty of them. I just...ugh. Total kangaroo court.

    I wonder what the lead prosecutor (Schultz?) was like in real life. He has no Wiki page, which has to be intentional. He got a fairly sympathetic edit in the movie -- he believed the charges were trumped up and stood up for a small number of things in the end, like Bobby's treatment. I wonder what he really thought, how he viewed his role in this decades later.

    The way the government invasively investigated, maligned, and persecuted civil rights leaders during this time was absolutely disgraceful.

    I had thought Schultz was a composite character, but that was his real name.  This article suggests that the sympathetic portrayal in the movie is not accurate.   My husband, who has read extensively about these events, said Judge Hoffman was even worse in real life than depicted.  Perhaps Sorkin thought audiences needed the prosecutor to be less evil.  

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    S04.E02: The Balmoral Test

    in The Crown

    On 11/15/2020 at 2:16 PM, Pepper Mostly said:

    Same. She's shown to be a meticulously prepared hard worker. But she gets to Balmoral and she doesn't have a clue? Its just like the scenes with Lyndon Johnson not knowing which fork to use. I get that its for exposition but its insulting to both Johnson, who was a sharp and savvy politician, not some rube, and Thatcher, who, love her or hate her, was not naive. 

    It reminded me of how S2 made the Kennedys look like hayseeds when meeting the royals.  This show is not subtle about exaggerating for effect.  ::eyeroll::

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    S04.E06: Terra Nullius

    in The Crown

    On 11/17/2020 at 1:19 AM, 7isBlue said:

    Yes! They were not equals going into the relationship by any definition. Not only was he years older and sexually experienced, he was a royal! She was still a teenager, a virgin, and abandoned by her mother at a very young age. She thought she had literally found her Prince Charming, who would show her love, and whose family would become her family, just like any other young fiancé. 

    Her sister had dated Charles and seemed a lot more savvy about how things work when it comes to the royals.  It seems to me that Diana's family were abysmal in preparing her for what was coming.  

    On 11/22/2020 at 1:06 PM, Neurochick said:

    Someone should have sat Charles down and told him that the world is unfair, I mean he didn't do anything to achieve his position except be born.  

    Except that we've seen Charles work hard and undergo sacrifices because of the position that was thrust on him.  Being shunted off to Wales for 3 months to learn that mind-bending language just when he was hitting his stride at Cambridge was no picnic.

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    Friends - General Discussion

    in Friends

    On 9/21/2020 at 7:42 PM, princelina said:

    I think we are just used to seeing her look like that.  I thought Jennifer looked frightening in that video!  And she had been doing so well on not overdoing it until now.

    Agree.  I thought Lisa was the only one who looked remotely good.

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    S04.E03: Raddoppiarlo

    in Fargo

    On 10/4/2020 at 11:38 PM, Kiddvideo said:

    I’m not liking the season very much. We’re more than 25% through, and I feel like the story hasn’t started. 

    I feel the same way.  Too many characters, too much backstory, nothing that is really anchoring my interest.  Feels more like Miller's Crossing than Fargo in tone, and I wasn't a huge fan of MC.

    On 10/5/2020 at 3:25 PM, Lonesome Rhodes said:

    I am stunned at just how awful this production is. ...

    Since I am human and I am fascinated by train wrecks, I'll keep watching.

    I'm there with you! Not quite ready to abandon Noah Hawley yet, but he is surely trying my patience.

    On 10/8/2020 at 3:53 PM, Pike Ludwell said:

    I'm done. The story doesn't interest me much and neither do the characters. I might have tried to hang in there a few more weeks to see if it picked up, ...

    Ditto.  This storyline sounded so promising when I first read about it, but the execution has been puzzling, to say the least.

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