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8 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:
Tiny Natalie Wood with big hair and no way of telling how high her heels are.
Exactly, that's why I focussed on the one with Julie Christie where we can see her feet. 😉 Also going by seeing Beatty in many movies next to other actors, male and female. He is definitely a 6-footer.
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On 3/29/2020 at 6:03 AM, aradia22 said:
This is completely random but... I was googling Warren Beatty and the internet just announced to me that he's 6'2. That wasn't what I was looking for but now I can't stop thinking about it. That can't be right, can it? I was always under the impression that Warren Beatty was like Tom Cruise height. If he's 6'2, he photographs incredibly short, especially standing next to actresses who are not very tall.
Scroll down here for a photo with Julie Christie, reportedly 5'2" and in flat shoes. Beatty towered over her. I've never had any trouble believing he was over 6' tall.
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On 3/16/2020 at 9:52 PM, Irlandesa said:
Alan Sepinwall answered this by saying that they usually like to film in winter for the winter effect but FX likes to debut it before the Emmy window closes. I wonder if the delay will be pushed into the next year given the specificity of those conditions.
Doubtful. An article in EW says:
QuoteFargo has been filming in Chicago for several months, but some episodes were still left to complete when its production shut down last week.
Winter is effectively over in Chicago, and I think they finished location shooting here a while ago, so I doubt they were planning on more outdoor shots of winter. I understand the series is working out of a studio on the west side. That's probably where additional production was to take place.
Bummed to hear about the delay, but Fargo will be one more thing to look forward to with gratitude when this is all over!
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From this NY Times review, it sounds like the series is as insufferable as I found the book to be:
QuoteThat conception of Elena fits a pattern, an approach “Little Fires” shares with an awful lot of current series: Rather than presenting characters in the round and then developing them, it presents characters as terms in a moral and cultural equation and then slowly reveals their pasts. For the viewer, the surprises are in the revelations and not in the choices the characters make, and rather than seeing the characters grow and change, we just see them being moved around the game board.
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4 hours ago, lasu said:
But...I hated the de-aging. It might have been better on the small screen,
Believe me, it was distracting and annoying on MY small screen.
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2 hours ago, chitowngirl said:
Michelle’s sister. She was on the episode Breaking Up is Hard to Do”.
Thanks. I'm not remembering her, but I'm sure my memory will be jogged when I see her again. 🙂
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Meg applies her expertise as an accountant to get Wade's finances on track.
Who the heck is Meg? Is she a member of the widows support group?
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2 hours ago, Milburn Stone said:
I'm surprised by all the negative commentary on Maya and Kristen's dresses. I thought they were going for a look that was deliberately parodic of "old Hollywood glamour" and succeeded marvelously. And the reason they succeeded marvelously--the reason those dresses enhanced the bit--was that those dresses were accurate, i.e. truly elegant in that style.
I think I was with you up until your last 5 words. These dresses were truly elegant? I may need some more context. 🙂
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11 hours ago, MissAlmond said:
Way too young. R.I.P. Mr. Coleman.
Indeed. From a CNN article:
QuoteHis stepfather, Carsten Jensen, said on Facebook that Coleman "collapsed without prior health problems" during a trip.
There's usually an autopsy in such circumstances, no? Sounds like maybe an aneurysm or previously unknown heart problem. So sad.
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8 hours ago, Billina said:
I really liked Brad Pitt thanking the stunt men and women, with his speech,
I also loved his shout-out to Ridley and Geena. I'm sure that if Thelma & Louise hadn't come along, Brad would have made his mark in some other role, but damn, that was one HELL of an introduction to a wide audience.
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11 hours ago, KaveDweller said:
I think the actors can decide which category based on which they think they have a better shot of winning. That's probably not what they are supposed to do, but the rules seem flexible enough that they can when they want to. Meryl was definitely supporting in The Devil Wears Prada, but I kind of feel like Meryl doesn't do supporting.
11 hours ago, slowpoked said:I think category fraud is a real thing and it's been going on for awhile. Yes, I believe the actors AND studios decide what category to submit nominations for, but on some of them it was just egregious. Like the Devil Wear Prada for Meryl. Although Meryl does do Supporting category - she was nominated in that for Into The Woods.
She was nominated for Supporting Actress for Adaptation as well. I think that and Into the Woods were much clearer cases than TDwP, but I'd argue she was secondary there as well.
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Thanks, Charlie Baker! Somehow, I've never managed to see Spartacus, so I'll set my DVR.
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12 minutes ago, Milburn Stone said:
Just out of sheer curiosity...Who was the leading actor in the Mr. Rogers movie if it wasn't Tom Hanks?
Apparently it's more about Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), the journalist who wrote about Mr. Rogers. But Meryl Streep was nominated for Best Actress for The Devil Wears Prada, when I would have called her supporting in that movie (Anne Hathaway was the lead).
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15 hours ago, mtlchick said:
That was less hilarious and more heartfelt. Love that he gave a shout out to Ridley Scott and Geena Davis.
I read somewhere recently that Geena pushed to have him cast as JD in Thelma and Louise. What a break-out role for Brad Pitt that was -- almost 30 years ago!
15 hours ago, Crs97 said:Commercial break - I hate the novel Little Fires Everywhere with the heat of a thousand suns so will definitely be skipping that show.
I skipped over commercials so I didn't even see that there was a promo for LFE. My hate isn't as intense as yours, but it was NOT a good novel.
14 hours ago, BuckeyeLou said:I don't care for either Maya or Kristin Wiig's dresses..
I don't think we were supposed to.
13 hours ago, TVFan17 said:I love Elton and he's one of my all-time favorites, but this winning song is not his best song.
First time I've heard it, but it sounded like a pastiche of several of his other songs. Not impressed.
12 hours ago, yowsah1 said:Complete shutout for THE IRISHMAN. Maybe that will teach Scorcese to keep his opinions about superhero movies to himself.
Or maybe voters woke up to the fact that it wasn't that great a movie? I still can't believe the acclaim for The Irishman.
4 hours ago, Camille said:Nothing against Renee Zellwegger, but I was really hoping for a shocking upset in the Best Actress category.
It felt like the one category that might have a surprise winner, but I guess no other nominee generated the same enthusiasm.
Re In Memoriam: the Oscars version is always an abbreviated mess. Watch what TCM does instead.
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1 hour ago, Bastet said:
For me, A League of Their Own is the best baseball film ever made, and Major League - which, yes, rips off Bull Durham at several turns - is second. But Bull Durham is probably third (yes, over Field of Dreams and The Natural).
Those three movies are all fun, but for my money, Eight Men Out is a better film about actual baseball.
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On 2/5/2020 at 10:11 PM, stonehaven said:
Just to go back to Gene Reynolds, who probably won't see the enormous press coverage that others will...Here's a great tribute written by Ken Levine, who got his start thanks to Gene...
http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2020/02/rip-gene-reynolds.html
Wow, thank you for posting that!
QuoteHe also taught me how to be a good showrunner. Establish an organized professional environment high on support and low on drama. Treat everyone with respect, work to get the best out of people. And it’s as simple as this: I remember the first time we got script notes from Gene. There was a joke he didn’t like. Other showrunners might say “That sucks, get rid of it, no!” Gene pointed to it and said, “You might want to take another look at that joke.” It’s a little thing – tiny even – but it meant a lot. And that was Gene.
That fact that Levine remembers this and retells it means it was NOT tiny. These are the things that people always remember about great managers, in any business.
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On 2/6/2020 at 11:35 PM, twoods said:
I felt like there were a lot of scenes cut from the Masterpiece version.
Masterpiece is notorious for doing that in order to make things "fit". In this instance, however, the episode run-times listed at the PBS site seem to match up with what's shown at Starz On-Demand.
I watched this back when it was released two years ago. Might be time for a rewatch!
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and I don't think foreign films should be nominated with the regular films.
[quotes are from the Hollywood Reporter article linked above]
Regular films? Xenophobic much?
QuoteLittle Women was back and forth [chronologically], and you didn't know what was going on.
Maybe *she* didn't know what was going on, but most of the rest of us had no problem. I mean really, you notice that Tom Hanks's eyes are "calculating" rather than "warm" but you don't notice the consistent use of different color palettes in Little Women?
At least she' s not voting in categories she didn't bother to watch.
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16 hours ago, ShortyMac said:
Forrest could keep his new job, while figuring out his passion/dream. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
It can be tough to carve out the time though, especially if you're in a new job where you have to impress people. I wonder just how bonkers the ideas Forrest pitched to his old boss were. There's actually a lot of cool stuff happening in HR these days in firms that are committed to developing talent.
I do like the couples in this show. The individuals all have their neuroses and quirks but they seem to mesh well as couples, and as friends.
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4 hours ago, MikaelaArsenault said:
from the article above:
QuoteThe director, producer and writer — a former child actor — also had a hand in developing the groundbreaking 'Room 222' en route to winning six Emmy Awards.
Aw, I loved Room 222. It debuted while I was in Catholic grade school and gave me a little inkling of what to expect when I'd eventually go on to a public high school. The show's star, Lloyd Haines, died much too young of cancer. At least Mr. Reynolds lived to a very ripe old age. Thanks for the memories!
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55 minutes ago, MikaelaArsenault said:
Robert Harper, actor:
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=195209907
Harper seems like one of those HITG! actors who turned up in a lot of TV series. Now that I know he played Chip's dad in an early episode of Roseanne, I can picture him in that role.
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On 12/31/2019 at 10:33 AM, ellenr33 said:
The only thing that bugged me is that none of these characters age at all during the movie. It bugged me the whole movie especially with Amy's character.
I tended to view the flashbacks more like memories. In our memories, we often don't look much different than we do in the present (or how we imagine we look in the present).
On 1/2/2020 at 2:45 AM, ruby24 said:again, this movie focuses so little on Jo and Laurie's friendship, that you don't even get why he's so miserable about being rejected by her. Their friendship is a very key part of the novel, and it's a mistake to cut that out.
I've never read the book so I don't know how it depicted the Jo/Laurie friendship, but I thought his attachment to her came across just fine in this film adaptation.
On 1/20/2020 at 2:04 AM, Irlandesa said:I could see people being confused if they were sleepy or not paying attention but I thought Gerwig did a good job of signaling the jumps.
My reaction as well.
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50 minutes ago, MikaelaArsenault said:
Wow, that Fridays clip was painful. RIP, Mr. Burns.
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3 minutes ago, galaxygirl76 said:
Isn't that how JFK Jr died?
One of several factors that suggest he shouldn't have been flying when he did. I don't know if all of this is accurate, but I've heard other reporting about at least some of these issues.
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S07.E09: Dillman
in Brooklyn Nine-Nine
With all the H:LOTS crossover talk, I'm surprised no one has mentioned that JK Simmons appeared on that series in S4's For God and Country. It was the first thing I'd ever seen him in, and he made quite an impression. He and Andre Braugher had some intense scenes together. I can't find a clip, but here's an image.