Inquisitionist

I've set my DVR and will let you know where I fall! My weird relationship with that movie is that one of the producers (I couldn't tell you which one) lived across the street from my great-uncle in Sherman Oaks, CA, and took my brothers and me to a Dodgers game when we visited in the late 1970s. And yet, I've never watched the movie...

AFI will honor Dame Julie Andrews with its Lifetime Achievement Award on April 25, 2020. The tribute will premiere on TNT, Thursday, May 7 at 10pm ET/PT. Should be fun!

I'll dodge with you. And I'll add that I thought she was miscast and terribly bland in The Good Girl.

The absence of Andre Braugher among the comedy nominees is a travesty. He has Emmy-worthy line deliveries in every. single. episode. I'm ecstatic that Michelle Williams won. Her portrayal of Gwen Verdon was astonishing.

I'm so thrilled that Michelle Williams won for her portrayal of Gwen Verdon. And what a speech!

Rolling Stone gets behind Michelle Williams. I'll be honest: I've seen only two episodes of When They See Us, and nothing from the rest, but it's really hard to imagine anyone surpassing MW in this category. She was sublime.

From the old quotations thread: This summer I listened to the audiobook version of The Hot Kid. It was performed by Arliss Howard, who did a great job with various voices. The titular character, a young U.S. marshal, says something quite similar to this line of Raylan's before just about every shooting. I don't recall the line coming up in the short story that is the basis for Justified, so I wondered if this is a character element they transposed onto Raylan from Carl(os) Webster. Another interesting tidbit: the network wanted Justified to run for a 7th season. From wikipedia:

Well, I'd like those 5 hours back, please.

That was the one LOL for me in this episode. The cousin Boyle joke registered immediately but felt lame to me. (I'm just now catching up on the last season!)

I think that might be Nick Savage, who appeared as "Pickpocket" in about 12 episodes. There isn't a profile photo at his IMDb page, but there are a few photos from HSB from which you can identify him.

There was some discussion a while back about when Phoebe started to get mean. The consensus seems to be that she underwent a change during her pregnancy in season 4 that stuck after that, but I'm rewatching from the start on Netflix, and I think I see the seeds of it in season 2, episode 3, The One Where Heckles Dies, where she goaded Ross about evolution in a way that bordered on nasty (end of video). Then in 2-6, The One with the Baby on the Bus, she got pretty nasty when the owner of Central Perk decided to hire a real singer to perform there. Did not like Phoebe in this one. But I always like Lisa Kudrow as a performer, and I've enjoyed watching clips of her recorded for EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG about how she came to be cast as Phoebe and how she approached the role.

I haven't watched that one yet, but I will!

Ugh, those are both awful and I remember thinking so when I first heard them. The writing often felt a bit forced in the first season, for all the characters.

I won't watch until Carly Simon is inducted. And I boycott every event that rewards her over-rated, douchey ex-husband.

Caught The Caine Mutiny last night. Terrific job by a stellar cast. I was especially impressed by Jose Ferrer as the naval attorney who defended Van Johnson's character. It was a treat to see Jerry Paris, aka Jerry Helper of The Dick Van Dyke Show -- that's the only time I've seen him in a different role! Reading the credits at IMDb, I see that the young actor who played the pivotal role of Ensign Keith, Robert Francis, appeared in only 4 movies before dying in a plane crash at age 25. Apparently, he played a military character each time.

As I recall from the book, Rhett's change in attitude was in part a reaction to realizing he would never have Scarlett's love. As he explains in the final chapter (cut short, as always, for the movie script): I think Rhett was always a realist. When he focused all his attention on Bonnie, he knew that he had to make some accommodations with society in order for her to have options in the future. I don't think he was being a hypocrite as much as a schemer -- as he always was.

That's the least of the problems with this episode! But I did go back to watch the Nov. 1963 scenes, and while they don't appear to have padded Claire Foy, she's wearing some loose-fitting clothing and occasionally holding her arms across her belly in the way that pregnant women often do. But did the royals really go to bed that early? They show Elizabeth getting into bed, where Phillip is already seemingly asleep, and saying "He's dead." The announcement that Pres. Kennedy had died occurred before 3 pm EST, which means before 9 pm in London.

Actually, it was Lane Price (a Brit) who pointed that out to Don. 😉

And Johnny Cash wasn't 5'8". Good thing actors are interpreters, not imitators. 😉 I think Lithgow was masterful in this series.

Recently, I rewatched the series pilot as well as the finale. Both hold up extremely well, and there are a number of callbacks between them. I miss this show.

More like 8 hrs from Chicago, under good conditions. There was a KC connection in S2. Mike Milligan (Bokeem Woodbine) was an enforcer for the KC mob. S4 sounds intriguing, but I hope there are some prominent female roles as in earlier seasons. I saw Ben Whishaw on stage in London -- just superb.

They had 7 hours. No excuses. I knew about 5 seconds into the scene that Renata would be destroying that train set. The courtroom stuff was beyond unbelievable. Wasn't season 1 a BIT more grounded in reality than this shit-storm? Geez, that stupid nanny should have had Gordon on a pay-as-you-fuck plan. Ed's proposal to renew their vows, and to fully understand what that MEANS, was the one part of the finale I liked.

I loved Green Acres. So surreal. My brother once suggested what I thought was a great premise for a movie: What if Superman, as a baby, had landed on the Douglas farm? What a hoot that would be! Does INSP fall into this thread? I have recently caught up on The Waltons there, as well as some episode of Alias Smith and Jones. Boy, those take me back!

David Simon is VERY outspoken. His Twitter posts rub a lot of people the wrong way, and I would imagine he's much the same in person. Andre Braugher should receive Emmy Awards for individual lines in B99. He is Da Bomb.

This movie has finally hit HBO, so I was able to watch it recently. For me, the film's main virtue is that it sent me to youtube to look for footage of Queen's actual Live Aid performance. Rami Malek did a very commendable job, but there's nothing like watching the real Freddie Mercury in action.