Inquisitionist
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I dropped Downton after the first season. The only thing by Fellowes I've really liked was Gosford Park, and I've concluded that was due largely to Altman's directing.
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On 2/14/2022 at 12:03 PM, Readingallnight said:
Just saw on the HBO site it was renewed for a second season!
As author and scholar Daniel Mendelsohn so acerbidly tweeted: "By whom—Fellowes’ mother?"
On 2/18/2022 at 12:37 PM, buttersister said:The writing is the weakest link (with the exception of the Scott family story).
God, it sounds like it was written by 7th graders doing a history project.
I've seen Carrie C*** on stage twice. This is such a waste of her talents. I hope she's being paid well enough to keep appearing at Steppenwolf.
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10 hours ago, weightyghost said:
Now that the finale is aired I can definitely say, I really did not like what they did with the 20 years after plotline.
I stopped watching after episode 5. Sounds like the right call.
6 hours ago, chocolatine said:The show completely ruined that, which makes me wonder whether TPTB didn't catch that subtlety, or whether they thought the audience wouldn't.
I wondered this about a lot of the choices. I'm going to reread the book and pretend this mess of an adaptation doesn't exist.
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On 1/12/2022 at 4:07 PM, CountryGirl said:
That moment when Paul (I think) was talking about how no matter what was coming in the near future, even if they broke up and went their separate ways, his certainty that they'd be playing together when they were old...that broke my heart. How I wish that could have happened.
May Pang has said that John was planning to meet up with Paul for some potential collaboration just before Yoko "summoned" him back to New York. There are some indications that John was open to working with Paul again when John resumed recording in 1980. What might have been... 😪
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I'd certainly give it a spin!
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14 hours ago, Vermicious Knid said:
And how many people knew Bob Saget won a student Academy Award?
I had no idea. Thank you for this.
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23 hours ago, Blergh said:
Dwayne Hickman, the protagonist of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1958-1963) has died of complications of Parkinson's Disease on Sunday, January 9,2022. He was 87! Although he himself never quite captured the onetime stardom of that show, some others did.
My brother and I first saw Cat Ballou on TV when we were pre-teens in the late 1960s. We imitated Hickman's I'm drunk as a skunk line for weeks afterward. RIP, Dwayne.
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On 10/12/2021 at 8:21 AM, AnimeMania said:
I wonder what the policy is for letting people into the building and onto the elevators that go to apartments, is there a guard.
There is a doorman whom we've seen. Usually said doorman would prevent non-residents from entering the elevator until they've been "buzzed up" by a resident. And residents would have a fob or something that activates the elevator's access to their specific floor. But shows often short-cut this stuff.
On 10/12/2021 at 9:48 PM, SlovakPrincess said:Bunny is just hateful, but the actress playing her absolutely cracks me up. "one of you jerk-offs is a murderer!" ... and the contempt with which she said "podcast!"
Jayne Houdyshell, who won a 2016 Tony Award for her performance in "The Humans." Nominated several other times as well.
On 10/13/2021 at 11:08 AM, Milburn Stone said:So, was Jan in the hospital for a week or less? Or more like the 2-3 weeks she implied to Sazz? Or is this an inconsistency the writers didn't catch?
I wondered the same thing, but have decided not to get too hung up on timeline details!
On 10/14/2021 at 6:37 PM, Sakura12 said:I do like that we had Charles and Mabel bonding in the beginning and now we're seeing Oliver and Mabel. I think her sardonic personality matches better with his energetic one. They balance each other out.
I think Martin Short is the series MVP. He brings just the right amount of loopy energy to each scene.
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13 minutes ago, MisterGlass said:
It's minor by comparison, but I always enjoyed him as the put upon straight man in the ensemble cast of Sneakers.
I think that's the most recent of his performances that I have seen. Poitier and Redford together -- swoon!
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94 is a good run, but damn, the timing sucks. Rest in Power, Mr. Tibbs.
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On 12/16/2021 at 12:06 PM, Nellise said:
There's also the practical reason for the show: the apartment is a fairly deep set so the step lets the cameras see the people back there without having to move or use weird angles.
I assumed that's the reason for all sunken living rooms on TV. Even Mary Richards (MTM) supposedly living on the third floor of an old Victorian house in Minneapolis had one. Uh, no, I don't think so!
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This Hollywood Reporter obituary chronicles Peter's Bogdanovich's remarkable life quite well. I did not know the following:
QuoteBogdanovich was writing film criticism and feature articles for Esquire and other publications when he was encouraged by director Frank Tashlin to move to Hollywood, so he and Platt, whom he married in 1962, drove across the country.
There, he met Roger Corman, who knew him from his Esquire pieces, and the famed producer put him to work on the Peter Fonda biker flick The Wild Angels (1966). He wound up rewriting the screenplay and directing the end of the movie. The film, which cost about $360,000, grossed $15 million and was Corman’s most successful moneymaker to that point.
Two years later, backed by Corman, Bogdanovich wrote, directed and appeared in his first film, Targets, which starred Boris Karloff, who owed Corman two shooting days. The picture, about a sniper who takes aim at a drive-in crowd, was inspired by Charles Whitman, who killed more than a dozen people at the University of Texas in August 1966.
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On 11/11/2021 at 9:52 AM, LADreamr said:
I don't know who *should* be playing Lucy, but it shouldn't be Nicole. I don't know what's happened to her acting in the past few years, but it's become hard to watch. I was looking forward to this, so that's disappointing.
I was surprised to learn Cate Blanchett was originally attached to the project (like 5 or 6 years ago), but eventually had to drop out.
On 11/11/2021 at 6:36 PM, khyber said:Desi was so much better looking than Bardem.
Neither is my type, but while Arnaz is considered more conventionally attractive than Bardem, I thought the latter captured his essence very well. Arnaz's family lived in Cuba for generations, but was Spanish in origin, no? Kidman and Blanchett are Australian, for crying out loud. 😄
On 12/16/2021 at 10:59 AM, GHScorpiosRule said:But what I'd like to know is what Desi, Jr has to say.
He seems to keep a very low profile these days.
On 12/24/2021 at 4:12 PM, GussieK said:I thought the movie was so Sorkinized. The preachy speeches. The long takes with the characters walking and talking.
I hadn't known it was a Sorkin film, but as soon as I saw his name at the end, so much about it made more sense!
On 12/30/2021 at 6:05 AM, GussieK said:My favorite episode is Lucy meets William Holden.
I have had that one on my DVR for years. Just love it!
I went into the movie with low expectations, and ended up enjoying it more than I had expected to. It certainly had problems, but it held my attention and had occasional flashes of quality. I agree that Sorkin tried to cover too much.
Nice to see the little Arrested Development reunion of Tony Hale and Alia Shawkat!
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Betty's 30 seconds or so (starting at 1:45) really elevated the Glee parody opening for the 2010 Emmy broadcast. "Do the hippity-hop. ... Now back that mother up." She was the best!
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7 minutes ago, Inquisitionist said:
I Ffwd through most of Che's scenes, so thankfully I pissed the peeing incident as well.
Obviously, I meant "missed" but what an apt typo! 🤣
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15 hours ago, tennisgurl said:
watching Carrie piss into an empty Snapple jar while Miranda got fingerbanged by her boss in Carrie's kitchen might be the most uncomfortable thing I have seen on television in a very long time.
I Ffwd through most of Che's scenes, so thankfully I pissed the peeing incident as well.
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I cannot believe the mess they are making of this book! I read it 5.5 years ago and to be honest, I don't remember many details of the story. But I do remember being entranced by it (unusual for me, as I don't care for dystopian novels) and feeling an underlying sense of hope for humanity. I feel none of that with this adaptation, which is nearly impossible to follow, hasn't given me anyone to root for, and (on a shallow note) has cast some of the most visually unappealing actors I can remember seeing in one place. So disappointing.
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On 12/18/2021 at 6:05 PM, chocolatine said:
- Arthur was in his 50s in the book, so the heart attack was somewhat plausible. Gael Garcia Bernal is in his early 40s. Also, Arthur was Canadian; he grew up on a tiny island in British Columbia. His first wife, Miranda (the creator of the Station Eleven books), also grew up there. Gael Garcia Bernal's Arthur is obviously not Canadian.
I find the casting of GGB peculiar. Nothing against the actor or his abilities, but Arthur Leander is such an Anglo-sounding name.
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I like this episode the best so far, but my husband (who has not read the book) was ready to throw in the towel until I explained a few things.
Not sure where to post this, as there is no "general series discussion" thread, but I find the casting of Gael Garcia Bernal in the very Anglo-sounding role of Arthur Leander peculiar. It's not like GGB is a name that will draw in more viewers, is it?
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That was an odd version of Shiny Happy People. Until I heard the chorus, I thought someone had rewritten Mad World. I agree with Milburn Stone that an instrumental is called for.
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Elliot Roberts provided a really nice analysis of the series on youtube. I love his insights!
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This article mentions some likely spots for S2. Somebody Feed Phil already did an excellent overview of Venice, which IMO is not a great place for food anyway...
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I've set my DVR for tomorrow, 12/22, at 9e/8c on CBS!
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On 12/16/2021 at 7:41 AM, Hana Chan said:
On the plus side, Natasha's teeth looked great.
Natasha/Bridget looked great, period.
On 12/16/2021 at 6:04 PM, greekmom said:Carrie went overboard stalking Natasha. Natasha should really learn to lock
Natasha absolutely would have locked the door. This is an over-used sitcom trope -- just saw it on The Chair recently.
On 12/16/2021 at 7:40 PM, LiterateDog said:Also, if what Che does is what passes for stand-up comedy today, the end truly is nigh. There was nothing funny about that.
Sounds like I was wise to Ffwd. I don't watch the podcast scenes either.
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S47.E13: John Mulaney / LCD Soundsystem
in Saturday Night Live
Thank you! I had to scroll through a lot to finally get an explanation. 😉
Mulaney has changed the dates of his rehab stay. In this Sept. 2021 interview, he told Seth Meyers that he did rehab from Sept to Oct. 2020, after which he moved out of the home he shared with his wife. He said he relapsed after hosting the SNL Halloween show, but does not mention another rehab stint. In his SNL monolog, he says rehab was Dec. 2020 to Feb. 2021. A little odd.
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