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a plane that had infected people landed in Toronto (as that is where the book starts)
It's been a few years since I read the book, so I had forgotten the Toronto setting (Emily St. John Mandel is Canadian, so that makes sense). Interesting that it was changed to Chicago with actual filming here.
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Just watched it last night. Thought it was oddly paced with some scenes of NOTHING that went on too long. During the trek from the grocery store, it was like the pandemic had already hit -- there was no one else in the grocery store or on the streets, except for the guy whose car had hit a tree. I loved the book so I'm sticking with it, but if I hadn't read it, this first episode would leave me only borderline interested.
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12 hours ago, MissAlmond said:
Actor Bridget Hanley who starred in the TV series Here Come the Brides has died, age 80.
Sorry to read that she suffered from Alzheimer's.
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On 4/4/2019 at 9:58 PM, SimoneS said:
Kyle Secor is such a good actor. I can't believe that he is reduced to do guest stints on The Flash and worse yet, has to work with talentless Danielle Panabaker. I guess it is better than working part-time at Trader Joe's like Geoffrey Owens, but still... Acting is such a tough business.
Indeed it is. And Kyle has written a book about that! My copy is due to arrive on Monday.
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On 12/9/2021 at 8:02 AM, Yeah No said:
I thought Miranda's misstep with her prof. was a very good depiction of the wokeness minefield out there these days. She just kept taking out one foot and re-inserting the other. I wouldn't have let that trip me up, but that's me.
OMG, I've just watched this scene, and I can't go on. As an attorney, Miranda should know that you NEVER say more than you absolutely have to. When did she go brain-dead?
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12 hours ago, meep.meep said:
The man needs an editor. If you made a drinking game out of every time they play Get Back in Episode 3, you'd get alcohol poisoning.
On the other hand, I'd had no idea they played Get Back so many times. I enjoyed getting the full rooftop effect, even though it kind of dragged on.
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Re Epstein's death -- there are so many "what ifs" about the Beatles. Personally, I've often wondered if they would even have existed if Paul's mother had not died when he was 14. Mary was quite set on him pursuing his education and Hamburg would not have set well with her -- let alone John Lennon.
I finally got around to reading Tune In a few months ago. This is the first volume of a planned 3-part definitive biography of the Beatles by Mark Lewisohn. 800 pages covering them through the end of 1962. They could have fallen apart many times before then -- coincidences played a large role in their ability to continue. Quite amazing to ponder!
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On 8/31/2021 at 8:44 AM, qtpye said:
I love everyone else…even the crusty Dean.
So nice to see David Morse on screen!
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President and Dr. Biden will attend.
QuoteThis year's recipients include Bette Midler, Joni Mitchell, Justino Díaz, Berry Gordy and Lorne Michaels.
Very music-heavy list.
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2 hours ago, FancyRhubarb said:
George doesn't get nearly enough attention for his songwriting skills. It must've been hard to get your stuff when your bandmates are geniuses and to only get one or two songs per album. I'll go to my grave arguing that Long, Long, Long was one of the best songs on The White Album.
At one point (in part 3, I think), George laments that he his backlog of songs is enough to last for decades if he continues to get just 2 songs per Beatles album. Between Paul and George, the group could have put out two albums per year with a few songs thrown in by John (his later Beatles material interests me the least).
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13 hours ago, Scout Finch said:
When there was talk of whether the roof could hold the weight and then you see the boards that don't look sturdy, I was thinking about how that might have been the actual end of The Beatles. "They had a tragic ending when the boards gave way and they all plunged to their deaths."
When Paul had himself hoisted up on that pulley thing... and when he tossed Heather increasingly higher into the air... I was holding my breath! 😅
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26 minutes ago, MrAtoz said:
Did anyone else notice how often they call Ringo "Rich" or "Ritchie?" I find that so wonderfully human, somehow. "Ringo" is the stage name, but to his friends, he's just "Ritchie."
Yes, I did catch that! In Mark Lewisohn's book, he spells it "Richie" which is how he says the man himself spelled it.
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OMG, Oh! Darling is so clearly about Paul's bandmates:
QuoteOh! Darling, if you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I beg you
Don't ever leave me aloneWhen you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and diedAnd this is like a day or two after we saw Paul fighting back tears... He really thought at that time that he couldn't be anything but a Beatle. "I'll never make it alone" is a plea to the others.
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8 hours ago, himela said:
The show is a about marriage problems, what did you expect? :P
Something that didn't make my eyes roll every few minutes. 😉
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11 hours ago, Scout Finch said:
While Heather has a relationship with her bio dad she's said she considers Paul to be her father. I had no idea how comfortable and close they already were by the time he married Linda, a little under two months after this was filmed. It was reminiscent of my stepdad who my mom married when I was about the same age as Heather.
Had a relationship -- Mel See died over 20 years ago. Paul had spent a month or so living with Linda and Heather in their tiny apartment in NYC in October 1968. I think the two of them went over to London with him almost immediately after that. So Heather had been around Paul a lot in a short period.
10 hours ago, rmontro said:I don't know what it is, but The Long and Winding Road has never really appealed to me. I recognize that it has a good melody and lyrics, and that it was a #1 single. But it just has never clicked with me, I think it's too slow. I acknowledge it's a good song but it bores me.
Glad to see I'm not the only one. I find it dirge-like and rather monotonous.
8 hours ago, nilyank said:I know that there was a deadline to come up wiht the songs and make the record, but why was there a deadline? They arrive on day one with a couple of idea of songs but nothing really for the whole record yet.
Ringo was committed to start filming The Magic Christian in late January and would not be available for several months after that. I think this is explained at the start of Ep. 1.
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2 hours ago, Brn2bwild said:
In fact, John was fairly agreeable throughout the entire process, whereas George more openly pushed back at ideas that were stupid or wouldn't work. (Maybe John only screamed at his wives and children?)
John seemed pretty stoned much of the time.
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Bailed after about 30 or 40 minutes. I found Isaac's character insufferable and the open marriage friends ridiculous. I don't need to spend time watching people whose problems are of their own making.
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2 hours ago, ProudMary said:
Baby brother George at 24(!) is continually having his ideas pushed aside by his big brothers, which we can surmise has been the dynamic since young George joined the band.
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The sequence showing the conception of "Get Back" was truly amazing, seeing McCartney's mind at work. So intimate....
Was John so messed up at this point that he needed an emotional support animal directly by his side at all times?Not TL at all! George was actually 25 and close to 26 when this was filmed in Jan. 1969. He was born in Feburary, 1943. Paul is 20 months younger than John, and George is only 8 months younger than Paul. But if you look at photos of 14-year-old George (the age at which he joined the group), he really looks like a little kid. John and Paul tended to keep him in that "box" despite his growing maturity and creativity. It really is a little sad.
It's not often we see the creative process at work so clearly. I know Paul would often have a tune worked out before coming to the studio, but with Get Back, he really does seem to be composing on the spot. Extraordinary.
The John/Yoko dynamic eludes me to this day. John was certainly in the thrall of heavy drugs (though perhaps less so in Jan. 1969 than he had been during the White Album sessions, when Ono first became glued to his side). I've read and watched a ton of interviews with John and I believe he had some serious psychological issues, including narcissism and paranoia -- a rather deadly combination. I wish he'd gotten some real treatment somewhere along the way rather than the various snake-oil fads that Yoko appears to have conned him into trying.
And while McCartney sometimes draws criticism for alleged "revisionism" of the Beatles story... John was a master at this. I've seen an interview where he slams Let It Be as "granny music" and says he doesn't know what Paul is thinking when he writes something like that. He didn't seem to mind recording the song, and surely he must have known that "mother Mary" was a reference to Paul's deceased mother. Even if Paul didn't come out and say that directly to John, it doesn't take a genius to figure it out.
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17 hours ago, WendyCR72 said:
What got me is how respectful/quiet Yoko Ono was. For all the talk of how she "broke up The Beatles", she seemed to stay out of the way and seemed to get along with Linda (Eastman) McCartney.
Could be respectful editing. She screeches in Part II. And asks George Martin where one can purchase classical music scores. Seriously?
10 hours ago, Jeebus Cripes said:The thing bothered me about Yoko is not that she's there but that she's literally sitting up front as though she is a member of the band. Not just on one occasion but on what seems like a daily basis. This would irritate me beyond the telling even though she isn't saying a word. It's incredibly intrusive. I noticed when Linda was there that she respectively sat a distance away, which is appropriate because she's not a member of the band. I just find it rude on the part of John and Yoko.
Poor George. I said aloud, "George is so over it" about one minute before he stood up and declared he quit.
Amen to both of these observations. George got such short shrift.
I had not known about his Hare Krishna friends attending at Twickenham, but they also sat quietly at a distance.
One of my favorite moments is Paul's passive aggressiveness in Part I. Someone asks his opinion about a graphic design, and he says something like "Ask John and Yoko -- they're artists." (Meanwhile, I'll just sit at the piano spinning out one memorable tune after another.)
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Mistakes in the opening minute of Get Back:
John invited Paul to join the Quarrymen in 1957 not 1956, at which time Paul was 15 not 14. George was 14, not 13, when he joined the group. This is so well documented, how could Peter Jackson get it wrong? Grrrr.
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I seem to recall numerous mentions of Jerry Springer in the book, but perhaps audiences have forgotten who he is.
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On 4/22/2020 at 4:17 AM, Sir RaiderDuck OMS said:
What a waste of eight hours. At least I now know an author to avoid in the future.
The book wasn't great but this adaptation was awful.
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On 4/2/2020 at 8:45 AM, IslandGirl said:
I thought the actor who played Elena's ex did a terrible job in the final scene where he calls her a narcissist & says it's not his job to make her life more bearable. I felt like I was watching an actor act & it ruined the great dialogue for me.
I didn't think the dialog was great either.
On 4/2/2020 at 3:12 PM, OtterMommy said:I thought that was strange too. One on hand, the actor playing Jamie was too old to be playing a college senior...
And too young to be playing a contemporary of Reese Witherspoon: in 2020, she was 44 and he was 31. I snickered when the character referenced his 40th birthday.
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On 4/1/2020 at 7:41 PM, Adgirl said:
Maybe because your perspective and hers are similar. Have you tried seeing this invasive woman from Mia's pov?
Mia has invited that invasiveness. So no, I don't get her perspective.
On 4/2/2020 at 3:48 AM, dmc said:Getting a job at Elena's to keep an eye on Pearl doesn't make any sense. ... However Mia has kept the connection with Elena going, not Elena. At any time, Mia could have distanced herself and chose not to until the last episode.
Amen. Both characters have acted oddly, but Mia has escalated the situation.
On 4/3/2020 at 11:06 AM, Kiki620 said:I thought so too. And to make it a further unbelieveable storyline, a naked picture of a random pregnant woman (I know it's Mia) commands $30k? What in the world would make that picture special in any way to someone other than Mia?
I think we'll see that its value is due to the artist (photographer) not the subject. Why a hotel would want that hanging in its lobby is beyond me though...
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S01.E02: Little Black Dress
in And Just Like That
I thought she looked better than the 3 lead actresses. Heck, when I attended my 40-year high school reunion, where everyone was 58, I thought most of us looked better than this lot.
It sounded a lot like what Carrie wrote for that wedding couple back in season 2 or 3.
Am I alone in thinking that Carrie (and SJP) would look so much better with a shorter, softer hair style parted on the side?
As I remember it, Aidan told Carrie that smoking was a deal-breaker for him when she lit up at the end of their first date -- perfectly acceptable behavior in my book, as I could never date a smoker either. Carrie then lied by saying she was only an occasional smoker and trying to hide her addiction from him rather than just accept the facts and move on.