Inquisitionist
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On 5/2/2021 at 1:01 PM, Charlie Baker said:
I've said here before that I like GG in Oklahoma for those offbeat (too off for some), quirky features in her performance. And I find her funny as Ado Annie.
Me, too. I thought she worked well with Eddie Albert, whom I find hilarious in this movie.
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On 5/1/2021 at 2:43 PM, Bastet said:
Damn. I loved Olympia Dukakis in everything I ever saw her in.
On the bright side, she was 89, she worked up until the pandemic hit, it sounds like her health was good until her final months, and she died at home.
A friend of mine had Olympia as an acting coach when she studied at NYU in the late 1970s. A friend of hers said that Olympia had developed dementia and had recently entered hospice. An all-too-familiar ending to long lives these days. 😪
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On 4/25/2021 at 6:49 PM, ShadowHunter said:
Christ Laura Dern. What the hell are you thinking? I just don't understand lol
I liked Dern's dress better than the half-gown/half-bikini outfits that some of the other women wore.
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I watched this again recently, this time with my husband. (We had just finished watching the 3rd season of Shtisel together, but he had not seen Unorthodox before). I was struck again by how much better the Brooklyn scenes were than the Berlin scenes. The Berlin storyline felt very forced and unrealistic to me. I wish the series had either spent more time on the how and why of Esty's departure from Brooklyn or come up with a more believable sequence of events once she arrived in Berlin. Shira Haas was amazing, of course.
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14 hours ago, BetterButter said:
I had only passing familiarity with his work, but his acting credits are impressive. RIP, Mr. Siravo.
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7 minutes ago, Blergh said:
I feel for Mrs. Clabburn knowing she's lost her husband in a most horrific accident that could have been avoided altogether had they hired a professional to trim their hedge!
Or not been operating it 10 feet in the air without someone around. Horrible death that was avoidable.
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21 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:
I was actually really into the characterization of the awkward kids. For a long time I have felt as if Kate's characters are inevitably lazy rehashes of things she's done before, but Josh here and the corporal in Starcharter Andromeda felt crisp and intentional and I appreciated it.
I loved this sketch! And I'm now surprised we haven't seen those characters from Kate and Aidy before. Absolutely nailed them.
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I've been watching The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, which I recorded recently, but am not sure I can persevere to the end. Vivien Leigh is compelling, as always, but the storyline is getting quite depressing and as pretty as Warren Beatty was.... he ain't no Paolo!
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Some of our favorite Shtisel actors are in HBO's movie adaptation of the award-winning play Oslo. Set to air later this year. Looking forward to it!
QuoteDoval'e Glickman...Yair Hirschfeld
Sasson Gabay...Shimon Peres (as Sasson Gabai)
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Finished S3 and will have a lot to say in coming days! At first, I thought Libbi had died in childbirth, but later it was mentioned that she died two months afterwards. I'm assuming it was an accident or something else unexpected. Akiva seemed on the verge of saying more to Racheli about the circumstances but stopped. I suppose it doesn't really matter, except to pique our curosity!
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14 minutes ago, ruby24 said:
I watched Quo Vadis (1951) yesterday.
A personal tangent here: my maternal grandfather in northern Italy read many epics, including Quo Vadis. When he took his baby daughter to be baptized in 1927 or so, he told the priest her name would be Licia (this is how the name Lygia was rendered in Italian: LEE-cha). The priest balked, saying that was a pagan name. My grandfather countered that
Spoilerthe character in Quo Vadis converted to Christianity
(in case that's a spoiler!) The priest relented, and so I have an aunt Licia. 😊
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13 hours ago, ShadowHunter said:
I'm not getting another streaming service. This show seems funny but I can't anymore with all these services.
I've been willing to carry multiple services during the pandemic since I'm not paying for movie and theater tickets. But when we're back to "normal," I might try what I've heard some other people do: rotate my subscriptions, i.e., Netflix for a month or two, then Hulu, then maybe AppleTV. Most of their content stays put for a few months at least.
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22 hours ago, 3 is enough said:
I do speak French, and the two languages are fairly close, so that has helped.
Except in pronunciation and spelling, no? One thing that makes Italian a little simpler, IMO, is that every word is pronounced the way it is spelled and there are almost no silent letters.
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43 minutes ago, Charlie Baker said:
TCM Mega Birthday Day:
Bette Davis, Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck, Walter Huston, and Melvyn Douglas were all born on April 5th.
So was Jane Asher, who turns 75 today. She isn't of the same stature, but she appeared in a classic film of the early swingin' sixties, Alfie. Perhaps most impressive to me is that since their breakup in 1968, it appears she has not uttered a single public word about her 5-year relationship with Paul McCartney. Classy.
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Richard Gilliand, who played Jonesy in the last season, passed away recently at the age of 71. Articles mention "a brief illness" but do not specify cause of death. 😢
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On 4/3/2021 at 3:27 PM, Suzn said:
Yes, I think you've zeroed in on what felt wrong about the reframing discussions. There was a condescending tone that we needed to have someone explain what was wrong with Gone With The Wind... I think it is something each of us can work out for ourselves, the problematic parts and the parts of lasting value.
But perhaps SOME viewers will benefit from this. When I saw and read GWTW as a 12-year-old, eons ago, I naively thought its sympathetic depiction of the unnamed Klan was accurate -- no one had taught me any differently.
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6 hours ago, CheshireCat said:
I learned French in school and when I was in France, I understood the language pretty easily and quickly but I wasn't able to speak it well enough until I made friends and spoke French regularly. So, it might be that he understands better than he speaks/that he can speak it but it takes him longer which would not be convenient for cameras.
People learning a new language typically understand better than they can speak. Recognition is easier than recall. But Tucci seemed (IMO) to struggle at times with fairly simple communication. I thought Samin Nosrat was much more fluent in Italian in Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, but then she spent considerable time working in Italy, in a culinary capacity, as an adult.
I grew a little tired of Tucci's political interjections. Italy is not the US. Perhaps he should listen more and talk less on such subjects.
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19 hours ago, Suzn said:
He took a very extreme position, but I didn't think he was entirely wrong. I find value in old movies that in being of their times, do show things that are unacceptable now. I hope there is a balance between censoring old movies out of existence and rewriting history and on the other side, blind acceptance of racism and sexism and all the other things that need to be rooted out of society. I don't think that is accomplished by ignoring the past. I'm old enough to take a longer view of some things - I am certain that at some point what is acceptable today will be looked upon with horror.
I haven't had the opportunity to watch any of the Reframing pieces, but from what I've read, they aren't censoring (the movies are still shown in their entirety) and they are providing context that some viewers should find helpful. White seems to ignore all that and jump to the extreme (and IMO unfounded) position that TCM is censoring.
18 hours ago, Razzberry said:People may react strongly because of what's happening to art around the country, even in my beloved San Francisco.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/san-francisco-renaming-spree/617894/
The Holier-Than-Thou Crusade in San Francisco
"This debacle is just the latest example of “progressive” cultural censorship in a city once renowned as a bastion of free speech."Well, SF has gotten weirder and weirder over time. To say "even in" SF... nah, SF is at the forefront of this stuff. Who is electing the officials out there?
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7 hours ago, Suzn said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/turner-classic-movies-enemy-film-103039309.html
This is an interesting prospective of the "reframing" of classic movies featured recently on TCM.
I have rarely found anything written by Armond White to be "interesting." He seems to delight in taking obstinately contrarian views.
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On 3/13/2021 at 7:28 AM, ElectricBoogaloo said:
Daniel Belnavis talks about his experience being in the Hamilton cast
He was in the first national tour (not the OBC) but I thought this might still be of interest to Hamilton fans
Very distressing. 😢
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On 3/25/2021 at 4:21 PM, Angeltoes said:
Richard Gilliland at only 71. I always had a thing for him on Designing Women.
Damn, I just saw this. Gilliland and Joe Mantegna co-starred in the Chicago production of Godspell in 1972. I still have the Playbill. I also recall him fondly from thirtysomething and many other TV shows. 71 feels too young... Condolences to Jean Smart.
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On 3/18/2021 at 9:07 PM, Blergh said:
In this age of folks getting 15 minutes of fame for infamous actions, I think we could do well to reflect on the life of one Dick Hoyt who left this world on Wednesday, March 17,2021 at age 80.
Aw, so sad to read this. During my 15 years in the Boston area, I watched parts of the marathon on many occasions. Seeing Dick and Ricky go by was always a highlight.
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14 hours ago, possibilities said:
I went to sleep angrier than I probably should have been. Imagine my surprise to come back here today and find my rant was so popular!
I will say that I enjoyed Cecily as Sidney Powell and of course Bowen is the Bomb.
I really did not recognize Cecily. Great job of disappearing into an insane character!
13 hours ago, Katmai said:I'll address another elephant in this episode: Jack Harlow was AWFUL!!!
How do they pick these "performers"? I listened for about 3 lines, then hit Ffwd.
11 hours ago, txhorns79 said:I did enjoy Tina Fey as the 70s writer who had the idea that women should speak in the sketches.
Took me a while to realize that was Tina and not Kate!
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20 hours ago, humbleopinion said:
Okay, I binged Season 3...after binging Season 1+2 to review.
You'll laugh, you'll cry...be satisfied..warning only 9 episodes.
Just saw it pop up on Netflix last evening but I have to wait until my husband is available to watch it with me. I'll pop back to discuss later. Woo-hoo!
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In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths
in Everything Else TV
I rewatched St. Elsewhere on Hulu as pandemic comfort food last year. He was wonderful!