Fool to cry

The movie version of HAIR isn't bad per se, but the ending is ridiculous. Once you get over the initial shock you go "Wait, why couldn't he just..." They should have stuck with the stage version which was more powerful and plausible. Anyway the song "The Flesh Failures" is still a banger. I always liked the song "Let the Sunshine In" by the Fifth Dimension but the actual lead up to that in the theatrical version is awesome.

A couple of years ago I went to our main library where they have a room the videos are kept and they have stations where people can play them and watch them on monitors with headphones. I saw a guy watching the scene of Sonny beating up Carlo, and he was going "Yeah! Get em!"(not too loudly) and punching the air!

You should look up Patton Oswalt's story about the time he and his brother saw it in the theaters. His brother's reaction was hilarious.

I don't hate Rise of Skywalker. It's not my favorite but I don't think it ruined the franchise the way other people think or ruined any future stories for the lead characters. I've read what the Colin Trevorrow script and what Lucas' original plan for the sequels and I prefer what we got. It could have been better if they had time to work on the script but Disney CEO Bob Iger wanted the movie out just before he left. Nobody was going to be happy. People against Kylo Ren's redemption because it's repeating the Vader but then the alternative undermines the previous movies' message IMO. Those wanting him to live and somehow be with Rey were delusional. Lucas pretty much hobbled himself and the saga with the happy ending and the Empire defeated in Return of the Jedi. Originally he planned the Empire's defeat at the end of the 9 or 12 part saga but by 1983 Lucas was exhausted and didn't want to make more movies and wanted a finale. Any stories after was going to feel like an epilogue.

Co-creator Allan Burns talks about the opening theme and credits. https://youtu.be/C7xRN2-U-w0 When they heard Sonny Curtis play "Love is All Around" for the first time, they loved it immediately and hired him. For the opening credits they hired the man who made the memorable and exciting opening to "Hawaii Five O" Iranian born director Reza S. Badayi. Reza talks about filming the opening with Mary and why he wanted her to throw the hat in the air: https://youtu.be/4dm5GVWe5xE

"Be My Baby" is an all-time classic and I love in the 80s how Eddie Money got her to be in his song "Take Me Home Tonight" and the video.

The flat hair suited Raymond Burr more as Ironside and it was grey. Watching Ironside it's very clear in the early episodes they were trying to distinguish him from Perry Mason. He's very cantankerous and irascible, barking orders to his team like an old timey newspaper editor. By season 2 though he's back to that more thoughtful, professorial Perry demeanor. I like to think they sold Burr on the role by saying it's a cop show but he doesn't have to do any running! Watching I also realize how more fake sets look in color than black and white back then!

My favorite Ted line is from "Mary Moves Out" and he doesn't want Georgette to vacation in Rome: "I know what they do all day in Rome...orgies...with whips and midgets!"

I love the prank on The Jamie Kennedy Experiment where Kennedy pretended to be Saget's disgruntled ex assistant who took an unsuspecting tour group to enter Saget's house when he's away and there were all this stuff all around to make him look loke a depraved weirdo like porn and lots of vodka in the fridge. Saget arrives and yells at Kennedy and threatens to call the police and the poor tourists are just horrified! It was hilarious.

I love this story and Jamie Foxx's Sidney Poitier impression is incredible:

A day after the director of "To Sir With Love II" Peter Bogdanovich passed: https://youtu.be/PPtXH2We4wY

The good thing about ingenues on the show is they bring out Perry's paternal side and Della's maternal side.

This made me laugh so much when I saw the episode.

Sometime in the mid 2000s in the parking lot of a mall I saw a couple of kids running by two guys into a Borders bookstore and heard one of the guys joke to the other "The latest Harry Potter book must be out!"

My favorite Lou Grant moment is from "Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcasters School". Ted gets conned into starting a school for newscasters but doesn't have a faculty. Mary suggests that the WJM gang could be teachers and Lou fake excitedly goes "We can put on a big show! Mary can make the costumes, Murray can write the script and I'll ask my father if we could build a stage in our barn!" Now when I first saw this episode as a teenager I don't think I heard of those old Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland movies like "Babes in Arms" that this was referencing but I had seen the trope in other places that I got the joke!

My mistake. I meant they aged up the characters to teenagers. One of the special things about the HP movies is watching the characters and actors that played them grow up as the went on. When the movie Boyhood came out which shown the lead grow from a child to a teenager in 12 years, it was like "Big deal, I've already seen it with Harry Potter!"

It's the reason Chris Columbus when he directed the Percy Jackson movies cast teenage actors instead of kids like the books. He did not want to go through that experience again!

I bet there are a lot of actors who get nominated who are embarrassed by their own performances like Stanley Tucci was for The Lovely Bones:

Hailee Steinfeld is always missing her dead father.

RIP to Thelma Harper's eldest.

I love the Odd Couple episode where Felix and Oscar are contestants on Password and Betty plays herself. "Aristophanes?!"

Her daughter Brooke Hayward was on an episode of Bonanza("The Storm") and she was the spitting image of her.