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  1. I was disappointed that nobody knew Roz Chast; I love her work! I also knew figuratively, prohibitionist, pulchritudinous, and carbohydrates. FJ was right up my alley, but I thought it might be hard for non-classicists. Obviously Ovid is better known than I thought.
  2. I don't know about making me a better cook, but there are three YouTube channels that I really like: The Anti-Chef. He started out cooking from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and has since branched out to other classic cookbooks. You really root for the guy to try again when he screws up. B. Dylan Hollis specializes in cooking retro dishes, especially desserts, both good and bad. You need some tolerance for his cutesy vocabulary, like calling baking powder "floof powder" and eggs "eggies." Cooking the Books. Another channel specializing in dishes from vintage cookbooks. Anna, the cook, is much calmer than Hollis, and she doesn't treat food trends of the past condescendingly.
  3. Thanks for the exact phrasing. I guess one could argue that cookies aren't a staple of afternoon tea the way scones are, but the rest of the clue definitely fits. I thought of joke on Frasier: Frasier tells the waitress at his favorite coffee shop that when she serves a biscotto to his blue collar dad Martin, she should call it a "cookie." (Of course, Martin knew the correct name, having worked with Italians.)
  4. I can't find the exact wording of the clue, but would "cookie" have been an acceptable answer instead of "scone"? It's also of Dutch origin, from "koekje" ("little cake').
  5. Or Truman Capote vs. Jacqueline Susann! The author of Serious Fiction vs. the best-selling potboiler novelist! Are we going to get an Ann Woodward-centric flashback? I've found her the most intriguing and tragic character thus far.
  6. In fairness to you, the film omitted the affair with the headmaster.
  7. The visit to see his dying mother was one of the most poignant parts of the book, and I was happy that the series did it justice.
  8. Yes, Anne Hathaway played Emma (very miscast) and Jim Sturgess played Dexter. I’m glad it was made into a miniseries, so that there’s time to develop parts of the book that the movie left out.
  9. I bought sheets of all those stamps relating to women's sports, so I should have known FJ. Instead I came up with L (Roman numeral for 50).🙄
  10. I knew Flowers for Algernon only via the movie Charly so I missed FJ. My only thought was The Maze Runner. I did know sphagnum, Get Smart, and Cyprus though.
  11. I’m thinking that we should make a rule for FJ questions about explorers: “It’s never Magellan.” A few weeks ago there was that trick question about Columbus thinking he was in India, and then last night’s. Magellan seemed plausible both times, and was the wrong answer both times.
  12. If Mason had bet small on that second DD, would he have kept his runaway score? That was a real twist ending!
  13. Thank you, all who explained why we’re still seeing ex-champs brought back. I watched on YouTube because I wasn’t home at 7, and I thought “Didn’t we just do this?” when I heard the introduction. I agree about the number of TS’s, especially in the plays category. I guess none of them are playgoers.
  14. It was always pink from the beginning. But yes, the fact that she disapproved of a modest pink dress shows how extreme she was. I was a bit surprised at first by how different Piper Laurie's Margaret was from the book's, where she was described as very large and unattractive. Laurie made her more of a Southern fundamentalist than the New England Puritan that King imagined. But she was certainly memorable! For a look at her playing a very different character, check out The Hustler, where she played Paul Newman's depressed alcoholic girlfriend.
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