GreekGeek

I did not get FJ, not having lived in that part of the country, but I did know Curia, nobility, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Like many of you, I am having trouble remembering most of these ex-champs. I'm wondering why there has been no mention of Brayden Smith, the last 5-time champ under Alex, who passed away very young recently.

OK, I had forgotten that moment.

Did Veda slap Mildred? I only remember Mildred slapping Veda when Veda was giving her a hard time about working as a waitress.

That's an interesting take that I hadn't considered...although when Veda calls Mildred a "frump," it felt false in the same way that a woman in the movies is "plain" if she wears glasses and/or has her hair in a bun. Of course Veda's opinion is biased, but still.

I was surprised that The Handmaid's Tale was a TS, given all the attention the series received. The other TS's I got were Bill Sikes--who in the illustration looked a lot like Oliver Reed, who played him in the 1969 musical--and balcony. I got FJ on a wild guess based on the film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

Harold Lloyd.

I got Rosalyn Carter (Jackie Kennedy was a terrible guess!), cordial, alienation, address, FDR, Old Ironsides, and tattletale. I missed FJ, though. I knew "schwein" was a pig, but couldn't think of what "panzer" meant. Yay, at least one woman in the semis!

I suppose when you're thinking "woman + science + writer" you don't always distinguish between a science fiction author and a nature author. That was a cringeworthy moment, though. I was rooting for Sarah to come through in FJ and was saddened when she not only was the only one of the three to miss it but bet the whole bundle. My call to appear on the show came through the day of my mother's funeral, so I really felt Sarah's story about her own mom and her mom's scarf. I wonder if her mom made the scarf or if it just belonged to her. I got an unpleasantly arrogant vibe from Ryan and I'm hoping he doesn't win the whole thing. Buzzy is a good host.

I watched Mildred Pierce on TCM last night. It was great viewing, but there was one big central flaw: I could not buy Crawford as a woman from a poor background. It's ironic because Crawford actually did come from a poor background, but in the movie, she never had a hair out of place, even when she supposedly lived in the kitchen and ran herself ragged as a waitress. I thought it was interesting that Alicia Malone said the studio originally wanted Barbara Stanwyck, because Stanwyck's screen persona seemed better suited for the role. Stanwyck played a similar role in Stella Dallas as a working class mom, albeit with a much nicer daughter than Veda.

I'm not thrilled by the re-opening of movie theaters. Or rather, I'm not thrilled by the type of movies coming to the re-opened movie theaters. It looks like we're in for more comic book movies and CGI monsters like Godzilla vs. Kong. I'm already nostalgic for the smaller movies about real people, like Nomadland and Minari.

I thought the show dropped the "beginning and ending with Jerry doing his act" bit after awhile. I was disappointed when it did. I'm not sure that's a UO.

KIT CARSON sighting tonight!

I never saw it either. Husbands who don’t want to have sex with their wives are one of the oldest comedy tropes.

He was wonderful as Dr. Auschlander. He played a liver specialist with liver cancer, and I was expecting the first season of St. Elsewhere to end with his death. But he was so well liked that his character went into remission and he became a regular. My own grandmother had the same disease during the show's run, and it was so uplifting to see Dr. Auschlander putting in a full day's work and jogging.

That was how I figured it out. (I didn't realize B'gosh was part of the brand name; I thought it was a slogan.)

I normally never root against a teacher, but I kept thinking what a bad example on how to handle disappointment he was setting for any of his kids who happened to be watching.

Well, there were this game, and this one, with a one-player FJ. I'm sure there are others. There was one really bad Celebrity Jeopardy game a few years ago where all the celebs played badly (apparently "potent potables" were involved). But I can't find any clips of it right now.

Ah, OK, I had forgotten that Ted was a muggleborn wizard and not a muggle.

I thought Bill jinxed the contestants by commenting that there had been no incorrect answers in the first round, because there were some doozies in DJ. I too was amazed that Bligh was a TS. I got Pierre Trudeau, Christian Barnard, John, and the missed DD of Shannon. I thought Emily would have lasted longer. I wish her big DD wager had paid off again and brought her within range of catching Hanna. Since Emily was the only one to get FJ right, she would have won again. In FJ I fixated on The Kite Runner for some reason, maybe because I thought it was set in the 70's. Then at the last second I remembered The Gulag Archipelago.

I can see Newman as Curley, but not Dean. Newman and Woodward as Curley and Laurey--nice! But could they sing? Steiger was really good, but he was robbed when Jud's solo "Lonely Room" was cut because some idiots thought it would make him too sympathetic.

Seamus's dad may have been unpleasantly shocked (wouldn't you?) but I don't see any evidence that it wrecked the marriage. Of course, we learn very little about their relationship. I thought Ted Tonks and Andromeda (nee Black), Nymphadora's parents, were a pretty happy couple.

I would have too. I was also hoping that the contestant who said "brain" would get credit. I forget if it was in the Greek derivatives or the Ye Olde Medicine category, but the "phren" part of the word is closer to the Greek word for "brain" than the one for "skull." I guess the rationale was that you can't touch the brain the way you can the skull. Sad that no one knew Mike Nichols. He was in the arts news recently in connection with a new biography of him by Mark Harris. I also knew Cherries Jubilee, edict, metaphor, Graham Greene, and Ken Kesey. For FJ I thought of Mark Twain first, simply because he's one of those authors who turn up often as clues, but then remembered "Go west, young man" and Horace Greeley. I was afraid Emily would tank after being in the red earlier in the game, but her brave DD wagers paid off again.

Now I'm sad that I didn't stick around to see if the guide was wrong. Thank you for the info.

The guide on my TV (I'm in NYC) said the show would be a rerun from January 2020, so I didn't bother tuning in. Those who did see the pre-empted episode, what happened?

Great game! I'm glad Emily's gutsy wager paid off. I hope she'll have a good run. I knew nuncio and Moll Flanders, though I never read the book. For fun, here's the full title of the book: