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I've seen way too many episodes of Air Disasters involving water landings/crashes to even buy the ridiculous premise of that book. But I also am planning a trip to London while still watching Air Disasters a lot, so . . .

Sideways, unless their hoops were bendy.

But if the commercials went into all that, they'd be twice as long and ain't nobody want that! On Jon Hamm's most recent SNL hosting stint, there was a pre-filmed bit which touched on this very phenomenon in drug commercials. Watch out for rock climbing!

I like to say to younger folks "When I was a kid, I had to walk all the way across the room to change the channel!". We had 3 major network channels (ABC, CBS & NBC) and one UHF channel which didn't have the greatest reception (45), all from Baltimore. Sometimes we could also get the Baltimore PBS channel, but it was hit or miss. That's why I never watched Sesame Street growing up. Also, you stole my Bruce Springsteen joke, lol.

I really liked Brenda's little house on The Closer, the one where the Russian prostitute had been murdered so she got it cheap. Sure, a few of the touches were a little tacky, but overall it was charming and cozy. However, I really loved the place Fritz and Brenda ended up renting. The style seemed like a cross between Spanish colonial (a style you'll find a lot in parts of LA) and Craftsman. Nowadays either of those places would be way too expensive even for them, but neither seemed unreasonable for the characters at the time.

I didn't get it because I was trying to think of a title with the NAME of the character in it. Also because I've been attempting since 10th grade to block that wretched book out of my mind. I had to read it for an American fiction class and absolutely loathed it. It's very much part of why I hate Hemingway. I knew right away that it had to refer to Hadrian's Wall, so it was an instaget for me. The clue specifically mentioned "title distance" and the title of the song is I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles). So you'd have lost that fight, but I totally get the impulse. I probably would've screwed myself by using the full title rather than just the distance the clue asked for. I know very little about American football despite having watched Joe Montana play (because he was hot, not because I care about the sport at all), but that tidbit did managed to stick in my mind. The title is The Forsyte Saga. No 'h' in there at all. So pronouncing it as Forsythe was wrong.

Korsak was one of my favorite characters on the show. The viewers were constantly finding out new tidbits about him, and his relationship with Jane was so good.

I seem to hit the episode with Bobby Orr's skates all the time somehow. The storyline with Jane's pregnancy was stupid, ridiculous and completely out of character, and I hated most of her family, but the friendship between her and Maura was great and I liked the rest of the cops. It's not brilliant but it's good as a palate cleanser.

I thought of the wrong Bond movies, but knew that the ones whose same-titled songs had won Oscars were both Daniel Craig films. Good thing they didn't ask for the movie titles although I could've told them that Adele and Billie Eilish sang the songs. I don't really know that much about Freida Kahlo so that didn't help me. Also didn't help me with the clue about her pet. I got it only as a guess. I've never seen it and Richie Aprile meant nothing to me. Like others, I based on the appearance of the actor in the photo. He looked like a mobster.

It makes sense in that respect but it's such an overused trope that it's a boring cliche, imo.

On hand, I love things like Jackie Chan movies showing outtakes during/after the credits, and some after-credit sequences which are not just promos for the next movie in the series but actually add to one's understanding and/or enjoyment of the film. On the other, I'm old and I usually have to pee like crazy at the end of a movie, damn it.

I hate the Honey Love ones (I think it's them) where they hype up not having underwires but then mention boning on the side. Which is just as freaking uncomfortable as underwires if one has any rolls of fat in that area. And the part where the actress is jumping up and down, I guess pretending to run?, is just stupid. Yeah, their previous commercials were bad enough, and totally cannabalistic, but the new ones have made it to American Psycho territory. All they need now is a sledgehammer, a raincoat and Phil Collins singing Sussudio.

I don't know if this is unpopular or not, and I'll preface it by saying I love Pedro Pascal, but he is too damned old for his role in Fantastic Four.

I watched the 1950 version of King Solomon's Mines this weekend and actually commented on Deborah Kerr's makeup. Not necessarily that it wasn't accurate to the period (although it wasn't), but that they were deep in the jungle after months of trekking on foot and had lost almost all of their supplies and yet there she was wearing lipstick, eye shadow and false lashes. She looked stunning, of course, but still.

A friend and I watched the 1950 version of King Solomon's Mines with Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr. I loved this movie when I was a teenager (and thought Granger was rather dishy) but was worried about a movie shot in the 50s and set in Africa in the 1890s would hold up. You know, all the British colonialism and racism and such. Fortunately it wasn't too bad in that respect. Yes, the natives were exoticized somewhat and they were mostly laborers and bearers whereas the main characters were white, but a lot of the scenes just involved locals during their normal, everyday things in the background. And Allen Quartermain definitely seemed much more modern in his attitudes towards them, displaying a fair amount of respect rather than acting as though they were less human than he was. No, he wasn't treating them as equals but he clearly thought more highly of the natives than most of the other white characters did. The story itself was still pretty exciting. And a good bit of the film was shot in Africa so the scenery was stunning. Plus, lots of cool animals. Although there is a scene of an elephant being killed, which I choose to hope was just done with a trained animal pretending to die, not actual footage of an elephant being shot during a safari. So all in all, I still loved it and would recommend it to others with the caveat that one should go into it knowing attitudes of the time period it depicts and the era in which it was filmed. And yes, Stewart Granger - still dishy.