proserpina65

I only read one of those. Belle Ruin, I think. It was awful. Southern Gothic was so not her style.

The problem, as I understand it, it that the implication that LBJ was somehow complicit in Hoover's scheme to smear MLK is absolutely false and not just a small historical detail; it's not like people are complaining about the Oval Office furniture being upholstered in the wrong color. How difficult would it have been to just leave that inaccurate bit out, and how would doing so have had any effect on the film as a whole? It seems to be that putting the detail in has created an unnecessary distraction from the message of the film, and really, serves no purpose within the story.

Selma won't be released in the UK until February 6th, so it wasn't eligible for the BAFTAs.

I liked both his looks, but what the heck was up with his model? The way she stood at the end of the runway when she took off the cover to reveal the swimsuit, with her chin pushed forward, looked like something a Top Model reject do.

Regarding the BAFTAs - I was very surprised to see Mr. Turner shut out of everything except production design-type categories. I'd have expected an acting nomination for Timothy Spall at least.

Martha Grimes - I loved, LOVED, her Richard Jury/Melrose Plant books, own several of the early ones and occasionally re-read them, but from The Old Wine Shades on, they've almost completely lost what made them special, and she seriously should never, ever, ever, write another sex scene. Plus, she made a huge mistake by establishing Richard Jury's age pretty firmly in the early books and then tried very unsuccessfully to backtrack when it became obvious that he was loooooooong past retirement age; she should've just kept the series rooted in the 80s or very early 90s and it might've worked.

Chris Hemsworth And a semi-obscure Scottish actor named Jamie Sives - his only movie role in a 2014 release (that I know of) was a tiny, uncredited part in Maleficent, but he's been tops on my list for 4 years now (since the first season of Game of Thrones). And he's in In The Heart Of The Sea, which stars Chris Hemsworth, so that'll kill two birds with one stone for me in March.

I must confess that this is the first episode I've seen of Black-ish. (I kinda meant to watch it before but it's on after Modern Family, which I loathe, and once I get up off the couch, I try to stay up.) A friend had it on her dvr for me to see because of this specific scene - we'd had a conversation about this exact subject just a day or two before it aired. So now I can thank Idris Elba for introducing me to a very clever, intelligent and funny show, one I'll make the attempt to watch on a regular basis because, damn, but it is FUNNY. (Okay, I can also thank Mr. Elba for existing.)

I wasn't in the room, so I didn't see the picture, but I wouldn't have recognized Pataki if you hit me over the head with him anyway. Still, even I know that Bloomberg was mayor of NYC not governor of New York State.

If he'd keep doing work like he did in "In Bruges", I'd say as many as he wants, because he can be terrific. But he really needs to be a lot pickier when it comes to choosing projects; when the material's good, so is he but when it's bad . . .

That's one of the best things about the Brittany Murphy movie "Love and Other Disasters" (not a great movie but it has its charms) - the gay, male best friend has a love life all his own. Yes, he comments on hers, and yes, his is kind of tied up with hers somewhat, but still, he has his own romantic mis-haps storyline.

Dalton wasn't my favorite Bond, but I did like him a lot in his first outing. I also really liked Lazenby, and wouldn't have minded having him instead of Roger Moore. OHMSS was quite good, I agree.

Why? Oh god, why, why did they have to kill off Diane? I liked her, especially for how much she discomfitted McGhee (and Gibbs and Fornell, really). Why couldn't they have killed off annoying wife #2? (Oh, yeah, because we wouldn't have cared about that.) To have her die just like Kate, whom I also really liked, was the ultimate cruelty. And Palmer's reaction to having to do her autopsy just about tore me up. The crime scene in the diner reminded me of L.A. Confidential, not Director Shepherd's death, but then again, I've never seen that episode. The tone of the promo seemed very inappropriate, especially considering how "to be continued" the ending felt.

I hate runaway games. I find them pretty uninteresting to watch, and there's no suspense for Final Jeopardy (other than will I get it or not) unless the leader does something really stupid. Plus, I'm getting a little tired of the current champion - he's seems like an okay guy, but something about him bugs a little. Maybe it's just that I hate Truman Capote and find the idea of an opera about him so pretentiously hip that it's influencing my view of Elliott. None of them got star anise from a clue that included a photo and said that the name came from the shape? Really?

Well that was pretty much the definition of 'eh'. Not quite Planet of the Dead bad, but still one of the very lesser Christmas specials.

So close, soooooo close, but no, she's still here. Ugh. Although maybe now she'll go back to more of the Oswin personality? Hey, I can hope.

If ever there was a director who really knew how to use music in his films, it surely is Peter Weir. From "Au fond du temple saint" and the Albinoni adagio in g minor in Gallipoli, through the Strauss Four Last Songs in The Year of Living Dangerously to pretty much everything in Master and Commander, his choice of music for his films is impeccable.

See, this is one thing that always seemed true to life to me - when I was in school (back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, apparently), the prom was always held at the high school, mostly in the gym because it was the only space large enough, and members of the junior class did all the decorating. Now, I realize I grew up in a small town in a rural county, but back then, nobody I knew had their prom held anywhere else. And it was "The Prom", not just "Prom". Oh, btw, Hey you kids, get off my lawn! ;-)

I agree with you, and yet, if it were the right man . . . What is up with the toilet paper in the trees? I've never understood that at all. I mean, with all the alcohol flowing at these parties, aren't they gonna need all that toilet paper eventually?

One of my UOs - I think Daniel Craig is a terrible James Bond. He's stiff, humorless and looks bored all the damned time. Why the producers chose him instead of Clive Owen will forever be a mystery to me. Here's hoping he'll be done after the next film (not the one currently filming, unfortunately) and they have the good sense to replace him with Idris Elba. (Or the aforementioned Owen, if he'd still be willing.) I don't remember him being a dick at the time (not like when A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man came out), but it is Russell Crowe, so that's always a possibility. It's entirely probable that his hissy fit at the Baftas cost him the Best Actor Oscar for A Beautiful Mind. Possibly an UO - I still love him as an actor, even though he's chosen some questionable projects over the last few years. And I really want to see the WWI movie he's made, The Water Diviner.

I will go to my grave thinking that Master and Commander deserved the Best Picture Oscar that year. And Peter Weir deserved Best Director. Talk about working as if there was no budget for fx - M & C is a master class in mostly doing without cgi and fx.

Some of them do, others don't. It all depends on which team they play for, even in the Prem. But for a lot of the biggest complainers (at least those whose interviews we see), yeah, get back to me when you have to work every day for minimum wage. You jinxed them! Yeah, there goes my hope that the new year might bring a better Arsenal. Man, do we need defenders or what? I think we can safely count out the Prem title this season. Is it too much to hope for an FA Cup repeat?

But the clue was about the title of a Defoe book, so Black Death was not correct. I missed at least half of the Double Jeopardy round due to a phone call, but I was very happy to have gotten both Iran and Antigua & Barbuda in the geographical category. (I got the others wrong, though.) And I got FJ because the Olympics are always good categories for me; my only doubt was whether or not Helsinki was farther north than Stockholm, but I guessed the correct one of the two. On the abduct/abscond thing, the online dictionary I consulted defines abscond as "leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to avoid detection of or arrest for an unlawful action such as theft", so by that definition it wouldn't have fit the clue. But other sources might have slightly different definitions, so that's an iffy decision.

I guess Katrina's been shopping at Goths R Us. Although as an 18th century woman used to wearing stays, a corset is probably more comfortable to her than a bra would be, even if 18th century stays were somewhat different from the Victorian-inspired corsets she's wearing now and, of course, were UNDERGARMENTS. So I guess her clothing ended up annoying me less than it originally did. But could they really not make her wig in a shade of red actually found in nature? (And I say that as someone whose own red hair comes from a box.)

Well, thanks to Directv's untimely reset at 7pm, and then my falling asleep during the first commercial break only to wake up just in time for the Final Jeopardy category, I saw almost nothing of the show, but I did get everything I saw correct. And looking at the clues on J! Archive, I would've done well with this episode. Oh well.