Miss Anne Thrope
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Katharine was originally going to approach Jack about working together on the deal, so I assumed that's why Tess took that route. (Tess found out about Katharine's betrayal by listening to the tape while riding the bike, including the memo to Jack with the notation, "don't go through Tess...") Katharine
may havehad ulterior motives in cozying up even closer to Jack by working together, or even she -- very connected in her own right -- may have needed his connections or input to successfully close the deal. -
1 hour ago, SunnyBeBe said:
I see. I also found this piece that list a lot of her reasons for notoriety.
https://www.nickiswift.com/912301/the-untold-truth-of-patti-lupone/
18 minutes ago, SunnyBeBe said:Lupone may be outspoken, but the more I read, the more I’m impressed. I didn’t find that was she abusive to anyone in the workplace.
I agree (so far) -- what she said about Madonna, for example, was blunt but not untrue.
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Another fan of Alan Locher's interviews, especially the GL-centric ones. Coming up next week is one with Michael O'Learry, (Rick Bauer).
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20 hours ago, ebk57 said:
Robert Brown died in September and I just found out. Although my crush was Bobby Sherman, I really loved him in "Here Come the Brides". Damn...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/robert-brown-dead-here-come-the-brides-1235231988/
I don't want to say it's funny because of the circumstances, but I just saw that too -- a Roger Corman production of Richard III was on last week, and I looked him up to make sure it was Jason Bolt. At 95, he had a good run; RIP, sir.
ETA: I should have read his obituary first. He was a much more interesting person than I'd ever have thought.
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6 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:
Love the shade in this headline.
As Tony Dukopil said the other day, "I've done my part" translates to "it's your turn now." The man (TD) may have good marriage survival skills.
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12 hours ago, MissAlmond said:
Actor/screenwriter Mark Miller who played Professor Jim Nash on the TV series Please Don't Eat the Daisies and wrote the screenplay for the film A Walk in the Clouds has died, age 97.
https://deadline.com/2022/09/mark-miller-dead-please-dont-eat-the-daisies-actor-1235119129/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mark-miller-dead-please-dont-eat-daisies-1235220657/
And Penelope Ann Miller's dad. I loveloveloved Please Don't Eat the Daisies.
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Fellow avoider of Pelant episodes here. As procedurals go, Bones kept up the momentum better than most, IMO, and produced consistently good and/or clever episodes for about 8 years. There are some funny or well-done one-off episodes after S8, but I can take or leave most of the later-season episodes, and can leave all of the Pelants .
At one point I noticed that Christine Brennan is played by Sunnie Pelant and wondered if that was some weird joke, easter egg, or what have you -- like if the child actor was a total nightmare, so the writers named a supervillain after her. Alas, Pelant the villain first appeared in S7, E6 and Pelant the actor first appeared in S9, E18 -- so coincidence it is.
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53 minutes ago, MissAlmond said:
Actor Marsha Hunt who appeared in more than 50 films, including Pride and Prejudice and Cry Havoc before being blacklisted has died, age 104.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/marsha-hunt-dead-blacklisted-actress-1235216286/
Wow - I was aware of her for being still with us at an advanced age and being blacklisted but did not know of her humanitarian and SAG work. What an
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Thank you -- just started my Xmas list.
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Well, Spencer Pratt and Bethenny Frankel spilled on what makes Lisa Kudrow awful.
https://pagesix.com/2022/09/04/spencer-pratt-explains-why-he-called-lisa-kudrow-the-worst-human/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanschocket2/bethenny-frankel-lisa-kudrow-explained?origin=web-hf
If you don't want to click - Basically,
Spoilershe walked up to Spencer and Heidi and told Heidi to run (away from him) for her life, and acted like she didn't want to be on Bethenny's talk show when she was a guest. But did anyone want to be on that show? It was like one of the worst ever vanity-type talk shows, IMO.
Put me on Team Kudrow on both counts.
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3 hours ago, Lady Whistleup said:
Uh this is weird. I've never heard anything negative about Lisa Kudrow but according to Spencer Pratt she's awful:
2 hours ago, Dani said:I only know of Spencer Pratt and couldn’t pick him out of a lineup but isn’t his reputation that of being an asshole?
If entitled assholes think you are a horrible human being you are probably doing something right.
I have no personal knowledge of Ms. Kudrow either positive or negative, but until Spencer or Bethenny cough up some specific example of her terrible behavior, I'll take their collective non-story with a huge grain of salt.
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1 hour ago, dubbel zout said:
I think Trent's stoner persona is definitely attractive to certain people, and he's been shown to be a bit more than just a pothead. Different strokes, and all that.
Agreed. The more sides I've seen of Trent, the more I've grown to like him. And while he's totally not my type looks-wise -- not to mention he could probably be my grandson -- as his character has developed, I've come around to notice he has some good cheekbones, a nice smile, and a nice strong nose.
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I would agree that Sinatra was probably not truly at rock bottom in the early 50s; but as you point out, he had come down a peg or three. From the height of his stardom, he had farther to fall than the average bear.
The combination of no record label, no movie contract, and morally unpopular behavior (for the time, and one was judged more harshly for indiscretions) driving down live performance ticket sales might have made Sinatra seem more down and out than he truly was -- plus, everyone loves a good comeback story, so it's likely the depths of his fall and the extent of his rise from the ashes were exaggerated.
Sinatra did make a couple of real stinker films -- The Kissing Bandit or Double Dynamite, anyone? -- but overall, he was in pretty good to very good movies up to this point (of making Meet Danny Wilson), so his bottoming out would be very open to debate. If the legend is true that Johnny Fontane in The Godfather is based on Sinatra's getting the part of Maggio in From Here to Eternity, it's possible that without his friends' intervention he could have languished and perhaps actually bottomed out with regards to movies, at least.
In addition, Sinatra had long associated with organized crime figures before Las Vegas was even a thing, and he'd always be able to play Vegas -- in fact, helping build it up by playing there -- so I think he would never actually have been down and out musically.
I was born in 1961 but Sinatra was a presence in our house for as long as I can remember, and I've never really been a fan (that happens when something is shoved down your throat). And I did find watching Frank Sinatra star in "The Frank Sinatra Story" (by way of doing Meet Danny Wilson) kind of trippy.
And, a very happy 116th birthday to my gal, Joan Blondell.
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While I watched Meet Danny Wilson for Shelley Winters (and because I’d read the film is seldom screened), I thought Sinatra was also solid. And despite Winters and Sinatra disliking each other, they had good chemistry and you’d never know about the animus. But that’s about the only nice thing I can say about it; I enjoyed this flick for all the wrong reasons.
The film’s climax was one of the slowest and least suspenseful (and ultimately hokey) I’ve ever seen, and I couldn’t believe Raymond Burr failed at being quietly menacing (which he did so well in Rear Window) but was just quiet. The ending was just so …. pat.
My understanding of Sinatra’s career being at a low point at that time was not only a lack or recording or movie contract, but that he also wasn’t selling tickets, possibly due to bad press from flinging it with Ava Gardner and divorcing Nancy. Hence his decision to play Vegas when it wasn’t a statusy thing to do which helped to bring in other performers. (I wasn’t around then, just going by what I’ve read.)
Meet Danny Wilson is not the worst movie I’ve seen – really bad movies are kind of a hobby – but Sinatra and Winters are the only bright spots in it. As always, just my unsolicited opinion.
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9 hours ago, Scarlett45 said:
The only problem I had with this movie was the “Caribbean wedding”. I cringed. But I still like it.
I think we're supposed to cringe at the wedding (along with saying "Hey, it's Ricki Lake!") -- high society excess and tone-deafness is kind of its own character in parts of WG.
(and, keep an eye out for David Duchovny at Tess's surprise party)
I've lost count of how many times I've seen Working Girl, and it never gets old, even with some of the oh-so-80s fashions.
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7 hours ago, Welshman in Ca said:
In my younger days I stopped a guy from beating up his girlfriend and while I was grappling with him she smacked me in the back of the head with one of her high heels, and yes it fucking hurt so this comes as no surprise to me.
Exactly. Many years ago I worked (not as an officer) for a small police department in a town where very little happens; and the cops would say how much they dreaded getting a domestic call exactly for the scenario you mention. The call could go from "help -- that $*&% is killing me" to "hey, what the eff are you doing to my (whatever the relationship)" like the flip of a light switch and quickly become a very dangerous situation for the responding officer. (Even if both parties don't have outstanding warrants.)
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1 hour ago, Vermicious Knid said:
I used to be 'let it go until the gas light comes on', and only ran out of gas once in about 20 years. The cushion varies by car. But I've been sticking to the half a tank since I've had a better car. I also learned to drive in NJ where self service is illegal and didn't know how to put gas in a car until I was 27 and working in another state.
Apparently Christopher Meloni is now doing naked ads.
Way to bury the lead!!
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24 minutes ago, JustHereForFood said:
I think there could be a Ryan group, with Reynolds, Gosling and Phillippe, if we can come up with one more?
O'Neal? I know who gets my vote for worst Ryan.
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32 minutes ago, Shannon L. said:
The internet swooned over this moment, too:
And this one as well. He may have a career in escorting if this acting thing doesn't work out.
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10 minutes ago, rubaco said:
I was in another room at the time of the Beverly Cleary clue, but what was wrong with Ramona Quimby as the response? (And then I think just Ramona was accepted.)
The clue referenced two Ramonas:
This Beverly Cleary girl has a mom & dad; Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 character of the same name does not.
Since the second person is "of the same name," I'd guess the specificity of the surname Quimby is what made it wrong.
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S15, 2 episodes in. Maybe I should rewatch, but it seemed like there were a lot of flashbacks as Amy recalled something about Ty.
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I'm only a couple of episodes in -- get one per week on regular UpTV -- but it seems like Ty never left with all the flashbacks they throw into the episodes. It feels like the episodes are half flashback material, with very little else going on.
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5 hours ago, MrAtoz said:
Which, of course, is wrong. The actual line is "if a body meet a body." Holden's mis-remembering of the poem is what gives the novel its title.
To be fair, I did quote Burns incorrectly, but quoted Salinger/Caulfield relatively accurately. Which does not surprise me, as the book was apparently beaten into my psyche.
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29 minutes ago, Katy M said:
I read Catcher in the Rye 100years ago in high school and hated it, so don't think I would have gotten it anyway. But, I spent way too long confusing myself, thinking the main character was a title character.
Strangely enough, I also read Catcher in the Rye 100 years ago in high school and hated it -- but that's why I got it. For some reason, it has stuck with me -- even the "if a body catch a body comin' through the rye" line despite my best efforts to put it in the past. Thanks a freakin' lot, (10th grade English teacher) Mr. Quinn.
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Ghost Adventures - General Discussion
in Ghost Adventures
The basic story -- the Hartford circus fire of 1944 -- is real, but I flipped out about a minute into some recreated scenario about a young thief lifting an item from a flea market, said item being a cursed artifact from the fire (guessing, but think I got it). Hartford is semi-local and the fire is taken pretty seriously around here, so I just couldn't stick with it.
Fun fact: A very young Charles Nelson Reilly was a survivor of the fire.