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Wiendish Fitch

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  1. Mr. Fitch and I loved watching The Tudors back in the day, but in retrospect... it was really a stupid show. The ludicrous miscasting left and right (Joss Stone as Anne of Cleves? Are you kidding me??), the nonsensical timeline (that one lady in waiting who didn't age a day in the course of literal decades), the obvious stupidity of not showing Henry VIII's physical deterioration until the very last episode (why?!?!), I now wonder why we bothered. I'm glad we now have shows like The Great, which loudly and proudly revel in how historically inaccurate they are, and don't take themselves so seriously.
  2. I marvel at people who do that. I seriously want to scream when I hear people (even those who aren't even old) say they "come from a small town where there's no crime, everyone knows everyone, and you never lock your doors!" The willful naïveté of these people. Crime has literally always existed, and it exists everywhere. As @TattleTeeny said, just lock your damn door, even if you are positive that nothing will happen. I promise you will never regret it.
  3. That would drive me bats, too. I have no pets, but I'm mostly concerned with letting in insects. I live in the South, spring is upon us, and we get the indestructible bugs from Hell as soon as the weather stays warm.
  4. Yeah, garbage is stuff that once served a purpose. What meaningful purpose has Alex Jones ever served? I know I shouldn't watch this documentary, "outrage porn" isn't good for me, and yet, I just don't know how to quit...
  5. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933... wait, that went without saying) 42nd Street is one of my all time favorite movie musicals, and I've only ever seen clips from Gold Diggers. The two films were released the same year, and reuse a lot of the same actors, even the same Pekingese! It's a cute movie (doesn't quite have the energy or momentum of the former, but that's okay), a bit more slight in plot than 42nd Street, but it's worth it for the star power and Busby Berkeley at his zenith. "The Shadow Waltz" is my favorite Berkeley number, it's just so beautiful. I couldn't help but laugh when a character mentions "the Astaires"... and Ginger Rogers is in this movie! Yes, she and Fred Astaire made their first film the year this was released, but they wouldn't truly become "a thing" until the following year.
  6. Joan Bennett's Christmas dinner dress in We're No Angels (1955) is just lovely. She wears 1890s fashions well!!
  7. Caution: Unmarked spoilers Soul (2020): When Dez the barber admits to 22-in-Joe's-Body (and by Joe-in-Cat's-Body) that he once dreamed of being a veterinarian, but couldn't afford to go to vet school (true to life, vet school is gruesomely expensive), so he found more stable work as a barber. And Dez... is fine with this! He didn't get his dream job, but he loves his life! Yes, I realize that's ultimately the theme of the movie, but I don't think we can overstate how important it is to teach young people that while it's okay to have dreams, it's also okay if they don't end up coming to fruition. Do you have any idea how much stress and unhappiness would diminish if we teach people that we should enjoy life, regardless of what we end up doing? Another thing? When Dez thanks 22/Joe for asking about his life for a change instead of always talking about jazz. We can be so self-involved sometimes, it's easy to never venture outside our bubble and get to know someone. Everyone has an interesting story to tell. Listen to people... and be sure to retain what they tell you.
  8. Hey, I agree Kathryn Grayson is a delight in Kiss Me, Kate! It's nice not to see her play the boring ingenue for a change. The moment in "Too Darn Hot" where Ann Miller tosses off her bracelet, and Grayson catches it and hands it to Howard Keel, without missing a beat or altering her expression? *chef's kiss* As for 1940's Pride and Prejudice, I'll say two things in its favor: I like Greer Garson as Elizabeth (even if she is too old) and the archery scene.
  9. I understand. I try to be friendly, and sometimes I am, but I now eat in my car during my break*, because reading while having airpods in my ears still don't serve as a deterrent from co-workers talking to me. Mind you, I have nothing against the vast majority of my co-workers, but I really like some peace and quiet during my break. And if it's an especially nice co-worker, I feel like such an anti-social monster if I don't feel like talking. It's really, really nothing against them, I just like to decompress when I'm off the clock. We all do the best we can, I guess. *Yes, I do often worry I'm going to attract ants. You take calculated risks in this life.
  10. Bolded mine, and, to quote one of my favorite YouTubers Todd in the Shadows, "Who cares who had him first?! It's who has him last that wins!"
  11. I finished Homecoming, the latest by Kate Morton, last night and, I gotta say, I was not impressed. Without getting too deep into spoilers, I figured out a major twist very, very, very early on (considering what a dumb-dumb I am about twists, that is not good). The conclusion, both where the past mystery and the present mother/daughter relationship are concerned, felt incredibly unsatisfying to me. I like Morton's stuff, but this is far from her best work. I don't recommend.
  12. Yeeeeeesssshhhh. It's like a perverted parody of Ariel's wedding dress!
  13. Completely agree. I try to keep an open mind, but there are some things I don't want a critical reevaluation of, and that loathsome sack dress is one of them!
  14. The Wiz (1978) How dare they-how DARE they- take a stunningly beautiful, fabulous legend like Lena Horne, and dress her up like a mutant Christmas tree angel?
  15. Caution: Unmarked spoilers ahead. Classic Hollywood UO : I adore Barbara Stanwyck to bits, but I hate Stella Dallas. I can handle some melodrama, I can live with old-fashioned plot contrivances, I can even shrug off questionable character choices, but I find the penultimate climax of Stella Dallas is just too egregiously absurd and frustrating. Stella doesn't come off as noble and self-sacrificing by pretending to reject her daughter, she comes off as stupid and selfish. And, even taking old-school class divides into consideration, just how necessary was this? While we're on the subject, I love that fabulous legend Bette Davis, but I never liked Dark Victory, even though it's considered one of her definitive roles. Again, the melodrama is laid on way too thick, and our protagonist comes off more like a solipsistic martyr than a noble heroine (to me, anyway). It's also just too damned long. I felt like Elaine from Seinfeld watching The English Patient: "Just DIE already!"
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