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I love that episode too, and particularly like the touch that Amanda can't quite pull off her reaction to Lee's "death." Kate could do it better, but Amanda isn't an actor, so her performance shouldn't be perfect, thus I love that it isn't.
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I'm trying to eat vegetarian now, but I don't like beans or anything in the squash family.
I love almost all the squash family, but this gave me a chuckle because the main reason I could never be a vegetarian even if I wanted to be is my intense dislike of every type of bean there is. Averse to beans, soy, quinoa, and green peas, I'd die of protein deficiency (or explode from trying to eat enough dark, leafy greens and nuts to make up the difference).
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And I love Independence Day.
I don't know how I neglected to include that on my list, because my Jeff Goldblum crush and my "Hey, it's Margo! [from a soap I used to watch]" reaction to Margaret Colin are not enough to explain why I watch that movie every.damn.time it's on television. I hate alien invasion stories, I find Bill Pullman one of the most boring actors on film, I hate cute little kids (well, all little kids, really) ... why do I watch this movie? I can't explain it, but watch it I do.
And, yes, I am one of those people who in the midst of watching humans get wiped out right and left declared, "If Boomer (the dog) dies, I'm out of here."
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I can remove the "Don't tell Jeffrey" if you all really think it's confusing but since there's a pinned post I don't really see how it would be.
I don't think it's necessary, precisely for that reason, and "Don't Tell Jeffrey" gives me a chuckle each time I see it. That we have Small Talk (aka "Meet Market") threads for every forum here is one of my favorite things about this site, btw.
Any Mother's Day adventures? I had a wee bit too much fun Saturday night - movie night at a friend's house, which always involves a lot of laughs and a lot of liquor - so picking my mom up at 9:00 for breakfast was quite painful, but a little hair of the dog and a nice egg-white omelette and I was good to go. My mom's knees prevent her from walking very far (she's having the first of two knee replacements at the end of the month), so instead of then taking in a museum or such as per normal, we just went back to my parents' house and watched the Murphy Brown marathon on Encore. I didn't include any Ina recipes with dinner this year, and in fact cooked perhaps the world's easiest meal (per Mom's request) -- filet mignon simply seasoned (garlic salt and Montreal steak seasoning) and tossed on the grill, kale sauteed with garlic, and baked potatoes (which I don't eat, so I had some leftover mac & cheese).
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I think that was the same daughter, despite being played by different actors.
Given the tall tales of Charlie's success Rose had spun, I don't fault Kirsten being shocked and disappointed upon seeing the numbers (that wouldn't actually be in the will, but whatever); even though it's Rose's money, to think she jeopardized her ability to support herself via reckless spending would be disappointing. But she was so nasty about it! Doesn't she outright say either "I'm ashamed of you" or "Dad would be ashamed of you"? How about some common decency and compassion?
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Apparently (per the various old TWoP posts on the subject), it's lisianthus.
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I can quote Summer School pretty much from start to end! Still love that movie. "Oooh, we will be sorry. Mr. Gills suuuure does know his child psychology."
If I'm the passenger of someone driving slowly, I will say, "We just got lapped by an old lady with a walker."
And I always wanted to get up the nerve to do the "tension breaker, had to be done" scream before a test.
Neither of my friends who watched Summer School with me last weekend had seen it before, so I confined myself to speaking along with only select quotes, but I can pretty much recite it verbatim.
(BizBuzz, the first film was Footloose.)
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This may be old news to everyone but me, but I've just discovered there are quite a lot of classic film bloopers floating around on YouTube. I know the copyright logistics would take some work, but I'd love to see TCM compile and air little 15-minute segments as interstitials. Something like this:
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The TCM website can be a pain at times, but it also contains nice little tidbits on a whole lot of films and features archives of not just publicity stills, movie posters and the like, but behind-the-scenes photos taken while filming -- I love seeing those (how dressed up the crew is, how different the equipment is, etc. and how people seem to interact off camera).
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Sometimes you gotta wonder where his head was at when he was writing...
I think it comes from one of the several ways in which he is willfully blind to the realities of the world. He's one of the lucky ones whose talent and drive was rewarded, and to him that translates to a ridiculous notion that some form of success is possible for everyone. Instead of recognizing the homeless man as an example of how society is not set up to work that way, he has Dan essentially pat him on the head and wax on about "look what we can do." Fool, shut up. That man can't even feed himself regularly, and he's supposed to take inspiration from people with the time and resources to climb a mountain for recreation?
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This is the same company that thought a couple eating their daughter's pet fish as a cheap substitute for sushi made for a funny commercial.
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Yeah, I really can't watch this one. It's not Isaac & Ishmael level of offensive, certainly, but it's pretty bad.
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Let's just say I have seen enough to know that I have seen enough.
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What amazes me about the spot-on insight is he was barely in the movie, and never had a scene with the two of them together that I can recall. Was Martin Landau a fanboy hanging around the set? At any rate, I'm sort of blown away by how perfect his comments on what makes the show work are (although I might have gone with Myrna Loy and Bill Powell as a more apt comparison than Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, given the off-screen dynamics, but you can't go wrong alluding to either one in praising a longstanding on-screen pairing); I'd like to shove this crappy day where it belongs, but I'm glad it led to the inadvertent discovery of such a gem.
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A friend's query about the proper names for different sexes within a species made me think of this:
"You got the hen, the chicken and the rooster. The rooster goes with the chicken. So who's having sex with the hen? Something's missing."
"Something's missing, alright."
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"They're all chickens. The rooster has sex with all of them."
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Oh, and Summer School! It was another one I would stop and watch whenever it was on (which was A LOT in the late 80's/very early 90's)
That one was on my list, and I just watched it this past weekend (because, yes, I have it on DVD); a few friends gathered for a cheesy '80s movie night, and that was my contribution. They liked it, but that was the second film, so we were a bit drunk by then.
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To set my blood pressure back in order after an infuriating meeting (is there anything worse than city government?), I've been perusing a couple of blogs about my favorite classic film actors -- I find the fact that Katharine Hepburn and Myrna Loy existed on this earth supremely comforting when I'm having a bad day. In so doing, I came across this quote from Martin Landau (at the time of FTF) regarding how important GA and DD's understanding of the characters and of each other as acting partners is to the success of XF:
"Any good film is about a recipe,” Martin Landau says, “like making a good bouillabaisse - a little paranoia, a little paranormal, a little science, a little science fiction - but the most important thing that no one is picking up on is this relationship between these two actors. It’s gold, and the audience reaps the benefit of people really understanding a character. They’re not lovers but there’s a sexual tension between them.”
Landau goes so far as to compare them with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. “And you don’t see that kind of relationship any more in films….Not enough critics have recognised the thing that holds The X Files movie together is that relationship. It’s a knock-out. I’ve seen actors have to play the break-up of a four-year relationship before they’ve even met, and that scene is going to be skinny. But these guys know the tone of each other’s voices, they see something in their periphery that the other is doing. They know what’s going on before it happens.”Well, go ahead, Mr. Landau. What an excellent summation of the well-oiled machine that was the DD/GA presentation of the M&S relationship.
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The Summer Under The Stars line-up has been posted. It's far too long to post here, but here's a link to the list posted on the TCM message boards.
I rather like the variety of actors chosen, even though neither of my two favorites - Katharine Hepburn and Myrna Loy - got a day (I will get to rewatch some favorites of theirs via other actors' days), but I find some of the films chosen for many of the actors a bit disappointing. There seem to be a lot that have either been shown with some frequency or really don't much feature the celebrated star. But, then again, with respect to the latter situation, it can be really interesting to see them in their early, small roles.
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I am standing hip deep in pie today, and having that phrase to describe my day is just about the only thing preserving my sanity ... until I head out of here to drink something giant and blue.
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I have a life-long habit of watching movies over and over again - my family getting our first VCR in 1978 really kicked the habit up a notch or ten - and, while I could expound at length on the cinematic value of most of them, I'll freely admit many are not up to par.
Two of the films that immediately sprang to mind upon opening this thread have already been mentioned -- count me in on repeatedly rewatching Tremors and The Cutting Edge ("toe pick").
Also Saturday the 14th, Space Camp, Rhinestone, Summer School, Vibes, Can't Buy Me Love, Weekend at Bernie's, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (one of my closest friends actually threatened to break up with me upon showing her this film, but I used to do the dressing up and throwing toast at the screen thing in college), Undercover Blues, and many an '80s horror film.
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One of mine is British actor Tom Hiddleston, because he's not only a great actor, there are several other reasons:
I didn't know who he was, so I did some internet sleuthing. A gentleman, in 2014? Hell yeah!
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As if Ina would ever pair her dark-colored "shents" with anything other than floodwater pants.
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I do find it funny how a show where the main characters never slept together managed to be more full of romance than many modern day shows. Now a days I swear the moment the characters sleep together they stop all the romance like it has served it's purpose and that's that.
Re-reading this thread the morning after having watched a Thin Man film for the umpteenth time last night in bed (I find all Bill Powell/Myrna Loy films supremely comforting, and have been under a lot of stress lately, so I'm falling asleep to them a lot lately), I'm struck anew by how groundbreaking it could have been for this show to put the characters together sexually after the first season and continue the banter and romance with them as an established couple. That would have been a far better legacy!
When The Thin Man premiered in 1934, it did so onto a movie landscape in which marriage was something characters spent the film trying to either get into or out of -- either the picture was about them falling in love, with a proposal or altar kiss being the final shot, or about them fooling around with others and scheming to escape their wretched existence at home. Couples who began the film married and stayed that way throughout were almost exclusively tertiary characters, and older, boring ones at that. For The Thin Man to open four years into Nick and Nora's marriage and present them as completely secure in that relationship and still in love - and hot for each other - was revolutionary, and audiences went wild enough to produce five sequels over 14 years, none of which ever put the relationship in jeopardy. That they were end game certainly didn't take away from the fun of watching them banter their way through cases, even though the mystery took a backseat to the relationship as the attraction to viewers. No one will ever touch the pairing of Loy and Powell, IMO, but the basic idea shouldn't be impossible to emulate.
Hart to Hart is an obvious imitation, but I think this show is much better and really could have been something different on television -- a show that opens as a "will they or won't they," lets us see the transition to an ongoing relationship, and then also shows us the happily ever after for another couple of seasons ... all while maintaining characterization.
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In honor of the passing of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (I could not stand his politics, but I did get a kick out of him as Daniel), I'm going to rave about my favorite of his episodes, Sting of Steele. It's a nice homage to The Sting, with the sting itself being nicely done, and Abigail is far more enjoyable than annoying this time around; I love her being in on it without Laura's knowledge. Murphy has way too much fun pretending to be Steele, but, hey, at least he has something to do other than read an autopsy report. The introduction of Daniel is just perfect, with finagling private jet service around the globe and Steele claiming the background noise is him watching a war film.
Incidentally, since the show borrows so much from classic films, I've often wondered if the name Chalmers came from Libeled Lady (a terrific screwball comedy and one of my favorite films, something a classic film buff is quite likely to have seen); it's the name Connie and her father initially keep mistakenly calling Bill (Chandler) when they can't be bothered to learn his name.
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I've dealt with insulin-dependent diabetic kitties, and currently give Maddie Adequan injections for her bum knee, and think nothing of it. But so many people are intimidated by it, which can lead to not treating something that could easily be managed. So I agree it's a great thing to include on the show.