StatisticalOutlier

Aah, a straight-up comedy that delivers. I'm definitely not the target demographic. I've never heard of SZA--is she somehow in the RZA and GZA universe? And I've heard of Keke Palmer only because some relative of hers was on that Jonas Brothers show where you guess who someone's relative is. They kept throwing around the name but I was thinking Keke Palmer was a football player. But now I know who she is, and she's fantastic in this. The whole movie was just a rollicking good time.

It's just that it's nice to have a place on the internet that isn't a news feed.

We're talking about The New Yorker, where they still use centimetre.

I swear I'm going to lose my mind. This isn't paywalled. It includes a link to a poem it calls "Miniscule Things." https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/william-matthews If you click on "Miniscule Things" it shows an image of the print edition, and the poem is called "Minuscule Things." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1986/02/10/miniscule-things WTF.

I read the print edition. August 24, 2024, page five, third column, eighth line from the bottom, in the mere-shadow-of-its-former-self "Goings On" section: "...and Soho Rep bids farewell to the scrappy, miniscule Walker Space..." Here's an online version, but it's paywalled. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/goings-on/fall-culture-preview

Well, it's over. The New Yorker spelled it miniscule.

It is indeed awful. But aren't there other places people can discuss the news? And actually, this isn't even discussing it--it's just reporting it, except for the "Awful" at the end.

Well, far be it from me to disagree with the almighty Google AI, but I was watching coverage of the California fires and embers are/were (I'm back on a news blackout and don't know if they're still burning) considered dangerous because the wind picks up embers and deposits them in other places that can be pretty far away, starting new fires.

I swear I looked and didn't see a topic for this, much to my surprise. The opening scene made me think, "I'm in good hands here." The runtime is 3:35, but that includes a 15-minute intermission. I don't like intermissions, but if there has to be an intermission, this is a good example of how to do it. And the opening and closing credits were fantastic.

The first time I went over to Mr. Outlier's house, we were poking around in closets and came across his boy scout uniform. He was an eagle scout so the sash had a LOT of badges. We were looking at them and one of them was a flame of some sort and he paused and said, "I think this is the book burning one." Obviously I'm still with him 25 years later.

Yeah, it's definitely a trademark. Because she could just trim them by 1/8" or 3/16" and they wouldn't be getting caught up in her eyelashes when she blinks. But that means she carefully keeps them at just that length. I'll watch when she hosts, and hope they keep the camera mainly on the guests. They don't show Graham all that much, after all.

I'm sure she thinks they're sexy or alluring or...something. Every time I see her I think of my mother pushing my hair out of my teenage face. And I realize she was right.

I assume you're talking about the orangutan? That was hilarious. Brie Larson bravely saying, "Can someone explain what we're doing now?" It was her first appearance on the show and I guess they didn't brief her on the big red chair. "Is it supposed to be a true story?" And then Myles Smith says, "Why was he dressed as an orangutan?" He wasn't! And the red chair guy's accent made everything even better. The rest of the show was okay for me, marred mainly by Claudia Winkelman's bangs. When Billy Porter was going on about them, I thought I heard him say, "Trim those bangs" but I re-ran it several times and I think I was just projecting. Those things drive me bats. My only requirement on a haircut is that nothing gets in my eyes if the wind is blowing from behind me, so bangs in eyes are especially annoying to me. And they drag her whole face down. Especially compared to Brie Larsen, who looked so fresh and light compared to Winkelman's mess. What I wouldn't give to be able to look that good in what is pretty much a buzz cut.

My showing was 100% more attended: there was one other person in the theater. As I said above, the trailer made me want to go just because it looked weird, but not sci-fi weird or whatever. I almost never understand the message of movies, but an extravaganza with a monkey as the main character sounded compelling. Maybe it's obvious to everyone, but another advantage of having a monkey playing him is not needing someone to look like him, as a child, teen, or adult. And I'm such an idiot that I wasn't sure it was CGI, until they showed him eating with that sticking-out mouth and I thought, "You can't do that with a mask."

I'm so glad you gave it a shot, and that you liked it. I wish more people would take a chance. Here's his performance of "Rock DJ" on The Graham Norton Show. What an entertainer. Which is what he said he wanted to be all along. Notice the microphone flips--they had him doing one in the movie when he was a little kid. I loved what he said at the end of the movie (paraphrasing): "I know it's only cabaret. But it's world class cabaret. And I'm the best at it." Indeed he is, and I'm so pleased that his biopic was so original. (BTW, he pronounces it "bye-OP-ic" like it rhymes with myopic. I always say BYE-oh-pic.) Catchy enough for you? 😀