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94?! VERY good run. It's not my fave but I like it due to the fact that (apart from Zero) all the characters have the capacity of being likable and annoying as well as being funny. Oh, and I thought it was telling of what a good sense of humor Mr. Walker had about himself when he disclosed that the officious, kiss- up officer Lt. Fuzz was based on . . .HIMSELF! RIP, Mr. Walker.

Maybe it's just me but I had no problems with the proposal itself inasmuch as it seemed he had been planning it and they'd just won a five day trip to Bali (an ideal honeymoon spot). However; considering that they are in a multi country competition that involves not only getting through numerous customs, airport securities, lodgings, restaurants, etc. but also subjects the contestants to some physically risky and chaotic feats, are they really sure they want that HUGE rock at risk from being lost,stolen and or broken before they get home?

My paternal grandmother was rather coy about her age (even insisting having question marks on her birthday cake instead of numbers) until she made it to her 90th birthday then she realized she had more to gain by bragging! My maternal grandmother had no problems about her actual age. However; she had borne my mother when she was 19 so she loved it when folks thought they were sisters to the point that when someone pointed out that they could tell the two were mother and daughter, my grandmother sourly replied 'I used to look MUCH better!'

I'm grateful that my favorite supervisor at work was able to return to work a few days after suffering a serious injury. Moreover, I'm thankful both of us have the weekend off!

There are formulas for telling close temperatures using cricket chirps in both Celcius and Fahrenheit. Basically, all one has to do is count the number of chirps within a set amount of seconds then add a number and one usually gets the approximate temperature! https://www.almanac.com/content/predict-temperature-cricket-chirps

OK, I can kinda go for folks in other times, countries and even planets speaking English to each other to give the audience the means to understand the dialogue. One of the more appealing aspects of the the "To Be or Not To Be" Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft movie was having them initially sing then argue in their characters' native Polish THEN having the announcement made that for the sanity of the audience the rest of the movie would NOT be in Polish [but in English]. However; it supremely annoys me when folks who are in non-English speaking places without Universal Translators speak to/get spoken to in English with other characters who are hithero strangers that one would have no reason to presume would not understand the dominant language (e.g. so many times in "The Highlander" series). I mean, how tough can it be to put out a 'parlez vous anglais' ' habla ingles' query before immediately launching into English?

Storm Chaser personality Joel Taylor has died at age 38! Although the cause of death has not been disclosed, it is not believed at this time to have been connected to chasing tornadoes. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/joel-taylor-dead-storm-chaser-112900163.html

It should be noted that it was only long after both Albert's and Victoria's deaths (to say nothing of even longer after the tragic Duchess of Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld's death) that any insinuations of Albert being the son of anyone besides Ernst I, Duke of Coburg came to light! And the only reason they stuck with anyone was because the Duchess Louise had an affair four years after Albert was born and forced to divorce and abandon her sons. OTOH, almost immediately after the future Catherine the Great bore the future Emperor Paul of Russia, there was gossip about the latter's paternity which supposedly led the sitting monarch Empress Elisabeth to remark 'It wouldn't be the first time a bastard sat upon the Romanov throne'! Between mixing up the historic dates of virtually everything documented that's happened since Victoria's marriage, the season depicted as being an endless late summer, early autumn (despite both Vic and Albert's two eldest children being November babies) and now this flatfooted belated attempt to slander two dynasties, I'm on the verge of throwing this series under the bus!

That's so sad! I always thought she should did a very good job in the time she had in that movie (in fact better than the leading lady Helen Hunt did) and wished she had done more acting. In any case, RIP, Miss White!

Who could forget CBS's the Great Rural Purge of 1971 in which every vaguely rural show including Hee Haw and Green Acres got axed because someone got the idea that viewers living in rural areas weren't going to buy as much advertised goods as city folks? This led to a loud outcry and they (somewhat) reversed themselves by premiering The Waltons the next year after its Christmas movie pilot proved a ratings success. Oh, and Hee Haw managed to last another 20 years via syndication!

Last episode aired on ME TV last night- and even after more than four decades, it STILL packed a punch! Yes, it was nice that Miss Harper and Miss Leachman were able to share the stage with Miss Moore one last time on her show (even if it was in Mary's ugly newer apartment) but one could tell that Miss Moore herself truly DID believe that her fellow performers were her family and genuinely brokenhearted at having to have them cast to the winds beyond anything the script had in mind. The irony was that Ted pitched the production team's mass departure as them having voluntarily leaving of their own accord to find new opportunities and, at the time, it WAS pitched as though Miss Moore herself had made the decision to end it entirely on her own. However; both in her own autobios and in interviews she admitted that she did NOT want to do this and she did indeed feel closer to her colleagues than she had to her own family! Hopefully, they'll return next week seven years younger (but without Sue-Ann or Georgette).

Same here! This was one of the few truly dramatic roles the late Richard Mulligan played and he was outstanding playing this tortured soul! I thought it was telling that they never showed exactly what fate had befallen Granville (e.g. whether he hung himself in that tree or simply OD'd on morphine). Seeing him virtually chase Mary out of the house for asking for music lessons when he was coming down from his latest fix was a bit chilling (and one of the few times I felt genuinely sorry for her). Of course, this episode raised many questions that never got answered. Such as how or when did his mother Mrs. Whipple settle in Walnut Grove. She lived in a comfortable, well-furnished cottage which makes it likely that her late husband had been prosperous but evidently was currently cash-poor since she had to take in sewing to earn day-to-day expenses and with virtually all women in Walnut Grove being able sewers this was at best spotty income. It didn't seem Granville had contributed to her support since he seemed to expect her to take care of HIM! And where did she get the name of Granville from? Was is a family name (perhaps even her own maiden name)? This was the only episode that went into any detail about the comic background character's life and while she lived to appear in Season Four, her fate afterwards is a mystery. Also, while the soldier in Granville's unit who died was able to sire the boy before his death since the boy's grandmother was raising him does this mean that the soldier's wife herself died (perhaps in childbirth)? Of course no word on either fate of these one-shots after he blew the bugle at Granville's funeral.

Not to mention as relatable to the average overweight person as Marie Antoinette was to the Parisian citizenry.

Why did they have the Kabul Expedition (January,1842) be depicted as happening month after the future Empress Frederick's birth (November, 1840)? Yes, it was a horrible massacre and needless waste of life but it had happened OVER A YEAR after Vic's firstborn daughter's birth! Moreover, the HMS Trafalgar was launched in 1841 (a year before the expedition). By the time news of the Kabul Expedition reached Great Britain, Victoria had already recovered from bearing her SECOND child ( the future Edward VII). During the time of the first two children's births, the war that was being engaged was the First Opium War (and I think the series should address the fact that it happened because the Chinese Empire was trying to resist the efforts of Great Britain to sell the opium its East India Company had manufactured to the Chinese despite how much it decimated the populace). Oh, and this was even before the Suez Canal had been built (much less long before the age of jet planes) so NO WAY could a survivor of that massacre have traveled from Afghanistan to Great Britain just mere days after Her Majesty had heard about it instead of several months!

Hmm, that would mean he was only 34 or 35 tops when the former series debuted in 1978 so that would mean that Mr. Wilson DID have some insight into how differing generations viewed the takeover of rock on radio. In any case, he brought us a funny series so,RIP!

Maybe it's just my own city, but what's with theaters spending up to 30 minutes on ads,promos and previews before the movies start, yet no longer bother to tell the patrons where the Emergency Exits are or how to reach them?

And the benefit of watching It was . . what again? That said, I totally agree with you re how horrible these DNA donors seem to have been!

Sorry, I am NOT joining the cult that seems to wholeheartedly buy the spin of I, Tonya . In addition to what others have pointed out re her changing claims in recent days re what she supposedly knew and when she may have known about it, she changed her POV re a good number of times from the time it happened to the sentencing (even going so far as piously claiming to believe that now-reviled ex was too good to have had anything to do with the Kerrigan attack). Oh, and I think it was telling that she reacted to the attack itself as though she was put out not being able to compete with Kerrigan rather than being upset over the latter being injured and/or being alarmed that an athlete was attacked and wondering about the venues' security and her own safety! I understand that the movie isn't a documentary but a dramatization yet I very much dislike that this movie supposedly considers her account of that time in her life to be credible and I refuse to watch it regardless of how many tickets get sold or trophies get given.

Rather than rehash my reasons, I'll just invite you to read 'em in this old link! BTW, it does mention the tragedy of his now deceased brother Jerry Van Dyke so it's kind of relevant . As long as we're talking about the younger Mr. Van Dyke, I think it's worth mentioning that his one-time costar Charlotte Stewart on Coach sang his praises for being a brilliant and intense person offcamera (in contrast to the goofy character he played) but DID acknowledge how torn up he was over his daughter's death. http://forums.previously.tv/topic/46177-actors-hosts-and-tv-personalities-you-just-cant-stand/?page=3

Although, I can't say the elder Mr. Van Dyke's my favorite person, I have to feel sorry for him losing his colleague Rose Marie just over a week ago and now his younger brother Jerry yesterday. The younger Mr. Van Dyke had been suffering the last two years after a car accident but I can't help but think he was especially haunted by what had happened to his daughter Kelly's suicide 25 years ago. RIP, Luther. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/entertainment/comedian-jerry-van-dyke-dies/qH9h9opygsgb7NprxpeiIK/

When the background music/singing drowns TOTALLY drowns out all dialogue. Why do they have the 'singers' wail like banshees when whispering mumblers are trying to make profound statements?

Thanks for your review, Lonesome! I give it an A out of A Plus. Yes, Mr. Oldham captured the complexities of this intriguing, passionate yet often difficult person quite well and deserves at least an Oscar nom for it. Also, a plus that the movie pondered the good probability of the relationship between Churchill and King George VI going from mistrust and surface civility for protocols' sake to becoming a warm, sincere mutual friendship by the time of the former's famous speech! I realize that they did NOT depict His Majesty's own speech challenge in this movie but, inasmuch as that might have distracted from the concept of how their friendship evolved, it's just as well. Oh, and I also liked how they depicted the bond between the parental Churchills. Yes, it's quite true that Lady Churchill understood his complexities and was very protective& supportive of him. However; Clementine Hozier Churchill herself also was plagued by the 'black dog' (depression) and one could even say she was high strung. Moreover, they had been awkward children who dealt with bombastic fathers (in her case, her legal father) as well as mothers who were 'belles of the ball' (Clemmie's mother Lady Blanche to the extent that there's serious evidence that Clemmie was NOT Sir Henry Hozier's actual daughter). I also thought that how the senior Churchills related to their offspring and daughter-in-law were a bit sanitized. Yes, all the junior Churchills COULD be cheerleaders and were fans of the patriarch's brilliance. However; (with the pointed exception of the youngest daughter Mary who was the family peacekeeper and caregiver her entire long life ), though they loved their children (and weren't reticent in showing it), the bonds between parents and the son & elder daughters were often quite strained though never entirely broken. I realize that there was only so much the movie could depict in the time it had and the focus was more on how Churchill dealt with the fate of the nation than his family (and it was made with the co-operation of the Churchill survivors) but I think that somewhat took a little away from it. Also, while Churchill's trademark cigars were often in use, a large number of adults smoked in all public places save church in that time and place and would not have been put off by them. Yes, overall, I think it depicted him and the time and place quite well and there wasn't a false performance in the movie so I agree it's well worth seeking out.

I had that happen with Modern Family in which every single character devolved from a multifaceted, intriguing, likable person with some quirks and foibles to IMO becoming one-dimensional, meanspirited stereotypes. I finally had to say 'never again'!

Another phone peeve: If you're going to try to sell me something, don't ring me up then just breathe when I answer 'hello' twice before I hang up THEN immediately after try to leave a pitch on my voice mail!