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As a big fan of I, Claudius, I got those right. And as someone who is very proud of the fact that I made callbacks for my college production of Importance (lost out to actual MFA students who were closer in age to the characters, but I realllly want to play Lady Bracknell someday!), I got FJ right away.
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I also went with Iraq and Iran. I did get Preamble, but that was it.
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On 3/7/2020 at 7:55 AM, Clanstarling said:
I only watch animated films because my grown kids still love them - no grandchildren - and so I like to keep current. Some are excellent - I'm just not drawn to them.
“Drawn” to animated films—I see what you did there...
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3/5, one *. Meh.
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Moana is one of my favorite films of the past decade, so that was an instaget. BTW, I highly recommend seeing it—great songs, gorgeous animation, fun characters, and a wonderfully empowering female lead who is not a princess despite what is said (“If you wear a dress and have an animal sidekick, you’re a princess”).
The only TS I got was candor. Boo hiss.
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I thought Geoffrey’s open-bra dress fit her horribly. Way too much fabric just hanging once you get past the bust.
I did like the last two of Sergio’s dresses, but thought that they skewed older.
I love Nancy-she’s my favorite of the finalists-but the only one of hers that I liked was that suit. I actually enjoyed the print! But the judges were spot on about that model’s styling—she could have fit right into the secretary cubicles on the film Working Girl, alongside Joan Cusack and Melanie Griffith.
I was sooo glad the judges called out the cockiness of Victoria’s branding. Way too premature in your career!
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As a woman not too much older than Rachel, I can attest that having Hillary lose in ‘16 could be written off by her having all of her Hillary baggage. I had much higher hopes for Elizabeth Warren this time around because she didn’t have that weight, yet she didn’t even get a decent performance out of her home state where she is popular. So, yes, there is some despair that the US will never elect a woman to that top spot.
As for her getting the full hour for the interview, if Warren wasn’t a good interview and worth the time, I would be complaining as well. But she is very engaging and has good chemistry with Rachel, who always brings her interviewing A-game when speaking with Warren.
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Just got caught up on the past two days. Got Nora Roberts, Parson Weems, apogee, a god, The Coneheads, and Al Franken for yesterday, but guessed Diego Rivera for FJ—wrong! For today, I only got stein and Eton, and completely blanked on FJ. I couldn’t get Count of Monte Cristo out of my head, even though I knew it was a French novel.
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I wouldn’t mind if Joy Reid got the Hardball slot, but IIRC, she does have that college teaching gig during the week, so that wouldn’t happen until June at the earliest. That Saturday morning slot is a great place for grooming fresh up-and-coming show hosts and then promoting them to weekday prime time or adjacent.
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I ended up with Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee, Nicholas Nickleby, Talented Mr. Ripley, and FJ-Green Eggs and Ham. I knew all of the song titles, but not within the time allotted.
i did my final paper for my Victorian Lit class on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland so I got that one right off. (Still have that paper in my keepsakes bin 34 years later—one of my favorite papers from my English major.)
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I was just fine with her all-Covid19 coverage, because it is freaking me out and is just what I feared would happen under Trump. We need media coverage to expose what’s happening in our world in all areas, both good and bad, and when something is fast-moving like this virus, the more accurate info, the better.
And I guess her opinions on the candidates is in the eye of the beholder—I was thinking last night that she was definitely favoring Biden! I was pleased that they covered both rallies for Biden and Sanders, considering how much airtime they gave Trump’s rallies in ‘16.
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I got Niagara and Lou Grant as well as Jean Gray (which I only remembered because I saw a CinemaWins ep about X2 just this weekend), and I got FJ right away.
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I’ve never read any HP Lovecraft myself, but I first heard of Cthulhu when I was 15 and read Stephen King’s nonfiction book about the history of the horror genre, Danse Macabre. He’s a big fan of Lovecraft. I had no idea how to pronounce the word though—I always said “Chuh-THOO-loo.”
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4/5 here, too.
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I did okay, getting Andres, Cthulhu, Calamity Jane, Prairie Schooner, and the FJ-Copperhead.
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I got deserters, Rathbone, swill, and UK ambassador to the US. I knew FJ from the excellent history podcast Revolutions and its episodes on the Southern States theater of the American Revolution. (Although my favorite ep of the AmerRev section was the Saratoga eps, specifically the one dealing with “Gentleman Johnny’s Party Train”—deliciously snarky and informative!)
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32 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:
But I did have a love of learning about Hollywood history (and scandals 😉 ), so Clara was easy for me too.
Me, too! Back in the ‘70s, access to silent films was minimal at best, so I settled for reading about them instead. I think some filmmaker should have another whack at the William Desmond Taylor murder, between the setting of 1922 Hollywood and the rumors that there was studio interference in the investigation.
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Man, I would have bet big on FJ, only to crash and burn. I had nooooo idea whatsoever, and I consider myself a space buff.
i did get steam shovel, Virginia Wolfe, (Edgar) Lee Masters, Clara Bow, Howard Carter, Wellington, bungalow, Haile Salaisee, and British Airways. Very disappointed that no one got Clara, because when I was a kid, I just loved learning about the silent film era and its stars. Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Theda Bara, Mabel Normand, Louise Brooks, Colleen Moore, Garbo, even a young Joan Crawford, and those are just the women.
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Just found out that the Dr. Nancy Messemeier who gave that phone briefing and will be calling her child’s school for their emergency plans? She’s Rod Rosenstein’s sister.
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I bought The Coming Plague not long after it was published 25 years ago, and it freaked me out completely. Interesting timing on the ad that preceded her appearance, which was for HIV, which is covered in the book.
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Don’t forget Barry Manilow’s fantastic jingle: “You deserve a break today /So get up and get away /To McDonald’s!”
It’s at the end of his Very Strange Medley of jingles:
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I am finally watching episodes on the day of broadcast so I can chime in here! I managed to get brandy, copper, psychiatry, Mike Wallace, nadir, museum, Constantinople, and the FJ of filet o’ fish, which is the only sandwich I like at McD’s.
BTW, a few weeks ago, there was a missed DD of which state was the Pabst Mansion in. I geeked out over that clue because I lived next door to that building for two years! My junior/senior dorm at Marquette was so close that we would lean out of our window when the haunted house workers would hang out in the back of the mansion on their breaks so we could chat with them.
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I saw The Crimson Pirate on WGN’s Family Classics when I was a hormonal girl In the early ‘80s, and oh my, hello Burt Lancaster and your chest!! Definitely went onto my lust-for-movie-stars list, alongside Robert Redford and Harrison Ford.
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Finally caught up! 4/5, no asterisk this week.
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Jeopardy! Season 36 (2019-2020)
in Jeopardy!
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Aww, I like the new champ! Didn’t even notice the vocal fry. She was so happy to win.
I got Lawrence O’Donnell, Berners-Lee, chameleon, 1840 (Napoleon), and FJ-graphic novels. Even if you don’t watch MSNBC, you might recognize O’Donnell as President Bartlett’s abusive dad on The West Wing—he was a writer on the show and got cast in the role.
I learned “graphic novel” working in the bookstore/library world. I only own a few, Persepolis, Maus, and a great adaptation of Darwin’s Origin of Species.