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A pretty good Canadian nationals this year, other than the mostly dispiriting men's event (apart from Keegan's gold medal sendoff). Fun development for fans of 1990s skating: the bronze medalist here was Josee Chouinard's daughter, who has been sort of hanging around in the mid-tier domestic ranks the last few years but put it (mostly) all together here.

There's a really nice profile of Hsu in the New York Times:

Writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig took a while to come out with her next film after 2016's excellent The Edge of Seventeen, but it apparently took some time to convince Judy Blume, for decades unwilling to authorize a film adaptation, to let them give this a try.

He thought she was indifferent to the food he was serving (hence, why she didn't remember any of the dishes he had served when he asked). I don't think the movie asks you to identify with Slowik's reasoning for why these people deserve to die -- the actor he deems worthy of death because he didn't like a movie he was in, his assistant because she was able to afford university without scholarships, etc. He's insane.

That was explained as being delayed by Blanc, who is well-connected.

On Ice Perspectives' Christmas videos, from the Port of Montreal: Lajoie & Lagha Bronsard & Richmond Lim & Quan Harris & Chan Holubtsova & Bielobrov

Valentina seemed perfectly happy at the prospect of being introduced to the town's gay scene.

Curtis is making a big awards push for this, that's not just an HFPA thing.

Quentin wasn’t a hired hitman, he was a prior acquaintance of Greg’s.

He wasn’t. He wanted his wife’s money; giving some of the cash for the piazza was his plan to reward his co-conspirators.

Why would you presume there are competing heirs? We're not told of any. As Tanya's husband, Greg stands to inherit per Tanya herself. The slayer's rule would only apply if Greg's involvement was discovered, and it doesn't really look like Portia plans to say anything.

Presumably.

Tanya died as she lived, with absolutely no dignity.

Loena looked kind of embarrassed to have medaled there, but I'm happy for her.

A very merry Christmas indeed for Team Lane, who become the first coaches to win both the junior and senior dance events at the Final in the same edition.

Quan is the favourite for Supporting Actor for sure right now.

The Browns and Wolfkostin/Chen both opted to move up to senior relatively early, so that has created a bit of a gap. Mao 2.0 wins the junior women’s final. She and Jia look set for a rivalry over the next few seasons.

M/K have noticeably better skating skills and were much smoother in presentation. Them receiving higher PCS is entirely justified.

Fiennes was great in this. He doesn't do comedy much at all, but when he's got the right sort of dark comedy role, he's excellent. This has a bit of an evil M. Gustave vibe. Taylor-Joy is as good as usual, despite being kind of miscast as a regular working class American gal (she should always be either upper class, a magical being, or a psychopath).

He does seminars and touring, but I don’t think more than that. He lived in Mexico for a long time.

Jason and Alexa & Brandon are part of the preliminary Stars on Ice Canada cast that was just announced for the spring of 2023. https://www.starsonice.ca/the-skaters?utm_campaign=2021-01-25 canda reminder pre-olympics&utm_content=The Skaters

Yeah, I was surprised that a lot of people are even wondering if this is real, from the way Lucia was introduced (and her conversations with Mia) there's been zero indication she has a pimp. For that matter, given that Dominic made arranges to hire Lucia initially, shouldn't he have interacted with this supposed pimp in the process of that? Greg mentioning the prenup as part of his dissatisfaction with their marriage seems like an indicator that it's relevant to the plot.

That's logical, though. Any additional theatrical revenue simply diminishes the lure its meant to be for the Netflix service, thus costing them money on that end.