RIP Graham Greene, native actor who came to the public attention via Dances with Wolves. My favorite performances are in Thunderheart and Wind River. A superb actor
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RIP Graham Greene, native actor who came to the public attention via Dances with Wolves. My favorite performances are in Thunderheart and Wind River. A superb actor
It's not and Warren Beatty is thirty years too old to play the part (even then). The most extensive football scenes show Beatty throwing passes to his household staff.
Just finished the documentary America's Team, deifying Jerry Jones as a great team owner (spoiler: he knows how to market his team and yanked the NFL out of its stodgy image). It's great on the team's Super Bowls, but glosses over M Irvin's problems & Jones's inability to keep the team competitive.
Brilliant cover
Boxcar Bertha
I can’t imagine any director focusing an entire movie around philosophy professors.
I guess people named Rizzo were supposed to be older than their years?
I’m sure the Canadians were at a loss to figure out the new rules as well.
Not hard to spell if you watched Captain Kangaroo in the 60s! (a song mnemonic).
Stephen Miller wouldn't recognize the scientific method if it cured beady eyes and male pattern baldness.
The cathedral also has a sermon lectern carved from a single tree.
RIP Randy Moffitt, former SF Giant relief pitcher and brother of Billie Jean King!
It’s important to remember Hegseth is a reserve officer. There’s probably a story in how reserve and National Guard culture differs from professional service members (enlisted and officer). But when I served in the 70s, the “ parttime” forces talked a good game ( like lethality) but talk is cheap.
The Band, with opening act Randy Newman, or James Taylor can’t recall
The obvious one is The Insider. Shattered glass and Zodiac get the atmosphere right. Broadcast News is accurate too
Based on Russo's stint as an English professor at Penn State Altoona!
Covid will go away in the summer too!
RIP Ron Turcotte, the superb jockey who steered Secretariat into "running like a tremendous machine." He was injured in a fall in 1978 and lived as a paraplegic until his death. He also rode Northern Dancer and Riva Ridge.
That, and “I will die on this hill.”
The British are Coming. Brilliant readable colonial history by Rick Atkinson, our best narrative historian.
Which would be the appropriate chip brand? Lays? Wise? Granny Goose?
Still the best written sports movie and an operatic use of swearing throughout.
Let's hope that this is his time.
It does look like the waiting room at the muffler shop.
Credence Clearwater Falafel
Alien Nation was an underrated movie AND TV series
RIP Terence Stamp, Cockney actor who transformed himself into an urbane Brit character specialist in Superman, The Hit, The Limey and Wall Street.
Headline You Never Thought You'd See: "Princess Anne's Fashion Flair"
Still Crazy After All These Years
The violence effects were startling for the time.
Hitchcock challenge in no particular order Doris Day--Man Who Knew Thelma Ritter--RW Barry Foster --Frenzy Suzanne Pleshette-Birds James Mason-NxNW Grace Kelly--To Catch Robert Walker-Strangers Farley Granger--Rope Theresa Wright-Shadow Patricia Collinge-Shadow #TCMParty
RIP Sheila Jordan, jazz singer extraordinaire, and bebop vocal improviser. She and Ella F were scat singers for the ages.
He's on the same level as Limbaugh, Jordan, Nunes and Adelson. All we can do is sigh.
That Streetcar Man!. There might be an opportunity for critics and academics to analyze those old-style copy heavy trailers
I think that started with Billions
Barns and noble?
The stache was bad and his bad toupee was a bad choice that lasted til Graceland I think
RIP Bobby Whitlock, keyboard session guy for Stax Records and the first white artist signed to that soul label. He also played with Delaney and Bonnie and Derek and the Dominoes, he later retired to farm and made a comeback in the late 90s
The quote is float like a butterfly, Andrew
Walking eye bag—great description!
What happened when the chicken looked at lettuce? Chicken-sees-a-salad.
He doesn’t even realize insulting professional comedians means they will have better and funnier comebacks than his original ramblings.
A few years ago I saw Manns Gulch from the Missouri River in a boat … very difficult landscape and Maclean captured it effortlessly.
I came across him peripherally in doing research for my book.
Wilford Brinkley in Absence of Malice
Is that the Haines who went on to be a renowned interior designer?
Katydid too.
Even the headline makes you want to read it
Long way to go for a J-school reference!
Interested in seeing what hairstyle Jeremy Strong chooses.
We’ve seen that the swelling makes it an easier target!
A crappy old pallet? The couldn’t afford a flagpole?
Henry Silva
I had to look her up. Certainly one of the most colorful Wikipedia entries I’ve read.
I hope Netflix picks him up. We’ve given Mullaney’s show multiple viewings and at best… it’s terrible. Can’t understand the good reviews.
RIP Chuck Mangione: A legitimate entry point into jazz for kids in the 70s, he later found a niche in Smooth Jazz -- largely playing flugelhorn. He had true jazz roots, playing with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and Gerry Niewood. Chase the Clouds Away!
He also strikingly resembles Roy Cohn.
With Manhunter, William Peterson’s indelible performances. Pankow is good as well.
Yes, the writing test for jobs is really insulting. I was asked to take them for several higher education jobs, well after an extensive journalism career that included a national news magazine and a couple mid-size dailies. I guess they're trying to winnow out people who require a lot of editing.
Yes, there are a lot of"restages" of his earlier work: 1) Kicking the TV set out of the car: Crime Story 2) The metallurgic robbery: Thief 3) many action scenes from LA Takedown a TV movie Plus the "personal lives" scenes of the gang and Hanna don't really seem to belong in the movie.
Two lesser known favorites for me are Susan Sarandon’s jerk husband in Compromising Positions and the suburban Dad vampire in Lost Boys.
How are the temperatures?
They do know that it’s only accessible by boat don’t they?
Could be. All I know is going on Elliquis saved me from blood draws and constant adjustments to my Coumadin dosages.
I never had bruising issues with either medication — but as you age bruising gets worse and DT is 10 years older than me
I should chime in here as well someone who was on Coumadin for 40 years. Coumadin isn’t used as much b/c it requires weekly blood tests and is hard to regulate. Elliquis is now the most prescribed blood thinner. Also, swelling in the limbs is also symptomatic of deep vein thrombosis/ clotting issues
He's the Billy Mays of presidents.
Sporting Bobby socks!
They usually were on the street because a frustrated driver flung the tape out the window after the cassette deck mangled it.
That’s back when hotel pools were big enough to hold Olympic Trials races.
I am a fugitive from a chain gang
Yeah, I’m surprised these DHS people haven’t adopted the mirrored aviator shades look of “ the man with no eyes” guard from the same movie.
The alcoholic doctor in Stagecoach. His scenes with Donald Meek are hilarious and his scenes with Claire Trevor are tender—range!
Probably Cagney’s best performance. Certainly looks like he’s having a great time.
Leasing gets you at the end of lease.. very expensive to buy out. I would buy a 2025 now. Before tariffs and price hikes. If this is the first year of production for the Ioniq be wary that most mechanical problems occur in the first model year. Don’t know much about benefits of home chargers
Looks like the TWA terminal. The store, not the brooch!
Has anyone done a story on what qualifications are to become an ICE agent? It appears as though they have no training at all.
Agreed. Who knew Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones played in the band for Goldfinger?
A star from the moment he walked through Harlem in Shaft’s opening sequence.
Nice that Krypto is finally used in a Superman movie.He was a huge part of the comic stories in the 10-cent/12-cent era).
Also, many dairy and beef farms use immigrant workers, particularly larger operations (more than 200 cows). Can you imagine a robot herding cattle and trying to attach a milking machine?
I can definitely see the thing being led by Nicol Williamson’s Merlin.
I wonder if Jilly had to get involved.
Teal
Nonnas
I read it when it came out (84?) and what I recall is that both were agonized about living up to huge success.
There's also an interesting book on Ross Lockridge and Tom Heggen (who wrote Mr. Roberts), that details their sudden rise to fame and then precipitous fall. Called "Ross and Tom."
RIP Michael Madsen, a rough - hewn actor specializing in cop and crook roles. He was a Q Tarantino regular but was great in a variety of roles. My favorite role: as Susan Sarandon ‘s boyfriend in Thelma and Louise.
A tie with John Kennedy and MT Greene
RIP Dave Parker, after Willie McCovey, one of the most frightening sluggers in MLB. In his early years, he was a great fielder and had a cannon arm. Fans remember him throwing out two runners at home in an All Star Game.
It might be Fahey’s best role.
When he’s not “ pouring concrete.”
If you're pining for 1970s muscle cars, bell bottoms and dialogue updated from The Mod Squad and Get Christie Love, you can do a lot worse than watching Duster on HBO Max. It's sort of Breaking Bad with carburetors instead of meth.
Thank you for confirming our own comments as my wife and I watched last season. We haven’t started 4 yet but we’ll watch it more out of obligation than interest
An electrical utility guy told me that a refrigerator more than 20 years old is 20 percent of your electric bill
I was not going on a cruise before watching and now I’m NEVER going on one. And I hope they gave Jen a raise.
I just hope this new season is about something.
So he wants to go back to Xerxes?
To be fair, Obama didn’t do anything to deserve it. He got it shortly after election. Trump, of course has done nothing to deserve it.
Ah yes, she has been through the mill. Nice power couple.