• What Did You Watch? 2025-02-16 (Sunday)

    From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 17 04:30:41 2025
    I watched:

    WE ARE THE 80'S

    WE ARE THE 80'S

    WE ARE THE 80'S

    CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD: COMPLETE UTTER GARBAGE [SPOILER FREE REVIEW]!!
    I had low expectations for this movie, but when it turns out to be even worse than I had imagined you can't help but wonder what is next. This felt like the chopped together mess that it always appeared to be. Marvel have utter lost their
    way and this movie is set to bomb massively! https://youtu.be/8XIKNARgv_U?si=e_hdeXplx9NuF3_R

    CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD (SPOILERS) | Film Threat Reviews
    Chris Gore and Alan Ng give their spoiler review of "Captain America: Brave New World," now playing in theaters. https://youtu.be/UBSxOGsVP9o?si=05jgG-pBEx8Nplv8

    CAPTAIN AMERICA 4 REVIEWS CONFIRM CHAOS, RESHOOTS IN DISJOINTED FILM | DOOMCOCK WAS RIGHT!
    I've been reporting on rumors of massive reshoots and chaos on the set of Captain
    America: Brave New World for at least a year now, and judging by reviews of the film, it's looking like once again Doomcock Was Right! Here's what the reviewers
    are saying! #disney #marvel #mcu https://youtu.be/2BGjF6FnHEs?si=L8Y-JZurvJTwPVNc

    INSTAGRAM REELS NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN
    Instagram reels, a social media platform that has gone unchecked for far too long. Today, we look at why I believe it should be shut down, kinda. Buckle up. https://youtu.be/lXjDunz-Ak8?si=YlEigaR867MIPx1H

    JOHNNY SOMALI INCRIMINATES HIMSELF + JACK DOHERTY PRESSED
    Today we will be looking at the phenomenon of Johnny Somali humiliating himself for content...
    https://youtu.be/NZuHmVeJkyE?si=int5X4VZtTCgB5Bh

    JOHNNY SOMALI IS BACK - FIRST YOUTUBE VIDEO ATTACKS ICE POSEIDON & KICK https://youtu.be/nSKy6lV7pPI?si=inTFB3vY6RDewxtO

    MY THOUGHTS ON CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD (SPOILERS) https://youtu.be/xDVVL-7xn1M?si=0ISC2p-91vywmIF0

    SUDDENLY KATIE COURIC AND CORPORATE MEDIA OUTLETS SAY THEY SHOULD HAVE TREATED TRUMP VOTERS BETTER
    Megyn Kelly is joined by Mark Halperin and Dan Turrentine, hosts of 2Way's Morning Meeting, to discuss how leftist media treated Trump supporters before the election and how they've changed their tune now, Katie Couric admitting the media shouldn't have dismissed them but looking at her own past comments, how the corporate media banished people critical of Kamala before the election, and more.
    https://youtu.be/iEm_-sW5l2E?si=k7I7idQOozIRKI68

    WHY CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD HAD A SHOCK SUCCESS FOR DISNEY
    Captain America: Brave New World ended up a shock success for Disney and the MCU at the box office.
    What happened?
    https://youtu.be/VXv5nFOJtgQ?si=jZEVHWJZxr52vKgy

    LIFE, LIBERTY AND LEVIN:
    A "best of" clip show.

    What did you watch?

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  • From Ian J. Ball@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Mon Feb 17 05:51:56 2025
    On 2/17/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    As expected, no movies. But I did get through most of the SNL 50 special.

    I watched:

    soaps: Both Fri's ep's.
    Y&R - Nothingburger "Valentine's Day" episode in which Adam, Sharon
    and it turns out Filis[sic!] have Valentine's Day dreams/fantasies about
    what they really want. The Filis one was amusing; the other two were
    appalling. Meh.
    DOOL - Patch and Stephanie play a mean trick on Kayla in which they
    pretend to have "forgotten" Patch and Kayla's Valentine's Day
    anniversary. NuSophia (who was better in her second episode, but still
    isn't a patch on original Sophia) presses her rigid mom on accepting the adoption proposal; Tate stumbles upon this and is pulled in, when
    NuSophia stars having sharp cramps. At the hospital, they declare Sophia
    OK. Meanwhile, it's also Johnny and Chanel's anniversary - I missed why,
    but they go to the hospital, and find out that Chanel has complications
    from the radiation exposure(?) that may make it difficult for her to
    conceive. When Tate runs across them, Johnny has an idea about Sophia's
    baby. (Who didn't see this coming?!) And Holly dresses up all "sexy" for
    her planned first-time nookie with Tate, but Doug III shows up instead!!
    We also get old footage of Doug (I) and Julie.

    golf - A younger guy by the name of Maverick McNealy vaulted himself
    into the clear lead on the final day of the Genesis Invitational (this
    year, played at Torrey Pines). So I bugged out before the end figuring
    McNealy had it going away... Apparently, I should have stuck around,
    because at the end, younger Swedish golfer Ludvig Åberg somehow managed
    to sneak into the lead to win the tournament! That'll teach me about
    assuming a golf tourney is over before it is!

    SNL 50 - I didn't see all of this - I saw the end of the first airing,
    and the first 3(!)-hours of the second airing, so I maybe missed some of
    the last 15-20 minutes of this.
    But, while it wasn't the show's best skits, I enjoyed the overall
    nostalgia ("Coffee Talk" lady is back!), and most of the "celebrity
    cameos" (not Baldwin! >:/ ), in the special.
    One thing is for sure - a number of the old timers (I never did see
    Chevy Chase or Jane Curtin) still have it, esp. Eddie Murphy! Get this
    guy his own show!!


    What did you watch?

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Mon Feb 17 06:40:10 2025
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    I watched:


    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!

    Reruns of THE DREW CAREY SHOW



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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to shawn on Mon Feb 17 14:59:58 2025
    shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

    I also finished up THE DIPLOMAT. I wondered where they were going with
    the addition of a blonde Allison Janney as the USA's VP, but then
    there was the surprise ending which sets up a third season

    Excuse me. A surprise emding is a story that ends with all major plot
    threads wrapped up, without setting up a cliff hanger for the next
    season. Every television viewer everywhere despises this, because it
    makes the season finale seemed too rushed with unnecessary episode time
    devoted to the cliffhanger, because this doesn't force a network to
    order another season, and mostly because we just won't remember if a
    subsequent season is broadcast given that a year or so has passed.

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  • From shawn@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 17 09:52:36 2025
    On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:51:56 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2/17/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    As expected, no movies. But I did get through most of the SNL 50 special.

    I watched:


    snipped text

    SNL 50 - I didn't see all of this - I saw the end of the first airing,
    and the first 3(!)-hours of the second airing, so I maybe missed some of
    the last 15-20 minutes of this.
    But, while it wasn't the show's best skits, I enjoyed the overall
    nostalgia ("Coffee Talk" lady is back!), and most of the "celebrity
    cameos" (not Baldwin! >:/ ), in the special.
    One thing is for sure - a number of the old timers (I never did see
    Chevy Chase or Jane Curtin) still have it, esp. Eddie Murphy! Get this
    guy his own show!!

    I didn't see Chase or Curtin live at the show so I'm not sure if they
    were there. Of course both got a good deal of air time in the clips
    from the past.

    What did you watch?

    I watched much of the SNL 50th special. Which was a nice addition to
    seeing the first SNL episode from 1975 on Saturday night. I thought
    Baldwin wasn't even going to show when there were clear places he
    would have fit, but then they brought him in towards the end. I was particularly touched by that last clip showing John Belushi as an old
    man visiting the graves of all his former cast mates.

    I also finished up THE DIPLOMAT. I wondered where they were going with
    the addition of a blonde Allison Janney as the USA's VP, but then
    there was the surprise ending which sets up a third season

    What did you watch?

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  • From Arthur Lipscomb@21:1/5 to shawn on Mon Feb 17 08:53:34 2025
    On 2/17/2025 6:52 AM, shawn wrote:
    On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:51:56 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2/17/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    As expected, no movies. But I did get through most of the SNL 50 special.

    I watched:


    snipped text

    SNL 50 - I didn't see all of this - I saw the end of the first airing,
    and the first 3(!)-hours of the second airing, so I maybe missed some of
    the last 15-20 minutes of this.
    But, while it wasn't the show's best skits, I enjoyed the overall
    nostalgia ("Coffee Talk" lady is back!), and most of the "celebrity
    cameos" (not Baldwin! >:/ ), in the special.
    One thing is for sure - a number of the old timers (I never did see
    Chevy Chase or Jane Curtin) still have it, esp. Eddie Murphy! Get this
    guy his own show!!

    I didn't see Chase or Curtin live at the show so I'm not sure if they
    were there. Of course both got a good deal of air time in the clips
    from the past.

    What did you watch?

    I watched much of the SNL 50th special.

    Same. I still have about an hour to go, but what I watched was good.


    Which was a nice addition to
    seeing the first SNL episode from 1975 on Saturday night. I thought
    Baldwin wasn't even going to show when there were clear places he
    would have fit, but then they brought him in towards the end. I was particularly touched by that last clip showing John Belushi as an old
    man visiting the graves of all his former cast mates.

    I also finished up THE DIPLOMAT.

    I forgot about this show. I still need to start season 2.


    What did you watch?


    I watched:

    Broken Arrow (blu-ray) 1996 movie directed by John Woo (I had *no* idea
    Woo directed this when I put the disc in) starring John Travolta as a US
    Air Force pilot who steals his plane's nuclear weapons during a training
    flight with Christian Slater as his determined copilot out to get the
    nukes back. And hey it's Samantha Mathis from Super Mario Bros. as the
    love interest. I don't think I've watched this since around the time of
    the original release. It was better than I was expecting. Although one annoyance was the way Travolta was constantly giving exposition to the
    guy who financed the operation. I know movies need exposition, but if I
    was financing stealing a pair of nuclear weapons, you best believe I
    would have already been fully briefed on the plan and all contingencies
    well before it began! Who are the co-conspirators, how are the bombs
    being transported, and transported to where, are really not the types of information you should be learning the day of! LOL


    Face/Off (4K disc) 1997 movie directed by John Woo starring John
    Travolta as an FBI agent who agrees to have his face surgically removed
    and replace it with the face of a criminal played by Nicolas Cage so
    Travolta can pretend to be Cage and trick Cage's brother into revealing
    the location of a bomb. There has got to be easier ways to make someone
    talk! I watched with an interesting commentary track. The pair doing
    the commentary were all over the place, occasionally discussing the
    movie, but often just talking snark and trivia. I don't know why I
    found it so funny but I couldn't stop laughing when one said Travolta
    was playing the character like an evil Danny Zuko and the other said
    Danny Zuko *was* evil. One piece of trivia they mentioned was Nicholas
    Cage and Tomas Jane shared a scene together is that both men were
    married to Patricia Arquette.


    Swordfish (blu-ray) 2001 movie starring Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) as a
    hacker who is recruited by Storm (Halle Berry) to hack into a bank for a patriotic terrorist played by John Travolta. Rounding out the cast are
    War Machine (Don Cheadle) as an FBI agent trying to take them down and Juggernaut (Vinnie Jones) as one of Travolta's henchman. I've been
    looking forward to revisiting this for a long time. I'm glad I was
    finally able to watch it again.


    Blackhat (4K disc) 2015 movie directed by Michael Mann starring Thor
    (Chris Hemsworth) as a hacker recruited from prison by the FBI to team
    up with Chinese law enforcement and track down the hackers who tried to
    melt down a U.S. nuclear power plant, and succeeded in melting down a
    Chinese power planet. I *think* I maybe saw this in the theater, when
    it first came out, but I had no real memory of the movie. There were
    three different versions of the movie available, U.S, international, and director's cut. I went with the U.S. version simply because it was the
    longest version of the three, and I hate wondering, what did I miss,
    with shorter cuts. In spite of the generally bad reviews this movie
    has, I liked it. I'm not going to say the movie wasn't a mess, and
    maybe a shorter version would have been more coherent (I did after all
    turn to the Wikipedia page to figure out what was happening), but the
    movie held my interest.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to arthur@alum.calberkeley.org on Mon Feb 17 17:28:29 2025
    On Feb 17, 2025 at 8:53:34 AM PST, "Arthur Lipscomb" <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
    Swordfish (blu-ray) 2001 movie starring Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) as a
    hacker who is recruited by Storm (Halle Berry) to hack into a bank for a patriotic terrorist played by John Travolta. Rounding out the cast are
    War Machine (Don Cheadle) as an FBI agent trying to take them down and Juggernaut (Vinnie Jones) as one of Travolta's henchman. I've been
    looking forward to revisiting this for a long time. I'm glad I was
    finally able to watch it again.

    Most notable for being Halle Berry's first nude scene. And it was wonderfully gratuitous. It didn't advance the plot or character in any way. Just a shot of her nekkid ta-tas.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to Arthur Lipscomb on Mon Feb 17 17:29:10 2025
    Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

    Broken Arrow (blu-ray) 1996 movie directed by John Woo (I had *no* idea
    Woo directed this when I put the disc in) starring John Travolta as a US
    Air Force pilot who steals his plane's nuclear weapons during a training >flight with Christian Slater as his determined copilot out to get the
    nukes back. And hey it's Samantha Mathis from Super Mario Bros. as the
    love interest. I don't think I've watched this since around the time of
    the original release. It was better than I was expecting. Although one >annoyance was the way Travolta was constantly giving exposition to the
    guy who financed the operation. I know movies need exposition, but if I
    was financing stealing a pair of nuclear weapons, you best believe I
    would have already been fully briefed on the plan and all contingencies
    well before it began! Who are the co-conspirators, how are the bombs
    being transported, and transported to where, are really not the types of >information you should be learning the day of! LOL

    I enjoyed this movie when I first saw it despite an incredibly weak
    script, with an especially strong performance from Christian Slater.

    Sigh. I agree with you about Vinnie.

    Face/Off (4K disc) 1997 movie directed by John Woo starring John
    Travolta as an FBI agent who agrees to have his face surgically removed
    and replace it with the face of a criminal played by Nicolas Cage so
    Travolta can pretend to be Cage and trick Cage's brother into revealing
    the location of a bomb. There has got to be easier ways to make someone >talk! I watched with an interesting commentary track. The pair doing
    the commentary were all over the place, occasionally discussing the
    movie, but often just talking snark and trivia. I don't know why I
    found it so funny but I couldn't stop laughing when one said Travolta
    was playing the character like an evil Danny Zuko and the other said
    Danny Zuko *was* evil. One piece of trivia they mentioned was Nicholas
    Cage and Tomas Jane shared a scene together is that both men were
    married to Patricia Arquette.

    So absurd and over-the-top, but Cage was at his scenerary-chewing best.

    Swordfish (blu-ray) 2001 movie starring Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) as a
    hacker who is recruited by Storm (Halle Berry) to hack into a bank for a >patriotic terrorist played by John Travolta. Rounding out the cast are
    War Machine (Don Cheadle) as an FBI agent trying to take them down and >Juggernaut (Vinnie Jones) as one of Travolta's henchman. I've been
    looking forward to revisiting this for a long time. I'm glad I was
    finally able to watch it again.

    I hate this movie.

    Blackhat (4K disc) 2015 movie directed by Michael Mann starring Thor
    (Chris Hemsworth) as a hacker recruited from prison by the FBI to team
    up with Chinese law enforcement and track down the hackers who tried to
    melt down a U.S. nuclear power plant, and succeeded in melting down a
    Chinese power planet. I *think* I maybe saw this in the theater, when
    it first came out, but I had no real memory of the movie. There were
    three different versions of the movie available, U.S, international, and >director's cut. I went with the U.S. version simply because it was the >longest version of the three, and I hate wondering, what did I miss,
    with shorter cuts. In spite of the generally bad reviews this movie
    has, I liked it. I'm not going to say the movie wasn't a mess, and
    maybe a shorter version would have been more coherent (I did after all
    turn to the Wikipedia page to figure out what was happening), but the
    movie held my interest.

    The movie is so mediocre from start to finish, I don't even care that
    no motivation and no part of the plot makes sense.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to atropos@mac.com on Mon Feb 17 17:31:34 2025
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Feb 17, 2025 8:53:34 AM PST, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>:

    Swordfish (blu-ray) 2001 movie starring Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) as a >>hacker who is recruited by Storm (Halle Berry) to hack into a bank for a >>patriotic terrorist played by John Travolta. Rounding out the cast are
    War Machine (Don Cheadle) as an FBI agent trying to take them down and >>Juggernaut (Vinnie Jones) as one of Travolta's henchman. I've been
    looking forward to revisiting this for a long time. I'm glad I was
    finally able to watch it again.

    Most notable for being Halle Berry's first nude scene. And it was wonderfully >gratuitous. It didn't advance the plot or character in any way. Just a shot of >her nekkid ta-tas.

    A million dollars a tit!

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  • From Arthur Lipscomb@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 17 10:02:15 2025
    On 2/17/2025 9:44 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
    On Feb 17, 2025 at 8:53:34 AM PST, "Arthur Lipscomb" <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
    Broken Arrow (blu-ray) 1996 movie directed by John Woo (I had *no* idea
    Woo directed this when I put the disc in) starring John Travolta as a US
    Air Force pilot who steals his plane's nuclear weapons during a training
    flight

    Can I ask the obvious here?

    Why in the name of Red Hulk are there live nukes attached to a plane during a training exercise?


    Because then there wouldn't have been a movie! LOL.
    Here's one fore you. Slater specifically says that if the wrong code is entered 3 times, it renders the nuke useless. But instead of
    immediately entering the codes the first chance he gets, Slater takes
    time to monologue this to Travolta. Then as it turns out Travolta was
    able to swap out the hard wired guts of the nuke with a different
    internal panel that would cause the nuke to go to a timer if the wrong
    code was entered 3 times. Now, let's think about that for minute. When exactly did Travolta have time and access to the nuclear bomb so he
    could do this? Why is there a convenient countdown timer and screen on
    the bomb, which was designed to be dropped from a plane? Do the nuclear missiles in silos have this feature too? And upon realizing this, why
    didn't Slater dispose of the bomb without the timer first or just, set
    the time on that other bomb as well, rendering it equally useless to
    Travolta? Or is it all the same answer as above?

    with Christian Slater as his determined copilot out to get the
    nukes back. And hey it's Samantha Mathis from Super Mario Bros. as the
    love interest. I don't think I've watched this since around the time of
    the original release. It was better than I was expecting. Although one
    annoyance was the way Travolta was constantly giving exposition to the
    guy who financed the operation. I know movies need exposition, but if I
    was financing stealing a pair of nuclear weapons, you best believe I
    would have already been fully briefed on the plan and all contingencies
    well before it began! Who are the co-conspirators, how are the bombs
    being transported, and transported to where, are really not the types of
    information you should be learning the day of! LOL

    The show SWAT is especially bad about this. Almost every episode has a scene where Shemar is briefing the team about their imminent op *as* they're racing toward it in their armored truck. Not back at the station before they leave, where they can all see diagrams and blueprints of the building they're about to hit and mugshots of the suspects they're after. Nope. Shemar yelling over police sirens is how they're introduced to the raid they're minutes away from conducting.



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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to arthur@alum.calberkeley.org on Mon Feb 17 17:44:56 2025
    On Feb 17, 2025 at 8:53:34 AM PST, "Arthur Lipscomb" <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
    Broken Arrow (blu-ray) 1996 movie directed by John Woo (I had *no* idea
    Woo directed this when I put the disc in) starring John Travolta as a US
    Air Force pilot who steals his plane's nuclear weapons during a training flight

    Can I ask the obvious here?

    Why in the name of Red Hulk are there live nukes attached to a plane during a training exercise?

    with Christian Slater as his determined copilot out to get the
    nukes back. And hey it's Samantha Mathis from Super Mario Bros. as the
    love interest. I don't think I've watched this since around the time of
    the original release. It was better than I was expecting. Although one annoyance was the way Travolta was constantly giving exposition to the
    guy who financed the operation. I know movies need exposition, but if I
    was financing stealing a pair of nuclear weapons, you best believe I
    would have already been fully briefed on the plan and all contingencies
    well before it began! Who are the co-conspirators, how are the bombs
    being transported, and transported to where, are really not the types of information you should be learning the day of! LOL

    The show SWAT is especially bad about this. Almost every episode has a scene where Shemar is briefing the team about their imminent op *as* they're racing toward it in their armored truck. Not back at the station before they leave, where they can all see diagrams and blueprints of the building they're about
    to hit and mugshots of the suspects they're after. Nope. Shemar yelling over police sirens is how they're introduced to the raid they're minutes away from conducting.

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to arthur@alum.calberkeley.org on Mon Feb 17 12:10:14 2025
    In article <vovplp$17tvr$1@dont-email.me>, arthur@alum.calberkeley.org wrote: >On 2/17/2025 6:52 AM, shawn wrote:

    I watched much of the SNL 50th special.

    Same. I still have about an hour to go, but what I watched was good.

    TROLL-O-METER

    5* 6* *7
    4* *8
    3* *9
    2* *10
    1* | *stuporous
    0* -*- *catatonic
    * |\ *comatose
    * \ *clinical death
    * \ *biological death
    * _\/ *demonic apparition
    * * *damned for all eternity

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  • From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to ijball@mac.invalid on Mon Feb 17 12:09:14 2025
    In article <vovets$15he8$1@dont-email.me>, ijball@mac.invalid wrote:
    On 2/17/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    SNL 50 - I didn't see all of this - I saw the end of the first airing,
    and the first 3(!)-hours of the second airing, so I maybe missed some of
    the last 15-20 minutes of this.

    Oh gawd, they played it TWICE in a row?

    My condolences.

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    Not a joke! Don't jump!

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to shawn on Mon Feb 17 15:39:43 2025
    On 2025-02-17 14:52:36 +0000, shawn said:

    On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:51:56 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2/17/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    As expected, no movies. But I did get through most of the SNL 50 special.

    I watched:


    snipped text

    SNL 50 - I didn't see all of this - I saw the end of the first airing,
    and the first 3(!)-hours of the second airing, so I maybe missed some of
    the last 15-20 minutes of this.
    But, while it wasn't the show's best skits, I enjoyed the overall
    nostalgia ("Coffee Talk" lady is back!), and most of the "celebrity
    cameos" (not Baldwin! >:/ ), in the special.
    One thing is for sure - a number of the old timers (I never did see
    Chevy Chase or Jane Curtin) still have it, esp. Eddie Murphy! Get this
    guy his own show!!

    I didn't see Chase or Curtin live at the show so I'm not sure if they
    were there. Of course both got a good deal of air time in the clips
    from the past.

    I thought I caught a glimpse of Chase walking off the stage as the
    credits rolled. He may be getting too "up there" to want to participate
    in any skits, there's not much doubt he was asked to. If Curtin was
    there I didn't recognize her.

    Wonder how many of the original cast are still alive anyway -- Chase,
    Curtin, Lorraine Newman, Dan Ackroyd, Garrett Morris? I would've
    guessed Morris had passed on by now since I never see him in anything
    but there he was last night.

    I've always said even though Morris didn't get as much screen time as
    Chase and a few others he was responsible for some of the most
    hilarious bits in the show (he says he had to "fight to get people to
    write for me" in a short article in the new Time).

    Bill Murray didn't come along until '77 but he probably seems like an
    "original cast" member to many.

    BTW I understand the MAGA world is extremely upset at the recurrence of
    Tom Hanks's "Doug" parody. Actually I don't think a lot of the audience recognized the character, or that it was Tom Hanks doing it, at the
    start because you could hear a pin drop during the entire thing.

    Interestingly James Austin Johnson wasn't shown doing his gold standard
    Trump impersonation, probably much to the chagrin of Trump.

    I thought Baldwin wasn't even going to show when there were clear places
    he would have fit, but then they brought him in towards the end.

    He's probably doing a full image rehabilitation attempt before his new
    reality show premieres on the 23rd, I believe. He's also on the cover
    of the latest People (with his entire brood).

    I was particularly touched by that last clip showing John Belushi as an old man visiting the graves of all his former cast mates.

    Yeah I remembered this one from the original broadcast. Pretty ironic
    Belushi was the first to go.

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  • From Ian J. Ball@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Mon Feb 17 13:36:29 2025
    On 2/17/25 9:29 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

    Broken Arrow (blu-ray) 1996 movie directed by John Woo (I had *no* idea
    Woo directed this when I put the disc in) starring John Travolta as a US
    Air Force pilot who steals his plane's nuclear weapons during a training
    flight with Christian Slater as his determined copilot out to get the
    nukes back. And hey it's Samantha Mathis from Super Mario Bros. as the
    love interest. I don't think I've watched this since around the time of
    the original release. It was better than I was expecting. Although one
    annoyance was the way Travolta was constantly giving exposition to the
    guy who financed the operation. I know movies need exposition, but if I
    was financing stealing a pair of nuclear weapons, you best believe I
    would have already been fully briefed on the plan and all contingencies
    well before it began! Who are the co-conspirators, how are the bombs
    being transported, and transported to where, are really not the types of
    information you should be learning the day of! LOL

    I enjoyed this movie when I first saw it despite an incredibly weak
    script, with an especially strong performance from Christian Slater.

    Sigh. I agree with you about Vinnie.

    I believe I saw this movie in the theater, and I want to say I disliked
    it a lot.

    Face/Off (4K disc) 1997 movie directed by John Woo starring John
    Travolta as an FBI agent who agrees to have his face surgically removed
    and replace it with the face of a criminal played by Nicolas Cage so
    Travolta can pretend to be Cage and trick Cage's brother into revealing
    the location of a bomb. There has got to be easier ways to make someone
    talk! I watched with an interesting commentary track. The pair doing
    the commentary were all over the place, occasionally discussing the
    movie, but often just talking snark and trivia. I don't know why I
    found it so funny but I couldn't stop laughing when one said Travolta
    was playing the character like an evil Danny Zuko and the other said
    Danny Zuko *was* evil. One piece of trivia they mentioned was Nicholas
    Cage and Tomas Jane shared a scene together is that both men were
    married to Patricia Arquette.

    So absurd and over-the-top, but Cage was at his scenerary-chewing best.

    I actually enjoy Travolta's scenery chewing more in this film. This is
    kind of an underrated 'guilty pleasure' of a film.

    Swordfish (blu-ray) 2001 movie starring Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) as a
    hacker who is recruited by Storm (Halle Berry) to hack into a bank for a
    patriotic terrorist played by John Travolta. Rounding out the cast are
    War Machine (Don Cheadle) as an FBI agent trying to take them down and
    Juggernaut (Vinnie Jones) as one of Travolta's henchman. I've been
    looking forward to revisiting this for a long time. I'm glad I was
    finally able to watch it again.

    I hate this movie.

    As do I.

    Blackhat (4K disc) 2015 movie directed by Michael Mann starring Thor
    (Chris Hemsworth) as a hacker recruited from prison by the FBI to team
    up with Chinese law enforcement and track down the hackers who tried to
    melt down a U.S. nuclear power plant, and succeeded in melting down a
    Chinese power planet. I *think* I maybe saw this in the theater, when
    it first came out, but I had no real memory of the movie. There were
    three different versions of the movie available, U.S, international, and
    director's cut. I went with the U.S. version simply because it was the
    longest version of the three, and I hate wondering, what did I miss,
    with shorter cuts. In spite of the generally bad reviews this movie
    has, I liked it. I'm not going to say the movie wasn't a mess, and
    maybe a shorter version would have been more coherent (I did after all
    turn to the Wikipedia page to figure out what was happening), but the
    movie held my interest.

    The movie is so mediocre from start to finish, I don't even care that
    no motivation and no part of the plot makes sense.

    I have never seen it. It's on my list, but way down it, so I've never
    gotten to it.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Mon Feb 17 15:38:21 2025
    Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    Feb 17, 2025 8:53:34 AM PST, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>:

    Swordfish (blu-ray) 2001 movie starring Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) as a
    hacker who is recruited by Storm (Halle Berry) to hack into a bank for a >>> patriotic terrorist played by John Travolta. Rounding out the cast are
    War Machine (Don Cheadle) as an FBI agent trying to take them down and
    Juggernaut (Vinnie Jones) as one of Travolta's henchman. I've been
    looking forward to revisiting this for a long time. I'm glad I was
    finally able to watch it again.

    Most notable for being Halle Berry's first nude scene. And it was wonderfully
    gratuitous. It didn't advance the plot or character in any way. Just a shot of
    her nekkid ta-tas.

    A million dollars a tit!


    And completely full of alcohol

    --
    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to anim8rfsk@cox.net on Mon Feb 17 15:38:22 2025
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    I watched:


    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!

    Reruns of THE DREW CAREY SHOW

    Oh, yeah, episode 14.3 of DEATH IN PARADISE

    I’m coming to hate this show.

    If something horrible doesn’t happen to officer Curtis and soon I’m done with it.

    Meanwhile, the murder weapon du jour is peanuts and they get everything
    wrong about peanuts, including the fact that they aren’t goddamn nuts

    Curtis refuses to even hand stuff to her boss that he needs to process a
    crime scene unless he says please, and then stands there smirking at him
    and saying out loud that he’s learning. He probably can’t actually shoot her or slap her bloody, but he could at least assign her to sidewalk
    crossing duty. She’s nasty, rude, incompetent, condescending, arrogant, and terrible at her job. Meanwhile, she treats her nephew as badly as she hallucinates Wilson treats her. The commissioners finally had enough of
    this and dresses her down very gently saying that he was hoping to promote
    her to Sergeant (why?!?) But maybe she’s not quite ready. The mayor then comes after him, saying that Curtis didn’t deserve that (she deserves to
    fall off the zip line from last weeks episode.) so the commissioner
    apologizes to her and pretty much assures her that a completely unwarranted promotion is in the works.

    I continue to not understand if this is the entire police force or the
    homicide division because they send the new guy out on a noise complaint
    from a private party.

    This is the first episode from a new writer and I hope we never see another one. She actually has the victim unknowingly rubbing lidocaine on her leg, making her leg so numb that you can walk up and inject her without her
    noticing and yet she doesn’t notice her goddamn leg isn’t working, or her hand for that matter.

    Meanwhile, DS Thomas is starting to act like Curtis and Wilson asks her if
    she hasn’t ever considered that he acts the way he does on purpose to throw suspects off. She doesn’t immediately embrace this idea, but hopefully she will.

    Proof is found that Curtis‘s mother’s death was an accident, although I don’t have any idea if her body was even ever found. So he’s officially closed the investigation on her which means the only reason he’s still on
    the island is that the commissioner scammed him into signing that three
    month contract. But if I was him, I’d sure be pricing airline tickets.






    --
    Let's go Brandon!








    --
    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to super70s@super70s.invalid on Tue Feb 18 01:57:33 2025
    super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    . . .

    Wonder how many of the original cast are still alive anyway -- Chase,
    Curtin, Lorraine Newman, Dan Ackroyd, Garrett Morris? I would've
    guessed Morris had passed on by now since I never see him in anything
    but there he was last night.

    I've always said even though Morris didn't get as much screen time as
    Chase and a few others he was responsible for some of the most
    hilarious bits in the show (he says he had to "fight to get people to
    write for me" in a short article in the new Time).

    Of the original cast, Morris was the only one actually ready from prime
    time. He just turned 88 February 1. He'd been in shoe biz for close to
    two decades before the first season, and of course could sing.

    I loved his character interpretting for the deaf. That gag was not PC.

    He played the "12 year old boy" George Jefferson thought he'd been
    supporting for years.

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  • From shawn@21:1/5 to super70s@super70s.invalid on Mon Feb 17 21:24:00 2025
    On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:39:43 -0600, super70s
    <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-02-17 14:52:36 +0000, shawn said:

    On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:51:56 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2/17/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    As expected, no movies. But I did get through most of the SNL 50 special. >>>
    I watched:


    snipped text

    SNL 50 - I didn't see all of this - I saw the end of the first airing,
    and the first 3(!)-hours of the second airing, so I maybe missed some of >>> the last 15-20 minutes of this.
    But, while it wasn't the show's best skits, I enjoyed the overall
    nostalgia ("Coffee Talk" lady is back!), and most of the "celebrity
    cameos" (not Baldwin! >:/ ), in the special.
    One thing is for sure - a number of the old timers (I never did see
    Chevy Chase or Jane Curtin) still have it, esp. Eddie Murphy! Get this
    guy his own show!!

    I didn't see Chase or Curtin live at the show so I'm not sure if they
    were there. Of course both got a good deal of air time in the clips
    from the past.

    I thought I caught a glimpse of Chase walking off the stage as the
    credits rolled. He may be getting too "up there" to want to participate
    in any skits, there's not much doubt he was asked to. If Curtin was
    there I didn't recognize her.

    It's possible as I missed the credits. Ah, just caught the credits in
    a short over on Youtube. Chase was there behind Lorraine Newman.
    Jane Curtin was also there to the right of Newman looking much the
    same as always.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFj_AOlvy5A

    Wonder how many of the original cast are still alive anyway -- Chase,
    Curtin, Lorraine Newman, Dan Ackroyd, Garrett Morris? I would've
    guessed Morris had passed on by now since I never see him in anything
    but there he was last night.

    I've always said even though Morris didn't get as much screen time as
    Chase and a few others he was responsible for some of the most
    hilarious bits in the show (he says he had to "fight to get people to
    write for me" in a short article in the new Time).

    I'm not surprised Morris didn't do much given that he is 88 years old.
    They also had him sitting down to do his intro speech so he may have
    mobility issues.

    Bill Murray didn't come along until '77 but he probably seems like an >"original cast" member to many.

    Not to me but even though was but a young lad I caught some of those
    early year episodes.

    BTW I understand the MAGA world is extremely upset at the recurrence of
    Tom Hanks's "Doug" parody. Actually I don't think a lot of the audience >recognized the character, or that it was Tom Hanks doing it, at the
    start because you could hear a pin drop during the entire thing.

    As soon as they started Black Jeopardy it was only natural they
    included Doug.

    Interestingly James Austin Johnson wasn't shown doing his gold standard
    Trump impersonation, probably much to the chagrin of Trump.

    I thought Baldwin wasn't even going to show when there were clear places
    he would have fit, but then they brought him in towards the end.

    He's probably doing a full image rehabilitation attempt before his new >reality show premieres on the 23rd, I believe. He's also on the cover
    of the latest People (with his entire brood).

    Is this one where he "doesn't" shoot anyone from week to week?

    I was particularly touched by that last clip showing John Belushi as an old >> man visiting the graves of all his former cast mates.

    Yeah I remembered this one from the original broadcast. Pretty ironic
    Belushi was the first to go.

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  • From BTR1701@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 18 02:25:59 2025
    On Feb 17, 2025 at 6:24:00 PM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:39:43 -0600, super70s
    <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-02-17 14:52:36 +0000, shawn said:

    On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:51:56 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2/17/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    As expected, no movies. But I did get through most of the SNL 50 special. >>>>
    I watched:


    snipped text

    SNL 50 - I didn't see all of this - I saw the end of the first airing, >>>> and the first 3(!)-hours of the second airing, so I maybe missed some of >>>> the last 15-20 minutes of this.
    But, while it wasn't the show's best skits, I enjoyed the overall
    nostalgia ("Coffee Talk" lady is back!), and most of the "celebrity
    cameos" (not Baldwin! >:/ ), in the special.
    One thing is for sure - a number of the old timers (I never did see
    Chevy Chase or Jane Curtin) still have it, esp. Eddie Murphy! Get this >>>> guy his own show!!

    I didn't see Chase or Curtin live at the show so I'm not sure if they
    were there. Of course both got a good deal of air time in the clips
    from the past.

    I thought I caught a glimpse of Chase walking off the stage as the
    credits rolled. He may be getting too "up there" to want to participate
    in any skits, there's not much doubt he was asked to. If Curtin was
    there I didn't recognize her.

    It's possible as I missed the credits. Ah, just caught the credits in
    a short over on Youtube. Chase was there behind Lorraine Newman.
    Jane Curtin was also there to the right of Newman looking much the
    same as always.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFj_AOlvy5A

    Wonder how many of the original cast are still alive anyway -- Chase,
    Curtin, Lorraine Newman, Dan Ackroyd, Garrett Morris? I would've
    guessed Morris had passed on by now since I never see him in anything
    but there he was last night.

    I've always said even though Morris didn't get as much screen time as
    Chase and a few others he was responsible for some of the most
    hilarious bits in the show (he says he had to "fight to get people to
    write for me" in a short article in the new Time).

    I'm not surprised Morris didn't do much given that he is 88 years old.
    They also had him sitting down to do his intro speech so he may have
    mobility issues.

    Bill Murray didn't come along until '77 but he probably seems like an
    "original cast" member to many.

    Not to me but even though was but a young lad I caught some of those
    early year episodes.

    BTW I understand the MAGA world is extremely upset at the recurrence of
    Tom Hanks's "Doug" parody. Actually I don't think a lot of the audience
    recognized the character, or that it was Tom Hanks doing it, at the
    start because you could hear a pin drop during the entire thing.

    As soon as they started Black Jeopardy it was only natural they
    included Doug.

    According to the moviePig standards of humor, they should never be allowed to do a skit like that because stupid people might not understand it's a joke.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From shawn@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 17 21:50:52 2025
    On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:25:59 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    On Feb 17, 2025 at 6:24:00 PM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> >wrote:

    On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:39:43 -0600, super70s
    <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-02-17 14:52:36 +0000, shawn said:

    On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:51:56 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> >>>> wrote:

    On 2/17/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    As expected, no movies. But I did get through most of the SNL 50 special.

    I watched:


    snipped text

    SNL 50 - I didn't see all of this - I saw the end of the first airing, >>>>> and the first 3(!)-hours of the second airing, so I maybe missed some of >>>>> the last 15-20 minutes of this.
    But, while it wasn't the show's best skits, I enjoyed the overall
    nostalgia ("Coffee Talk" lady is back!), and most of the "celebrity >>>>> cameos" (not Baldwin! >:/ ), in the special.
    One thing is for sure - a number of the old timers (I never did see >>>>> Chevy Chase or Jane Curtin) still have it, esp. Eddie Murphy! Get this >>>>> guy his own show!!

    I didn't see Chase or Curtin live at the show so I'm not sure if they >>>> were there. Of course both got a good deal of air time in the clips
    from the past.

    I thought I caught a glimpse of Chase walking off the stage as the
    credits rolled. He may be getting too "up there" to want to participate
    in any skits, there's not much doubt he was asked to. If Curtin was
    there I didn't recognize her.

    It's possible as I missed the credits. Ah, just caught the credits in
    a short over on Youtube. Chase was there behind Lorraine Newman.
    Jane Curtin was also there to the right of Newman looking much the
    same as always.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFj_AOlvy5A

    Wonder how many of the original cast are still alive anyway -- Chase,
    Curtin, Lorraine Newman, Dan Ackroyd, Garrett Morris? I would've
    guessed Morris had passed on by now since I never see him in anything
    but there he was last night.

    I've always said even though Morris didn't get as much screen time as
    Chase and a few others he was responsible for some of the most
    hilarious bits in the show (he says he had to "fight to get people to
    write for me" in a short article in the new Time).

    I'm not surprised Morris didn't do much given that he is 88 years old.
    They also had him sitting down to do his intro speech so he may have
    mobility issues.

    Bill Murray didn't come along until '77 but he probably seems like an
    "original cast" member to many.

    Not to me but even though was but a young lad I caught some of those
    early year episodes.

    BTW I understand the MAGA world is extremely upset at the recurrence of
    Tom Hanks's "Doug" parody. Actually I don't think a lot of the audience
    recognized the character, or that it was Tom Hanks doing it, at the
    start because you could hear a pin drop during the entire thing.

    As soon as they started Black Jeopardy it was only natural they
    included Doug.

    According to the moviePig standards of humor, they should never be allowed to >do a skit like that because stupid people might not understand it's a joke.


    I wonder how much of an uproar there was over that first episode of
    SNL in 1975 when they had two of the cast play as a gay couple.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to shawn on Tue Feb 18 02:59:24 2025
    shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
    Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:39:43 -0600, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid>:
    On 2025-02-17 14:52:36 +0000, shawn said:

    I thought [Alec] Baldwin wasn't even going to show when there were clear >>>places he would have fit, but then they brought him in towards the end.

    He's probably doing a full image rehabilitation attempt before his new >>reality show premieres on the 23rd, I believe. He's also on the cover
    of the latest People (with his entire brood).

    Is this one where he "doesn't" shoot anyone from week to week?

    Oh! That's mean.

    . . .

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  • From super70s@21:1/5 to shawn on Tue Feb 18 02:15:53 2025
    On 2025-02-18 02:24:00 +0000, shawn said:

    On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:39:43 -0600, super70s
    <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-02-17 14:52:36 +0000, shawn said:

    On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:51:56 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2/17/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

    What did you watch?

    As expected, no movies. But I did get through most of the SNL 50 special. >>>>
    I watched:


    snipped text

    SNL 50 - I didn't see all of this - I saw the end of the first airing, >>>> and the first 3(!)-hours of the second airing, so I maybe missed some of >>>> the last 15-20 minutes of this.
    But, while it wasn't the show's best skits, I enjoyed the overall
    nostalgia ("Coffee Talk" lady is back!), and most of the "celebrity
    cameos" (not Baldwin! >:/ ), in the special.
    One thing is for sure - a number of the old timers (I never did see
    Chevy Chase or Jane Curtin) still have it, esp. Eddie Murphy! Get this >>>> guy his own show!!

    I didn't see Chase or Curtin live at the show so I'm not sure if they
    were there. Of course both got a good deal of air time in the clips
    from the past.

    I thought I caught a glimpse of Chase walking off the stage as the
    credits rolled. He may be getting too "up there" to want to participate
    in any skits, there's not much doubt he was asked to. If Curtin was
    there I didn't recognize her.

    It's possible as I missed the credits. Ah, just caught the credits in
    a short over on Youtube. Chase was there behind Lorraine Newman.
    Jane Curtin was also there to the right of Newman looking much the
    same as always.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFj_AOlvy5A

    Yep. Seems really strange that Michaels didn't insist Chase and Curtin
    at least be recognized during the "important people who weren't in
    skits" segment. Unless they made it plain to him they didn't want to
    be. Newman was in her own skit with Pete Davidson (which I thought
    sucked and entirely because of him, she's great).

    And did Ackroyd even show up? Apparently not or he would've been
    included in Short's original cast tribute.

    I've always said even though Morris didn't get as much screen time as
    Chase and a few others he was responsible for some of the most
    hilarious bits in the show (he says he had to "fight to get people to
    write for me" in a short article in the new Time).

    I'm not surprised Morris didn't do much given that he is 88 years old.
    They also had him sitting down to do his intro speech so he may have
    mobility issues.

    Is he *that* old? Wow.

    BTW I understand the MAGA world is extremely upset at the recurrence of
    Tom Hanks's "Doug" parody. Actually I don't think a lot of the audience
    recognized the character, or that it was Tom Hanks doing it, at the
    start because you could hear a pin drop during the entire thing.

    As soon as they started Black Jeopardy it was only natural they
    included Doug.

    I guess I forgot a lot about Black Jeopardy, with that fake beard I
    didn't even recognize it was Hanks until well into it.

    I thought Baldwin wasn't even going to show when there were clear places >>> he would have fit, but then they brought him in towards the end.

    He's probably doing a full image rehabilitation attempt before his new
    reality show premieres on the 23rd, I believe. He's also on the cover
    of the latest People (with his entire brood).

    Is this one where he "doesn't" shoot anyone from week to week?

    Can you believe he's bringing a malicious prosecution suit against some
    of the authorities? Jeez I'd just let the whole thing drop and be
    grateful I didn't do prison time.

    He settled a civil suit with the dead woman's husband but he's still
    being sued by her parents and sister, with ambulance chaser royale
    Gloria Allred in charge.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to super70s@super70s.invalid on Tue Feb 18 16:37:47 2025
    super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
    On 2025-02-18 02:24:00 +0000, shawn said:
    Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:39:43 -0600, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid>:

    I've always said even though [Garrett] Morris didn't get as much screen >>>time as Chase and a few others he was responsible for some of the most >>>hilarious bits in the show (he says he had to "fight to get people to >>>write for me" in a short article in the new Time).

    I'm not surprised Morris didn't do much given that he is 88 years old.
    They also had him sitting down to do his intro speech so he may have >>mobility issues.

    Is he *that* old? Wow.

    Garrett Morris was 15 to 20 years older than the rest of the cast first
    season.

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