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R.CAllen

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  1. I think it’d be so so so funny now that Haley’s dropped out if the former (future? current?) President died. It’d have to happen pretty soon for it to be maximally funny. Like, before the next big primary. It’d have to happen before Tuesday when Georgia and Hawaii and Mississippi and Washington (state, not district) vote. Also, it’d be funny if the actual factual President died tonight after (during?) the State of the Union address. Lots of things would be so funny. It’s the power not the money.
  2. I saw this movie. I liked it a lot! I know next to nothing about wrestling — apparently there were also fictional Von Erich brothers!?!?1? Surprised that wasn’t addressed. Particularly when you consider how the movie ends. In any case : great movie!
  3. A lot of people thought they voted for Al Gore.
  4. I have only two thoughts on the matter. Both equally unhelpful, I imagine, but I’ll share them nonetheless.
  5. Thanks! I remembered a few more names : Qualia Redux, Mira Manga, Schnee, Tim Rogers. Same caveats as before apply.
  6. Well, in that case, you’re welcome — or I’m sorry! whichever applies best in this situation! — for that too!
  7. Thanks! I spoilered my takes — so hot! — for that very reason. Easily ignorable! Easily skippable! Easily dismissable! You’re welcome.
  8. My unchanging prediction of long duration is that both President Donald John Trump and President Joseph Robinette Biden will be joining the President Stephen Grover Cleveland club. I think it’s the stupidest possible outcome so it’s what’s going to happen. Only thing more stupider — as I learned during my sojourns to planet Jupiter — would be for one or both of them to die either before November 5th or before January 20th. Not ruling that out!
  9. Gary Graham died. The human cop in Alien Nation (‘89-’90, ‘94, ‘95, ‘96, ‘96, ‘97). Ambassador Soval on Enterprise (‘01-’05) + that one episode of Star Trek: Voyager (‘95-’01) where they found the Caretaker’s mate. 73!
  10. I don’t much care for when other art is inexpertly larded into the substance of the art I’m experiencing. I’m thinking of ... the thing where a book will have two opening epigraphs, one from a highbrow source and one from something lowbrow. Or when a movie will try to class up the joint by quoting from some poetry e.g. Skyfall (2012), Oblivion (2013), Interstellar (2014). Or when characters will drop a reference in dialogue which just don’t feel right, just don’t feel like the sort of thing that character would say, even when the character has JUST said it!!!!1! BUT One thing I do like is when you get a little piece of another movie inside of your movie. Now that’s just good value for money! Examples, examples, let’s see. The Limey (1999) repurposing that old Ken Loach film. That little piece of Star Wars (1977) inside 500 Days of Summer (2009). The Great Escape (1963) reworked within Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019).
  11. Norman Jewison died. I thought he was already dead! Kind of an understandable mistake. 97! Norman Jewison : wasn’t dead, wasn’t Jewish, 100% Canadian. I don’t know. I really like Agnes of God (1985). I’ve seen it ... three times? I think I’ve seen it three times. I’ve seen it twice definitely. I saw it for the first time in university, rented it once, I think I’ve seen it at least one other time. I should watch it again. Great movie!
  12. Nerene Virgin died. Jodie from Today’s Special (‘81-’87). 78!
  13. The reason the other thread was chockablock with people chiming in from jump with all the things they dislike about art and this thread is mostly silent is actually a pretty simple one. It’s easier to notice what we think is bad than what’s good. Even I — the world’s most important person, need I remind you, the man whose opinions REALLY MATTER! — find it to be a struggle. Here are my best guesses:
  14. Howard Waldrop died. ‘The Ugly Chickens’, yeah, but so many more. ‘Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me’, ‘Ike at the Mike’, ‘Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen’, ‘Horror, We Got’. 77!
  15. Terry Bisson died. ‘They’re Made Out of Meat’, of course, but the thing that sticks in my memory are the (pointless?) cash grabs. The work for hire stuff. The Johnny Mnemonic novelization. The Galaxy Quest novelization. Why did they ... well, I read them. I read the copies my library ordered. I don’t think I read the young Boba Fett books he did. The ones which came out after AotC. But they were on my radar then and now. They came to mind to me upon learning he’d passed beyond the veil. Oh well. 81!
  16. Tracy Tormé died. ‘Conspiracy’ from Season 1 of TNG! (Wait, he was Mel Tormé’s son!?!?1? Bing Crosby’s kid. Mel Tormé’s kid. Kind of a dr._doofenshmirtz_meme.jpeg situation.) 64! Terrible.
  17. Tom Wilkinson died. Great actor! Really great in The Governess (1998), as the money in Shakespeare In Love (1998), in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Michael Clayton (2007), Ben Franklin in John Adams (‘08), James Baker in Recount (2008) — I have a soft spot for those modern day politics movies Jay Roach and Danny Strong tricked Dr Pepper® into paying for —, in Valkyrie (2008) — “I will hear you say it, Colonel.” —, 44 Inch Chest (2009), in The Green Hornet (2011) and The Lone Ranger (2013), as Joe Kenedy in The Kennedys (‘11), in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), Belle (2013), in the closest-to-outermost framing sequences of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) oh wait I am actually unsure where his scenes are fitted into that but I obviously remember the bit with the pellet gun, LBJ in Selma (2014), as the older member of the trio in Unfinished Business (2015), wait, is that the most recent thing I remember him from, I saw Snowden (2016) but I don’t remember him in that. Hmm. 75! He just made everything better. One of the great balances between “Oh, it’s him!” and the total belief that he was now whomever he was onscreen.
  18. I still read books. I don’t have a reading goal for the year. I don’t think I have any good book recommendations — sorry! — I can never really manage to narrow it down.
  19. Wolfgang Schäuble died. Plenty of rough deaths this year but I’m chalking that one up in the column beneath Henry Kissinger. To quote the words of Gotham City district attorney Harvey Dent as written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by Tim Sale OB”M in The Long Halloween : “If you ask me, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.”
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