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  1. Doctor Strange

    Star Trek

    BBC America has also been running several Trek series - TOS, TNG, VOY - in blocks, and with less commercials. That's where I find myself getting drawn in these days. But knowing that H&I is running all five series back to back really warms my "Old Ones, the ones who made us"...
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    Star Trek

    Shatner didn't get a percentage of Trek, and was indeed broke and scrambling for work for several years afterwards. There were few/no deals like that in TV at the time. Small residual payments for a certain (small) number of rerun showings, yes... but that didn't add up to much. More to the...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I agree. I'm also watching Insecure as a 62-year-old white dude, just as I watched (and loved) Girls. I'm always interested in seeing different viewpoints and lifestyles, and as you indicated, Issa and her gang have a life that's quite different from my experience. Full disclosure: I have to...
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    Star Trek

    I'm not saying he didn't work plenty, but Shatner was the more well known actor. A film like Them, back in the fifties and early sixties, was considered kiddie junk, not the timeless classic it is now. And one-shot appearances in TV shows didn't add up to much back in those days. It was a...
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    Star Trek

    Better known at the beginning? No. Shatner had appeared in key supporting roles in major feature films like The Brothers Karamazov and Judgment at Nuremberg. Nimoy was primarily a TV actor. And Lizzie, that's a great book, a useful corrective to Roddenberry's self-aggrandizement (which began...
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    Barcelona

    The other Stillman films are Damsels In Distress and Love & Friendship. They have their moments, but I'm not crazy about either of them. I worked in NYC for most of the late 70s to mid 90s (commuting from the Bronx and Westchester), but I never came in contact with the "urban haute...
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    Best TV Themes (music)

    A bit off topic, but... You do realize that "Edelweiss" was written by Rogers and Hammerstein for The Sound of Music, and is not a German or Austrian traditional song, right? It's the last song they wrote together. Hammerstein was on his deathbed with cancer when, in its out-of-town tryout...
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    Barcelona

    Good appraisal. I still personally prefer Metropolitan over this one, but all of Whit Stillman's films are interesting.
  10. Doctor Strange

    Star Trek

    Well said, Lizzie! Absolutely dead right. And I'm not going to explain again why I hate, HATE, HATE the new Abramsverse feature films. They're "not your father's Star Trek"... but (to borrow a line from that other franchise), I AM YOUR FATHER.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Nocturnal Animals. A fascinating, beautiful, and at times terrifying film directed by clothing designer Tom Ford. (Whose earlier feature, A Single Man, is also very good.) Wealthy, reserved, uber-glamorous LA art gallery owner Amy Adams, whose marriage to Armie Hammer is failing, receives an...
  13. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Red Turtle, a beautiful little animated film with no dialog. More of a fable than an actual story, it was released by Studio Ghibli (of Miyazaki fame) though it's mainly a European production. Many would find it slow going (though it's only barely feature length) and lose patience. But I...
  14. Doctor Strange

    Akubra Federation in my mind...

    The only thing I can add is that the Fed III had both a larger crown AND a larger brim. The brim was 2-7/8 x 2-3/4, vs. the Fed IV's 2-3/4 x 2-1/2. I had one (standard Imperial felt), and ended up selling it because it always felt like too much hat for me. And - since we know there's...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Don't know that I'd call it one of the top episodes ever, but it was riveting (*), and a real game changer. A zombie dragon?!? Wasn't expecting that! Kudos to director Alan Taylor, returning after having helmed some of the best episodes back in the first season that established the show...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Marvel maniac that I am, I binged The Defenders minseries across two nights. Before my review, a recap of how I liked the earlier Marvel Netflix series leading to the team-up: Daredevil - *** first season, ** second season Jessica Jones - **** Luke Cage - *** Iron Fist - ** The Defenders is a...
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    Star Trek

    It took most Hollywood "experts" a few years to realize that the success of Star Wars wasn't mainly about the special effects. The explosion of effects-heavy movies that followed in the wake of Star Wars (don't forget other embarrassments like Moonraker!) were a very mixed batch. A lot of what...
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    Star Trek

    Gotta say, I was pretty blind to the flaws of Star Trek: The Motionless Picture when it originally opened. I saw it twice the first week, and while it was pretty obvious that it wasn't exactly the best possible film that could be spun off Trek, it was downright amazing that it existed at all...
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    Taylor's police jacket sale

    I didn't see any mention of this here or in the Merchants forum. http://taylorsleatherwear.com/shop.php#!/FACTORY-BLOW-OUT-SALE Lots of different models of their police jackets, in a full range of sizes, for $199. And some one-offs in particular sizes for even less. The only personal...
  21. Doctor Strange

    Do You Watch End Credits?

    I just answered this on the other thread where you asked it.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    That's an excellent film, and much better than its recent remake. I watch the credits if I know there are mid- and post-credits sequences that aren't mere throwaway bloopers, as in the Marvel films. Or if we're talking about older films with short credit lists. But for today's typical...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Another loss to music: Barbara Cook, the original Marian in The Music Man and Cunegonde in Candide: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/theater/barbara-cook-dead.html

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