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  1. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    That Untouchables episode is always mentioned, but she had made an impression in a small role in The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell too. I remember that episode where Darrin is given powers very well - "Banana... come!" It's a credit to the show's early, more serious approach that he likes it...
  2. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Lizzie, don't forget George Tobias as Abner Kravitz! And yeah, Jeannie is/was nowhere near as palatable as Bewitched. I recently got the entire Twilight Zone series on DVD (a steal for $50 at Amazon) but have only had time to quickly spot-check a few episodes on some of the discs. Even though...
  3. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    It's amazing in retrospect that the 36-episode season was a standard thing, now that we accept 8-, 10-, 12-, and 13-episode seasons! And 22 is a "long season". The first season of Bewitched, the b/w one, is way more "adult" than later seasons... The show's comedy became broader and broader...
  4. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    A 1995 cartoon, this wasn't made by any of the classic WB animation staff, they'd closed up shop back in the sixties. It was done by WB's TV animators (of Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, B:TAS, etc.) Just putting that out there, because "Looney Tunes" conjures up the great days of WB...
  5. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Agreed that Helen's father (*) is a major nightmare... but he didn't personally break up a marriage and screw up four kids' lives over a waitress. Then screwed up her life (even more than it was). Then screwed up a visiting French professor's life. And so on. Helen is a rich girl, and she...
  7. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I enjoy The Affair when it's running, then forget about it when it's not. I think it's essentially a trashy soap about awful people (especially Noah, possibly the most privileged and reprehensible protagonist ever - I don't care if his backstory explains it, he's a monster), though its use of...
  8. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I ended up liking Feud much more than I expected to, and was moved by the last episode. The miniseries was uneven in its storytelling, but wonderfully acted all around and very well produced. Jessica Lange deserves an Emmy nom for her heartbreaking work in this episode. Of course, the other...
  9. Doctor Strange

    Your TOP Bogart movie..?

    Across the Pacific's "rushed ending" has a well-known cause. From its Wiki article: Director John Huston was called up to military service during filming; he claimed he left at the point near the end of the film in which Bogart is trapped in a house at gun-point. Vincent Sherman finished...
  10. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Tale of Tales - gorgeously shot film of three little-known, but very old fairy tales (from the first-ever fairy tale collection, published in Renaissance Italy). Made in Italy using mostly real locations, in English with an international cast. Fascinating... but this is some pretty strange...
  11. Doctor Strange

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Some of my earliest jobs - after working for my folks - were in the printing and typesetting field. In 1979, even though the type was coming out of a new computer system (*) on photo paper or film, all the compositing and make-up to prepare the offset plates was done on light tables with...
  13. Doctor Strange

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Of course, my experience was pretty unique, growing up in a working photo biz. We could shoot b/w film, process it and let it dry, then print the negs and dry the resulting prints in as little as a half-day. So I had something not too far from "instant" b/w results all through my childhood...
  14. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The latest Agents of SHIELD, which as I said a couple of pages ago, is having its strongest season in years.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There was also a time when many photofinishers ran their own lab for b/w (*) and just sent out color film to big guys like Kodak, etc. I recall this clearly from my youth in the sixties: we had a photofinisher right down Broadway from our own studio in Yonkers, and he did all the b/w...
  16. Doctor Strange

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    I'm sorry to hear that they're now out of these: one has been on my "eventual" list for years. Yours looks great! I've had an ATF tanker jacket for over a decade, and I got one of their summer M-41 jackets last year. I think both are excellent for the price.
  17. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Just puttin' my POV out there, bro. The Ten Commandments is surely a mess, but it's very entertaining mess that still manages to tell its inspirational story amidst its overkill. I mean, if you really want to see this material botched - precisely because it doesn't go for the lusty bombast and...
  19. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    While We're Young, written/directed by Noah Bumbach. I'm not a fan of all of Bumbach's films, but I really liked this one. A NYC couple in their mid-40s, Ben Stiller (with his usual schtick tamped WAY down) and Naomi Watts, become friends with much younger married Brooklyn hipsters, Adam Driver...
  20. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Gotta say, growing up Jewish in the sixties, The Ten Commandments was essentially the only religious epic we had. Samson and Delilah didn't get big roadshow re-releases, Huston's The Bible is a bit of a misfire, and the assorted little films about David, Solomon, Ruth, Esther, etc., don't...
  21. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I haven't watched the silent version in like 40 years - and when I did, I think I was mostly focused on its groundbreaking effects work - but I'll certainly take your word for it!
  22. Doctor Strange

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    As all the recaps/reviews pointed out, you got your classic what-happens-to-most-characters sitcom ending in the penultimate episode. The last one is more of an epilogue, showing the final disposition of Hannah and Marnie's best-friendship, and Hannah finally stepping up to adult...
  23. Doctor Strange

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The chariot race was mostly directed by genius stuntman Yakima Canutt. As should be abundantly clear from the rest of his filmography, William Wyler was an "actor's director" who thrived on dramatic conflicts... and not really a creator of action sequences or spectacles. Fun factoid about this...

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