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What was the last TV show you watched?
Mrs. Maisel was created and is helmed by Amy Sherman-Palladino (I suspect with help from her husband Daniel), the creator and producer of another machine-gun dialogue series, Gilmore Girls.- Benzadmiral
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I had the same reaction to the comedy soap-opera satire Soap when it first appeared. People I knew raved about it, but I didn't get it . . . until years afterward. One night, bored, I watched an episode in syndication -- and I realized. It was a comic strip! If you replaced Burt with a...- Benzadmiral
- Post #16,022
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I've just begun watching the first season. It's a quiet kind of entertainment, and you have to pay attention to what everyone is saying (which are good things). My only objection is in the presentation, a flaw it shares with most films/TV shows these days. At the end the credits list the...- Benzadmiral
- Post #16,021
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Name the Actor...
Marty Feldman! The last word in Igors!- Benzadmiral
- Post #307
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Name the Actor...
That film is the one I point to when people ask what it was like growing up in the French Quarter in the early Sixties. "It looked a lot like that."- Benzadmiral
- Post #306
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Are You Reading
I'll say only that I read it first at 15, and when I read it again a couple of years ago, I enjoyed it just as much if not more.- Benzadmiral
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Are You Reading
Ah. I'll check through my copy of Rubber Band this weekend.- Benzadmiral
- Post #7,915
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Are You Reading
Julian, There is a moment in one of the Wolfe novels or novelettes. To me it's an expert example of how well Stout wrote, how he made Wolfe work. On the phone, Wolfe is trying to reach Lieutenant Rowcliff, whom he detests (and so does Archie, and so does the reader after only one encounter!)...- Benzadmiral
- Post #7,909
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
He played Rex Stout's overweight, orchid-fancying private detective Nero Wolfe in Meet Nero Wolfe in '36, and I've always thought he had the right look and manner. You could easily imagine him dominating a room full of suspects at the climax, or any room, for that matter. Apparently the movie...- Benzadmiral
- Post #25,162
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Old gas stations
Patronize the place as often as you can, and let your friends know about it too!- Benzadmiral
- Post #3,187
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Old gas stations
I can't remember when I saw a free air pump at a gas station. Almost all the pumps cost $1.00 to operate, and unless you move with the speed of the Flash, you can't fill up all your tires before the bell goes off. There goes another $1.00. Sorry, no. Miss Linda bought me a portable air...- Benzadmiral
- Post #3,185
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Parts 2 and 3 of Masterpiece's "Little Women," with Maya Hawke (Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke's daughter, I found out) as Jo, Emily Watson as the girl's mother, and Angela Lansbury as Aunt March. I don't know how it compares to the famous version of the Thirties with Katharine Hepburn. But I see...- Benzadmiral
- Post #15,957
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Last movie: The Family Fang, Jason Bateman's sophomore directing effort, with Nicole Kidman and Christopher Walken. Almost a detective story, as Bateman and Kidman's brother and sister, who spent their childhoods being used in their parents' "performance art," are told their parents may be dead...- Benzadmiral
- Post #25,159
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
I first saw that film on late-night TV when it was only a few years old, so it didn't look vintage to me then. At the time, I was astonished by its technique of switching time periods -- the hair styles and cars were my way to keep up with it at first. And I thought then it was one of the few...- Benzadmiral
- Post #25,158
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Old gas stations
That was my first thought; I seemed to recall that as a variant on the "3s. 6d." style that is still being used today, but I couldn't verify it.- Benzadmiral
- Post #3,184
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts
Possibly Barbasol shaving cream? It dates to the 1920s, I think, and certainly was mentioned in a lyric in Guys and Dolls. You can still buy the pressurized can, which came out after WWII, in drugstores, WM, and even the Dollar Tree.- Benzadmiral
- Post #207
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Old gas stations
Saturday morning shopping day in Bedford Falls, a couple of years after the war. The town's booming now that Old Man Potter has kicked the bucket. . . .- Benzadmiral
- Post #3,149
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Old gas stations
Top pic: That's a '56 Chevy, the best-looking in my opinion of the famous Tri-Fives. But the car to its right looks like a late '60s Dodge Charger, so this must be from, say, '67 or later. Middle pic: Yes, Stephen King fans, there is a town called Castle Rock, but it's in Colorado, between...- Benzadmiral
- Post #3,148
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
As Max said, ever so stolidly: "Madame is the greatest star of them all." (Be sure to take the Isotta-Fraschini when you head to the theatre.)- Benzadmiral
- Post #25,137
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Vintage Interiors
Puts me in mind of the set of the Brewster house, in Arsenic and Old Lace. It even has a window seat for Mr. Spenalzo!- Benzadmiral
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- Forum: The Golden Era
