We watched that one last night. Fun, and he’s such a great actor. The old Chinese lady at the Baccarat table cracked me up to no end!
Also watched the newest epi of Derry, of which I have zero recollection. Like, nil.
Musta been the two martinis… 
I think there’s one specific incident involving soldiers that Mike Hanlon’s dad tells him about, and which I’m guessing is going to happen in some form in the show … but I think that’s it, and it has nothing to do with this military project the show is giving us.
Last night’s was fine, I just keep wishing that we focused mainly on the kids. Having this many adults know what’s going on … it makes it feel different. So much of the novel is about the frustration of not being able to get adult help, and the sense that adults are almost out to get you, with their amnesia and willful ignorance. Everything rests on the kids figuring things out, because no one else can. In the show, that’s not how it’s playing out.
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The guy was in a staggering number of films that ranged across the full spectrum of genre and quality. He has thoroughly left his mark, which is probably the best possible fate a performer could wish for.
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A(n actor) friend posted a pic of him and a mutual friend on Facebook today, when they were hanging out at a cafe in Cologne back in the 90s.
He was one of a kind.
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His Random Roles interview in The AV Club is well worth reading, if only for:
AVC: You’re listed on IMDb in Moscow On The Hudson as “Gay Man On Street (uncredited).” What was that all about?
UK: I cannot answer you, because it’s totally unknown to me what you just asked me, and also very boring.
I don’t have Apple TV, but I found this
Where did you watch those docs? I was a dedicated Mad reader as a kid.
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I tried watching this, but found it too contrived and overproduced. Not my thang.
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I watched both on Amazon prime. Both include lots of old rare footage, especially the Surf Music one. I learned a lot from that one.
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I just finished watching the excellent first season of The Undeclared War on Peacock. It’s about a Russian cyber attack on the UK during elections. I’m looking forward to watching season 2 next year.
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We watched The Baltimorons last night, a Jay Duplass flick that had good reviews.
A newly sober man’s Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.
It was cute, but if you never see it you’ll be just fine 
Man, I love both these things. Surf music became one of my default background/driving/working musics a few years ago when the Surf Age Nuggets set came out. (It’s excellent, and streaming on both Spotify and Apple Music, so I assume elsewhere too.)
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Lousy weather today, so I finally finished Lisey’s Story based on a Stephen King novel of the same name. My PIC bowed out early, as he found it too depressing (he felt the same way about The Handmaid’s Tale — well, duh!).
It really is a meditation on grief, loss, and love, with great performances by Julianne Moore, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Joan Allen.
Glad I watched it.
PS: Fair warning — there’s some pretty gruesome torture scenes & a maniacal stalker… it IS a SK novel after all
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My two widowed friends, whom we’ll be hosting tomorrow for our Friendsgiving meal, both recommended a show they’re absolutely obsessed with, and that neither of us had heard of before: Absentia from 2017.
We’re only two epis in but already hooked 
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Celebrity Traitors UK was added to Peacock, so we’ve started that and I’ve been emailing my cousin about it (her husband is Irish and they use a VPN to watch a lot of UK shows, and we had one of our “once every five or six years” dinners with her a few days ago when she was up here for a funeral). So far so good, and I’ve avoided spoilers (but am rooting for Mark Bonnar simply because I loved him on Catastrophe).
I think the new episode of Pluribus is out early, so that’ll be lunch.
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Also, the new Beavis & Butthead season is laugh-out-loud funny.
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Saw some kind of promo for the 1985 movie Clue, so we watched it last night. Amazing cast, but pretty silly. Overall it was 94 minutes of relaxation, but maybe too slapstick for us.
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Clue is one of my guilty pleasure movies! Tim Curry at his best, but the entire cast is wonderful.
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i did wind up seeing Clue a few times on it’s initial release, the multiple endings was a fun gimmick. i think each of the endings are available to view if you search deep enough.
Whatever version is on Amazon Prime has all 3 endings in it. Were they not all there originally?
