It doesn’t ring anything for me, but maybe some of my friends on FB will know from this clip! Thanks!
Update: Someone on FB is going to ask Leroy Emmanuel if it was he! He was a Motown player.
Okay, I’m reliving my youth in front of the TV by watching many of the series that I watched with my mom. So naturally, many of them are from the late 1960s and the entire 1970s (read: when the 'rents began to let me stay up later up until I started getting out of the house during prime-time, lol). I’m on “Mannix” now, but will be moving back in time when I watch “Mod Squad”; after that, it’s going to back to the 1970s.
And it’s making me think about camp, which I find to be so deliciously amusing. I honestly think that the 1970s was the campiest era of the century. And remember - being campy on purpose is NOT camp. The exception being, of course, the 1967 film “Valley of the Dolls”, which was way ahead of its time re campiness.
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If you’re going backwards in time, check out this from the early 60s.
Nothing to do with Marvel superheroes. It’s a CBS series about a father/son team of defense lawyers that explored legal and social issues, and actually made one think about them. Netflix should just pick up the rights and show the original episodes again. The issues are still the same.
Only a little Shatner in it. 
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I was a few years late to the party, but recently I watched Anne with an E. I had no expectation whatsoever starting it and I only did so because I was bored and Netflix kept insisting that I do. I have never read the books and I have only the vaguest memories of the 80s mini series. I was aware of the story, but that didn’t really go beyond the two or three sentence summary that one tends to know of many classics.
I was absolutely unprepared for how much I loved it. Great characters and writing in general, great acting from so many people, great cinematography and production design. One thing that I like is that I think it strikes great balance between attention to and respect for the attitudes of the time and place where it is set and those of a modern audience.
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I agree!!! It totally exceeded my expectations. I’m so glad you watched it.
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I really wonder what convinced the great Netflix AI that I absolutely had to watch it. I only got my subscription fairly recently because of this current unpleasantness. Overall my favorites are Pose, Dark and now Anne with an E. I suspect my profile says that I am really into non-traditional family structures and flexible on everything else.
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Oh dear…we had most of his albums but I don’t remember this one. Thank you for posting!
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The spouse started watching in June, I joined him the 2nd week of July. Now the kid and I watch. Things I notice:
- Gene was affable, smooth, quickwitted, but a handsy guy. I notice when Fannie Flagg is closer to Gene/center stage it’s because she’s more of an ingenue or more sober than the other guest panelist female. At the second week Kaye Stevens was a guest, Richard has his back turned to Kaye, who seemed needy for attention.
- I didn’t “get” Charles Nelson Reilly in my primary years. I appreciate him now as a gem.
- Only now am I aware of Richard (Colin Emm, Diana Dors’ ex-husband) Dawson as someone outside of “Newkirk” (yawn) on “Hogan’s Heroes.” I adore his Stan Laurel, Paul Lynde, Groucho Marx, WC Fields, Boris Karloff (‘antipasto’), and Bela Lugosi impressions.
- the guests from 46-47 years ago are fodder for my celebrity death pool lists: Jackie Joseph for example; Orson Bean I scored with.
- the director and judge made a few egregious errors.
- Brett mentioned until spring 1974 that she was married to Jack Klugman. They separated that year.
- Brett scared me when i was a kid. She still scares me, but I like her outfits and walking off-stage.
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In honor of Trump hiding-out in the Whitehouse, lobbing occasional tweets, I’m rewatching “Downfall.”
At one point in the movie, Joseph Goebbels addresses the civilian deaths:
“I don’t pity them. The people called this upon themselves. Don’t fool yourself. We didn’t force the people, they gave us a mandate. And now they’re paying for it."
This stuck with me when I saw the film in 2005, and I’ve thought about it many times during the current administration. I can think of many people in the west wing who would say the same thing.
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No, it’s really NOT bad at all; and I say that as someone who didn’t like most of the X-Men franchise.
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What I will be watching:
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Does it get better? The first episode seemed like a waste of talent, bad writing, and took all the female forward characters and stuck them in the back row.
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Unfortunately, after the 3 year gap, I don’t remember specifics. Just that my family found it intriguing, a sense of realistic surrealism and plausible absurdity.
However, I believe that the idea of the quiet, well-behaved girl who doesn’t know what’s going on and couldn’t possibly handle it got totally flipped on its head at least once. Now I want to rewatch it.
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I might try a second episode only because I loved the movie so much.
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THIS:
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If somebody has to put Illuminatus on television, I guess this is the guy
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Give it to the people that put together Letterkenny.
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After reading that interview, I’m cautiously kinda optimistic about this… it sounds like Taylor gets it. I haven’t seen Happy! yet, but I’m intrigued, and working on a show that crazy (from what I’ve heard) is good preparation for something as complex as Illuminatus!
If it wasn’t Taylor, I’d recommend Don Coscarelli to bring a project like this to screen. I’d considered John Dies At The End basically unfilmable, but Coscarelli pulled it off magnificently. (Yeah, he changed the ending somewhat, but that was a practical matter due to running out of money, and it still worked pretty well.) Between that and Bubba Ho-Tep, I don’t think there’s any narrative he can’t capture on camera.
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Netflix had been suggesting I watch 6 Underground so I put it on for background noise.
I give it a hearty “yeah, don’t bother.” You’ve probably seen it all before in other movies.
I think it says something as I watch the high-speed chase through some Italian(?) city, my biggest takeaways were:
- If this was real, how many bystanders would be dead or maimed?
- Would insurance pay out for that?
- Will that store owner be able to financially recover from a car going through his store?
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