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Ian J. Ball wrote:
> On 6/5/24 9:15 PM, Robin Miller wrote:
>
> 
> 
>>          Wednesday, June 5
>>
>>
>>      Streaming:
>>
>>
>> Under Paris [Sous la Seine]       (movie)        (3:01 am, Netflix)
>>
>> In order to save Paris from an international bloodbath, a grieving 
>> scientist is forced to face her tragic past when a giant shark appears 
>> in the Seine. French film; 1h 41m.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCefPQIH98
>>
>> https://www.netflix.com/title/81210788
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>> https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/under-paris-release-date-news
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>> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13964390/
> 
> Oh, Good Lord!! (And starring no one you've ever heard of!)
> 
>

And speaking of the Seine (from today's Yahoo Sports):


The Paris Olympics begin in 50 days, but questions persist about whether 
the heavily-polluted River Seine will be ready for its close-up, Jeff 
writes.

Where things stand: The Seine will host the Opening Ceremony, with each 
nation's delegation being ferried down the river. It will also host the 
marathon swim and triathlon — a bold endeavor considering Parisians 
haven't been able to swim in the polluted waters since 1923.

     Swimming test events were canceled last summer due to water quality 
concerns, and similar levels of contamination were reported in April by 
a French environmental group, which said that "pollution of fecal 
origin" was higher than permitted.

     But officials are optimistic that the Seine will be ready now that 
the river's massive cleanup project is underway. "We are on time," Paris 
regional prefect Marc Guillaume told AP. "The beginning of the Games 
will coincide with water quality allowing competition."

Solving a century-old problem: The city spent $1.5 billion to update its 
antiquated sewage system. The key facility: a massive underground basin 
designed to collect excess, bacteria-laden rainwater that would 
otherwise flow into the Seine. The basin, located nearly 100 feet 
beneath Paris' Austerlitz train station, can hold 20 Olympic-sized 
swimming pools worth of water.

Testing the waters: Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo is so confident in the 
project that she's promised to swim in the river ahead of the Olympics 
at an event she's dubbed "the big dive," possibly alongside French 
president Emmanuel Macron and IOC president Thomas Bach.

     Not everyone shares Hidalgo's confidence. British marathon swimmers 
will be vaccinated for hepatitis A and typhoid, and they'll be "on 
antibiotics after the race, regardless of what the water samples show," 
one swimmer told The Independent.

     The water will be tested each morning during the Olympics. If 
pollution levels are too high, events may be delayed. And if such levels 
persist, one possible outcome includes canceling the swimming portion of 
the triathlon, thus turning it into a duathlon.

In related news… "Under Paris," a new movie about a giant killer shark 
that emerges in the Seine and begins preying on Olympic swimmers, is now 
streaming on Netflix.


--Robin

(catch that last paragraph)