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The Twilight Zone S4E09 'Printer's Devil' (DVR)
A desperate newspaper editor hires the devil (Burgess Meredith) to save 
his failing business.  With Patricia Crowley.  (Comcast)
A man sells his soul to the Devil to save his failing newspaper and gets 
more than he bargained for.  (IMDb)

The Devil is in the Trivia
Referring to the title, a printer's devil was an apprentice in a 
printing establishment who performed a number of tasks, such as mixing 
tubs of ink and fetching type.
Mr. Smith makes the rhetorical argument 'that's like asking Paganini if 
he plays the fiddle'. Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, 
violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin 
virtuoso of the early 19th century, and left his mark as one of the 
pillars of modern violin technique. In fact he was so skilled, it was 
widely rumored he had sold his soul to the devil in order to possess 
such 'unnatural' abilities (some of his techniques bordered on the 
impossible, even by modern standards).
The special effect of Burgess Meredith creating a flame to light his 
cigar merely by snapping his fingers was accomplished by having two 
electric wires attached to a battery running up Meredith's coat and 
concealed on his fingers. Meredith held his fingers in a can of ice 
water until they were numb, and then a crew member put lighter fluid on 
his fingers. Bringing the wires together created a spark that ignited 
the fluid so he could light the cigar.
Burgess Meredith makes his fourth and final appearance in the Twilight 
Zone. This is the only time out of the four in which he plays an 
unsympathetic character.  (He was very good at creepy.)
In creating this tale, writer Charles Beaumont reused the central 
premise of his earlier pulp fiction short story "The Devil, You Say?" 
which had been published in the January 1950 issue of Amazing Stories 
Magazine. The original story was much more over the top; it had the 
Danville Courier displaying such outrageous headlines as "Mayor's Wife 
Gives Birth To Baby Hippopotamus" and "S.S. Queen Mary Discovered On 
Main Street."

Narrator: [Opening Narration] Take away a man's dream, fill him with 
whiskey and despair, send him to a lonely bridge, let him stand there 
all by himself looking down at the black water and try to imagine the 
thoughts that are in his mind. You can't, I can't. But there's someone 
who can - and that someone is seated next to Douglas Winter right now. 
The car is headed back toward town, but its real destination is the 
Twilight Zone.
Narrator: [Closing Narration] Exit the infernal machine, and with it his 
satanic majesty, Lucifer, prince of darkness - otherwise known as Mr. 
Smith. He's gone, but not for good; that wouldn't be like him - he's 
gone for bad. And he might be back, with another ticket - to the 
Twilight Zone.


Eternals (DVR)
The Eternals, a race of immortal beings with superhuman powers who have 
secretly lived on Earth for thousands of years, reunite to battle the 
evil Deviants.  (Comcast)
The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth 
and shaped its history and civilizations.  (IMDb)

Eternally Trivial
Makkari, portrayed by deaf actress Lauren Ridloff, is the first deaf 
superhero in the MCU.
Due to Chloé Zhao's outspoken comments about mainland China, there is 
currently no Chinese release date for Eternals as of now in theaters. 
The film was announced to be banned in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Oman 
due to the countries wanting to cut out scenes of Phastos and his 
husband, which Disney refused to allow. It was also banned in Kuwait and 
Qatar due to the countries being against depicting gods and prophets on 
film.
(at around 10 mins) The dog that spots the Deviant monster in the water 
couldn't stop wagging its tail during filming, and so the tail had to be 
digitally altered in post-production.
According to Kevin Feige, Gemma Chan being cast as Sersi was done 
because he deeply regretted that her talents were wasted in Captain 
Marvel (2019), and wanted to work with Chan on a film once again.
It's the twenty-sixth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Set around eight months after the events depicted in Avengers: Endgame 
(2019).

Why is it that the creations of supremely powerful beings, who should be 
able to make loyal servants, always eventually go rogue?


What Did You Watch?


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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.