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On 5/5/2024 10:36 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 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)
> 

I still have your last TZ post saved for later reading.  I need to get 
around to reading it.


> 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)
> 

I really liked this movie.

> 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?
> 
> 

Free will?

> What Did You Watch?
> 
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