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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-09 (Thursday)
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Arthur Lipscomb  <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>On 5/10/2024 2:42 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>> On 5/10/2024 5:31 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>>> On 5/10/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> While nursing my back, I watched:
>>>>>
>>>>> HIDDEN GEMS: FAILED 80S SPINOFFS THAT WERE ACTUALLY GREAT!:
>>>>> Join me (Kevin) from Retro Renaissance as I uncover the best-kept
>>>>> secrets of
>>>>> the 80s TV world! Discover the unexpectedly amazing shows that emerged
>>>>> from
>>>>> failed spinoffs like "Enos," "AfterMASH," "Booker," and more. Get
>>>>> ready for
>>>>> laughs and nostalgia as we delve into these retro treasures.
>>>>>
>>>>> Chapters:
>>>>>
>>>>> 00:00 Intro
>>>>> 00:20 Enos
>>>>> 03:25 AFTERMash
>>>>> 08:08 Booker
>>>>> 10:21 Flo
>>>>> 14:37 The Toretellis
>>>>> 17:46 Day by Day
>>>>> 20:12 Just the Ten of Us
>>>>> 22:43 Checking In
>>>>> 34:44 The Law and Harry McGraw
>>>>> 27:09 Living Dolls
>>>>>
>>>>> https://youtu.be/Q8fO5xN9DHM?si=4Nv3oQM_ZRbqfuYt
>>>>
>>>> Are they high?! - Most of these were terrible. For example, "Just the
>>>> Ten of Us" was awful, with its only redeeming quality being that it was
>>>> stuffed full of hott chycks!
>>>>
>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>
>>>> Still trying to get through grading. So at night, I just put "John Wick
>>>> 3" in the background, and did some online grading. The only things I
>>>> actually watched were:
>>>>
>>>> Night Court (2023) (Peacock) - "Chips Ahoy" (ep. #2.10). I have mixed
>>>> feelings about this one. The 'A' storyline had Melissa Fumero (who looks
>>>> middle-aged these days - I remember when she was a young hottie on
>>>> OLTL!!) as a "mean mom" acquaintance of Wyatt's whom Abby convicts in
>>>> the Night Court. Fumero then sticks around to menace Wyatt and annoy
>>>> Abby. In the 'B' storyline, Dan desperately wants to get in to an annual
>>>> 'Fleet Week' poker game, so he can fleece the sailors and take their
>>>> money, while Gurgs tries to resist the "charms" of hott(?) sailors. In
>>>> the 'C' story, Flobert insists upon teaching Olivia how to scam people.
>>>>     This episode had some amusing bits. But, overall, I also didn't feel
>>>> that it really worked.
>>>>
>>>> On Wheel of Fortune, the youts with grandparents teams were still
>>>> annoying! Also, I embarrassingly couldn't figure out the final puzzle.  :S
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I watched:
>>>
>>>
>>> Star Trek: Discovery (Paramount+) - "Erigah" - I saw a bit of a preview
>>> for this episode that made it look like this would be an action packed
>>> episode with the Federation and Breen in an all out battle.  Instead
>>> this episode had the Breen showing up to throw their weight around and
>>> try to intimidate the federation but not a single shot was fired.  Then
>>> there were the two smugglers who I have increasingly grown to hate this
>>> season.  Meh!!!!
>>>
>>>
>>> Funny Girl (TCM) 1968 musical starring Barbra Stresand as a real life
>>> singer who rises to fame while falling in love with Omar Sharif.  I have
>>> tickets to see Funny Girl live on stage this weekend.  I wanted to watch
>>> the original movie before seeing it live.  I saw the movie once before
>>> many years ago but didn't remember it.  On this viewing I think I liked
>>> it a bit more.  It's still not a movie I'd particularly want to revisit,
>>> but it was watchable.
>>>
>> 
>> Is it significantly better than other Streisand movies, say, Up the
>> Sandbox?
>> 
>
>Off the top of my head I can't think of any Streisand movie I'm a fan 
>of.  Then again, I don't think I've only ever watched a handful of them.

Yentl has exactly one song in it with different lyrics. I am not
kidding. It's exactly the same melodic line and chord changes over and
over again. If you don't like that song, you'll hate it.

I like What's Up, Doc, but Madeline Kahn and Kenneth Mars were quite
funny, and I liked the elaborate stunts.

I saw A Star Is Born in theater when I was a kid. I hate that movie.

I saw For Pete's Sake in theater as a kid but I recall very little about
it.

I don't like The Main Event, and the ending was incredibly stupid. I had
no idea but Ryan O'Neil had been a boxer in real life.