Source: No Context The Good Place (Ted Danson as “Michael” in The Good Place)
Truth
July 10, 2018 by 15 Comments
Critics’ Consensus: “Engrossing and affecting”
September 28, 2017 by 15 Comments
8-part miniseries.
I started and didn’t stop until it was over.
Yes, that good.
Find it on Netflix or Discovery Channel.
Rotten Tomatoes Review: 95%. Critics Consensus: Engrossing and affecting.
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
January 25, 2017 by 27 Comments
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Mary Tyler Moore
Dec. 29, 1936 – Jan. 25, 2017
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- Need a short youtube fix of Mary, hit this link.
Charles Osgood
September 27, 2016 by 16 Comments
LC: …You are now widely considered among one of the legends, certainly were to me growing up.
Charles: That has its advantages and disadvantages. There’s no joy in winding this up. But there has been a lot of joy in it. There has been a lot of happy memories associated with it. And they all have to do with the people you work with. And also has to do with the people who are watching, because you really feel it’s all for them.
LC: Do you feel satisfied with this long career?
Charles: No. (laughing). Well, it’s just one of those things that if you enjoy something, you want to keep doing it, and you don’t want it to ever end, ever. Most people find it hard to imagine that you regard this as work. It’s not really work, it is really a joy.
~ Charles Osgood, 83, retires from CBS Sunday Morning after 22 years.
And here’s Charles Osgood singing on his 80th birthday
Binge Watching. No comment as to you Aussies and Kiwis.
September 26, 2015 by 41 Comments
“Netflix knows the exact episode of a TV show that gets you hooked. A sample:
- Bloodline — Episode 4
- Breaking Bad — Episode 2
- Grace & Frankie — Episode 4
- House of Cards — Episode 3
- Mad Men — Episode 6
- Orange is the New Black — Episode 3
- Sons of Anarchy — Episode 2
- Suits — Episode 2
- The Blacklist — Episode 6
- The Walking Dead — Episode 2
The episode that Netflix names as the “hooked” episode is the global average, but it found some local variations. “The Dutch, for instance, tend to fall in love with series the fastest, getting hooked one episode ahead of most countries irrespective of the show.” On the other hand, “members in Australia and New Zealand [got] hooked one to two episodes later than the rest of the world on almost every show.”
See full article and list of TV Series at the Verve: Netflix knows the exact episode of a TV show that gets you hooked
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A blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others
April 7, 2015 by 3 Comments
By: Lili Loofbourow, The Many Faces of Tatiana Maslany:
Tatiana Maslany, the 29-year old actress, is a native of Regina, Saskatchewan. She is the leading lady on the set of “Orphan Black,” the BBC America television show that has the same star many times over. “Orphan Black,” you see, is about a group of persecuted clones, and all of them are played by Tatiana Maslany.
Despite Maslany’s reluctance, I managed to steer our conversation back to her magical quick-change act. I still wanted to know how she does it. “I think there’s something about being prepared enough that you can surrender,” she said. Then she quoted to me something the dancer Martha Graham told the choreographer Agnes de Mille in 1943.
At the time, de Mille was confused and bewildered by her sudden rise to fame, and Graham offered her words of encouragement. […] De Mille asked Graham when she would feel satisfied, and Graham replied: “There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.” I asked Maslany what her divine dissatisfaction was. “I don’t know how I would label it right now,” she said. “I think if I looked back on this time, I’d probably see where it lived.”
Don’t miss entire NY Times Magazine article here: The Many Faces of Tatiana Maslany.
Red’s Wish. My Wish Too.
February 9, 2015 by 13 Comments
To stand at the helm of your destiny. I want that, one more time. I want to be in the Piazza del Campo in Siena. To feel the surge as 10 racehorses go thundering by. I want another meal in Paris, at L’Ambroisie, at the Place des Vosges. I want another bottle of wine. And then another. I want the warmth of a woman and a cool set of sheets. One more night of jazz at the Vanguard. I want to stand on the summits and smoke Cubans and feel the sun on my face for as long as I can. Walk on the Wall again. Climb the Tower. Ride the River. Stare at the Frescos. I want to sit in the garden and read one more good book. Most of all I want to sleep. I want to sleep like I slept when I was a boy. Give me that, just one time…
