“Norman Lear, Dressage, And Parking Too Close To The Drivers' Side Door”

I took a couple of notes on this week’s episode. Here they are:

David Cronenberg and William Burroughs invite you to lunch.

(I never saw it, but I did sit across the aisle from Peter Weller on a JetBlue flight from LA once).

They love the nightlife. They got to boogie on the disco round.

As partners, no riding. THat’s more like it.

Even Norman Lear didn’t get everything right every time, but they gave him three chances to do the pilot for All In The Family. Here’s Jean Stapleton talking about making those three versions of the pilot, and why. 

I wonder why this version of the pilot didn’t get picked up? I wonder who Archie would support politically nowadays? Hilarious! 

I walked by the place I faceplanted in the street last night. The crack is not just a crack, it’s like a ditch. Made me feel a little better, less like I was at fault. It was dark and I didn’t see the ditch. Still, too bad nobody filmed it. Maybe I’m just mean and a bad person, but those always make me laugh. Except the ones I can literally feel as I’m watching.

I’ll have to go by the Apple Pan sometime soon to see if these people managed to make it through the pandemic. What a nightmare.

And finally, I know there’s a Johnny Cash version, which just proves that even he wasn’t always right. Cuz you can never have enough Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Feel free to add stuff in the comments, as always (almost never).

Til we meet again,

“Amber Gets A New Job”

Let’s start by acknowledging that Jamie and Joe have been gone for a long time. So if you miss Jamie, check out this amazing video of his early show biz career. 

 It’s harder to find video of Joe, but here’s an article in a big showbiz publication where young Joe explains how one can use something called the Internet to help one get ahead.

 If you’re wondering if there’s a video out there about how to play basketball that includes a tiny bit of footage right at the beginning of Steph Curry as an adorable 5 (ish) year old, there absolutely is and it’s totally worth watching, if only so you learn that effort and great attitude are keys to success. I might have to watch that part a few more times.

I think it was an early episode of the LoShoPo reboot, in the Fall of 2020 (which feels soooooooooo long ago...) that I got a little upset about a  Sandra Bullock movie.  It wasn’t until afterwards that I learned that she had won an Oscar for her performance in that movie. But the movie itsef didn’t win an Oscar, even though it WAS a Best Picture Nominee. Well, this week I was obsessing a little about Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, without realizing that it was also a seemingly treacly and vapid Sandra Bullock vehicle (“seemingly” because I haven’t seen it yet) (“yet”). Though she was not nominated, the movie itself was, for Best Picture. It didn’t win. 

And look, let’s be honest, I love Sandra Bullock. Like, love. Love love. But some choices? Not good.

Then again, I’ve made mistakes.

I mean, I didn’t even come close to doing that life insurance commercial justice. Like, I forgot to mention the moment where the realization that poor Rick who runs marathons will never run another (because he has died) causes the husband to  stop himself from taking a bite of his cookie. It’s amazing. Luckily, the whole commercial is right here and you can judge for yourself. 

How could I possibly mix up Iñaritu and Del Toro?  It’s not like they ever hang out together.  Or do all the same stuff, like direct movies and win Oscars.

Anyway, I really wanna see Troll Hunters now.   Although based on the comments, I should watch the TV show first, or shows, because the movie ruins the ending (s?). Poor Jim and Claire!

Here’s a review of Patriot in The Ringer, which might convince you to watch the show if I haven’t. Here’s part of a scene with the great Kurtwood Smith that points up some of the weird fun of the show. And the great thing about this part of a scene is that it will ruin nothing, and won’t convince you to watch the show!

And finally, since we started with a little Joe and Jamie, and Amber ended by talking about dancing again, how about a little Liquid Feet to round it out, doing their take on the Insurrection?

See you next time.