There were easily three times as many comments thrown into Moderation today than on any other day I can recall.
Which is also enough of a sampling to be reasonably certain there’s no pattern to it.
Fzzzat!
B.A.: Close to Home characters are so ugly, their faces can shatter computer monitors?
Far Dog
Too Obscure? Too Dark?
Despertar a la década de 1980
Steve:
This video has it all! Earworm music, familiar tune, in Spanish so the earworm is especially haranguing, great beat, semi-synchronized young people dancing, big teeth, big hair – Long Live the Eighties!
The title “Ahora te puedes marchar” means “Now you can leave.” Geezers (like me) will recognize the music from Dusty Springfield’s “I Only Want to Be with You.” The theme of the lyrics in this video are the opposite of Dusty’s original.
CIDU Bill: When Steve sent me this, I remembered I had this on my hard drive:
Puzzle
OT: History on Film
B.A.: Movies about historical events, when they aren’t completely fanciful, tend to play fast-and-loose with facts, creating characters and scenes out of whole cloth. Sometimes the changes are cringe-worthy, as with Clint Eastwood’s horrifying libel of journalist Kathy Scruggs last year, or crediting Churchill’s resolve to stand up to Hitler to a chance encounter in the Underground with a ten-year-old girl (which I believe was discussed, for some reason, right here).
So my question is: Can anybody name an historical (or biographical) film that stuck completely to the facts, at least in every meaningful way?
Queen for a Morning
Thanks to Powers:
2025 should be interesting, I guess…
2019 called?
As far as I can tell, this was published in New Yorker this past October.
In which case it makes no sense at all to me.
