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What do you think of this song??? Particularly interested in youthful opinions....
Any opinion on all the SNL business?? The Concert??? Anniversary show???
Name someone you admire that may surprise others....
Thinking Elton John - Name some of your faves.......
Which Celebrity death shocked (and affected) you the most????
Name some of your fave films that flew under the radar (didn't get much recognition)....
Do you have an idol????
Name the 5 Best Acting Performances you've ever seen......
Very Surprising........
Name the film that had the most stunning ending you've ever seen......
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Yeah, he's great. Batali, Jamie Oliver, the late Michael Chiarello. All of the Iron Chefs.
Outstanding cooks.
Food Network was great, too, until it became the Guy Fieri network, LOL
I am happy to know Bobby Flay is still getting airtime. These days, seems like every time I flip to FN - it's always some Guy Fieri program.
Thanks.
Yeah, you know - once you have the basics (I learned watching my Grandparents) - so they say, if you can read, you can cook. Well, true to an extent. To get to that Chef level though - I think you'd have to have some schooling.
I'm curious - I'm assuming you know how to cook. Was there value in taking classes? Did it help you get to another level of skill?
Great question.
Something involving the culinary arts. It's great to be able to know how to cook. Being able to buy, prep and create your own meals is fantastic. But I wouldn't mind getting up to Bobby Flay, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver level.
It seems to me you'd need some schooling to become that good.
Yeah, agreed.
If I recall correctly, the 40th anniversary program was terrific.
This one, I don't know - the sketches weren't funny. Some of the music was dreadful (although I appreciate Paul McCartney's efforts). Yeah and not much tribute. What the 50th anniversary did was remind you SNL, right now, isn't funny.
Fair enough on "Psycho". But imagine if you didn't know - if you had no idea Norman was actually his Mother. By the time I saw "Psycho" - this twist was already well known.
Yeah "Psycho 2" - watched that one - had no idea what was coming in terms of the twist.
One is a bit vague on Friday - the ending as I remember was a dream of Jason emerging from the lake.
But just prior to that, I believe, it comes out what his Mother was doing - which was the surprise twist.
You know you're right.
Had no idea Carson was generous. IN fact, he strikes me as the type that would be purposely non-generous.
Liberace, yeah, he gave to everyone.
Yeah. The guy wasn't perfect. A hot head for sure, womanizer, drinker.
It seems to go unnoticed how generous he was. As a quick example- although this may be before your time.....
A great boxer named Joe Louis ended up living in squalor due to IRS debt.
Everyone went on and on about how terrible it was the great Joe Louis would end up in such a pitiable state.
Yeah, everyone went on and on, but only one person actually opened their wallet - Frank Sinatra. He set Louis up very nicely, paid all of his medical bills, made sure he was well taken care of.
This is one example of many.
Hopkins is great.
You can make a contention he is the best of all time.
One could whip off several great performances. I'll cut it to my 3 faves....
1. Dr. Frederick Treves "The Elephant Man"
2. RIchard Nixon "Nixon"
My 3rd pick is out of the box. It was an early 80s television (CBS if one recalls) retelling of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". He plays Quasimodo. He's outstanding.
Which incidentally, brings up another TV performance - his work as Adolf Hitler in "The Bunker".
The guy is great, you can keep going and going with fantastic performances......
Well, to chime in here - sorry, I have to disagree.
Yes, it tries a bit too hard to be hip and cool. No disagreement there.
Keaton, yeah he shows up, he does his thing. But to me , he doesn't work in this role.
Keaton shines with edgier material. A perfect example is the miniseries "Dopesick". Outstanding performance. ANother example is a film called "Clean and Sober". He plays a coke head trying to clean up his act. He was just right in that role.
In "Goodrich" one isn't claiming Keaton's work was poor - only that he was miscast.
Yeah, a lot of females, too. ALthough some of the females are legit....
Unless of course there was a massive conspiracy against Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby.
WHich is impossible - some of those claims HAD to be legit.
With Pearce, c'mon man, it's obvious.
A bit too late in the game to be making accusations - unless of course you have an ulterior motive.
Anyway, glad we are on the same page.
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