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Princess Leia’s braless boobs jiggled a lot in her slightly transparent White robes in A New Hope. In Return of the Jedi, she wore that super skimpy gold bikini. I won’t even go into Padme/Amidala.
No, there is no nudity In Star Wars. But Star Wars is still guilty of catering to the male gaze.
S1 does flow more naturally, but I have to laugh at the way time is portrayed in the Vorenus household! Months and years go by, but the daughters don’t age. Little Lucius should have been walking and talking, (and weaned) long before Mark Antony’s troops depart for Greece.
When I, Claudius first aired in the US in the mid 70s, on PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre, it was An Event. The cast of gifted English stage/screen actors delivered superb performances of an inspired screenplay. Although I was too young to appreciate such a sophisticated story, I remember hearing adults discussing how great it was. I caught up with the series in the mid 80s and finally understood the hype.
1.) Additionally, Hollywood had a practice of changing a film’s title in a foreign market, so that was another non-issue.
2.) Exactly. In fact, the Hollywood moguls all being Jewish was an important plot point in the HBO film, RKO 281 — which tells the story of Orson Welles making Citizen Kane (CK). When William Randolph Hurst tried to block the release of CK, one of the tactics he employed was not-so-subtle criticism in his newspapers about the heads of studios all being Jewish, to try to get the other studios to pressure Schaefer into shelving/burying CK. Louella Parsons, with her lifetime contract to Hurst’s newspapers, wrote disparagingly about the “ethnic” and “swarthy” studio heads.
Oh, I had forgotten about that 1997 version of A Pale Horse. I'll have to check if it's on any screening platforms. (I love Jean Marsh.)
You've missed a huge aspect of the plot. Yes, Julia is the “star" and Avice is playing the ingenue. But if you watch the rehearsal scenes carefully, you'll see that Avice was being favored in an unprecedented manner and being given preferential treatment which she had not earned.
Avice wasn't a good actress. She was a pretty face with a nice figure (thin was in during the 20s-30s). She used Michael to get ahead in her career and risked her relationship with Tom to do it. (Neither Michael nor Tom knew that they were sharing her with each other.)
During rehearsals, Avice is given too many lines for her role; her part is enlarged to the point that she is upstaging the star. The sneezing segment allows Avice to steal the scene from Julia, plus she's on the swing, which also draws attention to her and away from the star. Additionally, she gets better lighting and nicer costumes. That's unheard of for an ingenue.
At first, Julia just ignores it and allows it to happen because she's depressed and has sort of given up. But then she gets her fight back, and starts to pretend to play along and offer more and more to Avice so she can set her up for a bigger fall.
All the aspects of Avice's role that were undermining Julia's position as the star of the play: the swing, lighting, the preferential blocking, superior costuming, attention-getting lines and bits -- all of those things, Julia took them back for herself during the play's premiere. And Avice was not the sole target for this comeuppance; Tom and Michael received their share, too. Michael was described as a fool, and Tom was exposed for "playing” Julia and two-timing her with Avice.
It's true that Michael got off easier than either Tom or Avice. But Julia is motivated to let him off more easily; he's Julia's husband, and she doesn't want to totally destroy his career. They make a great team; she's prepared to forgive him if he will forgive her too, and see that Julia is "right" for him and Avice is a huge mistake. Michael was acting like a fool, and would have been an object of ridicule for letting his hormones get in the way of being a good director.
Do I think Avice deserved everything she got? (Perhaps not everything.) Do I think Julia carried it a bit too far? (Definitely.) But Julia had the reputation of being a killer, and Avice was super dumb to under-estimate her. Basically, Avice played with fire and got burned.
I keep forgetting to watch the rest of The Pale Horse. It's not my favorite Christie (occult), so I haven't been highly motivated to watch it. But I'm a huge fan of Rufus Sewell so I should just soldier on and make myself watch it!
I don’t think it was staged. But I also don’t think All the footage was depicting events from their investigations of this story.
The journalist meetings seemed to be about stories they were currently working on at the time of filming. They were continuing with the later developments. The story continued for a long time from 2016 into the trial. These vids were run in the background of voiceover describing different stages of the USA Gymnastics Investigation.
Another example of this technique is when they showed footage of a newspaper delivery person (female) delivering the paper in her car during the morning hours. The background was a news reporter narrating the breaking story about Nasser at the time of the Rio Olympics.
The investigation description is important because it illustrates the timeline of events.
“Why did CEO of USA Gymnastics Steve Penny constantly cover and protect Dr Nassar? ”
Perhaps for the same reason Penn State and Joe Paterno failed repeatedly to protect children from Jerry Sandusky: because they coldly valued an athletic program (with the huge amount of money Tied to its success) above the safety and welfare of children.
Maybe her ashes were in the closet because he is remarried
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I don’t disagree with most of what you wrote. But I do have sympathy for the extremely abusive childhood McCandless and his siblings suffered through. Neither this film, nor Krakauer’s bio, conveyed this information. Much of it is exposed in the PBS documentary, Return to the Wild, and in Carine McCandless’s book, The Wild Truth. I recommend both.
You must not have ever read or watched Miss Marple, or Agatha Christie in general. With cozy mysteries, you’’re not supposed to worry about that stuff, just roll with it.
It’s a cozy mystery!