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Post by alancalverd on Mar 15, 2019 14:56:17 GMT 1
Whilst I'm in a good mood, here's a story from my purchasing officer friend. Every civil servant has a capital asset inventory, listing things like computers, cars etc. She had one major asset at a time, namely "ship and material contents" because it had to belong to someone. Come the annual auditor's visit, she was asked "where is your asset" to which she always replied "You don't have the security clearance to ask that" until the day she said "Lost". True professionalism, all solemnly recorded.
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Post by mrsonde on Mar 15, 2019 17:46:06 GMT 1
We'll have to hope it wasn't a Trident submarine.
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Post by mrsonde on Oct 8, 2019 7:55:03 GMT 1
Im memoriam.
Finally over, what a trip...magnificent. If you've never seen this fantastic series, it's a sort of knowing Harry Potter for adults, with the pomposity and tedious cliches replaced with sheer exuberant fun, brilliant dialogue, and uber-cool modernity. The cast is...impossible to praise highly enough: there are at least half a dozen genuine superstars amongst them. Eliot and Margo especially are tours de force - Margo surely the greatest feminist icon ever written ("I'm a cunt, sure, but I'm a real cunt.") You can see how flawless they all are in the above, the show closer - the principal hero has just died, saving the universe naturally, and if you're not watering by the end of this you haven't been watching the show.
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Post by mrsonde on Mar 15, 2020 5:03:38 GMT 1
This is interesting, for any Mrs.Maisel fans. I hadn't realised the brilliant dance with Lenny Bruce scene was a loving homage to this gem from an early 60s Russian film, Soy Cuba, by Mikhail Kalatazov (namechecked because whoever he was he was evidently some sort of a genius of a filmmaker (no Steadycam in 64.) An unknown (er, to me anyway: maybe I'm doing a "damp squid" moment?) - was making this, while we were producing Michael Winner.) Here's the remake. Better music, better chemistry: If you haven't seen Mrs.Maisel, it's wholly enjoyable. A taster - some kind soul has edited my favourite bits here: Ah, Susie, Susie...Reader, I married her.
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