Okay, so I'm watching the clip and generally enjoying it then MacFarlane tells us that Stewart is the voice of "rational" political thought in this country. By which he means the left/liberal/progressive folks. This is why I stopped watching Family Guy and American Dad.
I've always liked Eiger Sanction a lot, but I agree that Gauntlet, Joe Kidd, and Tightrope are also very good even though they didn't seem to get the praise that others did.
This is probably going to cost me some positive votes, but Mad Men just didn't do it for me. I gave it a try via Netflix because so many people were raving about it (and, more important, because I learned Christina Hendricks was in it). After watching several episodes I didn't even bother with the last couple from season 1. I agree that it was well-written and well-acted, but I just couldn't find anyone to cheer for. Everyone seemed to be in bed with everyone else--mostly cheating on their spouses. When that wasn't happening there was backstabbing, social climbing, and other assorted poor behavior. Plus the drinking and smoking. Maybe that was the way it was in NYC in the 1960s, but it certainly wasn't the behavior exhibited by the adults I knew as a kid. Maybe the point was that even good and successful people have faults and make mistakes. I can go with that in a movie, but I'll pass on episode after episode of bad behavior (unless maybe it's played for laughs along the lines of Married With Children or The Simpsons).
This article makes some good points and even at the increased price Netflix is a good value. One problem for me in all this is the way it was handled from PR and loyality to its customers perspectives. My second problem is that choosing just one or the other isn't really a good option. Eighty percent of the items in my queue aren't available via streaming. Streaming is also a problem in that my ISP can't handle the traffic at some times of the day, particularly evenings, which means I either have to wait for odd times or settle for a much lower quality picture.
Well, assuming that "#25" isn't a typo, could it be that she is both #25 and #1? The pic above is from her younger days, so looking at the later years separately put her on the list again. (I'm guessing, of course, but there has to be some explanation for what might otherwise be considered a serious lapse of judgment by the esteemed Mr. Nolte.)
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it yet about this countdown, but if Maureen O'Hara isn't #1 there's going to be trouble. Just sayin'.
Why should we care about a Brit playing Superman? Surely we would accept a guy from another country coming to America to play a guy from another planet coming to America? (Can this guy do a Kryptonian accent?)
I (almost) felt the same, but with MXC gone I stuck with Wipeout and it's gotten better (or just grown on me). A few of the events are not all that interesting, but some are as good as MXC's (such as Big Balls).
I have to strongly disagree. I agree that it shouldn't be used as a derogatory name, but you should certainly be able to use and discuss the word as a word, how it was used, what the context was, etc. That's the point, as someone else noted, of teaching the book and putting the use of the word in the proper context.
I agree. I know it's meant as a compliment, and (usually) a synonym for an attractive mom, but given what the acronym stands for I just don't like it. My alternative is "yummie mummie."
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