Marlene Dietrich!

Celine Dion?

"Killing Me Softly found him veering into the Skinemax trash heap"

I doubt it. A mole masquerading as a native is pretty close to impossible. "The Americans" is inspired by an attempt by Putin to do just that with a spy ring that was busted in 2010. It featured one smoking hot redhead

There's a sequel. It's OK, but I didn't care for the decision to break up Zhenya and Nadya, and the product placement is gross.

All Woo did was add doves to "Notorious", so you pretty much already have.

C'mon, you're posting on an English-language website, just call it "The Irony of Fate".

True enough, maybe this counterfactual falls apart even if Khruschev isn't deposed, because he turns repressive on his own. I guess you can only liberalize so much in a fundamentally repressive state before you either dial things back like Brezhnev did or things collapse like they did for Gorbachev.

"Contranym"

But only the first episode. Seitz's article links to episodes 2 and 3. Anything beyond that with English subs?

As with most of this site these days they are only piggybacking on someone else's reporting. A TV Club article would necessitate a deeper review.

I am not Russian but the Khruschev Thaw does indeed strike one as "peak Communism" as suggested above. The Soviet Union had emerged from the Stalin years and things were less repressive. The Soviets had acquired a new ally in Cuba, deep in enemy country. Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin had launched into space, thus…

It had a time and continent. The time was 1946, when it was being made by Alfred Hitchcock as "Notorious".

I watches "Special Bulletin" when I was, I dunno, ten years old. Still sticks with me today. TV can be great sometimes.

The Pacific War was brutal and ugly and vicious. I mean, so was the war in Europe, and the soldiers in the Hurtgen Forest certainly suffered. But the Pacific war was really bad.

Cerina Vincent's breasts are proof of a benevolent God.

Holy crap I want to see this.

Ernie Anderson has a cameo in "Hard Eight"—he's the guy standing in front of John C. Reilly in the line at the movies when Reilly's pants catch fire. He died the next year.

Hipsters hate it, and yes the lyrics are ridiculous, but this is one of the best songs of the 1980s. The cover by Low at the Onion AV Club is also pretty great.

Art Garfunkel's "A Heart in New York" is a good one.