Yeah. On the rewatch, even knowing it was coming, it was jarring going from Daya getting throat-smacked by her mother to that scene. And I feel as I did: it was shot in a way to rob it of any real impact, and felt far more cold than it should’ve.

I’d like to write a parody song but kinda feel like any song based on this would lead to investigation.

Still going. Currently pretending Ptuck’s test isn’t more tragic than it is. I’ll chime in later.

I’ve gone back and forth with the Karla coda, mostly because it was jarring to return to her story—it felt shoe-horned in. In some ways, it also seemed necessary to give larger context and balance out Blanca’s more or less happy ending; but it also didn’t have the impact required. I think it was a failing of direction…

I keep hoping ‘Armie Hammer Toes’ will happen, but so far no one’s going with me on that.

Routine listener of NPR as well, and I was curious how Gross and Mayer would handle the interview. Terry is a bit more forgiving in this interview than I’m used to, and I haven’t finished the full podcast yet—I just finished up to the part where it’s “just Al’s culture” and stopped. That was a dismissive, icky segment…

According to Mayer (*shrug*), Schumer told him to to resign by 5pm or he would be stripped of his committees, censured by his peers, and “shunned as a pariah.” Whatever the case with the accusations, there was never any true intent to hold ethics hearings--the Dems wanted the issue over and out as quickly as possible.

The King Kong thing was a joke—I know it was horrible. I was continuing a joke made earlier in the thread about the dangers of wearing white (Faye Wray, giant apes, etc.). I don’t think King Kong should’ve OPENED, tbh.

Ted Cruz, take note: This is how it’s done.

I’d have no problem with film-Faye forgetting her lines. She’s not known for theatre, however, and has a history of not putting in the work for stage but wanting the pay-off, and then being angry when she’s fired from a project (see ‘Faye Dunaway Sunset Blvd’).

It totally was! In the middle of ‘Liaisons,’ she forgets a line of the song, and sits in her wheelchair as the orchestra continues on. Then she sort of cleared her throat, the orchestra stopped, and from off stage you hear the next line SHOUTED. Stritch: “WHAT?” “HARDLY PAY THEIR SHODDY WAY!” “SHABBY?!” “SHODDY!” And…

Honestly, don’t take the role if you can’t remember the lines. Now, okay, I did see Elaine Stritch take over for Angela Lansbury in ‘A Little Night Music’ and Stritch refused to wear an earpiece. Instead, she’d just go up on her lines and have a stage manager YELL her the next line--even in the middle of songs.…

Wow, don’t they feel stupid now for closing ‘King Kong’ to accommodate Faye Dunaway on Broadway. Maybe they can announce an un-closing date.

I don’t usually like the ‘difficult woman to work with’ thing, but Dunaway has had a reputation for decades that may be well-earned. I get the ‘no white in the audience’ thing during rehearsals, as you’re building your character and—USUALLY—learning your lines, and flashes of white in the darkness can be a bit…

I’ve read that three times and it is delivered like a teaser for an upcoming true crime podcast episode. I have no idea WHO was murdered, but I’m now hooked.

Not sure it’d be an insistence--they’d offer it up to him without him having to evoke it. 

First of all, I said it was PRACTICALLY a remake. If for some reason interpreted that to mean I said it was an ACTUAL remake, I’m very sorry. It is, in a way, as much of a remake as ‘You’ve Got Mail’ is to ‘The Shop Around the Corner.’ It has the same beats as ‘Annie Hall,’ it uses Gershwin and other Woody Allen…

It is not Greg Samsa of Blood Oaks, but I kinda wish it were now that I know there is something called ‘Blood Oaks’.

Can’t imagine either. Certainly I’m the only person to ever point it out.

It’s just Annie Hall--but with a happy ending. If they’d split at the end, it’d just be... Annie Hall.