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RIP. He was good in everything I ever saw him in (think Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986) would have been first).

Asylum asylums an upcoming movie but...it doesn't look bad...? Also, movie awards are at low ebb so Golden Globes adds blockbuster and stand-up categories

The Great Escape is another good one - which i should have noted; forgot he was in Greatest Story but been ages since I saw it.

David McCallum, 90 maybe best known by modern audiences as Ducky on NCIS, but fondly remembered by older audiences as UNCLE agent, Ilya Kuryakin.

Looking forward to Mad God whenever I get around to it.

I've actually never watched them. Heard they were fun, but never got around to watching them.

I'm told it's been more of a stop kids voting thing the last few years.

There are groups that go onto college campuses whose intention is to get students to 'register' to vote. Because of free speech rules for public schools, there are places there allowed to go so long as they aren't disruptive or use space adjacent to campus. Some are legit. Some will do things to invalidate all or some registration forms, such as using fake forms or offering to mail them for students and disposing of them. Some are seeking to use voter registration to get personal details and scam students. Been a big problem here locally at least. Auto registration ruins this scam somewhat if students get drivers licenses.

Liked the trailer for El Conde, looking forward to see it...someday.

Auto registration also bypasses the groups that go to college campuses on voter registration drives but are there primarily to ensure that those registration aren't valid and students aren't eligible to vote.

If you haven't been to this doctor, they may want to get a baseline for a few visits and then drop you to annual physicals unless something happens. Or they may just want that sweet, sweet insurance money.

I think the bridge crew comes down to the modern belief that the ST universe doesn't allow enough interpersonal conflict (i.e. people siding with Ellison that people in the future are just like they are now rather than going for a humanity that's learned some things and can dusagree but come together for the common good). But much like Vulcans post TAS, the idea of professional crews that worked together slowly got eroded in TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT. Then blown up in DIS, PIC and LD. (If you want a professional crew, Lower Decks ain't it, unless you can get into the send up).

Yeah the alternate ending is probably too long; watching the version for the director's cut it feels very repetitive (which I've heard some people debate whether Oz would have really used all that footage). While the original film ending keeps to the idea of the Broadway ending, the original Broadway version is substantially different as well - *** For my part, I finally got around to watching New York Ninja. While it was fun, it was pretty obvious IMO that the film they put together misses parts of what the original plot was which was pretty unfortunate and makes for an overall weaker film than perhaps it should have been even with its super-low budget nature.

I enjoyed the first season of SNW. Of the new ST shows I've seen (Discovery season 1 & 2, Picard season 1, Lower Decks Seasons 1-3), I'd say its the most classic Trek feeling of the shows. If you get caught up in continuity minutiae or why the bridge looks fancier ~10 years before TOS, it might not be for you though.

Aww, RIP. Cobra and Goku - Midnight Eye might be the works I knew him best by.

To be fair to Eli Roth, this film is supposed to be the 70s horror film his ad in GRINDHOUSE advertised, and I think buckle capotains fits that asthetic pretty well.

Re dial of destiny, I can't disagree the third act is a bit of a mess and loses focus of the characters and story. I enjoyed it still.

Yeah, one thing Vince doesn't like is Tag Teams so WWF has always been weak in that area. Midnight Express & Cornette were great heels and it was fun seeing them come into a territory and cause havok. Loved seeing them work.

Turner loved wrestling, but the sale to Time-Warner sort of screwed that up. Wrestling had kept TBS afloat prior to Turner superstation-ing it. T-W thought it was beneath them. I saw some WCCW with the Von Erichs and Freebirds but not sure how. Definitely knew who they were when they hit GCW the first time.

I'm probably much of the same period. I did see a lot of 70s wrestling when I was really young, but it wasn't multi-territory. Primarily GCW, but also got some of NWA Mid-America (Gulas), NWA Southeast (Fuller) and Continental Wrestling (Jarrett) depending on which relatives we visited. I remember tuning in on "Black Saturday" when GCW was replaced without notice by the WWF (as Vince had bought the Brisco's controlling interest to get the national time slot on TBS). We were rescued by Crockett Promotions, lol. About a year after Black Saturday Joe Pedicino and Bonnie Blackstone hosted a huge time block of wrestling (called "Superstars of Wrestling") culled from syndicated shows around the nation. I seem to recall it was originally on from 8 pm to 3 am (starting just after WCW Saturday Main Event so as not to compete). Superstars was syndicated a year later, so its possible you may have seen it.