Ugly Betty: in my favorite comedy series' fourth season, a much bigger emphasis is put on the storyline of Betty's stylish nephew, Justin. Though the entire Saurez family certainly knows, they handle the situation with care & let him come out on his own terms!
in addition to the Key Largo rehearsal photos that @ben-c-group-therapy posted, there are also a lot of photos from backstage, opening night and other events where the Mayans MC cast as well as Mariska came to show support. forgive me for not remembering where I got those pictures from, if I do I’ll add a source.
Below is my ranking of the episodes from “WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS”, the HBO adaptation of “Integrity”, Egil Krogh and Matthew Krogh’s 2007 book about Watergate. Directed by David Mandel, the limited series starred Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux:
RANKING OF “WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS” (2023) EPISODES
1. (1.03) “Don’t Drink the Whiskey at the Watergate” - Nixon Administration “plumbers” led by E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy attempt to break into the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate Hotel to plant listening devices for the White House.
2. (1.04) “The Writer’s Wife” - Reeling from the arrests at the Watergate, Hunt enlists his son Saint John's help to dispose of evidence, while Liddy warns the acting Attorney General that the burglaries can be tied back to President Nixon. Later, after returning from Paris, a livid Dorothy Hunt must take control to protect her family and the Liddys.
3. (1.02) “Please Destroy This, Huh?” - While Hunt and Dorothy entertain Liddy and his wife Fran at their exclusive country club, their kids Lisa and Saint John paint a less-than-perfect portrait of the family. On the outs with Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell, Hunt and Liddy get a chance to redeem themselves when a leaked memo from Dita Beard puts Mitchell and the administration in legal jeopardy.
4. (1.05) “True Believers” - Amid rumors of the White House's involvement, Liddy shares his concerns about Hunt's stability with White House Counsel John Dean and tries to make a deal. Hunt's daughter Kevan leverages a secret notebook to convince her father to come clean in his testimony to the U.S. Senate.
5. (1.01) “The Beverly Hills Burglary” - A year before the infamous Watergate break-in, Hunt and Liddy are tasked with investigating the Pentagon Papers leak, gathering a team of Cubans - all Bay of Pigs veterans - to infiltrate whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Meanwhile, the Hunts get to know the Liddys.
Captures de l’Ep. 1.08 - Le Premier Noël de Jarod (V.O. : Not Even A Mouse) de la série Le Caméléon (V.O. : The Pretender).
Réalisation : Thomas J. Wright, qui a
- réalisé 44 épisodes de la série NCIS
- retrouvé l’acteur Ryan Merriman dans la série Veritas The Quest (Ep. 1.09 et 1.11).
- réalisé 3 épisodes de la série Les Experts.
- réalisé 3 épisodes de la série X-Files.
Distribution :
- Tony Plana, qui a joué dans 5 épisodes de la série Desperate Housewives et a retrouvé l’actrice Andrea Parker dans l’Ep. 8.06 qu’il en a réalisé (2011) ainsi que dans l’Ep. 4.06 de la série Less Than Perfect (2002);
- Bruce Bohne, qui a retrouvé l’acteur Harve Presnell dans les films Fargo (1996), Julian Po (1997) et Dr Patch (1998);
- Kevin E. West, qui a joué dans l’Ep. 1.23 (2005) de la série Desperate Housewives ;
- Roberta Bassin, qui a joué dans J. Edgar (2011) et l’Ep. 2.10 de la série Shut Eye (2017)...
Il s’agit du 1er épisode où apparaît Kelsey Mulrooney avant son rôle de Debbie dans la série.
Jarod découvre les cakes aux fruits de Noel.
- Lieutenant Guerra : “Ses collègues disent qu'il s'est fait une super bamboula toute la nuit !”
- Jarod : "J'ignore qui est cette Bamboula Lieutenant, mais c'est exact."
- Jarod : (devant le corps sans papier d’identité dans la neige) "Comment savoir qui elle est ?”
- Dr. Lizabeth Drake : “Aucune chance, c’est une A.F. Mettez lui une étiquette. Et la prochaine fois ne me dérangez pas pour si peu” (s’en va)
- Jarod : "une A.F. ?”
- Lieutenant Guerra : “Adolescente Fugueuse. Pas d’identité, pas de témoin.”
- Jarod : “ Et sa famille doit être morte d’inquiétude, et se demander où elle est...”
- Lieutenant Guerra : “Oui c’est vrai c’est moche. On ne peut prévenir personne, on trouve leur corps, on ne sait même pas quoi en faire... ils ne sont plus qu’un numéro sur un fichier, comme tous les autres...” (s’en va)
Movie Review | Deal of the Century (Friedkin, 1983)
Like everyone else with a Criterion Channel subscription, at the beginning of each month I hop on excitedly to see what’s been added, and today I simply could not believe my eyes. Wow, William Friedkin’s Deal of the Century! The movie that nobody liked when it came out, nobody has since (to my knowledge) tried to reclaim, and is widely considered a career worst for the director. So obviously I’d struck gold. Anyway, on one hand, it’s not hard to see why nobody has tried to reclaim it. It’s a tonal mess and very little of it works. On the other hand, judging from the internet, people seem to love unfunny garbage these days, so you’d think they’d be all over this one. Okay, that sounded mean, and I didn’t actually hate this, but I’m trying to channel the caustic spirit of the movie.
I’ve never really associated Friedkin with comedy, although there are probably scenes throughout his classics where he displays some comic timing. So I wasn’t expecting this to send me rolling. But what’s mostly disappointing about this is the absence of his visual style, which was in strong supply in the movies he made immediately before (Cruising) and after (To Live and Die in L.A.). This is largely drab looking, primarily brownish-gray in colour, so that whatever high tech weaponry is on display rarely wows you. I do think there are a few interesting visual ideas scattered throughout. Friedkin is not oblivious to the phallic dimensions of the weaponry, and in one pretty blunt and maybe insensitive but still funny scene, he has two characters loudly make love against a montage of failed weapon test footage. And there are other times where he’s able to juxtapose them with the characters to more sinister effect, like when he has a wheelchair bound mercenary reminisce fondly about committing war crimes against a wall of automatic weapons, or when he has Gregory Hines express his spiritual despair similarly surrounded by weapons in a warehouse.
That you have both those tones in the same movie demonstrates the problem here, in that the movie doesn’t know how to commit to a tone and ends up halfassing most of its tonal and narrative threads. Hines has to piece together an arc of spiritual transformation through an assortment of very clunky scenes (the ones above, and another where he’s menaced by a racist thug played by Tony Plana who he wards off with a flamethrower ; there's a thread about racism here that doesn't work at all), while Sigourney Weaver has almost nothing to do aside from that lovemaking montage. A few of the supporting players make an impression, like Wallace Shawn as a suicidal defense contractor, but William Marquez as a goofy Latin American general makes you wish Richard Libertini had reprised his shtick from The In-Laws and played this role instead of the relatively thankless one he has.
To the extent that this works, it’s as an SNL star vehicle for Chevy Chase. I’ve seen complaints that Chase is too aloof for the movie, but I think there’s something pretty funny about him applying used car salesman shtick to weapons deals and managing to fail up the international arms trade with nothing but bullshit and experience, to paraphrase a wise man and SNL alumnus. A less cacophonous movie would have made more of the tension between his laid back presence and the scale and stakes of the surrounding material, but he got his share of laughs out of me.
Zoot Suit: on the night before his Navy enlistment, Henry Reyna & his fellow pachucos are framed for a murder at the Sleepy Lagoon. Based on the dynamic Broadway musical, Luis Valdez’ cinematic adaptation covers the real life trial that would become a pivotal piece of the Chicano Movement!