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Waterfall said:
Last night I watched a foreign film film called "The Price of Family"
It's a comedy about a family of 4 with the two older children moving out of their parents home. The mother has fears that once they move out they will never visit her much....her fears come true and they become more and more distant as time goes on. When they have other plans for Christmas with their friends, the parents concoct a rumour that they were suddenly left 6 million dollars after the death of Aunt Tea. As expected the children become steady visitors hoping to get some of the money for themselves.
It's a light comedy, but I enjoyed it.
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Sounds amusing. How foreign is it - all subtitles?
 
It is best to look at nothing being we are told that if you observe anything it will likely cause change ... a corruptive power!

Thus closed book theology regarding tomes ...
 
@Delightful Life - They did not really focus on importance of the Sahara - as it was not the central theme of the film. It is of course adjacent to the Sahel region. Here's a little Nat'l Geo article about the project (and mentions the Sahara too!)
 
Just found out that Fawlty Towers is coming back, with John Cleese's daughter Camilla as his co-writer this time (for the original, it was his then-wife Connie Booth, who also played the hotel maid Polly). Mixed feelings given that Cleese has been a rather hysterical anti-wokeism protester in recent years but maybe Camilla's presence will keep that in check. Also, there's a strong sense that Fawlty Towers was lightning in a bottle and they won't be able to pull it off a second time. The fact that there are only 12 episodes in existence keeps it kind of a special, one-off bit of gleefully wicked comedy. Apparently, the plot has an aged Basil Fawlty (Cleese reprising his role from the original) teaming up with a previously unknown daughter (no indication of whether Camilla, who is a comedian and writer moreso than an actress, will play the character) to run a boutique hotel. Backing it is Castle Rock Entertainment, Rob Reiner's company.

www.bbc.com

Fawlty Towers: John Cleese to revive series with daughter Camilla

John Cleese will write and star in the revival alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
 
Is anti-WOKE similar to someone having been impacted by something like a gavel?

There are these images that form ...
 
Mendalla said:
Just found out that Fawlty Towers is coming back, with John Cleese's daughter Camilla as his co-writer this time (for the original, it was his then-wife Connie Booth, who also played the hotel maid Polly). Mixed feelings given that Cleese has been a rather hysterical anti-wokeism protester in recent years but maybe Camilla's presence will keep that in check. Also, there's a strong sense that Fawlty Towers was lightning in a bottle and they won't be able to pull it off a second time. The fact that there are only 12 episodes in existence keeps it kind of a special, one-off bit of gleefully wicked comedy. Apparently, the plot has an aged Basil Fawlty (Cleese reprising his role from the original) teaming up with a previously unknown daughter (no indication of whether Camilla, who is a comedian and writer moreso than an actress, will play the character) to run a boutique hotel. Backing it is Castle Rock Entertainment, Rob Reiner's company.

www.bbc.com

Fawlty Towers: John Cleese to revive series with daughter Camilla

John Cleese will write and star in the revival alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
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Cleese is hysterical anti woke protestor? What he eats babies in drag?

What exactly has he done now?
 
I ask this Mendalla because (well I have been out of the loop for a while)

I think it goes like this

We have the internet. Anyone with a connection can be on it and have an audience. No filter or editor to moderate what you say. So I can see an N of at least 1 can potentially name Cleese as anti-woke protestor?

We aren't all us wokelite the same, tho we share some similarities. Some of us are more...strident than others? Some of us actually attack transsexuals. I will write aboot this when I am on son of chan's BBS.

From what I have seen, John Cleese has been concerned with what he sees as an increase in incivility in his particular culture. "England" or "English" I think he has called it?

I saw some people jump in right away and call him racist. And that is not true. But people can still say it and if enough people say it then it can become problematical. Like whomever decided to ban my friend Kimmio for calling WC a den of abelism was afraid of that showing up in searches?
In our goal to make a better world, comerades, we must be careful. Not all calls of systemic racism, of white supremacy, etc, are actually that or are worthy of the naming. Mobs do happen. The tough thing is being able to distinguish between proper helping and the improper usages?
 
Delightful Life said:
I ask this Mendalla because (well I have been out of the loop for a while)

I think it goes like this

We have the internet. Anyone with a connection can be on it and have an audience. No filter or editor to moderate what you say. So I can see an N of at least 1 can potentially name Cleese as anti-woke protestor?

We aren't all us wokelite the same, tho we share some similarities. Some of us are more...strident than others? Some of us actually attack transsexuals. I will write aboot this when I am on son of chan's BBS.

From what I have seen, John Cleese has been concerned with what he sees as an increase in incivility in his particular culture. "England" or "English" I think he has called it?

I saw some people jump in right away and call him racist. And that is not true. But people can still say it and if enough people say it then it can become problematical. Like whomever decided to ban my friend Kimmio for calling WC a den of abelism was afraid of that showing up in searches?
In our goal to make a better world, comerades, we must be careful. Not all calls of systemic racism, of white supremacy, etc, are actually that or are worthy of the naming. Mobs do happen. The tough thing is being able to distinguish between proper helping and the improper usages?
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I am sorry but the guy accused the BBC of cancelling Python when they were still running it on the iPlayer service or something like that. And I did see some.of his tweets before I left the bluebird hellhole. Not pretty. Like many of that ilk, he is having trouble adapting to the 21st century and is flailing around looking for targets. He is a brilliant comic, but his sniping at alleged "wokeness" and "cancel culture" is beneath him and seems more desperate than anything.

And I am leaving it there. This is the what are you watching thread, not the woke culture thread.
 
Delightful Life said:
I ask this Mendalla because (well I have been out of the loop for a while)

I think it goes like this

We have the internet. Anyone with a connection can be on it and have an audience. No filter or editor to moderate what you say. So I can see an N of at least 1 can potentially name Cleese as anti-woke protestor?

We aren't all us wokelite the same, tho we share some similarities. Some of us are more...strident than others? Some of us actually attack transsexuals. I will write aboot this when I am on son of chan's BBS.

From what I have seen, John Cleese has been concerned with what he sees as an increase in incivility in his particular culture. "England" or "English" I think he has called it?

I saw some people jump in right away and call him racist. And that is not true. But people can still say it and if enough people say it then it can become problematical. Like whomever decided to ban my friend Kimmio for calling WC a den of abelism was afraid of that showing up in searches?
In our goal to make a better world, comerades, we must be careful. Not all calls of systemic racism, of white supremacy, etc, are actually that or are worthy of the naming. Mobs do happen. The tough thing is being able to distinguish between proper helping and the improper usages?
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Remember the Internet is like all free stuff ... it'll cost yah because there is always someone monitoring what you are doing to reduce anarchy in a place where the great mystery put it to be secure ... Bi gweels abound ...
 
I am watching: the following in ongoing series

1923 -- I do so appreciate Helen Mirren.
Shrinking -- Harrison Ford, Jason Segel
The Last of Us -- ok, so not the best premise, and at times, not great, but, it appeals to me.

I listen to tv whilst I am sewing, so have a lot of shows on.

I tend to eat up old BBC police/detective/whodunit stuff, some period dramas.
 
We've been watching Brokenwood Mysteries on Roku TV. I think there's only two out of the 8 seasons on Roku. The rest is on Acorn (I think). It is a New Zealand show set in a small town called Brokenwood. It's a good one.
 
I don't think that I mentioned a series that i watched that i thought was incredibly well done.

Pose


It's a great story of the ball culture of the 80s in New York city
So many topics, it could have its own forum discussing an episode at a time.
I laughed, I cried, I was angry. I related to the women.
 
We've just started watching "Thunder Bay: Murder Capital #1" on Crave. It is about the murder of Indigenous people there. It's starting off well.

We're also watching season 3 of Star Trek Picard. I like where they're going with the last season
 
We watched a movie called, " I Care Alot" on Netflix.
About a group of caretakers that target the elderly with money and arrange for a doctor to pronounce them unsuitable to live alone. The "caretakers" are given power of attorney and sell their houses and take control of their assets through the courts without the elderly person present.
Of course its fiction and ridiculously lacking in truth, but it does make one think..
Hmmm, could it ever come to that?
I'd say a 6 out of 10, wont get an Oscar nomination but it was okay.
 
I've also started watching "Suits" on Netflix. Up to season 3 now....I'm enjoying it so far.
FYI Meghan Markle is in it.
A group of high powered lawyers,and the dialogue is pretty good with some intriguing cases that aren't always won honestly.
Also one of the "lawyers" never went to law school but he's hired anyway because he has a photographic memory and very smart....
 
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