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Kim
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Aug 29 2016, 2:38am
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Guess it's time for a new What are you Watching thread!
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Hiya - now that the Olympics are over, it's back to movies and looking forward to new upcoming fall tv shows.
I saw Florence Foster Jenkins this weekend - very sweet. Meryl Streep was her usual amazing self - how in the world did she manage to sing so badly on purpose? 
Looking forward to Timeless, a kind of sci-fi, going-back-in-time-to-change-the-past tv show that looks interesting.
So, what have you been watching and what are you looking forward to?
"All we have to decide is what to do in the time that is given us."
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zarabia
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Aug 29 2016, 3:03am
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Florence Foster Jenkins for me as well
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I figured this was one that both my mom and I could enjoy together and was right. There are other films I'd like to see if it were me alone, but this was great for mother and daughter time.
It started off seeming like it might be a bit "one note" (if you will  ), but it turned into something deeper. Maybe not a great film, but really nice and enjoyable. Of course Streep is great, but Grant was surprisingly nuanced and Simon Helberg held his own admirably.
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round
~Do You Realize?, The Flaming Lips
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Maciliel
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Aug 29 2016, 3:42am
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fear the walking dead / episode 9
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fear the walking dead / episode 9.
the writers make me so frustrated. the cast can certainly act. the writers just let them down week after week, having them do stupid things, which are often contrary to what has gone on the week (and weeks) before.
arrrgh. fear the walking dead makes the wakling dead look like tolstoy.
on the other hand, i just finished binging on star trek ds9 and voyager, and am currently binging on the (wonderful) poirot (suchet).
cheers --
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aka. fili orc-enshield
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the scene, as i understand it, is exceptionally well-written. fili (in sort of a callback to the scene with the eagles), calls out "thorRIIIIIIN!!!" just as he sees the pale orc veer in for the kill. he picks up the severed arm of an orc which is lying on the ground, swings it up in desperation, effectively blocking the pale orc's blow. and thus, forever after, fili is known as "fili orc-enshield."
this earns him deep respect from his hard-to-please uncle. as well as a hug. kili wipes his boots on the pale orc's glory box. -- maciliel telpemairo
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Old Toby
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Aug 29 2016, 4:33am
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One of our theaters played this classic 1956 movie starring the wonderful Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr. I don't think I've seen it since I was a child, so this many years later, I was looking forward to revisiting this musical. It was/is simply glorious! Ah, the songs...I remember so many of them once I heard them again. Yul Brynner was so magnificent as the King, with just the right amount of arrogance and humor, and so deserving of the Best Actor Oscar he won for it. I never knew Deborah Kerr didn't do her own singing in this, She was voiced by Marnie Nixon, who I learned also voiced Natalie Wood's character in West Side Story. Anyway, I had a great time revisiting this classic movie.
"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good." Harry Dresden (Jim Butcher)
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Aug 29 2016, 5:50am
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had quite the illustrious career supplying singing voices for stars in famous musicals. She also is the singing voice for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady. I think the only place you see her onscreen singing as herself is as one of the nuns in The Sound of Music, with the line, "She waltzes on her way to Mass and whistles on the stair".
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Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.
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dormouse
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Aug 29 2016, 8:13am
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Well, the 'looking forward to' bit is easy......
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We have a new series of Poldark coming up in the autumn! 
As for the 'watching now', that's mostly DVDs or old episodes of NCIS when I watch anything at all. Our TV schedules tend to be a bit flat over the summer. They save the new things for the autumn.
But we do have - and I am watching - The Great British Bake Off. Compulsive stuff - and who'd have thought competitive cake making would be good television!
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood and every spring
there is a different green. . .
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Bracegirdle
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Aug 29 2016, 1:40pm
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My wife and I just finished watching the BBC show
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– Detectorists on Netflix.
What an absolutely well-written delight. Two seasons about . . . practically nothing.
No blood, no sex, no car crashes . . . oh my!
And over Middle-earth he passed
and heard at last the weeping sore
of women and of elven-maids
in Elder Days, in years of yore.
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Kilidoescartwheels
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Aug 29 2016, 1:54pm
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Started watching it on Netflix - I believe they are picking up a second season, sure hope so! Funny, my hubby thinks Utred looks like Bard, haha! Greatly looking forward to a new "Poldark" season, Sept. 25th in the USA, woo hoo!
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Annael
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Aug 29 2016, 2:11pm
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I'm looking forward to Timeless as well!
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Currently watching "A Gifted Man" on Netflix. One-season show starring Patrick Wilson as a driven neurosurgeon and Jennifer Ehle as his dead wife who haunts him into being a better person.
Rewatched all of "Sense8" before allowing myself to watch the season finale. Fingers crossed Netflix lets the Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski fulfill their five-year vision for this one (and that JMS keeps the Wachowskis on track). Love this show. The penultimate episode where each of the eight reexperienced their own birth was amazingly powerful, and the last episode was also quite satisfying with each contributing one of their strengths to help two of them get out of peril.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the words begin to move around … The words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young.
-- Gaston Bachelard
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Lily Fairbairn
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Aug 29 2016, 2:12pm
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Here it's the Great British Baking Show
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We just finished last year's version. I don't know either why it's such a great show. Maybe it's because I don't bake at all and have to admire those who do. And of course you have to love the way the different contestants help and encourage each other.
I always cringe, though, when the judges cut into a beautifully decorated cake or other item! I don't know how else they could taste it, though. A big straw? 
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow....
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Lily Fairbairn
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Aug 29 2016, 2:13pm
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Just ordinary (if quirky) people making lives for themselves. The ending to each season is absolutely perfect.
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow....
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Ciars
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Aug 29 2016, 5:32pm
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I caught the first episode of Victoria last night- ITV's new period drama and loved it! Jenna Louise Coleman plays Victoria and is well suited to the role, Eve Myles plays Mrs Jenkins the senior dresser to Victoria so there's familiar faces to any Dr Who/ Torchwood fans! Rufus Sewell is great as Lord Melbourne. All in all it was a promising start to the drama, certainly lots of intrigue/politics already, I felt sorry for the struggle the young Victoria faced at being accepted as queen, though probably heavily dramatised it really showed how the odds of succeeding were stacked against her at the start.
Love the return of The Great British Bakeoff as well, it's the interplay between the presenters Mel and Sue with Paul and Mary's good cop/ bad cop roles played to perfection, which keep me hooked-that and I have to admit the prospect of inevitable disasters have me tuning in rather than the stunning masterpieces that are produced(nope, definitely not jealous of the talents on display)!
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OldestDaughter
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Aug 29 2016, 6:10pm
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So excited! My sisters and I love this show! My younger sister showed us the newest trailer for it and we are greatly excited for it!
On what I've watched lately, watched Strange Magic, and Fantastic Mr. Fox for animated movies, X2 and Mockingjay Part 2 for older movies, rewatched some of the second season of Lost and am continuing season 3 of Once Upon a Time. (I'm pretty behind on that!) Also, have been watching Fraiser on Netflix.
"Keen, heart-piercing was her song as the song of the lark that rises from the gates of night and pours its voice among the dying stars, seeing the sun behind the walls of the world; and the song of Lúthien released the bonds of winter, and the frozen waters spoke, and flowers sprang from the cold earth where her feet had passed."
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sevilodorf
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Aug 30 2016, 12:54am
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The Shallows // Central Intelligence // Legend of Tarzan// plus live show Pageant of the Masters
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From the bottom up...
Pageant of the Masters -- Laguna Beach -- art show and then a two hour presentation of living tableaux of various masterpieces. My granddaughter was given fourth row tickets for this sold out performance. It was fantastic. Look it up online.
Tarzan -- 3rd viewing... owe it to the ERB society for the great swag bag from their conference.... I still say it doesn't deserve all the negatives it got. It's not the traditional Tarzan of the movies but then that Tarzan was no the Tarzan of the books... This one is closer to the books with subtle attempts to adjust for Burrough's world view.
Central Intelligence -- a large piece of fluff that's funny as long as you don't expect consistency in the plot. Not sure if they were trying to set up a team for sequels but I think they mined this one for all the jokes possible though as it did quite well at the box office on a small budget it probably will get a sequel.
The Shallows -- Jaws of 2016.... was doing a great job until she finally had to defeat the shark. That bit just wasn't well done.
Fourth Age Adventures at the Inn of the Burping Troll http://burpingtroll.com
Home of TheOneRing.net Best FanFic stories of 2005 and 2006 "The Last Grey Ship" and "Ashes, East Wind, Hope That Rises" by Erin Rua
(Found in Mathoms, LOTR Tales Untold)
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Omnigeek
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Aug 30 2016, 3:32am
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Watched "Blazing Saddles" earlier, now on "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Will try to fit in "Young Frankenstein" before I go to bed ...
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Dame Ioreth
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Aug 30 2016, 3:58am
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I saw Yul Brynner on stage in the King and I
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He was in his late 50s by then but he looked the same as in the movie. His first scene, he strode onstage, struck the iconic pose and the place went wild - a standing ovation just for walking on stage in that way he had in that character. It was a phenomenal show!
I can remember being in a summer stock production in our local youth theater group of the King and I. It was a lot of fun because the music is so good.
As for Marnie Nixon, she never did get the recognition she deserved. So many iconic characters and their music were brought to life by her voice. If you listen very carefully, you can tell where the hand-off is in the music. She had a clear, bell-like tone. Beautiful!
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Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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Old Toby
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Aug 30 2016, 3:04pm
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Totally agree with you sevilodorf. I think the new movie is far better than some critics said it was. Not everyone was negative about it though, but at most it got a lukewarm reception. And as I said before, some scenes from Tarzan's past were exactly as I envisioned them from the book. Exactly.
"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good." Harry Dresden (Jim Butcher)
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Old Toby
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Aug 30 2016, 3:07pm
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To see Yul Brynner perform this in person must have been fantastic! And yeah, that iconic pose!
"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good." Harry Dresden (Jim Butcher)
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N.E. Brigand
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Aug 30 2016, 7:48pm
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At the age of 86.
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N.E. Brigand
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Aug 30 2016, 8:01pm
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You might also try "Start the Revolution Without Me" (1970).
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Co-starring Donald Sutherland.
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Dame Ioreth
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Aug 30 2016, 9:23pm
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It's another one of those BBC formula-type murder mystery shows but it's fun and I love the music. It's set on Sainte Marie, an island in the Caribbean and features a fish-out-of-water detective transferred from London who learns to work with the local police force. The mysteries are fun but it's more fun watching the main character and the way his mind works. I've binged on the first 1.5 seasons on Netflix.
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ITLs don't get enough FAS. :)
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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N.E. Brigand
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Aug 30 2016, 11:42pm
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Click here for a thirty-second clip; I think it will be well worth your time. Click here if you can spare two minutes for an expanded version that puts that moment in context and really gives you a sense of what it was like to be there live when it happened.
Each August, the world's* best drum and bugle corps, which are souped-up summertime marching bands, gather for the Drum Corps International championships; after a few decades' peripatetic existence, these have been presented in Indianapolis for the past eight years.
The championships run from a Thursday through a Saturday, and since 2004, the first evening of competition has been simulcast to a number of cinemas across the U.S. (More recently, the second and third nights have been streamed online.) After seeing the first year's theater broadcast, I missed a few before catching it again in 2008 (as I noted here) and have seen it every year since. This year, I also attended the final night in person, having arranged to secure some excellent seats last winter, and this proved to be highly fortuitous, because for the first time ever, our local corps, the Bluecoats from Canton, Ohio, founded in 1972 (the year of my birth, as it happens), won the championship!
And in the process, one of their performers saw an opportunity to play to the camera, and, partly due to the exercise of a little discretion, thereby brought down the house at the finals. Even in the shorter of the two clips linked above, you can see his reaction when the audience's roar reaches his ears. (FYI, the song being performed is Pink Floyd's "Great Gig in the Sky".)
It was a very close match, though. The Bluecoats' winning score with their giant pink slides and custom-made jumpsuits was less than one point (out of one hundred) ahead of the second-place team, the Blue Devils from Concord, California, whose Tempest-themed presentation honored the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, and the third-place troupe, Carolina Crown from Ft. Mill, South Carolina, performing a revenge-driven mix of spaghetti western music and Barber's Medea. Crown took top honors in brass performance, visual execution, and color guard, while Bluecoats nabbed best overall effect (the fourth-place corps, Santa Clara Vanguard, walked away took top honors in percussion performance).
Blue Devils, "As Dreams Are Made On":
Carolina Crown, "Relentless":
Some more shots of the Bluecoats, "Down Side Up":
Due to the incredible seats (on the 50-yard line and at a nice height), the history-making opportunity to see the local corps win, and the tight competition at the top between three superb shows in very different styles, this was one of the best performances I've attended, of any art form.
(The other nine corps on Saturday were nothing to sneeze at, either. I was particularly fond of the performance by a corps making their first finals appearance, the Academy, from Tempe, Arizona with the delightful "Drum Corpse Bride", as well as the political-media overload on offer from the Cavaliers, a perennial powerhouse from Rosemont, Illinois, whose "Propaganda" culminated with the collision of "Hillary" and "Trump" banners.)
*Strictly speaking, all of the competitors this year were North American, but occasionally there are corps from Europe or Asia in attendance, and I think it is fair to say based on comparisons in those years that the American corps are clearly the cream of the crop.
Original sources of photos: DCI, Bluecoats, Blue Devils, Carolina Crown.
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Aug 31 2016, 2:37am
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Is that the one where they're twins, switched at birth?
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Love it!
I never pass up the chance to watch "Silver Streak".
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
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a.s.
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Aug 31 2016, 3:37am
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My cousin's son was there with the Madison Scouts!!
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No actual comment, it's just cool when my worlds collide.
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"A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds." JRR Tolkien, Letters.
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