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  1. 2 hours ago, backyardchef said:

    You say that like it's a good thing.

    Hey the bartender at Wallsé gave me a knockout local Mexican rec. 

  2. I was about to post a semi-howler regarding Eric Adams from a few weeks ago -- only to note that it was corrected the last day or so.

    The New Yorker's legendary fact-checking continues -- only retrospectively.

  3. You had to be around at the turn of the ‘60s into the ‘70s to understand how great he was.   Johnny Cash singing “Sunday Morning Coming Down”:  what honesty; what verbal precision.  Kristofferson wrote like a Rhodes scholar who’d worked as a janitor at a Nashville record company office — which was exactly what he was.

    The problem was when he started making his own records:  he couldn’t sing.  But who wouldn’t love to have written “Me and Bobby McGee”?  There were other people who could sing it  

    And if he wanted to be a movie star, well, who wouldn’t have wanted THAT?

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  4. (Similarly, I remember, long ago, hearing one of the guys who worked in my law firm's cafeteria "knowledgeably" asserting that Dead Again had a "B-cast".  Kenneth Branaugh, Emma Thompson, and Derek Jacobi:  REALLY?????????)

  5. Like Ian McKellen.  As far as I'm concerned, the best Western actor of his generation.  But was he a star before X-Men and Lord of the Rings?

    (I was once in a coffee shop where it really chapped my ass to hear some self-appointedly "knowledgeable"  Pop Culture Guy at another table loudly bloviate to his [female] companion that Patrick Stewart playing Macbeth was "stunt casting", because as a Pop Culture Guy he wouldn't know that Patrick Stewart was a leading Shakespearean before he was a Star Trek character.  Those people make me furious.)

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