Did anyone watch Jubille’s Surrounded episode with Jillian Michaels from Sunday? I watched it the other day and it actually surprised me. She's MAHA but I think she's more driven from a real concern for people's health and her perspectives made me think
Re: the Timothy Chalamet issue. Will have to strongly disagree that this was ‘no big deal’ in the context of the conversation he had with MM. He knew exactly what he was saying. And his physical demeanor spoke more volumes in that moment. As someone who makes part of her living in the arts, my colleagues and I were shocked and then envigored to share why these art forms are foundational to human history and the resiliency of our collective creativity.
On the Project Hail Mary subject- my brother worked on the visual effects for it. He does not tell us to go see many of his movies but this one I swear he’s told me 3 times to go see it in IMAX if I can. So IMAX is you can.
Beth, I'm SO excited about Project Hail Mary (seeing it on Sat) and can't wait to hear what you think. I've read the book twice, first a couple years ago and FLEW through it, I teared up, loved it so much. And I recently reread it via audiobook and loved it that way too, there's something very specific in the story that works so well on audio. Anyways, yay!! I hope the movie it great!!
Re the oscars: If you were stuck for a week with only one of the Oscar movies to watch, which would you want it to be? Because I was stuck with KPop Demon Hunters.
My uncle worked in Hollywood, he did a bunch of cool stuff like did the makeup for Thriller, designed the trex in Jurassic Park, and created the donkey-dragon babies in Shrek 2. I think he was a voting person for the Oscars? I know they’d send him DVDs of all the movies that were contestants. When he died, his partner was like, “who wants copies of these movies?” (that hadn’t been released on dvd yet) and I was shook. I haven’t been able to touch it because his death was a really sad one, but I have like the Oscar voting copy of Harriet.
Oh wow! I’m so sorry for your loss of what sounds like an incredibly interesting person- the stories he held- I’m glad you have this little piece of him- and sending you all the healing cobbler 💕
Thank you thank you to Beth for pointing out the issues with the response to COVID. There’s a huge difference between “we did the best we could given the knowledge and resources available, and some of that was wrong” vs “we’re evil and stupid and tried to f over the world”
The fact that people think anything other than the former from the public health system just guts me.
I can’t wait to hear what Beth thinks of Project Hail Mary!!! It’s one of my favorite books (currently holding the title for my actual favorite, but it’s only been 3-4 years so it hasn’t stood the test of time yet) and I’m beside myself with excitement to see the movie.
Beth, I don't do horror and mostly don't even do rated R (my threshold for all the things is pretty low). I watched Sinners under some pressure and I couldn't stand it. As soon as it was over, I looked at my husband and said, "I have no idea what that was. Why is this popular?" I give it zero stars and affirm your choice to not watch it.
Please understand I am very pro vaccine. If they make a vaccine, I take the vaccine. I do have a very silly story about me and chicken pox vaccine but it's a digression.
OK, so I really feel like on the vaccines, we all need to talk to each other and listen to each other. This used to happen before, I wanna say, anti-vax people became labeled. And I noticed as soon as social media start labeling people, then we stopped talking to each other about vaccines and that sucks. This topic has gone the way of abortion now. You can't have a nuanced view. You can only be pro or anti. I don't like that way, and it drives me nuts that this important topic is now becoming one where it labels who we are. Back before all of this, I watched a Frontline documentary about the anti-vax movement. Jenny McCarthy and RFK Jr were the faces of anti-vax. RFK Jr hadn't lost his cachet at the time. And it's either him or some other spokesperson at the time really had some questions about how many vaccines we give to newborns.
All this to say: the grandparent group? Great! I welcome that. I want them to put the pro-vaccine word out. But I also hope that they listen. Because if all they do is talk and not listen it's not going to help.
I also fear we are teetering into this binary thinking. I'm with you that I am pro vaccine in every way. After I had big, bad pre-vaccine Covid, my immune response got a bit wonky and I had a horrific reaction to the Shingles vaccine and the Covid vaccine. I almost ended up in the ER with the Shingles one. I ended up skipping the second of the recommended two Shingles at my doc's recommendation (and she is SUPER pro-vaccine). I did the two Covid vaccines and have never done a booster for the same reason. This doesn't make me anti-vax. I am literally the exact opposite. But I had a weird reaction that gave me significant pause for myself.
Beth, I'm meh on Sinners. HOWEVER, at the very very end Buddy Guy appears. My rating bumped up like 3 stars just for that. If you find space for Buddy Guy, I find space for your movie. I tried to rewatch it to see if I'd like the rest of it better after the Buddy Guy scene, and I really didn't. I also hate Field of Dreams, though.
Yeah, I thought Sinners was a pretty lukewarm offering from a director as interesting as Coogler. It felt very by the numbers: vampires+socially conscious issue=Oscar hit
I did really like the dance scene, though, with all the ghosts of dancers past.
I really look forward to reading more about the grandparent generation speaking up for vaccines. I heard Bill McKibben speak last week at the Connecticut Forum, and he spoke about a video series a group he is connected with, Third Act (https://thirdact.org/about/who-we-are/). They are interviewing elder Americans who are basically speaking to "this is not normal." Which the present tense of vaccines and RFK's chaos falls under.
Re the Oscars convo - I also want to mention the best doc winner, Mr. Nobody Against Putin. I was very happy to see that win and that story highlighted.
An anti-sunscreen reel came through on my doom scroll the other day. The lady was discussing how she had just had her SECOND full fledged skin cancer surgery and she wouldn’t be caught dead wearing sunscreen because it’s poison. Her skin looked like a bald tire on a busted Altima.
I fully believe that we are in this mess because public education has not been fully funded in years. Skin cancer is safer than sunscreen. Sure, Jan.
Did anyone watch Jubille’s Surrounded episode with Jillian Michaels from Sunday? I watched it the other day and it actually surprised me. She's MAHA but I think she's more driven from a real concern for people's health and her perspectives made me think
Re: the Timothy Chalamet issue. Will have to strongly disagree that this was ‘no big deal’ in the context of the conversation he had with MM. He knew exactly what he was saying. And his physical demeanor spoke more volumes in that moment. As someone who makes part of her living in the arts, my colleagues and I were shocked and then envigored to share why these art forms are foundational to human history and the resiliency of our collective creativity.
On the Project Hail Mary subject- my brother worked on the visual effects for it. He does not tell us to go see many of his movies but this one I swear he’s told me 3 times to go see it in IMAX if I can. So IMAX is you can.
Beth, I'm SO excited about Project Hail Mary (seeing it on Sat) and can't wait to hear what you think. I've read the book twice, first a couple years ago and FLEW through it, I teared up, loved it so much. And I recently reread it via audiobook and loved it that way too, there's something very specific in the story that works so well on audio. Anyways, yay!! I hope the movie it great!!
Absolutely agree that Jessie Buckley’s gown was the best and not enough people are talking about it!
Re the oscars: If you were stuck for a week with only one of the Oscar movies to watch, which would you want it to be? Because I was stuck with KPop Demon Hunters.
Ok… am I the only one that didn’t know you didn’t have to watch the movies to vote on them?????
My uncle worked in Hollywood, he did a bunch of cool stuff like did the makeup for Thriller, designed the trex in Jurassic Park, and created the donkey-dragon babies in Shrek 2. I think he was a voting person for the Oscars? I know they’d send him DVDs of all the movies that were contestants. When he died, his partner was like, “who wants copies of these movies?” (that hadn’t been released on dvd yet) and I was shook. I haven’t been able to touch it because his death was a really sad one, but I have like the Oscar voting copy of Harriet.
Oh wow! I’m so sorry for your loss of what sounds like an incredibly interesting person- the stories he held- I’m glad you have this little piece of him- and sending you all the healing cobbler 💕
Thank you thank you to Beth for pointing out the issues with the response to COVID. There’s a huge difference between “we did the best we could given the knowledge and resources available, and some of that was wrong” vs “we’re evil and stupid and tried to f over the world”
The fact that people think anything other than the former from the public health system just guts me.
I will watch Sinners if someone can tell me the exact timestamps I need to cover my eyes. 👀
I can’t wait to hear what Beth thinks of Project Hail Mary!!! It’s one of my favorite books (currently holding the title for my actual favorite, but it’s only been 3-4 years so it hasn’t stood the test of time yet) and I’m beside myself with excitement to see the movie.
I LOVED IT!
Yay. My husband and I are planning on seeing it this weekend. This is the first movie we have gone to see in the theater in forever.
Ahhh I’m so excited!! Yes!! I’m so glad!!
Beth, I don't do horror and mostly don't even do rated R (my threshold for all the things is pretty low). I watched Sinners under some pressure and I couldn't stand it. As soon as it was over, I looked at my husband and said, "I have no idea what that was. Why is this popular?" I give it zero stars and affirm your choice to not watch it.
Please understand I am very pro vaccine. If they make a vaccine, I take the vaccine. I do have a very silly story about me and chicken pox vaccine but it's a digression.
OK, so I really feel like on the vaccines, we all need to talk to each other and listen to each other. This used to happen before, I wanna say, anti-vax people became labeled. And I noticed as soon as social media start labeling people, then we stopped talking to each other about vaccines and that sucks. This topic has gone the way of abortion now. You can't have a nuanced view. You can only be pro or anti. I don't like that way, and it drives me nuts that this important topic is now becoming one where it labels who we are. Back before all of this, I watched a Frontline documentary about the anti-vax movement. Jenny McCarthy and RFK Jr were the faces of anti-vax. RFK Jr hadn't lost his cachet at the time. And it's either him or some other spokesperson at the time really had some questions about how many vaccines we give to newborns.
All this to say: the grandparent group? Great! I welcome that. I want them to put the pro-vaccine word out. But I also hope that they listen. Because if all they do is talk and not listen it's not going to help.
I also fear we are teetering into this binary thinking. I'm with you that I am pro vaccine in every way. After I had big, bad pre-vaccine Covid, my immune response got a bit wonky and I had a horrific reaction to the Shingles vaccine and the Covid vaccine. I almost ended up in the ER with the Shingles one. I ended up skipping the second of the recommended two Shingles at my doc's recommendation (and she is SUPER pro-vaccine). I did the two Covid vaccines and have never done a booster for the same reason. This doesn't make me anti-vax. I am literally the exact opposite. But I had a weird reaction that gave me significant pause for myself.
I completely agree. I hate that all his bullshit makes it harder all around to listen!
Beth, I'm meh on Sinners. HOWEVER, at the very very end Buddy Guy appears. My rating bumped up like 3 stars just for that. If you find space for Buddy Guy, I find space for your movie. I tried to rewatch it to see if I'd like the rest of it better after the Buddy Guy scene, and I really didn't. I also hate Field of Dreams, though.
Yeah, I thought Sinners was a pretty lukewarm offering from a director as interesting as Coogler. It felt very by the numbers: vampires+socially conscious issue=Oscar hit
I did really like the dance scene, though, with all the ghosts of dancers past.
I really look forward to reading more about the grandparent generation speaking up for vaccines. I heard Bill McKibben speak last week at the Connecticut Forum, and he spoke about a video series a group he is connected with, Third Act (https://thirdact.org/about/who-we-are/). They are interviewing elder Americans who are basically speaking to "this is not normal." Which the present tense of vaccines and RFK's chaos falls under.
Re the Oscars convo - I also want to mention the best doc winner, Mr. Nobody Against Putin. I was very happy to see that win and that story highlighted.
It was a surprise right!?1 Maybe I should watch it.
I believe it was a surprise win, yeah!
An anti-sunscreen reel came through on my doom scroll the other day. The lady was discussing how she had just had her SECOND full fledged skin cancer surgery and she wouldn’t be caught dead wearing sunscreen because it’s poison. Her skin looked like a bald tire on a busted Altima.
I fully believe that we are in this mess because public education has not been fully funded in years. Skin cancer is safer than sunscreen. Sure, Jan.
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"Her skin looked like a bald tire on a busted Altima." 🤣