Hucklebug Episode 71: Website woes, shout-outs, movies (Stennie: 2046, Christmas in July, To Sir With Love; Bet: Dinner at Eight, The Heiress), lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, Worst Actors and Actresses Ever.
PS: Lily, sorry you didn’t get a shout-out this week. Your comment was lost in the Hucklebug.com outage. Next week you’ll get two!
As always, Dennis is the unrelenting critic I’ve come to know and love. Dennis must be especially irked since those Dodgers took a dump all over Chavez Ravine. Way to channel that anger bud. I’m sitting here rolling around with laughter.
I’m glad to have an ally in the Polanski wars, especially one like Dennis, but I have to admit that The Tenant drove me nuts! I did kinda like Frantic, so maybe there’s a trade-off there.
However, I loved Tess, Repulsion, Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby, Knife In The Water, and even enjoyed Fearless Vampire Killers. Now I’ve gotta step up the hunt for Cul-de-sac, based on Bet’s glowing review.
(RIP Miss Moneypenny.)
Oh, I just thought of another very crappy actress. Bonnie “OH my Gaaaaaaaaad” Franklin.
Also, check OUT how many comments you have this week. DO you feel the love? Do ya?
First of all, SAL, I did download the podcast onto itunes, but for some reason, previously it didn’t work in my IPOD unless I re-converted it to MP3. I messed with the settings. We’ll see what happens next.
Secondly, I am woefully behind in listening to the bug, since I’m now sharing my office with WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE, and I just got to #67, the highlight of Stennie’s raise, and the fact she could buy tickets to Hawaii. I’m not sure how well this “working out and listening to Hucklebug” thing is going to go, since I was giggling on the bike and I’m sure looked like some kind of maniac…(Of course you can come Bet, this is open to women of all coasts…)
You two crack me up.
I felt the same way Marla B.
I was laughing along to a good Hucklebug moment at work the other night and when I looked up, around 6 people were looking at me like I had boogers coming out of my nose. Too funny!!
Bonnie Franklin! Excellent call, Michelle! I’m not sure if I’m more happy that you remembered her or more annoyed that I’m now thinking about her again…
And Mike, Cul-de-Sac is a blind spot for me too. I really need to see that AND Knife in the Water.
Bonnie Franklin. Excellent call,, Michelle. Except now I don’t know whether to be more glad that you made it or annoyed because that sour puss has invaded my head again. Blecch.
Mike: KNIFE IN THE WATER and CUL-DE-SAC remain major blind spots for me with Polanski. But I do love THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS…
Here’s a topic for discussion that I was thinking about yesterday: I am not well-versed in modern-era TV shows. People talk about WEEDS and DEXTER and DEADWOOD and, as much as I’d like to see them, I never have (various reasons). But with rare exceptions (like BOSTON LEGAL or HOUSE, which I only saw here at work) whenever I do I see them, I usually just go “hunh?” as in “What is so great about this?” The latest example: yesterday was the first time I was exposed to the new BATTLESTAR: GALACTICA, and it just seemed dour and pretentious to me. (How about Edward James Olmos as Worst Actor nominee? Has he ever varied his glowering pose even once?).
The question, posed to those smart people who would have personal experience enough to know: What’s the best thing on TV?
sorry didn’t realize there were two pages…
I don’t know Dennis. It seems to me that making an decision based on one viewing of an episodic show isn’t really giving the program a fair shake. I mean, there was so much going on in every program you mentioned that taking one part of it and deciding “What’s so great about this” kinda defeats the purpose of the episode concept.
Be that as it may, I have to say that, for mindless fun ” Two and a half Men” is for lack of a better word… fun.
The writing and style on HEROES is some of the best I’ve seen in a long time. And Battlestar Galactica is everything it was promised to be. Gritty, stylish, well written and acted. Now Edward James Olmos is exactly what he is. I’ll agree that he seems to be playing the same “style” in his acting choices but remember, the producers chose him for this part. Not the other way around.
And let me apologize up front, I did not mean to say that I was one of those SMART people you mentioned earlier. I’m just hanging around the fringes of all you real smartees.
Just kiddin’
Seriously, I was just pokin’ a little fun with y’all!
What I meant was, since it is my first and often only exposure to some of these shows, the episodes themselves don’t offer me what I’m looking for to make me want to come back for more. I’m not judging a whole show based on one episode, but instead saying there’s often not much appeal, based on one episode, for me to want to continue watching. All those other shows I mentioned, even something as initially annoying as SIX FEET UNDER, surprised me with their depth, so maybe I’m just missing out.
Holy God, people! Just so everyone knows—Bet and I recorded the show early this week, on Sunday. So most of you did NOT get shout-outs. Please don’t be disappointed when the new show goes up tomorrow. We’ll come back to them all next week.
Also, the security word features appears to be working again.
I received 3 CD’s in the mail today. I’m not gonna say who they are from but I will say that I am saving them for the weekend so I can sit out in the patio with a glass of southern comfort on ice and enjoy them under the stars.
Hopefully you all will received mine shortly.
Thanks everyone!