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That cat meme is two years older than Stafford's NFL career.
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(Here's the original.)
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"Om Shanti Om" ('Karz,' d. Subhash Ghai, 1980). Music Laxmikant-Pyarelal (after Lord Shorty), lyrics credited to Anand Bakshi (after Lord Shorty). Vocals, Kishore Kumar.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBqq...
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'No Way Out' could have used an Elsa Lanchester.
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Did you ever manage to get to 'The Big Clock?'
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"Koi Yahan Nache Nache" ('Disco Dancer,' d. Babbar Subhash, 1982). Music Bappi Lahiri (after The Buggles), lyrics Faruk Kaiser. Vocals by Usha Uthup and Lahiri. Bang bang!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvzU...
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Can't help thinking that if we'd tried to renegotiate Kupp's contract we wouldn't be in this boat right now. There's enough else in the world making me lose sleep.
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"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" ('Nazar,' d. Mani Kaul, 1990; after Dostoyevsky's "A Gentle Creature"). Vocals, Shambhavi Kaul.
youtu.be/EaSWxE3gQAs?...
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Please rephrase this in a way that defends personal liberties and free markets.
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Venora's great in the first half of Eastwood's 'Bird.' Before the script demands she settle down, she's prickly in exciting ways.
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All I ask is an exploding yacht in every scene.
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Gross.
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Why were they both in the Criterion Closet but not in the Criterion Closet together?!
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Have always held this peaks in S2 when Walter doesn't help Jane. Everything that follows is repetition/escalation and world-building that always feels like regurgitated influences.
But ITA with the 'Saul' love. Kim Wexler is a miracle, Rhea Seehorn deserves a full trophy case.
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Simple corporate strategy made to sound nefarious, but a thing to keep in mind.
checkmyads.org/tub-is-a-fox...
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Certainly an easy way to funnel $ to FOX News. Sly move by Murdoch to compensate for lost revenue during those times advertisers man up and avoid his main channel.
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A favorite: "Swaras" (or "Sa Re Ga Pa") from K. Viswanath's 'Sankarabharanam' (1980). A master singer and a would-be courtesan form a sustaining and chaste relationship around the sanctity of music. Music K. V. Mahadevan, vocals S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and S Janaki.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDqm...
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A quick cascade. From Awtar Krishna Kaul's '27 Down' (1974), music by Hariprasad Chaurasia and Bhubaneshwar Misra (as Bhuban Hari).
youtu.be/-ZoOqYGNqzs?...
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Don't see ever liking this. Between Coop's relationships with Stafford and Puka and his mental skillset, I'd hoped he'd be with the team even after his playing days. The noticeable drop-off after we traded Robert Woods should have been reminder there are players you can't readily replace.
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And every time I see it I just think of this improvised fake Billie Eilish song, help me.
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So... Escape?
"Chanchal Sheetal Nirmal Komal," from Raj Kapoor's great mad 1978 melodrama ‘Satyam Shivam Sundaram.' Music by the duo Laxmikant–Pyarelal, lyrics Anand Bakshi, vocals Mukesh.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tji4...
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Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil,' perpetually relevant.
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Please tell me more about countering extremism.
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From the same film, something ecstatic for a rainy Friday night. "Aaj Rapat Jaaye To," vocals Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle.
youtu.be/HsSjeuDhuLA?...
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Anyway. The tune’s undeniable, and watching Shashi Kapoor grow besotted can be one of the great simple pleasures in cinema.
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She’d leave the industry within a couple years, start accusing international celebrities and government entities of conspiring to kill her. Years later, living alone and incapacitated in an apartment, she would starve to death.
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When she returned to the film her part had been reassigned, her new role cut largely to a pair of musical numbers. You wonder if they added her character’s anguish (like the break in the middle of the song) to mock the star or lean into recent news.
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Parveen Babi is a tragic figure, suffered mental health issues and was shamed for them. This film (among many) was delayed when she had a breakdown; the director publicly called her state “a hoax” and claimed to have alerted tax authorities in case she tried to flee the country.
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Because everyone loves “I Feel Love:” "Raat Baaqi Baat Baaqi" (Namak Halaal,’ d. Prakash Mehra, 1982). Music Bappi Lahiri, lyrics Anjaan, vocals Asha Bhosle, Bappi Lahiri.
Dancing’s stiff, she knows it. Her biographer called dance movements “her kryptonite.”
youtu.be/4uu91OvMQy0?...
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(Also, “420” in India refers to a con/cheat/fraud. Anthony is giving his address as 420 Lover’s Lane.)
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Though the movie is considered a classic, I find it exhausting; granting the three leads parallel storylines leads to redundancy. But “Gonsalves” lets Bachchan work his full romantic goof charisma (I choose to believe Parveen Babi legit breaks at 1:51) against a loaded backdrop.
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I’ve seen ‘AAA’ cited as an expression of Nehru’s secular nation-state; its heroes are a trio of orphaned brothers raised under separate religions who triumph when reunited. In case you’re surprised by the “HAPPY EASTER.”
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“My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves” (‘Amar Akbar Anthony,’ d. Manmohan Desai, 1977.) Music by the duo Laxmikant–Pyarelal, lyrics Anand Bakshi, vocals Kishore Kumar (singing) and Amitabh Bachchan (speaking).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORlf...
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(To be updated occasionally, with meager context.)