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NY Times average 3.9 and Wordlebot in 5.
The Guardian reviews Melania documentary "with a face like a fist and a voice of sheet metal" LOL hilarious review
This mood of cosy conviviality extends all the way through the opening credits; at which point the chill descends and the novocaine kicks in, as the film’s star and executive producer proceeds to guide us – with agonising glacial slowness – through the preparations for her husband’s second presidential inauguration. She glides from the fashion fitting to the table setting, and from the “candlelit dinner” to the “starlight ball”, with a face like a fist and a voice of sheet metal. “Candlelight and black tie and my creative vision,” she says, as though listing the ingredients in a cauldron. “As first lady, children will always remain my priority,” she coos, and you can almost picture her coaxing them into her little gingerbread house.
No doubt there is a great documentary to be made about Melania Knauss, the ambitious model from out of Slovenia who married a New York real-estate mogul and then found herself cast in the role of a latter-day Eva Braun, but the horrific Melania emphatically isn’t it. It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne.
It’s dispiriting, it’s deadly and it’s spectacularly unrevealing. Ratner’s film plays like a gilded trash remake of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest in which a button-eyed Cinderella points at gold baubles and designer dresses, cunningly distracting us while her husband and his cronies prepare to dismantle the Constitution and asset-strip the federal government. “White and gold – that’s so you,” purrs one of her lickspittles as she busies herself with the colour-scheme for the ball and the incoming first lady allows that yes indeed, this is true.
The full review: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest
Rewatching The West Wing on Netflix.
What a series. Story, acting, production. It's all so well done.
I had watched the first episode some weeks ago and couldn't go on because it physically hurt to think of what's really happening now. So much of TV now is about monsters, evil, fear, crime and the dark side. Reality TV reflecting those things now occupies the real West Wing.
Then The American President was on the other night, directed by Rob Reiner. Martin Sheen plays the Chief of Staff to Michael Douglas as the President. It made me decide to go back to The West Wing. And now I can't stop. Getting to the end of the first season, when the president is convinced to stop playing it safe, and let his values determine his political decisions and actions.
Damn, it's inspiring.
All 25 James Bond movies coming to Netflix
On Jan 21.
The list of them by release date is included in the link.
How to Watch the James Bond Movies in Order on Netflix https://share.google/6Pzi2BpxAkzDZ4p1d
Chargers and Patriots
Idiots! Why do these teams insist on going for it on 4th down instead of taking the easy field goal? Especially since the opportunity was the result of a turnover?
Are they all just flaming egocentric fools? So sure of their own abilities and unaware of the skills of others?
I really don't understand this fad of not taking the sure fire field goal, especially early in the game.
The good news is
that if you have a passport that needs to be renewed, it can be done online. Turnaround time for mine was only two weeks. I submitted my renewal application and uploaded my digital photo ( taken at the same Walgreens where I got my latest COVID booster shot in September) on December 15th and my new passport with an expiration date of December 29, 2035 arrived in my mailbox on January 3rd.
If your passport is due to expire within the next year, renew it now. If your passport has expired, apply for a new one, now. If you've never had a passport, there's no time like the present to get one if you have any thought that you might want to leave the country--for any reason --in the next few years.
Breakdown: 1975 is new on Netflix
OMG. Brilliant documentary narrated by Jodie Foster. Absolutely f'ing brilliant.
By the end it will be obvious we've come full circle to the denial and dysfunction politically that was obvious during the Reagan years.
Anybody watching the Steelers v Lions?
Amazing last play! Now tied 10 and 10 at the half.
Cooper's Hawk on Fence Rail
Stopped by the other day long enough for me to get a couple of shots through the window with my phone. I recently started filling my bird feeders again and I think that's the attraction.
Couldn't help but think of elleng when I saw it.
DU member elleng has passed. Edited
Update: I have replaced the link--which was in my original post very early this morning--with a screen shot because some people indicated the link didn't work for them.
She has been a member here since 2004. No details. Her daughter has posted it on her Facebook account.
And her other daughter has just now posted this photo of her when she was younger
May her memory be a blessing.
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