I’m great in bed

i caught the episode a changed woman on TNT (Pop? one of those) and sasha broussard asked if she had reformed herself years earlier, could something had happen between her & pride? he said no.

( spoilers for the final episodes )

also, there's a ncis: sydney now? ncis: hawaii is still on, so this new development twists the knife more.

finished the obi-wan series. overall, not too bad. the problem is it was a sequel to one thing & a prequel to another. so they had call backs & foreshadowing, plus explanations for future things.
( minor spoiler )

also finished the ILM documentary series. very interesting. people would tell george lucas; "that can't be done." he'd say; "well, just try it." and stuff got done. ( is it spoilers for real life stuff? )

on the second episode now, it's still interesting.

i find it hard to believe the girl playing leia is 10. she looks more like an 8 year old. admittedly, my exposure to 10 year olds is limited to when i was 10, being around my classmates and when my brother was 10 3 years later.
according to google, the average height of a 10 year old girl is 4'1" to 4'9". jimmy smits is 6'3" (according to google) so, according to this height comparison site, she would be at least nearly up to his elbow. but in the first episode she looks barely hip high. it doesn't help that they have it so when she runs from the bad guys she can duck and run under things that adults can't, like a 6-8 year old.
and she looks really young too. i don't recall my classmates (or myself) looking that young. of course there was more pollution, kids' parents smoked & there was more chemicals in food then.
i realize that not all 10 year olds are the same, but i keep thinking; "she's 8." while watching the show.

and i don't think that was frank oz voicing yoda in the SW prequel recap in the first episode. he don't voice miss piggy in any muppets thing anymore because he didn't like what disney was doing with the character. so they probably dubbed in someone else so they didn't have to pay him.
speaking of paying people, i wonder if any of the other people in the clips they had in the recap got paid. i doubt it, even tough there's a rule about that now.

another trip around the sun. a.k.a another year. a.k.a my birthday.

i've been thinking lately that i'm out of touch with what is going on in entertainment.
not that i was ever very in touch. i never listened to the hot singers or bands. rarely watched any of the big movies when they came out, with a few exceptions (jurassic park, some james bond movies). never really watched the big "must see" tv shows. just friends, maybe?

it doesn't help that there are so many streaming services that have to have people for roles for all their original shows and movies. actors who 5-10 years ago would be mostly limited to bit parts are now number 3 or 4 in the credits on a series that runs on a streaming service for 4-5 years or a 10 episode limited time thing that gets a lot of buzz.

plus all of the people who are having their 15 minutes of fame because of a reality show of some sort, are youtube or instagram famous. i can't keep up, nor do i want to.

it's a documentary we watched on hbo max about the beanie baby craze in the late 1990s.
it started with a few white, bored suburban, chicago area moms collecting them & probably would've stayed a chicago or even a mid-west thing, but one of them worked for people magazine & things got big from there.
still not sure why people thought that they'd be in demand enough to pay for their kid's college fund in the future. i guess some people will always believe the hype.

some crazy twists and turns. ( spoilers )

this is from an older episode but when the ex-wife of jerry j. said they met when they were both cops in the same town & he stopped by her house to tell her her boyfriend was cheating on her. i said; "that's got to be one of the strangest meet cutes of all time." my brother was like what? & i tried to explain that in fan fic it's when to people who will be a couple meet in a humorous way. he looked at me with a WTF?! look. because he doesn't understand or particularly like fan fic. once, when filling a prompt on sg1_five_things he saw what i was doing and was like; "that didn't happen on the show." & i was like; "i know. that's what makes it fan fic." he kept insisting that it didn't happen & i tried to explain the concept of fan fic, but he didn't get it.

i should've looked it up on wikipedia & gave him their definition; in film, television, and literature, a meet cute is a scene in which the two people who will form a future romantic couple meet for the first time, typically under unusual, humorous, or cute circumstances.

this is one of the things i wanted to watch on hbo max.

over all not too bad. random thoughts follow.

-i forgot that james corden hosted this. hated that red suit he wore.
-the table reads were unnecessary. they could have had the scene play and the actors make comments.
-didn't need the smelly cat stuff. or the fashion show. they could've had more show clips. or showed bloopers that they kept in the show.
-not commenting on "work" people had done, except to say "oh my."
-they didn't mention why joey went from a jerky, nyc guy in the pilot to the goofy idiot he became. i wondered if it was true that leblanc suggested the change because he thought it didn't make sense that the others were friends with a guy like that.
-marta kauffman said she named chandler after a guy she knew. which proves that bit of trivia in one of the posts in feb. to be false. that the characters were named after all my children characters. which i thought might be a rumor or outright BS.
-schwimmer mentioned the great guest stars & someone mentioned julia roberts. aniston said something like "someone to to enjoy her." while pointing to perry. according to rumor, they "enjoyed" each other briefly in real life too.
-in the trivia game they said no one know what chandler did for a living, but i thought he was an executive in statistical analysis and data reconfiguration for a large, multinational corporation.
-they showed the footage of when leblanc messed up his shoulder while filming the one where no one's ready. & i'm not sure what happened. he dove into the chair right shoulder first, but it was his left one that got messed up. i heard it was dislocated, but he was moving it around, which you can't do when it's dislocated.

after watching this i had a dream that the marvel actors from the infinity war era movies got together for a similar reunion.

subtitle; The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

from amazon;

If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6.
For nearly a decade, as the Cold War reached its twilight, Gordievsky helped the West turn the tables on the KGB, exposing Russian spies and helping to foil countless intelligence plots, as the Soviet leadership grew increasingly paranoid at the United States's nuclear first-strike capabilities and brought the world closer to the brink of war.
Desperate to keep the circle of trust close, MI6 never revealed Gordievsky's name to its counterparts in the CIA, which in turn grew obsessed with figuring out the identity of Britain's obviously top-level source. Their obsession ultimately doomed Gordievsky: the CIA officer assigned to identify him was none other than Aldrich Ames, the man who would become infamous for secretly spying for the Soviets.

a very interesting read. goes into the motivation of gordievsky vs. philby (who will probable haunt MI5 & MI6 as long as those organizations exist) & ames. as well as some of the work gordievsky did for MI6 & what happned to him when the KGB got word of what he was up too.
if you like real life spy stories/thrillers, i recommend this book. i also reomend similar books that macintyer wrote; Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies & Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal.

macintyre also wrote a book about philby, a spy among friends, that's now a tv series. i tried to reed it, but it felt very british & i could not make it very far.

this is an HBO max thing, that aired on TBS for some reason. i know HBO owns turner's stuff now, but i thought they would keep this on the pay site.

some thoughts & things of note;
--the sets look great.
-i'm still disappointed that chris columbus didn't direct all of them. but when they go through how the movies represent different stages of their lives from 11-18, it makes sense to have the different directors.
--there's was no explanation for the stupid hair styles of harry, ron & the twins in #4.
--jason isaacs didn't want to audition for the part of lucius malfoy because he was going to be captain hook & didn't want to be the bad guy in two children's things. (he was thinking of going for gilderoy lockhart) so he said his lines through gritted teeth & the producers/director loved it.
--at one point they thought he slipped in dumbledore's office, but he said; "i just kicked dobby down the stairs." and they put it in.
--when helena bonham carter got going as bellatrix lestrange he wanted to yell at her to shut up.
--rupert grint commenting to daniel radcliffe & emma watson on how long it's been since he's seen them; "i've had kidney stones. i've had a baby."
--david yates trying to justify the harry grabing lord v during their final fight, as well as the harry and hermione dance & me not buying it.

in about a week i will be losing the icon space i got because of a points donation in may (the rest of the points i will use about the time of the 3 sentence fic-a-thon). and as usual, i wonder which 15 i will end up with & wish i could pick them.

i would choose more general purpose ones. i don't need the ncis:nola one (well, i want to keep in in general, but i don't need to use it anymore, sadly.) maybe the birthday, the bad day, one dream sheep, keep calm & space filler ones too.

what would be really great is if you change the 15 every month or two.