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I was watching Tales of Wells Fargo which featured Beverly Garland and Gunsmoke that featured Ruta Lee. I get these two gals confused sometimes so I google them and discovered Lee, born in 1935, was 9 years younger than Garland (born 1926), and Lee is still with us. (Garland passed in 2008).kingrat wrote: ↑October 30th, 2023, 10:55 am Perry Mason viewing: Marie Windsor in The Case of the Daring Decoy! Also a young but already balding Jack Weston. The Case of the Screaming Woman has the unlikely trio of Josephine Hutchinson, Marian Seldes, and Ruta Lee. Marian Seldes plays a cutthroat newspaper columnist called Mary K Davis and is always referred to as "Mary K," which has a different resonance for us now.
Thank you.Thompson wrote: ↑January 7th, 2023, 9:42 pm Irritable bowel syndrome. Oh, that’s rotten. There’s nothing worse than that except a toothache. Trapped gas is just unacceptable. Headaches aren’t no fun, especially those serious ones that cripple you, you get down on the floor and flop around. But they go away. Trapped gas will stay trapped for what seems like forever. Now, it is well known that you can only feel one pain at a time, it is a gift that God bestowed on us back in the beginning, you fall down and break your hip and your toothache and trapped gas are a thing of the past.
As a gay man I appreciate the spirit in which you're watching FELLOW TRAVELERS. They're definitely leading with the sexy so it could potentially go either way in terms of how a general viewership responds to it. It's an important story though, so I'm glad it's being seen and appreciated. I share your feeling that timelines aren't quite intersecting the way they should and there are several significant changes from the storyline in the book which could create other problems. In the book the female most significant to the narrative was his co-worker at the State Department, Mary Johnson, who knew and kept his secrets for many years, and the wife was referred to but had no particular voice of her own. I think Allison Williams is great as the wife and her character seems to be accepting of his "secret", but that's more a modern phenomenon than a mid-century one, so I hope there'll be minimal overlay of such modern attitudes because the 50's mindset is essential to the credibility of the story and to the outcomes the characters face because of it. Also, the character of the black journalist Marcus seems to be a reinvention of a white Irish-American character in the book who had access to events and political conclaves which would have been off-limits to a black man of that era. The novelist (Thomas Mallon) specializes in telling stories about real historical events and people through the eyes of fictional peripheral witnesses, which is how he's telling the story of McCarthy, Cohn and the "Lavender Scare", through the relationship between a fictional gay State Department employee and a senatorial staffer.kingrat wrote: ↑October 30th, 2023, 10:55 am We also loved the first episode of FELLOW TRAVELERS, which has a great role for Matt Bomer as an aggressive and ruthless closeted gay man, with Jonathan Bailey as the good Catholic boy who falls for him. The action takes place (so far) in 1952 (Joseph McCarthy's search for Communists) and 1986 (AIDS era). The timelines don't work out right for what we see on screen, but we'll see how it works in the context of the whole story. Speaking of what we see on screen: that includes male nudity, including brief frontal, and several scenes of simulated same-sex intercourse. My view is that if gay viewers have by now seen approximately a bazillion scenes of simulated opposite-sex intercourse on screen by now, it won't hurt straight viewers to see this much same-sex activity. Others may not share that view, hence the warning.
To be fair, nobody wanted to see Boris Karloff naked anyway.This version had the nudity and sex cut out to get a GP rating.
I agree. His story arc is not thrilling.