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I am sad I didn’t get to see this live since I am in NYC. Stupid family. I sort of want to know what June would think of CENTER STAGE now. If Paul is flexible now, what does that mean for June’s anti-male flexibility/splits movement?

As a fellow man who is not flexible, I want to support Paul. This is the second episode his flexibility has been a topic. Let him be as flexible or inflexible as he is. Did anyone else think the dancing in this was very badly filmed? Especially the break dance scenes. The camera was very dynamic and the editing kept cutting back to different dancers. I get the desire to highlight a specific dancer, but the way this was filmed detracted from the dancing. The camera would often move with the dancer which made their moves seem less impressive. I think a more static camera would have benefited everyone.

Would the bear sing? That's all I care about

Summer Stock Barn Dance Easter Parade Top Hat (w/Ginger Rogers)

I was truly flabbergasted that Jazzy's downfall never paid off, especially after falling in love with the mysterious, bad boy known as Paolo. 1. When Jazzy started showing up late for class after meeting her new man... I immediately thought, "Okay, here comes her addiction to pain medication that Paolo introduced her too." = Nope 2. Oh... Jazzy is warned to be safe on Paolo's motorcycle... "here comes the late night accident that will sideline her for a long time." = Nope 3. Jazzy is too tired in the morning and can't get out bed.... "Here we go! She. Is. Pregnant!" = Nope And another thing, "fuck you Jazzy" for not wanting to get out of bed towards the end of the movie. The headmistress LITERALLY told you the day before that you have no more chances of fucking up. You should have made your full character turn at that moment. Why isn't Jazzy waking up Ruby; which would bring a nice turn in their relationship.

So "crematiing your pointes" is a thing. Pointe shoes can be worn through REALLY quickly. It's a way to keep your shoes going longer and stay stiff. I don't know if I've ever heard of the term in my reading on the history of ballet, but according to a dancer wear blog I found one way to do this is "Some dancers also use this method to revitalize dead shoes: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Swirl a floor polish like Mop and Glow inside the pointe shoes, the pour out the excess. Place the shoes on a baking sheet covered in foil, and place them in the oven. Turn the oven off, and let the shoes sit in the oven 8 hours or overnight. The polish will re-harden the box and shank of the shoes, but it stains the satin a yellowish color and makes them super stiff. This method is not exact, and it will take experimenting to find the perfect amount of polish. Practice this method on an old pair of shoes you don't need before you try it with the pair you are wearing. " http://thedancewearguru.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-make-pointe-shoes-last-longer.html I found a lot of recommendations to use Jet Glue which I think is pointe shoe glue? I also saw on a dance forum that some recommended putting shoes in the freezer for a brief fix. Or to use shellac http://www.dance.net/topic/8757237/1/Pointe-Beginners/Rehardening-pointe-shoes.html&replies=1

Are you insinuating you DON'T have a fierce sexy pillow fight with your new roommate to welcome them? Rude.

So are we gonna talk about how this old violin is magically an electric violin at times?

Also a few minutes later, Ruby meets her new roommate.... and they immediately pillow fight. Lots of insanity in this one

Here’s the church, here’s the steeple, open it up and Batman didn’t kill himself

Assbag the Turdman was a smelly, unwiped soul, with a dingleberry pipe and a stink-pile hat and two eyes made out of butts.

I haven't listened to the episode yet , in fact I just started the movie. I paused it after 2 minutes because I NEED to talk about how insane it is that Brit Boy is playing violin shirtless.( Sorry if this is discussed! I'm in a full tiz!) Some people get these sort of chafed red marks on their neck and sometimes throat / collar bone area. They are known as "violin hickeys" or "Fiddlers Neck". In fact when selling a rare Stradivari violin only people who had a "violin hickey" could try the instrument at Christies auction house . Some people get really painful cysts and lesions that can get infected. Not everyone who plays gets one though. There's been a theory that some people are allergic to the woods I the violin or the metals while others think it's the playing style. According to Wikipedia the cause of this can be ( I'm only going to be putting the important info to prove my case) " ....Hot weather is reported to exacerbate fiddler's neck, as are tiredness, playing emotional music, and playing in smaller groups where individual stress is higher.[2] Type I hypersensitivity reactions may also be involved, particularly to rosewood and ebony in the chinrest and tailpiece, as well as to varnish of the instrument body when chinrests are not used and to rosin deposits on the instrument and on chin cloths. " So technically Brit Boy ( I refuse to give him a name) said that he burns with his music. Maybe it's just really hot in that million dollar loft? Hence playing shirtless? And he sure as hell wasn't using a chin cloth. He seems under the impression his music is deep and full of *emotions* ... In conclusion this idiot is gonna get Fiddler's Neck all over his damn shoulder if he doesn't put a shirt on.

I go for option 3: Kelly and anybody. Kelly was good with Donald O'Connor in Singin' in the Rain and with two other guys in On the Town. It's Kelly that makes the magic.

Cross Colors and backwards clothes forever!

I apologize that I just read this article but it was fascinating. I had to highlight these two comments: "So it’s Henry Ford’s fault that I had to hold hands with girls in gym class!" The response: "Henry Ford was in the pockets of Big Cootie." Love it!

I like THE SOCIAL NETWORK a lot, not to mention WINTER'S BONE and TOY STORY 3. But my top movie for 2010 has to be BLUE VALENTINE -- and NOT just because I'm one of the executive producers of the film. The fact is, I genuinely believe it's a great movie, even though it's unanimously agreed to be the worst date movie of all time. And I can testify that it's had a real impact on the zeitgeist. I teach in the graduate film school at Columbia, where I'm now used to the fact that my students haven't even heard of most of the movies I've worked on, including films like THE CRYING GAME that did very well at the time. But they've ALL seen BLUE VALENTINE. It's just become one of those seminal films that keeps bobbing to the top of the cultural current, while other movies sink. For 2011, my pick is a movie that neither Paul nor Amy mentioned: Richard Linklater's BERNIE. It's a unique hybrid of drama and documentary, with career-best performances by Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine, and a wonderful turn by Matthew McConaughey. Unlike most hybrid films, it's also really funny. I'm a big fan of BOYHOOD and other Linklater movies, but this one might be my favorite. My 2011 runner-up would be J.C. Chandor's MARGIN CALL, which nailed the US financial crisis four years before THE BIG SHORT came out. In 2012, I'm with Amy on DJANGO UNCHAINED -- but I have to echo AlmostAGhost in his celebration of MOONRISE KINGDOM. Not only is it Wes Anderson's single strongest film, but it's also my daughter Maude's favorite movie of all time. She's seen it well upwards of 10 times, and it just keeps getting better. 2012 is also the year of Benh Zeitlin's astonishing BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, which is unlike any other movie ever made. Moving forward in the decade, 2013 was an epic year for movies -- probably the best single year since 1999. Four of those films actually tell versions of the same story, at least metaphorically. I think 12 YEARS A SLAVE, ALL IS LOST, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, and GRAVITY are all really about the dilemma of the filmmaker as an artist, cast adrift and/or imprisoned by the unfeeling system of commerce. (I asked J.C. Chandor directly if that was in the back of his mind while making ALL IS LOST, and he readily agreed that it was. I wonder if Steve McQueen, Paul Greengrass, and Alfonso Cuaron would say the same.) They're all great movies, but this is one year that the Academy Awards really got it right. 12 YEARS A SLAVE is a flat-out masterpiece, and my Movie of the Decade. Much as I love DJANGO UNCHAINED, I think McQueen's movie is the most incisive and uncompromising film ever made about slavery in America. My runner-up for 2013 (over such formidable contenders as the other three isolated-artist films, AMERICAN HUSTLE, and INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS) has to be Spike Jonze's HER, which truly captured our doomed romance with technology in a way that feels more prescient with every year that passes. 2014 wasn't a cornucopia like 2013, but it still had some worthy films, including WHIPLASH, WILD, a little-seen gem by Eliza Hittman called IT FELT LIKE LOVE, and an even littler-seen gem by Shannon Plumb called TOWHEADS. My film of the year would be Richard Linklater's recklessly brilliant BOYHOOD ... if Amy and Paul didn't frown on double-dipping directors. But since I've already picked a Linklater, I'll have to go with Ana Lily Amirpour's feminist Muslim noir vampire flick, A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT. Set in Iran, but entirely shot in California (in lustrous black-and-white), Amirpour's debut crashes through genre boundaries as if they had never existed. For 2015, I'll jump on the Paul Scheer bandwagon, and pay tribute to a great American comedy: Paul Feig's SPY. There is simply nothing wrong with this movie; it has big laughs, a beautifully constructed story, deft action sequences, and a peerless central performance by the great Melissa McCarthy. My runners-up would be INSIDE OUT (the best Pixar movie to date), ROOM, the underseen BEASTS OF NO NATION, and the criminally underseen ANOMALISA -- but I hope Paul joins me in honoring SPY. 2016 is a toss-up between two remarkable films: Barry Jenkins' MOONLIGHT, which deservedly won the Oscar; and Denis Villeneuve's ARRIVAL, the single smartest science fiction movie since 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. I love both of these movies without reservation, and can't choose between them. By contrast, 2017 is a slam dunk. Jordan Peele's GET OUT is the movie of that year, and it's certainly in my top five for Movie of the Decade. Most films have a hard time getting even one genre right. By contrast, GET OUT is simultaneously a great horror movie, a great satirical comedy, and a great movie about race in America. I teach the film every year at Columbia, and every time I see it I'm knocked out all over again by its savage intelligence and formal control. 2017 also brought us LADY BIRD, the bizarre gem A GHOST STORY, and two Marvel movies that are unquestionably works of cinema, whatever Martin Scorsese thinks: LOGAN and THOR: RAGNAROK. But GET OUT so dominates the year for me that I actually had to look up which movie won Best Picture instead. (It was THE SHAPE OF WATER. Simply not in the same league.) 2018 was NOT a great year for movies, sad to say. I did love Josephine Decker's remarkable MADELINE'S MADELINE, as well as the film I was rooting for at last year's Oscars, Alfonso Cuaron's ROMA. (For our purposes, ROMA might count as a Mexican movie, even though the money came from US companies Netflix and Participant; similarly, Yorgos Lanthimos' THE FAVOURITE just doesn't count as an American film.) But the movie of the year was another exploder of categories -- an animated movie, a Marvel movie, and part of a long-running franchise. I'm talking, of course, about SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE. If you haven't watched it, stop what you're doing and watch it right now. If you have watched it, I bet you're already thinking about watching it again. Movie of the year, hands down. As for 2019, things are looking up. I'm curious to hear Amy and Paul's picks, not to mention yours!

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but if the doctor is cute, fuck ‘em in the ass!

I'm DYING to see Knives Out! I hate going to the movie theater because it's always so loud but I really can't wait for it to stream. I've been excited since TIFF

Sorry to disappoint but both are just direct translations. Well Parasite has a subtitle so it is "Parasite: Semibasement/Partialy Underground Family" The word they use doesn't really have an English word. Like in the ground but not underground, like a sunken living room or a subbasement. I'm actually looking forward to the new year. Parasite mid January, Jojo Rabbit the next week, then Knives Out a week or so after that and the Midsummer after that. With Cats and few other things in between.

Gene Kelly does more with rolled up sleeves than most actors can do with a full-on nude scene.

I literally said out loud at least five times " Christ he's hot" or various versions of that. Gene Kelly can GET IT even in the great beyond.

You mean, the greatest musical ever made? 100%

Listening to Paul open up the couple of boxes full of movies to do on the show... I think we need to send him (and Avril) a copy of Rockula right?

I have an important question about the Transformers DVD guessing game. Do the ones given away at the live show count? Because I think at least 200 then. I also have a random question inspired by the "baby chairs" caller. I know Paul is a big fan of rides and Disney so maybe I should call in. But I would welcome forum input as well. How young is too young to bring a kid to Disney? We are having a disagreement in my family. I know some people bring infants and such, but is that a huge pain? My mom is insistent that a child has to be old enough to walk the entire time (no baby chairs) and old enough to remember.