Given it’s the 25yrs Anniversary, the YouTube Algorithm has been sending me a lot of analysis of The Best Man and reviews of the franchise. The major question is “Who was the most wrong?” My opinion has always been Lance, but Harper is a close second for writing about the entire thing under his own name and bringing the book to the wedding!!!
This October marks the 50th season of Saturday Night Live, which premiered on October 11, 1975.
Now a movie has been made detailing the struggles behind the scenes and about all the chaos that followed with NBC executives, the cast themselves, and everything in between! The makeup and hair folks did a terrific job of making the actors look like the actors they are playing.
Here is the cast list from TV Line: One name not on the list but in the trailer is Matthew Rhys of The Americans and 2020 Perry Mason fame playing George Carlin, who was the very first host. He has the '70s Carlin look down with the long hair. Also of note, while the actor playing Jim Henson is listed, that same actor also will play Andy Kaufman, which is not listed!
And here is the trailer for the movie, directed by Jason Reitman, son of the late Ivan Reitman, who directed the original Ghostbusters film:
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So every year there tends to be one movie on my list that I think is well executed but just so ODD and disturbing it’s not something I’d ever want to watch again. This year it was The Menu, SO ODD. I appreciate that it felt very much like a play, but it’s not anything I’d get joy out of a second time.
Do you guys have movies you feel that way about?
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Well, @scarlett45 , you’re braver than I am. I just don’t DO scary movies. I’m a chicken! (I think it has to do with the fact that a babysitter let 5-year-old me watch The Amityville Horror with her.
I slept with my parents for a week after that. LOL! 
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I forgot about The Menu movie. If it isn’t to creepy or gory I am going to find it and watch it soon.,
But probably after my family returns from an Iowa trip early in December. I will be alone for a week. If it leans more to the comedy and not to scary, I may go ahead.
It’s not comedy, I’d say it’s psychological satire.
Has anyone seen the Wicked movie?
I have been a huge Wicked fan since the first time I saw it, in 2006. Was so excited about the movie - went to go see it on Friday, and hoping to see it again this coming weekend. I thought they did a great job. My only complaint is about all of the pauses in Defying Gravity - for such an iconic part, I felt it took away a bit from some of the build up to the climax of the show. But overall, I loved it.
And I absolutely squealed when Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel had their cameo, complete with singing! It made me so happy, it was perfect! I am so glad I didn’t know that it was coming, it was the perfect surprise.