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Cheers reboot

  I love Cheers,  I like Simon Nye - I still enjoy watching Men Behaving Badly. Nye also wrote one of the best Dr Who stories of the revival. Amy's Choice I am unsurprised to discover plans exist to reboot Cheers. I can understand why people, and by people I mean shareholders and executives  want to reboot it. Cheers is a classic still broadcast on Channel 4,  -The podcast draws an audience Cheers is also cheap- A studio set, and a few cameras. It is almost Theatre  In fact there was a Mexican remake in the 00s  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/cheers-sitcom-british-remake-b2622008.html That said, why not just make a funny pub sitcom.  “The attitudes of  Cheers  in the ‘80s are very different to the attitudes of today, so there’s a massive amount of work to be done around taking inspiration from the original characters but creating something fresh.” Firstly people were forgetting the series. Cheers is gay friendly from it's first episodes- Norm has to ph

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

  I think this is the first time I have been in the cinema since Peru They should have killed off Winnona Ryder, she really is a limited actress. Stranger things has flattered her. It is easy to play the inguene when you are young and pretty. It would have been better to have Ortega or O Hara face of Beetlejuice 1- The Jenna Ortega romance plot is great. She has a kiss and her lover changes. I liked the fact that her father had died horribly in the amazon -it is an accursed place  2- Catherine 0'Hara is great. She rescues a lot of the scenes with Winnona and her awful vocal fry. It is brave choice to acknowledge the existence of Jeffery Jones. As his past will be looked up online Beetlejuice  Beetlejuice does this. I did wonder why Geena Davis was written out though  The Dune/ Sand snakes are weird. Were they a late addition- The use of animation was a surprise 3- I liked the flashback with Michael Keaton talking italian and remiscing about the plague.. Keaton when we do see him is

100 days

Dad's 80th birthday

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  Many happy returns to my father who is 80 years old today  Yesterday we celebrated his birthday A lovely meal organized by sister

Karoke night at the Shanakee

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My brother regaling the crowd with his performance of ``The Who's My Generation''  

President Woodrow Tiberius Boyd

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I was watching Cheers, season 11. One of the nice ways the series rounds out. Is by having Woody enter politcs. This is due to Frasier and Sam having an argument over a local politican who has ducked into Cheers to lobby for votes. BTW I am sure you will noticed the Star Trek reference there: Interestingly Captain Janeway is also involved in Boston Politics at this time.  A nice touch for the Frasier spin off -would be to reference that Woody is running for senate Woody orders the nuclear strike. This is interesting as  though Woody is a Hayseed he is shrewd in his own way. He is charming enough to win the heart of a beautiful woman and out manouvere his dad                                                Here is a face with a cfuture

Magnum P.I The Jororo kill

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This is an episode that has become infamous on YouTube and social media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfFIkOgyf9o The episode starts with three minutes of dialogue in French. A nun, asks a French gendarme to assist her to change a flat tire. The gendarme is distracted for a few moments from his job supervising the entrance to an embassy  The Nun, is a trained killer. The antagonist is possibly what we would understand as trans. The ``Nun''  has been hired by the Popular Front of Jororo-( Jororo is a small but plausible sounding island in the South Pacific ) The Popular Front want to kill the PM. The Cold War is rattling on Tyne Daley- ( Cagney and Lacey) has a guest star role- as an old friend of Magnum's Daley was a journalist embedded in Magnum's team during the Vietnam era. This is a bit awkward in retrospect as Magnum worked for the Phoenix Project which was charged with the assassination of VC and Viet Minh Daley was wounded  in Vietnam  and is wounded now Having