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Aunt Jemima Officially Has A New Name: Pearl Milling Company



https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/aunt-jemima-officially-has-a-new-name-pearl-milling-company/ar-BB1dzlCs?li=BBnb7Kw&ocid=mailsignout


Is this something anyone wants to discuss? Myself, I can definitely understand why the pix needed to be replaced, but the name Aunt Jemina? Does just the name convey images of Racial stereotypes? 

I know for myself, and I have no inner meaning, but I have enjoyed these items since I was a kid and no matter what they call it now, it will always be Aunt Jemina to me. Just like many other things that have name changes, you grow up with a certain name and it sort of sticks. And no offense meant to any of the new or old names.

Sorry but I will NEVER call the old Tappen Zee Bridge, the Mario Cuomo Bridge.  NEVER   

I don't know if I had mentioned this previously, but I have started to watch the latest Star Trek saga, Star Trek Discovery. I think it was on Prime or something else, up to season 3 I think, but they released Season 1 on CBS broadcast TV. I believe it is 16 episodes long and I just finished episode 11 and like it very much.

To be clear, I was never, and still am not. a trekkie. I enjoyed the original Star Trek with Bill Shatner and also enjoyed a lot of The Next Generation. After that, I never watched any of the series and there were quite a few. I belong to a sort of TV Geek thing from a library where we met every week to discuss assorted TV shows and urge others to watch some of them. (It started with GOT, proceeded onto TWD and now we discuss whatever). Since there is no in library thing, we do this on Zoom every week (if anyone would like to join, they are more than welcome). So we are into SciFi now with most watching being the Expanse and also Discovery. I sort of dropped out of the Expanse thing as I wanted to binge-watch but they are releasing the series one week at a time so I forget from week to week. I'll catch up after the season. But I am really into Discovery. Yes, it is another Star Trek thing but it seems to rise above many of the cliques and is very entertaining. If you're a Trekkie or just like good Sci-Fi, I would recommend it along with The Expanse.

We watched the movie, "Mank' the other day. See, my review in the Movie thread. It was nominated for all sorts of Golden Globes. Good watch but not as good as I had hoped.

 Saw this on the news last night, Cute

I'll give it another day and see if anyone gets it.  I'll also give a few clues--2008, and what one would call an action/adventure movie with an oscar-winning performance as supporting actor.

Quote from: beaugestus on February 08, 2021, 08:38:56 PM
I haven't been on the "Porch" for a long time. So I dropped by and like Lenn and Jim I too am movie addict. When I noticed when you guys were talking about John Wayne movies I saw one of my favorites with him was not mentioned. I am sure you guys have seen it, Tall in the saddle. I was wondering what you thought of the film?

Great, we2 need more movie people around here. We have several great threads here, like the one about quotes from movies (see how you d, that is something 60 pages long now. We also have a terrific thread about what you are watching now, which gives some of us feedback on some good shows on TV, be it regular, Prime, Netflix etc. I know I am always on the lookout for something worthwhile to watch.

As for Tall In The Saddle--like Jim, I have seen it, but not for quite a while. Wayne was good in it but it wasn't near his best work. If memory holds, it was a decent enough John Wayne movie and an enjoyable watch, but nowhere near some of his best work.

Please join in here. 

Quote from: LennG on February 07, 2021, 01:09:20 PM

The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.

Anyone ???

Jim ????

Quote from: T200 on February 08, 2021, 03:23:48 PM
Damien is a brave mofo... Not me.

Two questions:

1) Why didn't they just test it with a weighted mannequin with the magnetic harness/vest instead of a human?

2) How did they get him back on the ground?

Good questions

I can see the daredevil aspect of it. Some people just need that to feel alive.

Maybe they reduced the magnetic field so he fall gently to the ground???

 So we need MORE humor

The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.

Quote from: T200 on February 06, 2021, 01:31:27 PM
Call me this evening after 6 and I'll walk you through it.

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I was taking my mid afternoon/early evening nap at that time. 

I appreciate the offer to help. Let's drop it for now.

PM me your number so we can discuss 'other' things.

Welcome Bob.

In our travels, we have met many of our fellow posters, from all over. Gives me a reason to visit Northern Ireland one day.   

We are starting to gear up for the Acadamy Awards. The Golden Globe nominations just came out and it gives me an idea of what were the 'better' movies from last year. This past year was something Hollywood has never experienced, when movies came out primarily for the TV and streaming markets.

So, one of the top movies, as far as nominations go, was a movie called 'Mank'. It is the story of Herman Mankiewicz, a sort of prolific screenwriter who basically wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (even though the official wording is he did with along with Orson Wells).

Anyway, 'Mank' is his nickname and he is played by Gary Oldman, who won the Oscar for portraying Churchill in The Darkest Hour, and always gives a riveting performance.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10618286/  The movie is free on Netflix

Just a side note,
if you watch TCM you know Ben Mankiewicz as one of their main hosts. He is the son of Joseph Mankiewicz, who was Herman Mankiewicz's younger brother.

So, on to the movie. As I said, it sort of follows Herman Mankiewicz's trials and stuff, trying to write the screenplay for Citizen Kane. It offers many flashbacks as to how the 'old' Hollywood was, with many characters from those days, LB Mayer, William Randolph Hearst, David O Selznick, among others. PLUS the movie is filmed in glorious Black and White. So why didn't I like it?

I really never got a handle on this movie. Herman is a drunkard and his struggles to write are all here, but the story was just way too talky, jumped around from past to present, to past to present just way too much, at least for me. I almost turned it off several times as I was so confused. The story was his effort to write Citizen Kane and the many subplots that went into his doing it the way he did, (he basically hated Hearst, who Kane was supposed to be based on).

I was so looking forward to this movie--anything about olden Hollywood, and done in Black and White, just begged for me to watch, but, as I said, I was very disappointed in it. I wouldn't say I wouldn't recommend it, but I won't as others may really get into it and love it. Again, I didn't.

Quote from: T200 on February 05, 2021, 06:49:56 PM
Upload them to YouTube and then post the links. It's pretty straight-forward.

How do I get them on tube?

Quote from: jimv on February 06, 2021, 12:24:09 AM
"If you weren't a bride, I would kiss you goodbye."
"If I wasn't a bride, there would be no goodbyes to be said."

Jim

I'm getting to know YOUR movies too well

If Gary Cooper were in it, it would be your best of all time.

See if anyone else knows it