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  • Sorry if that has already been posted, but : https://www.cbr.com/no-time-to-die-lashana-lynch-00-nokia-ad/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=32&v=aM3kPYj_Grw
  • Saw that one today : "If you receive an E-mail with the header "Ring-a-Ding", don't open it. It's a Jehovah's Witness teleworking." And in the good news department : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/23/harvey-weinstein-tests-posit…
  • Tracy wrote: » L.A sewers clogged with tshirts , lack of tp Why can't they use a shower handle ? Or the good old newspaper ?
  • A french ER doctor, Jean-Jacques Razafindranazy, has died from Coronavirus, aged 68 : https://actu.orange.fr/france/coronavirus-deces-d-un-medecin-hospitalier-dans-l-oise-magic-CNT000001oKTnt.html Let's hope he'll be the only one.
  • Did you know that Asterix once battled Coronavirus ? https://www.cbr.com/asterix-battled-coronavirus/ Too bad there isn't a magic potion anymore to cure the disease, right, Getafix ?
  • Diamond Comics has updated their solicitation pages, and... Bad news, I'm afraid, no Bond comics planned for june. And according to what I've read, no Bond comics for july either : https://www.cbr.com/dynamite-entertainment-coronavirus-retailer-r…
  • j_w_pepper wrote: » To post something more lighthearted for a change: A colleague of my wife's just reported the following: He is in sales/distribution of the company in question and had to visit a retail store tonight (or maybe last night). …
  • Churches have closed too here. Including the Sacré Cœur in Paris. Which means that the "Perpetual Adoration" that was going on since it was built has stopped as well, for the first time since 1885.
  • And now, for something completely different, a bit of levity in those troubled times : BTW, here, they closed all the parks and forest walkways. Including the park I use as a shortcut to and from work.
  • Well, the west end has gone dark : https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/coronavirus-theatre-closure-events-west-end_51154.html?utm_source=dailytickets&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=18march2020 And yes, that includes The Mou…
  • Today, at work, the director of the sorting center gave us a speach about the measures that have been taken : all doors are open (except for the locker rooms, but that could change), today, I was able to leaver earlier so as to avoid the rush, hydro…
  • It's sometime good to be apart from the world : https://www.cbr.com/coronavirus-morbius-jared-leto-just-found-out-about-pandemic/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/no-news-is-good-news-big-brother-germany-cut-off-from-covid-19
  • And the Marvel thread as well, which is where I put it.
  • The may 1st release of Black Widow has been cancelled because of CoronaVirus : https://www.newsarama.com/49456-marvel-studios-black-widow-postponed-indefinitely-due-to-coronavirus-pandemic.html
  • And another movie I was looking forward to cancelled : https://www.newsarama.com/49456-marvel-studios-black-widow-postponed-indefinitely-due-to-coronavirus-pandemic.html That's the fourth one now, after NTTD, Mulan and The New Mutants.
  • In the "I didn't know she was still alive" department, french actress Suzy Delair passed away this sunday, aged 102 : https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/suzy-delair-dead-french-actress-chanteuse-was-102-1284951 Quite a respectable age for …
  • Today at work, they gave me a paper to present to the gendarmes or policemn (not the same thing) in case they want to know what I'm doing at 5.30 in the morning. Yup, neither rain, nor corona virus must keep the mail to arrive at their intended dest…
  • Bought at Fopp in London (near the Palace Theatre, for those who don't know) to complete my fourth season set of Supergirl.
  • Wednesday, april 1st 2020 at 21.00 CET on France 4 (France) : L'Espion qui m'aimait (TSWLM)
    in TV Alerts Comment by Gerard March 2020
  • Here, in my town, people have become crazy. I went to the local mall to do my after vacation shopping, and couldn't find a single loaf of sliced bread (my teeth, well what' left of them, don't allow me to eat anything else). I managed to find some h…
  • Superintendent wrote: » Torgeirtrap wrote: » :)) https://twitter.com/ladyhaja/status/1239465543050158083 Excellent! :)) Whiskey was also the name of the horse in a western movie with young Schwarzenegger and Kirk Douglas. A …
  • My DVD vacation binge watching is over. So, I watched the last two Rathbone Holmes, Terror by Night and Dressed to Kill, both entertaining (and I had seen them way back when when they aired on sunday afternoons on french TV) ; Dead Men Don't Wear Pl…
  • Hre, in France, anything non-essential has been closed, from shops to theaters. Schools are also closed, and people are advised to stay home (I can't). Public transports will be slowed down (7 out of 10 trains will run). But strangely enough, the mu…
  • Yes, it can. I should have reposted it in the right thread, but....
  • Still on my DVD binge. So, in order : Pursuit to Algiers, a very good Holmes movie with Basil rathbone (Don't want to give anything away, but I have to agree with Holmes on that : one never notices the hired help, does one ?) ; The House that Drippe…
  • There have been a few things that have puzzled me about that crisis, and more precisely about the various responses from governments to this crisis. Case in point : the president of the United States has decided to suspend all travel from and to Eur…
  • Still on my movie (and TV show) binge watching here. So, this Sunday, I watched Howl's Moving Castle, great, as are all Hayao Myiazaki's movies. Yesterday, I watched another of Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes movies, The House of Fear. I have to ad…
  • Sunday, march 22nd 2020, at 22.20 CET on France 2 (France) : GoldenEye Wednesday, march 25th 2020, at 21.00 CET on France 4 (France) : Vivre et Laisser Mourir (LALD)
    in TV Alerts Comment by Gerard March 2020
  • Taking advantage of my vacations to catch up on my DVDs. So, yesterday, I saw the last episode of season one of The Good Place, Sherlock Holmes : The Scarlet Claw (one of the best Basil Rathbone ones), two épisodes of season three of Supergirl, the …