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Urban Myths
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When Cary Grant Introduced Timothy Leary to LSD (2017)

This is a 20 min short, an episode of Urban Myths, a Sky TV series that's been going for several years now.  It's been repackaged for Showtime.  For a single short, it was okay.  Grant was known to have taken LSD 100+ times and rumor was that Leary was inspired by him.  This postulated their meeting and dosing together while on break during the prodcution of North by Northwest. The trip is okay, but not really beyond the pale, almost.  It's played out humorously, but there's so much more potential, and ultimately it comes off caricature.  GoT factor 1 - Little Finger as Leary. 

No sword fights. Mildly DOOM reccomended, really only for those psychedelized DOOMers, and only if they have 20 mins to kill.

The Dali and the Coooper (2018)

This is based on the creation of Dali's first hologram First Cylindric Chromo-Hologram Portrait of Alice Cooper's Brain. It's an actual hologram, made in '73 and currently housed in Figueres. It didn't stick out in my memory because that museum is so overwhelming, but I recall the room where it was and pondering it for a moment.  This episode depicts Cooper's account fairly accurately.  Cooper is well drawn. He's played by an actor that looks a lot like him, and as an extra surreal spin, Alice also plays himself in some scenes, but it's hard to tell which exactly. The Hippo radio station here plays his shows in the evening, and I've really grown to appreciate him.  He's hilarious and insightful as a DJ, playing great classic rock with personal anecdotes and observations on the musicians.  Dali was overdone, but Dali is always overdone.  I've seen plenty of actual interview material with him, but this depiction made him more caricature, which is fair I suppose.  Gala is also overdone as a controlling shrew, which she may well have been, but again, in what I've seen of her, she's got a class air to her.  The ep unravels an interpretation of the hologram piece, shedding a little light upon it, or at least teasing the complexity behind Dali's work in general. It gave a potential answer to a mystery behind the piece - what happened to Alice's brain (it was a brain split by an eclair scuplture).  

I enjoyed it.  No sword fights. A hallucinogenic ending akin to the boat ride in the original Willy Wonka.  Recommended for DOOM Dali fans.
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It's Me, Sugar (2018)

A recounting of the filming of Some Like It Hot where Marilyn Monroe needed 47 takes to get the line 'it's me, sugar' right.  Gemma Atherton plays Marilyn in a very caricature way, but such is the legacy of Marilyn.  The episode rings true to what's written in wikipedia, which makes me think the screenwriters just lifted it from there.  

No sword fights, not DOOM recommended. Not a very satisfying ep but it made me want to see SLIH again.
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SLIH was just on TCM in celebration of Joe E. Brown. What do you mean you don't know who Joe E. Brown is? He has the last line in the film "Nobody's Perfect"

I'm a big Billy Wilder fan so this always comes up.
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Wilder is depiced well in this ep, the only character that's redeemable.  Lemmon and Curtis come of as cads because of the alleged bet that Marilyn couldn't do it in 50 takes, Curtis in particular because it alleges he seduced her.  The 'Nobody's Perfect' line is echoed too.  There's a lot of easter eggs to the movie.
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Oddly, I first saw SLIH as a local community theater production called 'Sugar' that my teacher was in.
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