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Don't forget about the competing Lambada flicks in 1990 after the Golan-Globus split. Globus made "Lambada" while Golan made "The Forbidden Dance" and both were released on the same day. Also before the split Golan-Globus rushed out "Breakin'" since Orion Pictures had "Beat Street" in the works.

Wasn't a lot of the Drago and his kid stuff due to Stallone trying to work out his own issues with his late son Sage?

Ever since the Rocky Legends game I've wanted prequels and/or sequels of Apollo, Clubber, Drago, George Washington Duke and the mob guys Rocky used to work for. The Clubber Lang story could have picked up after Rocky V with Clubber doing a George Foreman style comeback or have George Washington Duke trying to set-up a way past their primes Balboa-Lang III fight.

Looks like there's going to be a Creed III, while II was great it derailed what seemed to be the overall storyline of a trilogy started by I. I wonder if they bring Tony Bellew back as Ricky Conlan but make him more of a Conner McGregor style of jagoff who got super angry and bitter in prison. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/creed-3-taps-king-richard-writer-zach-baylin-1281094

Roots was 8 episodes with some being 2 hours long and some an hour. It was supposed to air over 8 weeks but ABC execs freaked out when they saw the first episode and decided to air it 8 nights in a row to cut their losses. North and South aired 6 episodes in the fall and 6 in the spring, they were 2 hours episodes.

There's also Bloody Sunday(2002) by Paul Greengrass about the 1972 Bloody Sunday shooting in Derry, Northern Ireland and Hunger(2008) by Steve McQueen about Bobby Sands and the 1981 Hunger Strike, both are really depressing but great. There's also a pretty decent documentary on Netflix called The Miami Showband Massacre which gets into the ties between the Loyalist Paramilitaries, Police and British Military, it's really depressing too. Besides the history between the Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom and the ongoing issue in Northern Ireland, calling it UK Takeover Dublin is just moronic and it would be similar to doing Mexico NXT Takeover Dallas or France NXT Takeover Naples.

Bart Giamatti was decent in his short time as Commish, Fay Vincent wasn't as ghastly as Selig and Ueberroth so that makes him decent in my book.

I'm assuming Uncut Gems, Sandler, Kevin Garnett and The Lighthouse didn't get nominated since Netflix spent a ton of money to get noms for their movies and A24 didn't. You could have easily replaced Jonathan Pryce with Sandler and Anthony Hopkins with either Willem Dafoe or Kevin Garnett. I'm really surprised that so many people didn't pick up that the whole Bruce Lee fight was basically an unreliable narrator daydream by Cliff Booth.

Disney wants ABC back in the Super Bowl rotation and they have enough money to throw around to make the NFL flex MNF. The NFL and networks don't want to start the season before Labor Day so get ready for President's Day weekend Super Bowls.

So they should start thawing the corpse of Billy Crystal? I'm not a big Eminen fan but I'll take him performing one of his old songs over any of the endless forced cringe worthy comedy skits that end up making the show run until after midnight. The Oscars have had stretches without a host or multiple hosts over the years and they'll swing back to having a host soon, when they do Mindy Kaling should be near the top of the list.

Telly Savalas is amazing in this “we’re talking 10 grand baby” and tipsy Howard stirring shit up while also hitting on the ladies is a hoot. They used to make Bob Conrad come out and talk about this incident every time he was on Battle after this, you can tell he was still pissed about it.

They used to show this on The Movie Channel almost every other day from 1983 to 1985! Per Wikipedia there was a planned sequel "The California Dolls Go to Japan" that got shelved since this flick bombed at the box office.

I can see Comcast buying the WWE if it goes up for sale, besides owning NBC-Universal they own Comcast Spectator which owns or operates arenas, stadiums and convention centers. They would own the intellectual property, the cable or streaming service that people watch the intellectual property on, in most of the country they would also own the cable and/or internet service provider that brings in the intellectual property into the home along with owning or operating the arena the event everyone is watching takes place in. Sure they'd still book the WWE into venues they don't own but the big money events will be in their buildings and they can sit back and collect the rights fee money from FOX until that deal ends then move it in house.

Gordon and Jos look like they have wicked hangovers.

I guess most of America didn't pick up on the political messages in the halftime show, not only the kids in cages but J-Lo's Puerto Rican flag cape. https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/super-bowl/8549924/jennifer-lopez-shakira-halftime-show-border-crisis-statement-kids-cages

It’s going to close later this week then re-open after renovations as the Virgin Hotel Casino this fall. Virgin bought it in 2018.

The Kanas City fans doing the War Chant has me pulling for the 49ers.

Or just leave it as is and not do any close up shots of it.

For some reason they did a close up of that makeshift belt on the ppv, it was a mess. If I remember right it was a belt from the Florida promotion Dusty booked during his time between WCW and WWF.

I bet having "World" blend in was on purpose, same mindset as the WWF mostly ditching the use of World with their title since its kind of redundant and a bit of a tongue twister.

Anyone remember the Rob Schneider flick The Benchwarmers? Well Netflix is running The Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls and I watched it! It's not good, not funny, really bad at trying to hide being filmed in Canada and the only returning cast member from the original was Jon Lovitz who phoned it in. Watching it made me realized I missed my calling as a screen writer for direct to video/streaming service sequels of forgotten flicks, give me a week or so I can could have hammered out The Benchwarmers 2: Back to the Bench or Backdraft 2: Bartel's Back. Yes there's a Backdraft 2 on Netflix and they somehow got both Billy Baldwin and Donald Sutherland to be in it, plan on watching it later this week.

There's a lot of politics involved in the Football HOF voting, once they get down to a certain number of candidates the voters who are sportswriters representing each team meet and make their case for or against certain players. There was no way in hell the sportswriters repping the AFL teams were going to keep Namath out and the Super Bowl win along with the number he put up pre knee injuries were enough to sway NFL writers.

Big Business as in the 80's Bette Milder and Lily Tomlin flick where they both play dual roles as twins who were separated at birth? It's a movie I never saw but somehow still remember the commercials for it.

Also Rosanne was set in a town that was a bit of a distance from Chicago, most towns like Lanford are going to have houses that are bigger than the ones you see in other parts of the US since there's plenty of dry flat land. I spent some time in both Birmingham and Manchester during my time in the UK and can totally see how it would be hard to relate since every house/flat/condo are going to be small.

It was pretty bad, all I remember from it was the son was a conservative and Joey Stivic(Gloria & Mike’s son) shows up to see the old house and eats all their food.