Post: #29

this should be funny!


2/14/12 8 PM eastern
The American Experience
Tupperware

"Modern dishes for modern living" (and they "burped," no less), sold by women at "home parties." This slice of 1950s Americana is recalled in "Tupperware!"

Post: #30

This lid finally disappeared (I had it in harvest gold):



It is the end of an era: The last functional piece of the tupperware I inherited is now gone. I stressed about it because I wasn't ready to let it go. It is a bit weird, but I felt the same way when my yellow Fiesta pitcher broke.



I bet Maggot has some favorite kitchenware. I bet you do, too, LC.

Post: #31

that Fiestaware is highly collectible isn't it?

my favorite stuff would be antique china. i love to find unusual pieces in antique shops. my Mom did the same.
she had a priceless collection of Meissen collected over a lifetime. it only comes out for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Post: #32

2/24/12
PBS friday night, looks good music lovers! "MEMPHIS"


A performance of the Tony Award-winning musical "Memphis," about a white high-school dropout in 1950s Tennessee who becomes a disc jockey in order to promote the music of a black singer he's fallen for.


http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Great-Perfo...aignId=502

Post: #33

TONIGHT! fuck the oscars!

Derek Jacobi was superb in 'I Claudius'.

preview:

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Masterpiece...Shop-36311


Charles Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop," about an orphan girl (Sophie Vavasseur) whose kind grandfather (Derek Jacobi), owner of a knickknack shop, is in debt to the unsavory loan shark-solicitor Quilp (Toby Jones) due to a gambling habit.

Post: #34

2/28/12
this looks really interesting, tonight on PBS. The Amish~

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/amish/

Post: #35

this is not PBS, but Discovery channel. new series begins Sunday night at 8.

this BBC series is SUPERB! try to see it (and let your kids see it).

some video at link below


Producers for Discovery's new series "Frozen Planet" say they spent nearly "two and a half thousand days" in the field compiling footage for the documentary series, set to premiere Sunday night at 8 p.m..

Vanessa Berlowitz and Chadden Hunter, producers for the program said the massive undertaking was four years

"Frozen Planet," a Discovery Channel/BBC co-production, executive produced by Alastair Fothergill, takes a fresh look at Antarctica as well as its north-end counterpart, the Arctic, in seven gorgeous episodes premiering Sunday with the first two hours on Discovery. And while you may not be ready to dismiss filmdom's stars and screenplay writers as unnecessary, "Frozen Planet" makes a strong case that Nature -- captured in the wild -- can equal Hollywood for epic sweep and drama.

Comedy, too. In Sunday's second hour, male penguins by the hundreds of thousands anticipate the spring return of the females, for whose favor each male must compete by building a swankier nest than his rivals. In a delightful sequence, a painstaking penguin gathers stones one by one, only to have them filched, one after another, by a scheming neighbor whenever the hapless suitor's back is turned. These performers, with their Chaplin-esque gait and impeccable timing, would have been right at home in a 1920s two-reeler.

There's also bittersweet romance on "Frozen Planet." Nature's ultimate loner, a 1400-pound male polar bear, has lumbered across the ice all winter in search of a mate come spring. Picking up her scent from 10 miles away, he finds her, after which they share a tender interlude. Then, just two weeks later, their brief encounter ends as they are fated to part.

Plus, there are thrilling, life-or-death confrontations in the series. Three-ton elephant seals brawl over females. A pack of 25 wolves brings down a huge bison. A wide-eyed Weddell seal falls prey to hungry orca whales that, working as a team, can stir up giant waves to wash these frantic seals from the refuge of their ice floes.

And talk about "special effects"! An unprecedented time-lapse shot underwater records the growth of a brinicle -- an ice stalactite progressing downward toward the seabed -- killing everything its frozen plume touches. This otherworldly sight is as eerie and magical as a CGI effect from a sci-fi film. But it's real.

"That's the thing about the natural world: It gives you amazing natural drama," says Berlowitz, "Frozen Planet" series producer, "It looks like it's scripted, but we don't fake anything. Everything that we film is a complete portrayal of reality. And the audience thinks, `Wow, they did that without trained animals!"'

Berlowitz has produced and directed a score of BBC documentaries, including two episodes of "Planet Earth," and, like Fothergill, she logged time at both poles for "Frozen Planet." She lived aboard a Royal Naval icebreaker for four months filming penguins and whales, and, in the Arctic, spent three weeks filming female polar bears and their cubs while she was five months pregnant.

Through it all, the filmmakers served as passive observers. But they took a cinematic approach to planning multi-angle coverage of action they hoped would unfold.

"We were very keen to storyboard the sequences beforehand," says Fothergill. "Then, when we got on location, we would sit down and say, `Have we got all the angles? Let's work it all out."'

Adds Berlowitz, "We approached these holy-grail sequences thinking, `What will it take?"'

The many up-close-and-personal scenes they bagged say as much about "Frozen Planet" as the vast scope of the enterprise, which can be expressed in remarkable statistics: four years in production; 38 camera persons; combined number of days in the field: 2,356; 1 ¹⁄₂ years at sea; hours trapped in blizzards: 840.

"The weather is often rubbish," Fothergill acknowledges. But physical discomfort isn't the real problem. "Everybody thinks it's all about storms and cold -- but it's actually about `gray light,' when the ice looks really, really ugly. You can wait for weeks, and all the while the polar bear is doing his stuff, but you have to say, `Don't shoot it. Wait until the light is good."'

This Sunday's episodes, "The Ends of the Earth" and "Spring," will be followed in subsequent weeks by "Summer" and "Winter." (Yes, the polar regions have seasons -- in fact, greater seasonal changes than anywhere else on our planet, as the series' narrator, Alec Baldwin, reminds us.)

video at link
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/201...z1pP9xV5x1

Post: #36

tomorrow on PBS


The history of the American whaling industry from its 17^th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.

Tuesday
3/20/12 8:00 PM

preview
http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-America...aignId=566

Post: #37

How come my antiques roadshow is not on Mondays anymore!!!

Post: #38

Oh wait..........I was just impatient. slow down dammit!

Post: #39

I love the PBS stuff and I found by accident my local station has three digital options when I got off the cable tit. HD is good, I also am addicted to Netflix for all the discovery type shows they just added. All the survivor style shows like Bear Grylls etc, bunch of great crypto/docu/para/spooky stuff on there. Most of the great PBS series can also be found on Netflix, including the British stuff, the Americana, and most of the historical documentary stuff.

Post: #40

It seems that many Chinese and Russian people are trying to buy back old paintings and sculptures, it looks like a really hot market for old stuff from china and india. Asia is a big market and many of the old things brought back from WWII by soldiers are bringing some damn good prices. Many old asian things can be found at yard sales today and spring is almost here.

Post: #41

the whaling program tonight, post 36 ^
will be discussing this incident:
the whaling ship Essex was sunk by an 85 foot sperm whale, and the story was the basis for the classic 'Moby Dick'.
these men were a tough lot, and away from home for up to 3 years each voyage.
good book

Post: #42

i've been waiting for this!

2 Sundays, April 1 & 8 PBS

preview:

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Masterpiece...aignId=586

a NEW version
An orphan boy meets an escaped convict, a crazed rich woman, a bewitching girl, and grows up to have great expectations of wealth from a mysterious patron on Great Expectations, Charles Dickens’ remarkable tale of rags to riches to self-knowledge, starring Gillian Anderson ( Bleak House), David Suchet, Ray Winstone, and Douglas Booth.