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Firefly – S01E07 “Jaynestown”

January 22, 2012 / Firefly, Sci-Fi

Serenity touches down on Canton – one where Inara is meeting a client, and where Jayne is worried about running into old enemies. He’s been there before and tried to pull of a heist. As they arrive at the Canton factory settlement, Kaylee suggests to Mal that Simon join them on their expedition to recover some hidden loot. Mal considers that having the well-dressed Simon pose as an upper-class buyer of Canton’s special ceramic-making mud is a useful strategy. Then [...]

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Firefly – S01E06 “Our Mrs. Reynolds”

January 22, 2012 / Firefly, Sci-Fi

After helping townsfolk fend off some local bandits, Mal and his crew join in a local celebration party. Once Serenity is underway again, Mal discovers his reward for helping was greater than he imagined – they’ve given him a wife! Zoe calls the entire crew down to enjoy the moment. Shepherd Book reads up on the local customs and informs Mal that he had taken part in a marriage ritual by accepting a wreath of flowers, drinking of her wine, [...]

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Firefly – S01E05 “Safe”

January 22, 2012 / Firefly, Sci-Fi

The episode is interspersed with flashbacks, detailing Simon and River’s lives before River’s abduction: Simon (Zac Efron) a studious young boy, River engaging in flights of imagination while correcting his textbooks, and their father encouraging Simon to become a “brilliant doctor”. These expectations are derailed by River’s sojourn at an academy, from where she sends letters referring to events which have not happened. The elder Tams are untroubled by River’s letters, believing she’s just playing games again, and abandon Simon [...]

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Firefly – S01E04 “Shindig”

January 22, 2012 / Firefly, Sci-Fi

Serenity lands on Persephone. Inara scans potential clients and chooses local aristocrat Atherton Wing, a regular customer. Badger needs Mal’s help to move an illegal cargo for high-society local Warrick Harrow, who will not talk to the likes of Badger. He provides Mal with tickets to the very ball that Inara will be attending with Atherton. Inara delights in circulating among the glittering party crowd, many of them old friends. Atherton asks her to be his personal Companion, but she [...]

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Firefly – S01E03 “Bushwhacked”

January 22, 2012 / Firefly, Sci-Fi

Serenity encounters a drifting space craft which turns out to be a short-range scow converted to a settler transport to the “Outer Planets”. Mal decides to check out the derelict in order to either help survivors or loot the dead. He sends his crew off in teams to explore the ship, while he and Zoe head to a section that he suspects holds the more valuable supplies. They arrive in a room, followed shortly by River who points out mutilated passengers hanging from the ceiling. Mal orders everyone to [...]

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Black Books – S01E02 “Manny’s First Day”

January 21, 2012 / Black Books, Comedy

Bernard wakes up from a boozy night to discover he’s accidentally given Manny a job at the bookshop, then spends the day trying to get rid of him. Manny proving to be a charming, sociable and extremely competent employee, apparently unaware that it’s ‘not that kind of operation’. An offering of wine from Manny and the threat of physical violence from Fran persuade Bernard to keep Manny on board.

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Black Books – S01E01 “Cooking The Books”

January 21, 2012 / Black Books, Comedy

After his accountant flees from the police, Bernard is faced with the daunting prospect of doing his own taxes, and resorts to pairing his socks, getting drunk with door-to-door evangelists, and trying to seriously injure himself since it will allow him to defer his tax return. Manny, an accountant, enters Black Books for the first time to buy the The Little Book of Calm on his way to work and somehow manages to swallow it. Fran is distracted from being [...]

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Firefly – S01E02 “The Train Job”

January 20, 2012 / Firefly, Sci-Fi

Serenity continues to travel through space conducting illegal runs across the star system, which is under the control of The Alliance. A powerful and fearsome mobster named Adelei Niska demands that the crew of Serenity pull a train robbery, stealing medical supplies bound for an outer rim community full of miners and their families who all suffer from a mine related illness. Mal and Zoe only discover what the cargo is, and how desperately the town needs it, when they’re held under suspicion of [...]

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Marilyn Monroe’s Two Secrets

January 5, 2012 / Articles

What I learned about the icon by folding her capri pants. The excerpt below is from Simon Doonan’s Gay Men Don’t Get Fat, out today from Penguin. There was, for many years, a big photograph of Judy Garland by the late, great William Claxton duct-taped to the wall of the Barneys display studio where I worked. In this compelling image, Liza’s highly strung mother is caught backstage wrapped in a towel. Her face is a festival of anguish. One rigor mortis hand [...]

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