I had the odd experience of watching II before I watched I. Anyway, I prefer the second, particularly the denouement. And the Fredo/Michael dynamic. Cazale is just devastating.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 19 February 2024 17:35 (two months ago) link
"I am not resigning," Johnson said defiantly at a news conference Tuesday, calling the threat "absurd" as Republicans are "trying to do their job." "We need steady leadership. We need steady hands on the wheel," he said. "Look, I regard myself as a wartime speaker."
If he were a wartime speaker, a Sicilian, they wouldn't be in this shape.
― clemenza, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:44 (three weeks ago) link