‘Ma Rainey’s’ Incredible Detail, Revisiting ‘Popeye,’ ‘SNL’ Blurts It Out & More

Links to the past, with relevance today:

Audience reactions to the Batman trailer, 1989pic.twitter.com/TrvJCRTTDJ

— Eyes On Cinema (@RealEOC) October 5, 2020

TWITTER: Eyes on Cinema went viral posting this 1989 clip of audience reactions to the Batman trailer.

VARIETY: The 1982 play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is now an amazing 2020 film starring Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman, and the '20s details are incredible. In fact, the movie's hairstyles, in order to reflect the fashions of the day, were enhanced with horsehair.

THR: Remembering 1980's Popeye, a target for critics that was actually a box-office hit.

If a little Hillbilly singer like my big sister Dolly can invest in the vaccine then why the hell can’t some of you old moldy politicians pitch in a few million yourselves? I noticed you started getting vaccinated right away while people are starving and dying you Aholes.

— Stella Parton (@StellaParton) December 19, 2020

TWITTER: Dolly Parton's little sister Stella isn't having it when she sees all these politicians rushing to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

EW: Catching up with the cast of the Godfather trilogy.

NYDN: She made it through the Spanish flu and just beat COVID-19 — at age 107!

SNL: I think the SNL sketch mocking Password that Kristen Wiig made famous years ago and revived last night might've had a hint of Hedy Lamarr in it. Kate McKinnon seemed to draw on her for her look, though she sounded more like when she was doing Deneuve or Dietrich.

One famous example of when the star blurted out the word in real life: