Wednesday Watching Post: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking and Listening to as I Prepare for Frigid Cold?

Happy Wednesday! Tomorrow I get a blizzard, Friday I get “do not go outside at all” cold weather, and then Saturday all is calm and more just “your hands will fall off” cold. Oh, also Christmas! But honestly right now I am more “what do I do about the cold?” focused.

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Hindi Film 101: How Do You Become a Hindi Film Star? Let’s Find Out By Looking at the Current Stars!

Let’s see if I can do this! Maria in the comments said she has a hard time understanding what “debutante” means in descriptions of casts. And it sent me down a road, and I think what I am going to try to do is give the very brief highlights of all the working actors in Hindi film today.

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Trailer Update: Everything Old is New Again! A New Bhatt Young Romance, A New Govinda Comedy, and a Remake of a Kishore Classic

Funny collection of trailers today, one of them is for a movie that isn’t even playing in theaters.  I guess they are just the September dregs, not big enough to wait for Diwali or another holiday, so might as well throw out the promotions and the films now.

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Holiday: A Soldier is Never Off Duty; I Still Don’t Understand The Bad Guy’s Plan!

This is another one of those movies, like Hero: Love Story of a Spy or Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, where I HAFT to say the whole name!  I can’t bring myself to just say “Holiday”, I have to drop  my voice and add “a soldier is never off duty.”

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