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Maggie's avatar

Me too. She was a cabaret singer and spent WWII spying on the goddamn Nazi for the resistance. The fact that no one has made a movie about her boggles the mind.

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"The fact that no one has made a movie about her boggles the mind."

If anyone makes a movie about her, I hope it's the French. They just gave her a hero's burial in the Pantheon in Paris. Americans hardly know who she is -- and she was American, for heaven's sake. (As if helping defeat the Nazis wasn't enough, if memory serves correctly, she also adopted and raised 10 or 12 orphaned kids while she was at it.)

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I actually thought of you while reading an interview with the Greta Gerwig.

She was asked to cut a pivotal emotional scene from the movie because it didn't "move the plot forward" and she pointed out that if she removed the scene from the movie, then the movie wasn't "about anything" anymore. I can't imagine having conversations that maddening.

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Excellent!

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