![]() Éric Rohmer (1920-2010) was a French filmmaker considered in the same league as Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. He died in 1959 during an outbreak of Asian flu (I’m not kidding). He is regarded today as a proponent of the racist concept of the Yellow Peril: the belief that Asians were taking white jobs, industry, etc., as part of a grand conspiracy. Fu Manchu (and the story on which Show 323, The Castle of Fu Manchu, was based). Other than writing three Sumuru books, he wrote dozens featuring criminal mastermind Dr. Sax Rohmer is the nom de plume of English writer Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959). They joined the pop culture consciousness with their slogan “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking,” used for decades in commercials to boast about their watches’ durability.ĭid you know that Sax Rohmer is Éric Rohmer’s brother? ![]() Timex is an American watch manufacturer established in 1854. In the 1970s, she became an actress and released albums. Her style inspired many copycats and fads in the ensuing years, and she is considered to be the world’s first supermodel. Twiggy Lawson is a British model who, in 1966, captured everyone’s attention with her boyish looks and slight frame. Was that Twiggy? –Was that Sumuru? –No, that’s a Timex, I think. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a 1954 MGM musical about seven brothers who plot to get the women they want to marry by kidnapping them. Joel was out of town, but on the show, it was explained that he had gone on a spacewalk and the ‘bots didn’t let him back in. We didn’t really know it was you.Ī callback to the host segments of Show K17, Time of the Apes. The Last Emperor is an award-winning 1987 film about the last emperor of China, Puyi, and how his life intermingled with World War II and the rise of the People’s Republic of China. K18: The Million Eyes of Sumuru by Trey Yeatts
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