: “Nobody’s saying it’s 'cause of the Phantom Thieves… so far.” : “People are already talking about it online.” ![]() I almost forgot that I still need to pick up souvenirs for my family. The thing is… I forgot to pick one up before the last meet. : “My sister was even more stringent with her own superstitions. : Basically what I’m saying here is that unless Kasumi went island-hopping, there’s no chance she ran into a Shinto shrine in Waikiki. : Since then, exactly one more has been constructed: the Shusse Inari Shrine in LA, which is a branch of a shrine by the same name in Japan. : Incidentally, up until recently there was only one Shinto shrine in the entire mainland United States… run by a white guy in Washington state and not affiliated with any actual shrine. : Wikipedia tells me that there are exactly eight Shinto shrines in Hawaii - four in Honolulu, one in Hilo, one in Maalaea, one in Wailuku and one in Waipahu. I always used to buy some kind of charm before a big competition.” : “I bought it earlier today at this branch of a Japanese shrine here in Hawaii. Ah, welp, I’m gonna go pay for my stuff.” : “…Agh! I almost forgot we’re outta time here. : I never took Ryuji for a Kelly Clarkson fan. You know what they say: ‘what doesn’t thrill ya makes ya stronger.’ " : "Hey, uh… it’s fine if you do cry, though. : “Thank you! Your kind words may be what keeps me from crying today.” : “Good luck at the next meet - we’re all rooting for you!” : “Your dedication to training even when overseas is admirable. : “She’s working us especially hard… we end up in tears almost every day.” The team’s been training with a famous coach who lives here on the island.” : “Well, I absolutely have to get the results I’m looking for at the next competition. Turns out she has a good reason: she was actually raised in an orphanage there for a short while before being adopted by kindly midwestern farmers, and now wants to find her birth parents.: “The last meet was only a short while ago, though - you’re already training for the next one? You seem to be making quite the effort.” ![]() When she hears that local pianist Myra Brooks (Victoria Hill) is in search of a chaperone to accompany her precocious but exceedingly talented teenage daughter Louise (Haley Lu Richardson) to New York to attend a prestigious dance school, Norma mysteriously jumps at the chance. When first met in 1922 in Wichita, Kansas, Norma seems like a nice, churchgoing lady of a certain age, respectably married to a lawyer (Campbell Scott) and mother of two practically grownup sons. Here, that parallax view is from the perspective of Norma – played by Lady Grantham herself, Elizabeth McGovern, taking a lead role for a change. Like so much of Fellowes’ work, it effectively flatters the viewer by assuming he or she must be familiar with certain historical figures (in this case, early cinema star Louise Brooks) and then appears to dish the dirt on them through the eyes of a character from another class or at least different social sphere. ![]() Written by Julian Fellowes, who brought us Downton Abbey and recent series The Gilded Age, and directed by Michael Engler, who worked on both the aforementioned, this based-extremely-loosely-on-fact costume drama adapted from a novel by Laura Moriarty should hit the sweet spot for fans of Fellowes’ particular variety of saucy-soapy period pieces.
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