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Charles Pike: Friend or foe?

That’s the question TVLine posed to The 100 newcomer Michael Beach, and his answer is… less than reassuring.

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“It gets complicated,” Beach says with a laugh, noting that such lines are often blurred on the CW drama. “The thing I love about this show is its battle of ideas, and how the writers back up both ideas so well. If you watch the show with an open mind, you’ll get reasonable points of view from both sides of the story.

Last week on “The 100” we were left wondering who had stopped Team Kane’s rescue mission. Bellamy (Bob Morley) is voted on to check it out first because yes, Kane (Henry Ian Cusick), make the children find out if something is dangerous! But: surprise! It’s their own people anyway. Monty’s mom is among the group along with Charles Pike (Michael Beach), a former teacher on the Ark. The newbies are given a run-down on the current situations and they all decide to continue the search North for Clarke (Eliza Taylor). After being taken, Clarke struggles to get away from her [...]

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"Wanheda: Part Two" is a near-perfect hour of television. The episode begins where the season premiere left off: Bellamy, Monty, and Kane are sitting with Indra inside the rover. I braced myself for another confrontation with the Ice Nation, and then gasped out loud when I realized that the Grounders instigating the attack weren't Grounders at all. They're survivors from the Farm Station … and Monty is finally reunited with his mother!Unfortunately, there's no reunion with Monty's father. After the Farm Station crash-landed in the Ice Nation, members of the Ice Nation mercilessly attacked as children played in the snow. Monty's father was apparently killed while trying to save the kids. With the help of the Ark's former Earth Skills teacher, Charles Pike, the survivors cobbled together new life as a violent band of scavengers. There's something extremely unnerving about the way that they dismiss all Grounders as the enemy,...

It's unofficially 1941 Week. Here's Abstew on the year's greatest actress...

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Purrs Barbara Stanwyck's con artist Jean Harrington to Henry Fonda's smitten ale-heir-turned-Ophiologist Charles Pike in Preston Sturges' 1941 screwball classic, The Lady Eve. The question is asked as the contents of her wardrobe are on display (and the sultry delivery let's us know that Jean is hardly talking about the fuzzy slippers), but Stanwyck might have easily been asking movie-goers the same thing regarding her stellar body of work that year. In a quartet of successful films (The Lady Eve, Meet John Doe, You Belong to Me, and Ball of Fire), Stanwyck earned her second Oscar nomination, starred in a film Time magazine named one of the 100 greatest movies of all-time, and became one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. Unquestionably, 1941 would prove to be a peak Stanwyck year. ...

The Lady Eve

Written and directed by Preston Sturges

USA, 1941

“You see, Hopsie, you don’t know very much about girls. The best ones aren’t as good as you probably think they are and the bad ones aren’t as bad. Not nearly as bad.”

In Preston Sturges’s The Lady Eve, professional swindlers, Harry Harrington (Charles Coburn), his daughter Jean (Barbara Stanwyck), and friend Gerald (Melville Cooper) set their sights on Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), a socially awkward heir to a prosperous Connecticut brewery. They all meet on a ship, as Charles returns home from studying snakes in the Amazon. They con Charles, by playing cards with him, and losing to gain his trust. It all seems dandy, until Jean falls in love with Charles. When Charles discovers who Jean really is, he leaves her. Angry for revenge, Jean pretends to be British noble, Lady Eve, to gain...

I just caught Preston Sturges's 1941 film The Lady Eve last night and it got me to thinking about today's current state of romantic comedies and how truly awful the majority of them have gotten over the past few years. Already this year I've handed out two "F" reviews (Valentine's Day and Leap Year) as well as a "D" for When in Rome, and I wasn't alone in my opinion on these three films. The highest rating at RottenTomatoes among the three is for Leap Year with a 20%, a film so bad its co-star Matthew Goode referred to it as "turgid" and admitted it was a "bad job" but said he "had a nice time" and "got paid." Sounds like a winner to me.

So how does The Lady Eve become one of Yahoo's 100 Films to See Before You Die and make it onto Roger Ebert's list Great Movies...