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While I favorited this on YouTube for years, it wasn't until the recent release of Fantastic Four: First Steps that I decided to finally see and review this documentary of the unreleased Roger Corman production of that Marvel superhero family just now. I had previously watched that and reviewed it on this site under my previous unsername tavm back on December 7, 2006. I gave it a 4 and thought the first hour was very entertaining but the second part nearly fell apart. Still, I enjoyed it for what it was and wished it had gotten a proper release so mass audiences could enjoy the work of Alex Hyde-White (Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic), Rebecca Staab (Sue Storm Richards/The Invisible Woman), Jay Underwood (Johnny Storm/The Human Touch), Michael Bailey Smith (Ben Grimm), Carl Ciarfalio (The Thing, yes, the last two parts were cast separately), Joseph Culp (Victor Von Doom/Dr. Doom), and director Oley Sassone, all of whom were interviewed as well as Corman. To them, it was a labor of love and none of them seemed to have known that it was made so that the original producer could keep the filming rights for a few years and sell the property to a major studio which turned out to be 20th Century-Fox which made the first official version in 2005 which I remember also enjoying at the time. It's fascinating how the cast went through a publicity tour on their own dime and didn't know until it was supposed to debut at a mall that the thing would never be released. But then, a bootleg copy made it to DVDs and YouTube has multiple copies (which is where I saw that version) and so, this version is known and, in many cases, loved even more than the subsequent major studio versions. Supposedly, the current Marvel Studios one is much, much better. Still, this original version gets marks for being the first one ever made, that's for sure! So, yeah, Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four is well worth seeing.

While Earth, Wind, & Fire appear in this movie and their music-particularly the instrumental parts of "Shining Star" and the movie title song-are showcased, it's not about them at least not all the way through. They play The Group which is record producer Harvey Keitel's passion project. But his major record company wants him to drop them to concentrate on a supposedly wholesome family act called The Pages. Keitel's character really doesn't want to but he's told he has no choice. So he does what he can to make them sound good while also getting involved with the female lead singer Velour (Cynthia Bostick). She's really into him while he's keeping his cool much of the time. I'll just now say this was quite compelling dramatically and while it threatens to get explosive, it's not blisteringly so. So I say give That's the Way of the World a look.

My brother was very interested in this ep of "South Park" and so was I after all the brouhaha it caused for the current administration, that's for sure! In a nutshell, The Donald is sue happy and has a tiny...well, you know! Satan doesn't want to bed him and Cartman wants to end it all because "woke" is dead. I'll just say the whole thing was hilarious! And all because of what "60 Minutes" did as well as Colbert's cancellation related to CBS's settling the president's lawsuit against them. If my brother tapes any more eps, I'll probably watch and review them here as well, that's for sure!