As I understand it, Mr. Beagles' problem lies mainly in accessing the blog, with other computer and browsing capabilities remaining intact, correct? Something has been compromised, but there may be an easy solution: create a new GMail account and then either Uncle Ken or I could add him as an admin. This was something I found after digging around in the Blogger help files. Most login failures stem from something hinky with GMail, so this may be worth a shot before attempting more drastic measures.
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I, too, saw Hidden Figures and thought it was a pretty good story; you could even say I was entertained. It wasn't meant to be a documentary so I won't begrudge the creators in how they wanted to tell the story.
Film making, especially by the major studios, is a very commercial enterprise and the producers go to great lengths to fill the seats. Sometimes they make strange casting decisions, other times they tweak the story in service of bigger box office receipts. And they don't call it HollyWeird for nothing. A better movie, I think, was Get Out, which addressed racism in a very different way. The guy who wrote it even won an Oscar the other day.
Although it was released in Europe (and banned in Russia) the film The Death of Stalin has reached American theaters. If you like dark comedies this may be up your alley. None of the characters have Russian accents; can you picture Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev? It reminded me a little of the Marx Brothers but with plenty of political executions.
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