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Taskmaster s17e3, Spoilers Without Context

ZENDAYA at the "CHALLENGERS" premiere in London (April 10, 2024)

The iconic logo of the lady holding the torch that you currently see at the beginning of every Columbia Pictures movie was born in the apartment of Pulitzer Prize-winning New Orleans photographer Kathy Anderson in 1991.

The final version is a painting, but few people know that it was based on a photo of the photographer’s colleague, captured during a portrait shoot in a small space using very simple props.

“During the shoot, Jenny asked if she could sit down for a minute,” says the photographer. “I shot one frame of her seated, which may be my favorite image from the shoot. But after chatting for a minute, she confided that she was pregnant. After congratulating her, we resumed shooting, but I was worried about her standing on the box.”

The Photo Behind the Iconic Columbia Pictures ‘Torch Lady’ Logo

Fireflies photograph in trees with long time exposure.

Photos of Kurt Cobain in Olympia, WA. Taken by Tracy Marander during 1988

[ID: Eight screencaps from Taskmaster. Sophie Willan says, "I've met your aunt and uncle. Pam and Willy. She was Miss Wem in 1962. And she was saying, 'Oh, he's on telly, he's my nephew. He's tall.' It took us ages, but we got there." Greg Davies replies, "Do you know what's genuinely fascinating about this? Is I know very well who my aunties and uncles are, and they are not Pam and Willy." End ID.]

1928 Warner Baxter and Pola Negri in "Three Sinners". From Silents, Please!, FB.

A HUGE thanks goes to director Simon Hynd for this BTS clip from Episode 5

I want to be very clear: I did not schedule this to post on Easter weekend.

I want to be very clear: I did schedule this to post on Easter weekend

Leverage had a lot of well-researched things to say about the real world, but the one I always come back to, from The Double Blind Job:

Sophie: These are not small fines. Last year, my department handled a case where the company had to pay out $2.5 billion.

Hoffman: Oh, yeah. Everybody heard about that. But what the news didn’t tell you is that that company made $16 billion on the same drug. That fine was 14% of the profit. 14%. That’s like tipping your waiter.

“A fine is a price” – John Rogers, creator of “Leverage”

In some countries the fines associated with things like parking tickets are defined in terms of the offender’s income, so that a ticket that might cost an average person $20 would cost a billionaire millions. I think we should do the same with corporate fines - if a company does something that breaks the law, it should be fined in proportion to how much it made from breaking the law, so that a company that makes 16B through illegal means gets fined, say, 18B for doing so.