Re: Selected programming for June 5-7, 2024

Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 6/5/24 9:15 PM, Robin Miller wrote:
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         Wednesday, June 5
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Under Paris [Sous la Seine]       (movie)        (3:01 am, Netflix)
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In order to save Paris from an international bloodbath, a grieving scientist is forced to face her tragic past when a giant shark appears in the Seine. French film; 1h 41m.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCefPQIH98
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https://www.netflix.com/title/81210788
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https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/under-paris-release-date-news
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13964390/

 Oh, Good Lord!! (And starring no one you've ever heard of!)
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And speaking of the Seine (from today's Yahoo Sports):
The Paris Olympics begin in 50 days, but questions persist about whether the heavily-polluted River Seine will be ready for its close-up, Jeff writes.
Where things stand: The Seine will host the Opening Ceremony, with each nation's delegation being ferried down the river. It will also host the marathon swim and triathlon — a bold endeavor considering Parisians haven't been able to swim in the polluted waters since 1923.
     Swimming test events were canceled last summer due to water quality concerns, and similar levels of contamination were reported in April by a French environmental group, which said that "pollution of fecal origin" was higher than permitted.
     But officials are optimistic that the Seine will be ready now that the river's massive cleanup project is underway. "We are on time," Paris regional prefect Marc Guillaume told AP. "The beginning of the Games will coincide with water quality allowing competition."
Solving a century-old problem: The city spent $1.5 billion to update its antiquated sewage system. The key facility: a massive underground basin designed to collect excess, bacteria-laden rainwater that would otherwise flow into the Seine. The basin, located nearly 100 feet beneath Paris' Austerlitz train station, can hold 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of water.
Testing the waters: Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo is so confident in the project that she's promised to swim in the river ahead of the Olympics at an event she's dubbed "the big dive," possibly alongside French president Emmanuel Macron and IOC president Thomas Bach.
     Not everyone shares Hidalgo's confidence. British marathon swimmers will be vaccinated for hepatitis A and typhoid, and they'll be "on antibiotics after the race, regardless of what the water samples show," one swimmer told The Independent.
     The water will be tested each morning during the Olympics. If pollution levels are too high, events may be delayed. And if such levels persist, one possible outcome includes canceling the swimming portion of the triathlon, thus turning it into a duathlon.
In related news… "Under Paris," a new movie about a giant killer shark that emerges in the Seine and begins preying on Olympic swimmers, is now streaming on Netflix.
--Robin
(catch that last paragraph)