u/theKinkajou

EDIT: Hell, here's the google doc. Updated to a 3x3 grid with a letter# system in "Category Reference." I don't have a stats or data background, so just trying for a reach late at night.

I'm working on a board games dataset and am hoping to create more intuitive labels for games to help guide selection/purchase. I wanted the community's feedback to ensure the labels are not (as they are currently) based on a certain occasion ("Lunch Break") for example.

Key	Label
Light/Quick	Lunch Break
Light/Medium	Family Table
Light/Long	Rare combo
Medium/Quick	Quick Hit
Medium/Medium	Game Night
Medium/Long	Deep Dive
Heavy/Quick	Rare combo
Heavy/Medium	Brain Burner
Heavy/Long	Deep Hobby Game

James Berardinelli's review of *Pressure* had this to say on Brendan Fraser's Dwight Eisenhower: "I wish I could say Fraser nails the performance, but the physical mismatch makes full immersion difficult. Too often, I felt I was watching Fraser play Eisenhower rather than simply watching Eisenhower. There really is no definitive cinematic version of Ike (unlike, say, George C. Scott's Patton), leaving the door cracked, but Fraser fails to kick it open."

That got me thinking: Who could nail that performance? What story around Ike would be fertile ground for such a performance (i.e. the Spielberg's *Lincoln* equivalent). I see it more a screenwriting challenge more than anything, but I certainly won't write it. While i have read about Eisenhower ("Eisenhower in War and Peace"), I just can't stop thinking about a film that should exist and doesn't, so I'm leaving it here in case it's useful to someone who can.

The focus would be the relationship between Eisenhower and Kay Summersby. She was his driver and aide from 1942 to '45 — constant proximity, immense pressure, persistent rumors, both of them denying anything happened. Her memoir (*Past Forgetting*) says otherwise; historians are split. The film isn't about whether they did. It's about the line they almost crossed and didn't.

Films that come to mind include *Past Lives* or *Diplomacy*: Restrained, interior, almost entirely in rooms and cars and gardens. The war is offscreen. The whole thing is two people set against the one week the entire world is about to change.

Casting in my head: Jared Harris. He looks the part and could deliver that level of performance. Jessie Buckley would be perfect for Kay.

What are the challenges writing a piece like this? Two characters doing a lot of heavy lifting in place of plot or situations/action.