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Come now, DebetEsse, there were no disesases in the early 20th except TB. You should know THAT.
That's because TB always hit the pretty prostitutes. As far as I can tell. God was punishing them, you see. Now, God has given up on prostitutes, and only punishes gay people. Thus, AIDS is the disease of the day.
It's so simple if you look at it from the right perspective.
Plus, the Holiday Special had the spectacularly out-of-context Dan Ackroyd's Julia Child bit. Who couldn't love that?
I haven't seen the Holiday Special since it aired on tv, but I effen loved it then. (Hey, I was eight!) I was tempted to see it again, but I wanted to keep its memory pure.
P-C, I so totally need to make out with you when I come visit.
'kay!
I have a dream, though, of one day a woman at the turn of the century dying of something other than consumption.
Being run over by a horseful carriage.
Plus, the Holiday Special had the spectacularly out-of-context Dan Ackroyd's Julia Child bit. Who couldn't love that?
And Bea Arthur. Because nothing says "Star Wars" like Maude.
Even when I saw the SW Holiday Special on TV at age 10, even being a HUGE Star Wars fan, I was confused and disappointed and unhappy. But I still remember a lot of it, and I agree with Matt that it's more watchable than the prequels.
Lucas is a loon, however - wanting it banned. He really doesn't get that he can't take it back, does he?
The Incredibles is opening soon here...in Greek, the name is closer to "The Implausibles" or even "The Fantastics" so the homage is clearer I guess. But what's the bad guy's name in the States? Here it's "Syndrome."
And (from way back) Troy was pretty popular here, but really for the same reasons it did well in the States - the pretty. Alexander might do as well, even with the bisexuality, as the bad hair won't bother people as much here, and the Greeks kind of dig on Oliver Stone.
The thing is, the current Greeks are Slavs, not Hellenes. They aren't actually descended from the Classical Greeks. So they shouldn't relate personally to the classics' sexual practices.
But what's the bad guy's name in the States? Here it's "Syndrome."
It's "Syndrome" here as well.
Huh. That's a Greek word. Isn't that nice?
(Haven't seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding but my Greek teacher does this ALL THE TIME)
I just found out that A Series of Unfortunate Events has a funny cameo: the Aflack duck!
I can't get past the anachronism, frankly. Sure, love songs are eternal, blah blah schmoop-cakes, but it took me out of the movie every single time.
I don't know if this will make sense, but I think I didn't think of it as an anachronism because I wasn't watching it as a movie realistically set in 1899. I was watching it as a costume musical made in 2001, that happened to use 1899 as a setting. The story could have ben set in 32 B.C. or 2015 and that wouldn't have changed the things I enjoy about it much, except the costumes wouldn't have been as pretty.
But I can see why that wouldn't work if you like historical movies to be fairly realistic.
it is quite precisely what the movie was about, the dance scene was great, and I didn't for a second see it coming.
ita, "Roxanne" is the part of the movie I find myself rewatching the most. It is stunning.
But I do agree with Jilli:
I understand why people dislike Moulin Rouge. That doesn't stop me from adoring the movie, singing along with it, and tearing up at the end every. damn. time.