Yep. Manchild features the luckiest apron in the world.
Someone on LJ made a bunch of icons featuring that situation. ASH has a pretty butt. And British TV has way different rules on stuff.
Mal: Zoe, why do I have a wife? Jayne: You got a wife? All I got is that dumbass stick sounds like its raining. How come you got a wife?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
Connie Neil - Mar 21, 2005 7:24:34 am PST #177 of 10457
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sumi - Mar 22, 2005 5:55:43 am PST #178 of 10457
Art Crawl!!!
Whoa! Michelle Trachtenburg is going to be the lead in the Lifetime Movie's film of The Dive off of Clausen's Pier. Isn't she young for the role?
Kathy A - Mar 22, 2005 11:44:24 am PST #179 of 10457
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The Chicago Tribune on Wonder Woman.
Whoever plays the lead role (and "Firefly's" Morena Baccarin is also apparently a contender), though, should have the body of a real woman. If you're old enough to remember the original series starring Lynda Carter, you'll recall that as the evil-foiling Wonder Woman, Carter was curvaceous, powerful, voluptuous. It's all too rare these days to see a lead actress in the movies or on TV who is neither a stick figure or the "fat friend" (Kirstie Alley excepted, of course).
It would be too bad if Wonder Woman was played by a woman who had the body of a 12-year-old boy, which is the kind of body type that Hollywood seems to favor these days (the variation, of course, being women with the bodies of 12-year-old boys and the bosoms of Pamela Anderson).
They asked for casting suggestions from the readers; I liked the way this one was worded:
Gina Torres (the Tribune's Daywatch columnist says "her demeanor is perfect, and she has experience playing a goddess. Also: Good hair")
Connie Neil - Mar 22, 2005 11:45:51 am PST #180 of 10457
brillig
Kudos to the Tribune for stating outright that modern actresses look like skinny boys wearing balloons.
Vortex - Mar 22, 2005 12:18:19 pm PST #181 of 10457
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
No reason why Gina couldn't do it. Nothing in canon says that WW isn't african-american. and we've seen amazons of color befrore.
Laura - Mar 22, 2005 12:25:15 pm PST #182 of 10457
Our wings are not tired.
She would make an excellent big damn hero IMO.
Wolfram - Mar 22, 2005 12:26:04 pm PST #183 of 10457
Visilurking
GT has that warrior presence. I don't see it in MB. But then again, I've only seen her in the one role.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 22, 2005 12:33:46 pm PST #184 of 10457
What is even happening?
I would love Gina in that role. Morena? Not so much.
aurelia - Mar 22, 2005 1:20:21 pm PST #185 of 10457
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Gina would be awsome. I reserve judgement on Morena. She might have it in her, I just don't know. A name I haven't seen floated around (but intrigues me) is Reiko Aylesworth. Though she be but little, she is fierce.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 22, 2005 1:31:24 pm PST #186 of 10457
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Gina would have all the intangibles down cold, but I can see the problem of hiring her to play an iconic caucasian figure from a visual medium. Morena would have the exact look they need, but all is uncertain except the look.
Clearly, the solution involves a brain transplant.