Teen fic, I believe. meara actually has read it.
Hey, evil dead, you're in my seat.
Xander ,'First Date'
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Aims - Apr 29, 2005 1:00:47 pm PDT #2333 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Strix - Apr 29, 2005 1:02:38 pm PDT #2334 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I've read it. I think it would make a fun movie. It's not deep, but it's not terrible, either, and the 4 girls are drawn pretty realistically and there are some interesting scenarios.
Kathy A - Apr 29, 2005 1:06:30 pm PDT #2335 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The trailer really focused on the Whitford/Ferrara relationship, and her reaction to his forthcoming second marriage to a very WASP divorcee/widow (not specified in the trailer). The other three girls got comparatively short shrift.
Connie Neil - Apr 29, 2005 1:14:17 pm PDT #2336 of 10002
brillig
I wonder if they'll change the title for British release, because I always snicker juvenilely when I hear it.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2005 2:05:24 pm PDT #2337 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
London TIMES:
CHRISTIAN conservatives in America are marshalling their forces against Sir Ridley Scott’s forthcoming crusader epic, The Kingdom of Heaven, claiming the film is insulting and unfair.
Scott, 67, received death threats from Muslim fundamentalists during filming in Morocco two years ago when King Mohammed VI, who admired his earlier work, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down, lent him troops from the royal bodyguard.
Yet it is Christian hostility that may ultimately prove more damaging at the box office. A spate of hostile reviews that are due to appear in the increasingly influential religious press this week will urge America’s 80m born-again believers to avoid the £100m film.
Scott said he has tried hard to be fair to both sides in his film, which depicts the 12th-century battle between Muslims and Christians for Jerusalem. He even employed Grace Hill Media, a Los Angeles public relations agency that markets potentially “troublesome” films to increasingly influential Christian opinion-formers. It organised a private screening earlier this month for Christian journalists at which Scott spoke.
Many of the resulting reviews have been poor. Bob Waliszewski, director of Plugged In Film Review, a programme heard on 300 US radio stations, said the film depicted Christians as “mean-spirited”, while Saladin, the Muslim leader, was shown as a chivalrous knight.
DavidS - Apr 29, 2005 2:08:51 pm PDT #2338 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
said the film depicted Christians as “mean-spirited”, while Saladin, the Muslim leader, was shown as a chivalrous knight.
Heh. Well, the Christians raped, slaughtered and pillaged. The Muslims couldn't believe how atrociously they behaved.
Connie Neil - Apr 29, 2005 2:22:04 pm PDT #2339 of 10002
brillig
'Cause heaven knows we don't want to be historically accurate about this sort of thing.
edit: Orlando Bloom versus the zealots...
Kathy A - Apr 29, 2005 2:34:25 pm PDT #2340 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Actually, Saladin got great press from the Europeans in his day as a great hero and a man worthy of respect, not as the devil leader of the Moslem hordes. He definitely came out of the Crusades as the Big Kahuna on both sides--even Richard the Lion Hearted wasn't given such good reviews outside of England itself.
Jessica - Apr 29, 2005 2:34:41 pm PDT #2341 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Scott said he has tried hard to be fair to both sides in his film
Getting hate mail from both sides is probably a good sign, then.
Sue - Apr 29, 2005 3:19:44 pm PDT #2342 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Sisterhood... is a story about four girls who are best friends spread all over during the summer, who keep in touch by sending these "magical" pants around. So there's four different stories going on, but the Bradley Whitford daughter is the narrator of the first book, which is why her story might have the greatest focus. I've read the first two books and the first one holds together much better than the second.
Bradley Whitford made me the most excited when I saw the trailer.