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§ ita § - Dec 05, 2005 7:09:45 am PST #8904 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've not yet seen a pic of Ben Foster that convinces me. I need to see his face.

I know of one guy who auditioned and didn't get the role, but would have made a good match to the pictures in my head for the comics.


Kathy A - Dec 05, 2005 7:16:51 am PST #8905 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

(sidenote -- I wish Wendy Hiller was remembered more - she was one tough actress and my definitive Eliza Doolittle.)

Amen. Even with the few lines she gets as the ancient Russian countess in Murder on the Orient Express, she really nails the role in her interrogation scene with Poirot. Also, she stars in my all-time favorite romantic comedy, I Know Where I'm Going.


beekaytee - Dec 05, 2005 7:59:03 am PST #8906 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

I've not yet seen a pic of Ben Foster that convinces me. I need to see his face.

Seriously.

He seems to have crossed some mystical maturity threshold...immediately following Northfork his imdb pics are unrecognizable to me. And not in a bad way, unless bad equals rawr vs. awww.


§ ita § - Dec 05, 2005 8:01:59 am PST #8907 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

His IMDB pictures are actively unattractive to me.


beekaytee - Dec 05, 2005 8:05:29 am PST #8908 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

I'm clearly blinded by long-stainding woob.


askye - Dec 05, 2005 8:13:09 am PST #8909 of 10002
Thrive to spite them

I watched Equilibrium Saturday. It was much better than I expected, for some reason I had it in my head that it would be really really horrible and I would have to suffer through it for Christian Bale (and Sean Bean).

But I was pleasantly surprised. The beginning is kind of pretenious and off putting, but the Bale is wonderful, so is what's her name the chick. Plus it had That Guy from As The Worlds Turn - whose character had one of those stupid "it wasn't rape, okay maybe but look! he's good and they are in love!" story lines.

The fight scenes were really well done. I wish I'd had a chance to watch the commentaries, but I checked it out from the library and then waited until the day it was due to watch.


Scrappy - Dec 05, 2005 8:13:28 am PST #8910 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I should get some (eps) tomorrow.

Cool, Erika! We are watching the last episode tonight. One warning--You may not get into it until episode two or three so give it time to suck you in.


erikaj - Dec 05, 2005 8:21:28 am PST #8911 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

That's pretty much HBO SOP although maybe I loved the first "Sopranos"


Maysa - Dec 05, 2005 8:58:18 am PST #8912 of 10002

Also, she stars in my all-time favorite romantic comedy, I Know Where I'm Going.

Oh, that's such a good movie.

I like both of them, a lot. My Fair Lady may be a "why" musical, but it's a good "why" musical

I have to say that despite all the things I dislike about MFL, I have an embarrassing love of "On the Street Where You Live."


DebetEsse - Dec 05, 2005 9:00:58 am PST #8913 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Oh, I don't dispute that the music doesn't suck. Not for a moment.