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§ 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.


Calli - Dec 05, 2005 9:12:47 am PST #8914 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

For some reason, "On the Street Where You Live" always segues into "People Will Know We're in Love" in my brain.


Kathy A - Dec 05, 2005 9:22:08 am PST #8915 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Dennis DeYoung has a really good doo-wop version of "On the Street Where You Live" on his 10 on Broadway album.


JZ - Dec 05, 2005 9:22:09 am PST #8916 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

"On The Street Where You Live" is a marvelous song, as are many others from MFL; I just wish they were in some other musical so I could enjoy the context as well as the songs.

I mean, for heaven's sake, Shaw wrote an afterword to the play that was, IIRC, some forty pages or so, explaining in excruciating detail exactly why Eliza would never return to Professor Higgins, why she would marry her pretty but callow intellectual inferior, and why she'd be glad of it in the end. Shaw was entirely on the side of Higgins's mother: He treated Eliza with a sort of indulgent contempt, he didn't see her as anything like an equal, and even if he knew deep down that she really was, he would never bend enough to acknowledge it openly.

Pretty inferior boy? Dim, but at least he knew it, and he knew Eliza wasn't. He may have been frivolous and foolish and he may have idealized her and doted on her to a mildly sickening degree, but he was idealizing and doting on her brains, her wit and her drive as well as her prettiness. He knew he was neither a match nor a catch for her in anything but social standing and wealth, and it didn't stop him from loving her in the least. Shaw's position was that no matter his inferiority to Higgins on many accounts, he could and would provide Eliza with the freedom to be herself, and be admired and loved all the more for it.

The musical certainly has its virtues, but I'm pretty sure that if Shaw hadn't been already dead, the ending would have killed him. Actually, I'm pretty sure that Lerner and Loewe would never have dared write it while he was still alive.

my all-time favorite romantic comedy, I Know Where I'm Going

Squee! Not my very favorite, but oh so wonderful.