I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.

Buffy ,'Chosen'


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DebetEsse - Dec 07, 2006 1:12:01 pm PST #6334 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

In the script, it has always seemed to me that she should be young to be divorced, that they were very much kids when they were married. Also, the age of her sister, and the lack of siblings in between, implies, to me, that she should probably be on the younger side of 30.


Aims - Dec 07, 2006 1:13:40 pm PST #6335 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

She was 32.

*I'M* 32.

Am I too old for that part????


§ ita § - Dec 07, 2006 1:14:03 pm PST #6336 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yes.

I have no idea what you guys are talking about.


Aims - Dec 07, 2006 1:18:01 pm PST #6337 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Arguing whether or not Kate Hepburn was too old for the lead in The Philadelphia Story.

Debet is eating the paste, while GC and I are right in saying that she was not.


megan walker - Dec 07, 2006 1:18:23 pm PST #6338 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Use of Force, Terrorism, Humanitarian intervention, Self-defense (i.e., use of force by states in self-defense), US Foreign Relations (Alien Tort Claims Act, Sovereign Immunity, Act of State), Human Rights (including women's rights, civil rights, torture, and some other stuff), Laws of war (protection of civilians, occupation, detention) Genocide, Crimes against humanity, War crimes, Environment (fisheries, ozone, climate)

The Battle of Algiers is great and deals with many of these issues. Plus, there's the whole issue of the Pentagon screening it a couple of years back as reference in dealing with Iraq.


Aims - Dec 07, 2006 1:18:30 pm PST #6339 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

"She was TOO OLD for Yenta !"


Glamcookie - Dec 07, 2006 1:21:28 pm PST #6340 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Yearning for a comeback on the stage, Hepburn returned to her roots on Broadway, appearing in The Philadelphia Story, a play written especially for her by Philip Barry, a year after Hepburn had starred in the film version of his play Holiday...His most famous work is The Philadelphia Story (1939), which was made into a popular 1940 film starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart. Hepburn, a close friend of Barry, starred in the play on Broadway, bought the movie rights (with the help of her ex-boyfriend Howard Hughes), and successfully restarted her previously flagging Hollywood career with the film version...

Written for her in '39, movie made in '40.


megan walker - Dec 07, 2006 1:23:15 pm PST #6341 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I think my problem with Kate is that I bought her as patrician, but not spoiled patrician. She's definitely the weak spot of the three for me. If he could've handled the singing, I would have loved to see Cary Grant replace Bing in High Society.


DebetEsse - Dec 07, 2006 1:29:45 pm PST #6342 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I think part of it, for me, is also that she looks older than she is. Some of it is how many movies she made when she was older, and her face didn't change much. What I'm saying is it might have been different in the moment, but, even so, I'm saying (at least) 15 years between siblings without any in the mean time is a stretch.


Aims - Dec 07, 2006 1:31:29 pm PST #6343 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

t being an outwardly, contrary ass

Joe's 19 years older than his brother.