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Okay, at least three, then. BD Wong didn't seem to have a speaking role, which made me sad. I love him madly.
None of the performances were bad, but Ruffallo (I should look up that spelling someday) and Bomer were really on fire. Oh! And Taylor Kitsch. I couldn't even work out who it was (his hair is shorter and blond and he's in three piece suits a lot. He did a good job too, maybe his best since FNL, unless I've missed any non-Battleship-like jaunts.
I saw a lot of promos for The Normal Heart, fwtw.
Between which shows? I'd been looking out for it, but it never seemed to be mentioned in my GoT/Silicon Valley/Veep block, which is my major planned HBO watching. Nor in my ad hoc viewing.
Good to know it might be around for a while.
I remember seeing a bunch of billboards (and maybe subway and bus ads?) advertising Normal Heart in NY.
I can't actually recall the promos or when I saw them, but I know a surprising lot about it considering I haven't seen it and I assume that info came from some sort of trailer like thing. Maybe not, could have heard interviews on the radio or the like.
I remember seeing a bunch of billboards (and maybe subway and bus ads?) advertising Normal Heart in NY.
Yeah, that's pretty much the kind of promotion I saw for it, so I didn't really know what I was going into. Didn't mind at all.
interviews on the radio or the like.
What is this ray-dee-oh of which you speak? (one of the things on my list of to-spends was to get my car one yanked and replaced with an MP3 device doc, but that'll have to wait). The one I have at home is open to a new home, going cheap--also does CD and has an audio input so you can plug in your MP3 devices! Call for more detail.
My drive to work and back is so short that cuing up an iPod to have something to listen to is more trouble than it's worth. I leave the radio tuned to NPR and catch a few minutes of whatever happens to be airing. So sometimes I acquire random information that way. Sometimes I turn the sound system completely off and listen to my thoughts. That's pretty weird, but sometimes hits the spot.
It's very much like how I will get a couple minutes of whatever is showing on whatever channel my DVR was last recording on when I check to make sure the programming for later tonight is correct. Which is another potential source for Normal Heart promotional material, I suppose.
I feel like The Normal Heart was all I heard about on HBO for a while, but I watch Game of Thrones in real time, so I always sat through the promos for things that they air before the show starts.
I would like to see it, but I'm not really in the mood for a serious ugly crying movie right now.
Entertainment Weekly did a cover story on it, so if you read it you may have read about the movie there. And I know I saw Jim Parsons doing promo stuff on Letterman and on The Daily Show for it.
But "All Series" does not mean "All Series," or anything close. The further back you go, the thinner things get relative to HBO's actual catalog, until there's almost nothing at all (there seems to be an unofficial soft cutoff at about… Oz)