Steph, I've been meaning to ask, how did Big!Boss do with his bout of flesh-eating bacteria?
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
'The Message'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Jan 28, 2008 5:17:24 am PST #5795 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
sumi - Jan 28, 2008 5:22:07 am PST #5796 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
So far, of the new Austen things - Northanger Abbey is the best. Mansfield Park was full of wrongness: they didn't do anything to make Billie Piper seem of the period, the music seemed all wrong and yeah - it was BORING.
Mansfield Park is one of the where the screenplay was NOT by Andrew Davies who wrote the screenplays for the Firth/Ehle P&P and the Kate Beckinsale Emma. (The other is Persuasion.) So I have high hopes for Sense and Sensibility.
msbelle - Jan 28, 2008 5:25:12 am PST #5797 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I decided to treat myself to dunkin latte this mornig. I paid for a large flavored latte, when back at my desk and I discovered it is a regular coffee. bleagh. Monday.
Steph L. - Jan 28, 2008 5:25:53 am PST #5798 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Steph, I've been meaning to ask, how did Big!Boss do with his bout of flesh-eating bacteria?
Well, he ultimately lost most of his left arm (to just above the elbow), and the infection left him with severe jaundice and requiring dialysis every day. That was March of 2005. He was back in the office in January 2006, and he eventually was able to get off dialysis. As if that in and of itself isn't amazing enough, by the middle-to-end of 2006, he was back in the office every day, working at least 8 hours a day.
By this point, almost 3 years later, at the age of 77, it's as if it never happened. Because he wears a suit jacket, the way the left sleeve hangs, if you walked up on his right side, you wouldn't even know that he lost an arm. As it is, he zips around like he's the Energizer bunny.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 28, 2008 5:26:52 am PST #5799 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am in love with Billie Piper, but man, was that awful. I couldn't watch the whole thing.
I am also sick with a cold AGAIN, so am annoyed.
sumi - Jan 28, 2008 5:29:41 am PST #5800 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Why couldn't they have, at least, done something about her HAIR? Do you think she refused to allow it? I mean, wouldn't it have helped her get into her part to have the right 'do?
(And Henry Crawford was played by the actor who played Malachi on Hex. I KNEW that I had seen him somewhere before.)
tommyrot - Jan 28, 2008 5:33:48 am PST #5801 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
bon bon - Jan 28, 2008 5:36:47 am PST #5802 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I really dug Persuasion. I think it would be hard to do a teleplay for, but it was romantic. And I didn't hate Northanger Abbey, which is hard to like because she is such a dimwit. But Mansfield...I thought it might just be me because I was in a weird/bad mood yesterday, and had already been disappointed by Volver.
lisah - Jan 28, 2008 5:39:42 am PST #5803 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I really dug Persuasion.
I wasn't crazy about Persuasion (although I thought ASH was perfect!). I thought it was kind of lifeless and rushed.
sumi - Jan 28, 2008 5:40:07 am PST #5804 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
No, Mansfield was bad and boring. Persuasian was not in the same class as the Amanda Root/Ciaran Hinds version and they made some inexplicable changes to the story.