I need to go back through the thread and look for True Grit posts, because oh my god, why didn't I know it was actually a movie about a badass girl?

Also: Rooster Cogburn abides.

t edit And the film's dialogue (and I understand much of it is straight from the novel) made me think, "When did American English get contractions? Because it must have been after whenever this was set."

No, but seriously. That was a long 90 minutes of oddly formal dialogue.

Tom's explanation for why he didn't read novels, just good literary criticism, killed me.

With novels, I can never forget that it's all made up, that it never really happened. (Paraphrased.)

That line made me laugh and laugh, because I have had the exact same conversation with a friend of mine who won't read novels.

It made that episode where he and Janeway got turned into lizards (or something)

what.the.fuck?

Steph,

the girl is a lot more badassed in this version than the original.

what.the.fuck?

I think technically (in Trek terms) they de-evolved to an amphibian-ish state. It was a long time ago, but the upshot was that while in this state it turns out they had mated.

oh my god, I think I remember that episode.

I had successfully purged it from my memory and you just brought it back.

No pie for you.

I had successfully purged it from my memory and you just brought it back.

My work here is done.

Although to be fair, there's an awful lot of Voyager I HAVE purged successfully. Not that though.

In the first True Grit movie, the girl was played by a young woman. Was she playing a girl, or did they change her character to be a woman?

Kim Darby was 20 or so, but if IIRC she was playing 14-ish.

she wasn't playing the role of a 20-year-old.

For those of you who remember how gracious, cool and stylish Vidal Sassoon was on Shear Genius, there's a documentary about his (quite interesting) life.

He was in an orphanage from ages 5-11, fought as a soldier and then, of course, revolutionized hairstyling and more.