Buffy ,'Chosen'
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Oh look what somebody just left lying around - a link to an mp4 download of the never-released-on-DVD Dark Shadows theatrical feature, "House of Dark Shadows" from 1970.
You posted that just for me, and I thank you for it. Now to wait for it to finish downloading!
With the Costner news, the only hope is that the movie is actually about Baseball.
You posted that just for me
I did! And you're welcome.
Basically, my biggest problem with that statement is the joke. If he'd just defended casting white, and left it at that, I'd probably have shrugged.
But making a condescending joke about hair color, which is disingenuous (does he really think we don't know you can dye an actor's hair? that anyone was arguing that?) to defer attention from the question about race is pissy to me. It's dismissive and, I feel, ultimately disrespectful.
But. I am a) not actually a reader of the book in question and b) probably disproportionately likely to get my dander up at the moment. So I probably should shut it.
I haven't read the book, so I'm not sure how white-washy this is. But it sounds like Katniss is darkly complected but not necessarily biracial? "Olive skinned" to me is code for Mediterranean (Greek, Southern Italian).
There is something there though for so many people to think the character is biracial. In my mind's eye she was a young Sophia Loren, but I readily admit to missing something, because I didn't know two other characters were Black.
I never inferred bi-racial. of course, i also don't understand people attributing Peeta with being pudgy. the whole time i was reading i had him in mind and while he's not skinny or athletic, he's definitely not pudgy. since they've cast a bit older for Katniss, i'm kind of hoping he's in the running for Peeta, but it will probably end up being Hunter Parrish, who i haven't seen in anything.
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it could have been longer! RJD2 has so much love to give!
Nice to see The Fall in there, and, thanks to Santa Claus, I can now pop it into my DVD player.