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Or about 10-year-old card brokers who rip open a pack and dicker their cards to the people standing around till they've parlayed their mediocre rare and uncommons into a 300% increase on investment.
That kid is either a millionaire or in prison by now. Or both.
The news was met with baffled laughter in our house.
Hah, Connie. I'd love to see a highly successful stock broker in a movie talking about how he got his start at a young age trading Magic cards.
It was fun to have them peering over my shoulder as I opened a new pack and to start making offers. Heady days.
Jason Dohring interview over at Buzzfeed re. VM movie: [link]
Biceps, hello! He's got Vulcan ears.
“A lot of that emotion was very real for me. I think I was in love with [Kristen] for the three years we made that show,” he says. “Like, I truly felt like I would die without her, and I think that’s what underlined everything people loved about them as a couple.”
Hahaha. Dohring was married (and still is to the same woman, as far as I know) the entire time they filmed VM. I'm pretty sure it's just a show business speaks for immersing yourself in a role but that's gonna stir up fringey tinhat faction of VM fandom something fierce (I'm sure there is one).
He was saying stuff like that when the show was on the air too. Oh, Jason.
Oh man, my LoVe feelings were so enormous.
Has anyone else seen Sister Mary Explains It All? I saw it over the weekend, and I still can't get it out of my mind.
We start (briefly) in 1959, as the 3rd grade class of Sister Mary Ignatius at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrows performs a Christmas pageant written by one of the students. Within 5 minutes, we've flashed forward 25 years. Sister Mary Ignatius (Diane Keaton) has invited her students to perform a 25th-anniversary performance of the old pageant. 4 of the students have agreed, but they're late arriving because of a minor car crash.
At gatherings like this, Sister Mary Ignatius takes questions from the audience. Most of these questions ask her to discuss Catholic doctrine. We soon learn that Sister Mary Ignatius has a traditional view of morality, especially sexual morality. She also has her current favorite student, Thomas, assist her -- largely by reciting catechism.
The 4 former students show up to perform the pageant, and the plot takes a not unpredictable turn. Conflict results, and then the plot takes a screaming 120-degree turn to the completely (to me, anyway) unexpected.
Excellently done, but I imagine that anyone that went to a Catholic (or possibly other religious) school at an early age could identify more closely with the characters and issues. But I felt it enough that I still can't get it out of my head. To a large degree, it's Keaton's show, and it's easy to believe Sister Mary Ignatius's development over the course of the film.
This is pretty funny
The Morrissey score is brilliant!