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I remember one Hillbillies ep where the Clampetts decide to go back to the country and give the estate to three college girls who dropped by to interview them. Every time the girls referred to the total worth in the show, it kept getting higher.
However, it turned out that Jethro had been too spoiled by luxury to go back to the woods, and even Granny missed the cee-ment pond.
However, it turned out that Jethro had been too spoiled by luxury to go back to the woods, and even Granny missed the cee-ment pond.
I thought it was because they enjoyed controlling the means of production and exploiting the working class. I guess I misremembered.
It was a spinoff of The Beverly Hillbillies.
Petticoat Junction was also a spinoff of one of the two.
I misheard the Green Acres theme song and thought Lisa sang, "Goodbye 'til July!" Which greatly confused the 5-year-old me, especially during July. Although it fit in with the surreality of the show, and the fact that Lisa "got" the surreality in a way Oliver never could.
She was also in the Keira Knightly P&P, as Kitty Bennett.
That's not even her only Austen. She was also in
Northanger Abbey.
It's sort of crazy. The only thing the cast missed is
Mansfield Park:
Emma (TV): Olivia Williams (Jane Fairfax)
Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright): Carey Mulligan (Kitty Bennett), Rosamund Pike (Jane Bennett)
Sense & Sensibility (Ang Lee): Emma Thompson (Elinor Dashwood)
Sense & Sensibility (TV): Dominic Cooper (Willoughby)
Persuasion (TV): Sally Hawkins (Anne Elliot)
Northanger Abbey (TV): Carey Mulligan (Isabella Thorpe)
British TV and cinema scene = super tiny.
On a related note, I just watched Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky and she was fantastic in it. It makes me put the entirety of the blame for the misfire that was the ITV version of Persuasion squarely on the director's head. Hawkins would have been a great Anne Elliot in a better hand. (But OMG the RUNNING. And the stupid pointless misplacement of Anne's pivotal speech!)
Shredded wheat:
Oh, IMDb has that scene from An Education of Jenny dancing with Dominic Cooper's character! It is of the hotness. [link] (You have to watch a HBO ad before you get to the clip)
I also thought Rosamunde Pike was fantastic as Helen. She was so hilariously vapid, but at the same time kind of soulful.
I liked Hawkins as Anne, but, yes, the last bit needed work, and the running was ridiculous.
I also thought Rosamunde Pike was fantastic as Helen. She was so hilarious vapid, but at the same time kind of soulful.
She was really my favorite I think. And would be the most interesting on re-watch when you know how things end up.
I liked Hawkins as Anne
I think it was a spot-on bit of casting and she tried her best, but my God, the rest of the adaptation was a mess. I'm still not over the fact that they moved Anne's "all that I claim for my own sex... is that we love longest after all hope is gone" speech to the middle of the story for no reason and didn't even have Wentworth there to overhear it. *throws up hands*
James Cameron options 'Hiroshima' tome
As "Avatar" continues to make box office history, James Cameron is eyeing a slice of history for a potential helming gig.
The "Avatar" director has optioned Charles Pellegrino's upcoming nonfiction tome "The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back" with his own personal funds.
While in Japan in late December promoting "Avatar," Cameron asked 20th Century Fox for a day off Dec. 22 in order to visit Tsutomu Yamaguchi, one of the last survivors of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII. Yamaguchi died Monday at the age of 93.
Pellegrino's book, published by Henry Holt, is set to hit bookstores Jan. 19. Advance reviews have been glowing for the title, which takes place over two days and weaves together eyewitness accounts of the Japanese civilians and American pilots who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand. According to the book, 30 people are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki -- where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. Yamaguchi was the sole survivor who experienced the full effects of the detonations at ground zero both times.
At this point, project is not set up at Fox or Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment.
DO NOT WANT!