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billytea - Apr 26, 2010 3:10:48 pm PDT #7967 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

The Fifth Doctor's costume was a cricket uniform, after all.

And in Black Orchid, he actually played cricket. He was the cricketiest of the Doctors. 

I love how in the HHGthG books, cricket was why all alien races avoided contact with humans (the game is considered deeply offensive).

And Douglas Adams wrote that story up as a Doctor Who adventure (it didn't get produced, obviously).


Juliebird - Apr 26, 2010 3:40:01 pm PDT #7968 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

My goodness, The Losers was full of so much tasty and delicious men. What I found the most hot? The running and jumping. I don't know how much was stunt doubles and wire-work (one scene was obvious), but watching someone move like that and make it look effortless and weightless (in a non-fake way) is just jaw-dropping get-me-a-mop-and-a-bucket. HAWT!

JDM should always wear unbuttoned white dress shirts. IJS.

I wonder if the actor playing Cougar was hired for his physical skills and not so much the acting, because he got sidelined the worst.


Polter-Cow - Apr 26, 2010 3:42:19 pm PDT #7969 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I haven't read the comic, so it may be that his character is the silent type.


Juliebird - Apr 26, 2010 3:49:32 pm PDT #7970 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

--And I didn't mean to imply that I thought he was a lesser actor. I was just trying to think of a reason why he seemed so absent, not just in lines, but in actually being on the camera. Like, not even as much silent reaction shots. And I finally checked and he's got a pretty extensive resume.


Polter-Cow - Apr 26, 2010 3:50:15 pm PDT #7971 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Well, he is a sniper. He has to avoid being seen.


Juliebird - Apr 26, 2010 3:58:16 pm PDT #7972 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

True.

I mistakenly ventured into the imdb boards. Um, are people seriously hating on Zoe Saldana for taking roles where she's romantically involved with a white actor?


Polter-Cow - Apr 26, 2010 4:05:27 pm PDT #7973 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Of course they are. This is the Internet.


Juliebird - Apr 26, 2010 4:12:24 pm PDT #7974 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I was getting the impression that it was African-Americans who were being offended, which is just silly.

Then I just read an interesting comment in Ebert's review where he noted that JDM was lit to look more like ZS's skin tone.

But amongst all the crazy talk was an interesting story about how Will Smith wanted to cast a dark-skinned actress in Hitch and he was forced to go with lighter (Eva Mendes) and that test audiences were made uncomfortable with a black/black pairing. Huh?! I have other thoughts on this, but am hesitant to voice them. So I'll just leave it at "huh?!"


§ ita § - Apr 26, 2010 4:28:21 pm PDT #7975 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

he noted that JDM was lit to look more like ZS's skin tone.

Oh, that's just bullshittery.

I had heard about the Smith/Mendes thing, though. He's big, but not big enough for a white love interest.


erikaj - Apr 26, 2010 4:31:19 pm PDT #7976 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

Yes, I admit I have friends with attention spans like hamsters. I do mock them for it, if that makes you feel any better.