"I kill people, dear."
The Bay City Rollers, now that's music.
Giles ,'Sleeper'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Sep 24, 2010 7:14:32 pm PDT #25948 of 30001
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shrift - Sep 24, 2010 8:18:11 pm PDT #25949 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I've gotten myself into a giggle spiral thanks to Billy Connolly comedy clips on YouTube. Ow. It hurts.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2010 8:36:12 pm PDT #25950 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Sep 24, 2010 8:56:23 pm PDT #25951 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Randomly Gleened TV Tidbit:
The Waltons' house is still used as scenery at Warner Brothers. For example, it served as the Dragonfly Inn on Gilmore Girls.
I love hearing about repurposed sets. I know that RKO used the Magnificent Ambersons sets (which almost bankrupted them) for lots of the horror movies that Val Lewton did (which saved RKO).
Also, the original Frankenstein lab props were resused many, many times over the years, well into the 70s. I think they were even used in Young Frankenstein.
Go props and standing sets!
Typo Boy - Sep 24, 2010 9:01:21 pm PDT #25952 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Never read anything to this effect. But I always assumed the original Dr. Who series repurposed sets from other BBC series, and that at least some of the stories were written around sets that were available.
Scrappy - Sep 24, 2010 9:16:49 pm PDT #25953 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Not sure I believe the Hepburn-Tracy bit. An agent I worked with once dated Sondheim, who lived near them in NYC when he was just coming up. He said Sondheim looked out his window once and was disgusted by seeing Tracy and Hepburn getting frisky on their couch, because they were "too old."
Tom Scola - Sep 25, 2010 1:37:57 am PDT #25954 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
You know what sucks?
Being at work at 6:00am on a Saturday.
Strix - Sep 25, 2010 2:00:13 am PDT #25955 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Tom, that does indeed Shakira.
Go watch some Shakira hips for 5 minutes, and have some good coffee.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 25, 2010 4:08:06 am PDT #25956 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I'm not sure about the factualness of that New York Marriage article, because he says The Waltons was based on Truman Capote's childhood. Wasn't it based on Earl Hamner's childhood?
SOmewhat relatedly, I just read the autobiography of Patricia Neal, who had a long term affair with Gary Cooper. It also seriously made me want to beat Roald Dahl with a stick, even though she was actually very nice about him. She reprinted a letter he wrote to her about their marriage failing because of his affair with their very close friends, which blamed the marriage failing not on his affair, but the fact that she was acting jeolous, and if she would just "act normal" they could get back together and he would have lunch (but ot sex) with the woman every few weeks.
Sheryl - Sep 25, 2010 4:40:09 am PDT #25957 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Gonna head to the Baltimore Book Festival later today.