Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Oh Sean -I'm so sorry about your grandmother and your friend. Both so upsetting.
I heard - almost tangentially, i.e., as part of another email that had nothing to do with family that my Uncle Ian passed away. We are such the non-communicative family.
Meanwhile, I spent yesterday at the Irish Red and White Setter national specialty in Wisconsin. Lots of pretty dogs and lots of people that I had known only via the internet before yesterday.
Exhausting day. Therefore I have done nothing today.
Yeah, please let it be drywall.
I'm looking at provocateuse site stats. I have a saved report from over 2 years ago for handson, and I cannot in any way predict what people want from me. In Feb of 2010, the most popular guys were:
August 2012?
I don't have old reports for all the rest of the sites, but will have to run new ones to see what I can see.
Coincidentally, I'm reading Tales From Development Hell, and Howard Hughes movies were a recent chapter. I didn't know that before the Aviator, if you signed Leo onto your movie, you might also have to let him choose the director. The story of signing Redford onto your Outbreak-like movie and he gets his role rewritten so that he's the hero where the lead woman had been the hero before--sadly plausible, and might help explain why there aren't rocking roles for women in movies--because women don't have as much clout to force their way in.
Old Boys' Clubs are a real self-perpetuating force.
oh Kate, that sounds like the worst. I have no advice, but a ton of sympathy.
This weekend is soccer start (ugh). Last night, I had to tailor Grace's jersey. Today, at 7:40 we had Grace's team photos, then Noah's game at 12, then Grace's game at 3:30. Tomorrow we have Noah's team photos at 1:00 and then an opening ceremony at 5:00. So I am washing their uniforms right now. I am tired. Beyond.
Old Boys' Clubs are a real self-perpetuating force
But Leo's not old. And my surprise was that he was Old ten years ago.
The old boys bring up the new boys. Someone has to agree that he has that kind of juice, and odds are it's a dude.
Not even fucking 30, and Titanic notwithstanding, they should not be letting him get away with that shit on a project where the team has already been assembled--script's through at least one iteration, and there's already a director associated.
If he was coming into an empty room, maybe. Or if I got the impression that it was the director insisting on him...you know, like Scorsese bringing Leo with, after Gangs of New York or something?
But you have Charles Evans trying to produce the movie, hiring Spacey to direct, getting DiCaprio to star, and the DiCaprio says he won't come without Mann, so Spacey's out...and then Evans finds himself out in the cold himself, because hiring DiCaprio put staffing events in motion that shut him out.
Not even fucking 30.
The thing with Redford shoving Jodie Foster out...yeah, that I am totally unsurprised by.
Then again, I think of Diane Keaton shoving herself all over that stupid film that Colin has a role in. The club is Boys and Broads. Not enough Broads, though, and I'd love to think there are 20-odd year old ones (who aren't singers or teen TV tycoons) making calls.
they should not be letting him get away with that shit
Have you met Hollywood?
they should not be letting him get away with that
And most tv shouldn't be reality tv. But apparently that is what enough of the public and advertisers want.
I despair.
I also hate icing my finger. Or anything.
We won our roller derby bout 229-98. This was against the team that beat us in April by 50 points. It felt AWESOME!