I Am A Swede

It's astonishing how easy it is for people to lie nowadays, about practically everything, or so it seems anyway.

I'm not gonna be a hypocrite and say that I've never done it, but it's been more along the lines of "my dog ate my homework"..... 

 

 

 

 

Memories..... 

 

 

 

On 2018-02-25 at 12:53 AM, dragonflies said:

I know right? Surprised myself. I got to Season 9 and stopped. Too much ABBY and LUKA

 

 

Not a song, but after the sad news that Emma Chambers has passed away much too soon I felt a need to revisit this..... 

 

8 minutes ago, Roman said:

for this one post I'm going to be that guy.....

why are they backing off NOW? Columbine, Newtown, Sandy Hook.....and now they get the hint?

 

Better late than never I guess....

 

Maybe this time is the first that these companies have been subjected to pressure from the public for their association with the NRA?

 

 

18 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

 

Have you ever seen the rebooted Upstairs, Downstairs?  That was the first time I ever remember seeing Claire Foy.  Other than that, I didn't really find the reboot to be all that good.

 

12 minutes ago, adrnyc said:

 

I did - totally forgot that Claire Foy was in it! I am a fan of Alex Kingston,  and enjoyed the second series more than the first, I believe. But yes, I didn't enjoy it in any way as the original. I just go so involved in those original characters. It was unhealthy.

 

The "new" Upstairs, Downstairs was horrible in my opinion. Not even Eileen Atkins and Jean Marsh could save that travesty. To be perfectly honest I didn't even think Jean was all that good in it.

But I admit that I'm biased since the original is my favourite tv-show of all time.

Danny Miller criticises Twitter for not stopping homophobic abuse

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43169709

On 2018-02-15 at 10:46 PM, dragonflies said:

So far I like Abby, but then again I've only seen her in one episode  lol

 

Only one episode?

Oh you poor thing, you have no idea what's coming....

Is it wrong that I'm loving every second of watching Debbie in pain over what her rash actions have done? 

Even if it is I don't care, it's the most fun I've had watching this show for years.  

 

Winners from last night's BAFTA Awards

Best film

• Winner: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Call Me By Your Name
• Darkest Hour
• Dunkirk
• The Shape Of Water

Outstanding British film

• Winner: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Darkest Hour
• The Death of Stalin
• God's Own Country
• Lady Macbeth
• Paddington 2

Leading actress

• Winner: Frances McDormand - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Annette Bening - Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool
• Margot Robbie - I, Tonya
• Sally Hawkins - The Shape Of Water
• Saoirse Ronan - Lady Bird

Leading actor

• Winner: Gary Oldman - Darkest Hour
• Daniel Day-Lewis - Phantom Thread
• Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out
• Jamie Bell - Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool
• Timothee Chalamet - Call Me By Your Name

Supporting actress

• Winner: Allison Janney - I, Tonya
• Kristin Scott Thomas - Darkest Hour
• Laurie Metcalf - Lady Bird
• Lesley Manville - Phantom Thread
• Octavia Spencer - The Shape Of Water

Supporting actor

• Winner: Sam Rockwell - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Christopher Plummer - All The Money In The World
• Hugh Grant - Paddington 2
• Willem Dafoe - The Florida Project
• Woody Harrelson - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

Director

• Winner: The Shape Of Water - Guillermo Del Toro
• Blade Runner 2049 - Denis Villeneuve
• Call Me By Your Name - Luca Guadagnino
• Dunkirk - Christopher Nolan
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Martin McDonagh

EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)

• Winner: Daniel Kaluuya
• Florence Pugh
• Josh O'Connor
• Tessa Thompson
• Timothee Chalamet

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

• Winner: I Am Not A Witch
• The Ghoul
• Jawbone
• Kingdom Of Us
• Lady Macbeth

Film not in the English language

• Winner: The Handmaiden
• Elle
• First They Killed My Father
• Loveless
• The Salesman

Documentary

• Winner: I Am Not Your Negro
• City Of Ghosts
• Icarus
• An Inconvenient Sequel
• Jane

Animated film

• Winner: Coco
• Loving Vincent
• My Life As A Courgette

Original screenplay

• Winner: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Get Out
• I, Tonya
• Lady Bird
• The Shape Of Water

Adapted screenplay

• Winner: Call Me By Your Name
• The Death Of Stalin
• Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool
• Molly's Game
• Paddington 2

Original music

• Winner: The Shape Of Water - Alexandre Desplat
• Blade Runner 2049 - Benjamin Wallfisch, Hans Zimmer
• Darkest Hour - Dario Marianelli
• Dunkirk - Hans Zimmer
• Phantom Thread - Jonny Greenwood

Cinematography

• Winner: Blade Runner 2049 - Roger Deakins
• Darkest Hour - Bruno Delbonnel
• Dunkirk - Hoyte van Hoytema
• The Shape of Water - Dan Laustsen
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Ben Davis

Editing

• Winner: Baby Driver - Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss
• Blade Runner 2049 - Joe Walker
• Dunkirk - Lee Smith
• The Shape Of Water - Sidney Wolinsky
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Jon Gregory

Production design

• Winner: The Shape Of Water - Paul Austerberry, Jeff Melvin, Shane Vieau
• Beauty And The Beast - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
• Blade Runner 2049 - Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola
• Darkest Hour - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
• Dunkirk - Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis

Costume design

• Winner: Phantom Thread - Mark Bridges
• Beauty And The Beast - Jacqueline Durran
• Darkest Hour - Jacqueline Durran
• I, Tonya - Jennifer Johnson
• The Shape Of Water - Luis Sequeira

Make-up and hair

• Winner: Darkest Hour - David Malinowski, Ivana Primorac, Lucy Sibbick, Kazuhiro Tsuji
• Blade Runner 2049 - Donald Mowat, Kerry Warn
• I, Tonya - Deborah La Mia Denaver, Adruitha Lee
• Victoria & Abdul - Daniel Phillips
• Wonder - Naomi Bakstad, Robert A Pandini, Arjen Tuiten

Sound

• Winner: Dunkirk - Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo, Mark Weingarten
• Baby Driver - Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis, Julian Slater
• Blade Runner 2049 - Ron Bartlett, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, Mark Mangini, Mac Ruth
• The Shape Of Water - Christian Cooke, Glen Gauthier, Nathan Robitaille, Brad Zoern
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Stuart Wilson, Matthew Wood

Special visual effects

• Winner: Blade Runner 2049 - Gerd Nefzer, John Nelson
• Dunkirk - Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson
• The Shape Of Water - Dennis Berardi, Trey Harrell, Kevin Scott
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Nominees TBC
• War For The Planet Of The Apes - Nominees TBC

British short animation

• Winner: Poles Apart
• Have Heart
• Mamoon

British short film

• Winner: Cowboy Dave
• Aamir
• A Drowning Man
• Work
• Wren Boys

Fellowship

• Sir Ridley Scott

Outstanding contribution to British cinema

• National Film and Television School

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42618239

 

 

 

On 2018-02-15 at 1:26 AM, DRW50 said:

 

I think that's a pretty natural part of a storyline. The real issue is we already know Debbie will face no consequences and most likely this will end up being about how she suffers.

You're most likely right, and it is so sickening.

 

13 hours ago, TimWil said:

Cain’s treatment of Simon is exactly the reason why it’s so utterly ludicrous for Moira to go back to him. He’s a relentlessly thuggish piece of shite.

 

 

17 hours ago, TimWil said:

I’m not too sure about that, Carl.I’m thinking Charley Webb might want to spend more time with her hot hubby and toddlers so maybe this could be her exit storyline. I think it will take several months to play out, though, maybe she could end up finishing filming in April or May.

 

From your lips to God's ears! Please!!  

 

On another note, I hate, hate, hate that Cain is seemingly going to go all vigilante on Debbie's partner-in-crime, Simon. This is one of the many, many, many reasons I cannot stand him, this pathetic brutish behaviour that he constantly reverts to. I'm not saying that Simon shouldn't be punished for what he did, but Debbie is the one who is ultimately responsible for what happened to Ross. This is all so typical of the Dingle family. Everyone else is to blame except them.

I'm seriously running out of ways to express how much I loathe that whole family. They make me sick! 

I just read that

is leaving.

I really must keep up better with coming's and goings.

 

To bad that it also appears that

. 

 

19 minutes ago, Vee said:

I kind of detached from the show once it became all about Abby, Luka or Carter's drug addiction or romantic foibles. I also couldn't buy into Greene and Corday together - I loved the actors separately, but I felt ending the pairing with Corday and Benton came from BTS stuff, and I hated that change.

 

The show began to be driven by external stuff that felt hollow to me - adding and then killing Lucy Knight (though that two-parter is still incredible), trying to quickly replace Carol and Doug with Abby and Luka, trying to make the show more of a soap opera or section off Corday and Greene (or Benton and the wooden but less 'controversial' Michael Michele) together, etc. I do wish I'd hung in longer, because I loved Chen coming back and Susan Lewis. I saw a bit of it in those years, but the show also seemed to get driven by more and more stunts. Romano is killed by a helicopter, etc. Mark Greene dies a miserable, unnecessary death. I just couldn't be bothered to dig into that.

 

That being said, the show at its lowlights is still way ahead of most similar shows today. It was a cut above most.

 

I agree with practically everything you say, especially the part in bold. Those two episodes, especially the second one, were some of the best ever on television.

I did love everything around Mark's death, except that it had to happen. But it was all superbly done and acted. I'll never forget the image of Kerry reading the message from Corday posted on the noticeboard in the ER and breaking down in tears.

 

I realize that they don't care all that much about this contest in the UK anymore, but still I'm disappointed every year that they can't send something better.  

Clooney leaving didn't bother me at all. Mark's death on the other hand was a real blow. And after Corday and Weaver had left my interest waned. I didn't even watch the final few seasons, but I came back for the final episode. 

4 hours ago, KMan101 said:

LOVE ER! I used to watch the reruns on TNT because I started the show pretty late into it's run (I think it was either the season before or the season Anthony Edwards left). The last few seasons were so-so but I always really enjoyed it. Even if the show isn't terrible, it's always tough for me to enjoy it the same as I did when you had most of the original cast still around. I loved a lot of the new characters. Maura Tierney

 

Amazing how different we can see things. Abby (Maura Tierney's character) was one of my least favourite on ER.