EricMontreal22
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Agreed, absolutely. Has anyone commented on Amanda Setton on The Mindy Project yet? She seems fine--the pilot had potential, I thought. -
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BTW this was the era that ABC Daytime was using a lot of movie music (the Halloween theme in AMC most famously, but other examples). The synth music when we first see April's dress is from Giorgio Moroder's excellent synth score for Cat People a few years earlier. Nice to see this even if the era was odd (big business stories never fit Loving too well IMHO). Nice to see the Loving pilot being uploaded--it's such an odd hybrid, but has some nice stuff (i own two copies of the commercial video tape, LOL)
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That's really touching--I hadn't seen it
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Ha!! Did she ever say anything publicly about Rock's AIDS, do you know? Kinda ironic she was so associated with him back in the day, and of course her ex, Ronald Reagan was so cowardly when it came to dealing with the AIDS crisis.
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Even though I worship her camp performance in Magnificent Obsession?
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Ha I don't know enough about FC to have read them
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Ha this sure was rambling... I'll definitely try to get something out--I just get discouraged when that happens (the only time my comp seems to freeze is when I'm almost done an exceptionally long post).
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I actually posted a long review of the early episodes last Friday that froze my computer. But I will try to get back into it. The show definitely seemed to hit its stride in season 3--was that when soap scribe Ann Marcus was one of the main writers (I believe she defected to Falcon Crest for a bit, though she was back at Knots I think near the end). I'd love to know just how involved Jacobs remained with the show. It sounds like creatively he was at least a bit more involved with it for most of its run than he was with Dallas.
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Ugh they better release this on DVD soon. I found the other week a torrent of Season 3--in near unwatchable quaity, yet I tore through them in about five days. It's by far the primetime soap (aside from Peyton Place) that appeals to me the most.
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I know she didn't have all that much control, particularly if she was apparently booted from the writer's room during Pratt's reign, but I can't help thinking some of that was due to Agnes Nixon still being around to SOME degree. While other shows were dropping vets who had apparently had lifetime contracts--like Anna Lee (I think that's her name--I didn't watch GH regularly), AMC had a habit of keeping them on contract even when they could barely work near the end (like with Ruth Warrick and James M), which I think showed a lot of respect. And it was great to see Myrtle working till basically the end. The problem came that they never really built up other characters, or even introduced, or re-introduced others, to fill these positions, but I doubt the network heads in the past 15 years would have taken kindly to them wanting a contract role for someone over 70. Opal seemed like she could have filled that spot, or helped to.
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Well exactly, it's based on classic royal families--think of the Egyptians to take it back to the most incestuous. However I don't think ugly people are more likely to resort to incest out of desperation or something
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Toups, I read the first book after seeing the first season, and then read half of the second book, but decided to hold off till I ahd seen the second season, and have since finished the second book. I'm 99% sure that in this thread any spoilers (certainly the ones I recently stated--like the much improved story for Dannii) for the book are merely ones about differences in the show.
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I was randomly on Broadway actor Chuck Wagner's youtube page looking at some Sondheim clips and came across a clip he posted as a vet who gives Janet and Trevor the bad news about Harold... (he also has some clips of an early 80s recurring role he had on GH as comic relief character Randall on the channel and as an Elvis impersonator on a more recent ATWT) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DySZhcIudEc&feature=plcp
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Yeah he's alright! I'll have to go through all the vids on hsi channels--only have wtached a few of the AMC ones so far... And yes, great to have Egypt on, even briiefly--I loved her 90s run.
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Just finally seeing these--wonderful!! And great Babbin interview, it's too bad she couldn't do for Loving what she did for AMC. While I disagree with her take on thirtysomething (the first handful of episodes were shrill, but they quickly found their footing, though I know Babbin's opinion wasn't alone), I like how forthright she is with her opinion. I didn't realize that King/Taggert stayed for her run (which ended quickly after that interview)--it seems odd that she wouldn't replace them since they had been around since 88.
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Wasn't there some rumour that they might start releasing Knots on DVD again once Dallas was done? I'm waiting... Even if it was oine of those burn on dmenad DVD things surely it would sell well enough.
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I really disagree--I thought it was fantastic, myself, and they did a good job of somehow shoehorning every character in. The House of Undying was SUUUUUCH an improvement over the books--adding them having the dragons gave Dannii much better motivation (as a friend said, in the book it feels like she goes there and gets trapped simply because the writer wanted her to). I was also glad it was dealt with quickly and spectacularly--I was worried she was going to be imprisoned till next season. Also very smart to end with the White Walkers (setting up the basic theme of the series which is while people in central Westeros--King's Landing are endlessly battling each other, their ignoring the approaching threat to them all from the East with Dannii and her dragons, the West with Mallisma and her Fire God, and most of all from the North with the White Walkers who have no allegiance to any side). Also a much better backstory for Robb Stark's bride, who in the novel is almost a blank slate.
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I found it hysterical how we were shown as the wilds of North America (granted, I guess much of Canada is, but not where they were meant to be) End of '92--AMC really was on fire back then. I am sure this was posted while I was MIA from here, but nice to see it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pv0kzjkHPA I don't remember much like for her--but I think she was a victim of the end of another McTavish run--and this time, as I've said elsewhere, it really seemed like McT was not even there writing the last period.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvfDqF0-2yg
