'War Stories'
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.
Tell her the original version had the girl ending up with a white girl.
! Was it really originally a lesbian romance? That makes so much sense, and yet it wouldn't have been nearly as popular, I fear. Certainly it wouldn't have gotten the marketing it did...
Yeah, it was, and I just finished reading an AfterEllen article that said pretty much what you did--it was transgressive and niche enough, that they didn't mind not getting a lesbian romance on top of it, because now they have a movie they can share with a lot of people, as opposed to something only seen by a few.
Parminder won an award as a soccer celebrity on the basis of the movie. And it pretty much got her ER. Good on her!
And now she's on Alcatraz !
Sometimes I have the most random browser tabs left open up there -- apparently I wanted to see what a huntsman spider looked like a couple days ago. Yeah, most of my random tags are not so random when I remember where I post and read most days. Still funny, though.
Ugh, we're supposed to get severe thunderstorms overnight, possibility of tornadoes.
It just started thundering here. It's the dang 4th week of January -- thunder ain't right.
I forget that for me she pretty much went directly from BBiLB to ER. But I notice she voiced Cassandra Cain up in that gap. Pretty damned sweet.
Polter-Cow, at the end of the second episode of Alcatraz, what was the twist?
I was reading someone (in Jezebel, natch) complaining of the lack of racial diversity of the show. All white main characters! Well, perhaps, but also Latino. Poor Hurley. Big fat WHITE guy, he seems. The cast list doesn't look that whitewashed, actually. I think the lead's blondess and Sam O'Neill's representation of the patriarchy has blinded people to the actual actors.
But I notice she voiced Cassandra Cain up in that gap. Pretty damned sweet.
Nice!!
what was the twist?
Turns out she was the doctor on Alcatraz back in the 1960s. Dun dun DUN!
Big fat WHITE guy, he seems
What part of JORGE GARCIA is white? Come on, guys. Maybe his character isn't written as Hispanic yet, but...still.
God, I haven't seen BILB in yonks. You guys are making me want to watch it again.
Natalie Barney IS a really interesting woman, Burrell. I read this massive bio of Colette, which mentioned Natalie Barney, and then my much-loved bio of Edna St. Vincent Millay, which also mentions Barney, and I found a bio of Barney at a used bookstore and nabbed it.
I love biographies of women. I mean, men are interesting too, but I'm a sucker for a good historical female bio. I went through this big phase a few years ago with tracking down every courtesan and hetera book I could get my hands on, with led me to geisha, and then a female British Victorian explorer phase.
I have to go to bed now. Good night.
Tornados really really really close to where my brother& co live. At least my SIL posted they are ok, just down a gutter and power.
I was just wondering if they were okay, sarameg. January is not tornado season, damn it. Apparently we now have a 12-month tornado season.
We had some serious high winds and two days of tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings and rain, rain, rain. Mr Peabody is stir crazy, and I think I'm starting to mildew.