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shadowkatI dislike pedicures and manicures, in part because my hands shake so it frustrates the manicurists. Prefer to do it myself. Plus because I wash my hands a lot, the polish comes off and nails are brittle, so rarely bother. Today I decided to do it - since the nails were looking run down and am off to see a movie with the gals. Tonight it will be Iron Man 3 - combining need to socialize with a movie. It costs, believe it or not, $19.50. (Does anyone else remember when movies were only $5, or dollar movies?) We pay too much for entertainment.
Speaking of Entertainment? Been watching Call the Midwife (the BBC/PBS series based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth). It takes place in the 1950s and 1960s...and describes what it was like to be a midwife back in those days for the National Health Service. Oh, I know, that they've changed things for dramatic effect and it is not exactly the way it was back then. Let's face it reality is not only odder than fiction, it's also more dull.
No tv series, including the so-called reality serials and documentaries, are real - they are always tinkered with for well, dramatic effect. Overall, the series is quite good and rather enjoyable. Like most British series, they've cast people who do not look like they jumped off the cover of vogue, and look like they would have been midwives in the 1950s. The Brits are better at realistic casting than the Americans. Also, the acting is more often than not better. It's not for everyone - sort of like Bletchy Girls (sans the serial killer and the violence) and less like Downton Abbey (no soap opera).
Also reading the newest Entertainment Weekly which has gone overboard in it'spimping promotion of whatever Entertainment products that it feels the need to market to us this week.
The marketing blitz for Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing is beginning to irritate me and turn me off of the film. In fact it is beginning to remind me a tad too much of Kenneth Brannagh, who if you recall, wrote his own biography at ripe old age of 28 immediately after starting his own acting troupe at 24, and directing and starring in the Oscar Winning film Henry the V in 1989.
Whedon: "I decided to film it in my house because I wanted to show the world what an amazing and beautiful home that my wife Kai designed. My only regret was I didn't get to show the study."
Apparently Architectural Digest wasn't interested? Oh, well, not to worry, the film Much Ado About Nothing is sure to put it on the map, or at the very least on the Tour of famous Hollywood film sites - it'll be right up there with Hearst Castle.
You know there's a problem with a film, when Entertainment Weekly and Whedon are trying to sell it as an entry in Architectural Digest.
SHEILD on the other hand - I might watch. If only for the dry humor and wit. The only thing I like about Whedon is his ability to write great dialogue. Or very witty and dry dialogue. Apparently this is really hard to do well?
Speaking of Entertainment? Been watching Call the Midwife (the BBC/PBS series based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth). It takes place in the 1950s and 1960s...and describes what it was like to be a midwife back in those days for the National Health Service. Oh, I know, that they've changed things for dramatic effect and it is not exactly the way it was back then. Let's face it reality is not only odder than fiction, it's also more dull.
No tv series, including the so-called reality serials and documentaries, are real - they are always tinkered with for well, dramatic effect. Overall, the series is quite good and rather enjoyable. Like most British series, they've cast people who do not look like they jumped off the cover of vogue, and look like they would have been midwives in the 1950s. The Brits are better at realistic casting than the Americans. Also, the acting is more often than not better. It's not for everyone - sort of like Bletchy Girls (sans the serial killer and the violence) and less like Downton Abbey (no soap opera).
Also reading the newest Entertainment Weekly which has gone overboard in it's
The marketing blitz for Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing is beginning to irritate me and turn me off of the film. In fact it is beginning to remind me a tad too much of Kenneth Brannagh, who if you recall, wrote his own biography at ripe old age of 28 immediately after starting his own acting troupe at 24, and directing and starring in the Oscar Winning film Henry the V in 1989.
Whedon: "I decided to film it in my house because I wanted to show the world what an amazing and beautiful home that my wife Kai designed. My only regret was I didn't get to show the study."
Apparently Architectural Digest wasn't interested? Oh, well, not to worry, the film Much Ado About Nothing is sure to put it on the map, or at the very least on the Tour of famous Hollywood film sites - it'll be right up there with Hearst Castle.
You know there's a problem with a film, when Entertainment Weekly and Whedon are trying to sell it as an entry in Architectural Digest.
SHEILD on the other hand - I might watch. If only for the dry humor and wit. The only thing I like about Whedon is his ability to write great dialogue. Or very witty and dry dialogue. Apparently this is really hard to do well?
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Date: 2013-05-25 09:33 pm (UTC)Which is exactly what makes it more interesting because they all aren't stick thin and gorgeous, they look like they have actually lived life like the rest of us.
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Date: 2013-05-25 10:12 pm (UTC)Well I was never really interested in the first place. *g* The house thing isn't making it better though...
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Date: 2013-05-26 02:42 am (UTC)Well, no. But then I am pretty old and do remember first run movies being $3 in the evening.
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Date: 2013-05-26 03:49 am (UTC)I wish they'd stop telling us that he filmed it in his own house in a 12 week period. OR that he decided to film it instead of going on the annual family vacation to their Italian villa.
Seriously, TMI.
And I thought Brannagh could be an arrogant ass, he has nothing on Whedon. Plus he appears to have mellowed with age, while Whedon has gone in the opposite direction. I blame the internet. I could be wrong about this, but I'm willing to bet that Brannagh doesn't spend any time on the net and rarely reads his reviews any longer. The man's an actor, actors to stay sane - avoid the net like the plague, it's only crazy writers who don't.