loriro

I know what you mean. I had been trying to figure out how to express my thoughts on Taylor Swift and I think you summed it up pretty well. I find something a bit... disingenuous... (?) about her and the way she interacts. Like she's always "on" and don't find her very sincere, if that makes sense. I get the impression she "acts" like she's easy-going and cool, but deep down she takes everything really way too seriously (see: every break-up song she's ever written. At some point, don't you start to think maybe it's not you...it's me?) I found her pleasant enough on the couch (and much more tolerable than I usually find her) but still something didn't quite seem right.

He can be that way, but he's refreshingly self-aware about it. I remember one episode with Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr, and he (graham) was going on and on about how great Jude's work in some kids' theater/tv production was (I think it was Body Work). Jude was amazed that he remembered and one of the guests (might have been Jude) asked if he really had seen it and he said "No! I'm a chat show host. I say these things!" in a very self-deprecating way. It was actually really funny and endearing.

loved the episode! Emma Thompson is always hilarious (the episode with her and Robby Williams is a riot!), and Hugh Grant was also charming. On a shallow note: Lenny Kravitz is FIFTY YEARS OLD? Wow... Emma, I don't blame you for drooling a bit over his abs.

I'm thisclose to being out already after they got rid of Shay (the one person who really brought the whole group together, and whose relationship with Severide was THE BEST part of the show). But if your scenario happens?? I'll be gone so fast it will make heads spin. I've already got Dawson fatigue and if the show continues on its "every storyline runs through Dawson and becomes about Dawson"... blech.

Someone must have read this... Hermann's name is under David Eigenberg's photo on the nbc site now at least... :)

I honestly don't think that the story originally was going to be what it turned out to be. I don't think they were originally planning on killing Gary, but I think they may have originally planned on having Maggie be attacked. No real evidence to support that except the line in one of the episodes where Will says to the lawyer that if what happened to Maggie happened to her, she'd curl up and cry forever (or something like that). Additionally, Maggie told Jim she was afraid to sleep alone at nite. I mean, don't get me wrong, what happened to the boy was awful and the idea that the bullet would have otherwise hit Maggie is a difficult thing to put her head around, but I always felt a bit of a disconnect between the drama with which her storyline was built up and the actual pay-off, including the things she said. It just didn't resonate with me as much as it should have. (Probably makes me sound really unsympathetic...!) I honestly don't care what happens on the show -- I just love the dialogue -- with the exception of Don/Sloan. They had better damned well end up together or I'm gonna be p*ssed!!

ITA with this entire post (including the James McAvoy love!). I love the performances in that movie, but Briley is such an insufferable twit that I get angry every time I think of it. I know it was based on a book, so I can't totally blame the screenwriter, but still...

http://www.spoilersguide.com/chicago-fire/season-3-episode-1-always-guide/ As much as I want to believe that the spoiler about Shay and Severide "looking inward" means that Shay lives, I also can't think of anything that would make Severide go AWOL like Shay dying. Hope it isn't Shay b/c I truly loved the Severide/Shay relationship and thought it was one of the best parts of the show, but I'm not confident at all.

Saw it in NYC. It's so bad it's good! "...I'm so excited! I'm so... SCARED!!!" (someone had to! ;) ) God this movie looks like such a train wreck. But who am I kidding... I'll probably still watch it. And I'm a fan of the original cast members (well...some of them. Dustin Diamond, notsomuch). I enjoy seeing Tiffany Thiessen on "White Collar", and have been an MPG fan for a long time. I remember seeing him in NYPD Blue in one of his first real "Adult roles" after SBTB: TCY. And I was pleasantly surprised by how good he was. And how hot he was...!

Oh of course. Good looking and sexy are two TOTALLY different things. Some men are one but not the other (e.g. I always thought Tom Cruise was conventionally handsome, but never thought he was sexy. Someone like Eminem (what...he was in a movie! LOL) is, to me, sexy as all get-out but not particularly handsome. (I have a whole category I lovingly call "skanky-sexy"...guys like Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee (from Motley Crue)...guys that I find totally sexy but whom I'd be afraid to touch with a ten-foot pole out of general fear for my health!). And then there are men that are both. Brad Pitt circa "Ocean's Eleven" or Jude Law circa "The Holiday" come to mind.

Yeah...you are probably right. To me, that just makes it worse, though. Season 4 was probably the best single season of television I've ever seen (with the disclaimer that I haven't yet binge-watched Breaking Bad).

And imagine if one of the best shows ever to grace television never got any Emmy recognition because it was on cable. Oh wait...that's right. The Wire never won anything. (sorry, still bitter. And no good decisions the Emmys make can ever make me forgive them for it.).

Way to go Julia...she just can't seem to NOT make it all about her. That said, I really like how genuinely fond Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul are of each other. They seem to really like and respect each other and have developed a genuine friendship after all of this. I know it's not necessarily unique, but it's nice to see.

I think you explained it perfectly, and that's what I was thinking as well. That's why it's disappointing... they can say "But what's the problem? We NOMINATED them so many times!". But he (or his actors) have won for other things. I'd say it's more likely that they don't like Kramer. That I could believe.

That actually occurred to me as well, and yes. It's disappointing. I really wanted to see Matt Bomer win for his role, and I guess all of the nominees from TNH could have split the vote, but it really does seem odd that not one award so far has gone to the movie. Overall the show has been pretty funny as far as the skits go.

because it's on now and has sucked me in yet again... The Holiday. Just love it. I want a Jude-Law-as-Graham of my very own. And as much as I am not necessarily a fan of Katherine Heigl's reputation, 27 Dresses gets me to watch every single time. (and, as with everything she's in, Judy Greer just kills LOL). Edited to add: She's the Man. Totally silly, and Amanda Bynes really can't pass for a guy, but it's fun. And bonus: a young Channing Tatum...!

Yep...All or Nothing was Solange and Hayden Panettiere. Silly but if that one and the original "Bring It On" were both on at the same time, I'll take All or Nothing. LOL

Could not agree more re: Monty Clift. What a gorgeous, gorgeous man. He and Elizabeth Taylor together in a A Place in the Sun were almost more than the screen could take, they were so perfect together.

For me it's specifically Bring it On: All or Nothing. I have no excuse. It just sucks me in every time.

When I was a kid, one scene in a movie that really disturbed me was the scene in Gone with the Wind when Scarlett is in the South's hospital after all the men are being brought in. There is a man who is getting ready to get his leg amputated and they don't have any anesthesia. You see them get ready to start the surgery and then you just hear him screaming "No! No! Don't cut! Oh, it hurts!" and Scarlett just turns and runs out, never to return. The thought, as a young child, of someone getting his leg cut off without anesthesia just scared the bejeezus out of me.

I saw Hedwig and the Angry Inch and really enjoyed it. NPH did a great job. I liked Lena Hall as well, but was a bit surprised she won the Tony... her role didn't really seem as "fleshed out" as I would have expected for a Tony winner. I also recently saw The Cripple of Inishmaan and loved it. Both very funny and moving. And this is the second Broadway show I've seen starring Daniel Radcliffe (How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying being the other) and I've decided that he is someone that, just by virtue of his being in it, can get me to buy a ticket. He is SO talented (and I say that as someone who has NEVER seen a Harry Potter movie, so Broadway is really the only experience I've had watching him work.). He can do musicals or plays, drama and comedy. Just adorable. I echo love for the TKTS booths. Not all shows are available (as there have to be tickets available to be sold -- really popular shows like Hedwig or Book of Mormon won't be available), but great deals for those that are. But I refuse to go to the Times Square booth. The line is so long it's just ridiculous. The South Street Seaport booth is much quicker -- I picked up my ticket for Cripple the morning of the show and it took me maybe 15 minutes total...

OMG yes! Every single time I watch Ocean's Eleven, I roll my eyes back into my head in that scene. Matt Damon is talking about how it's the best part of his day, and I would *expect* to see this elegant, graceful, ethereal woman come gliding by. Instead I see Julia Roberts clonking down the stairs and walking past like she's got a wedgie she's trying to walk out. So awkward. I just didn't buy it. Every time I watch it I think Charlize Theron should have been cast in that role.

I want to echo the James McAvoy love in this thread. I freely admit to not having seen him in much (except "The Last King of Scotland" which, while a fantastic movie, was just disturbing enough that I can't bring myself to really want to watch it again), but I saw him, Fassbender, and Jackman on The Graham Norton Show and instantly developed a crush. I too have been in YouTube heaven ever since watching interviews. And his movies. "Atonement" was absolutely amazing! He is just so damned likable. Funny, with a more than just slightly naughty sense of humor, that accent, those eyes... ugh. And he and Fassbender seem to have a wonderful, easy friendship which makes them both more attractive. So yeah. McAvoy. LOL

American History X. Curbing. That's all.