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jrlr

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  1. So glad I had already swallowed my coffee when I read your RBG comment or my screen would be dripping right now! Anthony's model looks like she's about two days away from dying of starvation, and I find it truly offensive that this "look" is being held up to young women as something to aspire to.
  2. I like the look too, and loved Anthony's and Ari's, but I hated Candice's - it looked like a distressed throw pillow from Marie Antoinette's boudoir.
  3. And on top of every other problem with this soapy episode, they had to rip off the title of a great Dennis Lehane book. Did they think no one would notice?
  4. Completely agree! I thought it was gorgeous, and I don't even particularly like Candice.
  5. Those wear-to-work-in-an-office pants were about as rock and roll/cool as an apron over a prairie dress. Has Amanda ever been to a concert?
  6. Well, that was a flat landing. Maybe I'm just tired of the show, but I thought the looks were uniformly dull, the winning look was awful and the diva attitudes even more irritating than usual. I'll give it one more episode.
  7. When Margaret was chafing at having to be dressed like a fairytale princess for the royal photographs, Cecil Beaton was nattering on at her about how being a fairytale princess would uplift and inspire young (read lower class) British women. According to him, after seeing Margaret's pix, one of them might actually be inspired to go out and buy a scarf like Margaret's, thus - somehow - making her dreary shopgirl life just a little brighter. I laughed my ass off.
  8. Add me to the list. In both DA and TC, dark-haired or blonde, he's never struck me as very interesting - just conventionally "good-looking" in a wimpy sort of way.
  9. I agree - their dynamic is truly bizarre and there seems to be a LOT of simmering subtext (on Claire's part). They'd be great in a remake of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
  10. Wow! Her stuff is so much better and more mature than Brandon's - it's really polished and delightful. Of course it's very femme, not even minimally androgynous, and so it has a very different feel.
  11. Kentaro's win was exactly right. Although I didn't like every look,, his was the only collection that read couture to me - and that put it in a different and justifiably winning category than anyone else's. Ayana's last dress was spectacular and her headwraps were creative and pretty, but I HATE prairie dresses and wasn't all that impressed with most of her other looks, especially in that metallic palette. She's talented and she pushed herself, and I think she'll have a very successful career. Margarita's collection was fun, but it is definitely resort-wear, not much of anything original. Brandon, what can I say. Sweet guy stuck on one note (and not one that I like personally) whoshould have been critiqued early in the season to do something different. His runway was drab, frumpy and repetitive. Heidi, Heidi, Heidi - did you look in the mirror before you left the house? OMG, what a horrific, tacky dress!
  12. Thank you for "groupthink Mrs. Danvers" - I'm still laughing!
  13. The nonsensical "statistics" and those CREEPY promos full of cartoon androids all looking alike and working in concert. Ugh, skin-crawling.
  14. I watched these trials and agree that the trashing of the victims in both cases was disgusting. The judge in the Arias case was a fucking idiot who had never tried a death case bfore - and it showed. Let me add a slightly different third example: accusing Casey Anthony's father of molesting her while he was defending his murderous daughter was another "judge WTF are you thinking" trial - defense attorney Jose Baez , who was apparently sleeping with his client - probably would have trashed the four year old victim if he could have thought of a way.
  15. Makes me cringe, too - which is why I wish Tim hadn't talked her out of it. Although it's hard to imagine it being much worse than the faux-fur rug she produced.
  16. I'm not sure about that. I was in one of those IATSE unions for a long time, and even if you worked constantly on one show or at one studio in a steady non-project job, union work was always week-to-week. That may have changed, and it may not be true for a certain job level (like assistant director), but most below the line or crafts jobs really don't have any security attached to them. I was at one studio for 20 years and got let go with a week's notice; I'm not bitching, since industry jobs are generally well paid and I thoroughly enjoyed my career - but there is always uncertainty.
  17. Queasiness aside, I'm put off by the show's point of view. This is far less about the crime and the "boys" (not), whom we are being asked to believe about everything including that ridiculous "they're gonna kill us on the sailboat" defense than it is about Leslie Abramson. Lesie's fight for justice, Leslie's maternal instincts with the boys, Leslie's new adopted baby, Leslie's mean dead mom, Leslie's husband's take as a reporter on how the trial is being perceived in the media. Finding it tedious and repetitive, and completely unbalanced as a picture of this trial.
  18. Saw the British series and I completely agree with you in wishing for that ending.
  19. Forget the actors, they'll be fine. It's everyone else from lighting to continuity to food services to grips and costumers etc. who will be adversely effected. There are tons of below the line people and adjunct local small businesses who earn their living by working on this or any other series, and they are the ones who will feel the real financial hit from this.
  20. Now what could possibly say "warrior" more than: "Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, and doesn't know where to find them; leave them alone, And they'll come home, wagging their tails behind them." I like Brandon and even though his stuff isn't to my taste, I get that he has a point of view and that his clothing definitely looks like a collection. That comment, however, is one of the most idiotic things (given the challenge) I've ever heard - and speaks to a level of immaturity that I suppose might be excused because he is only 24. Like many other cancer survivors on this board, I found that bonnet both insensitive and offensive. Losing your hair to chemo is bad enough, but being infantilized on top of that? No.
  21. Thanks - that certainly looks like Dog (I LOVE Dog but he'd be too much for me to handle). Sounds like a very tough - in a good way - breed!
  22. What was that spectacular black and white building with the stairs at the end? And does anyone know what breed Dog is? Susan Sarandon finally got something to do in a season that has mostly wasted her presence. Does anyone think that Smitty will really recover?
  23. And I agree with you and OP. I watched the trial gavel to gavel and it was not only creepy the way Abramson petted and patted the "boys" (who weren't boys but young men), but how incredibly, glaringly manipulative it was when - after being in dark suits and Rolexes - they showed up at the trial in pastel argyle sweaters to make them look more like schoolboys. I don't know if they were abused, but they are stone cold killers either way, and they belong behind bars. I even remember Dunne's piece (and God, I miss him!). I like Falco, but this portrayal is a caricature, not a character.
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