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    I figured the Giants would take this one, but I definitely thought the 'Skins would put up more of a fight than this. Yes Cousins had a terrible game, but the Giants just plain whipped them in every other phase of the game as well. There's enough blame to go around for everybody. 

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    There might be something to those "he's lost the locker room" rumors about Harbaugh. And Kap seems to be regressing like RG III has. It's only week 3, not time to panic, but I am starting to get a bit concerned about My Niners.

    Tunnel Vision: Actors Who You Could Never See Outside of That One Role

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    I feel this way about Geordi La Forge (actor LeVar Burton) from Star Trek TNG.  It was always a disconnect to see him on Reading Rainbow ... or anywhere, really, where you are able to see his eyes.

     

    Re: Sarah Michelle Gellar as Kendall on All My Children - I stopped watching soaps somewhere during her tenure as Kendall and never watched Buffy, so that association was stuck in my head for a very, very long time.  She started on AMC in 1993 when she was 16 and it was clear she was extremely talented from the beginning.

     

    There are a lot of actors from that era that I still see as their soap characters.  Kelly Ripa had a memorable debut as Hayley on AMC when she was 20; I couldn't believe it when she started co-hosting the talk show with Regis.  Nathan Fillion (the Firefly guy, now the Castle guy) will always be a suddenly aged son of Viki Lord Buchanan on One Life to Live, who had enough charisma as a 24 year old to pull off a not too terribly icky May-December romance with the arch-enemy of his multiple personality mother.  And I remember Hayden Panetierre as Lizzy on Guiding Light.  Good grief, she was only 9 then.  (Yes, I surfed the soaps back then.  There weren't that many night time soaps at the time : this was all less than a decade after Dallas Original Recipe left the air.)

     

    There are quite a few comedians who are also stuck in a time warp for me.  It's really hard to see Sean Hayes as anyone but Jack MacFarland (Will and Grace) or David Spade as anyone but the David Spade of SNL, or Georgia Engel as Georgette from the Mary Tyler Moore show.  Chris Elliott definitely is the creepy guy from Everyone Loves Raymond.  I'll bet he loves that.

     

    I think James Cromwell is very versatile.  I believed him just as much in Babe as I do when he plays a bad guy.  I'm always happy to see him onscreen.

    For the entirety of ST:TNG's run, I could not watch LeVar Burton and not see young Kunta Kinte of Roots.

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    TV Tropes: Love 'em or Loathe 'em

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    It's distressing that we can even talk about a "rape as drama trope".  "Wife's breast cancer as a route to a husband's tender side" is another overdone one.

     

    I remember way back when the movie The Accused came out.  Jodie Foster gave a performance unlike I (or anyone, to hear the publicity) had ever seen.  It had tremendous impact and I thought it was fantastic that someone was talking about rape at all.  I often feel that way when a taboo subject is treated respectfully for the first time.  It's why I supported the movies Philadelphia (even though I didn't think it was that great) and Silver Linings Playbook (see previous parenthetical comment) and Prince of Tides and Ordinary People.  To bring it back to tv, it's even why I tuned in to watch Rosie O'Donnell's riding the bus drama.

     

    The first time I saw breast cancer as a storyline on daytime tv, I was very touched by it.  Then, it got to the point where it felt like, if some actress wanted an emmy nomination, the writers would give her breast cancer.  I can't put my finger on why, but it certainly lost its way as a window into touching drama.  I think it's when it seems obvious that all the problems and reactions seem so cookie cutter, like there are no other ways to face or process or react to them.

    I felt the same way about the TV movies A Case of Rape (Elizabeth Montgomery), The Burning Bed (Farrah Fawcett) and Something About Amelia (Ted Danson/Roxana Zal).

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    Favorite Performances

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    Loved Ed Harris as Astronaut John Glenn in The Right Stuff.

     

    A very powerful and underrated performance, IMO, was Tony Curtis as Iwo Jima flag raiser Ira Hayes in The Outsider. I thought it more poignant than Adam Beach's in Flags of Our Fathers.

     

    I can watch Humphrey Bogart's Capt. Queeg in The Caine Mutiny over and over again and never tire of it. Jose Ferrer's also as defense attorney Barney Greenwald, for that matter.

     

    Jack Lemmon as Joe Clay in Days of Wine and Roses, and Ens Pulver in Mr Roberts are both must see's whenever they're on.

     

    Natalie Wood in Love With the Proper Stranger is an all time favorite. 

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    They're not all evil, woman and child beating thugs, no matter what the press would have people believe.

     

     

    The vast majority of them aren't. Roughly 1800-2000 players in the NFL. Five cases of DV/Child abuse. FIVE. For those who would add the qualifier "that we know of", lets extrapolate this out and try to cover those by multiplying the known cases by 10, bringing us to 50. That's 2.5 % of 2000. Not enough? Lets multiply by 100, bringing us to 500. Out of 2000, that's 25%. Even if the "thug" rate is that high which I doubt, call me crazy but I don't think that qualifies the NFL for the derisive nickname "National Felons League" when 75% (at least) based on that extrapolation, don't fit the woman and child beating thug profile.      

    Unscripted: Whoops...Well, Let's Just Keep It Anyway

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    R. Lee Ermy's performance in Full Metal Jacket. Initially turned down for the part (too old), Stanley Kubrick kept him on as technical advisor. He eventually replaced the actor cast to play GySgt Hartman and was given approval by Kubrick to re-write/improvise many of his own lines drawing from his experience as an actual Marine Drill Instructor.    

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    That was just a good old fashioned ass kickin. I hope that's not the case, but the Steelers might just have to play the rest of the season with one of their goals being saving Mike Tomlin's job.

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    You're right Topanga, the 'Hawks seem to be one of the few exceptions to the current 'big hit' trend and are excellent tacklers.

     

    For those of you who haven't seen it, this is what I was referring to in my previous post:

     

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     Have they forgotten how to wrap people up and tackle? 

    EVERYBODY has forgotten how to wrap up and tackle. Players today all want to make the "big hit" and be the highlight on Sportscenter later that night. The lucky ones just bounce off and cause the ball carrier to fall from the impact. The not so lucky ones get run over and wobble back to the bench with concussions. I sometimes wonder if good solid form tackling is even still coached today. I can hear dear old Vince now. "Nobody tackling, everybody just grabbing! GRAB GRAB GRAB!"

     

    Now you kids get off my lawn and go hit the blocking sleds....... :) 

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    The Giants decide it's an effective strategy to spot the Lions a quarter and 14 points? Who knows, if Detroit keeps piling up more yards in penalties than the Giant's offense.....it just might work

     

    We can talk football too.

     

    I see the Giants finally realized the game had started, about a quarter in. Nobody told them about this guy named Megatron before the second quarter?

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