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  1. 5 hours ago, lou ann b said:

    Regarding the CO..an example of SNL, as Lorne said decades ago, of "taking the moment to comment on the moment". Of course, SNL has often done this, notably after 9-11 and the Sandy Hook shooting. Last night set just the right tone with Kenan's comment. Tears here in Ohio.

    Despite being a comedy show, SNL has never failed to impress me with its ability to make legitimate, pointed comments/referrals on current events and social issues.

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  2. On 9/4/2022 at 8:30 AM, CrazyInAlabama said:

    know it usually happens that way, but the way his family victim blames the wife is despicable, and they're still doing it.    Then, trying to take everything over with the funeral, and the home was disgusting.   I'm just glad they were blocked.   Shannan's family really stood up for her, and the poor kids.    Right after the murder, his family couldn't wait to try to take the house, and get rid of everything owned by Shannan and her children (I refuse to even think they were related to their murderer).   

    Well, then, you should "enjoy" the case of the disappearance of Bonnie Haim, where it was stunningly HER family denouncing her as a tramp who ran off and abandoned her husband and son and HIS family insisting that he murdered the poor woman. 21 years later, her remains were found in their backyard and he was charged and eventually convicted of their murder.

    Cases like this always seem to bring out the worst in people. I can understand not wanting to believe your loved one is a murderer, but the lengths people go to to convince themselves of this, to the point of relentlessly denouncing the victim, is downright horrifying.

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  3. 6 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:

    The Phantom show sounds amazing. I wish I could go see it before it closes but traveling to NYC is more complicated these days lol.

    It really is.

    You have until April 15 (or, technically, the 13, as the 14 and 15 shows are sold out). 

    6 hours ago, PRgal said:

    Which would make an Asian Ellen even MORE of a bitch than one who is not

    Which I did consider. Ellen's damned either way--an Asian Ellen becomes more sympathetic as she's fearing that she's just a replacement for Kim, but yes, it does make her not wanting Tam around seem incredibly cruel and irrational.

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  4. On 1/23/2023 at 9:53 PM, PRgal said:

    have a book on the whole show and they already stated they were going to make Chris (and Ellen) less of an a-hole than Pinkerton and Kate from Butterfly.  

    Chris was less of a jerk than Pinkerton, but ironically, Ellen, to me, ended up being MORE of a jerk than Kate--she promised to love Butterfly's son as if he were her own, a stark contrast to Ellen refusing to take Tam. And I don't think that was just simply not wanting to separate a mother and child, she just didn't want a permanent reminder of Chris having been in love with someone before her.

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  5. I'm on my way home from the 35th Anniversary performance of The Phantom Of The Opera.

    Phenomenal as always. Not that the actors have ever given a bad performance, but something about knowing that this the last major milestone the show will mark seemed to really be driving them. Emilie Kouatchou absolutely blew me away with her work in the title song and "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again"--the audience clapped and cheered for so long--as they did at MANY signature moments--that there was almost a delay in the action.

    After the curtain call, the Phantom actor commemorated the event, which was also the 13,860th show and praised everyone in the cast and crew before there was a giant golden confetti shower.

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  6. On 12/15/2022 at 2:55 PM, Bastet said:

    There's a Remington Steele episode that has fun with that.  Mr. Steele has amnesia due to a blow to the head, and Mildred keeps trying to hit him in the head again to cure him, because it always works in the movies ("A good clonk on the head usually brings it back").  Laura, saying head clonking is not a medically-recognized treatment, stops her every time.  In the end, he accidentally falls and hits his head; wouldn't you know it, memory restored.  Laura says, "So, Mildred was right after all -- a good clonk on the head."

    That happened in the Sweet Valley High book "Dear Sister" too. Elizabeth woke up from a motorcycle accident acting like a completely different person following a concussion and not until she hit her head again at the end of the book did she not only revert to her original behavior, she didn't remember anything about how she'd been acting before.

    I remember hoping that this would happen to General Hospital's Jason after he woke up from his accident treating everyone like crap.

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  7. 11 hours ago, Galileo908 said:

    Sam Smith 2: I don't usually comment on the musical performances, but what was Sharon Stone doing there? She looked as bewildered to be there as the rest of us were. Felt like the Pope was gonna come out and give a midnight mass again.

    It was gorgeous, but yes, it felt more appropriate for church/Christmas. And nothing against Sharon Stone, but indeed, that was a very strange and random cameo. But she looks AMAZING for 64. I honestly would have pegged her for 20-30 years younger.

  8. 10 hours ago, PRgal said:

    I saw MAG as Ellen and it was...weird since I felt the same way.  It was like Ellen was thinking "does he even REALLY love me?"  I didn't know she was in POTO...and I live in Toronto!   Plus never realized she had such a wide range.  Ellen isn't a soprano role.  

    I really wish I'd gotten to see her. She was playing the part when I went to see it shortly before it closed, but it was an understudy that night. I remember doing a double take when I saw her picture in the Playbill, but suddenly, it made perfect sense and I wondered why the casting department hadn't cast an Asian woman in the first place. Ellen becomes a LOT more sympathetic and less self-centered in the scenes where she's wondering if Chris loves her or Kim.

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  9. 3 hours ago, PRgal said:

    By the way, who was the first Asian Christine? Anyone know?

    I think it was Margaret Ann Gates in the Toronto production. Incidentally, she was the first Asian actress to play Ellen in Miss Saigon (towards the end of its first Broadway run), significantly altering the dynamic of the relationship between Kim/Chris/Ellen--now it looked like Chris married Ellen because she reminded him of Kim, not to get on with his life.

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  10. 18 hours ago, PRgal said:

    It's interesting how Phantom only recently started to cast colour-blind while there are other shows (e.g. Les Mis) who have done it since the 90s.  I think Shanice was the first non-white Eponine in Les Mis.  

    I agree. It took WAY too long for TPTB to cast a black actress as Christine.

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  11. Some casting news for the London production of The Phantom Of The Opera:

    https://theatrefan.co.uk/jon-robyns-holly-anne-hull-paige-blankson-more-announced-for-west-end-production-of-the-phantom-of-the-opera/

    Including Paige Blankson as the latest black actress to play Christine (as the alternate).

    It's strange how you can count the number of black actresses to play Christine on one hand, yet it's still a monumental amount.

  12. On 1/13/2023 at 8:14 PM, Heathen said:

    The redemption-of-Chloe storyline makes me roll my eyes so hard, I see last month. Someone with a years-long history of drug addiction, legal trouble, joblessness, and no education, suddenly gets sober and lands a fairly prestigious, well-paying office job (that lets her take weeks off work to go to Chicago to redeem her abandoned child) all in the space of a few months? Bullshit. Not to mention the engaged-to-cop thing. 

    And the judge giving the baby back to her despite her history, which includes abandoning the child. Absolute bullshit.

    On 12/6/2022 at 1:49 PM, Notabug said:

    Female doctors, in particular, get labeled as b****es if they are demanding and not interested in sugarcoating their words.

    Women in ANY profession or aspect of life in general, sadly.

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  13. I've only been aware of this show via the commercials and haven't watched a single episode, but I hate that it's become the umpteenth show to torment its viewers with years of sexual tension between two characters, finally get them together, and then break them up.

  14. If you watch the credits, you get a slew of illustrations that tell you what happened to everyone afterwards--the couples marry in a double wedding, the girls get pregnant at the same time, even the servants end up happily married.

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  15. On 8/25/2021 at 9:13 AM, GHScorpiosRule said:

    The Abduction" is definitely in the top five of my favorite episodes, and so very Last of the Mohicans-like.

    You mean Sully screaming "I'LL FIND YOU!" as the dog soldiers kidnap Mike?

    It's one of my favorites too. I still remember how that moment when Sully gently asked her if the dog soldiers had "hurt" her and her just as gently telling him "No" went over my head the first time I saw it. It wasn't until ten years later, watching a rerun that I realized that he was actually asking her if they'd *raped* her.

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  16. Lizzo is unbelievably gorgeous. What a sweet and beautiful rendition of "Someday At Christmas".

    I wish they'd done Cecily's farewell and the overall farewell on the skating rink. They haven't done that since 2019. It's too bad, it's my favorite part of the Christmas show, especially that final pan up the Christmas tree.

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  17. 5 hours ago, Scarlett45 said:

    "Hollywood" plain as it were. Olivia de Havilland was gorgeous, yet Melanie was supposed to be plain faced.

    The Hollywood Homely trope. Put a beautiful woman in a frumpy dress and hairstyle, take off her makeup, and suddenly she's a hag.

    Oddly enough, I think it worked with Olivia de Havilland. To me, she genuinely did look plain compared to Scarlett.

    I always wondered if Melanie was genuinely plain or if that was just Scarlett's perception of her. She'd hardly be the first person to unfairly downplay the appearance of a rival.

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  18. On 12/2/2022 at 4:38 PM, Inquisitionist said:

    That image really clashes with the book's opening line that "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful..." 

    But then a few sentences later, it reads "Sitting there, she made a pretty picture. . ." She's frequently described as "pretty " or "handsome " throughout the book, so I always assumed that she was just simply a 7/8 rather than a 10, or not a  conventional beauty rather than outright unattractive, or even that Margaret Mitchell outright forgot her initial description of her.

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