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I think like most celebrities, she didn't mind or wanted the press attention when it was related to her causes/projects but otherwise, wanted to be left alone. It's ironic how much people love humanizing "Celebrities Are Just Like Us!" pictures--"They go to the gym/have coffee/take out the garbage/go grocery shopping!"--when these are the moments that celebrities want their privacy. And to make matters worse, the press/paparazzi don't just follow them, they explicitly harass them by making rude comments so as to get an angry reaction. Me neither. Them trying to vilify Diana and spin it like they were HER victims rather than the other way around was the last straw.

It's amazing how well the story was told without any narration, just simply editing things in chronological order. It's chilling how the first footage is of 19 year old her being hounded while walking to her car and among the last is of her being hounded at 36 while getting into her car in Paris. Literally from beginning to end.

Does anyone remember this one? I don't know why it came into my mind just now. And this similar one:

The ease and frequency at which TV cops kill people has disturbed me for years and even moreso recently. Aside from the glaring difference from real life--in which a cop will have to make the decision to shoot someone ONCE in his/her career, if at all, TV cops always get over it instantly instead of being forever haunted by having taken a life. Even if it was truly necessary and the officer in question had no choice, I can't imagine anyone taking it so casually.

I'm really enjoying the new season of American Detective (is there a separate thread?). I like that he's featured more female detectives, including an African-American one. That said, it feels even MORE like a typical episode of Homicide Hunter, only with him serving as the narrator.

How is it? I haven't bothered to watch.

Or did she find some other way to sneak back into town? I'm surprised and frustrated/disappointed that we never saw exactly HOW she pulled it off.

I have to say that the whole time, I couldn't stop thinking of the VC Andrews "Casteel" series, as well as the one that takes place in the Louisiana bayou, thanks to the similar settings and type of plotline

I saw it today and I enjoyed it. I hadn't read the book before, so Chase turning out to be a bastard took me by surprise, as did the revelation

Craig himself said he was reluctant to come back because he didn't think he was physically capable of another film. It's adorable that the only thing that upset her was losing her stuffed animal.

That's the most crushing thing about his death. As Madeleine said, "There must be a way. If only we had more time". Q and company probably COULD have eventually figured out a way to keep the Heracles in his system from harming Madeleine and Mathilde, if not extracted it from him altogether, but there wasn't even time for them to realize that, much less try it. I'm guessing the next film will start with Bond awakening from a coma, having been knocked out in the explosion in the opening sequence and all of the previous movie having been a dream.

I've rewatched this a million times on HBO and what makes it work is the way everyone and everything is fleshed out more from the original, making the deaths of Tony, Bernardo, and even Riff all the more tragic.

I made the mistake of watching this when it premiered on cable last night. I honestly thought that by now I could handle the ending, but. . . nope. It's an excellent film, but it's VERY hard to watch knowing what's going to happen, especially all the lovey-dovey scenes between Bond and Madeleine and Mathilde.

I saw this today and I LOVED it (I'm a huge fan of period dramas). The colorblind casting aspect was well done, because the script and acting were so good it was easy to overlook.

Kanisha Marie Feliciano's debut as Broadway's second black/first Latina Christine. Just audio, however:

She was fine when she showed up in Season 6. I hated her by that point too, but my issue wasn't with her saying that, it was by that by that point, this was the sixth episode in a row that focused on her and her awful life and by now, I was exhausted.

I thought Lucy was okay too. And like you, I could empathize with her a lot more once I went to medical school myself. I just hated the way she was constantly shoved in our faces. When Season 5 premiered, there were 4 or 5 major cliffhangers from the Season 4 finale to be resolved and instead, we get The Lucy Show with a only a few throwaway lines to explain everything. And instead of learning from that, they make the same mistake two years later with Abby, only this time it's even worse, because at least Lucy was relatively cheerful whereas Abby was so unbelievably miserable all the time.

That reminds me of mid-90's General Hospital when Sonny and Brenda were together. Brenda spent their entire relationship acting incredibly inappropriately with her friend Miguel--draping herself all over him, provocatively dancing with him, and going on and ON about how hot and sexy he was. But if Sonny dared to complain about any of this, Brenda would scream at him about how he was being a controlling pig who didn't trust her. Meanwhile, if Sonny so much as said "Hello" to Lily--Miguel's fiancé, incidentally--Brenda would act as though this was equivalent to cheating. It got even worse after both couples broke up--Brenda and Miguel jumped into bed the DAY AFTER Sonny and Brenda split and did everything they could think of to throw it in his face, yet they still continued to act angry and disgusted whenever they saw Sonny and Lily together.

Exactly. The Elizabeth I knew and loved would have happily befriended Susan and TEASINGLY warned her, "Mark's mine now", not rudely rebuffed her efforts at friendship with a snide, passive-aggressive comment about breastfeeding.

That's why I was glad for how Cliff tricked her into making an ass of herself (although I usually hate those kind of episodes) when he supposedly bought her that "taaaACKY barrette" that Eunice had liked, only to find out that he had indeed bought her the green bracelet that SHE had liked. For once, I actually liked that smug and amused look of Cliff's when she went from screaming at him to shrieking with joy. I hate those ridiculous "I'm insanely jealous of someone my partner dated years before they even met me" stories. Like on "ER" when Cleo was acting all pissy and jealous about going to Mark and Elizabeth's wedding and coming up with all kinds of excuses instead of just bluntly admitting that she didn't want to go. For crying out loud, they had a fling that lasted a few months and ended a year before he met you and he's never given any indication that he's pining for this woman, so what the hell is your problem? Then Elizabeth herself follows it up a few months later by being rude and nasty to Susan even though Susan and Mark never even dated in the first place.

I hate that episode too. Sondra AGREED to let her mother and mother-in-law take the babies so that she could rest and not risk getting them sick. For her to let Elvin get her riled up to the point of outright acting as though they'd literally kidnapped them was completely out of line and ridiculously overdone. Not mention screaming her head off at her father and brother, who had nothing to do with it. Another "Cosby Show" moment: Rudy comes to her parents with what is actually a very mature and well spoken argument about why she feels that some of their rules are unfair, like her her early bedtime. So Cliff and Clair tell her she can stay up as late as she wants. Of course, she does, and the next day, Cliff is all smug and satisfied when her teacher reports that she was cranky and tired in class. He later plans that they're going to stay up late again to watch TV and is even more pleased when she falls asleep. The overall message is a very patronizing "Your parents are always right and you should never question or challenge them.", not "Don't deliberately set your kid (or anyone, for that matter) up to fail." There's no reason they couldn't have simply extended her bedtime by a half hour with a warning that it was going back to the original time if she couldn't handle it.

I missed a word in my earlier post, it should have read NOT LL Cool J. As far as I know, he was supposed to die, but test audiences loved him and hated Saffron's character to the point of screaming "Die, bitch!" at the screen.

It was excellent. A lot of story told in just a few minutes. I love everything about this movie. Interestingly, despite it being primarily Elliot and ET's story, I love Michael's relationship with him too--the way he screams "No!" when he realizes that ET's dying is just as wrenching as Elliot's cries. And that bike riding scene with the kids is AWESOME

So did I. I'm glad it was her and not LL Cool J as was originally planned, and I know she was ultimately responsible for everything, but it's not like she was some cold-hearted Corrupt Corporate Executive who thoroughly deserved to die. She sincerely believed in what she was doing and actually HAD made legitimate progress in her research.

I hate sexist (against either gender) tropes period and the Double Standard TV Tropes page is stunning when you realize how many examples there are. The one I cited is an example of The Unfair Sex--if Elvin had acted like that, he'd be denounced as emotionally and potentially physically abusive, but Sondra doing it is humorous and acceptable.