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2 hours ago, Lantern7 said:
I’m not pulling for any cameos from DC Comics’ “Big Three,” but I would like for the show to be part of a bigger picture. I have to wonder how they got Jason and Ezra to cameo. Red tape-wise, I mean . . . they were probably great with it. “They keep joking how Aquaman fucks fish? Dude, I’m in. Do I wear the costume from my sequel?”
https://deadline.com/2022/02/peacemaker-season-one-finale-james-gunn-interview-spoilers-1234935500/
Tell us about landing Jason Momoa and Ezra Miller for the Justice League cameo
GUNN: Jason, I have known for a while. So, we had a preexisting relationship, and also Peter Safran, who’s the producer on the show and he’s one of my closest allies and friends, he’s friends with Jason because he produces the Aquaman movies. So, we asked Jason. We knew Jason was probably going to do it very early on. Ezra came in as more of a surprise. I found out through a couple of friends that Ezra liked my films, and so then I connected with him and asked him to do it, as well. So, yeah, we were just lucky with the two of them.
That was just a great, great touch, and then to hear Aquaman go blue was just great.
GUNN: I know. You hear Aquaman just cursing. I think both of those guys deserves total props because he does f*** with both of them the whole season, and so the fact that they have such a great sense of humor about themselves, I really appreciate both those guys and what they did. The Ezra outtakes are probably the greatest things I’ve ever had. He literally went on for 30 minutes, and he hadn’t seen the show. I just showed him the scene of them walking away, and he kept calling Harcourt the little blonde boy. The best outtakes of all time are from him.
They have to put that on HBO Max.
GUNN: I know. Marvel shot it for us, which was really nice of them.
Marvel did?
GUNN: It was nice because we shot it on the set and with the crew of Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3. You know, they were kind of paying us back, though, because DC, Chukwudi Iwuji, we used the Peacemaker crew to shoot Chukwudi’s screen test for Guardians 3, and DC was really cool about that, and then Marvel was really cool about letting us use our crew to shoot Ezra.
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21 minutes ago, DesiJF said:
I think the mastermind behind this plot was the young hot guy...don't know that I ever caught his name. He's some kind of relation to Mrs. Fane? Surely he can't be her husband, can he? He seems much too young.
Yes, he's her husband. Interesting enough, the actor who plays him is the same age as the actress playing her, but he does read a lot younger than 45/46.
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Vulture has an interview with the writers where they discuss the season and their choices.
The main takeaway for me is that these people are idiots who simply don't understand that the biggest problem isn't that people disagree with their choices--it's that the show was so poorly written. Any choice can be justified when written well. Miranda's arc was not. The breakup was not. Che Diaz was not. You idiots.
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5 hours ago, Yogisbooboo64 said:
Regarding Harry’s dick….was that a Boogie Nights type of prop, or does Evan Handler got it goin’ on like that? If he does, I might have to shove his wife to the side because, rowrrrrrrr!!
5 hours ago, ChicksDigScars said:I follow Mr. Handler on Twitter. Is it possible to awkwardly read his Tweets, after seeing his full frontal? My, my....
Yeah, totally a prop. I didn't think it looked very realistic, but the fact that Kristin Davis was touching it makes it clear to me that it wasn't real. Even if Evan Handler was comfortable having his co-star touch his dick, I doubt they would ask the actress to do that, even with intimacy coordinators and the like involved today. (Maybe the second frontal was added so they could say there was at least one actual penis in the episode, but seeing a real one just made the first look even more fake.)
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4 hours ago, Rebecca berkowit said:
Did Cynthia Nixon once have her mind blown by digital penetration? And, yes, Che could’ve called Miranda. Did Miranda not learn anything from the “he’s just not that into you,” episode OF THIS VERY SHOW?
I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but funny enough, this episode was written by the writers of that very episode. Evidently they couldn't be bothered to remember either.
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He doesn't sound as bad on the soundtrack as he did live. I think it helps that since he's not trying to project like he was in the theater, he's not pushing as hard, so he can simply act and go for the emotion. And I don't doubt they did what they could in the studio to sweeten the vocals (and the music sounds on the verge of drowning him out).
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6 hours ago, ifionlyknew said:
And Che left without washing their hands after just having them down Miranda's pants. WTF?
Anyone remember when Sara Ramirez was introduced on Grey's Anatomy and there was a whole brouhaha about Callie not washing her hands after using the bathroom (and claiming she actually went down to the kitchen and washed her hands--yeah, right)? Maybe Sara Ramirez is being typecast as "characters lax in their hand washing." 😏
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The girls of The Facts of Life will be...
Jennifer Aniston (Blair), Gabrielle Union (Tootie), Allison Tolman (Natalie), and Kathryn Hahn (Jo).
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Evidently the composers wrote a new score for the film to better match the vision of the director and reworked the songs. So there's a chance the music will be less terrible than the stage version! (Maybe they better tailored the songs to Dinklage's voice, since it seems unlikely he's suddenly able to sing.)
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/11/cyrano-original-score-oscar-national-1234678238/
QuoteJoe Wright’s “Cyrano,” starring Peter Dinklage and Hayley Bennett, based on the 2018 stage musical by Erica Schmidt (derived from the classic French play of unrequited love from Edmond Rostand), has surprisingly qualified for Best Original Score Oscar consideration. That’s because brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner, of the folk group The National, composed an original score separate from their theatrical score. Additionally, the Dessners reworked the songs for the movie as well, with lyrics from National frontman Matt Berninger and his wife Carin Besser.
Plus, “Cyrano” boasts two new Oscar-contending original songs: “Every Letter,” sung by Bennett, and “Somebody Desperate” (appearing over the end credits), an all-Nationals collaboration sung by Berninger, who wrote with Bryce and Aaron.
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On 10/21/2021 at 2:46 AM, zenithwit said:
Heck, didn't Girls5Eva also have an MTV Cribs clip? Or was that some other house show?
Yes, it did.
https://tvline.com/2021/06/25/girls5eva-wickie-cribs-episode-2-renee-elise-goldsberry-video/
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I saw the musical when it played in NYC a few years ago, or at least half of it. I left at intermission. I thought it was dreadful. The music in particular was grating and monotonous and if I'd had to sit through another minute of it I was likely going to scream. (And no, Dinklage could not sing. Unless being frog-voiced was another thing that was supposed to replace the nose as some sort of impediment. That would actually be sort of clever.)
The soundtrack is on Youtube for those who want a sample:
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7 hours ago, GaT said:
Wow, the article doesn't say when he got sick, but 3 weeks ago he was at the Creative Arts Emmys, & he isn't wearing a mask in that photo. That's a little (OK, a lot) scary. All those behind the scenes people could be spreading covid through the entertainment industry. Being double vaccinated didn't help, so everybody showing their cards & taking the tests doesn't seem to have helped.
Yep, the Emmys did that stupid thing where they held it outdoors...but built a tent with walls, creating an enclosed space, which defeats the whole purpose of having it outdoors in the first place. So dumb. In the linked video of his win, no one is wearing masks.
https://www.emmys.com/video/2021-cae/hairstyling-period
(He closes his backstage remarks by thanking his two-year-old dog. Hopefully one of his friends gave it a new home. 😥)
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Marc Pilcher, Emmy-Winning ‘Bridgerton’ Makeup Designer, Dies of COVID-19 at 53
So sad. He was double-vaccinated, too. Everyone still needs to be on their guard.
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3 hours ago, scenicbyway said:
They should’ve been eliminated. I read today that Cheryl started feeling ill on Friday but kept rehearsing that day and Saturday and didn’t test till Sunday. He would’ve had 6 hours of close contact when she was symptomatic. I am a little surprised if he was vaccinated and had Covid last winter and still caught it, he must be especially susceptible.
Expecting another pro to sub in and potentially catch the virus is not something anyone would’ve signed up for.
If they had been eliminated, that likely would have spared Martin to stay another week, no?
Risking spreading a deadly virus vs inflicting Mr. Kove on the viewing audience again. Choices, choices...
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Thinking about all the guest stars reminds me of all the interviews I've read with some of them over the years. I always enjoyed Amy Hill's with The AV Club, where one of the things she talks about is doing the show:
QuoteAVC: You were also on an episode of Friends, and that’s certainly another show that people still watch today.
AH: They do and, not once a week but maybe once a month, somebody will say, “I love you on Friends!” Because people still watch that.
I think that might have been an offer, too. This is interesting. You’re picking all the things people offered. But that one was the first time I was on a super, super huge hit, and it was towards the end. Jennifer [Aniston] was going out with Brad Pitt. So I remember Brad Pitt being around.
All of the regular actors weren’t there, so we rehearsed with stand-ins all week. It was so weird because I was like, “Aren’t the regular people coming at some point?” But they were busy with their career stuff. They were running around. I don’t know what they were doing. Looking good, probably. David Schwimmer was the director, and he was really sweet and wonderful to work with. The day before taping, when they do camera blocking, that’s when the actors came in, and they all knew their lines, they all knew what they were doing and they just kind of did it. I think they maybe pre-shot a few things, and then we taped it.
It was like a machine. They came in, did their thing, but they only had to do two days a week. And at that time they were getting a million dollars an episode. I thought, “Well, that’s the way to do it.” I want to be on a show that’s a hit and only have to come in a couple of days a week. And they were good!
AVC: Some of those multi-camera sitcoms are really just machines.
AH: They know what they’re doing. The actors know their characters and the writers know how to write for them, so it’s not like they have to work on that.
Even on this kids’ show that I’m doing, the writing is really good. When the writing is good and it suits your character, you don’t have to memorize anything, because it just makes sense. You read it and you go, “Oh, that makes sense.” And it’s easy.
That’s how I feel on these shows that have been around for a long time. It’s not hard to work. It’s the joy of moving the character forward in the story.
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On 6/2/2021 at 2:24 AM, Hiyo said:
Looking back on the show, I would say that yes, it wasn't as diverse as it could have been, but also it wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. I guess.
This was an interesting (if incomplete) list. I forgot Aunt Viv guested on the show. Also I wish they had addressed if Rhonda and Pudding Cup were ever able to salvage their friendship.
Yeah, it's kind of annoying how incomplete that list is. The first ones that immediately came to mind were Carol's obstetrician (who I think was the actual first black character on Friends, in the second episode, not Jenifer Lewis in the third) and Phoebe's, who told her she was having triplets ("Doctors are wrong all the time.")
But yeah, the Asian representation was a lot/even spottier. Hoshi, Pete's ultimate fighting trainer; Chandler's co-worker who wanted to get smacked on the butt by their boss in the same episode; Amy Hill as the loud-sex-having neighbor who wanted candy...
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3 minutes ago, Ms Blue Jay said:
Why the heck are there deleted scenes from this reunion? Why not just show us everything? God, this drives me crazy!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPiIGTPjizC/
She didn't even take a bite with all the layers! Ya gotta take a bite with all the layers!
But yeah, the fact that they didn't show this when there was so much stuff they didn't really need is dumb.
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2 hours ago, Nellise said:
I always thought that bit was funny because she's dancing like a goofball, not because she's fat. I laugh at "The Routine" too or whenever Joey tries to dance.
I'm sure some of the audience is laughing AT her, but personally what I loved about the fat version of Monica dancing is how happy she seemed. Regular Monica is uptight and neurotic and brittle, but whenever we saw her when she was fat (or the "what if she was still fat"), she seemed sweet and happy. I love watching this, because there's so much joy in it.
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I don't think this one's been posted. Nice story about the making of the special and the work that went into it.
Inside the ‘Friends’ Reunion With Director Ben Winston
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45 minutes ago, himela said:
It was just us watching them being themselves and getting paid astronomical money to do so. I would be so much more happy if they had said that they will donate some of the money to some charity or to an orphanage etc. Now what I will remember from this reunion is that they got to be with their friends for a day and got paid for it while the weirdos (us) were watching them.
It's interesting that you think they should donate the money they were paid from this to charity, yet you don't say that the billion-dollar corporation that will make much, much more more money than the cast from this should donate their proceeds. People don't deserve to get paid, but corporations do? Very interesting.
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It's probably already been mentioned, but I love how Lisa knew Mr. Heckles' real name, even if she didn't know the character's name. When the women are all struggling to remember and David says, "And his name would be...?" and everyone is talking over each other, Lisa says, "Larry Hankin," and then kind of smiles, knowing it won't be accepted. But of course she's right.
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I'm all for people getting paid what they're worth, even if they're already rich. In this case, I'd definitely rather see the cast get paid rather than just a corporation getting rich, since they're the reason people are interested in this.
And all evidence is that they were worth every penny. When the trailer was released, it spawned fresh interest in the show (lots of charts and numbers here):
"Friends: The Reunion special on HBO Max has also driven a surge of U.S. and worldwide demand for the original sitcom. As of May 24, Friends was the fourth most in-demand overall show in the world—behind only Game of Thrones, Attack on Titan, and La Casa de Papel (Money Heist)—and the eight most in-demand overall show in the U.S., behind stalwarts such as The Simpsons and The Mandalorian (both on Disney+)."
And this:
And this: ‘Friends: The Reunion’ Was Almost as Big as ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ on HBO Max
"“Friends: The Reunion” was watched by an estimated 29% of U.S. streaming households on May 27, the first day of its release, as measured by TVision, a connected-TV analytics provider. Viewers of the special on HBO Max were 55.4% female, and more than 50% were in the 35-54 age demo.
By comparison, DC’s “Wonder Woman 1984” reached 32% of U.S. streaming households when it bowed on Christmas Day 2020 on HBO Max, per TVision. According to Nielsen, “WW84” was the most-viewed title across U.S. streaming services for Dec. 21-27, 2020, registering nearly 2.3 billion minutes streamed."
So yeah, it's driving people to HBO Max, which was the whole reason for it. If Warner Bros./AT&T is getting paid, I'm glad the cast did too.
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Here's the Helen Baxendale interview:
"She refuses to blame the Friends' cast for not giving her a warmer welcome - they have guest stars on all the time, she says, it is hardly worth their while making best buddy overtures to all of them. She won't single out anyone as being especially cold, but will say that the nicest cast members were Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow. It is a mark of how distant they were that she still calls them by their character names - Joey and Phoebe."
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On 5/27/2021 at 9:17 PM, Ms Blue Jay said:
I've heard this rumour several times, but about Tom Selleck. I think that Tom just meant that the cast was SO close knit in Season 2 that he felt a little excluded. And the media took this statement and really ran with it. As the cast explained they were inseparable for S1/S2.
2 hours ago, mtlchick said:Kathleen Turner went on record saying that the cast wasn't friendly to her, but feels part of it was because they were so close knit and she didn't know them well.
https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/kathleen-turner-in-conversation.html
The thing I suspect some actors who don't do a lot of sitcoms (like, had Turner done many, or any, before Friends?) don't get is that it's going to be different from a movie set or while doing a play. The actors are learning a new script every week so there's less downtime than on a movie or during play rehearsals--especially on something like Friends were they were only working two or three days a week by the later seasons.
In the Golden Girls Forever book (which is great), there's a quote from Inga Swenson who guest-starred as Rose's sister, which I thought was illuminating about sitcoms in general: "As I had learned doing Benson, when you’re a nuclear family on a sitcom like those four ladies were, you have a lot of work to do, learning a new script every week—if not every night, because the writers change it every day. So you don’t have time for socializing or chatting with strangers on the set. Doing The Golden Girls, I had the same expectations—as the guest star, I didn’t expect anyone to hang out with me." (Though there were dogs on set that week, so she said she and Betty White, a well-known animal lover, had a nice conversation about dogs.)
So...yeah. The guest stars are the equivalent of temps in an office...and how friendly do people tend to get with temps who are only going to be there a week? There are shows that were known to have friendly sets (evidently Frasier had some kind of setup where they had one green room (or something like that) for everyone so all the actors--the regulars and major guest stars--hung out before shows), but I would expect that to be the exception rather than the rule.
(It can also work both ways. I remember that Helen Baxendale said the cast wasn't particularly friendly--the exceptions being Lisa Kudrow and Matt Leblanc, which given their personalities, yeah, I can see where they might be the warmest to outsiders. At the same time, there's an old interview with David Schwimmer where he says she didn't want to be friends with them: 'To be honest with you I don't think she wanted any part of us,' he says. 'I felt like I, at least - and the others - welcomed her with open arms into the family, but she kept a real professional and personal distance. I was disappointed that she didn't want to engage. Some kind of connection would have been nice - after all, we were going to be married.' So who knows? Sometimes people just don't connect with each other.)
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Quantum Leap - General Discussion
in Quantum Leap
Ernie Hudson has been cast as Magic.
https://deadline.com/2022/03/quantum-leap-ernie-hudson-nbc-reboot-pilot-1234973289/