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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 15:58:46 GMT -5
I've just done a lot of emailing to siblings, children and PTA co-worker/friends and I have a question for you all: Have you found that spending endless hours on the posting board has affected your personal communications style? I was just thinking that my emails are taking on "posting" flavor, although I'm not sure what that is.
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 15:59:12 GMT -5
//Hey, if we're dreaming, how about Judy Dench? After all, she's done her own TV shows before. //
I know I know the actress, but I'm fuzzy. Help me out here -- isn't she the new M in the James Bond series? Well, relatively new -- she's been in several now. If so, she'd make an awesome female version of Giles.
David Crenshaw
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 15:59:37 GMT -5
Anne said: //how about Judi Dench?// Yeah, that'd work. Just not Dianne Weist. I really didn't like her on Law and Order. I just thought that an older female character (avoiding romantic issues for one thing) might be interesting. Perhaps someone from the coven. (How about Lorne's mother? I read a fanfic in which Clem's mother played a big part.)
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 16:00:00 GMT -5
LOL I'm catching posts like I'm getting through my day. Hit and miss.
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 16:00:31 GMT -5
My favorite Willow-moment that I think really shows Alyson's acting chops, is when, in Innocence, she suddenly realizes - from Buffy's behavior - that Buffy must have slept with Angel. She doesn't say a word about it, but you see it all in her face - and you know. That look on her face always makes me cry. Of course, that is followed up by another great scene - the "it just means you'd rather be with someone you hate than with me" scene with Xander, after she finds him with Cordelia. Yes, AH is wonderful. Really, that entire cast deserved so much more recognition than they ever got.
Spring Summers
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 16:00:57 GMT -5
//Yeah, that'd work. Just not Dianne Weist. I really didn't like her on Law and Order. //
Agreed, Sue. I've liked Diane in other things, but she just didn't come across with the kahunas I felt a NYC DA should have; she wasn't gristled enough. Fred Thompson has proven to be a better choice for that role.
David Crenshaw
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 16:01:19 GMT -5
I haven't actually seen her in the James Bond movies (one clip, maybe), but the PBS stations around here all run her TV series As Time Goes By. She's wonderful in that, and I think she'd make a fine watcher. Of course, the Royal Shakespeare Company training doesn't hurt either.
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 16:01:46 GMT -5
It seems to me that while the author of this article did have a few good points and seemed to be fan of the show -- there was one glaring error. He (or she) forgot that once you leave high school the importance of "being cool" ceases to exist, except for those who define themselves by it. Spike certainly isn't cool among his peers, vampires and demons. Neither is Anya. You can't stay in high school forever and our main characters have proved that by the big not-caring about what people who are outside their circle thinks of them. Buffy's died twice, I'm pretty sure she's beyond caring if she's cool. (With the obvious exception of worrying about having mom-hair.) Sorry to join the conversation so late, but what can I say, I too was a bit incensed. Michelle
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 16:02:11 GMT -5
//Fred Thompson has proven to be a better choice for that role//
He, of course, was my U.S. Senator for 6 years. (I prefer him as an actor.)
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 16:02:34 GMT -5
She is great as M in the Bond movies - abrupt, sarcastic, demanding, impatient with shenanigans, almost devoid of emotion - I can really see her "handling" the 2 Vampires with souls since there will probably be some ego and jealousy sparkage between the two characters.
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 16:03:52 GMT -5
//Yes, AH is wonderful. Really, that entire cast deserved so much more recognition than they ever got.//
I'll give you that, Spring. I said it before and I'll say it again, Joss did an incredible job of bringing together a superior core of actors, and even the ones who may or may not be thespians are still perfect for the roles they play, and then backing them up with the writing team he's assembled -- that does not happen often. And further more, the lack of egos -- everyone seems to willing to share the spotlight, so grateful to just be a part of the Buffyverse. You never hear the stories like the ones from Star Trek with Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner butting heads because Nimoy thinks Spock should get more screen time than Kirk and Shatner thinks Kirk should get more screen time that Spock. That just doesn't seem to happen on Buffy. I was re-reading the interview with Nick Brendon in the last BtVS magazine (still haven't gotten my new one, but they promise it's in the mail). He was expressing how at first he was just grateful to be working, and now he says he still feels grateful for the chance to have had played Xander because he just loves the part and the things he's gotten to do in it. Emma Caulfield said the same thing in her interview about playing Anya, that she couldn't think of a single thing she hadn't done as Anya she'd wished she had the chance to do, and that she feels as if she'll have a hard time topping her BtVS experiences. Oh, the scene you mentioned with Willow -- very very powerful the way she breaks your heart and makes you laugh as she talks about the We Hate Cordelia Club, of which Xander was the treasurer -- reminded me of a favorite that was very similiar, from Consequences when everyone figures out that Xander and Faith had been together -- the table goes around as one by one everyone says "Oh", and then the camera freezes on Willow and things go quiet until she says, "I don't need to say 'oh'. I got it before. They slept together."
David Crenshaw
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 16:04:20 GMT -5
I would love love LOVE it if she were just a fan of the show, like WHoopi Goldberg was with ST:TNG, and she asked Joss to write her a role. She'd be great as a pwerful coven member. And that would give a lot of connections for a Willow visit!
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 16:04:59 GMT -5
////Fred Thompson has proven to be a better choice for that role// He, of course, was my U.S. Senator for 6 years. (I prefer him as an actor.) //
One of my brushes with greatness, I met him at Reagan Airport last summer, when I was meeting my daughter. I'd have figured being an actor and a senator he'd be in some super-secret VIP lounge somewhere, but there he was in the waiting area with all us little people.
David Crenshaw
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 16:05:42 GMT -5
//I would love love LOVE it if she were just a fan of the show, like WHoopi Goldberg was with ST:TNG, and she asked Joss to write her a role. She'd be great as a pwerful coven member. And that would give a lot of connections for a Willow visit! //
I like that idea. Willow did speak of a teacher in the coven that was apparently the head, and Willow's most significant mentor (in "Lessons"). Judi could play that part, oh yes. And then there are several of the actresses from the Harry Potter movies that could pull the part off as well. Professor McGoneghal (or however it's spelled), perhaps?
David Crenshaw
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Post by Dalton on Oct 10, 2003 16:06:10 GMT -5
Ah, yes, Maggie Smith, another favorite British actress. That's what we need, scenes in England! I wonder if Diana Rigg is still interested in working?
Anne Davis
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