Comments on: productive day, the reef, and comic-con wrap up http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jessica-Dillon/productive-day-the-reef-and-comic-con-wrap-up.html First time around the world Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:34:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: jwdmeow http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jessica-Dillon/productive-day-the-reef-and-comic-con-wrap-up.html#comment-1867 jwdmeow Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:20:47 +0000 http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jessica-Dillon/productive-day-the-reef-and-comic-con-wrap-up.html#comment-1867 Who? Oh, Garbage? God, yes. During the version 2.0 era they used to respond to fan letters on their website, so I sent them one. They didn't pick mine for a response though, *sniff*. Well, now I've seen it. Snark. The only reality show I've ever seen, America's Next Top Model, is just like that. The girls hang around the house and half of them aren't even pretty, but then they glam up for photo shoots and are gorgeous. Who? Oh, Garbage? God, yes. During the version 2.0 era they used to respond to fan letters on their website, so I sent them one. They didn’t pick mine for a response though, *sniff*.

Well, now I’ve seen it. Snark.

The only reality show I’ve ever seen, America’s Next Top Model, is just like that. The girls hang around the house and half of them aren’t even pretty, but then they glam up for photo shoots and are gorgeous.

]]> By: Karen http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jessica-Dillon/productive-day-the-reef-and-comic-con-wrap-up.html#comment-1862 Karen Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:28:42 +0000 http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jessica-Dillon/productive-day-the-reef-and-comic-con-wrap-up.html#comment-1862 I haven't had a chance to check all all the links, but the tear jerker one made a mistake or two. The most poignant moment in The Way We Were is when Barbara reaches up and pushes Robert's hair off his forehead. It's such an intimate, loving gesture. The original Imitation of Life with Claudette Colbert is much better, imho, than the re-make, partly b/c CC is a much better actress than LT. Also, the black daughter (don't know the actress -- sorry) is better. ALSO, the black "maid" is more a partner to CC and less a servant than in the 1950s version. They seem much more like friends. And, like all lists made these days, everything is skewed toward modern (films, books, plays...). There was an entire genre of films made in the 1930s and 1940s with women protaganists that were terrific tear jerkers. Stella Dallas, Mildred Pierce, Letter From an Unknown Woman, In This Our Life, etc. They were called (rudely!) "Women's Weepies". Regardless of the demeaning title, many of them are excellent films.... I haven’t had a chance to check all all the links, but the tear jerker one made a mistake or two. The most poignant moment in The Way We Were is when Barbara reaches up and pushes Robert’s hair off his forehead. It’s such an intimate, loving gesture.

The original Imitation of Life with Claudette Colbert is much better, imho, than the re-make, partly b/c CC is a much better actress than LT. Also, the black daughter (don’t know the actress — sorry) is better. ALSO, the black “maid” is more a partner to CC and less a servant than in the 1950s version. They seem much more like friends.

And, like all lists made these days, everything is skewed toward modern (films, books, plays…). There was an entire genre of films made in the 1930s and 1940s with women protaganists that were terrific tear jerkers. Stella Dallas, Mildred Pierce, Letter From an Unknown Woman, In This Our Life, etc. They were called (rudely!) “Women’s Weepies”. Regardless of the demeaning title, many of them are excellent films….

]]> By: Karen http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jessica-Dillon/productive-day-the-reef-and-comic-con-wrap-up.html#comment-1856 Karen Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:00:52 +0000 http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Jessica-Dillon/productive-day-the-reef-and-comic-con-wrap-up.html#comment-1856 1. You wrote them a letter? 2. What do you mean, you haven't seen "Dances with Wolves"?!? 3. I used to work with a woman who had been a professional model, and in person she just looked normal. (This was obviously in the days when models were thin, not anorectic stick insects.) Once she was "glam", she was on the covers of magazines. Maybe Kidman has that, too. We always see her fixed up. 1. You wrote them a letter?

2. What do you mean, you haven’t seen “Dances with Wolves”?!?

3. I used to work with a woman who had been a professional model, and in person she just looked normal. (This was obviously in the days when models were thin, not anorectic stick insects.)

Once she was “glam”, she was on the covers of magazines. Maybe Kidman has that, too. We always see her fixed up.

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