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Post by karloscar on Jun 9, 2023 14:33:54 GMT
I'd hope they'd film it without the onstage audience as their responses could be quite distracting if you're not there in the theatre, and if they're filming it over several performances the changing faces might make for crap continuity unless they're kept invisible.
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Post by karloscar on Jun 7, 2023 10:42:13 GMT
It's only a dozen years since a silent movie won just about every award going. The Artist made a lot of people more aware of the silent era, so assuming everyone young is ignorant of film history is pretty misguided. You really do overestimate the general public... [br Maybe I just don't assume that the general public is thicker than I am, and has no ability to use the internet to investigate subjects of interest.
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Post by karloscar on Jun 6, 2023 21:19:43 GMT
It's only a dozen years since a silent movie won just about every award going. The Artist made a lot of people more aware of the silent era, so assuming everyone young is ignorant of film history is pretty misguided.
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Post by karloscar on Jun 2, 2023 23:57:40 GMT
Did they not have a dialect coach working on this production? It's like Annaleigh has worked out how to change her vowels to sound vaguely English, but has no idea which sounds work together to create an accent that belongs to any place, time or class. So random it's completely bonkers, but not in a good way.
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Post by karloscar on Jun 2, 2023 10:32:28 GMT
There's no doubt that we're being manipulated and the Schofield saga is being used to distract us from our shambolic government's behaviour. BBC news have shown the entire 45minute interview ( the moody lighting and ominous dark shadows across Phil's face would make Barbara Stanwyck or Joan Crawford proud, so more manipulation there), and then spent the rest of the hour discussing it with their media correspondent. Why not have some proper news like Will and Kate's trip to the royal wedding in Jordan?
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Post by karloscar on Jun 1, 2023 22:40:36 GMT
Given all the Alex/Jenny controversy it made me laugh watching Who Do Think You Are? that ALW's 12xgreat granny was married off at 14 to her guardian the Duke of Suffolk (?) who was 49 at the time even though she'd been promised to his son. Plus ça change...
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Post by karloscar on Jun 1, 2023 13:53:13 GMT
Given how physically and emotionally demanding the role is, and how much in demand he is for other work, would James Norton want to give up another six months to do a New York transfer? I imagine he'd want to do something more lucrative and less taxing after this, even if just for the sake of variety.
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Post by karloscar on May 28, 2023 20:15:08 GMT
New Midsomer Murders set in an amateur theatre company straight out of the West End with Sam Spiro,Jenna Russell,Clive Rowe and Alexander Hanson all in prominent roles. Load of nonsense but good to see musical theatre actors getting telly roles.
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Post by karloscar on May 26, 2023 16:26:04 GMT
It's not so much the subject matter as the way that it's handled that's "icky". And the fact that none of the characters are believable or likeable.
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Post by karloscar on May 26, 2023 10:39:53 GMT
Any show that counts "we're talking drivel, but let's be civilised" (and just after the leading lady's been shot) as one of its more accomplished lyrics is asking for trouble.
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Post by karloscar on May 25, 2023 19:03:24 GMT
My favourite review of the original Little Mermaid came from my five year old niece: "She should've just stayed under the sea with her friends!"
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Post by karloscar on May 25, 2023 12:08:31 GMT
The main problem is that none of the characters are particularly interesting or likeable, and there is no outside voice observing their often indulgent behaviour. It needs a Mme Armfeldt type character to cast a critical eye over the scene and call out their nonsense. Only Giullietta seems like she'd be any fun to be with. And I'd expect a lot more laughs from a relationship if I was going to stick around. It's all so earnest and dull.
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Post by karloscar on May 24, 2023 18:27:44 GMT
New season starts tonight. Hopefully they've got a good group of contestants and the winner isn't too obvious. Esme and Patrick are the best team of judges on UK TV.
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Post by karloscar on May 24, 2023 9:45:53 GMT
I'd love to see Norm again, in just about any other show than this one.
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Post by karloscar on May 19, 2023 19:37:48 GMT
Quite. And Sunset is in no way a perfect show. I’ve never quite got over the fact that aside from the title song, the tune of which we hear all through act 1, there are only two new songs in Act 2 (AIWNSG and Too much in Love)…everything else is a reprise. I always feel like the the opening 20 minutes is wonderful and the rest is all a bit lazy. Just my opinion of course. It gets away with it by all the underscoring and ‘incidental’ music being luscious strings and atmospheric swells. Whilst they are mostly variations of the same tune they ain’t half gorgeous. This was my issue with the Watermill version…there wasn’t really enough power to ‘swell’. Even the underscore was borrowed from the Gumshoe and The Odessa File film scores that Lloyd Webber wrote in the early seventies. If you watch the trailer for Gumshoe, the title song from Sunset Boulevard is nearly all there, just in a jazzy arrangement.
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Post by karloscar on May 17, 2023 0:09:33 GMT
Everything is so "iconic" these days it's a totally meaningless term. I'm wearing my iconic 🩲, to match my iconic 🧦 while eating iconic🍕! There are other more imaginative adjectives out there! You could say that about all kinds of words. It is used way more that it was 10 years ago, but in the sense of it's current meaning, I think OAT Evita was iconic. Not sure you can police other people's descriptive language - the words I would use to describe things are only ever IMHO. I am however glad that your pizza was iconic. Yum yum. the pizza was average at best, that's the point! My pants are fecking spectacular though!
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Post by karloscar on May 16, 2023 15:40:08 GMT
What to make of all this. It all sounds like one incoherent "rumour cauldron"! No, I don't think Nicole reads right for the part - much as I love her. I would love to see Jamie Lloyd direct it. And no, it doesn't seem a long enough of a gap between the various presentations of it in the past few years. It feels too soon. So if they're going to do it again, it has to be something extra special in terms of casting. This sums up where I am with this. I would love it to be true, but "rumour cauldron" no doubt. (Still awaiting the "definitely happening" Starlight Express announcement). Yes I don't really see Nicole in this either. Much as I think she's wonderful and her Memory was utterly jaw dropping. I would also like to see what Jamie Lloyd would do with this. OAT Evita was iconic. I always think we lack ambition and sell ourselves short with the endless actress who can sing/singer who can act debate which Sunset threads are particularly fond of. Aim high - this needs a COMPLETE double threat who is an amazing singer AND an amazing actress. I refuse to believe there aren't such people out there. (Since everyone chucks their fave names in, I personally think Victoria Hamilton Barritt would be incredible in this). Everything is so "iconic" these days it's a totally meaningless term. I'm wearing my iconic 🩲, to match my iconic 🧦 while eating iconic🍕! There are other more imaginative adjectives out there!
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Post by karloscar on May 15, 2023 11:12:21 GMT
I don't how much enchanting and passionate and rapturous I can take! The score always made me feels queasy enough on its own!😂
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Post by karloscar on May 14, 2023 8:57:55 GMT
It's always been a strange mix of camp, kitsch, sincerity and idiosyncratic weirdness. The songs that ended up in the top ten were all memorable performances and appealed to enough people to get a lot of votes. Some played better live in the arena, while others worked better on telly. I would've been happy for any of the top five to win, even though my favourite, Austria failed to register with the public vote. The big five miss out on building momentum by only performing in the final. Ukraine's performance was one that would have benefited from repeated viewing as it was visually stunning. The people complaining about the voting system will no doubt complain about whatever replaced it the first time they disagree with the result.
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Post by karloscar on May 13, 2023 23:45:59 GMT
Some songs that worked for the jury didn't register much with the public vote at all and thought Austria and Belgium would do better. I can see why Finland was popular but the song did nothing for me. Israel and Italy both gave really impressive performances that had broad appeal. I loved the Swedish entry from the first time I heard it, and thought Loreen gave a great performance on the night, her encore was even better. And a Stockholm show on Abba's 50th anniversary is a bonus that might encourage Frida and Agnetha to put in an appearance. (Bonus moments of the night were Jan Leeming being super cool and Dadi Freyr's cover of Hole Again. Who knew we ever needed to hear that song ever again?)
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Post by karloscar on May 12, 2023 10:22:48 GMT
Loads of articles stating that this is the first time one country has hosted on behalf of another at Eurovision. Edinburgh 1972 and Brighton 1974 were not in the UK because we won the previous year, just because Monaco had nowhere to stage it and Luxembourg didn't want to stage it two years running.
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Post by karloscar on May 11, 2023 18:59:04 GMT
Why would you inform the press before you tell the company? Even if they asked them not to publish immediately, it's not like it was any kind of positive news. There was absolutely no need to tell the press anything until all those involved were informed. Shocking misstep but it's been one thing after another with this show.
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Post by karloscar on May 11, 2023 10:52:09 GMT
UK's rehearsal footage is all a bit underwhelming, I thought they learned a thing or two last year. Israel is the entry most similar to Mae Muller and she's making a much bigger impression visually and aurally.
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Post by karloscar on May 10, 2023 8:20:23 GMT
Y'all, is all that pseudo enthusiasm and horrific gushing supposed to convince us they're literally having the best time EVAH? Clearly they all hate each other and can't wait to move on. Post the closing notice now, for their sakes as much as ours!
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Post by karloscar on May 9, 2023 20:23:35 GMT
Israel was probably the most impressive performance so far, but the song is trying to be too many things all at once. Moldova was much better live than I expected. Ireland were like many previous UK entries, zero stage presence,dodgy vocals and a weak song. Sweden and Finland will top the poll here, not sure in which order.
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Post by karloscar on May 7, 2023 18:01:27 GMT
BBC radio has been playing a clip of some posh child telling us that the crowning of the King was a magical experience. How gullible do they think we are? We don't live in Harry Potter land, Chaz iii has neither supernatural, magic or God given powers. He's an ordinary, not particularly bright human who happened to be born into the right family. Not magic at all!
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Post by karloscar on May 7, 2023 9:05:30 GMT
Of course the plot of Aspects of Love is less scandalous than David Garnett's own life. Garnett was bisexual, as were several members of the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group, and he had affairs with Francis Birrell and Duncan Grant. On 25 December 1918 he was present at the birth of Grant's daughter by Vanessa Bell, Angelica, who was accepted by Vanessa's husband Clive Bell. Shortly afterwards he wrote to a friend: "I think of marrying it. When she is 20, I shall be 46 – will it be scandalous?" On 8 May 1942, when Angelica was in her early twenties, they did marry, to the horror of her parents. She did not find out until much later that her husband had been a lover of her father.
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Post by karloscar on May 6, 2023 11:51:33 GMT
Justin Welby really needs voice lessons. He makes every syllable mindnumbingly dull. At least Rowan Williams had a bit of musicality in his speech.
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Post by karloscar on May 6, 2023 8:15:31 GMT
Wandering through the poshest part of Edinburgh one solitary doorway had a forlorn looking string of union jack bunting around the door, the only non-commercial bit of coronation tat on display anywhere. Just about sums things up.
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Post by karloscar on May 5, 2023 7:39:45 GMT
Given the number of health issues Jude has, the device of having Andy as the only health worker he has any contact with always stretched credibility to the limits, especially since any medic worth a damn would recognise their own limitations with such a complex case, and he often seems to make things worse rather than better. (But his career is slightly more believable than Jude's improbable success and Willem's laughable acting résumé.)
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