Did you go to Pepperdine?
Oh wait. I remember Arizona.
Rene Russo is indeed hot in pretty much everything, and I don’t know about other films Stowe has been in, but in LOTM…I don’t know what it is, and I know there is makeup and production and what not, but holy sweet cherry pie. Maybe not Taylor in Cleopatra, but I’m not sure I could live on the difference.
I actually went to American University (chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893). My brother is the UofA alum. We grew up in Tucson and I came very close to Arizona (and to UT, for that matter).
As an 18 year old who had it all figured out, though, I was damn sure I was going to walk my own path and not follow in my brother’s footsteps, or my father’s (he was the Texas Ex). Classic case of bravado, self-styled independence, and no small amount of naivete.
Oh I’m not arguing with you, HH. Just a classically beautiful, damn near perfect looking, woman. And what a great movie (and adaptation, which Hollywood struggles with) LOTM was. Thanks for reminding me I need to watch it again soon.
I also had a thing for Russo around that same time is why she popped into my mind, this is kind of a “hot vs beautiful” argument that has no loser, we were all winners.
I read the Last of the Mohicans in high school–I had two high school English classes where we read just about everything worth reading. Anyway, Mrs. Miller compared LOTM to Ivanhoe, and drilled into us that a major plot line of both novels was how the blonde heroine always prospered while the dark-haired one had to go away. Rebecca couldn’t marry Ivanhoe so there had to be the blonde Rowena. Alice, the dark-haired sister, couldn’t be with Uncas so they both had to die. This is a long way around to saying that it somewhat bothered me that in the film version of LOTM, Cora wasn’t blonde but Alice was. Elizabeth Taylor, by the way, made an outstanding Rebecca.
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My greatest moment in Lit class was when we were reading “The Rocking-Horse Winner”…aloud…in the classroom. I had to stop the teacher and say “WAIT a minute!…is this kid doing what I think he’s doing?” She laughed and said “you go to the head of the class”.
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I too was a bit bothered by the blonde/brunette mix up. But then, Madeleine Stowe…
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I also almost got kicked out of another Lit class for arguing. Imagine that. It was about A Tale of Two Cities, and the point came up about how Sydney Carton must have looked exactly like Charles Darnay, otherwise they could not have switched places at the guillotine. How come no one, especially Lucie, never noticed. I argued that no, they didn’t have to look alike, that no one cared who it was, as long as someone’s head rolled. That was the entire point of the novel…the mandatory blood letting of the French Revolution was more about “social cleansing” than it was a political necessity. I didn’t win that argument. But I still think I’m right. I don’t know what chuck’s iPod would say.
Fuck the Yankees.
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Cole-hahahahaha!
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It would probably play Elvira and go strait to the part where they sing Oom Poppa Mao Mao.
This is the main reason you’ll find no Alexa devices in my house.
Plus ça change…
I tried, Rico. I tried real hard…
But I’ve given up on Foundation. I just have not been able to generate any fucks about the story, the universe in which it’s happening or the people in that universe.
Maybe it’s me. But maybe it’s because the pacing is glacial, the presentation of the story is ridiculously choppy and characters that seem to be important just disappear from the narrative with minimal, if any, explanation while others just show up and now we’re supposed to care about them because “reasons”.
Serialization should be a better medium in which to present a broad and complex narrative. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still fuck it up. And they have.
Shame, really.
I kinda felt that way about the books. I read some in the last 5 years or so, and I think the huge expectations that had been set made me expect more.
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Ive actually put off watching it for now. I said earlier (or elsewhere) that the trilogy set the bar (and tone) for all sci-fi for me from a young age. The previews were scattered enough to make me give pause. I’ll let the series play out and read up on discussion of the entire arc before I invest the time. I have impossibly high standards (and the producers don’t deserve that) for this show so won’t waste the time if it’s mediocre since I’ll view it with a fairly critical eye.
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I can understand this, actually. We’re 40 years into the golden age of science fiction writing and, now, video. I can see how the trilogy may be less spectacular in that context. I suspect a fair amount of my deep appreciation for it is wrapped up into a bit of nostalgia from when I read it as a kid. The number of science-fiction “universes“ was much less limited at the time.
There are now far too many “universes”, science fiction or otherwise.
Please remove three. I am not a crackpot.
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Tell me you’ve never seen an episode of Star Trek without telling me you’ve never seen an episode of Star Trek.
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