2006-02-24 :: 9:55 p.m.
best thread EVER! Part I
Forum: Old Yeller
Topic: It's HUGHSDAY!
started by: loud woman
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,08:08
I'll try to keep my new obsession in this and my new toy thread until I lose interest.
HOUSE MD, NEW EPISODE AT 8 CENTRAL ON FOX
I haven't been this excited about a show since Batman w/Adam West and Burt Ward as a kid.
A car came close to hitting me walking yesterday and I thought, ''Oh! If I die I'll never get to see 'House'' again''
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,08:23
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Margo (guest star Julie Warner), a young housewife on fertility medication, is brought to Princeton Plainsboro Hospital when her inexplicable muscle flailing causes her to crash her car. As Margo's symptoms progress, House and the team think she might have Huntington's disease but when Margo descends into paranoia, they must dig deeper to figure out the cause of her illness - and the team is once again reminded that everybody lies. Meanwhile, House and Stacy return from Baltimore with a rekindled relationship, Wilson is worried that House is setting himself up for another emotional letdown, and Cameron is refusing to get the results of her HIV test in the "Need to Know" episode of HOUSE Tuesday, Feb. 7 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (HOU-211) (TV-14 D, L, S)
One of the evil Fanning sisters plays her little girl who keeps pestering House, I think.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,08:28
< A House Parody >
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,08:30
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Scene 5: Random Pointless House and Patient Scene
HOUSE: *reads manga slash comic* *takes pill*
YOUNG WOMAN PATIENT WITH NICE BREASTS AND A TIGHT TOP WHO IS PROBABLY A KINDERGARTEN TEACHER: Er. Excuse me?
HOUSE: *downs another pill* Clinic starts in 3 and a half minutes. *continues reading*
YWPWNBAATTWIPAKT: Oh. *gives pretty smile*
HOUSE: *suddenly realises hasn't taken pill in over 2 mins. Takes two to be on safe side, one for each of his blue, blue eyes*
YWPWNBAATTWIPAKT: *flirty* Aren't you...y'know...a little hot to be a doctor?
HOUSE: *keeps reading* Shut up, no-one's meant to notice that. I'm angsty and brooding and alone, though in real life the chicks would be lining up around the block to date me.
YWPWNBAATTWIPAKT: Life's tough, huh? *sympathetic smile*
HOUSE: *doesn't look up* Aw, bite me.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,08:32
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Scene 6
[PATIENT 44456's room. CHASE and CAMERON by bedside, practising their manner.]
CHASE: *sympathetic tones, warm eyes* We've found out what's wrong.
PATIENT 44456: *weakly* Yes?
CHASE: It's a little-known syndrome called neo-plastic syndrome.
PATIENT 44456: What's that?
CHASE: Well...er...it's...well, it's little-known...maybe has something to do with...plastic? Plastic dolls, maybe? Barbies? Or do you have breast implants?
CAMERON: *rolls eyes, steps forward* Ms. Doe, it's a complex oblongological metaphobiosis that attacks your body and turns it, cell by cell...
[Scary computer graphics bit starts, despite the fact it'll look really corny in about 18 months' time]
...into a potted plant.
[Blood makes swishy noises. Cells look evil. Gradual creeping blackness streams from them. Panicky music gets so loud it drowns out dialogue.]
PATIENT 44456: ...plant?
CAMERON: *nods* Most likely geraniums.
PATIENT 44456: Oh, no. I don't really like those...my favourites are daffodils. Can anything be done?
CAMERON and CHASE: *start backing towards door* We're... still working on it.
PATIENT 44456: *still talking*
[Patient room door shuts. CAMERON and CHASE heave sigh of relief. They turn, and bump into HOUSE]
HOUSE: See. You hate them as much as I do.
WILSON: *comes up behind* Oh, come on. Not everyone's as insane as you are.
HOUSE: Oh, look. It's the friend who won't stop bugging me.
[CAMERON and CHASE roll their eyes and leave. HOUSE and WILSON stroll down corridor together in patented Old Married Couple ™ way]
HOUSE: Just because I'm an addict, and you're not getting laid enough...
WILSON: Well, whose fault is that?
SLASHERS: OMG OMG OMG!
HOUSE: Well...your wife's, I presume.
SLASHERS: Damn you!
HOUSE: Unless there's something you're not telling me.*regards WILSON fondly* Are you having an affair, by any chance?
WILSON: *double-take* You know, for a friend you're really pretty intrusive sometimes.
HOUSE: I thought that was the definition of friendship.
WILSON: Look it up sometime, then call me. *strides off in a huff*
HOUSE: *looks after him with enigmatic expression on face*
SLASHERS: *try to interpret expression as sexual* *attempt mostly fails*
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,08:41
Yippee!
There's a bunch of Google News articles about it being back on after 3 weeks because of that stupid talent show on Fox.
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Grouchy doc faces heart condition in ‘House’
By Mark A. Perigard
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
“House.” Tonight at 9 on WFXT (Ch. 25). Grade: B+
Dr. Crankypants suffers from an unfamiliar thumping in his chest in tonight’s critical “House.”
No, it’s not a stroke.
In the significant sweeps episode “Need to Know,” at 9 on WFXT (Ch. 25), Dr. House (Golden Globe-winner Hugh Laurie) is finally ready to reclaim his once- and now-married love Stacy (Sela Ward). Will amour thaw the notoriously gruff medic?
Fox would like to induce a case of hysterical suspension of disbelief, but you don’t need a medical degree to know this is one case House is sure to botch.
Still, fans can be forgiven for that insulin rush at the sight of House finally fighting for what he wants. He even indulges in one of the season’s oddest bits of slapstick as the limping doc tries to outrace his wheelchair-bound rival (Graham Currie, this season’s utility guest star).
House can work medical miracles, but he’s still a jerk. Dealing with a difficult patient and her spouse, he advises, “It should take a couple of hours to process her. Then you can take her home and divorce her.”
Trying to barge into his colleague’s office (Robert Sean Leonard), he says, “I know you’re in there. I can hear you caring.”
Meanwhile, a supermom (Julie Warner) is suffering from violent spasms and degenerates into psychotic behavior. The doctors are so determined to help her, they even make a house call to search her home for drugs. Would your HMO cover that?
Next week, in “Distractions,” a teenage burn victim seems to be afflicted with a brain infection that twists pain into pleasure. What both patients share, as do many of “House” cases, is the revelation that the patients themselves are responsible for their own baffling illnesses. That’s a comfort to viewers at home, no doubt, but highly convenient storytelling. It also distracts viewers from the reality they could never get this kind of care if their lives depended on it.
My head could drop from my shoulders and roll down a hill and my primary care physician would take three months to return my phone call.
In “House,” squads of doctors work round-the-clock on behalf of patients.
Perhaps we need to name a new genre to define shows like “House”: How about medical sci-fi?
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,08:47
RSL is so sadsacky and the cute Aussie guy doctor actor is running around snapping photos of the tour,
SO CUTE!
I agree w/hugh laurie. Palm trees, don't like them either. They're scary.
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It's a happy home on the set of 'House'
"House" - 9 Tuesday - Fox-Channel 2
Susan Young
Inside Bay Area
AT LUNCH the other day my pal Zoe looked at me and said, "If I had your job, I think I'd just shoot myself."
This from a woman with various TiVOs and a television gadget closet that is more high-tech than the local TV station's.
Well, I'll tell you what keeps me from being bundled up for the loony bin: shows like Fox's "House."
After a month off the air, "House" is back tonight right after "American Idol" — and it's smokin'. If you've never seen an episode, it centers on brilliant diagnostician Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), whose self-involvement distances him from his patients and most of his colleagues.
Laurie's considerable acting talent combined with great writing makes House an intriguing character with biting wit that brings humor to the medical drama.
Last month, a group of TV critics toured the "House" set in Los Angeles. Our tour was led by Robert Sean Leonard, who plays oncologist — and House's lone friend — Dr. James Wilson, and Jennifer Morrison, House's beautiful team member Dr. Allison Cameron, who has a crush on her mentor.
The first stop on the visit was the new pediatrics set.
"Didn't we have kids on the show before?" asked Leonard, who hadn't seen this part of the set before.
"We put them on the maternity set," Morrison said, showing the same crisp efficiency as a tour guide as she does in her "House" character.
We walked through the sliding doors, which are actually glass doors opened by two guys using fishing wire.
"They just stand around and open those doors when we are shooting those scenes," says Morrison. "I have no idea what someone would be paid per hour to do something like that."
Ah, the reality of TV sets. Which prompted Leonard to reveal that his hospital name badge has always said "Jack Wilson" instead of his character's name James.
"I keep telling them to change it to James, but they say no one can see it anyway," Leonard said, a bit chagrined.
He brightened up a bit when we mentioned digital and HD capabilities might force the wardrobe people to give him a correct badge.
As we moved along to the next part of the tour, Leonard remarked that the atrium used on the show was right around the corner.
"There's the atrium with the trees and the... um, It's gone!," a surprised Leonard said.
"We haven't had that since the first few episodes of the first season," Morrison told him.
"Apparently, I don't even work here," Leonard said a bit forlornly.
"He isn't in a lot of scenes around here," Morrison whispered to the tour group. "He's mostly in his office, or on the roof, or in the elevator."
"I do spend a lot of time in the elevator," Leonard confirms. "I guess I need to get out more."
Next stop was the operating room, where special effects wizard Tyler Patton demonstrated a handy little thing that allows an actor to lie down with the head exposed and the rest of the body hidden under a model of a human body used for the surgery scenes.
"The actor just slides underneath this open cavity," Patton explained. "It's much better than the old days when we used make-up. Especially if they need to go to the bathroom."
Good to know.
Apparently Jesse Spencer, who plays cute Dr. Robert Chase, another member of House's elite team, doesn't get to take pictures while he's on the clock. He happily snapped away through most of the tour.
"This is great," he said. "I've always wanted to take pictures of all this, but we never get a chance to hang around here unless we're working."
Then Patton showed us some cool stuff, like the scalpel that allows (fake) blood to seep out. Spencer started snapping again.
As we walked past the office of attorney Stacy (Sela Ward), Leonard pointed out that it was Stacy's old office, and they would probably use it for something else later.
"Wait. You guys knew that right? That she was only guest starring for a limited number of episodes? It's not a secret, is it?" Leonard pleaded.
Not any more.
Moving on to House's office, we learn that the famous red ball that he used to toss and play with while pondering a tough diagnosis isn't around any more.
"Someone took it and sold it on eBay," Leonard said. "And I probably wasn't supposed to tell you that either."
Too late, baby.
Over to the left is House's outer office, where most of the action takes place during the show. And there's the famous white board where House jots down the symptoms and the possible explanations. The board used to be clear. Then it was white. It used to be on wheels, but it kept rolling away.
"Now it's so solid and heavy, you'd have been in a week of traction if you tried to move it," said David Foster, one of the show's writers.
Foster says that they get ideas for the series from friends, the Internet and medical journals.
"You use those sources for inspiration, but then you have to take these rare diseases and stretch it into a four-act play," Foster said. "That makes it even more rare."
The tour ended at the main lobby of the hospital, where Laurie was swarmed by "House" fans posing as critics.
Laurie said he's still living in a hotel and hasn't decided to move his family over from England just yet.
"At first, it just seemed like there was no reason to do it, because statistically not that many series go to a second season, and I wasn't that sure audiences would watch a show about a damaged genius," Laurie said. "Now, I have a child who refuses to leave his friends, so what can I do?"
And he was asked about how, as a British actor, he is coping with the horrors of Hollywood, especially after Gillian "The X-Files" Anderson had proclaimed a few days earlier that she had fled Hollywood for London because Los Angeles was "soul decaying."
"Well, I'm having a good time," Laurie said. "I don't like palm trees, but I don't think they are decaying my soul."
House. You gotta love him.
Posted by Renimal on Feb. 07 2006,08:53
I am going to Tivo it to see Sela!!!!
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,08:55
And her eyebrows!
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,08:56
poor renne!
Posted by nothing on Feb. 07 2006,12:38
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One of the evil Fanning sisters plays her little girl who keeps pestering House, I think.
You mean there's more than one?
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,18:34
HOUSE! 30 MINUTES!
< Here's a clip! >
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,18:38
RSL is so cross-eyed!
Sela Ward is so Vulcan!
Posted by miss insensitivity on Feb. 07 2006,19:39
Cripples chasing each other up the stairs!
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,20:58
That Anne Archer look-a-like patient was so manipulative!
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,21:00
That big, dramatic, disgusted speech Wilson gave house at the end!
I can see liking, well, not so much to be miserable, but liking to be noble.
Noble mixed w/a tiny bit of, ''how does that feel, ex-girlfriend that walked out on me.''
Posted by Suki on Feb. 07 2006,21:03
I watched House because of Kim.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,21:07
House said, ''hoo-hoo'' just like me. and other 6 year olds.
Did you like it, Suki?
Posted by Kotex on Feb. 07 2006,21:07
I'm watching my Tivoed "House" now. Weird arm seizure lady is the chick that fell in love with Tommy Boy!
Posted by Suki on Feb. 07 2006,21:15
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House said, ''hoo-hoo'' just like me. and other 6 year olds.
Did you like it, Suki?
Posted by Suki on Feb. 07 2006,21:16
Hey Kimmi, one of the kids I work with kind of looks like RSL.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,21:21
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Hey Kimmi, one of the kids I work with kind of looks like RSL.
do they have the goony crossed eyes and french fry eyebrows?
and big froggy mouth?
sneak a picture!
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,21:23
I love how House popped a vicodin on the roof and RSL/Wilson then got REALLY mad.
The writing is so good on this show.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,21:26
Mr. Handsome and I were screaming, ''IT'S GONNA BE WILSON'' when House rolled over in his big, fancy sleigh bed.
You so knew he had someone in there w/him.
Posted by Suki on Feb. 07 2006,22:04
(((slash)))
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,22:43
I love how Wilson is standing by the door waiting for House to get to work.
He can't wait to get all up in his business.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 07 2006,23:00
I also love the continuity of House being a cheesy sap when he's in romantic mode.
first the corsage for Cameron, and now the prescription for Stacy's heart.
Posted by joycamp on Feb. 08 2006,06:50
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I watched House because of Kim.
Me too!
Are the patients always psycho?
Does Sela Ward always hobble men after she has her way with them?
Posted by joycamp on Feb. 08 2006,06:51
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The writing is so good on this show.
That was a harsh toke.
Why was that guy rolling joints in his office?
Posted by miss insensitivity on Feb. 08 2006,07:23
Because he had a cancer patient who didn't know how to roll.
Ritalin lady was so skinny! And did they break into her house to search for drugs?
And how does a liver tumor make you bleed from your bagina?
Posted by Kotex on Feb. 08 2006,07:32
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I watched House because of Kim.
Me too!
Are the patients always psycho?
I think that may be one of the major flaws with the writing. Many of the cases end up being solved in the last ten minutes after they discover that the patient/patient's family have been lying about something all along.
Posted by Renimal on Feb. 08 2006,08:27
I fell asleep watching my tivoed House, but plan on watching it before the majik tivo box erases it.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 08 2006,09:16
BEST SHOW EVER!
I particularly enjoy how overwrought/scandalized Wilson was. He was channeling a bad Victorian novel.
"He's been pining for five years!"
"You can't toy with him!''
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 08 2006,09:23
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Are the patients always psycho?
sort of. Sometimes they are noble like the < TB doctor making the moves on the pretty female doctor > ( last night when House said, ''Cameron, I love you'' so she'd open her mouth in astonished joy and he could swab her for her HIV test ) or < the little bald cancer girl who made dreamy Aussie doctor kiss her > (after House wormed it out of him, his coworkers revolted expressions and House's glee that he could be so easily manipulated were THE BEST THINGS EVER!) were not psychos.
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Does Sela Ward always hobble men after she has her way with them?
she's a man eater!
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 08 2006,09:27
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Because he had a cancer patient who didn't know how to roll.
I was thrilled that they showed Wilson rolling joints for his patients, for which he could totally lose his license.
And I also loved that House took one, because hey - people SMOKE POT.
Astounding, but true.
The only thing that would have made me happier would have been if House had said, "Oh come on, Jimmy." and Wilson shrugged and let him take the joint.
Plus? ADULTERY! NAKEDNESS! Because again, people do these things.
I adore this show for being what it is. It's the Seinfeld of tv dramas
Posted by waxpop on Feb. 08 2006,09:27
I, too, watched House because of Kim.
I almost fainted when the blood dripped out of her bagina. That is also the lady from Doc Hollywood.
Did my ears deceive me or did House say "snarky"? I thought Kim must be cringing.
RSL is so nosy! Get a life. Jesus.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 08 2006,09:28
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I think that may be one of the major flaws with the writing. Many of the cases end up being solved in the last ten minutes after they discover that the patient/patient's family have been lying about something all along.
But that's the main theme of the show.
EVERYBODY LIES!
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 08 2006,09:32
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Did my ears deceive me or did House say "snarky"? I thought Kim must be cringing.
i HATED THAT.
That's probably a bone to the television w/out pity board. They do have pull. I realized that after they had the Alias recapper do DVD commentary for Alias season 3.
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RSL is so nosy! Get a life. Jesus.
He's such a teenage girl on the show. I love his character.
House: ''you just couldn't wait to run to (sela ward after I told you about our tryst) so you could giggle and gossip''
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 08 2006,09:35
So. All you folks who watched because of me...
Will you watch again? Did you like it?
Posted by waxpop on Feb. 08 2006,09:38
I'll watch until The Amazing Race comes back at the end of February.
Then I'll watch reruns in the summertime.
It's a very good show.
Posted by Kotex on Feb. 08 2006,09:49
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Are the patients always psycho?
sort of. Sometimes they are noble like the < TB doctor making the moves on the pretty female doctor >
He wasn't noble! He was a smug bastard, hopelessly in love with his own ego.
(I may only feel that way because that show was on the same week I was forced to read Mountains Beyond Mountains for work, and smug TB doctor was based on the smug mountains doctor.)
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 08 2006,09:52
but he was more noble than, say Ritalin Mom or < OTB munchasen babe. >
Posted by Kotex on Feb. 08 2006,09:57
That doesn't make him a noble person. A bad cold is better than double lung pneumonia, but you still wouldn't call it a noble disease.
Posted by Suki on Feb. 08 2006,10:05
I'll probably watch it again.
It doesn't seem like one of those shows where you have to watch each week to keep up (like Lost) and I could use more non-Law & Order shows like that in my schedule.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 08 2006,10:07
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That doesn't make him a noble person. A bad cold is better than double lung pneumonia, but you still wouldn't call it a noble disease.
That book scarred you for life!
Posted by Kotex on Feb. 08 2006,10:46
I'm still angry! I saw the book the other day on the bookshelf while I was putting another book there and got so mad that I picked it up and threw it on the floor.
I HATE YOU, MOUNTAINS BOOK THAT I HAD TO READ FOR WORK! I HATE YOU!
Posted by firbank on Feb. 08 2006,10:48
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I'm still angry! I saw the book the other day on the bookshelf while I was putting another book there and got so mad that I picked it up and threw it on the floor.
I HATE YOU, MOUNTAINS BOOK THAT I HAD TO READ FOR WORK! I HATE YOU!
Posted by Renimal on Feb. 08 2006,10:54
Did you ever have the book discussion? How did it go? I remember when it was assigned to you you had some crafty plan to thwart the discussion, but I can't remember what it was.
Posted by Kotex on Feb. 08 2006,10:59
They never had the discussion!
I READ IT FOR NOTHING. I CAN'T EVEN SAY IT WAS FOR THE JOY OF READING, BECAUSE IT SUCKED. IT SUCKED ASS!
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 08 2006,16:00
ALBIE, ARE YOU READING THIS THREAD?
I have a question.
I was reading a log in only House/Hugh Laurie Board and a fan posted an encounter w/RSL.
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I am on the mailing list for the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, whose theatres include the Ahmanson. I got a postcard from them in which they were offering a special half price ticket to "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde, starring Lynn Redgrave and, among others, the wonderful character actress, Miriam Margolyes. Ms. Redgrave played Lady Bracknell and Ms. Margolyes played Ms. Prism. Anyway...I decided to go to the opening night last Wednesday! Here is the poster from the show...
After the performance (very good - both Ms. R and Ms. M excellent) I walked down the stairs toward the orchestra level to ask where the backstage door was so that I could get an autograph from Ms. R and Ms. M. And who should I see on my way down, coming up the stairs opposite me, but Robert Sean Leonard. I passed him and then I realized who it was. (Sorry, my questions are not to brilliant. I was just so shocked to see him.) Here was our conversation on the Ahmanson staircase...
Me: "Mr. Leonard!" I said in quite a surpised way.
RSL: He turned..."Hi".
Me: "I didn't realize at first it was you. I really love your show." I was stammering a bit at this point.
RSL: "Thank you very much."
Me: By this time he had moved down to a small landing and I had moved up to it so we were now facing each other. Here, I was frantically trying to think of something that was not idiotic to say to him. I finally said, "I'm hoping that they develop 'Wilson' some more. I think he is an interesting character."
RSL: He sort of scoffed slightly, but not in a snotty way. "Oh well...I'm just happy to be working."
Me: "Well, it really is an excellent show! (I always have my camera with me. Never know when you might get a photo op!) So then I asked, "Would you mind very much if I took your picture?"
RSL: "No, not at all! We can take a picture together if you would like."
Me: That would be very nice thank you", I said. (By the way, we were alone on the stairs. He had waited until most people were gone -- so naturally I asked...) "But who can we get to take the picture?"
He moved up the stairs looking for his party, who turned out to be his wife (I think) and a friend. He asked his friend to take our picture. (Please forgive me for cutting myself out -- you can see a bit of my coat). For some reason, it came out a bit blurry...darn it! I think the guy taking the picture must have had a shaky hand!
Then I shook his hand and said, "Thank you so much. It was a pleasure to meet you". He said, "Likewise. Have a good evening". And he left! Cool!
Well, I headed backstage to (hopefully) get my autographs and/or pictures with Ms. Redgrave and Ms. Margolyes. I got both! I saw RSL again back there, this time talking to some other people. Another woman who was there waiting to see Ms. R, etc. saw him too and, as he was walking out, asked if she could take his picture. "But I'm not even in the show!", he said. But he stopped and let her take the picture anyway and left for good.
I can download and post the blurry picture if anyone is interested.
Anyway...
Is he being all humble or is he appalled at not being on stage in NYC in King Lear or a Stoppard play?
I'm curious. Do SERIOUS ACTORS scoff at steady tv work? WTF?
Posted by Kotex on Feb. 08 2006,16:15
Of course they scoff! You heard Norma Desmond's opinion of those "talkies".
Posted by albatross on Feb. 08 2006,16:21
There used to be a stigma attached to doing tv, particularly among feature actors. And with stage actors doing either film or tv.
It's all but disappeared these days. There is, of course, a huge cross-over between feature talent (actors, writers, directors and producers) doing television. Many of the bigger series are written, produced, directed by or star major feature actors.
Stage actors in general are annoying and suffer massive inferiority complexes, beyond what their big and small screen counterparts exhibit. Actors, as we all know, thrive on validation and attention. But even the best of theatre actors will never be recognized by anybody save for a small inner circle f NYC sychophants, and a certain 10% of the population.
Considering themselves "serious" actors, they consider theatre the "purest" form of their "craft". The irony is, they are all working stage in hope of being discovered by Hollywood.
Any that deny that are full of shit. Kind of the "I'm too sophisticated to watch tv" crowd. It's bullshit.
You'll notice the true greats move easily and often between the three mediums.
HOWEVER, in the above situation, I'd say it sounds more like he's being humble (or just doesn't want to be hassled), rather than trying to pretend he's too good for tv. Especially if he wasn't even in the show, he may havejust been like, "Why don't you go talk to the actors who've juts performed for you..."
Or he's an asshole.
But I don't think so in this case.
Posted by Kotex on Feb. 08 2006,16:25
What happened to the sentence where I won a prize?
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 08 2006,16:36
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Albie said I had the gayest post ever, but now it's gone.
Posted by waxpop on Feb. 08 2006,16:51
albie's embarrassed by his own homo-hate.
Posted by albatross on Feb. 08 2006
I like to keep it to one homo comment per post.
But for the record, I was refering to this passage:
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I am on the mailing list for the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, whose theatres include the Ahmanson. I got a postcard from them in which they were offering a special half price ticket to "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde, starring Lynn Redgrave and, among others, the wonderful character actress, Miriam Margolyes. Ms. Redgrave played Lady Bracknell and Ms. Margolyes played Ms. Prism. Anyway...I decided to go to the opening night last Wednesday!
Posted by albatross on Feb. 08 2006,17:02
Further, I loathe everyone equally.
Posted by Kotex on Feb. 08 2006,17:02
Then I didn't win anything.
Posted by nothing on Feb. 08 2006,17:54
I missed it. It's on Tuesdays? I'm in class then, and I don't have Tivo or DVR.
Posted by reardon on Feb. 08 2006,20:04
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But even the best of theatre actors will never be recognized by anybody save for a small inner circle f NYC sychophants, and a certain 10% of the population.
Duh. Left-handers. We love the theater.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,09:40
Robert Sean Leonard
The wonky eye. The peanut butter toast eyebrows. The attitude even though he's a b-lister at best.
I AM IN LOVE.
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Robert Sean Leonard almost knocked me on my ass in NYC a few years ago when I was killing time before seeing "The Music Man," in which he was playing the titular role.
I went around the corner from the theater to buy some gum and he came out of the drugstore I was heading into in such a hurry that I had to jump back to avoid being plowed over by him. Being overly polite, I immediately said, "Excuse me," even though I hadn't really done anything and Mr. "What? You're Supposed to Sing in Musicals? Fuck that, I'm Speaking All My Songs" didn't even give me so much as an apologetic glance before heading, silently, on his way. Dick. Like saying sorry would've killed him or something.
I mean, it's not as if he was saving his voice or anything. (Can you tell that I'm still bitter about the non-singing thing? I want my $75 plus Ticketmaster surcharges back).
Hit the side of his head and put that eye back!
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,09:59
I started out loving Hugh Laurie but ended up w/RSL.
Just like loving burt ward more than adam west when I was a kid.
I guess I got a kink for juvenile lead sidekicks.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,10:08
IT'S RSL GOOGLE TIME!
be back w/some stories!
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,10:21
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6 p.m.: I board a shuttle bus to the Fox studio lot for a visit to the set of House, the medical drama starring Hugh Laurie as a brilliant but blunt, sarcastic and sometimes insulting doctor. While we head out to the Century City area of LA, an episode of the show plays on a couple of DVD monitors in the buzz. Ever tried to watch a TV show with a busload of talkative people, some of whom aren't paying attention? Doesn't really work.
After we arrive at the set, we're greeted by some pleasant publicist and handed medical-show-style clipboards and pens, which come in handy for note-taking as we're escorted on a tour by cast members Robert Sean Leonard, who plays Dr. House's long-suffering best friend, and Jennifer Morrison, who plays an immunologist with a thing for Dr. House.
"Welcome to my private hell," Leonard says. "It's Sunday. We should be home, and we're not." He was smiling while he said this, so I'm pretty sure he meant it all in a good way.
We first meet production designer Derek Hill, who takes us through the patients' floor, complete with a nurses' station, a pediatric area, an atrium and a water wall. I look in one of the hospital "rooms" and notice that it contains a door to a bathroom. Didn't get to find out if it works.
Then we pass by some obviously fake elevators. Well, the doors work _ sorta. "Sometimes they close on our heads, if we're not careful," Morrison says. Leonard adds that initially, the automatic sliding-glass doors of the "hospital" didn't work, but now a couple of crew members get them to work _ by attaching fishing line and pulling. Hollywood is so high-tech.
Cast member Jesse Spencer joins the group. His name initially escapes me, so I hope he doesn't notice I jotted down "British/Aussie" to note his presence (for the record, he's Australian). He follows along as we enter the visual effects room, where there are several icky-looking fake body parts. Effects supervisor Elan Soltes shows us some silicone models with things like lungs and intestines hanging out. He uses a hand pump to make a "heart" beat and shows us a half head that consists of a mouth and nose for shots in which a camera has to go down someone's throat.
For more gross stuff, we go down the hall to property master Tyler Patton, who makes his arm "bleed" with a scalpel that shoots fake blood, and medical advisor Bobbin Bergstrom, a registered nurse who has worked with several medical shows. I don't catch everything she does, but one of her jobs is to make sure actors display the proper symptoms for the series' often bafflingly obscure ailments. Patton shows us a fake, headless body and then unveils the set-up that allows an actor to slide under the fake body, so that we see the actor's head but everything else is fake.
As we walk down a hall, Morrison asks, "When did we get this elevator?" Apparently this is a new part of the set.
We go into Dr. House's office. "Certain things have to be put away," Morrison says. "Because several things were stolen out of this office and sold on eBay." Among the things sold: A red ball House bounces when he's thinking. The one he's using now is a green ball painted red. Hollywood _ the land of illusion.
We walk into another office _ I didn't catch which character's _ and I notice two things: an XM Satellite Radio boom box, which I've never noticed on the show, and, over in a corner, on a table where the camera will probably never go, two copies of The New England Journal of Medicine. Now that's attention to detail.
About 7:15: Afterward, I hang out with some critics talking to Leonard, who reveals that he still considers himself a New York City resident even though he lives out here eight months a year. That's an unreconstructed New Yorker for you. Probably still best known for his work in Dead Poets Society nearly (sigh) 17 years ago, Leonard says that he prefers the immediacy of the stage to the grind of movies and TV, but that he's never reached the point where he could afford to be choosy. Then he mentions that his longtime girlfriend is a champion equestrian, and I know I've lost him to a horse-loving critic who's nearby, and I move about the room.
I spot Hugh Laurie, who I tried to talk to in the summer but had a hard time getting near. The British actor has expressed surprise that he had a U.S. following before House, apparently unaware that Britcom fans have gotten to know him through stuff like Jeeves & Wooster, A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Blackadder through the years. The actor, who sounds a little more like Hugh Grant than the American Dr. House, also seems surprised at the popularity he's gained from House, but is enjoying what feels to him like a second career.
"It's what I think many people dream of doing, Laurie says. "To have a second go and start from scratch. 'Cause that's how it feels to me. I had 20-odd years in England doing certain kinds of thing, certain kinds of material, certain kinds of roles, and here I am doing something almost diametrically opposite to that. That's a great thing. It's a great chance to get."
I ask a pretty obvious question: Do people connect with House's character, whom we'd consider a jerk in real life, because he speaks his mind when most of us have to filter our remarks every day?
"I think that's got a lot to do with it,'' Laurie says. "Anybody who has a job that involves dealing with the public _ it doesn't have to be a medical thing _ anybody who works in a shoe store or a hotel or I don't care what it is, anybody who works with the public gets frustrated, and wants to say things they're not allowed to say. I think House speaks to the silent ones."
RSL....so pompous!
also, Hugh Laurie needs to come to my Tourettes shoe store.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,10:36
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TUBE TALK
OK, so there I was…
By Gail Pennington
… at a party on the set of “House,” hanging out with Robert Sean Leonard, who plays House’s friend Wilson, and talking about “Moby Dick.” And Harry S Truman. And “King Lear.”
Before “House,” Leonard was mainly a stage actor and won the Tony for “The Invention of Love.” He’s way, way too smart — but luckily, also way, way too funny. First he wanted to argue that St. Louis should be prouder of Truman (”my second favorite president,” after Lincoln, “of course”) even though he was from the other side of the state. Then he launched into a debate over whether “Moby Dick” is truly the greatest novel ever written and segued into whether it was possible to make a definitive film version of “King Lear.” I told him I could make a case for disliking Shakespeare, but I’d spare him. He actually walked me to the shuttle after the party; I think we’ll exchange Christmas cards now.
The party started with full-blown tours of the set and continued with hors d’oeuvres and Red Bull and vodka. (I didn’t indulge. The combo looks like urine — a hospital joke.) Hugh Laurie, of course, was the hottest interview subject. He was wearing a three-piece suit with a multicolored tie featuring daisies with happy faces. I asked who picked out his tie, and he leaned over and whispered in my ear, “Father Christmas left it in my stocking.” Everybody wanted to know later what he’d whispered to me. My recorder was running, but I don’t think I caught it.
Whispering that in her ear. Hugh Laurie is kind of scary sexy.
especially because the reporter's photo shoes a fat little middle aged red hared lady that looks like edie mcclurg.
Posted by Dabadoo on Feb. 09 2006,10:40
Edie McClurg is sex on a stick.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,10:40
Nothing she wrote aout RSL made him sound smart or funny.
The harry s truman quip made him seem like a typical left coaster since truman is from Independence, MO. No where near st. louis.
Moby Dick? King Lear? An under graduate could make those references at a party and not get laid.
I adore him. So mediocre and dreamy.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,11:23
Oh my god.
I just realized who RSL sounds like.
DANGERBOY!
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,12:08
aw. he's a crier.
ew. I didn't know he dated g.p. Better get his wang checked out.
Leonard certainly doesn't seem like the kind of guy who's too familiar with unrequited love, especially when you consider the websites devoted to gushing over his matinee-idol looks--and his dating history, which includes Gwyneth Paltrow. "I don't know the unrequited love that A. E. Housman does," he concedes. "Very few do, I think. Housman truly loved one person his whole life." Still, Leonard says, he has experienced heartache. "I've had nights where I've been crying so hard that I can't seem to find a physical place to be where the crying makes sense. I start moving things and falling over."
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,12:13
Albie's always right!
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Robert Sean Leonard and Mary-Louise Parker, two highly respected stage actors who work regularly in films, also have wrestled with conflicting artistic, professional and economic goals. ''There are very few things that are enjoyable about doing a movie for me, and the biggest one is the paycheck,'' quips Leonard, who recently opened on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love.
''I don't think that there are people who are just stage actors, or just movie actors,'' Leonard agrees. ''Yeah, I would find it hard to picture certain people playing Richard II. But there's no frame or boundary around theater anymore. I think there's room for everybody.''
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,13:31
Ethan Hawke sounds so honest! And dreamy! He's as good a catch as blogger guy!
pretentious gasbag.
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Ethan Hawke is talking about what it means to be a man. He's currently on a screed about how his new movie, Before Sunset, has informed his thinking. "There's this thing that our characters say about what a weird place the contemporary male is in. You want to be the provider for your family, enjoy the old-school male positionings, and derive positive self-esteem off certain manifestations of a 13-year-old's sense of what it means to be a man."
He stops to take a breath, looking around the bard at New York City's genteel The Players Club, a private social club for thespians and theater lovers created in the 19th century, where he sits under images of Mark Twain playing pool. "All these things are big life questions for the contemporary American male: When your wife is making money and you start to know that it's had to be some sort of Neanderthal who doesn't want your woman to have the same dreams that you have... But then marriage is a very old dynamic set up by very old way of behavior. So if the male-female dynamic is going to change, then what is that going to do to the foundation of the institution of marriage?"
Gulp. He's not really expecting an answer, is he?
The topic of marriage came up recently with Robert Sean Leonard -a good friend of Hawke's since they starred in 1989's Dead Poets Society- when they had dinner with Leonard's fiancee. She was awed by Hawke's passionate way of talking about marriage. "She said to be later in the cap," Leonard recalls, "'God, I've never met anyone who just searches for the truth the way he does.' He's like, 'I'm with you and you guys are getting married and so let's talk about what's here at this table.'"
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,13:51
Has anyone ever read Ethan Hawkes 'novels'?
that eye just kills me.
Maybe it's that old story of mine, finding out so late in life that my mom has the lazy eye that I mistook for her just looking around bored when I was talking.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,13:52
TBD BOOKCLUB!
Maybe he based characters on his friends.
Posted by Kotex on Feb. 09 2006,13:58
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Has anyone ever read Ethan Hawkes 'novels'?
I think I only read one of them, The Hottest State. It was crap, utter crap. The back hailed it as gritty and emotionally real, and it was the flattest, most emotionless love story I've ever read. Imagine if Ben Stein fell in love with Ben Stein, and they narrated the story of their love for you.
None of the characters resembled RSL.
Posted by waxpop on Feb. 09 2006,14:02
I watched some of Reality Bites a while ago. Talk about a movie that doesn't hold up. Not that it was some masterpiece when it came out but yikes! Every line and situation made me cringe.
Posted by Asscrack on Feb. 09 2006,14:05
I actually really enjoyed Ethan Hawke's version of Hamlet.
Posted by albatross on Feb. 09 2006,14:10
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I actually really enjoyed Ethan Hawke's version of Hamlet.
Except the part where he kept pronouncing it Helmet.
Posted by Suki on Feb. 09 2006,14:10
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I watched some of Reality Bites a while ago. Talk about a movie that doesn't hold up. Not that it was some masterpiece when it came out but yikes! Every line and situation made me cringe.
I watched it about a month ago and was totally (((nostalgia for grunge)))
Posted by Suki on Feb. 09 2006,14:11
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Has anyone ever read Ethan Hawkes 'novels'?
None of the characters resembled RSL.
Except the one with the delicate features and lazy eye.
Posted by waxpop on Feb. 09 2006,14:17
And the eyebrows that look like a peanut butter and jelly sammich.
Posted by Asscrack on Feb. 09 2006,14:18
What exactly are peanut butter toast eyebrows?
Posted by waxpop on Feb. 09 2006,14:23
No clue.
Posted by Asscrack on Feb. 09 2006,14:25
Where does she come up with this stuff?
Posted by waxpop on Feb. 09 2006,14:26
Her craaaaaazy brain.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,18:38
any questions?
Posted by miss insensitivity on Feb. 09 2006,18:43
FOGGY! FOGGY! FOGGY!
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,21:43
I remember seeing 'reality bites' when it came out but I don't remember a thing about it.
too much FOGGY! FOGGY! FOGGY! when I was little.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 09 2006,22:20
This is funny.
a woman who wrote a book about Swiffers who attended the Fox party in the fall and hung with some of the House folks.
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inside the Cabana Club, where the event occurred. It was pretty swanky — bars set up all over the place, and tons of gambling tables because the theme was a casino night. And all the wait staff and the gambling people were astoundingly young and beautiful — and I’m sure they were all aspiring actors. (Here’s where I have to digress and talk about the makeup on all the women, actresses and wait staff alike. It was all piled on so thick! I mean, the actresses — like Sela Ward, for example — were all stunningly gorgeous, but made up so heavily that you do have to wonder what they look like in real life. No matter their skin color or hair color, every woman had very severe, theatrical black eyeliner on. And I hate to say it, but the older actresses — like Sela Ward, for example — had a ton more makeup on than the younger kids, like those girls from the O.C.)
Anyway, I roamed around, just kind of lost; no celebrities had yet arrived. Then I met Susan, one of the marketing people from FOX, and she was so cute and sweet. She reminded me so much of my sister-in-law, Stephanie (Hey, Steph! Happy Birthday, btw!), and she took me under her wing for awhile. Then I met Maggie, the person from the PR firm that invited me, and she couldn’t have been nicer. We talked a lot about CONFESSIONS OF SUPER MOM, and she had me try out the new Swiffer CarpetFlick, which is pretty cool. We don’t have much carpet in our house, mainly hardwood floors, which is why I’m so devoted to the original Swiffer and the Wet Jet, but I bet the CarpetFlick would be handy on area rugs, so I’ll have to give it a try. (Of course, if I’d remembered to get my goody bag, there would have been one in it. Sigh.) Anyway, I gave Maggie a copy of the book and she stood it up on a table with all the other Swiffer stuff, right where all the celebrities were getting their pictures taken as they spun a great big roulette wheel to raise money for Habitat for Humanity. So that was really great! (I also gave a copy of the book to Susan, the marketing person for FOX. You know, a little self-promotion never hurt anybody.)
For a long while, I mainly hung around Maggie and the roulette wheel because that was where all the celebrities were escorted, after the orange carpet, to spin the wheel, get their pictures taken, and see a demonstration of the CarpetFlick. They were also urged to try it themselves, and I’m sorry to say many celebrities did not want to do this. I’m also sorry to say that many celebrities kept pronouncing it “Swifter,” which is simply not right at all. Although a few celebrities did seem to understand what a Swiffer was, and this leads me to Robert Sean Leonard.
I like Robert Sean Leonard. I’ve seen many of his movies, and have felt that his role on HOUSE has been underutilized until this season. When he told House, in the episode when the little girl was dying of cancer, to go to hell (because House was being all cynical about the girl’s courage), I felt it was the best moment in the series this season. So I like him. However. I was standing next to him when he arrived, and he started talking to the people with him about how the Swiffer Wet jet supposedly causes cancer in pets. This is an urban legend, and it’s been debunked all over the place, but Robert Sean Leonard did not know this. So I set him straight. I interrupted his conversation — but it was OK, because it was kind of a general conversation and I was standing near enough to have overheard in a non-spying kind of way — to tell him and his friends that they should go to Snopes.com and check it out; that I’d written a book about Swiffer and my publisher had also checked out the source of this legend and decided that there was nothing to it, and that they wouldn’t have let me use it in a book if it was actually responsible for the death of household pets. And Robert Sean Leonard was appropriately chastised. But then he started in on the new CarpetFlick, worrying about how effective it was. He really seemed concerned; he mentioned how high the pile was on the carpet in his house, and if the CarpetFlick could really get up the dirt — and from the way he was going on and on and on, I could only surmise two things. That he has a thing for vacuum cleaners. Or that his house is extraordinarily dirty.
Now, just as we finished this conversation, Hugh Laurie arrived. And I got really shy and hung back and just gazed at him and that’s when I realized he was really tall — a giant among all the teeny tiny celebrities. (Robert Sean Leonard, for example.) He breezed in, someone took his picture with RSL, then they both went back to the roulette wheel and I followed them like an adoring puppy. Hugh Laurie spun the wheel, I got to take his picture, then he left out the back door. I didn’t see him again the entire night. And I was disappointed by his behavior because honestly, all the other celebrities were really friendly and accessible. Robert Sean Leonard, then, spun the wheel and when they tried to get him to use the CarpetFlick, he went on and on AGAIN about the how high the pile on his carpet was, and I really wanted to interrupt him and tell him to go get some therapy. Or new carpet. Or something — sheesh!
So for a long time I simply hung around gaping at celebrities. I saw tons of people — Sela Ward & Lisa Edelstein from HOUSE (and Lisa Edelstein was just adorable and had brought an orange purse to match the CarpetFlick), and both women were teeny tiny. As were everyone else. And the funny thing is, celebrities aren’t just really skinny. I mean — their very bones are teeny tiny, they’re short, their feet are like dolls’ feet. And so I guess that if you weren’t born with that kind of a body, you’re just done for, which isn’t really fair if your life’s goal is to be a celebrity. Even the kids. I saw Dewey from MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE, also Frankie Muniz. And he’s, what — 20 now? And he’s shorter than my 14-year-old, who’s short for his age. It was really surreal for me not to be the shortest person in a room.
Pamela Anderson came into the room to spin the roulette wheel, and yes — she’s tiny, too. Her bosom isn’t as enormous as it appears on TV; it’s just a proportion thing because the rest of her is so eencie weencie. She did seem kind of a “blonde,” though, if you know what I mean; when she turned the wheel tons of people clapped and clapped like this was some extraordinary accomplishment for her, just being able to follow the instructions to turn a roulette wheel. Which made me doubt, even further, her ability to write a novel. (Remember, her novel came out the same week as mine and I have pictures of the two of them together on a table at a bookstore.)
Let’s see — I saw Mila Kunis from THAT 70’S SHOW, also Laura Prepon and Danny Masterson, and the mom, who was adorable and really got into the Swiffer CarpetFlick, using it like she was a pro. And then I met Don Stark, who plays Bob (Donna’s dad). And he taught me how to play craps, and I used my bosom suggestively, and I’ll tell you why next time. I’ll leave off for now because my fingers are tired, my battery on my laptop is low (I’m writing this on the plane), and because I have to give you a reason to come back, don’t I? And if playing craps with the funny guy from THAT 70’S SHOW, while making good use of my low-cut top isn’t a good enough reason, then, well, what are you doing reading my blog anyway???
And it's official. It’s odd. I can no longer watch Robert Sean Leonard without worrying about the state of his carpet.
Posted by miss insensitivity on Feb. 10 2006,05:14
I should have written a book about those Majik Erasers!
Posted by waxpop on Feb. 10 2006,09:28
WHAT. THE. FUCK. DUDE.
Posted by Dabadoo on Feb. 10 2006,09:54
Also, she wrote a book about Swiffers?
I love my Swiffer a whole bunch, but . . .
Posted by waxpop on Feb. 10 2006,10:00
I love my Swiffer too! The WetJet, really. I don't use the regular Swiffer as much.
I hate sweeping but I love Swiffering!
Posted by Dabadoo on Feb. 10 2006,11:00
(((((Swiffer)))))
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 10 2006,11:17
why does that bother you?
and what bothers you exactly?
rsl? or the swiffer lady?
I MUST KNOW!
Posted by waxpop on Feb. 10 2006,11:25
I'm not bothered.
It's funny to me to imagine RSL spouting off the Swiffer-related urban legend and then the Swiffer book lady chastising him, and then him going on and on about how the Swiffer Carpet Sweeper will never work.
That's funny. In kind of an unbelievable way.
Posted by waxpop on Feb. 10 2006,11:29
It's almost like how I want to see a video of albie cleaning his apartment.
Posted by miss insensitivity on Feb. 10 2006,11:43
The very fact that someone actually wrote a book about Swiffers.
And then they get to meet minor celebrities!
At a Swiffer event!
And the minor celebrities actually have to try out the new Swiffer!
And the minor celebrites actually have opinions about Swiffers!
It's mind-boggling.
THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ME!
If I'd been loopy enough to write a whole book about those magic erasers instead of just gushing to you pretend intarnet people in my computer.
Posted by miss insensitivity on Feb. 10 2006,11:44
I could have chastised Jenna Elfman or Charlie Sheen for complaining about the Magic Eraser causing lung damage or something.
Posted by loud woman on Feb. 10 2006,11:48
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It's funny to me to imagine RSL spouting off the Swiffer-related urban legend and then the Swiffer book lady chastising him, and then him going on and on about how the Swiffer Carpet Sweeper will never work.
That's funny. In kind of an unbelievable way
I know! And then he brings it up AGAIN to the Swiffer deminstrator.
''My carpet pile is really, really deep. It's plusher and deeper than any carpet ever in the world. When they product tested this they couldn't begin to conceive how deep my pile is ''
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It's almost like how I want to see a video of albie cleaning his apartment.
RSL seems like a kind of a funny know-it-all like a certain obese cat owner we all love.
He's at a party the product is SPONSORING and he's telling people the prodict will kill their cats.
