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keryxWhile we're cooking, eating dinner and chilling on weeknights, we consistently watch TNT's daytime primetime thing (Angel and Charmed re-runs, yay). So I figured my perception that their remake of Neil Simon's "Goodbye Girl" movie was hyped within an inch of my sanity was influenced a bit by seeing the ads a bazillion times a week.
Then Patricia Heaton shows up on the Today Show, on a totally other network, and they're still hyping this same movie. Did it not come out like a month ago?
Anyway, I've added to the list of reasons not to watch:
1. It's Neil Simon. He is the devil.
2. I'm tired of that Hootie video.
3. DEFY THE CAPITALIST MACHINE.
4. I like Jeff Bridges, but I'm only iffy about Patricia Heaton. Did I mention the hatred for all things Neil Simon?
5. And my new, favorite, reason: Patricia Heaton is plastered all over Feminists for Life, which is an organization I find really illogical.
Then Patricia Heaton shows up on the Today Show, on a totally other network, and they're still hyping this same movie. Did it not come out like a month ago?
Anyway, I've added to the list of reasons not to watch:
1. It's Neil Simon. He is the devil.
2. I'm tired of that Hootie video.
3. DEFY THE CAPITALIST MACHINE.
4. I like Jeff Bridges, but I'm only iffy about Patricia Heaton. Did I mention the hatred for all things Neil Simon?
5. And my new, favorite, reason: Patricia Heaton is plastered all over Feminists for Life, which is an organization I find really illogical.
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Date: 2004-01-12 04:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-12 05:06 pm (UTC)Simon's work is so sweet and heartwarming that it gets overproduced. Every regional theatre does a Simon piece at least every two years (partly because he's like the #1 most effective way to get wealthy old ladies into theatre seats).
Now, sweet and heartwarming has a place, but the success of people like Neil Simon leads to more and more of that same sort of stuff getting written and produced and less and less of real challenging art, until the theatre is so overrun by schlocky pseudorealism that going to a regional theatre is like seeing a sitcom brought to life. And hey, I choose to blame that in part on Neil Simon.
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Date: 2004-01-12 04:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-12 05:08 pm (UTC)Hey, that looks like my camera in your picture! Is it a Canon Elph, or something that looks like one?
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Date: 2004-01-12 05:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-12 05:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-12 10:26 pm (UTC)