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carrobin
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:06 pm Reply with quote
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Alert for Stephen Fry fans--he's on "Bones" right now (Fox). I don't know why they don't tell you these things ahead of time...
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marantzo
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:24 pm Reply with quote
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Yeah, he's perfect.
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:40 pm Reply with quote
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still loving Medium and enjoying the hell out of Megan Mullally's return to sitcom-land
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billyweeds
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:07 pm Reply with quote
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marantzo wrote:
What's with this current appetite for gruesome, psychotic, and usually other worldly, stalking, murdering mayhem foisted upon screaming women and clueless men? TV and movies seem to be glutted with these plotlines.


Come on, lighten up. Harper's Island is the ultimate in cheese, but it's also a lot of fun. It's Agatha Christie meets Wes Craven, as in And Then There Were None on Friday the 13th. A long wedding celebration on an island, where all the guests start getting murdered, but more gruesomely than Dame Agatha ever dreamed, and...whodunit?

Even the premise is silly, insane, and a hoot: "Let's get married on that island where all those horrible killings took place a few years ago!"
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marantzo
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:33 pm Reply with quote
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My son liked the Saw movies. I'm worried about him. Confused
Syd
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:38 pm Reply with quote
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marantzo wrote:
My son liked the Saw movies. I'm worried about him. Confused


Get him Repo! The Genetic Opera for Christmas. It's directed by the director of Saws II - IV and is surprisingly good for a musical with intestines.

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Nancy
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:06 am Reply with quote
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Syd wrote:
marantzo wrote:
My son liked the Saw movies. I'm worried about him. Confused


Get him Repo! The Genetic Opera for Christmas. It's directed by the director of Saws II - IV and is surprisingly good for a musical with intestines.


I'll second that recommendation.

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Syd
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:02 am Reply with quote
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Nancy wrote:
Syd wrote:
marantzo wrote:
My son liked the Saw movies. I'm worried about him. Confused


Get him Repo! The Genetic Opera for Christmas. It's directed by the director of Saws II - IV and is surprisingly good for a musical with intestines.


I'll second that recommendation.


It might even send him looking for Hollywood musicals. Of course, that way looms Hello, Dolly, but you also get Chicago. Sweeney Todd and Little Shop Of Horrors (which were stage shows, but so was Repo!.) He may even fall for a musical you can't stand, which is one of the reasons kids were created.


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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:38 am Reply with quote
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carrobin wrote:
Alert for Stephen Fry fans--he's on "Bones" right now (Fox). I don't know why they don't tell you these things ahead of time...


Never heard of Stephen Fry.
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Earl
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:45 am Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
carrobin wrote:
Alert for Stephen Fry fans--he's on "Bones" right now (Fox). I don't know why they don't tell you these things ahead of time...


Never heard of Stephen Fry.


Just going for what I think is his best known role in the States: He played Peter in the Kenneth Branagh directed Peter's Friends.

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carrobin
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 10:23 am Reply with quote
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Fry was the perfect Oscar Wilde (and Jude Law a perfect Bosie) in "Wilde." But it's true, he's much better known in the UK.
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Nancy
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:55 pm Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
carrobin wrote:
Alert for Stephen Fry fans--he's on "Bones" right now (Fox). I don't know why they don't tell you these things ahead of time...


Never heard of Stephen Fry.


He also played Jeeves to Hugh Laurie's Bertie Wooster on PBS.

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marantzo
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:07 pm Reply with quote
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I'd forgotten that. I knew I had seen him in a recurrent role but never remembered what. He was trimmer then.
carrobin
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:19 pm Reply with quote
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I may have mentioned before that a friend of mine, when I told him that the star of "House" had once played Bertie Wooster, absolutely refused to believe me.
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Joe Vitus
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Well, now I undertand better why Hugh Laurie is quoted on the recent paperback Penguin re-issues of Wodehouse.

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