Either you mean champagne, or ?Champaign-Urbana?

It’s champagne of course.

I watch films like Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I’m too shallow to blog about culture. I could however give you a kick ass run down of the psychological underpinnngs of relationships between characters on 1980s General Hospital.

a Santa Barbara kinda gal, BDB… that was a soap truly made for Europeans!

And from reading your comments here and at TL, you’re anything but shallow, sister!

Further down in your post. The image was spilling over into the previous post on my small screen. Hope you don’t mind.

Thanks for doing that

The hottest babe in soap opera history.

I was in the Army in Germany in 1980 and guys were sitting in the breakroom everyday watching GH and the misadventures of Luke and Laura.

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the gal falling in love with her rapist… yeesh… (I think BDB surreptitiously hijacked my high-minded post and dragged us into a soap discussion!

I was always a Quartermaine person myself.

But back to the post - when you say it’s a great film do you mean “it really makes you think about life and love and morality, yada, yada, yada” or “it’s incredibly entertaining.”

I told you I’m shallow.

but it really does make you think of morality when all the options are basically immoral and there is nothing really that can be done about the context that creates these bad options (now I feel back to high-minded!)

Entertaining… yes in the sense that it’s not boring, but not in the “Oh goody… I don’t need to use my brain cells” kinda entertaining.

my whole highschool was watching all of that and talking about it endlessly—seriously— everyone.

: >

An 80s soap open thread… that should relax everybody from this exhausting week of campaign!

that ever counted—it was on at 3 (so students watched it too), and had the most excitement and over-the-topness—and Liz Taylor, and Demi Moore and that woman from Northern Exposure too…

(actually now there’s great things in soaps too, i hear—a gay male storyline on one, and Susan Lucci has a lesbian daughter too)

I think the entire country was watching GH back then tho—it really was enormous.

Finally, something I’m an expert on! And much better than hijacking Frenchdoc’s thread about what sounds like an interesting and compelling movie.

Although RL calls tonight, so it may have to wait until tomorrow. But I promise cheesy videos!

There are no great things in soaps these days. Nobody knows what makes a good soap opera and ABC has descended into misogyny and crap. When you rape your first lesbian to desexualize her and give her a baby, you’re not exactly on the right side of “cutting edge.”

And is he German? I always find it interesting that some of the more compelling stuff about WWII comes from German filmmakers. We did a lot right in that country’s reconstruction.

sounds really interesting.

I can’t wait for Blindness (it’s at Cannes now)—the book by Saramago was just stunning. It’s also all about morals and society and the choices individuals make when things aren’t good or change suddenly.

and a protective attitude toward their own industry,i think is why—each non-English country is willing to pay to keep their business alive and growing, and also has restrictions on how many foreign (American) ones are allowed in theaters and stuff.

There are amazing European films every year lately—i’m thinking the EU is helping too—even beyond individual countries.

And the Director is Fernando Meirelles, the awesome director of the magnificent City of God!

other good German films:
Good Bye Lenin
The Lives of Others

Now can I be declared the Official Corrente Movie Critic??? Please Please Please!!!

but it’s a downer, so they prob won’t distribute it or push it much.

(like Children of Men maybe—another strong and stunning sleeper)

But then, I don’t like babies and kids, so, the crux of the film was lost on me! ;-)

But you’re right, Amberglow, it was boring. And they killed Julianne Moore (one of my favorite actresses with sometimes lousy choice of film *cough* freedomland *cough*) very early on.

don’t forget Run Lola Run, Wings of Desire, Das Boot— and all of Fritz Lang…

It’s “YES YOU CAN”! :-)

And Metropolis still rocks! (I never forgave Giorgio Moroder for the disco music version… what an atrocity!)

(i still love this: “Between the hands and the head must be the heart”, or however it goes) : >

Things to Come is another fav of mine along those lines.

you reminded me too—i saw the Pet Shop Boys do Battleship Potemkin in London when i was there—it was just awful—really really disappointing.

Metropolis - Freddie Mercury “Love Kills”

And with this, this thread is officially FUBAR! :-)

mmmm! ; >

Julianne Moore is only good depending on which director it is, i think. She comes off as cold (visually and personality-wise) unless they’re really careful with her, i find.

I thought Children of Men was good (the story itself is wonderful), but edited weirdly (or choppy or something or they cut out too much or didn’t have enough budget or something)—kinda like how they ruined Handmaid’s Tale.

but I got annoyed with the shoes storyline (WTF??)

and don’t get me started on Handmaid Tale… yuck.

I think Julianne Moore does not choose her films very well.

ugh!

i haven’t watched a soap since dipping into that Nanny and the Professor/ventriloquist dummy thing that used to be on.

No wonder you support Hillary!!! (runs and hides)

is amazing in it tho—i usually find him annoying—but not in Children of Men. And the whole refugee camp/city part was done really really well too.

for too few roles, i think—on the mainstreamish side, there are tons and tons of good actresses around her age—Laura Linney, Ashley Judd, Diane Lane, Naomi Watts, Marcia Gay Harden, etc …even Julia Roberts and Halle Berry.

and on the indy/quirky side, there are the brits and others—Tilda, Lili whatsherface, Parker Posey, etc…

tons of actresses and not many roles.

that i’m talking about…kinda recently too—she was a witch or something, and the dummy came alive every once in a while.

Nanny and the Professor was late60s-early70s—i loved it! I wanted a Nanny—and i can still sing the theme song! : >

—and she married Maxwell Caulfield— http://www.jamd.com/search?assettype=g&a…

Opera and the rest.

My theory is nobody really likes it but they think they have to pretend to like it because the “creative types” do.

I say fuck that, fart jokes an bathroom humor are where its at.

Mel Brooks is God

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i think Opera can be ok if the theatrical elements are done well—but i’ve seen only a few, and most of those on tv…

There are some surprisingly good recent ones too, i hear—i saw one on tv that was set in an airport waiting room that was just amazing —Flight, by Jonathan Dove. — http://www.musicweb-international.com/cl…

And yea, I watched it for awhile, then it just got too weird. It came on after Days, and that was during the Hope/Gina storyline, which drew me in for some odd reason.

Bill Clinton for First Dude!!!

if it has subtitles so I understand it. I once got to watch the Washington Opera from the President’s box at the Kennedy Center. The President wasn’t there, but at intermission I got a box of Bill Clinton M&Ms! If you are ever in Vienna, you absolutely must go to the Opera. The orchestra that plays for it is among the best in the world. Fantastic.

But I don’t understand dance and am more than likely to sleep through it than anything else.

it got tons of press, otherwise i wouldn’t have heard—it was really really weird from what i saw.

Bob Saget’s newest stand up show, it was on HBO.

This ain’t Danny Tanner! It was hilarious, he really pushed the envelope, though some times he went a little too deep into the gutter, I guess to prove he’s not really Danny Tanner. Here’s a clip. It touches on his bit part in Half Baked, and him and Jesse Stamos fuckin with fans.

Bill Clinton for First Dude!!!

This one always gives me goosebumps:

when goody-goody tv people actually aren’t. : >

He really hated having a “kids show.”

Kurt Cobain killed himself when he became a commerical success too.

Life is a funny mofo sometimes.

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all over the place!

Some people just don’t fly it in public.

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Are you old enough to drink beer, young lady?

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and I’m French, we’re allowed alcohol from the day we’re born! :-)

I promise I’ll be disrespectable in the morning.

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When you talk like that… you forgot to put “sweetie” at the end though! ;-)

Seriously, this election campaign has made me ashamed to have a “Y” chromosome.

I thought I was a un-pc sexist pig, but I owe my mom an apology on behalf of men.

I have never been so impressed with a political candidate as I am with Hillary Clinton.

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I think all of us progressives need a timeout to reflect on this whole primary experience and what it revealed to us!

:-P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4M-RvNLH…

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You’re off the booze for tonight, young man!

*takes bottle(s) away from Myiq*

And there are times when it is inappropriate.

Big O doesn’t seen to know the difference.

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