Quick note: English comedy series Black Books is wonderful.
A different note: often I will start with a short post about something, and then add to it several times as the hours (or maybe even days) pass. So if you're interested in a post, it may pay off to scan it later to see if something has been added. (I don't always make a clear "update" note on it, depending on relevance.)
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the only black book i keep are the numbers and names of females who are available upon call.
Hey, if you're gonna keep just one, this is the right choice!
I can picture the movie already: Captain Jack Crack and the Curse of the Stolen Black Book
Should be a blockbuster epic. ;-)
I stole it, but the only number in it was his mom's. She wasn't that good, just kind of lay there.
See? I told you it was cursed. :-)
I Hope since then you uncursed it well by writing a lot of, um... "counter-formulas" in it.
Wow, and the movie's trailer is already online! Looking good:
http://www.piratesxxx.com/main.php?gid=&start=16&tab=photo
Interesting.
I'm all for the blurring of mainstream and X. The biggest flaw of erotica is that the stigma has kept talent and money away. That seems to be changing, though it's early yet.
America is weird. Jenna James is a mainstream star, all the while Janet Jackson has her career savaged by showing a nipple!
It wasn't just Janet's career got savaged by that wardrobe malfunction. The FCC stepped up monitoring of offensive language on radio right after that event. Our local morning shock jocks, not really shocking, but into thorough discussion including sexual matters, had to change their format so much that they are almost Regis and Cathy Lee now.
There was a knee jerk reaction throughout the media industry, lampooned by DJ's who wouldn't even mention band names such as "Bush".
Eolake, I tried this sitcom but just didn't find it funny, for some reason. Partly I think it was the laugh track. I hate laugh tracks! Mainly I just found it wasn't funny - to me. One thing that's interesting about British television, though, is that you see the same actors turning up. The guy in the first episode who wanted to buy the leatherbound Dickens set was the same guy who played Lord Ashfordly in Heartbeat, and also played some guy in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" - among other roles. You see the same people.
There are only 1 million people in the UK, most of which live in London, the rest are in Manchester.
The BBC alone puts out 3,000 TV shows a year, and ITV contribute 4,000.
Since only 2% of the population are actors, you are going to see the same face time and again.
The interesting ones are when an actor gets killed in an early episode, then later becomes a regular. Patrick Newell as Mother in The Avengers for example.
There are favourites who get used time and again, the most interesting are those who work all five corners of the industry, like Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Tony Robinson, active in Movies, TV, Stage, Radio and Audiobooks.
There was a knee jerk reaction throughout the media industry, lampooned by DJ's who wouldn't even mention band names such as "Bush".
And yet they show a wood-brained d***-head on the US news everyday saying truly obscene insanities. And every time, they DO say his name. Same for the Vice-President... ):-P
Dude, them buttafuocco USA are really effed-up. If you'll pardon my french!
Talk about "the little Black Book" of outlawed stuff. Hello, Inquisition!
I'm considering a post on my blog about Rocco Siffredi. With two photos. Just have to find where I put that gosh-durned archive CD. (rustle, rummage)
I viscerally resent laugh tracks too. They feel both artificial and insulting to the viewer's intelligence. "Hey, dope-head! Laugh now! Okay, enough, or you'll miss the next joke. Hey, laugh again!" ):-P
If something's really funny, a discerning viewer will know it on his own. But of course these are often produced to appeal to the thick masses...
All else equal, I also prefer no laugh track, as on Scrubs or Gilmore Girls.
But if it's produced well, they don't bother me.
"But if it's produced well, they don't bother me."
It doesn't bother me if it's funny. I can live with it. If it bothered me that much I wouldn't have liked a lot of shows - including Blackadder, As Time Goes By, Waiting For God, Are You Being Served? Etc., etc.
I was expecting to like Black Books, but didn't. Still, I will give it another chance. I have only seen the one episode, so it may be that I will like it.
Also, I did not mean it as a negative that you see the same faces turn up time and again on British shows. It happens everyone, but less frequently in more populous countries. I don't mind seeing the same people because they are usually quite good - the reason they keep getting good roles.
Alex said...
"There are only 1 million people in the UK"
Are you sure about that figure???
I mean, just in Lebanon, we are three blasted millions. And still blasting, if you've been following the news...
60 million, roughly.
Actually, there were 2.5M in Gtr Manchester alone in 2001 (Ealoke counts as one of them).
City of London population was only 7186 at that time. Then again, the City of London is very small, Inner London was over 2.75M for the 2001 census, and London overall was 7M
So yes, I was speaking in jest.
I was just watching The Avengers, there was so many faces in it, Patrick Newell (not as Mother), Paul Edington, Clive Dunn, Trevor Bannister, Penelope Keith, Yootha Joyce. What a line up for a 45 minute show.
Alex said...
"So yes, I was speaking in jest."
Ah, in Jest. I got confused for a second, because I'm still learning Jestish. ;-)
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