Quick notes from Monday
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jlhDon't you love it when Colbert screws with Wikipedia?
What I find most interesting about these Equus promotional photos is that despite all the blah blah blah about the play being quite serious in how nudity is used (all true) the producers have clearly decided to sell it as "see Dan Radcliffe in his debut as teenage heartthrob, naked with a horse and a girl." I find it sort of funny in a way to see all the yadda yadda on my flist about the bad place and all of that. I mean, these images have been created specifically in order to make one say, "oh my," so feeling that one should actively resist based on the age of the subject is sort of, well, whatever. I don't have a problem with some 50 year old guy saying, "wow, those pictures of Britney from Rolling Stone when she was 16 were really sexy" because they were, and they were supposed to be. So to assign "appropriateness" to reactions based on the viewer's age, as if only those younger than 20 are allowed to drool over sexy pictures doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't have much to do with seeing him in person, without makeup/lighting/hairstyling/poses/horses/etc. As I think![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mahoni infamously said, if he showed up in the middle of my living room looking like that I'd probably say, "Aren't you cold?" But maybe it has to do with the difference between women looking at men and men looking at women, that we have to do some hokey-pokey to distance ourselves from being the equivalent of dirty old men, when the boys are pretty unapologetic about thinking that teenage girls are hot. We should know as well as they do that there's a big difference between finding an intentionally sexy picture of someone underage, well, sexy, and trolling the high schools for dates.
I think any hope of Studio 60 being good in any way depends on how this two-parter ends. I'm irritated that Jordan thought that Danny felt sorry for her, and that's why she was embarrassed by his attentions, because it continues Sorkin's whole "women don't know what they want until the right man tells them" thing. I'm irritated with Matt's immature obsessiveness, though I would be much more so if he weren't played by the adorable Perry. I'm hopeful that Harriet will finally tell Matt to fuck off because enough already, and also because I'm not really sure that he loves her as much as he wants to sort of control her and feed her "talent" which isn't the same thing at all. (Never mind that it's close enough to Sorkin's actual relationship with Kristin Chenoweth that it has the feel of him making her say what he wants her to say, which, ew.) I'm irritated that Tom was stupid enough to take advice from Matt on dating (like he's an authority) and fucked things up with Lucy.
I'm irritated with the whole Zheng's crazy daughter storyline, especially with the entirely ridiculous "censorship" plot in the background, even if it does give more airtime for Jack sans Jordan, and I love Jack. (In the real world once a time delay on the news got out, which would be immediately because NBS's own journalists would be pissed off and leak it, there would be a firestorm of criticism and bad publicity that would completely overwhelm anything else that NBS was doing and the board wouldn't be happy about that, either, so I find the entire thing pretty goddamned ridiculous.) And don't even get me started on the whole snake thing.
As for Simon, well, I get that he's pissy, and I'm mostly with him, but he really needs to find a less aggressive way to put forth his POV. Also, Sorkin needs to find him something to do other than being black. That said, I wish that they had said "small house of Uncle Thomas" which what Tuptim called it in The King and I; I can't imagine that "little house of Uncle Thomas" was an unintentional botch since it's a famous reference, so is Sorkin saying that he doubts that Simon knows his Rodgers & Hammerstein or was it a reference to the Laura Ingalls Wilder or what the hell was that?
What I find most interesting about these Equus promotional photos is that despite all the blah blah blah about the play being quite serious in how nudity is used (all true) the producers have clearly decided to sell it as "see Dan Radcliffe in his debut as teenage heartthrob, naked with a horse and a girl." I find it sort of funny in a way to see all the yadda yadda on my flist about the bad place and all of that. I mean, these images have been created specifically in order to make one say, "oh my," so feeling that one should actively resist based on the age of the subject is sort of, well, whatever. I don't have a problem with some 50 year old guy saying, "wow, those pictures of Britney from Rolling Stone when she was 16 were really sexy" because they were, and they were supposed to be. So to assign "appropriateness" to reactions based on the viewer's age, as if only those younger than 20 are allowed to drool over sexy pictures doesn't make sense to me. It doesn't have much to do with seeing him in person, without makeup/lighting/hairstyling/poses/horses/etc. As I think
mahoni infamously said, if he showed up in the middle of my living room looking like that I'd probably say, "Aren't you cold?" But maybe it has to do with the difference between women looking at men and men looking at women, that we have to do some hokey-pokey to distance ourselves from being the equivalent of dirty old men, when the boys are pretty unapologetic about thinking that teenage girls are hot. We should know as well as they do that there's a big difference between finding an intentionally sexy picture of someone underage, well, sexy, and trolling the high schools for dates.I think any hope of Studio 60 being good in any way depends on how this two-parter ends. I'm irritated that Jordan thought that Danny felt sorry for her, and that's why she was embarrassed by his attentions, because it continues Sorkin's whole "women don't know what they want until the right man tells them" thing. I'm irritated with Matt's immature obsessiveness, though I would be much more so if he weren't played by the adorable Perry. I'm hopeful that Harriet will finally tell Matt to fuck off because enough already, and also because I'm not really sure that he loves her as much as he wants to sort of control her and feed her "talent" which isn't the same thing at all. (Never mind that it's close enough to Sorkin's actual relationship with Kristin Chenoweth that it has the feel of him making her say what he wants her to say, which, ew.) I'm irritated that Tom was stupid enough to take advice from Matt on dating (like he's an authority) and fucked things up with Lucy.
I'm irritated with the whole Zheng's crazy daughter storyline, especially with the entirely ridiculous "censorship" plot in the background, even if it does give more airtime for Jack sans Jordan, and I love Jack. (In the real world once a time delay on the news got out, which would be immediately because NBS's own journalists would be pissed off and leak it, there would be a firestorm of criticism and bad publicity that would completely overwhelm anything else that NBS was doing and the board wouldn't be happy about that, either, so I find the entire thing pretty goddamned ridiculous.) And don't even get me started on the whole snake thing.
As for Simon, well, I get that he's pissy, and I'm mostly with him, but he really needs to find a less aggressive way to put forth his POV. Also, Sorkin needs to find him something to do other than being black. That said, I wish that they had said "small house of Uncle Thomas" which what Tuptim called it in The King and I; I can't imagine that "little house of Uncle Thomas" was an unintentional botch since it's a famous reference, so is Sorkin saying that he doubts that Simon knows his Rodgers & Hammerstein or was it a reference to the Laura Ingalls Wilder or what the hell was that?
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Date: 2007-01-30 10:11 pm (UTC)I thought A Few Good Men was a little overdone, and The American President was sweet but ultimately the prez was too perfect, I never really got into the West Wing for reasons I don't really understand and I thought Malice, like AFGM, was a little too neat. I really want to get the DVD for Sports Night (both seasons are in one set) but I think that's more about my current love of Olbermann (as those chars were based on Olbermann and Dan Patrick) and my love of Peter Krause thanks to Six Feet Under.
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Date: 2007-01-30 10:15 pm (UTC)Sorkin is just so... Ugh. :( He seems craven and he seems like he's selling a version of America I don't recognize and don't like, espesically with this new show.
It's hard for me to articulate.