She May Not Leave

She May Not Leave

She May Not Leave - Next Reads: A smart, handsome, liberal, and unmarried couple in their early 30s, Hattie and Martyn are delighted by their newborn daughter, Kitty. Beset by baby-rearing stress, they decide to hire live-in nanny Agnieszka, a Polish domestic goddess who instills a sense of peace and order in their household. But life isn't destined to be neat and tidy, as it becomes apparent that Agnieszka might not be all she appears.


az- She May Not Leave -by Fay Weldon-Booklist: Narrating the turn of events is Hattie's 72-year-old grandmother, Frances, a character who allows Weldon to describe the changing attitudes toward children and marriage over four generations ok as well as to incorporate many autobiographical details that will be familiar to readers of her memoirs ( Auto da Fay 2003). ah. said to mom that this felt strange for a novel, this kind of reminiscence and scattered character observation. felt like a memoir. (not like the kind of thing one would invent ~ too much telling not showing? of backstory. but then I have felt that way about other novels. maybe Ian McEwan ~ Atonement.) Throwing in one final unexpected but delicious twist yep yep I was on last pages and hoping that this twist was still to come - that the 'twist' wasn't the denouement wh really was rather expected. and no, it was unexpected! good. rather made all the reminiscences seem relevant too I suppose ~as context for Hattie and Frances and for how we readers react~ at the end, Weldon delivers another of her trademark takes on the domestic wars. Joanne Wilkinson

family history. being told (not shown). in seeming scattered recollections, observations. doesn't seem like invention ~

-Fay Weldon has woven countless subplots, offering the reader insight into political and social mores, and the complex relationships between family members and friends. As the narrator is Hattie's grandmother, Francis Watt, we see another generation's views on all of these issues, as well as family history.
-if you're into Fay Weldon like most women, you'll appreciate it - especially the ending which is what it's all about.
-Wary '80s feminism observer Weldon
-popular novelist

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19April08. seems I sold this off in purge a couple months ago. pink spine hardcover. it was interesting. I recall it and look to see if in fact gone from shelves (seems so) bcs it was interesting, in the end - we have read a story of a (common law) husband taking up with the nanny. who he has even formally married bcs of her visa difficulties. and the (common law) wife leaves, goes to her aunt's, leaving the baby with husband and nanny-turned-wife. and only on final page, the former wife talking to her aunt, do we learn that she engineered this, bcs realized that raising a child was not for her.

that's as I recall, year and a half later. here in this post I was more concerned w what learned re Weldon, than w the ending ~

-"When the maid is mistaken for the mistress it is time for the mistress to ask the maid to leave."
Agnieszka comes to live with Martyn and Hattie as an au pair. The family dynamic changes, bit by bit, shifting the daily domestic and child-rearing responsibilities from Hattie to Agnieszka. Kitty, at six months of age, adores her new au pair. Hattie, an editor with a book publisher, looks at Agnieska as a Godsend; Hattie can go back to work after a six-month leave of absence rather than the full-year leave she initially requested.
Fay Weldon has woven countless subplots, offering the reader insight into political and social mores, and the complex relationships between family members and friends. As the narrator is Hattie's grandmother, Francis Watt, we see another generation's views on all of these issues, as well as family history.
Deceit is a quality known by many. It is a quality that Weldon weaves into her tale, offering the reader brief glimpses of the truth, while daring you to believe that the truth could be so devious. Will Martyn and Hattie do anything to keep Agnieszka, even in the face of the Immigration Service? Agnieszka originally states that she's from Poland. She is actually from the Ukraine: "two miles to the west and everything would be different for us."
Hattie's career in book publishing has taken a sudden turn in the road. A man with Tourette's Syndrome has a book he wants published by Hattie's firm. The major objection to this book is the suggested yet unprintable title. Another question arises when the author shows up unannounced in the lobby of Hattie's office. Expecting him to begin yelling streams of profanity, the office workers don't know what to do with him. Hattie suggests that he doesn't even have Tourette's Syndrome; he is just writing from the perspective of a man who does. hmmm. int: the reviewer is suggesting this as an opportunity to guess the ending of the book? to see Hattie as, what, not really being a willing mother, just acting like one? hmm, I dunno. this review is good though.
There are many gems in SHE MAY NOT LEAVE. Weldon has given the reader countless opportunities to anticipate the final result. It's so subtle and so polished, yet so innocent. Weldon totally sneaks up on you!

-I was on vacation in England and grabbed some British women's magazine off the rack in the gas station, thinking I would have a little mindless reading for the train ride. Well, in England a lot of magazines include free gifts, and this book was shrink-wrapped to it.
I expected this to be a silly romance novel, on the level of the ones Cosmopolitan prints excerpts from. I had never heard of Fay Weldon. So I was quite surprised to find a very, very darkly humorous and well-written novel.
The key is that NONE of the characters in this are sentimentalized at all. While Martyn and Hattie and Frances et. al. really do love each other, they are predominantly self-interested. Martyn is more concerned with the future of his political journalism career than with his partner's slow breakdown, Hattie is more concerned about being able to go back to work than with the obvious play Agnieszka is making for her common-law husband and child, Agnieszka is more concerned about getting to stay in England than by the damage this could cause Kitty in the long run, and even Baby Kitty, Weldon points out, loves best the person who attends to her needs the most.
Many people will be put off by the rather cavalier way mothers in three generations of this family leave their young children in the primary care of others. The mothers, simply put, aren't "motherly."
As to the people who claimed that the ending was a cop-out...uh, didn't you read the very beginning of the book? It was building all along...

-only thing that kept me reading was the engaging storyline between Hattie, Martin, and the au pair, but the ending blew that for me. the politics behind it are questionable as well: the tired old villification of the working mother, the sexually available au pair, the husband who just can't help himself, etc.

-This is one of the funniest books I ever read. In fact, I loved it so much that I went on line to order it for a friend, when I saw the previous poor reviews on this website. Briefly, this book is not meant to be realistic in any way! It is a farce. Satire. Anyone who picks it up expecting a naturalistic novel about life as it is for most people will be terribly disappointed.
It is a very English book, and many Americans won't like its wicked humor. The protagtonist is a young, modern professional mother who can't wait to get back to work and get her life back, and so hires an eastern European woman to be a live-in nanny. It's not giving much away to say that the nanny encroaches on the the lives of the protagonist and her husband, but in entirely unpredictable ways. (Even the title is ambiguous: is someone being forbidden to leave, and who? Or does it express fear that an unwelcome interloper may never go? It's never clear.) may not = might not. ?OR? may not = will not be permitted to.
I loved this book's shock ending. No, it is not realistic. But it is hilarious and memorable. And the very last revelation in the book is so unexpected, and does rather explain the strange denoument.


I had this hardcover pink spine She May Not Leave ~English novel~ on my shelf (in mind associated) with two french novels:

A Cleaning Woman. Other Press: 2002 small mintishgreen hardcover translation of 2001 Une Femme de Menage. by Christian Oster.
complete-review B: fine, but not enough done with it
Jacques, who is about fifty, narrates. He broke up with his wife six months before this story begins. After half a year his apartment is a mess, and he finally takes the step of hiring a cleaning woman. ..
The important thing is that we get along. Yeah, but it's not love, Laura said. I'd have liked it to be love.
Jacques tries to flee with Laura to the seashore, to visit a friend, but there is no escape, the affair winding up much as it must. Laura pals around with a young fellow, Jacques befriends the fellow's mother... I looked at her agin and I saw that she was a woman of about my age. Her face had an interesting weariness to it. I like weariness in a woman. I found her interesting and serious. Her one big flaw was being the guy's mother. She looked like him. I felt ill, in need of care. I imagined myself with her, in bed, with guy's face staring back at me. Because automatically, even as I was losing Laura and in pain, I thought about recycling myself; I've always had this kind of reflex. But it was a very vague recycling plan, concocted in a fever state, with the awareness on top of it all that I wasn't qualified. That I was good only for having lived, not for living. seems French, though I do not articulate what I mean by that ~ how it like Platform and beyond that like Camus - a certain blankness, of male outlook ~


The Woman in the Row Behind. Other Press: 2005 small paperback translation of 2004 La fille du rang derriere. by Francois Dorner. "To save our marriage I tried offering him another woman. He has started fantasizing about her. He doesn't know it's me."husband & wife run a kiosk together, right? I liked that, simple job. and how it mattered that their kiosk was on the shady side of the street ( I do not recall ~ was there a kiosk on the sunny side that did better business?)
complete-review: Nora and her husband, Roger, run a newspaper kiosk. Their marriage is very bland, dominated by work and with lunch with the relatives at a different one of their houses each Sunday of the month... B : decent but glum.
curledup.com: Feeling “transparent, an invisible little woman,” she thinks she has found her substance when she marries Roger, the owner of a newspaper kiosk on the shaded side of a Parisian street. But she quickly discovers that Roger is lacking in form himself, and she despairs to find her life again one of routine and stagnation. Although Nina describes herself as quiet and mousy, she notices that she can have an effect on strange men that she can not have on her husband. Desperate to make her husband see her as these strangers do, she recreates herself into the exotic Oriental woman who seduces her man in a darkened movie theater..

so it was a different French novel with female protagonist that I read, also maybe about a marriage dissolved, where she worked in a publisher's office ~ with her father, may be. I think that book may have been from Melville House, a paperback with a scrawl of a title on the front. and I felt dislike for it. never bought it? only home for a night. yes here:
Nothing Serious- by Justine Levy - Melville House: Vain about their young love, Louise and he husband Adrien used to laugh about the way he couldn’t pass a mirror without looking. But when he deserts Louise for a famous model she’sr devastated, and forced to confront those vanities – his and her own. With her privileged circumstances as the daughter of one of Europe’s most famous writers only complicating things further.. complete-review(B): or whatever reason (too close to my condition without being accurately about my condition?) I dislike this enough not to feel like reading the review... a story of resignation: Louise wanted Adrien, but couldn't have him, and now she's resigned to making do. It's an odd and not particularly attractive philosophy though it may well ring true. Louise's unwillingness to be guided by anything, it generally seems, except her feelings at the moment. Lévy is no Annie Ernaux (who has this routine down pat), but covers similar ground. perhaps I will look into Annie Ernaux, never read anyth by?
Shame - Annie Ernaux - complete-review : Annie Ernaux is one of the more popular literary authors in France nowadays. Her short books, sparse prose, thoughtful considerations have met with great success there, and the books that have been translated have met with at least critical acclaim here. This is much like her others, just over 100 pages long, telling a simple story as the author looks back on her childhood and several of the defining events from that time. It is centered around the memory of her father trying to kill her mother, though that is too sensationalistic a description: the attempt is as shameful and half-hearted and frustrated as much of her family life is.



and now with this catalogue am put in mind also of The Waitress. also French. a male narrator, who works in a cafe/bar. acquired (more recently than the above, as a galley, orange, Archipelago books (small & square with no text on the back, from whom also the beige square Spring Tides). noted on dlww before, I believe.. no? search did not find. The Waitress was New by Dominique Fabre and Jordan Stump (Paperback - Feb 1, 2008) ah. I had made mention of it on mdlww:
just read, the epigraph to The Waitress was New. about Sundays. the day that you remember. "Oh yes! I hated Sundays, Because that's the day when I think And count the days past and to come." m # 11:13 AM

thinking again of publishers: Melville House (int but ~ makes me unhappy to look at catalogue?). Other Press (psychoanaly, French literature, seems to please me). Graywolf - pleasing.

Weeds - Pilot: You Can't Miss the Bear
just watched. that was very good! I didn't think it'd be so likeable to me. tht I wldn't like Kevin Nealon, but he's fine. tht bcs it's a half hour comedy that it might be like scrubs wh is good but not so much my kind of. but no, it's rather realistic and serious-ish in its comedy. the characters are pretty much all very smart and also believable. (often smart gets written in an unbelievable way right? too quick witted). I like the mom a lot a lot. and both the kids are cool. and the girlfriend Quinn. and even her mother Celia, who is awful, is sort of cool. and Josh the young pot-dealer is basically cool - I like his interactions w mom.Nancy. Botwin. MrsB. Mary Louise Parker. great character here. who else on tv is this fully likeable? she's sharp.
last scene crying "white lady's havin a time of it here" get her some pie. tell her to come in here and get her own pie, Slavery days are over.
and earlier: "show me who aint f-'d up."

and I'm wondering have I never seen Mary Louise Parker in anything before? I haven't seen her in West Wing, and doubt I am remembering her fr the movie Saved wh I guess I saw part of (in Calif, Bonnie had the dvd). ah ha -- she was Ruth in FriedGreenTomatoes. huh, funny, bcs I confuse or at lst associate her (by name but probably also face) with Mary Stuart Masterson. who was her co-star there, Iggie. huh. and Mary Stuart Masterson seems pretty cool. and now Mary Louise Parker does too.

--Heylia, break out that pie you made last night.
The white lady having a time of it here.
--Tell her get her skinny ass in here and get her own damn pie!
Slave days is over!

Television Without Pity » Big Love » The Ceremony: this is how the season ends
Margene asks him, 'Where is she?' Bill tells her, 'Upstairs.' Margene has enough time to mouth, 'Help her!' before heading up to Barb. The 'her' is actually Nicki, who is having a full-blown meltdown at the thought of the local law enforcement coming in and jailing everyone for polygamy. And damn, my hat's off to Margene for being proactive and making sure Nicki would be taken care of before she heads up to Barb.
Margene knocks. Inside, Barb is sitting on her bed, head bowed. She chokes out, 'I can't.' Margene pleads, 'Barb, please.' 'I can't!' Barb insists. Margene opens the door anyway. A more collected Nicki is behind her.
Margene sits on the bed; Nicki drags a chair over and sits, facing Barb. I love this detail.
Barb finally raises her head, and she looks at Nicki. Barb says, 'I got what I deserved.' Nicki is nearly in tears as she whispers, 'Oh, boss lady...'
Nicki and Barb should take Margene on a road trip to Portland, and subsidize her new life there, and then they should set up house together and live in a non-lesbian, yet extremely emotionally complicated fashion.
Nicki's one expression of empathy and love absolutely undoes Barb. She begins sobbing. It's not the ladylike soap opera sobbing; it's deep, gut-wrenching, she-may-pull-a-muscle sobbing. Margene wraps her arms around Barb and is burying her head in her shoulder, trying to rock her like a baby.

Television Without Pity » Big Love » A Barbecue For Betty:

Previously on Cheaper By The Quarter Dozen: Bill managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by grabbing Roman's guitar --(oh. nice. so that's how he had the leverage to make the deal with Roman that opens this episode.)-- [ Adaleen comes out and asks, "Bill?" She moves closer and says angrily, "How dare you? How dare you? An old man and fourteen defenseless women?" Ha! That is the best line of the night. Adaleen officially stole this episode out from under everyone else. ]

...After he marches out, Margene breaks the silence with "Okay, please tell me: what credit-card statements?" Nicki snaps, "Margene, go! Your babies are eating bugs!" I like that line, seems very Nicki-like.

wow, nice work by recapper Sobell:
Heather mulls this for approximately a microsecond before replying, "I've been thinking about becoming a state representative." What, like as a summer job? Actually, Heather's very tired of people having the wrong idea of Utah. Oh, the sweet, flaky layers of irony in that sentence, that Heather should be saying this to the kid of polygamists in Utah. Heather adds, "We're a red state, but that doesn't mean we're Neanderthal and not progressive." This is true. Even though 72% of 2004 voters select a Presidential administration that regards science as witchcraft, privacy as a meaningless collection of syllables, an environment as something to plunder for profit, sex as something to shroud in confusion, and gays as second-class citizens, that's no reason to think that the state's not progressive. Anyway, Sarah notes that Heather scored highest on her judgmental trait; it will surprise nobody to learn that I'm up there, too.

Heather decides to quiz Sarah. Hilariously enough, she answers for Sarah, too. She is a field marshal! Sarah insists she's not an introvert, and Heather scoffs, "Yes, you are. You would have to be to survive your nutty lifestyle." Didn't I say that a few episodes ago? Why, I believe I did. [ aw: Margene clarifies that she's not mad at him; it's just that the strain of living so guardedly is getting to her and she's deeply lonely. This would appear to be one of the big paradoxes of stealth polygamy: temperamentally, the people most suited to it would be introverts who don't need a lot of external human interaction...and yet the whole point to group marriage is that there's a lot of external human interaction. Margene dissolves in tears, and Ben gently tells her, "You just need a place to go that's neutral. A class or something where you can meet people. You just can't invite them home." ]

...that's how it comes out that there were a few votes on Margene. She was not a shoo-in candidate. again, nice work Sobell - and wow: Reagan got 525 electoral votes to Mondale's 13. huh.

"..couldn't make it to the father-daughter pancake breakfast." Bill is all, "The who in the what now?" right as Heather comes down. She is shocked to see her father there instead of her mother. Chuck explains, "Mom was busy with Relief Society, honeybun." He clearly adores his daughter. Ah, man, this scene makes me miss my dad. As the adults exchange pleasantries, Heather mouths things like, "I am so sorry" and "Oh my heck!" at Sarah. She shrugs casually -- no harm, no foul. The Tuttles leave.

..Bill barks, "Switch it back! I don't like people making plans for me behind my back! And I don't like secrets!" Then he stalks upstairs to think about all the times he's never, ever kept secrets from someone else.

..Chad looks like he just came off the assembly line for "guys you'd take home to meet your dad" -- dorky hair; clean, shining face wreathed in a nervous smile; pressed short-sleeved shirt and tie. ["Once I've determined that he isn't played by a London, Chad instantly breaks my heart." -- Wing Chun] aw. Chad is known to me from Saved where he more recently again played a nice Mormon guy. less pathetic there though. and yes I wldnt have noticed it but his face does somewhat resemble the London twins.
..Margene instantly snaps back, "How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None -- it's not the lightbulb that needs changing." Chad giddily exclaims the two words Margene never hears at home: "Touché, Margene!"

Barb snaps back, "I was in a difficult position, Bill! I'm extremely relieved to be out of it. I don't like lies either. If I did, we'd still be meeting in hotels." Bill at least has the grace to look ashamed. Barb adds that she thought it was Nicki's place to tell Bill. He plaintively replies, "I'm your husband, aren't I?" Barb wearily replies, "Yes. But I'm married to two other people. You seem to forget that sometimes." Good for her for pointing that out -- it's just too bad she seems to be the only one who maintains that delusion. sweet lovely Barb. 'marriage'. but she's not married to anyone else lovely.

Television Without Pity » Big Love » Eviction: this recap by Jacob subbing in for Sobell - You should know that this is my favorite television show. I'm emotionally dependent on this show until Weeds comes back. Thanks to Sobell for letting me sub in...
Nicki brings in Barb's juicer, which was on the blink thanks to its on/off switch. I can't hate Nicki because of stuff like that. I love that she knows machines, and real stuff, and that she's the Edmund and just wants nice food and clothes and to consume everything in the world. For all her dysfunction, she's closer to a lot of us, I think, than anyone else in the family. Eyes focused on the ground, measuring success by all the wrong rulers -- but she can still scare the hell out of Alby and fix your disposal, and that's cool. I think if she ever grows up, she'll be the coolest, because as even-tempered and beautiful as Barb's spirit is, I do believe that Nicki's the strong one. The smartest people are generally the craziest, because they tell the best lies to themselves. Point: Nicki tells Barb that she looks nice, 'for a bunch of second graders,' which she has to absorb and translate into a compliment before she can thank Nicki. ... I love these frenzied morning scenes, because they're shot in enough storyline-combining tracking shots that you feel the craziness without feeling like the show's trying to overwhelm you with all the babies.
yeah I think I'd like the show if it was all by-the-by daily life at home scenes. I lose interest at all the plots, really. (conflict with Roman, Nicki's debt). also Barb is maybe the only one I really like. so I like seeing the scenes with all the women and kids and watching their interactions.
still true 8/10/07 : yeah I think I'd like the show if it was all by-the-by daily life at home scenes. I lose interest at all the plots, really. Weeds is pretty good about having daily life at home scenes. The Riches is terrible about it.

the wire --(at least) one cool thing:
after watching the the first 3 episodes of season 1, I'm hooked. The Wire is an HBO dramatic series that provides an inside look at the Baltimore Police Department. Less famous than fellow HBO productions The Sopranos and Six Feet Under, The Wire is no less excellent. Shot on location in Baltimore, the show is gritty, nuanced and highly textured. Its creators are David Simon, an ex-reporter from the Baltimore Sun whose first book provided the inspiration for the NBC series Homicide, and Ed Burns, a 20 year veteran of the Baltimore PD.
The strength of the program is that characters on both sides of the drug war are developed, and the acting is uniformly strong. Dominic West does have a stand-out role as Det. Jim McNulty, a character about who his partner, William “Bunk” Moreland, wonders, “How is it you always have the world pissed off at you?” It must be his Irish charm. ah
The Wire commands your attention, but the careful viewer is rewarded with masterful dialog and a strongly compelling story arc. commentary to 2nd episode director just complimented (again) David Simon on the dialogue he writes and said It's one thing to tell a great story, it's another thing to give the people in that story great voices.
update: Early this morning I finished watching season 1, and it is amazing television. I was very positive in my original post but, in retrospect, I should have raved more. Every aspect of the show, from the opening credits that reference Francis Ford Copola’s The Conversation
ah ha - the director in commentary to epis 2 The Detail mentioned this... what is the reference?
to the conclusion of the 13 epsisode story, is meticulously crafted.
Even the show’s theme song (a cover of Tom Waits - Way Down in the Hole by the Blind Boys of Alabama) is inspired.
If you like police dramas you will love The Wire. that's the thing I dont like police dramas I can't follow them and dont get that into the suspense.. this may be even harder to follow (less spoon-fed) but worth it for its finesse..

Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 wiretap masterpiece. - By Benjamin Strong - Slate Magazine: Francis Ford Coppola's wiretap thriller The Conversation premiered on April 7, 1974, four days before the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed 42 tapes from the Oval Office, where President Richard Nixon had been secretly recording conversations throughout his administration. The timing was purely serendipitous for Coppola. The writer-director had wanted to make a movie about the acutely modern paranoia that audio surveillance technology was enabling long before the summer of 1972, when Nixon campaign operatives were collared at the Watergate Hotel attempting to bug the headquarters of the Democratic National Party.
The Conversation opens with mercenary listener Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) eavesdropping on a cryptic exchange...

az plot outline is quite good, gives the names and roles concisely:
starts as mid-level drug dealer, D'Angelo Barksdale beats a murder rap. got a witness to turn..

After a conversation with a judge, Det. James McNulty Jimmy McNulty, pretty, what is his accent?
I'm in for him -plus the fine makesmanship and the education. this is hard for me to begin with I don't know follow crime of any kind easily and no street knowledge. I only know interpersonal on small scale, I dont do systems. institutions. cities. so: exactly what I'd be better to learn...
wish someone cld explain to me as we watch. is there a site that has recaps from the first season?

has been assigned to lead a joint homicide the detective is from homicide and narcotics the police group we see, incl the woman in the cap team
in order to bring down drug kingpin Avon Barksdale. Avon Barksdale, accompanied by his right-hand man Stringer Bell he was the one in court with legal pad and glasses to whom McNulty said 'well-done', enforcer Wee-Bey standing under the Burger sign talking to D'Angelo who is under the chicken sign, in commentary David Simon points this out - sirens of cops but "they aren't coming for Wee-Bey, he's not gonna get caught". cause he's a burger. and many lieutenants (including his own nephew, D'Angelo Barksdale), has to deal with law enforcement, informants in his own camp, and competition with a local rival, Omar oh heard of him in timgoodman bastard machine posts re 4th season but did omar appear in pilot?, who's been robbing Barksdale's dealers and reselling the drugs.
The supervisor of the investigation, Lt. Cedric Daniels he's the guy "the company man" fr narcotics? and he's the supervisor that seems right (but shld not say above that McNulty is assigned to 'lead' the joint team?)


The Target (The Wire episode) - Wikipedia:
"The Target" is the first (pilot) episode of the first season of the HBO original series, The Wire.

Narcotics detectives Shakima "Kima" Greggs, Thomas "Herc" Hauk and Ellis Carver make a bust using information from a scorned ex-girlfriend of a drug dealer. ah. I did not know what roles these 2 women had when watching them in the car.. Kima proves her smarts by searching the car and finding guns that Herc and Carver missed. ok. did not understand that either.

well, maybe wikipedia will give me a summary of each episode to help me follow..
List of The Wire episodes - Wikipedia nice. in a grid with the episode title, the epigram (first episode: "when it's not your turn" (bunk to mcnulty: there you go giving a f- when its not your turn to give a f-), the writing credit for story and for teleplay, and the director.
cool. and each episode is a link to its own page. great.

az- The Wire : The Complete First Season
ax rvw: After one episode of The Wire you'll be hooked. let's see, let's see if so. After three, you'll be astonished by the precision of its storytelling. After viewing all 13 episodes of the HBO series' remarkable first season, you'll be cheering a bona-fide American masterpiece. Series creator David Simon was a veteran crime reporter from The Baltimore Sun who cowrote the book that inspired TV's Homicide, and cowriter Ed Burns was a Baltimore cop, lending impeccable street-cred to an inner-city Baltimore saga (and companion piece to The Corner HBO miniseries) that Simon aptly describes as 'a visual novel' and 'a treatise on institutions and individuals' as opposed to a conventional good-vs.-evil police procedural. Owing a creative debt to the novels of Richard Price (especially Clockers), the series opens as maverick Detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West ooh fr Yorkshire England in a star-making role) is tapping into a vast network of drugs and death around southwest Baltimore's deteriorating housing projects. With a mandate to get results ASAP, a haphazard team is assembled to join McNulty's increasingly complex investigation, built upon countless hours of electronic surveillance.
The show's split-perspective plotting is so richly layered, so breathtakingly authentic and based on finely drawn characters brought to life by a perfect ensemble cast..
Simon, Burns, and their cowriters control every intricate aspect of the unfolding epic; directors are top-drawer (including Clark Johnson, helmer of The Shield's finest episodes) but they are servants to the story, resulting in a TV series like no other: unpredictable, complicated, and demanding the viewer's rapt attention, The Wire is "an angry show" (in Simon's words) that refuses to comfort with easy answers to deep-rooted societal problems.

Plot Outline Baltimore drug scene, seen through the eyes of drug dealers, and law enforcement.

Plot Synopsis: Set in Baltimore, this show centers around the city's inner-city drug scene. It starts as mid-level drug dealer, D'Angelo Barksdale beats a murder rap. After a conversation with a judge, Det. James McNulty has been assigned to lead a joint homicide and narcotics team, in order to bring down drug kingpin Avon Barksdale. Avon Barksdale, accompanied by his right-hand man Stringer Bell, enforcer Wee-Bey and many lieutenants (including his own nephew, D'Angelo Barksdale), has to deal with law enforcement, informants in his own camp, and competition with a local rival, Omar, who's been robbing Barksdale's dealers and reselling the drugs. The supervisor of the investigation, Lt. Cedric Daniels, has to deal with his own problems, such as a corrupt bureaucracy, some of his detectives beating suspects, hard-headed but determined Det. McNulty, and a blackmailing deputy. The show depicts the lives of every part of the drug "food chain", from junkies to dealers, and from cops to politicians.

Kidnapped - TWoP Forums[re 4th episode [103] Number One with a Bullet, aired on Saturday]:
-I'm thinking Leo wasn't really out of it, was just pretending, right? How else would he have caught the doctor about to give him Penicillin?
I don't get how the reporter showed up at Ellie's Missing Kids Anonymous. yeah I was wondering this Was she following Ellie because she was hoping to catch her in the senator's arms?
Loved how Connie was practically unin?comprehensible with worry for Leo but still managed to follow the business deal.
Loved how Turner was all mad at King for not rescuing Knapp sooner.
LOVED how it looked like King was turning on Knapp! I kind of saw it coming, but didn't read too much into it, so I was pleasantly surprised.
Favorite line: I'm a little exposed here.
Favorite scene: Bellows talking to Leo before the doctor comes in. I mean, he's practically petting him, stroking his hair, his face, it almost seemed like he cared, but we know better!
No, my favorite line: You're my kid, ok? You do anything to make him think otherwise, you're my dead kid.

-Scumsucking tabloid sneaks! Well, that'll change everything, when the news gets out. I wonder if that was always part of the plot, or if it was added when they knew we'd only have 13 episodes to wrap it up.
Where did Leo get the cell phone? yeah that's my other qstn. From the doctor? What were the doc's last words? "That damn kid took my phone?"

-for AuntiePam, right before Bellows killed the doctor, the doctor said, "Where's my cell?"
I.Just.Loved how Knapp was ready to dive into that dead guy's body to get the chip, and the ME goes Whoa whoa whoa! Hold on, I'll do it! and Knapp goes, "Oh, sorry."

-Latimer's description of Knapp as the perfect "inside man" was great:"We get an inside man - some disgruntled ex-FBI, CIA, D.E.A., paramilitary loner white guy with a history of instability with a plate in his head..."
I'm really loving Knapp's wry sense of humour.
"I'm a little exposed here, guys."
and when he's being escorted away "We're going to have to stop by my apartment to pick up some sunscreen ... Is this my ride? I was expecting a limo ... and as far as my flight goes, I don't fly coach."
and finally, my favourite [referring to bouncing ball guy] "My date's playin catch with himself."
mm yeah all great.

-episode description for the next two episodes from the Sony Kidnapped site:
100:Pilot so this is why '101' is the 2nd aired episode & so on...
101:Special Delivery 2nd
102:"Sorry, Wrong Number 3rd
103:Number One with a Bullet 4th - just aired, discussed above (this post)
to come: 104:BURN, BABY, BURN -&- 105:MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY

Sony Pictures - Kidnapped- About the Show As both an adrenaline-charged suspense tale and infectiously absorbing character study told from multiple viewpoints, the new one-hour drama KIDNAPPED — from Sony Pictures Television — is intended to play out as a movie, brimming with jam-packed action, inventive character development, a serialized approach, and sweeping cinematic storytelling.
While the kidnapping serves as the launching point for the action, stories, and characters’ behavior, one person emerges as the tipping point: the rumpled but inestimably capable Knapp (Sisto), a retrieval specialist brought in by the parents to save their son… and whose far-reaching ties surprisingly entangle all those in his orbit.

excellent post -
Tim Goodman The Bastard Machine---
NBC: Nothing But Clueless. Knee-jerk fear at the Peacock:
This notion of a reality/game show hour from 8 to 9 p.m. truly shows Zucker's lack of vision and programming acumen. Why blindly limit that hour to non-scripted fare? Sure, reality shows and game shows are cheaper to produce and cost GE less money. Hmmmm. But anyway, has anyone ever tried this in the history of network television? Has there ever been success with this formula? Why does every other network have a scripted hit in the 8 p.m. time slot? Do these questions even need to be asked?
Look, ABC is currently doing something similar to what Zucker is suggesting. It has "Wife Swap" (Mondays - not a hit), "Dancing with the Stars" (Tuesday and Wednesday - hits), "America's Funniest Home Videos" (Fridays - oh, please) and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (Sundays - hit) all in the 8 p.m. hour. Results? Mixed. But it also has "Ugly Betty" on Thursdays at 8 p.m., which has turned out to be one the biggest freshman hits of the season and was renewed for a full 22 episodes. If ABC entertainment president Steve McPherson was hamstrung by The Zucker Rules, he'd be out of luck. And you can bet that if McPherson wants to try another scripted series at 8 p.m., he'll do it - without worrying about parent company Disney's bottom line first.
It's hard to imagine that even Zucker believes a genre-specific block from 8 to 9 p.m. is a good idea. Maybe he doesn't. Maybe this is a world-class ass covering because Wright, his boss and the CEO of NBC Universal, thinks the reality and game show idea is brilliant. Wright has proven his lack of programming knowledge relentlessly in the past, and told this to USA Today on Thursday: "Tuesdays and Wednesdays, we're running the best-scripted programming on television, but the audience just isn't there for it."
Boy, that is rich. On Tuesday, NBC has the highly-acclaimed but dead-on-arrival drama "Friday Night Lights" on at 8 p.m. The series has gone up against "House" on Fox, "NCIS" on CBS and "Dancing with the Stars" on ABC - each of them bonafide hits. Perhaps that has something to do with it? You're right, Bob - the audience isn't there because they're watching those other shows, two of which are scripted. On Wednesday, Wright is simply out of his mind, because "30 Rock" and "Twenty Good Years" are both unfunny sitocms - the latter being exceptionally and obviously not funny. Both of those series are being aggessively ignored by viewers, not because they're scripted, but because they're bad.

Maybe the problem at NBC isn't bad programming, it's bad management? Nah, couldn't be. At the very least, the network has had bad luck. "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" got a lot of hype but failed to launch. "Kidnapped" was one of the better serial dramas but got lost in the fall crush. You know what? That happens. Both of those series are/were exceptional. But in the end, the audience always decides. And the audience is fickle. It can not be fully understood. Many network programmers will tell you (in confidence, of course) that they don't know what will or won't work. Television is an inexact science, which is precisely why it's fear based and overrun with paranoia.

huh: Nina Tassler, who's the entertainment president at currently robust CBS, told USA Today that NBC's ideas about the state of television are off base: "They're addressing corporate ills as industry trends, and that's just not the case."

cmmts......
-if you go to the google entertainment news homepage, you can pick your news source to read about this development. it's about half-way down and there are currently 34 articles listed on this topic.
-How ironic is it that NBC decides to get rid of scripted shows from 8-9pm on the same week Studio 60 airs its episode featuring Amanda Peet turning down an opportunity to bid on a can't miss reality hit & instead stealing high end scripted show from HBO.
-Have you ever considered that perhaps this is all just one big meta-commercial for Studio 60 and 30 Rock? Like there will be a big reveal at the end of the season and some kind of synergy that will result in 10 lucky viewers getting a brand new stove? Me either.

rented:
The Wire (season 1 disc 1 - first three episodes)
Big Love (first two episodes)
Thank You for Not Smoking (rg just saw it, talking about it, adam brody fr OC who I know as Lane's boyfriend on Gilmore girls being funny).

if I like it, tell mom, xmas present (she was asking): The Wire season 1. I like the black and white ness of the cover. I don't think I'll esp want to own Big Love after all.

and I bought for few dollars each:
Bubble by StevnSoderbergh, wh I looked at before. babydolls on the cover. small town. romantic triangle. factory workers.
Will & Grace finale. just yesterday watched a few mins and thought maybe wld like to own some bit of it. bcs Sean Hayes as Jack is genius. so funny. so bodily comic. and so since the finale was there new however inexpnsv, got it. and! watched first scene, wh is Will & Grace years later and it's even funny before Karen and Jack get there. and! Kevin Bacon! so, a happy purchase.

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(to read later after watching...)

Sixth Sense airing now on 40 abc family I just saw the beginning (although not the very - maybe only a minute or so in only) seems I never saw the beginning before

god, this is good. this is so sad, the things children feel.

"out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord" .domine.

the script the filming, seems v intelligent.
turns to advantage ~tropes of film making and watching: when we don't see certain contexts, we fill it in. introductions, previous conversations. even when as here, it's not directly implied. (we assume the mother has spoken with the doctor, when he is at the house. so it does not seem strange that we see no interaction between them when Cole comes in. and, when the doctor is with Cole at the old man's house, we assume Cole has introduced them etc.)
and, maybe trope of psychiatric session. not unlike talking with a ghost. (~ you get right to the point. right to something like intimacy. there's little polite convention.)

bruce willis is v good. the kid is v good.
I wldnt want to watch it repeatedly ~not pretty to watch, not pleasant, bcs sad. heartbreaking almost. "they don't have meetings about rainbows" - "no. I guess not." the scene where he takes three steps forward twd the doctor (and the chair next to him) as the doctor 'reads his mind' saying things that are true, but then all those steps backward. -you don't get in trouble in school. --step back. We were supposed to draw a picture, anything we wanted. I drew a man. he was hurt by another man with a screwdriver. -you saw that on tv. --step back. (oh-) -what do you draw now? --now I draw people, smiling. dogs running. rainbows. they don't have meetings about rainbows. -no I guess not.
--do you now what I am thinking now?
-no Cole I don't know what you are thinking now. he's a good doctor.
--I'm thinking you're nice. (oh.) but you can't help me.

good momma. "today I won the lottery. I quit my jobs. I played in the fountain. what did you do today?"
this poor kid. mom steps out of the room for just a minute, steps back and starts at the change: all the kitchen cupboards and drawers are open. kid sitting still at the table as he was.
she says, you looking for something? he says.. poptarts. poor kid. he says, what are you thinking mom? she says, a lot of things. he says, anything bad about me? she says: look at my face. I was not thinking anything bad about you.
look at my face.

god, this is awful. scene in school. where he says the teacher used to stutter and the teacher starts to stutter and gets upset and calls him a freak. awful.
and the doctor is nice, but he can't help him. bcs he isnt upset about the divorce.
it's like the same lesson as Albert's toothache: you should believe what the child says. and let go of assumptions, no matter they seem basic. (a toothache is in the tooth. if Cole is upset, it's bcs of the circumstance of his family.)

poor baby. "all the time. they're everywhere."

I like dr malcolm's story about dr malcolm. and, are we to think that the other boy Vincent who wanted also "not to be scared anymore" also saw dead people?

yes: dr listens to a tape of vincent .. I only caught last moment of this but understood that dr is hearing sounds that evidence vincent also saw ghosts... that's why vincent told dr he was wrong about him, failed him. and vincent says he doesn't want to be scared anymore.

pretty good - ruinedendings: The Sixth Sense plot summary:
Dr. Malcolm Crowe is a successful child psychiatrist and happily married to Anna. Returning home from an awards ceremony, Malcolm’s confronted by Vincent Grey, a distraught former patient who shoots Malcolm and commits suicide. Months later, a recovered Malcolm meets with Cole Sear, a shy and troubled 9 year-old boy. Cole has been experiencing disturbing situations he can’t fully understand. His mother, Lynn, is concerned about his withdrawn and fearful behavior and attributes it to her recent divorce and Cole being bullied by school classmates.
Since the shooting, Malcolm and Anna, have grown apart. She has become depressed and uncommunicative. Malcolm unsuccessfully reaches out to her, and is upset when it appears she is seeing another man.
Initially, Cole is uncomfortable talking to Malcolm but comes to trust him and confides, 'I see dead people.' He says the ghosts don’t always know they are dead. Malcolm diagnoses Cole as delusional, noting he shares similar symptoms to Vincent Grey. Eventually, Malcolm realizes Cole really is able to communicate with the dead (as was Vincent). He believes the ghosts are benevolent and tells Cole the spirits somehow find their way to him for his help.

me: ok so if you'll call me at 11 and I'll be like my radio show is on so will you just come over? or I'll be like okay let's go the pancake house or I'll be like okay no let's go to salonica instead...
who am I reminding myself of? "okay so you say... and then what if I'm like, no.." ok, I'll think about it on my own time..

got it. Chelsea Handler: ok so let's say I'm arrested when do I say I have a lawyer? when I am still standing on sunset blvd? and should I say it with attitude, like, oh no you didn't-? ok maybe we should take a picture now and have it on file, that way if or when - more when - I'm arrested, we'll have one of me looking.. pretty Sweet.

more from elegy [elegy on a toy piano] huh: dedicated in memory of Kenneth Koch ah fitting it will join the slim silver train kenneth koch book on the shelf here one of just a few poetry slim books "Birds don't sing, they explain. /Only people sing."

Learn By Doing
p40
One walking a lobster on a leash.
One who knew the function of 14 different forks.
Something there is that does not love sth there is in nature
a constructor of roller coasters. huh. railroads, love for that? (a vacuum.)
When Lung Zu looked at the wall, he saw no wall. mm.
When Po Chu walked east, she also walked west. sure. and for a he, a she.
..
An outbreak of meaning in the reading group.
The one letting the doctor diagnose her only a room away. the one? is this a thing, a trope? mc wrote "the one on the platform watches. the one on the train .." or did I? computer lab sjca. young woman teacher "we can't play all the time" to her son says to me "not sure if you are being -what?- or incredibly generous" about my writing. I took to mean about my not explaining. so if not generous maybe the word is opaque.
Only only only only a room away.
..
You write like you don't know the meaning of a single word.
Singed word. no, you like me.
spam oh so the robot turns into a bug. and skitters off. we pledge.
You can't be part of the solution if you're not mixed up.
it's already too much. too. or,
a little goes such a long way.

sylvia pl: far away as health.

what kind of life could one make of it? the one who. me, not me.


Facet p9
I can't make it any clearer than that
and stay drunk. stop. enough. like me. A crash course
in the afterlife..
It worries me I could could no longer care
or only in a detached way like a monk
for a scorpion.

could not care.

Original Monkey p.7
I'm working on my vanishing point.
I'm practicing my zenith.

Interview p53
..he was unflaying.. right.

the phrases the voices.

Lyrics- Charlotte Sometimes:
On that bleak track
(See the sun is gone again)
The tears were pouring down her face
She was crying and crying for a girl
Who died so many years before...

az- Charlotte Sometimes --by Penelope Farmer
The song, Charlotte Sometimes, by The Cure was written based on the book.
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And she was crying and crying for a girl....
A friend picked this up for me because the song of the same name has been my favourite for many years. The song, Charlotte Sometimes, by The Cure was written based on the book.
This sweet story was so well written and an enjoyable read. Reviewer: Seth A. Riley "some guy in WI"

...a death that though of natural causes, might not have occurred had the sacrifice that ends this book not been chosen. At this final point the main character poignantly becomes Emily, who waited thru half the twentieth century to see Charlotte again.
This story was the basis for the Cure song of the same name, with its dense, atmospheric video telling the story of two teenaged girls stuck in the same school in different eras. I admit I had no idea of the novel's existence during the time I loved the Cure song so much I named my dog "Charlotte Sometimes" in tribute, but wish I had. I think this novel may have gone out of print for a time, especially on the American side of the Atlantic, because I don't remember hearing about it until just a few years ago. I'm informed the ending to the version I'm reviewing was changed from the original in an "updating" and I've been on the lookout for a copy of the earlier edition. I have no idea why it was tampered with or what is different but hope I like it as well as this later one. Reviewer:Ellie Reasoner

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In Summer Birds, the first book about the Makepeace sisters, Charlotte and Emma find a boy on the road who teaches them to fly, and then teaches the rest of the village children.
..unlike in the other novels, what happens isn't explained as cathartic; that is, in the others, it's prefectly clear the Makepeace sisters' experiences are ways of healing and protecting themselves from their parents' death. Thus this novel isn't as 'deep' as the others. What I liked most about The Summer Birds, as well as the other books in the trilogy, is that I relate so well to Charlotte...
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If you haven't read The Summer Birds, I don't particularly suggest you read Emma in WinterI don't care if amazon.com thinks this book is for grammar school kids! I promise you it's not-- I'm sixteen and nearly out of school and I recently read it and fell in love.
until you have. The characters are easier to understand that way, and the dreams always involve the flying the children learned during the summer term. Overall, this book is excellent, just like all of Penelope Farmer's work. It isn't my favorite novel from her, but I can't really think of any other author who could even hold a candle to her stories. ..

az- Searching for Shona --by Margaret J. Anderson:
Card Catalog Description: During the evacuation of children from Edinburgh in the early days of World War II, shy, wealthy Margaret on her way to relatives in Canada trades places and identities with the orphaned Shona bound for the Scottish countryside.

-It's the early years of WWII, and the Nazi war machine is about to unleash its fury on England. In order to protect their children from harm, thousands of Londoners are sending their children to the country or, if they can afford it, out of England entirely. Two orphan girls meet in a embarkation area. One girl is from an affluent family and is being sent to Canada; the other, who is from a working class background, is being sent to the country. They are both the same age, look similar to each other, and have no parents. The rich girl decides that she doesn't want to go to Canada, and strikes a deal with the poor girl to switch clothes, destinations, and identities for the duration of the war. Of course, neither of them know that the war will last for six years.The rich girl assumes the life of her poorer counterpart, and discovers a world very different from that of her own upbringing. The war ends, and she is a completely different person than she was six years earlier. Will she go back to her former life of privilege and wealth?

-Like a previous reviewer, I also read this book over 20 years ago, but the story stuck with me. As a matter of fact, it took quite some time to actually remember the name of it so that I could purchase it for my own daughter! The suspense and plot twist at the end made this an unforgettable book for any young adult.

az- Charlotte Sometimes --byPenelope Farmer:
Charlotte Makepeace is a new girl at an old boarding school. On her first night she goes to sleep in her bed and in the morning she wakes up as Clare Moby, a schoolgirl from over forty years ago. Of course Charlotte is confused, even more so when people don't realise that she is not Clare, not even Clare's younger sister Emily.
Somehow she struggles through her first day as Clare but to add to her confusion she finds herself back in her own time the following day and no one has missed her! Charlotte soon realises that Clare is taking her place in her time and she is taking Clare's. The two girls muddle through by communicating through Clare's diary, leaving each other notes and messages in order for them to survive in their swap-over worlds.
However it's not long before Clare's younger sister Emily realises that something is wrong and Charlotte is forced to tell her the truth. With Emily as an ally, Charlotte's time in the past is a little easier but there is a dark cloud on the horizon. Clare and Emily are going into lodgings outside the school and the children have worked out that the time travelling that they are experiencing has something to do with the bed they sleep in and the tree outside the window which exists only in Clare's time.
This is an exciting story that moves at a fair pace, even more so when Charlotte is trapped in the past, forced to become a day pupil and temporarily forfeit her real life in the future.
Charlotte's identity is soon in question even to herself. Is she Charlotte or is she in fact Clare? Only Emily constant nagging about trying to get the real Clare back keeps the young girl aware of whom she really is.
Charlotte experiences life in England during the First World War. What once was history for her becomes the present, and she suffers with her new friends, as they loose loved ones to foreign battlefields, and face the terror of air raids in the middle of the night.
Charlotte's eventual permanent return to the future is not without its own problems but luckily Clare had her own ally in the form of Elizabeth, a dorm mate who like Emily realised that Clare was not Charlotte and helped her as best she could.
Charlotte's return to the future is not with out a tragic price. Clare, Charlotte finds out, died not long after her return to the past, from flu and for a while Charlotte is grief stricken. However redemption comes in the form of a parcel of memories from a now grown up Emily who has waited many years to contact her sister's fellow time traveller in the future. I was moved (again) just reading this-
"Charlotte Sometimes" is a surprisingly dark children's novel with flashes of colour and inspiration as two young girls live lives that are not their own.
It is a poignant story about the loss of those we love and how we have to carry on no matter what. A surprisingly mature book that can be read by both older children and young adults alike.
Reviewer:Kali "bengaligirl" (United Kingdom) "top 500 reveiwer" - See all my reviews
outstanding review. is it really that good? yes just a top notch summary. says every important thing and says nothing badly. eg "a schoolgirl from forty yrs ago" yes exactly accurate Clare was a schoolgirl there years ago ( saying "a girl from forty yrs ago" would have been dubious...

(today mentioned Charlotte Sometimes at work bcs talk about time travel in the mailroom. .. looked it up and surprised to find plentiful reviews (had I looked for this at all recently?)

I loved this book. the follow up did not have the same effect on me though it's title also lovely: Emily in Winter. this and the other that comes to mind is that one about the two girls trading places at war time, hey same description! but that one has no time travel, the switch is willful and expected to be short lived, and at the end which is years later the girl we follow is rejected by the other. somehow similarly resonant. and the title also two words one of wh is girl's name ~ Sharon? I found it -after yrs wondering- while here at work on a Sunday not many months ago.

ah it was not Sharon but Shona. "Searching for Shona" -
dlww Sunday, May 28: two girls switch places during WWII _ Loganberry Books: Stump the :after the (unexpectd) 7yr life trade, girl finds other girl (who living wealthy life) who denies her-- says I dont know you.what was it about this that so impressed me?

I'll have to get ahold of that and read it, it's like something fantastical in my memory, like so much mine that it could not be real an actual book I cld locate and reread.. (whereas Charlotte Sometimes still at 9619 I think .. certainly was around, was an object I continued to know. did I get Shona fr the library? never owned it?)

Maybe when you get to oblivion,
the car lights sweeping the motel room walls,
you'll never know who you are again
or what you've done or what's been done to you.
You'll have maybe forty dollars,
maybe a road map of Vermont,
only an inkling of what you're escaping,
what you're trying to find and what's calling you back,
what you've stolen and what you must return.
Hello frozen river.
I like your lipstick.
Hello big gray coat.
Can't talk now.

elegy on toy piano - dean young
pitt.edu/~press 0822958724
from Ghost Gash p9

books of int ~buy:
elegy on toy piano -pittsburgh
the children's hospital -mcsweeneys
she may not leave -atlantic

-Studio 60's pilot was great and the show appeared to have great potential. It's just not living up to it. Feed the Machine: Strange days, re-ups and kid TV gold!

--What a waste of Lauren Graham. -Looks like we'll get more of her next week, though. And maybe the line about cutting sketches featuring the host was a nod to the fact LG wasn't in the ep all that much...? 1-5: "The Long Lead Story" 2006.10.16 - TWoP Forums

-We finally got shown Harriet being lovable instead of just being told that she was. .. And the sketch bits we saw were actually decent. Lance Mannion: Studio 60: Tears on the Tivo

-But what wins against Sorkin-Filler is a humility discovered in many good “smaller” scenes. Take Ed Asner - he was great with his characters lines: he came off like the experienced, ruthless entertainment industry capitalist, but precisely not because he stated it, but via the script’s use of examples and his acting. So in that scene he could bring some fire, he was both really listening to Jordan’s suggestion yet at the same time registering the fact that she continued to call him “sir” after he told her not to.

"If you want her to cook the meal, you have to let her shop for the groceries." really said (in 1st person) by a football coach or was it manager?

wasn't into watching Heroes last Monday, can this recap get me interested for tonite?
the trouble is that this show is -not- basically character-driven (wh was said about FriNightLights, that it is basically about the characters not the football) but about the suspense-plot. right?

Television Without Pity » Heroes » One Small Leap p1:
He thanks her and mentions her heroine status as the girl who saved the guy from the train wreck. She's all, oh, gee! Thanks so much! You heard about that? Claire's all, uh, dumb-ass? You only told everyone to TiVo the damn broadcast. Also? You're about thirty-two and far too old to be on the cheerleading team. Now go get me something flammable so I can set my hair on fire.
oh wait, that's a quote. Clare says: "It was on the news, you told half the school to to set their tivos." and when jackie is expressing false surprise she says "O M G does everyone know?".
are the kids saying (not just typing) OMG now? ~ eh.

Peter tells his brother that he tried to fly again and Nate's like, dude? Ixnay on the iying-flay. that is not a quote. what Nate says is to be quiet ~ so, pig latin gets the spirit of that, funny.

..Nathan flings the Suresh book onto a desk, and we cut to the same book on a table in Mohinder's apartment in Brooklyn. I like that the recap notes the transitions. here, book to book. earlier, from the trunk of Niki's car (with dead bodies in it) to the trunk of Clare's dad's car (with a mascot in it). ...
He's feverishly stabbing at the laptop keyboard when there's a sound at the door. He grabs a gun and cocks the hammer. In walks Pixie, brandishing a big white china bowl and a set of keys. "Sorry!" she trills. "I still have your dad's keys!" Well, that's interesting. Seeing as just the other day you were talking about how you knocked and knocked but Papa Suresh was nowhere to be found. Why, if you had his keys, didn't you just, I don't know, OPEN THE DAMN DOOR? See, I don't think this is a character issue or even a bad acting issue; it's a sloppy writing issue. No, I don't think I could necessarily do better, but I do think that, if I were around, the Angel of Continuity wouldn't be over in the corner guzzling martinis and eyeballing the PAs.
...
Isaac's Den of Iniquity. Simone is moving paintings around, one of which seems to be of Claire walking away from Nerdeo as we just witnessed in the previous scene. transition. So…what? Isaac's visions capture exits from scenes? His talent isn't very exciting sometimes.

Amy Aquino is the familiar actress who was in the nip/tuck outtakes (? ~ scenes not used in the show) as mom who wants breast reduction for her 13yrld daughter (played by actress who plays Julie the daughter of Teri Hatcher's char on DespH.) I tht, is she on the Sopranos? no... checked: no. but then got it - mom on Brooklyn Bridge tv show early 90s? and Yes.
imdb doesnt have much for Brooklyn Bridge, but shows up on tv.com. ~she had darker hair there..
and I've seen her elsewhere? ~was she mom on a ~lifetime movie based on true of a guy-turned-girl who was beaten to death at a party? I only saw a few minutes of that and hardly remember but the memory of Brooklyn Bridge was vague and yet accurate so maybe this too... accuracy of vague memory ~ when can't hardly recall but it did come to mind ~ is so satisfying, or sth like.
anyway she's a markedly recognizable face. to me or possibly in general?

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Crooked Timber » » Fugedaboutit:
Off the top of my head, I can recall at least one passage each in which Derrida and Foucault say, more or less: “Okay, yes, it would be good to stop talking about Hegel, finally. It’s been a long time since we all agreed that dialectics was a dead end, in fact it seems like we’ve been at this point forever. But there I go, talking about Hegel again. Because he makes us do it, somehow. Damnit, this is really getting old.” It sounds more impressive when they get that Ecole Normale Supérieure rhythm going, but that’s the rap, in paraphrase. All of this as prologue to what Adam Kotsko thinks is the present and future “Can we just shut up about this guy?” dynamic:
In fact, although it’s early yet, I will venture a prediction—the 21st century will have been little more than the century of Heidegger fatigue. There will be no great figure who arises to take his place. The recent half-hearted rise of Badiou is little more than a symptom of Heidegger fatigue, and—more to the point—Badiou’s own monumental arrogance can never be anything more than a feeble parody of Heidegger’s. ..

---It’s a conti thing. Analytic philosophy doesn’t work like this at all. We don’t think it’s even necessary to read the greats of the recent past (Quine, Ayer, Russell, Chisholm….) If they had something worth saying, then its survived in the work of those who built on them.
-what they’re (analytic philosophers) actually saying is equally rhetorical as continental philosophers. The reason that they think they don’t have to read their founders is largely PR - the analytics want to pretend to be modern natural scientists. But they lose gigantic things by this pretense, among which is their inability to examine analytic philosophy itself critically.

Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Wikipedia has been viewed as an experiment in a variety of social, political, and economic systems, including anarchy, democracy, and communism. Its founder has replied that it is not intended as one, though that is a consequence.^[38] =[WikiEN-l] Re: Illegitimate block: David Gerard wrote:
> Wikipedia is not primarily an experiment in Internet democracy. It's a
> project to write an encyclopedia.
This should be printed out and handed to every single person on the planet. I think I'll start a new nonprofit organzation to do that. Wikimedia will give everyone an encyclopedia. The new organization will give everyone a piece of paper explaining: it's an encyclopedia, not an experiment in democracy.
We *are* a grand social experiment of course. But not _primarily_. --Jimbo
Daniel Brandt of Wikipedia Watch has referred to Jimbo Wales as the "dictator" of Wikipedia; however, most Wikipedia users either do not consider Wales to be a dictator, or consider him to be one who rarely gives non-negotiable orders.^[39]

Hugh Jackman

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Logan/Wolverine

Anna Paquin

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Rogue/Marie D'Ancanto

Famke Janssen

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Jean Grey that's Ava in Nip/Tuck

Halle Berry

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Ororo Munroe/Storm white hair, pretty

I'm gonna get turned off by action and dark metal futuristicy villian scenes, but for now I do like these actors and this school bit, vmuch. a school for children who are outcasts... we few, I always like we few...

Rogue (comics) - Wkp:
More than most mutants, Rogue considers her powers a curse. She involuntarily absorbs the memories, physical strength, and, in the case of super-powered persons, abilities of anyone she touches. ah on twop re Heroes peaople said "Rogue?" when wondering if Peter is picking up his brother's flying ability, and the artist's future-rendering ability..
Hailing from Mississippi, she is the X-Men's self-described southern belle.
Rogue was portrayed by Anna Paquin in the 2000 film X-Men and the sequels.
In the first film, Rogue, whose real name is Marie, is an innocent young girl who runs away from home after her power manifests, and bonds with Wolverine in a manner similar to his relationship with Jubilee in the comic books. ..Wolverine destroys the spinning machine and then touches her so that she can heal faster. The event leaves her with a white streak in her hair.
and Wolverine has the self-healing (~tissue regenerating) ability that cheerleader Clare has in Heroes. played by Hugh Jackman here so I am int (lovely Australian who was Eddie opposite Ashley Judd in Someone Like You, the movie adaptation of Laura Zeigler~'s book. Animal Husbandry. LZ was Jana's frnd, dated my p&p buddy Brendan in DC).
The more Rogue used her mutant power, the more her mind became filled with fragmentary psychic echoes of the people she absorbed, and Carol Danvers' psyche was nearly a completely distinct personality within her mind. It became harder and harder for Rogue to hold on to her own personality, and she feared that her powers would drive her insane. Desperate, she turned to Professor Charles Xavier and the X-Men (X-Men #171). Xavier's charity towards all mutants led him to welcome her into his home, regardless of his team having previously fought Rogue and in spite of the X-Men's own strong disagreements. He psychically examined her and invited her to join the X-Men and live at the mansion.