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Hello Mom 🙂
How I remember the days of kid crushes. My daughter’s (and every other girl in the world) was Justin Timberlake! At 12 she finally met him after working three concerts passing out flyers at the stadium entrance (under Mom’s watchful eyes five feet away) She hasn’t gotten over it yet and calls him *My Alternate Universe Husband* to this day.
I have friends in Nashville on the outskirts of the music industry and I will most certainly pass on any info that might fall into their lap concerning shooting.
I hope your little one gets a gigantic thrill!
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“One if by Land,
Two if by Magic Portal!”
Great casting 🙂 Looks like a winner for The History Channel.
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I may have to develop a tolerance for country music…damn (grin)
Good luck to him,( and you Sarah) and massive fun.
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Shippers. Hmm. No, I’m a Hookist. 🙂 I come from an Internet time well before the term Shipper was ever coined and I still find the term totally weird, but witty enough to appreciate!(grin)
I follow the Pirate, which springs from my life long adoration of the Golden Era of Hollywood swashbucklers. In particular, the magnificent Errol Flynn. He was quite dead before I was born but his old movies spoke to the Romantic Adventuress in my soul. O’Donoghue’s Hook was just too damned irresistible and enormously easy on the eyes to ignore. Flynnesque to the bone and then some better. Perfect voice, perfect outfit, perfect music, too. Let’s just say he filled up my senses (wink)
I watched Once from day one and fell for the entire premise. Rumplestiltskin and Evil Queen were the standout favorites, with edgy Snow a close third. When Hook appeared, my interest was cemented. It was just a matter of time before things naturally progressed to providing him the quintessential feminine foil of equal depth.
Emma was the stoic hard-ass realist. Strong and in your face. A perfect heroine to throw into a softer, glammed-up fairy Tale world. When Hook and Emma climbed the Beanstalk, it was immediately clear to this old romantic soul that they were a grand match just waiting to explode into each others’ lives. Undeniably Yo Ho Hubba Hubba waiting to happen.
It isn’t essential for couples to rule the show, but it IS all about True Love at the core. Love of family, love of friends, love of lovers (grin)
I’m just very glad that it turned out as it was sassily telegraphed. More to come, more to explode, but supremely right for each other. A trip I hope continues.
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On the Waterfont glove scene was touted as Brando at his improvisational finest. He basically changed the way actors moved and performed in movies (Method Acting). Eva Marie Saint dropped her glove in an unscripted moment and Brando picked it up, didn’t hand it back to her and just went on with the scene, playing with the glove while he spoke his dialogue. It was a huge deviation from how actors approached their scenes. The director , Elia Kazan, decided to keep the improv in the movie. Ta da~movie history was made.
It is a scene where Brando was toying with Eva Marie Saint’s character’s innocence and creating a physical intimacy that isn’t present in the dialogue. He even sits on a swing while he chats, trying on the glove. It is a great movie moment.
Michael Raymond James was emulating Brando in the scene…it is well studied by actors. He followed Brando’s motions and attitude to a T. It is probably my favorite scene Raymond James did, even though it wasn’t an original thought, it was very cool.
As far as a closer comparison, it could be seen as Neal trying to charm and insinuate intimacy to Emma, who, though not pure and innocent, was still a bit of a novice to the world of thievery and deception that he knew well. Neal tip-toed very close to the edge of inappropriate behavior since Emma is dressed as the almost-schoolgirl she was. But it worked nicely even if Emma was far more worldly at that point than the Eva Marie Saint character.
(was composing while Jenna was posting! On the Waterfront is a MUST see movie for so many reasons. It is rough and gritty and raw in places and Brando at his mesmerizing best. If nothing else, there is one of the most sensual, romantic kisses b/w Brando and Eva Marie Saint 🙂 )
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Wellll, THIS bears repeating :
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Yes, Sir! Yes, you are :)
thank you K.J. !
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Rumple will definitely not be an easy man to love but Belle’s strength is her capacity TO love…and forgive. Great “opposites attract” balance but also great potential for some drama.
Perhaps the support Rumple might need in avoiding the (very) cold shoulder from the Ice Queen will bring out the fierceness in Belle. She is overdo for some decent story lines.
It will be an interesting first year for the Newlyweds! (But I am glad there is still some darkness in the Dark One.)
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Oh, I think some tush is going to be booted! Or attempted.
But she won’t take it out on Robin, she can’t take it out on Marian…so that leaves Emma, but she can’t go crazy on Emma without upsetting Henry…and by family loyalty, Snow and Charming. Rumple will be busy covering up his lie from Belle AND Regina (who killed my sister?) so that leaves the Luscious Leather clad pirate booty exposed…BUT that would bring out the protective magic in Emma who NOW can control her power and as Regina saw, that power is mighty strong when Emma gets emotional!
and who knows…Elsa could be grateful to Hook and Emma for freeing her from her urn but highly p.o.’d at whoever put her in there in the first place!(hello Dark One, Evil Queen?)
could make for some strange bedfellows…
Veryyyy interesting for all !
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obisgirl: What I don’t understand with these Neal fans, is if they’re still miserable watching the show- why are they still watching?
surayya:The fact remains that this show is Adam and Eddy’s brainchild and they can do whatever they want. If you’re not happy, feel free to tune out but don’t bring the rest of the fandom down with your nonsense. Tweeting “stoponceuponahook” to Adam was immature and an example of the very definition of “fan pandering”. A lot of fans are happy with the way the story stands.
Adam and Eddy are only guilty of *pandering* when it isn’t about Neal and his fans’ demands doncha know (wink). The fans who *go there* see themselves as immune to accountability for all the accusations they throw around. (accusations with no or seriously lame support)
Sadly, obisgirl, there is no understanding necessary. They are miserable because they want to be miserable. They did not get their True Love way, and instead of just shaking their heads, rightfully snorting for a few days and finding something else to watch or follow that won’t threaten their tender sensibilities, they relentlessly spew meanness. Because if they do not get what they want, by Gawd no one shall be spared their undignified wrath! As if they are the only fans whose opinions are valid.
None of us have that power. We either accept it, continue the journey, or whine like a putz and look very foolish in the process.
Any of our non-Emma favorites could be extinguished at any time to serve A&E’s vision and story. Death by plot advancement/uselessness is the favored lethal weapon these guys have and they will use it whenever they feel like it. It is what being a creator is allll about. We know it. We live with it. We embrace the joy of the survivors or go somewhere else on Sunday night.
Twitter for all its fun, educational, entertainment value of being up close and somewhat personal with “celebrity”, is, at its worst, a cesspool of crass posters with little class and less character. I don’t know why any of the performers would put up with the crap that passes for meaningful dialogue there. How many letters are there in the reply “P*ss Off, you are blocked*?~ a lot less than 140, and it would be spelled correctly, too.
PoM, I could have quoted the majority of your post! Yeah, Neal was all about Baelfire and Rumple. A compelling story on all counts. The ever-revered Tallahassee episode was all about Emma…and showed, more than anything else, a comparison of the possibilities of her opening up to a Hook relationship with her disastrously tacky beggerman-thief relationship with Neal. Neal came out of that looking like a chump. And it set the stage for WHY Emma had built those hideous walls, not why she and Neal were anything near a bona fide love match. They were a young lust/first love coupling disaster that presented a prime opportunity for *accident* Henry to begin his journey with serious connections to other main characters AND for the writers to introduce the edgy connection between TWO stubborn, emotionally ravaged and passionate characters that they planned to merge into one helluva couple. Hook and Emma.
Had they kept Neal anything like the younger Bae he would have been far more interesting and given Raymond James much more to sink his acting chops into. A much more dramatic and intriguing relationship than Emma/Neal was Hook’s with Bae, even to the hospital scene in 3-15 and the message-by-bird to Hook! They didn’t go that route and Neal approached character roadblock. Giving him the exit they did, though it taxed the brain to see it stated as purely heroic and not selfish, provided a much grander legacy for Neal than if he had continued as a very weak, wobbly side of a delusional triangle.
Being enamored with the concept of first love=true love and “re-found baby makes three” is a very time honored, highly romantic, Hollywood golden-era notion and I can see the appeal. But relentlessly attacking the writers and demanding an invented “happily ever after” at the expense of the reality of what is actually written and filmed is pure, self-indulgent nonsense.
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