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    Also, Maxwell Caulfield's birth name is Maxwell Newby - fair enough, looks like he needed a pseudonym for some unspecified reason, that happens. But his first credited role, in 1967's Accident (as an 8 year old), he was already in the pseudonym game, credited as Maxwell Findlater. Is it possible that when they asked him what his first pseudonym might be, he told them he'd 'find one later' and was completely misunderstood?

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    Oh nooooo! That was a real rough week on this site and I had to excuse myself from participating for a few days.

     

    I'm seven pages in and the fight seems to be simmering down. The thing that drives me on is that the thread is TWENTY NINE PAGES LONG. What on earth could come up that sparks another 22 pages? Good lord. I'm going back in.

     

    *edit, forty minutes later*

    Wow. Amazing. I can't imagine how much fun/depressing that might have been to watch unfold in real time. I was pleased to see that that thread was what inspired 24 Hour Party Pizza to start a forum account, so something good came of it! And in the whole 'who from the HDTGM canon should play you in the dramatic reading', I call Adam Scott. I mostly enjoyed the discussion of impending babies for forum members. Belated congrats!

     

    Ugh. My grading's gone to shit now. Back to it.

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  5. Posted

    Ack! So conflicted! I am drowning under a mountain of grading and I need to get it done by this afternoon to ensure a nice weekend, but I really really want to blow it off to listen to the ep, particularly reading all the comments so far. Save me some juicy C+Os, guys!

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  7. Posted

    Rest assured I will refer to myself as Taylor Anne. I'm dropping the photo part so you can all deal with it lol.

     

    Wanna start placing bets that I don't even get tickets again let alone get to throw out a C&O?

     

    Scheer reads these boards. We KNOW he does. PAUL, WE DEMAND TAYLOR ANNE IS AT THE AUSTIN SHOW. MAKE IT SO! (please)

     

    Let's see if that helps.

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  9. Posted

    Phew! Surely there's an Earwolf Board Veteran VIP roped-off area, no?

     

    My greatest hope with this Austin live show is that all of the board contributors who are in attendance identify themselves as such during the Q and A sessions. I think having Board All-Stars in the room (particularly if you all went as a group!) would be a huge deal. To us at least.

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  11. Posted

    In a department meeting at work at the moment so sneaking in another post since this is on my mind.

     

    IMDb tells us that the Frenchie character was gradually written out over the course of the film, which explains why she’s not involved later on. But the presence of Frenchie, as a tie back to the past, suggests a strong connection between the T-Birds and Pink Ladies between films. However, Frenchie, who wears a Pink Lady jacket throughout, NEVER interacts with the current group. No one questions this old lady on campus in this exclusive jacket. It reminds me of the Tonehangers in ‘Pitch Perfect’ – old guys who can’t let go of the past who hang around the young kids. Or Zac Efron in ‘Neighbours 2’. But, as I said before, if this Pink Lady club is something people aspire to – like Pamela Adlon brings up in her ambition about what she’ll do when she’s a senior in the Pink Ladies – then surely Stephanie et al know Frenchie from before? And surely, if Michael is Sandy’s cousin, his link to a legendary past Pink Lady must have some cache? And why do Michael and Frenchie never ever discuss their connection to Sandy beyond one token mention? And how are English Michael and Australian Sandy related?

     

    My favourite part is the moment when the headmistress makes her announcement to the school in the first period of the first day of the year, and Frenchie has already constructed a complex, dangerous-looking, exploding chemistry experiment. Within 10 minutes of the first class starting! Okay, okay, enough. Back to the meeting.

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  13. Posted

    This movie is also the film acting debut of Lorna Luft, Judy Garland's way less talented daughter. I couldn't figure out how we were supposed to feel about her character (Paulette) in relation to Johnny Nogarelli. It seemed like she was set up to be the Rizzo-style character, except she's a fallback for Johnny after he's been dumped by Stephanie. So she allows this guy to treat her like shit for the entire movie, and then be happy that he's settled on her at the end once Stephanie unmasks the Cool RiderTM?

     

    In the world of this movie, this is the same school, but two years later. Familiar characters from the first movie exist (the headmistress, Frenchy???, Eugene??????!) but if we follow the timeline, we must assume that Johnny and Stephanie were sophomores when Danny Zuko and Sandy Newton-John were dancing around in the first one. So HOW HAS SO MUCH CHANGED IN TWO YEARS? Why are they all on motorbikes now? Did car-racing become verboten after the race against the Scorpions in the LA River? By the way, the leader of the bad guy motorcycle gang is the same leader of the bad-guy drag racing gang in the first movie. I want to see a movie starring that guy, showing how he hauled himself up from the humiliation of losing a drag race to Greased Lightning, biding his time over two years, to found an outlaw motorcycle gang, only to be 'defeated' by Cool RiderTM whose superpower seems to be riding at things until they get out of the way or fall down. That's a movie I'd watch.

     

    I have SO MUCH MORE to say about this movie but I really should wait til the ep. Apologies for multiposting.

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  14. Posted

    My phone won't let me edit my post, but I wanted to add as terrible as it is, I officially like High School Musical better than Grease 2.

     

    Did you know that Grease 2 was supposed to be the second in a series of four films, as well as a TV series? When number 2 tanked so hard, number 3 was put on ice. For 25 years. When it was finally tweaked. And released as...

     

     

    High School Musical!

     

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  15. Posted

    No bullshit, I was watching Spider-Man 3 in theaters and the two people sitting in front of me was a elderly man from either a nursing home or he had in-home care as the other person was his nurse/helper. She spent the entire movie explaining the history of Spider-Man to him in the context of what was happening in the movie. I would have been more pissed if the movie had actually been any good.

     

    "Nurse? NURSE! Why is that Spider Man dancing? What's with his hair? Nurse? Can you explain why they let the redhead sing? Nurse?"

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  16. Posted

    I could not agree more. Everything about that guy's question made me mad. It was just a bunch of lame excuses.

     

    "Oh, they run 30 minutes of trailers." It varies by theater, but the normal average is about 17 minutes (and if you go to theaters like Alamo Drafthouse, it's usually closer to 8 minutes). I went to see Finding Dory at a Saturday matinee. I was probably the only one there without a kid in tow, and I would guess that most of the kids were under 10. They all sat quietly through the trailers. If they could do it, there's no reason a grown fucking adult can't do the same.

     

    "Trailers give everything away." Then step outside if that is truly your issue. Don't make it the rest of the theater's issue.

     

    "The trailer isn't the movie." No, but you're still being inconsiderate to everyone else in the theater. When the lights go down, put your fucking phone away. It's distracting and rude to have a light flashing around. And if someone asks you to put your phone away, don't be an asshole about it; just put the goddamn phone away or step outside.

     

    Count me in to team TurnOffYourDamnPhone: I look forward to trailers, because I don't see many of the blockbusters in the cinema (what with having kids) so getting to see the supercut of what's to come is always a huge highlight for me. I mean, the question I had for the bozo who phoned in to Paul was, 'WHAT is so important on your phone that you and your wife need to be studiously tapping even after the lights have gone down in the cinema'? I can completely understand if someone's monitoring an eBay auction or is down to the final minutes in a Clash of Clans War (whoo boy, guilty), but if it's just mindless googling, COME ON. I say, that if the cinema has dipped the lights, that's the universal signal to say 'shh. It's starting.' I always get annoyed when I'm at a film that only shows a couple of trailers: I look forward to 3-4 good ones, particularly prior to big films. If the guy in front of me has his phone on, that takes me right out. Turn it off!

     

    On a related note (and linking to another thread), I saw 'Hotel Transylvania 2' with my kids last year, which wasn't my favourite theatregoing experience ever, because not only was the movie pretty bad, but two separate fathers in the rows around me decided that they would show their disdain for this children's movie by being on their cellphones incessantly throughout. Packed cinema, googling merrily away. And, of course, because we're Canadians, we're all too polite to say anything. So I thought I would wait a year and a half and then complain in a forum entirely unrelated to that movie. That'll show him.

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  18. Posted

    Watched 'Grease 2' last night with my wife, who once played Jan in the stage version of the original musical, so had a real vested interest in the world of Rydell. As I've said before, I loved this movie as a kid - my sister and I used to watch it on a loop, and knew all the words to all of the songs - so it was with dismay that I realised that this one wouldn't be nearly as much fun as I'd promised my wife (who had never seen it). What a mess. The 50's aesthetic of the first one was completely thrown out, so all of the songs were unlike each other (I think only two of the songs were composed by the same person) and aside from some half-hearted references to President Kennedy and the nuclear crisis, this is definitely a movie of the early 80's, not early 60's.

     

    I videoed sections of the movie as it played out and texted them to my sister, who was struck with the same nostalgia I was. The difference was, I was watching the movie as a whole, so was realising just how horrible it was, while she was seeing it in snippets and reminiscing about how she loved Michelle Pfeiffer's character as a girl.

     

    Hugely satisfying to see Pamela Adlon as a teenage wannabe 'Pink Lady'. Also, I enjoyed seeing Christopher McDonald as a T-Bird: when I first saw 'Happy Gilmore' I mistakenly thought it was Jeff Conaway (Kenickie) who played Shooter McGavin: watching this I realised I was just mixing up my T-Birds.

     

    I reiterate: I can't wait to hear Jason talk about the 'Reproduction' song.

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  19. Posted

    Cake Boss

    Ice-T

    Garry Marshall

     

    Duh

     

    I'm pretty fond of his John C. Reilly. Someone on the boards suggested HDTGM should do The Vampire's Assistant, and I thought it would be awesome for PFT to do the show in his JCR character. Actually, now that I think about it, that's a terrible idea.

     

    No, my list is

    Dame Sir Andrew

    John C. Reilly

    Ice-T

    Cake Boss (3 and 4 interchangeable)

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  20. Posted

    Oh! Cake bug trance. I never did find out what happened to the pyramid pyramid scheme.

    Yessssss! Vindicated!

     

    Edit: I'm well aware that it's an idiotic name, but every time I see my user name I hear Paul F. Tompkins as the Cake Boss say "now lemme go into my cake bug tranch", and it makes me smile. I'm not even sure the Cake Boss is in my top three of PFT characters...

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  21. Posted

     

    Basically, it sounds like you and I are of the same mind on it. I'm just going to talk to my reflection now and pretend you and I are talking about it. :)

     

    Oh, but I could have done without Jimmy Fallon. Couldn't get through it.

     

    P.S. Change your name all you want, but you'll always be "Kit Walker" to me.

     

    Agreed on the agreement: let's continue this discussion for a million posts. Everyone will be fine with it.

     

    Also agreed on Jimmy Fallon. Like, WTF is up with that? Especially the terrible intro about his Classical Training? Guh.

     

    Maybe I should go back to Kit Walker. I like it pretty well but it's the first time I've ever used that username and I wasn't devoted to it. This current one was a whim after hearing a phrase in the Pod F. Tompkast. It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it? I think I only won the No-Prize last week because of the weird name, so maybe I should decide that it's done its job and I should switch back. Or, maybe i should hold a 'Fate of What's Up Hot Dog' poll like in the waning days of Comedy Death Ray Radio? Everyone in here has such epic usernames - distinct, succinct, original - that coming up with the right complementary one is a tough thing.

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  22. Posted

    Of course I have! I think I feel the same way at the moment, but I didn't really expect it affect me the same way the musical did. I love the demos on it, because I like that window into the creative process.

     

    I didn't really mind Kelly Clarkson. I certainly enjoyed her rendition more than I thought I would. But considering the original version absolutely wrecks me every time, and this did nothing for me, I can say without a doubt that her version is definitely the lesser of the two.

     

    To be honest, I think just wanted more Lin on the album--although I recognize that's not really the point of this album.

     

    On a side note, I love it when rappers pull a Wiz Khalifa on "Washingtons on You Side" and do the weird monologue at the beginning of a song:

     

    Um, it's kind of crazy, cos people think I got it made just because I got paper. I mean, I do got it made, but...that's cos I made it myself.

     

    It just amuses me to no end, especially the premeditation of it. I just like to think of some dude standing alone in a recording booth like, "No, no, guys. Just roll. I got something I have say..." I find that shit so fucking cheesy. Like, just imagining he's reading it off a piece of printer paper like it's fucking gospel. It's fantastic.

     

    I'm glad it's not just me that isn't stirred by Kelly Clarkson - I like her generally and I read about how hard it was for her to record this while pregnant, but the layers and distortions takes so much of the emotion out of it. I agree about the absence of Lin - when he shows up in 'Wrote My Way Out' it felt like a flood of familiarity: and hearing him name-check Maurice Sendak right off the bat was amazing. I really love the Interludes - particularly the remix of 'Take a Break', which could be much longer. Really love Sia's take on 'Satisfied' and impressed by the narrative flip of 'Say Yes To This'. Love both 'Dear Theodosia' versions (I can't get enough Regina Spektor). Most of all I think the track I'll come back to most will be 'Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)' - so glad to see K'NAAN get some big exposure.

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  23. Posted

    Anyone get the Hamilton Mixtape today? It's stunning in parts. A bit uneven in others. I think it needs a bunch of listens to really figure it out, but overall, pretty great. I'm disappointed in how over-produced 'Quiet Uptown' is, with Kelly Clarkson: the simplicity of the original is its strength. It just played through and I feared that I would be reduced to a quivering mess in this coffee shop, but it left me cold. Anyway, would love to hear everyone's opinion!

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  24. Posted

    Grease 2! Reproduction, Reproduction!!

     

    I remember absolutely LOVING this movie as a kid. My sister and I recorded it off the television and watched it on a loop. It wasn't until years later that I read something that referred to how bad Grease 2 was, that I thought back and realised just how wrong we'd been. I'm hoping that the nostalgia factor hauls me through, but to the fellow board posters who have said they don't like the first Grease movie - you will SUPER HATE the second one. Same goes if you really, really love the first one. This is a mess of a movie, no two ways about it. I cannot wait to hear Jason talk about the Reproduction song.

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  25. Posted

    Oh, and I bet the franchise is Star Wars? All the BB8 references and all...

     

    I thought so too - I certainly got the sense that it was a Disney property, but maybe it's the proximity of the June-thinks-Daisy-Duck-is-Daffy story that made me think that. Is there anyone on the forum in California who is planning to go this event? The way it sounds, it seems unlikely these will surface after the fact...

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