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Yeah Bundy isn't all that interesting.

Out of curiosity I googled when the Tate Murders occurred, Aug 8 & 9 of '69. I'm wondering if they trying to "cash in" (for lack of a better term--or maybe that is the best term) on the 50th Anniversary of the Tate Murders and the publicity that I'm sure will surround it.

wasn't Inglorious Basterds released in the summer? Or at least late summer? The reason I ask is I saw it on a double bill with Julie & Julia (I was working in a small town with one two screen theater and that was what was showing.) and I could have sworn it was in summer

speaking of interesting tributes and homages to West Side Story, a couple of years ago choreographer Jon Rua put together this little video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLPGUKqf_Ns

I'm trying to remember, does DVD do a bad accent in this one too?

well that makes sense then. I've been resisting pulling the trigger on Stitcher Premium (again) but I may have to

Did I somehow miss their Valerian episode?

Mama Mia! Here We Go Again? Sorry I can't deal with Bronson's "singing"

Oh I see how it is

I was in college and properly drunk when I got home and saw the news and was glued to the television. It was an interesting time

well I know what I'm looking for...

THANK YOU! this was bothering me the whole time that's not Victor Garber at the bottom in the red is it?

IIRC, and it's been forever since I've seen it, wasn't John Leguizamo's first filmed Live on Stage one man show marketed very similar as being a Spike Lee Joint? At one time (and he still may) I know Spike prided himself on doing the Woody Allen thing where he directs a movie a year, I think these were done for that purpose. I still disagree, that Spike did anything that I hadn't seen before in a love on stage version. Some are better than others and this is one of the best ones, but I just don't think it's super ground breaking in changing the landscape of how Live On Stage productions are filmed.

I saw this a number of years ago, (2011 I believe) and was blown away by it. It was literally unlike any musical I had ever seen with Stew narrating his own story, on stage. It was brilliant and shocking and moving and repeatable and everything I want in a show. Is it my favorite show? I can't say, this being my only exposure to it and while I love that Spike Lee directed it, it kind of reminds me of what Kevin Smith says about going in to direct The Flash or Supergirl or The Goldbergs, these types of things are fun but they aren't a "director's medium". I hate saying that because the music, the theatricality, the uniqueness of this show is just brilliant, but I think we need to judge these things as a whole. If I was seeing a live production, I wouldn't have these comments but having seen several "Recorded Live On Stage" shows (including others that Lee has done) there's nothing new or groundbreaking about the filming process, which is a shame because this show is so unique, I wish Lee had done more then point the camera.

Is this our first foray into recorded Live On Stage Musicals? I've seen this years ago and am looking forward to revisiting it. It was streaming for awhile on a couple of platforms, I'll check BroadwayHD, if it's there I could probably host a screening as well (if not, well I can't)

This just reinforces my desire to direct this show LOL thanks for sharing that looks great

or what Aaron Sorkin did with Studio 60 and how it was just him commenting on his realtionship with Kristen Chenoweth

So the F&F Franchise/Universe whatever just doesn't care anymore, they are embracing the fact they are making superhero movies. What a weird course this franchise has taken. I love it

I vote for GEOSTTTTTTTTTTTTTORM (this is why I'm not allowed in the theater anymore)

I think it does though. Like taylor said above, Cathy does nothing to Jeremy Jordan but be faithful, not give him "space" and not go to his parties. He goes to ONE performance of hers in Ohio and then leaves early to go to another "fucking party". He's just an awful person who can't resist temptation. Actually, I don't even think that it isn't that he can't resist temptation. If you look at a song like Shiska Goddess, it looks like he is the kind of person that doesn't like being told he can't do something. His mother wants him to date a Jewish girl, so he dates any and all kinds of Gentile girls. I don't think success "made" him cheat, I think he would have cheated regardless of his success, sooner or later, because he is told (by society) that he isn't supposed to. that is why I think he is an awful person.

So, I promised that I would have thoughts on this and boy do I LOL So, when I discovered this musical in 2011, two of my best friends--who I had known for like 15 years, who had gotten me back into acting and into writing after giving up on that dream myself, one of whom was a talented writer and respected educator in the small town they lived in and she was an actor who never pursued her dreams--had just gotten divorced because of (her) infidelity. I had observed and watched this happen over about a 6, 9 month period. I had been a (semi) neutral outside observer (I did let him live with me for about a week or 2 while he got everything settled and I knew he was going to file before she did). so listening to this struck a chord for me, helped me kind of understand when one person is successful and another isn't, when they try and help but can't get it quite right, even the loneliness that comes from being X's wife or Y's husband. And maybe it's because I've known these archtypes, I could sympathize with both characters. The movie did a serviceable job, I could tell that the director seemingly has a connection to the show and a love for it, but like Micheal Ritchie with The Fantasticks, while there are interesting ideas here, it never quite manages to pull it off. The time jumps just don't work, the muted colors (I've never noticed that either) is too subtle. This is, at least to me, isn't that surprising. I mean this is after all from a director who tends to take a more romantic look at things (for the most part) and directed a year later Beautiful Creatures. (his writing credits are all over the place, but seemingly take a more romantic look at things and I don't see the romantic side of L5Y, to me it's a tragedy) .

Something like that

I have THOUGHTS already about this I'm a fan of the original stage show and I'm anxious to revisit this

I had the same point, "that sounds like another criminal screws criminal screws criminal" movie. I mean it potentially COULD have worked, it all depends on who was cast.

re: the idea that Kim Basinger or her husband would be involved in the crime and yet they turned out to be totally innocent, the original script did call for Kim's character to be involved. Larry Cohen, screenwriter of the 2002 thriller film Phone Booth, conceived of Cellular while working for Sony Pictures. It followed a 30- or 40-year-old man named Theo Novak who obtains a call from a woman named Lenore, who tells him that she and her husband have been abducted in a safehouse by a group of bank robbers. It is then revealed that Novak is an art thief who becomes wracked with guilt after unsuccessfully rescuing a friend from committing suicide in the past; he agrees to make a detour from a criminal undertaking and rescue Lenore. During the rescue Novak is unsuccessful, but later discovers a conspiracy involving Lenore and her accomplices over another crime they are involved with—ultimately, Novak gains the upper hand, killing Lenore and her accomplices and obtains their loot in the process, which leaves him therefore a wealthy man. Fast & Furious writer Chris Morgan was brought on by Dean Devlin to rewrite the script. Morgan wanted to tell a story of a normal person who does something heroic, but he also wanted to incorporate humor, specifically humor similar to that in Indiana Jones. "I'm a big fan of situational humor and I feel like comedy plays best when it's the right thing at the right time and not just somebody trying to make a joke. For example, in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones is faced with fighting the swordsman and he just pulls out a gun and shoots him. That’s not really a joke, but it got a huge laugh. That's the kind of humor we tried to work." Also, re: LORD OF THE RINGS, Return of the King came out in December of 2003 and won Best Picture a couple of months later. Fellowship Of The Ring came out in 2001.