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    My 5 year old niece pulled a "Hollywood Facts" in the car the other day when we picked her up for Christmas at our house. She got caught in a 20 minute loop of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." By the end, there were tears streaming down my face from trying to suppress my laughter. I kept thinking, she can't go another round, no here she goes!

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    I had really hoped someone (and imagined it would be June) would talk about how May Day is the actual hero of this film. Sure, Bond grappled (sloooooowly) with Zorin and shoved him to his death, but he wasn't up to the level of May Day's sacrifice which saved the lives of millions of people.

     

    Which made me all the more irritated that we had to spend the rest of the movie with Stacey and her impractical heels and her James!ing and her helplessness.

     

    The movie was over for me when May Day (in her practical and stylish thigh-high boots) made the ultimate sacrifice.

     

    Please remake Rosencrantz-and-Guildenstern-style with May Day as the main character!!!

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  9. Posted

    That's it I am moving to LA. Between things like Tru tv and Fuel etc

    Who can't get a show now?

    To be very clear this is no slight against Mo- I really know nothing about him it IS a statement that it seems easier and easier to work now if you're willing to do shows from people like the producers of Wipe Swap.

     

    I do know Mo, and I know that he has worked his ass off for years to get where he is today. Feel free to criticize where he is in his career, but don't be unfair about it. The man works hard!

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    Netflix suggested Last Temptation of Christ when I did a search (in addition to Tyler Perry's Temptation). Would that work as a substitute?

     

    [Also just trying to play it cool that Paul read my post about Glitter and my drunken memory thereof. But I assure you, I fuh-reaked out and sent an all-caps message to my wife about it...]

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  14. Posted

    Okay, so the movie ended. (And if you look at the timestamps, it looks like I spent three full days watching this trash, which isn't true. It only felt like three days.)

     

    A few thoughts about the movie:

     

    1. It seems like thinly-veiled autobiography, which accounts for the one-dimensional characters (wanting to protect the characters' feelings as though they were real people) and the lack of tension (an unexamined life leading to a lack of clarity about the central drama of the story). I looked into her life, and there are some definite parallels: Mariah Carey's parents got divorced and she stayed with her mother, and her father (a successful musician) left her and another sibling (and he took another sibling with him, which I'm sure made matters worse). She also married Tommy Mottola, her producer/label exec/impresario, as they said. They had split up by the time Glitter came out. (Which is maybe why the Producer/Love Interest in Glitter was the only one in the whole movie with a real conflict. And why it was okay for him to die?)

     

    2. I wanted to see more Eric Benet. There must be more footage of him on the cutting room floor. I know that people are clamoring for alternate versions of this movie! Let's see one that is Eric Benet doing his job and being humble and unobtrusive and just making music, in a drama-free way, which is technically what the characters are all supposed to be doing for a living.

     

    3. Speaking of alternate versions, I would like to see a Louise and Roxanne cut. (Maybe some more of those classic improvised scenes???) I don't know if it was intentional or if it was created by Da Brat's butch vibe, but those two were a couple, right?

     

    4. In re: Billie, Louise, and Roxanne in an orphanage(?). While CPS has its problems, there is no way they would have left Billie in an orphanage (?) if her dad were still alive. He would have to terminate parental rights, which it seems like they were setting up that he would do, with him rejecting her early. BUT: then what CPS does is go and look for other relatives: grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, older siblings/half-siblings. Family members are often willing to raise a child if the parents are unwilling/unable to. And finally, in New York in the 1970s, these kids would've been in foster care. Maybe they would've gotten to live together in the same foster home, though that's unlikely since they weren't related to one another, but there is no way that they would have stayed together in a group home during that time. (Sorry to get on a tangent on this one point; this is my particular pet peeve about the "convenience" of storylines that separate kids from their families for narrative purposes.) (Also, you don't get to bring your cat to foster care/group homes/orphanages...)

     

    Great ep!

     

    And props to July for bringing it out so quickly and for the remaster!

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  15. Posted · Edited by Annie GS

    Okay, so, I am stopping this podcast right now and I am going to re-watch Glitter first.

     

    I got clean and sober in early 2003, and I vaguely remembered the night I watched this movie, but apparently I missed EVERYTHING. (Thanks, drugs and alcohol!)

     

    They started talking about the mom wanting to be a singer and leaving her kid, and I started to have this really hazy flashback to me drunkenly yelling at my friends "IT'S MY STORY IT'S MY STORY" before blacking out. (Obviously, I turned out okay, as I'm now sober, and I'm also not writing one of those 5-star reviews from Amazon on Christmas day, talking about how you will relate to this movie if your mom also aspired to be a singer and left your family to pursue her dreams.)

     

    ETA: WILL THIS MOVIE NEVER END?

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    The hashtag precedes the movie being titled Tusk - it goes back to when this was all just a crazy podcast conversation between Kevin Smith and Scott Moisuer (sp?). That eventually ended with Smith asking people to tweet #walrusyes if they thought he should make the movie and #walrusno if they didn't.

     

    Didn't mean to get long winded - just thought I'd de-lurk since I had that bit of info in my brain.

     

    I was just coming here to correct myself, having learned this elsewhere. Your explanation is pithier than what I read.

     

    Also, I hereby rescind my hashtag suggestion.

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