Posts by Craig Ranapia
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So you're saying that Chris Warner is going to be revealed to be Chris R Warne, the secret half-brother of Shane Warne? Cos that would be awesome.
Speaking of which... who'd have thunk Shane Warne had enough self-awareness to take the piss out of himself (and be pretty funny) on Kath and Kim. Disturbingly convincing playing a crap Shane Warne look-alike who is terrible at cricket and doesn't own a mobile.
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As for Razor, look for the unrated version, which surfaced yesterday, its longer and flashier. I have been VERY patient waiting for it....
And if this from Ron Moore pans out, you may be waiting forever for the last seven episodes of the series.
Production wrapped on episode 413 late [November 16th], and there’s no certain date to resume shooting. No more scripts exist. My office staff has been laid off. My cast has been suspended, without pay.
I refuse to believe that we won’t finish, that we won’t be back to film our final stories, but I know and accept there is that possibility. The strike will be a seminal event for many of us in this business as it’s put literally everything we care about in the balance (if only for a short time so far) for something we all believe is important.
Writers talk a lot about the strike, about the reasons we’re out on the picket lines and our feelings and experiences in the business. It’s been an interesting three weeks. I’ve connected with more scribes in the last few weeks than in many months before and I come away from it to date with a sense of optimism about the solidarity of the membership and admiration for my peers.
Galactica’s coming back, I frakking promise you that. But I am ready to put the rest of the story on the table and take the risk that I’ll never be able to tell it, in support of this strike.
Like Adama says, you make your choices and then you live with them.Anyone who's seen the Jane Espensen penned Dirty Hands might get that Moore isn't going to be strike-breaking any time soon.
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Disappointed, though, at how the acting and writing have deteriorated since I last looked at the programme sometime in the mid-1990s.
I guess Shortie's loss is Outrageous Fortune's gain. :) I kind of tuned out when Rangi and Donna bonked, thought they were siblings and didn't because accidental incest in prime time is going a bit far.
I'm all for the idea that good writers copy, great writers steal but when a pirmetime soap is reduced to (kinda) stealing from Oedipus Rex I'm backing towards the door...
And is it too shaming to admit that I used to have a platonic soap crush on Lionel Skeggins (John Leigh)?
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I love the way you talk, I really do, but could it be possible that you are over thinking this?
Not only possible, but entirely probable. But when you get down to it, what I like about The Singing Detective, is that Dennis Potter had the guts to make 'Philip Marlowe' an explicable but unsympathetic misanthropic scribbling whore. And that included serving up the misogyny and sexual neurosis straight no chaser.
I know this is a really stupid generalisation, but I think there's a reason why Potter failed to be that successful on the other side of the ditch. American public always want a tragedy with a happy ending. (Anyone who can find who I quoted that from without resorting to Google doesn't get a prize, but my eternal admiration.) And heavens forbid the cynicism has to go down without a big spoonful of sugar.
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could it be that Californication has more of a feminist agenda, no doubt equally abhorrent to Family First, than we thought? Hmm, discuss.
No. Let me put it this way, if Shakespeare was pitching Othello to a Hollywood executive, the first note would be that Iago needed to have some redeeming features, and a backstory to explain his 'motiveless malignancy' as the product of being jilted by the love of his life, childhood sexual abuse, or a Vicodin habit and just caring too damn much. I'm supposed to be impressed that Californication doesn't even have the courage of its own ugliness?
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Go on, admit it, and how cool were those old-school cylons?
Way cool, though not as cool as the revelation that Michelle Forbes' chances of snagging a GLAAD Media Award are pretty much non-existent. Meep...
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Really? I'd have said that was a reasonable phrase that carried a message - certainly far more in it, than positive policies.
I'll be a good President, my opponent may be a good president in the future, after he's got more experience, but he won't be one now. We need someone who'll hit the ground running.
...and then gets rather tetchy when anyone asks rather impertinent questions about whether being a President's wife -- and hitting the ground face first when you had your chance at universal heath care - is the kind of 'experience' you should be bragging about. Still, as long as she looks good in HD why bother? Still, encouraging to see the gender card appears to be past its use by date.
And if you want to use actual elected office as a benchmark for 'experience', then I'd respectfully suggest Obama has the advantage.
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Oooh, I think I've got one better. Hilary Clinton's new content-free buzz phase is "ready to lead from Day One." Really, I thought Day One involved standing around freezing your tits off at your inauguration, then playing kissy face with your donors at a string of parties.
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Second Life, like much else, I just don't get -- how awesomely shitty is your first life if that's a more desirable alternative?
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Secondly, I am not inclined to doubt complaints of police misconduct in this context.
With all due (and sincere) respect to everyone concerned, I don't regard everything I hear on National Radio as holy writ, and perhaps it might be time to take a deep breath and remember everyone accused of an offense - even vile, disgusting piggy policemen - should be entitled to the presumption of innocence and due process. Could it be possible, Sara, that you're making one or two inflammatory assumptions of your own?
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