Putting Patty from Square Pegs, her from The Manhattan Project, Cadet Thompson and the voice of Miss Spider onto the big screen may have resulted in HBO scoring a bigger hit than they did with John From Cincinnati, but not only did Sex and the City make none of its millions from me, neither of the two soundtrack CDs made no room for any of Aaron Zigman's score. From the Better Late Than Never file, Decca/New Line's third disc culled from the movie gives the prolific Mr. Z a proper score release (did he get any space on the albums for either Step Up movies or Good Luck Chuck? Did he hell). It sounds very pleasant and romantic from the soundclips, which is just what's required... especially after listening to Requiem For A Dream. Brrrrrr. Pre-order here if you feel so inclined.
1. Love Letters (3:42)
2. Dante (4:23)
3. The Closet (2:30)
4. Big Screws Up (2:48)
5. It's Me & You Suite (4:47)
6. It Was Love (3:34)
7. Penthouse (2:20)
8. Did I Dream It (2:26)
9. Water Breaks (1:44)
10. Taxi (1:06)
11. 76 Guests (:56)
12. Leaving Wedding (3:21)
13. Louise Leaves (1:41)
14. City Hall (2:07)
15. Girls Walk Up (1:12)
16. Carrie Sees Vogue (:57)
17. Sushi (1:50)
18. It Was Love (3:27)
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
The More Than One Holy Grail Out There? Post.
The above is one of three soundtrack albums that La-La Land is taking preorders for from next Tuesday at 12 PST (8pm in the UK); as I like the show and don't mind Bear McCreary's music for it (or even Shirley Manson's "Samson and Delilah," heard in the opening episode of season 2 and on the disc as well), I'll be getting it. But that isn't the main draw, nor is it Mark Snow's Millennium 2-disc set which is also coming out.No, the disc that's the lure for me is one that I, and many others, have been wanting for years. And seething while other inferior shows receive loads of CDs (Grey's Anatomy, I'm looking at you)... but it's happened. And with all due respect to the Indiana Jones boxset, this set is the "Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!" of the year for me - we finally get a 3000-unit limited edition two-disc album of some of the best television scoring ever from one of the best TV shows ever,
BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES:
MUSIC BY SHIRLEY WALKER, LOLITA RITMANIS, AND MICHAEL McCUISTION.
THEME BY DANNY ELFMAN.
And there's the distinct possibility of more music to come on future volumes if this sells well (IF?!?). This is teh awesome. As far as dreams come true, this is up there with getting a massive raise the same day as winning the lottery and getting to spend an hour alone with Cindy to do whatever I want... copies are being signed by Lolita Ritmanis and Michael McCuistion (Shirley Walker sadly passed away in 2006, and her not being around to participate in this is the only drawback for this release). The tracklist reads thus:
DISC ONE
1. Gotham City Overture 14:01
2. BATMAN™: THE ANIMATED SERIES: Main Title (Danny Elfman) 1:02
On Leather Wings - Shirley Walker
3. Sub-Main Title/Batwing/Bat Attack 1:51
4. Batman Drives To Gotham 1:00
5. Batman Investigates/Batman Uses Infrared/Police Rush Building 1:48
6. Batman Escapes/Batman Flies 1:48
7. Bats/Evidence Goes Up In Smoke/The Formula/Dr Jekyll And Mr. Bat 3:01
8. Gotham From the Air/Ride’Em Batman/Epilogue 2:16
The Last Laugh - Shirley Walker
9. Sub-Main Title 1:35
10. The Submarine/Joker Loots Gotham 2:35
11. Alfred Loses It 0:58
12. Bat Boat/Batman Catches The Big Fish/Batman Fights The Bad Guys 2:18
13. Cliff-Hanger Under Water/Batman A.K.A Houdini 1:56
14. Batman The Terminator 2:01
15. Batman Vs. Joker/Batman Vs Joker Part 2 3:47
It's Never Too Late - Lolita Ritmanis
16. Sub-Main Title/Stromwell’s Flashback 2:01
17. Batman on Top of Church/Stromwell Arrives At Pete’s/Thugs Exit 1:20
18. Stromwell Confronts Thorn 1:15
19. It’s Party Time/Batman Carries Stromwell 0:48
20. Stromwell Sees Joey 1:41
21. Stromwell Tricks Batman/Thorn’s Men Move In/Thorn Chases Stromwell 3:22
22. Stromwell’s Flashback #2 1:45
23. Batman Cracks Heads/Thorn Removed 1:20
Pretty Poison - Shirley Walker/Lolita Ritmanis/Michael McCuistion
24. Ground Breaking Ceremony/Penitentiary Time Lapses 1:11
25. Batman Catches A Chopper/The Chopper Crashes/Rooftop Chase 1:58
26. Batman Sneaks Around 1:09
27. A Little Plant Muzak/The Carnivorous Plant 0:59
28. Batman Vs. Poison Ivy/Poison Ivy In Prison 3:52
Christmas With The Joker - Shirley Walker/Lolita Ritmanis/Michael McCuistion
29. 14 Seconds Opening/Jingle Bells/The Joker Blasts Off 1:03
30. Down the Mountain/Sidewalk Red Herring 0:51
31. Pukey Christmas Music/Christmas With The Joker/Game Show Music 2:18
32. The Train Crashes 1:19
33. Observatory Cannon/Cannon Out Of Control/Robin Blows Up Cannon 1:11
34. More Game Show Music/Drive To The Toy Company 1:39
35. Nutcracker Suite Medley 1:24
36. Pie In Batman’s Face/Dangling Hostages Saved/Deck The Halls 1:40
CD ONE Total Time: 76:05
DISC TWO
1. BATMAN™: THE ANIMATED SERIES: Alternate Main Title (S. Walker) 1:09
Two Face Part I - Shirley Walker
2. Harvey’s Nightmare/Dent’s Soap Box 2:24
3. Batman Tracks Dent 2:07
4. Split Personality/Harvey/Harv 4:21
Two Face Part II - Shirley Walker
5. Part One Recap 0:33
6. Sub-Main Title/The Heist 1:49
7. Bruce Wayne’s Nightmare/Two-Face Remembers 2:47
8. Batcycle/What About Grace 1:58
9. My Name Is Two-Face 1:52
10. The Great Equalizer/Where There’s Love 4:03
Joker's Favor - Shirley Walker
11. Sub-Main Title/Cussing Out The Joker/I Had A Bad Day 3:18
12. Joker’s Hide-Out 1:19
13. Charlie’s Neighborhood/Joker Finds Charlie 1:18
14. Charlie Arrives In Gotham/Joker Collects His Favor 0:42
15. Harley’s Party Source 0:44
16. Crashing The Party 1:33
17. Batman Saves The Commissioner/Batman’s After The Joker/Charlie Gets the Joker 3:38
Vendetta - Michael McCuistion
18. Sub-Main Title/Conway Is Abducted 0:43
19. A Clue/The Crocodile’s Lair 1:27
20. Another Clue 1:19
21. Croc’s Cave/Killer Croc 2:52
22. Batman Chases Croc/Sewer Fight 2:54
23. Bullock Gets The Croc 1:09
Perchance To Dream - Shirley Walker
24. Sub-Main Title/The Dream Begins 0:52
25. It’s Impossible/Bruce Sees Batman/Bruce Watches Batman At Work 2:14
26. My Life Is A Dream 2:48
27. Climbing The Church Tower/Belltower Fight 2:45
28. Your Own Private Wonderland/Back to Reality 2:48
Birds Of A Feather - Shirley Walker
29. Birds Of A Feather 1:54
30. That Fine Roman Nose/Penguin vs. Muggers 2:32
31. Penguin Takes Veronica 0:40
32. The Drop/Rubber Duckie Ride 1:50
33. The Penguin’s Opera/High Society 2:19
34. BATMAN™: THE ANIMATED SERIES: End Credit (Danny Elfman) 0:34
BONUS TRACK:
35. Music Of The Bat 101 6:45
CD TWO Total Time: 74:02
Christmas came a little early this year!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
The Weepy Donuts Post.
There are those who believe Danny Elfman writes the same music for everything he does. Then there are those who know the truth. Listen to his latest score for regular collaborator Gus Van Sant, Milk, and try and tell me it sounds anything at all like Batman (Edward Scissorhands in some bits is a fairer point, but not much); it's almost conventional for him, but I doubt he'll be as hung out to dry by critics as James Horner was for his music for a movie with Sean Penn as a politico, All The King's Men. Still, what do they know? Half of them think Clint Eastwood is an excellent film scorer!
The FYC site for Focus Features includes the score in a stream on the Milk page (when you get there click on Milk and then "Score"). And if you're wondering why this is called "The Weepy Donuts Post"... if you have to ask, you don't know.
The FYC site for Focus Features includes the score in a stream on the Milk page (when you get there click on Milk and then "Score"). And if you're wondering why this is called "The Weepy Donuts Post"... if you have to ask, you don't know.
The Belated Happy Birthday Scarlett Post.
Pint-sized husky-voiced well-shaped blonde BAFTA-winning workaholic actress/singer Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984. 19 years to the day after JFK was assassinated. This may go some way to explaining her being a Democrat.
The Cindy Like Sunday Morning Post.
If the guy who does on205th is reading this, the reason I don't want to do another hot girls blog is twofold. One, there are already about ten zillion of those things out there and it's a crowded field. And two, he already does it a lot better than I ever could (for all my reservations, his is still one of the better ones).That was all in response to my posting on a post about Victoria Beckham, so go there for the backstory. Or go here for Cindy in today's Sunday Times (UK, not New York), in and I bet on the cover of the Style section. Look for it to be on sale on eBay by, oooh, this afternoon...
PS (added Wednesday November 26): on205th has gone the way of Metro from my life and this blog. Too Anglophilic for my taste (Katie Price? For goodness' sake), and moaning about Hayden in the bit about some Bizarre cover model was the last straw. Breaking it off is better for everybody... Goodbye on205th, hello links to Varèse Sarabande and La-La Land. Unlike babe blogs, specialist soundtrack labels never let me down.
The Op-Ed Post.
In today's New York Times:
Americans have watched in horror as President Bush has trampled on the Bill of Rights and the balance of power. The list of abuses that President-elect Barack Obama must address is long: once again require the government to get warrants to eavesdrop on Americans; undo scores of executive orders and bill-signing statements that have undermined the powers of Congress; strip out the unnecessary invasions of privacy embedded in the Patriot Act; block new F.B.I. investigative guidelines straight out of J. Edgar Hoover’s playbook.
Those are not the only disasters Mr. Obama will inherit. He will have to rescue a drowning economy, restore regulatory sanity to the financial markets and extricate the country from an unnecessary war in Iraq so it can focus on a necessary war in Afghanistan.
Even with all those demands, there is one thing Mr. Obama must do quickly to begin to repair this nation’s image and restore its self-respect: announce a plan for closing Mr. Bush’s outlaw prison at Guantánamo Bay.
The prison is the premier example of the disdain shown by Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for the Constitution, federal law and international treaties. Most sensible governments cannot see past Guantánamo to even recall America’s long history as a defender of human rights and democratic values.
We are under no illusions. Closing the prison will not be easy, or quick, but it can be done. It does not mean that the United States will set free heinous terrorists. But it may mean that these prisoners will have to be tried on other very serious charges than the ones supposedly for which they were sent to Guantánamo.
That is Mr. Bush’s fault. His decision to authorize the torture of detainees has made it highly unlikely that the evidence collected at Gitmo and the C.I.A.’s illegal prisons around the world would stand up in a real court.
In closing down Guantánamo, there are some basic requirements: The prisoners must be dealt with as openly as possible. Those who are charged here must stand trial in federal courts, not the tribunals created by the disastrous Military Commissions Act of 2006.
It would compound the disaster if, as some suggest, Congress tried to create a new system combining military and civilian justice. We have seen what happens when the government creates special systems to deal with special classes of prisoners.
Human Rights Watch has offered a good template for closing Guantánamo. It includes:
SET A DATE TO CLOSE THE PRISON That announcement would send a powerful signal that the new administration has rejected Mr. Bush’s abusive and unlawful policies. It would make other countries more likely to cooperate. The taint of Guantánamo is so great that right now even close allies will not consider resettling prisoners who should be set free because they committed no crimes of any kind. There may be at least 60 of these detainees at Gitmo. Selected countries might also be willing to take back their own nationals to stand trial.
BEGIN A TRANSPARENT REVIEW OF DETAINEES There are about 250 detainees at Guantánamo Bay. Human Rights Watch sensibly proposes creating a task force run by the Justice Department with input from the Departments of State and Defense and the director of national intelligence to separate out those who may be truly guilty of terrorist acts — a minority — from the larger population who either committed much more minor crimes or no crimes at all.
REPATRIATE DETAINEES WHO ARE NOT TO BE TRIED This must be done carefully. There are believed to be 30 to 50 detainees from places like Algeria and Libya who have justified fears of being abused or tortured if they are sent home. The Obama administration should provide these prisoners with advance notice of plans to repatriate them and give them a chance to contest those plans.
Prisoners with a credible fear of abuse cannot be sent to that fate. They will have to be sent to other countries to live. The best way for the United States to get other governments to cooperate is to accept some detainees for settlement in this country.
TRY THE REST IN FEDERAL COURTS Americans will hear from former members of the Bush administration and supporters of its system of injustice that the federal courts cannot handle these cases because they involve sensitive secrets, or that terrorism is not appropriately handled as a law-enforcement issue.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the federal courts have successfully prosecuted about 100 terrorism cases, and the courts deal routinely with national secrets. The real reason Mr. Bush and his team avoided the federal courts for the Gitmo detainees was that the evidence in so many of these cases is wafer-thin or unusable because it was obtained through coercion and torture.
The world saw more proof of that last week, when Col. Stephen Henley, a military judge at Guantánamo, refused to admit evidence obtained through torture or coercion at the trial of Mohammed Jawad, an Afghan national who is one of the few prisoners at Guantánamo who has been charged and put on trial. Evidence that cannot pass muster in Guantánamo’s kangaroo courts is certainly not going to be admitted by a civilian judge in a duly constituted court of law.
The Jawad case has become emblematic of everything that is wrong with Guantánamo Bay: he was captured in Afghanistan at the age of 16 or 17 and thrown into indefinite detention without hope of eventual release because he allegedly threw a grenade at two American servicemen and an Afghan interpreter. The prosecutor resigned in September, saying he could not ethically proceed, and the judge threw out Mr. Jawad’s confession because it had been tortured out of him by Afghan interrogators.
Does this mean that truly dangerous men will be set free, to go back to plotting more attacks against America? No. But it will require smart legal thinking by the new administration.
Take the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. It is obvious that the confession he made to plotting the 9/11 bombings will not hold up in court. It was obtained through torture. But this prisoner is a suspect in numerous other terrorist attacks, including the murder of the journalist Daniel Pearl and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. There is an existing 1996 indictment against him for a plot to blow up 12 United States-bound commercial airliners. The evidence in that case was obtained, we presume, legally.
It may be that compromises of this kind will have to be made in other cases as well. It is understandable that some Americans will find that less than satisfying. But it is important to remember that this is the price of Mr. Bush’s incompetent and lawless conduct of the war against terrorism. It is a price worth paying to restore the rule of law and this country’s good name.
Americans have watched in horror as President Bush has trampled on the Bill of Rights and the balance of power. The list of abuses that President-elect Barack Obama must address is long: once again require the government to get warrants to eavesdrop on Americans; undo scores of executive orders and bill-signing statements that have undermined the powers of Congress; strip out the unnecessary invasions of privacy embedded in the Patriot Act; block new F.B.I. investigative guidelines straight out of J. Edgar Hoover’s playbook.
Those are not the only disasters Mr. Obama will inherit. He will have to rescue a drowning economy, restore regulatory sanity to the financial markets and extricate the country from an unnecessary war in Iraq so it can focus on a necessary war in Afghanistan.
Even with all those demands, there is one thing Mr. Obama must do quickly to begin to repair this nation’s image and restore its self-respect: announce a plan for closing Mr. Bush’s outlaw prison at Guantánamo Bay.
The prison is the premier example of the disdain shown by Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for the Constitution, federal law and international treaties. Most sensible governments cannot see past Guantánamo to even recall America’s long history as a defender of human rights and democratic values.
We are under no illusions. Closing the prison will not be easy, or quick, but it can be done. It does not mean that the United States will set free heinous terrorists. But it may mean that these prisoners will have to be tried on other very serious charges than the ones supposedly for which they were sent to Guantánamo.
That is Mr. Bush’s fault. His decision to authorize the torture of detainees has made it highly unlikely that the evidence collected at Gitmo and the C.I.A.’s illegal prisons around the world would stand up in a real court.
In closing down Guantánamo, there are some basic requirements: The prisoners must be dealt with as openly as possible. Those who are charged here must stand trial in federal courts, not the tribunals created by the disastrous Military Commissions Act of 2006.
It would compound the disaster if, as some suggest, Congress tried to create a new system combining military and civilian justice. We have seen what happens when the government creates special systems to deal with special classes of prisoners.
Human Rights Watch has offered a good template for closing Guantánamo. It includes:
SET A DATE TO CLOSE THE PRISON That announcement would send a powerful signal that the new administration has rejected Mr. Bush’s abusive and unlawful policies. It would make other countries more likely to cooperate. The taint of Guantánamo is so great that right now even close allies will not consider resettling prisoners who should be set free because they committed no crimes of any kind. There may be at least 60 of these detainees at Gitmo. Selected countries might also be willing to take back their own nationals to stand trial.
BEGIN A TRANSPARENT REVIEW OF DETAINEES There are about 250 detainees at Guantánamo Bay. Human Rights Watch sensibly proposes creating a task force run by the Justice Department with input from the Departments of State and Defense and the director of national intelligence to separate out those who may be truly guilty of terrorist acts — a minority — from the larger population who either committed much more minor crimes or no crimes at all.
REPATRIATE DETAINEES WHO ARE NOT TO BE TRIED This must be done carefully. There are believed to be 30 to 50 detainees from places like Algeria and Libya who have justified fears of being abused or tortured if they are sent home. The Obama administration should provide these prisoners with advance notice of plans to repatriate them and give them a chance to contest those plans.
Prisoners with a credible fear of abuse cannot be sent to that fate. They will have to be sent to other countries to live. The best way for the United States to get other governments to cooperate is to accept some detainees for settlement in this country.
TRY THE REST IN FEDERAL COURTS Americans will hear from former members of the Bush administration and supporters of its system of injustice that the federal courts cannot handle these cases because they involve sensitive secrets, or that terrorism is not appropriately handled as a law-enforcement issue.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the federal courts have successfully prosecuted about 100 terrorism cases, and the courts deal routinely with national secrets. The real reason Mr. Bush and his team avoided the federal courts for the Gitmo detainees was that the evidence in so many of these cases is wafer-thin or unusable because it was obtained through coercion and torture.
The world saw more proof of that last week, when Col. Stephen Henley, a military judge at Guantánamo, refused to admit evidence obtained through torture or coercion at the trial of Mohammed Jawad, an Afghan national who is one of the few prisoners at Guantánamo who has been charged and put on trial. Evidence that cannot pass muster in Guantánamo’s kangaroo courts is certainly not going to be admitted by a civilian judge in a duly constituted court of law.
The Jawad case has become emblematic of everything that is wrong with Guantánamo Bay: he was captured in Afghanistan at the age of 16 or 17 and thrown into indefinite detention without hope of eventual release because he allegedly threw a grenade at two American servicemen and an Afghan interpreter. The prosecutor resigned in September, saying he could not ethically proceed, and the judge threw out Mr. Jawad’s confession because it had been tortured out of him by Afghan interrogators.
Does this mean that truly dangerous men will be set free, to go back to plotting more attacks against America? No. But it will require smart legal thinking by the new administration.
Take the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. It is obvious that the confession he made to plotting the 9/11 bombings will not hold up in court. It was obtained through torture. But this prisoner is a suspect in numerous other terrorist attacks, including the murder of the journalist Daniel Pearl and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. There is an existing 1996 indictment against him for a plot to blow up 12 United States-bound commercial airliners. The evidence in that case was obtained, we presume, legally.
It may be that compromises of this kind will have to be made in other cases as well. It is understandable that some Americans will find that less than satisfying. But it is important to remember that this is the price of Mr. Bush’s incompetent and lawless conduct of the war against terrorism. It is a price worth paying to restore the rule of law and this country’s good name.
Friday, November 21, 2008
The Pushing Daisies RIP Post.
And Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money (although I never watch the former and I'm fairly ambivalent about the latter). This sucks as much as Kristin Dos Santos is attractive. And she's very attractive.
Monday, November 10, 2008
The Man, I Wish I Was Him Post.
So Ken wrote to me last week and said: You may have trumped me by posing with the sexiest midget ever and gazing upon the loveliness of Jessica Maria Alba....
But this Saturday I'm all set to meet and interview a certain moled supermodel....
The lucky swine. He also had this to say:
if for some reason that link doesn't work you can go to www.greenwich-post.com and look under local news for the story about the Spirit of Hope fundraiser. Alas the story isn't ALL about Cindy, but I did the best I could to maximize the presence of the moled Goddess.
And I must say, as you already know, she is even better looking in person. Just a vision of loveliness and loved her dress with the teasing glimpse of cleavage that made your mouth water. But I'll stop before I end up having to take a "break" ;-). I'm attaching a bunch of pictures of her from the event I took. I had a chance to talk to her briefly, no alone time though.
And unfortunately I didn't get to take a page out of the Muppets book and ask her "Hey Cindy, if you're a supermodel, then what's your superpower?" ;-).But just a lovely woman and she gave a very funny speech at the event about all the men who wanted to take pictures with her "for their daughters" where she would point out that their daughters have no idea who she is LOL.
Of course I don't want to live in a world where Cindy isnt the standard of beauty. How could this generation not be in awe of all things Cindy? ;-)
The pictures will be up here or on Simply The Best as soon as Yahoo! straightens out the attachments thing...
But this Saturday I'm all set to meet and interview a certain moled supermodel....
The lucky swine. He also had this to say:
if for some reason that link doesn't work you can go to www.greenwich-post.com and look under local news for the story about the Spirit of Hope fundraiser. Alas the story isn't ALL about Cindy, but I did the best I could to maximize the presence of the moled Goddess.
And I must say, as you already know, she is even better looking in person. Just a vision of loveliness and loved her dress with the teasing glimpse of cleavage that made your mouth water. But I'll stop before I end up having to take a "break" ;-). I'm attaching a bunch of pictures of her from the event I took. I had a chance to talk to her briefly, no alone time though.
And unfortunately I didn't get to take a page out of the Muppets book and ask her "Hey Cindy, if you're a supermodel, then what's your superpower?" ;-).But just a lovely woman and she gave a very funny speech at the event about all the men who wanted to take pictures with her "for their daughters" where she would point out that their daughters have no idea who she is LOL.
Of course I don't want to live in a world where Cindy isnt the standard of beauty. How could this generation not be in awe of all things Cindy? ;-)
The pictures will be up here or on Simply The Best as soon as Yahoo! straightens out the attachments thing...
Sad footnote: The story ends with Cindy saying one of her sisters (she didn't say if it was Chris or Danielle) contracted thyroid cancer. I really hope she's okay. No family deserves to have even one member with a blood disease, never mind two.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
The Why Are Some People Such Twunts? Post.
I didn't have time to see Obama's victory speech live yesterday, but I did get to see (and was impressed by) McCain's concession speech. And hear some of the boos - which I can understand; how do you think millions of people elated yesterday would have felt if the reverse had taken place? So the "twunts" thing isn't aimed at them.
It's aimed at people complaining about the amount of press coverage on this side of the Atlantic; erm, it does happen to be a major world event (it's not like they were going all out to cover the Superbowl). It's aimed at the work colleague of mine who said before the election that he didn't think the US would ever elect a black president (right, because the history of Britain is filled with non-white prime ministers). It's aimed at those who felt that a lot of black people voted along racial lines (which I'm sure was true of some, but probably not all). And above all, it's aimed at the young Radio 1 listener who claimed this couldn't have happened without David Palmer from 24 - in which case there'll probably never be a female president based on Commander in Chief, Hail To The Chief*, the movie version of Whoops Apocalypse and Kisses For My President. (Not to mention "Bart To The Future" featuring America's first heterosexual female #1, President Lisa Simpson.)
It is not, however, aimed at my mum (who texted us to wish us a Happy Barack Day). Or Sharon. Or anyone else rightly thrilled at America finally getting payback for eight years of smug condescension from some quarters. A long road back, but it's started out well...
*For those who don't remember this shortlived sitcom with Patty Duke as the prez, lucky you.
It's aimed at people complaining about the amount of press coverage on this side of the Atlantic; erm, it does happen to be a major world event (it's not like they were going all out to cover the Superbowl). It's aimed at the work colleague of mine who said before the election that he didn't think the US would ever elect a black president (right, because the history of Britain is filled with non-white prime ministers). It's aimed at those who felt that a lot of black people voted along racial lines (which I'm sure was true of some, but probably not all). And above all, it's aimed at the young Radio 1 listener who claimed this couldn't have happened without David Palmer from 24 - in which case there'll probably never be a female president based on Commander in Chief, Hail To The Chief*, the movie version of Whoops Apocalypse and Kisses For My President. (Not to mention "Bart To The Future" featuring America's first heterosexual female #1, President Lisa Simpson.)
It is not, however, aimed at my mum (who texted us to wish us a Happy Barack Day). Or Sharon. Or anyone else rightly thrilled at America finally getting payback for eight years of smug condescension from some quarters. A long road back, but it's started out well...
*For those who don't remember this shortlived sitcom with Patty Duke as the prez, lucky you.
The Never Enough Hayden Post.
Well done, my girl. Yet another reason to like her.
In memory of: Fringe. Not the show, my interest in watching it (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Heroes (still) top it consistently). And my visits to the US TV on UK TV blog, though not without some regret (sorry, reporter, but Hayden > you).
In memory of: Fringe. Not the show, my interest in watching it (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Heroes (still) top it consistently). And my visits to the US TV on UK TV blog, though not without some regret (sorry, reporter, but Hayden > you).
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