November 09, 2003
hello november. jeez...
obviously i've neglected this place. been keeping up at the increasingly busy adtunes, and going to a lot of tapings at night. also, seems like i go to the grocery store every other day trying to pick up odds and ends from different places -- the employees are still on strike at some and i just find that no store has everything i need. really... how is it possible that a grocery store has no fresh chicken, at all!? really annoying
a few weeks ago i went to a taping of coupling, a week before it got cancelled by nbc. i love the bbc america original, and was excited about the u.s. version... but boy did it suck! the episode i saw was a xmas one, and it actually was pretty good -- the writing wasn't word-for-word from the original and the actors weren't as stiff. too bad the episode will likely never see the light of day.
went to another show the other day with joey "whoa" lawrence, excuse me, joseph "whoa" lawrence. he really looks better with short hair, almost unrecognizable.
most random... at a different show, i sat next to this couple from alabama who turned out to be slightly interesting. there are these warm-up guys who try to entertain you in between scenes, and this particular one wanted volunteers from the audience to dance and make fools of themselves. a tiny blonde woman stands up, and the emcee asks her where she's from, what she does, etc... the woman responds with "internet marketing... we cover real estate for florida." all this said, giggling and fumbling, while looking back at her husband/partner/boyfriend for ideas. it was weird -- the lady obviously was making it up as she went along. she dances, sits down and a few minutes later, the husband-type gets up to dance and the first thing out of his mouth, while pointing back at the lady is, "she's lying... her website is called so-and-so dot com and she has eight webcams in her home watching her all the time!" (and, yes i did check the site out and holy-crap was it graphic, and that was only the free part... ugh.)
I hear there's an American The Office in the works too...and there were the rumors a while back about an american AbFab. AGH!
As for Coupling, I thought the biggest problem was the word-for-word script rip-offs, except for where they'd change certain words that were too British, etc. The dynamic just wasn't the same then. And I totally agree that the actors seemed a little stiff in the first few episodes...but then the writers didn't give them anything original to work with.
Posted by: lori at November 14, 2003 08:30 AM
