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Indulge Me, I'm From Hollywood (very funny review of pretentious new Showtime series)
NY Post ^ | 5/29/03 | Linda Stasi

Posted on 05/30/2003 7:43:17 AM PDT by dead

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:14:09 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

May 29, 2003 -- WHAT would you get if David Mamet and Ingmar Bergman were TV writers and collaborated on a cable series?

Let me answer that: A big, annoying, pretentious, self-indulgent script broken only by needless hysterical rantings.

The show, about the 16-year marriage of a couple of screenwriters with a nine-year-old son was conceived, produced and written by Wayne and Donna Powers, a couple of screenwriters who've been married for . . . 19 years, and have a ten-year-old son.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: outoforder
It's not just conservative people that are getting really disgusted with Hollywood lately.

Linda Stasi is a soccer mom liberal television reviewer.

1 posted on 05/30/2003 7:43:17 AM PDT by dead
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To: dead
Isn't Showtime the same one that made the 'queer like folk' show (or what was it's name??) Did anyone watch it? (not here- I mean ANYone) Or doesn't that make a diff when you are making a politically correct show?
2 posted on 05/30/2003 7:47:55 AM PDT by Mr. K (crunchy frog?)
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To: dead
Can't wait to miss that one.
3 posted on 05/30/2003 7:49:29 AM PDT by netmilsmom (God Bless our President, those with him & our troops)
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To: netmilsmom
Oh, God, it's THIRTY-SOMETHING back from the dead! Get Buffy in here to kill this boring, self-indulgant, whiney abomination NOW!
4 posted on 05/30/2003 9:13:05 AM PDT by 50sDad (Close the door! Are we cooling the entire neighborhood? And clean your room!)
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To: 50sDad
>>Oh, God, it's THIRTY-SOMETHING back from the dead! Get Buffy in here to kill this boring, self-indulgant, whiney abomination NOW!<<
Oh you are so right. Geez this is why I stopped watching anything but news networks right after X-Files went off.
If I want to hear whinning I will call my Lesbian/teacher/flaming liberal sister. She can't talk for 2 minutes without a whine.
5 posted on 05/30/2003 9:23:00 AM PDT by netmilsmom (God Bless our President, those with him & our troops)
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To: dead
"This is the only movie that we have ever written that was just something inside we had to get out," says Donna Powers.

I know the feeling. Avoiding the burritos in the buffet line took care of it.

6 posted on 05/30/2003 9:27:14 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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ok, I watched most of this show last night and it was HOT--sexy hot. It will get viewers, especially women, in my opinion because the sex is part of the story. Or the story leads to the sex. It had me empathizing with the Eric Stoltz character and with him when he made his move. Whew..it is hot in here.
7 posted on 06/02/2003 1:34:35 PM PDT by kmiller1k (remain calm)
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To: dead
Did you see this last night?
8 posted on 06/02/2003 1:35:33 PM PDT by kmiller1k (remain calm)
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To: kmiller1k
No. I forgot about it right after I read the review.

It sounded too awful to watch, even if only to mock.

9 posted on 06/02/2003 1:43:36 PM PDT by dead
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