Ricky Gervais in The Office US

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OH MY GOD !
It's going to happen: David Brent will meet up with Michael Scott before Steve Carell leaves The Office. Vulture has learned that Ricky Gervais shot a top-secret cameo that will appear in the cold open of the January 27 episode of the NBC series.
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This is beyond amazing ! I know I will only believe it when it actually happens

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[hostile17girl]

Now that I've quit the show, I'm tempted to go back and rewatch my DVDs of seasons 1-4, to check if those episodes were really as funny as I remembered them. I'm afraid that I'll be overly critical now, knowing what it's become! I felt horribly guilty when I first started watching the show because it seemed really disloyal to the original series, which I LOVE. I think the Brits have the right idea about television, short seasons that only go for a couple of years. No time to run everything into the ground.

Haha, I don't know if that comparison is a compliment. I watched Alias for years until I became really fed up with the increasingly outlandish, sci-fi-type storylines and quit. That being said, I think I will watch the first episode today!

I love Sofia! I really liked Somewhere once I got into the flow of it. It felt like certain scenes seemed to drag on for longer than was comfortable, like ohmygod please pleeeeeaaaase cut to something else! This is taking foreeeever! (the opening driving scene, both pole-dancing scenes, Johnny with the plaster cast over his face, and so on) Once I understood that Sofia was trying to convey a sense of how time passes in 'real life', mundane, unexciting events lasting far longer than they should and you CAN'T just cut to something more exciting, I really started to appreciate it. I do wish Cleo had entered the movie sooner because she was absolutely delightful, but I get that they needed to a establish a sense of how crappy and horrible Johnny's life was without her.

What's your favorite Sofia film? Mine is Lost in Translation, with The Virgin Suicides as a very close second. And what are your thoughts on Marie Antoinette? It's not as vapid as everyone seems to think it is, I swear it's not!