Today, Gary Oldman is 50 years old. That's why you get the Vlad and Mina icon, because one of my Hollywood fixations is now half a century old
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Funny, I just watched BSD the other night for the first time in quite a while, and wondered "How old is Gary Oldman by now, anyway?"
I love the bit in the special features doc where Coppola blindfolds everyone and has Gary whisper something horrid and perverse in all their ears.
Some of those deleted scenes really shouldn't have been cut... That alternate opening and the alternate Rule's Cafe/Johnathan's escape sequence were a lot stronger.
I've yet to see that new DVD release, but I'm just glad to see people liking Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Anyway:
Reading "Riding the White Bull" was rather annoying, as I'd somehow managed to print out a version that was neither the draft that sold to Argosy nor the reprint draft, and whole passages where missing.
The reprint draft was the one that appeared in Gardner Dozois's annual anthology, am I right?
In celebration of Mr. Oldman's milestone, I think I'm opting for "Sid and Nancy" tonight, as I run more with the rock and roll/punk crowd these days. Also revisit a pre-nosejob Courtney Love in a small role.
But I will have to watch "Dracula" soon. It's been awhile.
I thought when I first read this entry you said Gary Coleman. Which confused me with the Dracula thing. Got my copy of ToPaW. Very happy with it. In fact this is my first signed book ever. First story I read was the one I volunteered to html-ize. Plus I already lost my mmp copy of silk, hopefully it gets read ragged.
so I just discovered you via a battered ARC of daughter of hounds i found on a shelf where i was housesitting. then i had everything our library has here in chicago sent to my local branch. just finished silk and garden of poisonous flowers and am a few chapters into threshold. had a sad moment when i realized who chance was, looked sadly at the book and said, but she dies.
love your books. love seeing us queers in fiction as just regular old main characters, the plot being about something other than queerness, it just being NBD. it thrills me.
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I love the bit in the special features doc where Coppola blindfolds everyone and has Gary whisper something horrid and perverse in all their ears.
Some of those deleted scenes really shouldn't have been cut... That alternate opening and the alternate Rule's Cafe/Johnathan's escape sequence were a lot stronger.
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I love the bit in the special features doc where Coppola blindfolds everyone and has Gary whisper something horrid and perverse in all their ears.
Yes! That is one of the sexiest things I have ever seen.
And I love your icon.
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So here it is again, just for fun!
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Anyway:
Reading "Riding the White Bull" was rather annoying, as I'd somehow managed to print out a version that was neither the draft that sold to Argosy nor the reprint draft, and whole passages where missing.
The reprint draft was the one that appeared in Gardner Dozois's annual anthology, am I right?
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But I will have to watch "Dracula" soon. It's been awhile.
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Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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Got my copy of ToPaW. Very happy with it. In fact this is my first signed book ever. First story I read was the one I volunteered to html-ize.
Plus I already lost my mmp copy of silk, hopefully it gets read ragged.
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love your books. love seeing us queers in fiction as just regular old main characters, the plot being about something other than queerness, it just being NBD. it thrills me.
season 5 of angel was fanfuckingtastic.
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