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Not what I was supposed to be doing, but then I thought it would be fun to have a Ainsley Can-I-have-a-muffin icon. 54 other icons later, I did remember to do that...
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That said, I haven't got very far yet, so I don't think I've heard a single one of these quotes, nor met Ainsley. Currently I am a big happy grinning mess for Toby, Leo and Josh. Which is not to say I am not also a big happy grinning mess for CJ, Donna, the President, Mrs Lanningham, Charlie and EVERYONE, except maybe for Sam, who can go be smug somewhere else and take his patronising attitude to call girls with him. THANK YOU SO MUCH for dragging me into this universe of pure joy!
(Also, I seem to remember you saying something about years of watching Spooks making you expect Bad Stuff to happen all the time on The West Wing? I totally get that! I have to keep reminding myself that there is no way they are going to kill off a main character and I can RELAX.)
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Yes, I am feeling quite a bit better, and luckily had S4 and S5 to hand - and have now watched so much of it so fast, my head is a stranger place than usual. Most of the quotes were from S4 that I used above.
We actually did Cat On A Hot Tin Roof as one of our set texts, so we watched The Glass Menagerie for sort of background stuff, or because the Demon English teacher wanted us to? I don't know. But, yes & he was the doctor being asked to do the lobotomy, I think. Unless it actually was a nightmare, or it wasn't even Rob Lowe and it was realy 30 years old or something. I wouldn't swear to anything about it. :-)
Well, never entirely, but Aaron Sorkin seems to have left, and that has changed the vibe a bit, but it goes quite dark in between the light stuff up till then anyway. But hasn't yet lost its sense of the ridiculous of government entirely. And the characters are still themselves, very much so.
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I... what? I do not remember a lobotomy in The Glass Menagerie! Either that was a very strange film adaptation, or you have been having nightmares, or I have forgotten a lot of my high school years (very possible).
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I quote, mainly for my information, sorry: Mrs. Venable has to be one of Maggie Smith's most powerful small screen performances, her rendition of the crippled yet revenge ridden widow is a gothic portrayal which is matched with an equally memorable Natasha Richardson as Catherine. Every facet of this Richard Eyre production reeks of class, the supporting cast are divine with Rob Lowe turning in an understated Dr. Sugar who is pressured to perform a dangerous lobotomy on Catherine in return for substantial research funding by Venable. As the film progresses the viewer is drawn into the tense narrative and the final scene where Catherine is summoned to the ( ... )
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