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ladyofavalon77) wrote2006-11-02 07:28 pm
ladyofavalon77) wrote2006-11-02 07:28 pm
Well that was a nice break :)
I've decided to take every other month off from posting so that I can become more active in my LJ communities. What does this mean exactly? Well, instead of posting every day I'll be posting every other day every other month. So for November it will be every other day but for December it will be everyday and so on and so forth :) Boy do I love schedules when everything lines up :) Just call me crazy!
So first let's start off with the wonderful news!! My 24 calendar finally came in today and it was SOOOOOO worth it.xandra73 already told me that there were lots of great pictures and I couldn't be happier. A whole month devoted to Charles and a whole month to Martha. I'm in fandom heaven!! And best of all, there are pictures on the calendar I haven't seen ANYWHERE ELSE. For example, there's one picture with Charles and Walt Cummings where he puts his hand on Walt's shoulder and they're smiling. Then there's one with Charles and Martha on the couch and he's holding her hand. I also saw some candids of Martha and Charles with the Suvarovs. What I'm most excited about is a picture of them filming Martha walking back to the retreat with Evelyn as well as a shot with Martha leaning over the dead body of Walt Cummings (there's a story here I'm sure and I hope the Season Five DVD's show what it is). I can't believe that the 24 calendar ended up being better than the 24: Behind the Scenes Book LOL!
Now a short post on the TV shows I saw Tuesday and Wednesday. Dancing With The Stars won out for both nights in my book. Great little numbers by these stars who have really become professionals. My prediction that Monique would go home turned out to be true and Emmit rocked the house like always. He's the one I hope that wins though Mario has won by technique alone. He's just not as entertaining to watch as Emmitt. Wouldn't it be cool if Cheryl Burke won Dancing with the Stars TWO TIMES IN A ROW!! That would make her the best choreographer EVER :) OK I'm calm...REALLY :) I saw House on Tuesday as well and was quite amused by the main star's antics. The Cuddy/House relationship is fascinating and I'm going to keep a close eye thanks tocrashandburn for showing me the way :) David Morse is the perfect foil for House and can't wait to see what he has in store for our good doctor next! Then last night was Lost and The Nine. Sad to say, I've only seen Lost because I taped The Nine and haven't seen it yet though I heard it was a great episode. Lost was just too predictable and I was kind of confused by the whole thing. Though Jack and Juliet as a couple are growing on me. I DEFINITELY want to see more the Suns...I am SO shipping them :)
And that's enough of real life, time to post my weekly news piece. I've been scouring Google news for recent articles on my favorite duo but no luck...or at least nothing of real interest so I have fell back on gleaning some gems from a few months back before and during filming of Season Five. Plenty to mine from and many that have yet to be touched on. Therefore I give you this lovely jewel that has a cute snippet on Martha. I love the different ways they describe her as First Lady and especially love it when they predicted her part would be significant because of the actress she is. That is SO true!! Hail to Jean Smart and her great acting partner Gregory Itzin :)
So first let's start off with the wonderful news!! My 24 calendar finally came in today and it was SOOOOOO worth it.
xandra73 already told me that there were lots of great pictures and I couldn't be happier. A whole month devoted to Charles and a whole month to Martha. I'm in fandom heaven!! And best of all, there are pictures on the calendar I haven't seen ANYWHERE ELSE. For example, there's one picture with Charles and Walt Cummings where he puts his hand on Walt's shoulder and they're smiling. Then there's one with Charles and Martha on the couch and he's holding her hand. I also saw some candids of Martha and Charles with the Suvarovs. What I'm most excited about is a picture of them filming Martha walking back to the retreat with Evelyn as well as a shot with Martha leaning over the dead body of Walt Cummings (there's a story here I'm sure and I hope the Season Five DVD's show what it is). I can't believe that the 24 calendar ended up being better than the 24: Behind the Scenes Book LOL!Now a short post on the TV shows I saw Tuesday and Wednesday. Dancing With The Stars won out for both nights in my book. Great little numbers by these stars who have really become professionals. My prediction that Monique would go home turned out to be true and Emmit rocked the house like always. He's the one I hope that wins though Mario has won by technique alone. He's just not as entertaining to watch as Emmitt. Wouldn't it be cool if Cheryl Burke won Dancing with the Stars TWO TIMES IN A ROW!! That would make her the best choreographer EVER :) OK I'm calm...REALLY :) I saw House on Tuesday as well and was quite amused by the main star's antics. The Cuddy/House relationship is fascinating and I'm going to keep a close eye thanks to
crashandburn for showing me the way :) David Morse is the perfect foil for House and can't wait to see what he has in store for our good doctor next! Then last night was Lost and The Nine. Sad to say, I've only seen Lost because I taped The Nine and haven't seen it yet though I heard it was a great episode. Lost was just too predictable and I was kind of confused by the whole thing. Though Jack and Juliet as a couple are growing on me. I DEFINITELY want to see more the Suns...I am SO shipping them :)And that's enough of real life, time to post my weekly news piece. I've been scouring Google news for recent articles on my favorite duo but no luck...or at least nothing of real interest so I have fell back on gleaning some gems from a few months back before and during filming of Season Five. Plenty to mine from and many that have yet to be touched on. Therefore I give you this lovely jewel that has a cute snippet on Martha. I love the different ways they describe her as First Lady and especially love it when they predicted her part would be significant because of the actress she is. That is SO true!! Hail to Jean Smart and her great acting partner Gregory Itzin :)
'24' gets almost that many new faces
By Joanne Weintraub Milwaukee Journal Sentinel TV critic
When the speeding train that is Fox's "24" returns next month, more than a dozen new passengers will be on board or waiting somewhere down the line.
Among them are Sean Astin, Jean Smart, Connie Britton, Jayne Atkinson, Thomas Kretschmann, Peter Weller, Brady Corbet, JoBeth Williams and Julian Sands.
The returnees, I'm happy to report, include CTU intelligence specialists Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub) and Edgar (Louis Lombardi), the most endearingly odd office employees outside of NBC's "The Office," as well as the seriously smokin' Tony (Carlos Bernard) and Michelle (Reiko Aylesworth), who have remarried after realizing that it takes two - at least - to fight terrorism.
I'm less thrilled to note that, after a blessed absence of one whole season, Kim Bauer (Elisha Cuthbert) will rejoin the series.
Who can forget Kim's near-fatal encounters with three seasons' worth of murderous kidnappers, to say nothing of the psycho boss, the would-be rapist, the gonzo survivalist, the bear trap or the mountain lion? Who hasn't tried?
Even Kim herself tried, with the old amnesia ploy.
Leave it to Kim to drag in a plot device that was old when "Guiding Light" was in its freshman year.
But Kim is of less immediate concern than her father, Jack (Kiefer Sutherland), who most people believe is dead but who three or four CTU insiders and 10 million "24" fans know is just lying low.
Being Jack, though, he's not lying that low. As 10,000,003 or 10,000,004 of us are aware, after Jack was supposedly fatally shot in the last hour of Season 4, back in May, he was revived, smuggled out of town in the back seat of a car and last seen walking off into the sunrise.
According to information liberally leaked by Fox, Jack will reappear at the start of Season 5 as one Frank Flynn, a Bakersfield, Calif., oil-fieldworker living with a woman named Diane (Britton) and her teenage son, Derek (Corbet).
Bakersfield? Oil fields? A significant other with a kid? OK, how long do you give "Frank" before he's back in action as Jack, fighting terrorists as routinely as the rest of us fight off colds in winter or mosquitoes in summer?
I give him two or three hours, four at the outside. Jack fighting terrorism is a given in "24."
So is a flinty female superior - Atkinson this season, Alberta Watson last season.
And a bad guy with a foreign accent - Sands this time, far too many to count in past seasons, though Dennis Hopper's cold-blooded Victor Drazen in Season 1 stands out.
And a president - first Dennis Haysbert, now Gregory Itzin - with a wife who has her own subplot. Or do you think they've hired the formidable Smart to play a first lady whose chief role is to gaze admiringly at her husband during press conferences?
Oh, and in addition to this year's love interest, played by Britton, last season's love interest, Audrey (Kim Raver), is scheduled to appear. This could prove to be almost as terrifying as the terrorists.
All that, and the deliciously daft Chloe and Edgar, too.
Let the clock start ticking. I'm ready.
http://www.jsonline.com/enter/tvradio/dec05/379471.asp?format=print
By Joanne Weintraub Milwaukee Journal Sentinel TV critic
When the speeding train that is Fox's "24" returns next month, more than a dozen new passengers will be on board or waiting somewhere down the line.
Among them are Sean Astin, Jean Smart, Connie Britton, Jayne Atkinson, Thomas Kretschmann, Peter Weller, Brady Corbet, JoBeth Williams and Julian Sands.
The returnees, I'm happy to report, include CTU intelligence specialists Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub) and Edgar (Louis Lombardi), the most endearingly odd office employees outside of NBC's "The Office," as well as the seriously smokin' Tony (Carlos Bernard) and Michelle (Reiko Aylesworth), who have remarried after realizing that it takes two - at least - to fight terrorism.
I'm less thrilled to note that, after a blessed absence of one whole season, Kim Bauer (Elisha Cuthbert) will rejoin the series.
Who can forget Kim's near-fatal encounters with three seasons' worth of murderous kidnappers, to say nothing of the psycho boss, the would-be rapist, the gonzo survivalist, the bear trap or the mountain lion? Who hasn't tried?
Even Kim herself tried, with the old amnesia ploy.
Leave it to Kim to drag in a plot device that was old when "Guiding Light" was in its freshman year.
But Kim is of less immediate concern than her father, Jack (Kiefer Sutherland), who most people believe is dead but who three or four CTU insiders and 10 million "24" fans know is just lying low.
Being Jack, though, he's not lying that low. As 10,000,003 or 10,000,004 of us are aware, after Jack was supposedly fatally shot in the last hour of Season 4, back in May, he was revived, smuggled out of town in the back seat of a car and last seen walking off into the sunrise.
According to information liberally leaked by Fox, Jack will reappear at the start of Season 5 as one Frank Flynn, a Bakersfield, Calif., oil-fieldworker living with a woman named Diane (Britton) and her teenage son, Derek (Corbet).
Bakersfield? Oil fields? A significant other with a kid? OK, how long do you give "Frank" before he's back in action as Jack, fighting terrorists as routinely as the rest of us fight off colds in winter or mosquitoes in summer?
I give him two or three hours, four at the outside. Jack fighting terrorism is a given in "24."
So is a flinty female superior - Atkinson this season, Alberta Watson last season.
And a bad guy with a foreign accent - Sands this time, far too many to count in past seasons, though Dennis Hopper's cold-blooded Victor Drazen in Season 1 stands out.
And a president - first Dennis Haysbert, now Gregory Itzin - with a wife who has her own subplot. Or do you think they've hired the formidable Smart to play a first lady whose chief role is to gaze admiringly at her husband during press conferences?
Oh, and in addition to this year's love interest, played by Britton, last season's love interest, Audrey (Kim Raver), is scheduled to appear. This could prove to be almost as terrifying as the terrorists.
All that, and the deliciously daft Chloe and Edgar, too.
Let the clock start ticking. I'm ready.
http://www.jsonline.com/enter/tvradio/dec05/379471.asp?format=print
If you have a better plan, speak up now before I embarrass myself.
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Anytime :)
And you did it again!! Another great icon. I think its time you opened your own icon journal, Tess *grin*
*snags another for collection hehe*
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The calendar looks awesome! I wish I could have it. Seriously, I've never had a 24 calendar because they're not sold here. :(
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Well the other characters that get a month are Chloe, Curtis, Audrey, Heller, Edgar, Jack, Tony, Bill, and Palmer. I can scan copes of Tony's month or any other you want if you like :)
You can count me a Huddy fan now, going to rent past seasons of House :)
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If you want, you can get my season 1 - 3.04 House on CD as I'm planning on buying the DVDs once they'll get released here.
Re: :(
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And this weeks Dancing With the Stars made me so gleeful! I'm new to the show, so I can't actually remember people's name, but everyone is always so sparkly and energetic.
I know!!
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My pleasure :)