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tmp00
08/05/09

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Why don't we let Medved retreat into his well-deserved obscurity without further comment.
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Steverino Begins
08/05/09

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"I've never thought of you as ordinary."
So that's not even subtext, right? The joke is that Watson is gay?
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BlinkyMcChuck
08/05/09

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Medved = blargh. Also what is with all of the "levers" in that script?
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Miss Anita Manbadly
08/05/09

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Are those restraints I see around Robert Downey Junior's wrists in the photo above? Why was I not summoned to the set for this momentous occasion? Someone is in a LOT of trouble.
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Wrapitup
08/04/09

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"Who is going to want to see Downey Jr. and Lawmake out? I don't think it would be appealing to women."
For a supposedly straight man, his knowledge of straight women's sexuality is abysmal.
And it's too bad that Downey and Law won't be making out. There's only one Holmes and his name is Jeremy Brett. Not even Basil Rathbone comes close. The equation works thusly:
Holmes movie - (Jeremy Brett + man-on-man heavy petting) = 80% decrease in my interest
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Kitten_Witawip
08/05/09

@Wrapitup: Very few straight men know anything about straight women's sexuality.
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moochia
08/05/09

@Wrapitup: I don't know you, but it doesn't matter. You are so right about this, and I love you. That's right. I love you! I don't care who knows it.
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Wrapitup
08/05/09

@moochia: Thanks:) Also Guy Ritchie , who might as well be a Maxim writer, directs this. Make that a 90% decrease in my interest.
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Wrapitup
08/05/09

@Kitten_Witawip: True. And thankfully many of them don't go around exposing their ignorance in such a blatant and patronizing fashion.
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SanjivaniChrysippus
08/04/09

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Downey is not straight. He is fauxstraight, fauxgay, fauxbi.

It's his own little thing.
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Kitten_Witawip
08/04/09

@SanjivaniChrysippus: It's Jude. He does it with all of his male co-stars
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cand86
08/04/09

@Kitten_Witawip: What is this picture from?!?
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Kitten_Witawip
08/04/09

@cand86:
It's a Lorenzo Agius photo from the cover of the UK Telegraph Magazine from a series of portraits of British actors.
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BrianaGoodman
08/04/09

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Michael Mevdev should see the movie Wilde. It will rock his world.
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cand86
08/04/09

@BrianaGoodman: I still watch this, often. Jude is so petulant and sexy. Oh, and it's like a great movie and whatever, but seriously, gay!Jude is so much more amazing than a mustachioed homoerotic!Jude.
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castinghag
08/04/09

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Medved is so scarily a closet "mo." I feel so sorry for that guy. I saw the trailer for this, RDJ's "accent" is bad. Really, not good. He would totally have to suck Law's dick for me to pay money to see this.
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urbanraconteur
08/04/09

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Its common to tell what the actors should be thinking / feeling in the script. Most actors ignore the directions but the directions aren't for the actors for the most part. They serve the writer to help studio execs reading the scripts to imagine what would be happening. Makes it easier for them to feel the script "off the page" and thus greenlight it. I've seen scripts greenlit go to actors and by the time they get to the actors the actors have had their management go through and redact all stage directions so they won't influence their first reads.
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Dave J.
08/04/09

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"Who is going to want to see Downey Jr. and Law make out? I don't think it would be appealing to women. "
Jesus, how clueless can this guy be. If I had known, in college, how turned on women get by seeing guys make out, I would have been lots friendlier with my guy friends.
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nozer
08/04/09

@Dave J.: That's exactly what I thought. I'm sure maybe there are some women out there that don't enjoy the sight of two men making out, but then again, it's about the same percentage as men who don't enjoy seeing two women making out.
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htotheomo
08/04/09

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Maybe I am confabulating (again), but wasn't he gay and a drug user as well?
I guess to Medved, one is better than the other.
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lacieca01
08/04/09

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"You promised to meet, Mary!"
[singing the score of West Side Story] "Tonight!"
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
08/05/09

@lacieca01: EXACTLY !!! it's code - we're going to meet mary, mary (or nancy, whatev)
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teenypanini
08/04/09

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this has nothing to do with the article but, i'm sad that this movie will not be a correct representation of the actual books. i loved the sherlock holmes series, and if you want to be accurate you wouldn't put robert downey jr. as sherlock. he's supposed to be some old guy!
but as they say, sexiness sells.
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TheAlmanac
08/04/09

@teenypanini: Holmes and Watson were only 27 and 29, respectively, when they first met, and the movie is (reportedly) set ten years later, so Jude Law is just about right and Downey is almost ten years too old for the part.
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Baroness
08/04/09

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Just an aside, but do all modern scripts have such exposition, basically telling the actors exactly how to act? I seem to recall that was a Screenwriting 101 no-no.
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pixie
08/04/09

@Baroness: Depends on the writer, I guess, but I see it a lot. Here's a great article about just that...
[www.washingtonpost.com]
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snugbug
08/04/09

@pixie: Great article, thx. With writer/filmmakers like Sofia Coppola, it's a bit different, because they know what they want to do from the get-go and they put minute details in the script for themselves, not so much for the actors. Like, the peach mesh underwear that Scarlet Johansson wore in the opening shot of "Lost in Translation" (to use an example quoted in the article) is a direct riff on John Kacere's paintings, and that's more Sofia setting the tone for her film than building up back story for the actors.
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Cheruth
08/04/09

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As a straight woman I have to say that the only way I would even contemplate seeing this movie is if there was some tender Holmes/Watson love making. Or not tender. Whatever, the tender part isn't important but there has to be some sex.
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