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Fri Dec 4
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I know this is akin to admitting that I'm a serial killer or a pedophile but...yes, I watch soap operas. I started watching them at my momma's knee when I was a kid and have continued with the habit through college, grad school, and now adult working life. I DVR One Life to Live and General Hospital, and watch them, sometimes on ffwd, on the weekend or every other weekend when folding laundry or the like.
But my point is....Franco kind of has a point about the meta aspect of his performance. He plays a mysterious artist named Franco, and yeah, much of the time I've watched his scenes I've thought "this is James Franco playing a guy on a soap named Franco." And it's almost impossible to watch him in the role without being acutely aware that this is a famous movie actor playing a famous artist on a show. It does add another layer of interest to the show.
I think he also has a point about the critically legitimate thing. Yes, soaps are outrageous and silly in many ways. But having "big time movie star" Franco playing against these other soap actors brings home the point that (1) many of these actors on these shows are just as good as him and (2) are not playing roles that much more outrageous than roles Franco has played in other films.
So yeah, I do think it makes (some) people question whether soaps are less critically legitimate. Of course, other people just think it's a soap so why care.
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Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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-- "Old person"? Looks like old women are the only ones being made fun of in that ad.
--On the news today I heard that something called a "Grandma's Law" had been passed. It's an anti-violence measure. Like old men aren't victims of crime?
Apparently, sexism ends only at death.
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the takes they shot that didn't make the cut because they were in poor taste. The one where octogenarian heroine's pink tongue swirls around the tip of the creamy shaft of her cone, dribbling foamy spumescence onto her ample granny-bags, while the froth leaves a teasing trail as it heads south to her...
Well, you get my point.
Good thing I got out before it affected me, huh?
12/02/09
How can you abide by dry taters? Yah, yah, the chopped monkey ass-meat (with hair) to the right looks to be revolutionary in its repulsiveness, but, yeah, unadorned white potato is a sin against nature. The markings of a true culinary troglodyte.
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