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Carlson2005
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Paul MacLean
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How hot is it there? I was in London for half of summer '90 and it was beastly -- like the American midwest.Carlson2005 wrote:If only it would rain after the heatwave and hosepipe ban we've had this summer. Still, at least we're back to cold weather at last so we can catch up on the soaps!
And which soaps do you watch? I have to say I've never seen the allure of "Corrie", or EastEnders (Eastenders actually ran in America in the late 80s). "Noybahs" (or "Neighbors" to people with American accents) was only watchable because of the dishy Assie chicks (amazing to think that's where Guy Pierce started!), but the only soap I ever watched when in the UK was The Bill, cause it had a little more action (I also like the "documentary" look of the show). Emmerdale isn't great, but it has nice scenery (and had a brief appearance once by a young actor named George Fenton...who soon after quit acting to pursue music).
Another thing which strikes me as funny -- in the UK, the soaps are all about working class people, but American soaps are all about rich people. Funny that...
Paul
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Carlson2005
I don't watch soaps myself, but then UK TV has declined in quality a lot over the past ten years. It's still largely soaps, reality shows and makeover shows, with films now shoved into ghetto slots (usually 3am for the more interesting ones). I half-heartedly watch The Bill from time to time, but that went through an incredibly bad patch where they were just rehashing old storylines (how many times can one station get firebombed?). Worse, a very 'out' gay producer whose previous experience had been in furnishings took over the show and decided that every new character had to not only be young but also be either gay/lesbian or, if straight, a psychopathic stalker/murderer, which meant that there were more gay characters in that one station than there were in the entire UK police force. His other big idea was to kill off - literally - any of the more popular characters: in an 18-month period he killed off some 36 characters. The show has only gradually recovered, but still has a tendency to string out any storyline for six months longer than necessary. 
The mid-West comparison is pretty accurate - not just because of the heat but because of the humidity (so bad at the moment you can't pick up BBC1 or 2 where I live at the moment). The 100degree weather has broken off at the moment to be replaced by muggy, humid overcast weather, which at least means you can travel by the Underground trains without dying of dehydration (a genuine health risk only a couple of weeks ago).
The mid-West comparison is pretty accurate - not just because of the heat but because of the humidity (so bad at the moment you can't pick up BBC1 or 2 where I live at the moment). The 100degree weather has broken off at the moment to be replaced by muggy, humid overcast weather, which at least means you can travel by the Underground trains without dying of dehydration (a genuine health risk only a couple of weeks ago).
Not that many studio chiefs are Jewish anymore. . .
Unless many of the studio takeovers from the last 30 years have been reversed, there really are very few (if any) studios that are being presided over by people of the Jewish persuasion anymore. Mayer, Cohn, Laemmle, Warner, Zukor, Goldwyn, Selznick-they are all gone now and have been for more than 40 years. Zanuck and Disney were Goyim -especially Disney.
Nowadays, with conglomerates owning everything-and NO ONE would ever accuse Rupert Murdoch of being Jewish, that sort of thing just does not fly anymore, and when it was the norm, many Jewish heads of studios did not exactly trumpet it for two reasons-they wanted to have the films they made accepted by the average citizen so playing down any Jewish connection made things more palatable to people who had a very deep mistrust of Jews for decades in this country; and the second was they wanted to just be known as "Americans." A recent book on Mayer mentioned how proud LB was to be an American, so that when he became a citizen (originally born in Canada) he changed his birthdate to July 4, to show how much he loved his newly adopted country.
The closest we've come to having a Jewish studio head lately was when Dreamworks was at full-steam, although Brad Grey might be. . .but who cares?
Nowadays, with conglomerates owning everything-and NO ONE would ever accuse Rupert Murdoch of being Jewish, that sort of thing just does not fly anymore, and when it was the norm, many Jewish heads of studios did not exactly trumpet it for two reasons-they wanted to have the films they made accepted by the average citizen so playing down any Jewish connection made things more palatable to people who had a very deep mistrust of Jews for decades in this country; and the second was they wanted to just be known as "Americans." A recent book on Mayer mentioned how proud LB was to be an American, so that when he became a citizen (originally born in Canada) he changed his birthdate to July 4, to show how much he loved his newly adopted country.
The closest we've come to having a Jewish studio head lately was when Dreamworks was at full-steam, although Brad Grey might be. . .but who cares?
JDvDHeise
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."-Gene Wilder to Cleavon Little in BLAZING SADDLES
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."-Gene Wilder to Cleavon Little in BLAZING SADDLES
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Carlson2005
And the winner is - October!
Mel Gibson Interviewed for 'Good Morning America'
Diane Sawyer has landed the first interview with Mel Gibson since his DUI arrest last July during which he made several anti-Semitic remarks. ABC said Thursday that the interview has already been taped and will air on Oct. 12 and 13 on the network's Good Morning America.Conspicuously absent from the ABC news release was any mention of a primetime airing of the interview. In previous years it would have routinely appeared on Sawyer's Primetime news magazine. However, the long-running program was removed from the network's regular schedule by ABC programmers, who nevertheless said that it would continue to turn out as many shows this year as last, airing them as specials or to fill in for failed shows.
Mel Gibson Interviewed for 'Good Morning America'
Diane Sawyer has landed the first interview with Mel Gibson since his DUI arrest last July during which he made several anti-Semitic remarks. ABC said Thursday that the interview has already been taped and will air on Oct. 12 and 13 on the network's Good Morning America.Conspicuously absent from the ABC news release was any mention of a primetime airing of the interview. In previous years it would have routinely appeared on Sawyer's Primetime news magazine. However, the long-running program was removed from the network's regular schedule by ABC programmers, who nevertheless said that it would continue to turn out as many shows this year as last, airing them as specials or to fill in for failed shows.