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Feb. 21st, 2016 10:07 amI'm eating raspberry sorbet for breakfast, because I'm a grown-up and it's ALLOWED!
Have just bought Executive Stress on DVD. Alas, it's only available in Region 2 DVD, so I will have to play it in my laptop rather than on my TV. I used to watch it on PBS (I know PBS is an American broadcaster, but their Seattle affiliate also broadcasts to Vancouver). It's from the 80's, and Dame Penelope Keith (To the Manor Born) plays a former publishing executive who gave it all up to raise a family with another publisher (Geoffrey Palmer of As Time Goes By).
Her chicks have now flown the nest for university and she's bored silly. She gets a job (under her maiden name) at a big American-owned publishing firm, but unbeknownst to her the firm is in the process of buying up the smaller publishing firm her husband works at. And their now mutual boss has a strict policy of not allowing people who are romantically involved (or for that matter, married) to work together, so they end up pretending they've never met before in order to both keep their jobs. It's a flimsy enough premise, but Keith and Palmer are magnificently funny.
But for some mysterious reason, Palmer wasn't kept on after the first season. Feud with the producers, wanted more money, unavailable due to filming commitments? Who knows? They recast the role with Peter Bowles (To the Manor Born), who is also extremely funny, although in a different way. My mum is horribly jealous, as she also remembers the show, and I have promised to lend it to her when it arrives.
I still have this stupid cough. I feel fine, but I keep barking like a seal. My dad, damn him, also had this cold, and was deathly ill for about 2 days to the point where he was considering calling an ambulance, but is now fine. He's always been like that. When he gets sick, he gets VERY sick, but then he gets better very quickly. Why did I inherit his wide feet and neuroses instead of his immune system?
Apparently Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys are having a baby!!!!! I'm guessing they won't write Russell's pregnancy into The Americans, because that would make things even more complicated. She will probably just spend some time standing behind large house plants to conceal her bump. But I feel weird about them having a real life relationship. Yes, Russell and Rhys have fabulous chemistry as Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, Cold War-era spies paired up as a supposed married couple by the KGB. But what happens if the actors later have a messy break-up and one of them decides they want to quit the show? I'd much rather have Elizabeth and Philip than Keri and Matthew. Also, if you're not watching The Americans, why not? It's brilliant! And Season 1 is on at Amazon for only $15 Canadian.
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koalathebear has a fabulously interesting post about the struggle for East Asian actors to find jobs at all, let alone jobs which aren't stereotypical crap. Go, read.
Have just bought Executive Stress on DVD. Alas, it's only available in Region 2 DVD, so I will have to play it in my laptop rather than on my TV. I used to watch it on PBS (I know PBS is an American broadcaster, but their Seattle affiliate also broadcasts to Vancouver). It's from the 80's, and Dame Penelope Keith (To the Manor Born) plays a former publishing executive who gave it all up to raise a family with another publisher (Geoffrey Palmer of As Time Goes By).
Her chicks have now flown the nest for university and she's bored silly. She gets a job (under her maiden name) at a big American-owned publishing firm, but unbeknownst to her the firm is in the process of buying up the smaller publishing firm her husband works at. And their now mutual boss has a strict policy of not allowing people who are romantically involved (or for that matter, married) to work together, so they end up pretending they've never met before in order to both keep their jobs. It's a flimsy enough premise, but Keith and Palmer are magnificently funny.
But for some mysterious reason, Palmer wasn't kept on after the first season. Feud with the producers, wanted more money, unavailable due to filming commitments? Who knows? They recast the role with Peter Bowles (To the Manor Born), who is also extremely funny, although in a different way. My mum is horribly jealous, as she also remembers the show, and I have promised to lend it to her when it arrives.
I still have this stupid cough. I feel fine, but I keep barking like a seal. My dad, damn him, also had this cold, and was deathly ill for about 2 days to the point where he was considering calling an ambulance, but is now fine. He's always been like that. When he gets sick, he gets VERY sick, but then he gets better very quickly. Why did I inherit his wide feet and neuroses instead of his immune system?
Apparently Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys are having a baby!!!!! I'm guessing they won't write Russell's pregnancy into The Americans, because that would make things even more complicated. She will probably just spend some time standing behind large house plants to conceal her bump. But I feel weird about them having a real life relationship. Yes, Russell and Rhys have fabulous chemistry as Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, Cold War-era spies paired up as a supposed married couple by the KGB. But what happens if the actors later have a messy break-up and one of them decides they want to quit the show? I'd much rather have Elizabeth and Philip than Keri and Matthew. Also, if you're not watching The Americans, why not? It's brilliant! And Season 1 is on at Amazon for only $15 Canadian.
koalathebear has a fabulously interesting post about the struggle for East Asian actors to find jobs at all, let alone jobs which aren't stereotypical crap. Go, read.
