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<title><![CDATA[Par skaistām un sievišķīgām lietām, jeb Ja nauda kristu no gaisa! ]]></title>
<link>http://paulaligere.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/par-skaistam-un-sieviskigam-lietam-jeb-ja-nauda-kristu-no-gaisa/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Paula</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Skatoties muļķīgos dāmu seriālus sākot no visiem zināmā Sex &amp; the City līdz Latvijas auditorijai]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DOWNLOAD - CASHMERE MAFIA]]></title>
<link>http://mixdearquivos.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/download-cashmere-mafia/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>maikefreitas</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[QUER SABER QUANTO CUSTA ESTA SÉRIE, CLIQUE AQUI SEU CLIQUE PODE VALER R$ 140,00 1ª Temporada(RMVB Le]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div align="center"><a href="http://www.bondfaro.com.br/categorias?id=2922&#38;lkout=1&#38;kw=cashmere+mafia&#38;site_origem=8601260"><img alt="" src="http://mixdearquivos.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/cashmeremafia.jpg?w=211" border="0" />QUER SABER QUANTO CUSTA ESTA SÉRIE, CLIQUE AQUI</a></div>
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.topinho.com/index.php?a=in&#38;u=maikefreitas">SEU CLIQUE PODE VALER R$ 140,00</a></div>
<p><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">1ª Temporada</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">(RMVB Legendado)</span></strong><br />S01 E01 &#8211; Pilot     </span><a href="http://www.filefactory.com/file/a0e40de/n/CASHMERE_S01_E01_rmvb"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Filefactory:.</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">     </span><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CTL56KNQ"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Megaupload:.</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">S01 E02 &#8211; Conference Call     </span><a href="http://www.filefactory.com/file/a0e4259/n/CASHMERE_S01_E02_rmvb"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Filefactory:.</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">     </span><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E6J95D1F"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Megaupload:.</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">S01 E03 &#8211; Dangerous Liaisons     </span><a href="http://www.filefactory.com/file/a0e4496/n/CASHMERE_S01_E03_rmvb"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Filefactory:.</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">     </span><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6YCEYKSX"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Megaupload:.</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">S01 E04 &#8211; The Deciders     </span><a href="http://www.filefactory.com/file/a0e47gd/n/CASHMERE_S01_E04_rmvb"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Filefactory:.</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">     </span><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6AHIED3D"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Megaupload:.</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">S01 E05 &#8211; Stay With Me     </span><a href="http://www.filefactory.com/file/a0e480c/n/CASHMERE_S01_E05_rmvb"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Filefactory:.</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">     </span><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4KQUFDM9"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Megaupload:.</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">S01 E06 &#8211; Yours, Mine and Hers     </span><a href="http://www.filefactory.com/file/a0e490b/n/CASHMERE_S01_E06_rmvb"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Filefactory:.</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">     </span><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=468GLSR4"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Megaupload:.</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">S01 E07 &#8211; Dog Eat Dog     </span><a href="http://www.filefactory.com/file/a0e5afg/n/CASHMERE_S01_E07_rmvb"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Filefactory:.</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">     </span><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BEFFEPW0"><span style="font-family:arial;">.:Megaupload:.</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">(Series Finale)</span></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Val Emmich on Cashmere Mafia]]></title>
<link>http://touchouch.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/val-emmich-on-cashmere-mafia/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>touchouch</dc:creator>
<guid>http://touchouch.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/val-emmich-on-cashmere-mafia/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you thought Val Emmich was adorable in 30 Rock, check him out on Cashmere Mafia. Screencaptures w]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cashmere Mafia]]></title>
<link>http://seriespot.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/cashmere-mafia/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ayacat</dc:creator>
<guid>http://seriespot.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/cashmere-mafia/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Si no la has viso mejor, te ahorraras tu precioso tiempo. Cashmere Mafia fue cancelada el año pasado]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Vad jag gör nu när Almedalsveckan är över...]]></title>
<link>http://varldennasta.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/vad-jag-gor-nu-nar-almedalsveckan-ar-over/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ylva</dc:creator>
<guid>http://varldennasta.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/vad-jag-gor-nu-nar-almedalsveckan-ar-over/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Trots att jag under resten av året brukar längta till sommaren just för att man får åka till sommars]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Trots att jag under resten av året brukar längta till sommaren just för att man får åka till<a href="http://varldennasta.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/for-mycket-planering-leda-till-att-man-missar-nagot-viktigt/"> sommarställena på Gotland och Roslagen</a> så var det förvånansvärt skönt att komma hem till Stockholm förra onsdagen också! Kompisar, lägenhet och att äntligen få slippa leva ur en resväska var nog det som avgjorde det hela. Jag hann knappt landa hemma förrän det var dags att ge sig iväg till veckans upplaga av succén <strong>Onsdagsklubben</strong>: de som är kvar i Stockholm över sommaren och tycker att det är trevligt att socialisera sig med både nya och gamla bekantskaper träffas en gång i veckan på olika platser i stan för en after-work. Eftersom jag bara hann vara med på två innan jag åkte iväg till Gotland för över 3 (!) veckor sedan var humöret och förväntningarna på topp. Inte ens det faktum att jag och rumskompis JD fick <em>gå</em> ända från Söder till Sickla udde (vi hade lite otur när vi skulle hitta båten till sjöstaden&#8230;) kunde ändra på det. Och trots att nästan halva <a href="http://varldennasta.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/for-mycket-planering-leda-till-att-man-missar-nagot-viktigt/">Cashmere Mafia</a> saknades (vi är långt fler än de 4 i <a href="http://www.tv3.se/program/cashmere-mafia">tv-serien</a>…) blev det en väldig lyckad kväll!</p>
<p>”Vad gör du nu när Almedalsveckan är över” är det många som frågar. Tanken var att jag skulle hjälpa till att genomföra fotbollscuppen 24h cup, som tyvärr fick skjutas upp. Men det betyder inte ens nästan att jag går sysslolös, tvärtom hade jag nog fått jobba dygnet runt om jag hade kunnat. Det finns alltid ett projekt som behöver en hjälpande hand, en text som behöver korrekturläsas eller något område där det behövs lite mer research bland annat&#8230;</p>
<p>Hursomhelst, förutom att jobba på projektplanen för Almedalen 2010 så kommer det att bli stor fokus på att hitta deltagare till ett <strong>ledarskapsseminarium</strong> som Hungerprojektet arrangerar i Stockholm höst. Ämnet är <em>hur man skapar hållbart ledarskap genom att väcka eldsjälar</em> och eftersom talare redan är bokade så är det främst deltagarna som fattas. Så jag har satt på mig ”ledarskapsglasögonen” som Amanda (en av projektledarna till seminariet) tipsat mig om, som jag använder i sökandet efter ingångar till att hitta deltagare. Redan nu har jag hittat många, ibland lite långsökta, men ändå helt klart tänkbara ingångar, både i, utanför och helt bortkopplat från mitt Handelsnätverk. En av de nystiftade bekantskaperna från onsdagsklubben har ”no guts, no glory” som en av sina tre livsdeviser. Och det kommer nog att prägla min jakt på deltagare. För om det är något jag har lärt mig under planeringen inför Almedalsveckan så är det att man har ganska lite att förlora på att vända sig till andra när man behöver hjälp med något, och oändligt mycket mer att vinna!</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-311" title="Vinnande marsvin" src="http://varldennasta.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/vinnande-marsvin.jpg" alt="Vinnande marsvin" width="168" height="240" />*kunde inte motstå den här bilden när jag hittade den, jag hade två marsvin när jag var liten!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[För mycket planering kan leda till att man missar något väldigt viktigt...]]></title>
<link>http://varldennasta.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/for-mycket-planering-leda-till-att-man-missar-nagot-viktigt/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ylva</dc:creator>
<guid>http://varldennasta.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/for-mycket-planering-leda-till-att-man-missar-nagot-viktigt/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ända sedan den 3e juli, då Almedalsveckan tog slut för Hungerprojektets del, har temat för min viste]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Ända sedan den 3e juli, då Almedalsveckan tog slut för Hungerprojektets del, har temat för min vistelse på Gotland varit <strong>nostalgi</strong>. Det blir lätt så när man träffar människor man inte sett på alldeles för länge och är på platser som man bara besöker några få gånger om året. Alltid när jag kommer till vår stuga utanför Burgsvik på södra Gotland, där jag spenderat varje sommar sedan jag var liten, blir jag lite smått nostalgisk&#8230;</p>
<p>Jag påminns exempelvis om hur jag, min syster och våra 5 kusiner var tvugna att springa så snabbt vi bara kunde när vi skulle från stugan till stranden för att undvika att bli sönderbitna av alla elaka pissmyror på stigen. Och den gången jag och min jämnåriga kusin Lina lånade mormors cykel utan att fråga, lyckades ha sönder pakethållaren (eftersom jag väjde för ett träd i ganska hög fart med kusin Lina bakpå, jag hade varnat henne om att jag inte kan skjutsa på cykel&#8230;), och sen ställde tillbaka cykeln igen och hoppades att mormor inte skulle märka något (vilka hemska barbarn vi var!). Jag och Lina hittade på många &#8220;hyss&#8221; och även om jag trivs bra med att vi numera är &#8220;vuxna&#8221; önskar jag att man kunde gå tillbaka i tiden ibland, bara för att återigen få uppleva allt roligt man har haft&#8230;</p>
<p>Ofta är det ju i efterhand som man inser hur rolig en viss period eller händelse i ens liv var. Det känns inte alls lika självklart när man är mitt uppe i den, man behöver lite perspektiv. Även om jag värdesätter att planera min framtid för att kunna göra &#8220;rätt&#8221; val nu, så kan jag känna att jag är alldeles för dålig på att tänka tillbaka på vad jag faktiskt <em>har</em> upplevt under mina 23 år. Om man inte då och då tänker tillbaka på allt man varit med om är det nog lätt att tappa bort sig själv lite grann. För jag känner iallafall att det är en konstig kombination av <em>allt</em> jag upplevt hitills som gjort mig till den jag är idag&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;Life is what happens when you&#8217;re busy making other plans&#8221; är något som jag ständigt försöker påminna mig om, planeringsnarkoman som jag är. Jag och <a href="http://www.tv3.se/program/cashmere-mafia">Cashmere Mafia</a> (som jag och mitt tjejgäng på Handels kallar oss internt, ambitionerna inför framtiden är bevisligen höga hos fler än mig..) har många gånger konstaterat att vi är alldeles för framtidsfokuserade. Så den senaste tiden har jag försökt tänka tillbaka mer på vad jag gjort hitills och framförallt <strong>leva mer i nuet.</strong> Inte alltid tänka flera steg framåt utan försöka ta vara på det steget jag är på just nu. Det kan tillämpas både stort och smått (eller, som jag som nördig ekonom egentligen vill skriva: &#8220;både i ett mikro- och ett makroperspektiv&#8221;, men med risk för att låta alltför torr så låter jag bli&#8230;): Att blunda och njuta av att solen skiner istället för att stå och känna sig irriterad och stressad över att bussen är sen. Att ta vara på tiden som student och utnyttja att man kan bestämma ganska mycket över sin tid, istället för att längta tills man tar examen, då man får ge sig ut och jobba och förhoppningsvis göra skillnad på riktigt. För risken är ju annars stor att man missar det man (läs: jag) försöker få ut det mesta av genom att planera: <strong>livet!</strong></p>
<p>Igår kom jag hem från Gotland, mellanlandade hemma på Söder och tog första bästa buss ut till lantstället i Roslagen. Här sitter jag just nu och försöker leva mer i nuet genom att njuta av denna utsikt&#8230;</p>
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<p>&#8230;och jag ska nog passa på att prata lite gamla minnen med farmor och farfar innan kvällen är slut!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Wrapping Up Cupid]]></title>
<link>http://childrenofsaintclare.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/wrapping-up-cupid/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marcusandstevi</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The Wife: While I don&#8217;t recall ever watching the original run of Rob Thomas&#8217; Cupid back ]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><strong>The Wife:</strong></span></p>
<p>While I don&#8217;t recall ever watching the original run of Rob Thomas&#8217; <em> Cupid</em> back in 1998 with Paula Marshall and Jeremy Piven, I admit  that I am the kind of person who would be drawn to such a premise. I  love Greco-Roman mythology and I enjoy seeing modern adaptations and  spins on it, and offering my &#8220;I&#8217;m friends with a Classics professor  so I totally know what I&#8217;m talking about&#8221; judgments on whether  or not those adaptations succeed. (Although the CW&#8217;s <em>Valentine</em>,  about Greek gods living in L.A., just didn&#8217;t seem to pique any level  of interest in me at all. Nor in anyone else, apparently.) So being  that I don&#8217;t recall ever watching <em>Cupid</em> in the 90s – which  I realize now was probably because it was airing on Saturday nights,  which just means ABC wanted it dead from the beginning and that I was  also probably too busy going to sleepovers, being dared to call boys  I liked and read them bedtime stories, to tune in – I figured I would  give the reboot a chance.</p>
<p>And you know what? That show totally doesn&#8217;t suck.</p>
<p>The generosity accorded to Rob Thomas to reboot his formerly failed  series by ABC, however, was not as generous in its feelings toward this  show as I am. The original run of the series produced 15 episodes, and  aired 14. This run was only 7 episodes, intended as a try-out for fall,  because that&#8217;s how television producers work these days. ABC killed  a few great things this year, one of which might rhyme with &#8220;Smushing  Lazies,&#8221; and I think that left viewers a little mistrustful of anything  new ABC had planned to debut in the spring. <em>In the Motherhood</em>,  while admittedly not great, was interesting simply for the fact that  it was a female-led show about an issue that nearly every woman on the  planet can relate to (if she isn&#8217;t currently a mommy, she certainly  had one once), and had a lot of potential to grow and further explore  the current parenting climate (which in the last ten years has switched  to the kind of stay-at-home-and-do-everything-right-and-organic-and-be-totally-involved-and-honest-with-your-kids  idea embraced by Jessica St. Claire&#8217;s character) in relationship to  other models (the working mom, the cool mom who raised her kids counter  to any advice and everything turned out just fine). But it never quite  found its footing and so failed its try-out. <em>Better Off Ted</em> is  lucky its quirky mcquirkfest survived. <em>Cupid</em> should have.</p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"> </span></p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 522px"><span><img title="Bobby Cannavale" src="http://a.abc.com/media/primetime/cupid/images/season/1/episodes/104/gallery/01.jpg" alt="Bobby Cannavale: Right on the mark as Cupid." width="512" height="288" /></span><p class="wp-caption-text">Bobby Cannavale: Right on the mark as Cupid.</p></div>
<p>Why am I so gung-ho about this show? For one, I think Thomas found the  right lead in Bobby Cannavale and was smart to move the show from Chicago  to New York. Cannavale is good-looking in an Italian Mama&#8217;s Boy sort  of way, and incredibly affable. It makes perfect sense that he would  be the kind of person strangers would invite into their lives if he  offered to help them, and it makes perfect sense that he&#8217;s the kind  of person clever enough to manipulate social situations to facilitate  his matchmaking. In short, if Bobby Cannavale asked me to fly to NYC  from New Orleans to cater a party as his Trevor Pierce (renamed from  the original Trevor Hale) did in one episode where he reunited a Cajun  caterer with her high school Iraqi war vet sweetheart, I probably would.  As for the move from Chicago to NYC, NYC is often a space that invites  fantasy in many popular stories. I&#8217;ll name only one example here that  should serve as the paramount one: <em>Miracle on 54th Street</em>. It&#8217;s  a city with its own mythology and a long history of being a dreammaking  place: for immigrants, for actors, dancers and musicians, for artists  and also for writers. It&#8217;s also a city in which people move and mingle  with others numerous times a day, but promotes the isolation of modernity  in that while its denizens inhabit mutual spaces, they don&#8217;t often connect  with each other. I buy it as a place a god would try to turn into matchmaking  central, especially because his therapist&#8217;s single&#8217;s groups prove to  be an integral part of how the show&#8217;s main and peripheral characters,  and how they are all trying to break away from the isolation of modernity  and connect with others. There was talk in the production process that <em> Cupid</em> would relocate to Los Angeles, and while Francesca Lia Block  has convinced me that L.A. can be a space of magical realism, I don&#8217;t  think it would have worked nearly as well as New York did.</p>
<p>Furthermore, I like the idea of a show that believes in the concept  of true love. We live in an age where the CW exploits people&#8217;s relationship  issues on national television with <em>Hitched or Ditched</em>, where  we look at the tabloids every day to see if John &#38; Kate are going  to fall the fuck apart (uh . . . yeah, that&#8217;s probably going to happen  since the couple has a very special &#8220;announcement&#8221; pending;  and I hate that I don&#8217;t watch that show and know about this), and where  hookups have somehow replaced dating.  We all know  that the divorce rate is high, and we all know that my home state has  leveraged a terrible and oppressive measure against its non-heterosexual  residents that bar them from even daring to challenge that statistic  with their same-sex relationships. When I look at the divorce rate and the disappearance of date culture, it seems like a good number of us have given  up even trying to sustain a partnership; that we prefer to be alone, save for a brief interaction every now and again that we don&#8217;t have to put any further energy into. While I wouldn&#8217;t say that having  a life partner is right for everyone, I certainly like having someone  to watch TV with every day. It makes me feel like this big, giant world  is less lonely. That isolation of modernity thing I was talking about?  Having someone to go through life with certainly makes me feel less  isolated.</p>
<p>So when I see so much negativity toward relationships in the reality  television world and in the real actual human world, I can&#8217;t help but  be smitten by a scripted show that tries to remind us of the good parts  of being in a relationship with someone, and how fun it can be to take  that plunge. Cupid may only be a string of meet-cutes, but it&#8217;s also  about love overcoming obstacles. None of the matches Cannavale&#8217;s  Cupid makes in the 7-episode run are easily procured, and, somehow,  through his crazy/divine providence, he is able to unite these couples  in the promise of everlasting love. I&#8217;ve already mentioned the Cajun  caterer and the Iraq veteran, which came to a bittersweet ending as  the vet announces that he&#8217;s getting stop-lossed and sent back for a  third tour of duty, something he planned to avoid by running away to  Canada and never coming back – only to change his mind and do his  tour of duty, knowing that if he lived, his Cajun caterer would be worth  coming home to in order to live out their days under the willow trees  in their hometown in Louisiana.</p>
<p>But perhaps my favorite of these divine matches came in the final episode,  featuring adorable Broadway ingénue Kerry Butler as a working-class  masseuse from South Boston in love with a man above her station (whom  she broke up with because he never let her meet his family because of  her wicked pissah of an accent). Cupid&#8217;s therapist, Claire, tries to  find out his origin by hiring a linguist (one of her patients, as well)  to listen to him speak and determine his origins. The &#8220;using linguistics  to discover Trevor&#8217;s origins&#8221; plot was recycled from the show&#8217;s  first incarnation, but the <em>My Fair Lady</em> angle was entirely new  to this version of the series. But <em>Cupid</em> performs a bait-and-switch,  setting up Kerry Butler with illocution lessons in exchange for massages,  during which she forms a friendship with the linguist over several delightful <em> My Fair Lady</em>-esque diction lessons. Butler&#8217;s character is almost  ready to give up, and declares that it doesn&#8217;t feel right to her to  hide herself just to impress a guy, at which point her linguistics tutor  reveals that he, himself, has been lying for most of his life. He, too,  is from South Boston, but wasn&#8217;t taken seriously on his first day at  Princeton because of his accent and worked very hard to eliminate all  traces of his working-class roots from his speech. After sending Kerry  off to meet with her ex at a fancy, uptown party, Trevor realizes in  talking to the linguist that, perhaps, he&#8217;s been guiding Miss Butler  toward the wrong beau and disguises the linguist as a waiter to crash  the party and tell Kerry how he feels. After making a scene in which  Butler&#8217;s intended&#8217;s parents reprimand &#8220;the help&#8221; for being  so clumsy, Kerry throws off the upper-class accent she&#8217;s worked so hard  for and embraces who she really is, as well as the Henry Higgins who  reminded her of that.</p>
<p>If I had one complaint about <em>Cupid</em>, it would be that Sarah Paulson&#8217;s  Dr. Claire McCrae never quite felt real enough – and not for Paulson&#8217;s  lack of trying. She&#8217;s a great actress, with a lot of range, and if you  want to see how great she can be, please watch her arc as a Pinkerton  on <em>Deadwood</em> and her completely stunning comic performance in  Peyton Reed&#8217;s 1960s screwball romance send up, <em>Down with Love</em>,  in which you will also be treated to Ewan McGregor&#8217;s delightfully Ewan  McGregor-y Southern accent. Paulson never got to break through her material  here, and always seemed too stiff to fit into this world, which is only  justifiable in the fact that her awkwardness in the role highlighted  the irony that she, single and totally uncomfortable with people, should  be in charge of teaching people how to find love through commonality.  I think, if the show had gotten more of a chance, Claire would have  eventually felt more real as her own walls started to break down and  we learned as much about her as she does about Trevor Pierce.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll miss this show, and I&#8217;m sad that we live in a world that&#8217;s unaccepting  of its existence. But I&#8217;ll cherish that &#8220;My Fair Massuese&#8221;  episode, if only because linguists are awesome and the following line  is one of the best things I&#8217;ve heard on television recently:</p>
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<p>&#8220;Nothing says &#8216;Thank You&#8217; like the phonetic alphabet on cupcakes!&#8221;  – Kerry Butler</p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"><strong>The Husband:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;">A few points of interest:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;">1.) I adore Sarah Paulson,  but between this and <em>Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip</em>, she’s gaining  quite a few detractors. She’s not to the point of being an absolute  show-killer just yet, but her dedication to her craft, which allows  her to make very interesting decisions with very intense and sometimes  unlikable characters, tends to give her a bad wrap, at least on television.  But I can assure you that she’s one of the most versatile actresses  of her generation, including her deeply strange performance that I saw  in 2005’ Broadway production of <em>The Glass Menagerie</em>, also starring  Jessica Lange, Christian Slater and Josh Lucas.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;">2.) I started noticing this  right around the time that <em>Kidnapped</em>, <em>Six Degrees</em>, <em> The Black Donnellys </em>and <em>3 lbs. </em> were all canceled in the same television season, in that unless a show  was a <em>Law &#38; Order </em>or a <em>CSI</em>, any show that filmed in  New York was about 90% guaranteed to be canceled. And this year, that  trend came back in a big way. With no exception this year, no show that  premiered in the 2008-2009 television season and was shot (not just  set) in New York was renewed for another season. (And <em>Castle </em> doesn’t count, because it’s shot in L.A.) This would include <em> Life on Mars</em>, <em>The Unusuals</em> and now <em>Cupid</em>. (And last  year’s <em>Lipstick Jungle</em>, which moved on into this year, couldn’t  survive either. But hell, at least it got a second season unlike the  majorly similar <em>Cashmere Mafia</em>.) A part of me wants to say it’s  the distancing location that seems to turn many non-New York viewers  off, as if these shows take place in a world far too unlike the viewers’  that it simply doesn’t pique their interest. But, more than anything,  it’s the fact that it’s so goddamned expensive to shoot in NYC,  so even when ratings are doing okay, the networks use the expenses as  an excuse to shut down production. I’m amazed <em>Gossip Girl</em> got  renewed for a third season, since the ratings are so abysmal, but it’s  definitely a pop cultural flagship for the network, so canceling it  would just make the CW lose more viewers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;"> </span></p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 420px"><span><img title="Left of the Dial" src="http://a.abc.com/media/primetime/cupid/images/season/1/episodes/105/gallery/02.jpg" alt="A book recommendation for ANYONE who liked the Left of the Dial episode of Cupid: Rob Sheffields Love Is a Mix Tape. " width="410" height="230" /></span><p class="wp-caption-text">A book recommendation for ANYONE who liked the &#34;Left of the Dial&#34; episode of Cupid: Rob Sheffield&#39;s Love Is a Mix Tape. </p></div>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;">3.) While I loved almost every  episode of this show, my favorite, simply from a dramatic perspective,  was “Left of the Dial,” in which a down-on-his-luck radio deejay  tracks down his favorite caller and starts a relationship with her and  her two children. It was the sweetest, least negative and most realistic  episode of <em>Cupid</em>’s altogether too short season, and it’s  a shame that not enough people stuck around to even watch the episode.</span></div>
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<title><![CDATA[True Norwegian Sex and the City in Black and Metal]]></title>
<link>http://yopop.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/true-norwegian-sex-and-the-city-in-black-and-metal/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[Allekirjoittaneen täytyy tehdä tunnustus: Hänen elämässään on kaksi eri populaarikulttuurin haaraa, ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Allekirjoittaneen täytyy tehdä tunnustus: Hänen elämässään on kaksi eri populaarikulttuurin haaraa, joita molempia hän rakastaa ja jotka eivät tunnu sopivan yhteen sitten mitenkään: hömpäksi mielletyt sinkkunaisille suunnatut tv-sarjat sekä black metal, metallimusiikin ideologisin ja rankin alalaji. Kontrasti on melkoinen, vai mitä sanotte?</p>
<p><img src="http://yopop.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/sex-and-the-city-main.jpg" alt="Sex and the City main" title="Sex and the City main" width="428" height="416" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-319" /><br />
(kuva nappaistu <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/pop_culture/">mediabistro.com</a>ista)<br />
<strong>Sinkkuelämää</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://yopop.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/mayhem_foto1.jpg" alt="mayhem_foto1" title="mayhem_foto1" width="432" height="305" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-320" /><br />
(kuva nappaistu Alex1349:n <a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/mayhem/Alex1349/mayhem_foto1.jpg">Photobucket-galleriasta</a>)<br />
<strong>Mayhem</strong>, norjalaisen black metal -skenen ytimessä operoinut ja operoiva metalliyhtye</p>
<p>Olen ollut molemmista ilmiöistä kiinnostunut niin kauan kuin kykenen muistamaan. Sinkkuelämää on ehdottomimpia suosikkisarjojani, voin sarjaa katsomalla käydä läpi lähes kaikki tunteet haikeudesta inhoreaktioon, ja rakastan sarjan vaatteita, kenkiä, laukkuja, miljöötä (Manhattan on kuvattu niin ihanana), hahmoja kaikessa överiydessään ja niin ja niin edelleen. Ihastelen Carrien ja kumppaneiden elämää, johon kuuluvat tosi siistit ammatit, himmeä palkka ja silti työtunteja viikossa ehkä hikiset kuusi! Ja aikaa ja rahaa on kenkien shoppailun ohessa myös kavereiden ja miesten näkemiselle ja erilaisten kahviloiden, kuppiloiden ja kutsuvierasbileiden läpi koluamiselle. Vaikka tietenkin tiedän, että sarja on yhtä realistinen kuin <strong>Paris Hilton</strong>in kesämökki vantaalaisessa lähiössä, olen silti aivan koukussa ja jaksan sarjan johdosta inspiroitua vöiden lajitteluun tai spontaaniin kahvihetkeen kaupungilla ja saan siitä paljon riemua ja piristettä päiviini. </p>
<p>Toisaalta minussa elää vahvana kiinnostus ihmisen pimeään (ja samalla mielestäni kirkkaimpaan) puoleen. Esoteria, filosofia, aatteellinen misantropia, satanismi, okkultismi &#8211; kaikki lähellä sydäntäni. En lähde sen kummemmin tässä yhteydessä erittelemään, mitä näillä termeillä tarkoitan, sillä se menee jo liian henkilökohtaiseksi tämän bloginkin puitteissa. Sen voin kuitenkin mainita, että musiikki toimii hyvänä kanavana käsitellä tätäkin aihepiiriä. Paitsi omakohtaisista syistä, olen kiinnostunut black metalista yleisesti &#8211; sen historiasta ja nykytilasta paitsi osana populaarikulttuuria myös yhteiskunnallisena ilmiönä. Olenkin vuosien saatossa kolunnut läpi useita kymmeniä, ellen jopa satoja aiheesta kirjoitettuja kirjoja ja lehtiartikkeleita (mukaan lukien erilaiset bändihaastattelut). Olen arkistoinut niitä itselleni talteen valtavat määrät. Minua kiehtoo etenkin ilmiön ristiriitaisuus sekä se, millaiset ihmiset ja millä tavoin he kiinnostuvat ko. kulttuurin karsinasta. En väitä tietäväni asiasta juuri mitään, mutta olen valtavan kiinnostuksen vallassa ottanut asiasta selvää jo pidemmän aikaa. </p>
<p>Sinkkuelämää-sarjan lisäksi rakastan ns. <a href="http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_lit">chick-lit</a>-kirjallisuutta, eli juuri sitä hömppää, joka saa silti liikuttumaan ja naurattamaan. Pidän höppänistä rakkausjuonista ajanvietteenä. Niistä tarinoista, joissa päähenkilö on juuri aloittanut uudessa työpaikassa ja oho hups, hän ihastuukin varattuun/maailman ärsyttävimpään/täysin erilaiseen pomoonsa, jota ei voi tietenkään saada &#8211; paitsi 400 sivun päästä. Tällainen hömppä on eskapismia parhaimmillaan ja pahimmillaan &#8211; eihän elämä näin koskaan mene, mutta on se silti niin kirpeän viihdyttävää kuvitella, että <em>entäs jos menisikin</em>. Söpöä ja ihanaa, ja heti kun kannet sulkeutuvat, juoni unohtuu. Oman elämän pystyy ainakin vartin ajan näkemään hattaralasien läpi.</p>
<p>Voisinkin tähän listata suosikkejani niin hömpän kuin synkänkin osalta. </p>
<p><strong><u>IHANAT HÖMPÄT</u></strong></p>
<p><strong><u>Sarjat</u></strong>: <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159206/">Sinkkuelämää</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397442/">Gossip Girl</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938567/">Cashmere Mafia</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489606/">Lipstick Jungle</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0960136/">Dirty Sexy Money</a></strong>.</p>
<p><strong><u>Seuraavien kirjailijoiden tuotanto</u></strong>: <strong>Marian Keyes</strong>, <strong>Helen Fielding</strong>, <strong>Candace Bushnell</strong>, <strong>Lauren Weisberg</strong>, <strong>Sophie Kinsella</strong>, <strong>Cecelia Ahern</strong>, <strong>Jane Green</strong>.</p>
<p><strong><u>Elokuvat (moni näistä perustuu kirjoihin)</u></strong>: <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1000774/">Sinkkuelämää-elokuva</a></strong> (bloggaukseni leffasta <a href="http://yopop.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/kaksi-ja-puoli-tuntia-sinkkuelamaa/">täällä</a>), <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458352/">Paholainen pukeutuu Pradaan</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388125/">Lainakengissä</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250494/">Blondin kosto</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125439/">Notting Hill</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263757/">Uptown Girls</a></strong>.</p>
<p><strong><u>PIMEÄN HEHKU</u></strong></p>
<p><strong><u>Musiikki (omia suosikkejani)</u></strong>: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/officialmayhem"><strong>Mayhem</strong></a>, <strong><a href="http://www.darkthrone.no/news/index.php">Darkthrone</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/blackshiningleather">Carpathian Forest</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercyful_Fate">Mercyful Fate</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/anaalnathrakh">Anaal Nathrakh</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=19596">Urfaust</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.burzum.org/">Burzum</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.jester-records.com/ulver/ulver.html">Ulver</a></strong>in bm-kausi; suomalaisista <strong><a href="http://www.legion-horna.com/index2.php">Horna</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=12084">Woods of Belial</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.alghazanth.com/">Alghazanth</a></strong> ja <strong><a href="http://www.enochian-crescent.com/blackchurch/index.php?id=news">Enochian Crescent</a></strong> sekä <strong><a href="http://www.geminastella.net/kotkavuori/work.html">Tapio Kotkavuoren</a></strong> ritual ambient ja <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/flightofthebehemoth">Sunn O)))</a></strong>. Näidenkin genremäärittelyistä voidaan olla montaa mieltä. Jos tunnet tarvetta päteä, voit toki tehdä sitä täällä, mutta suoraan sanottua minua ei kiinnosta lähteä mukaan juupas-eipäs-leikkiin yhtään kenenkään kanssa etenkään tästä aiheesta. </p>
<p>Dokumenteista kannattaa tarkistaa esimerkiksi <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1346294/">Once Upon a Time in Norway</a></strong>.</p>
<p>Listaan lisäksi pari sellaista kirjaa, joiden avulla black metalia voi lähestyä &#8220;helposta&#8221;, populaarikulttuurillisesta näkökulmasta. Tällaisia kirjoja ovat esimerkiksi <strong>Gavin Baddeley</strong>n <em><strong>Lucifer Rising &#8211; Sin, Devil Worship &#38; Rock&#8217;n'roll</strong></em> (Plexus 1999) sekä <strong>Michael Moynihan</strong>in ja <strong>Didrik Søderlind</strong>in <strong><em>Kaaoksen ruhtinaat &#8211; mustan metallin messu</em></strong> (Johnny Kniga 2008). Itse en oikein lämmennyt jälkimmäisen vähän turhan sosiaalipornomaiselle otteelle, mutta &#8211; pienistä epätarkkuuksista ja suoranaisista asiavirheistä huolimatta &#8211; näistä kirjoista saavat varmaan jotain irti sekä aiheeseen perehtyneet että perehtymättömät seikkailijat.   </p>
<p>Voisin vielä sen mainita koko lajista, että kannattaa pysyä poissa syvistä vesistä, jos ei osaa uida.</p>
<p>En itse koe, että nämä kaksi maailmaa olisivat ristiriidassa keskenään, vaan koen pikemminkin, että elämästä saa eniten irti, kun pystyy hyväksymään asiat asioina ja jaksaa olla avoin ja utelias monenlaisia asioita ja ilmiöitä kohtaan. Voin päiväni kuluttaa Sinkkuelämää-maratonien ja rantakirjallisuuden parissa välillä naistenlehtiä selaillen ja kynsiä lakkaillen ja yöt pyhittää aivan toisenlaiselle kulttuurin saralle usein eri tavoin. Seison aidosti molempien kiinnostuksenkohteideni takana ja rakastan niiden loppumatonta suota ja siinä samoamista. </p>
<p>Löytyykö lukijoiden joukosta ihmisiä, jotka niin ikään rakastavat ääripäitä?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Fringe brings blockbuster Special Effects to the small screen.]]></title>
<link>http://goremasternews.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/fringe-brings-blockbuster-special-effects-to-the-small-screen/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Special Effects fans, one of the more exciting new TV shows out there is Fringe. The plot: The FBI t]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Special Effects fans, one of the more exciting new TV shows out there is Fringe. The plot: The FBI teams up with a formerly-institutionalized scientist &#8211; who was performing experiments on the fringe of real science &#8211; and his son to investigate weird crimes that are seemingly part of a larger pattern, and may be connected with a global company called massive Dynamics. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span>  </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;">Lot</span><span style="font-size:14pt;">’s of experience goes into what we’ll see on the small screen:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span>   </span>Kymbra C. Kelley (The Sopranos, Cashmere Mafia) is the  makeup department head.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span>  </span><span> </span>Conrad V. Brink Jr.( I am Legend, Indiana Jones, Cloverfield) is the  special effects coordinator.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span>  </span><span> </span>Christopher Scollard (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Alien: Resurrection, Fight Club) is the visual effects supervisor for the </span><span style="font-size:14pt;">New York</span><span style="font-size:14pt;"> crew.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span>  </span><span> </span>Jay Worth (Cloverfield, </span><span style="font-size:14pt;">Lake Placid</span><span style="font-size:14pt;">, Lost) is the<span>  </span>visual effects supervisor for the <span> </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;">Los Angeles</span><span style="font-size:14pt;"> crew.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">…more like this at <a href="http://goremaster.com/">GoreMaster.com</a></span></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Invisible Woman]]></title>
<link>http://zafirahvisram.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/the-invisible-woman/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zafirahvisram</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Why is it that women are portrayed only as wives and mothers? Until recently, that was the only role]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Why is it that women are portrayed only as wives and mothers? Until recently, that was the only role appropriate for them. God forbid that a wife actually speaks her mind or anything! In the past, it’s the woman who is depicted as the “damsel in distress” who needs a man to come to her rescue every single time!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Case in point: Everybody Loves Raymond <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-76" title="Everybody Loves Raymond" src="http://zafirahvisram.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/picture-3.png?w=206" alt="Everybody Loves Raymond" width="206" height="300" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marie is the overbearing mother-in-law who always has something to say about housewife, Debra. Debra can never do anything right in Marie’s eyes. Her cooking abilities lack, she cannot keep a house clean or keep her kids under control. Their relationship is one that is stereotypically described as a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law bond. That mother-in-laws are evil and are only interested in their son and that no woman is ever good enough. What’s more, Ray never seems to do anything wrong and is constantly babied by his mom. Anything that goes wrong is always Debra’s fault (even if its something as uncontrollable as Ray getting sick). As funny as the show is, to analyze it in this light makes it disgusting that women are still subjected to these roles.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">By having stuff like this on TV it makes it ok for this patriarchal dominance to occur in real life. It makes it seem like something “natural” that we all have to or SHOULD accept. But of course, most of the producers, writers, directors, media corporation owners are all men. It’s a patriarchal world out there and at this point it doesn’t look like it will be lightening up anytime soon</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Case in point: Cashmere Mafia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They tried to make us believe that women can hold high-powered jobs and rule the world or whatever. But if we take a closer look, it seems almost like a comical poke at the female wish to have equality. One of the show’s characters portrayed by Lucy Liu receives a Presidential position at her magazine company. Sure she worked hard to get this position, but the reality of the situation comes out when the person she out-beats was a guy. This guy made sure it was difficult for her to run the show. He didn’t believe she could do it (or maybe he did but still wanted to get the position, even though he was less qualified). He made it very difficult for her to get idea’s passed, to get her work done etc all because of the mentality that most men grow up with that states “we are superior to women and we should not be answering to them”.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s sad really, that women are constantly just viewed as objects. But I’m sure we don’t make it easier on ourselves in the manner that we dress or the constant “damsel in distress” outlook that we grow up with. The belief that men like women who are stupid, who don’t speak their own mind or who are dependant on a man for their material needs to be satisfied. Sure we can talk about reform, but the reality is that until we start taking ourselves seriously and working together as a gender, men will not take us seriously and will continue to view us as objects to be controlled.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Guida Tv quotidiana: i telefilm in onda mercoledi 18 marzo 2009]]></title>
<link>http://magseries.org/2009/03/17/guida-tv-quotidiana-i-telefilm-in-onda-mercoledi-18-marzo-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>inotelefilm</dc:creator>
<guid>http://magseries.org/2009/03/17/guida-tv-quotidiana-i-telefilm-in-onda-mercoledi-18-marzo-2009/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Women &amp; Television (Young &amp; Old)]]></title>
<link>http://overing89.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/women-television-young-old/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>overing89</dc:creator>
<guid>http://overing89.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/women-television-young-old/</guid>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I had never thought about how older women were portrayed in the media before reading chapter 36 of the Media Literacy book.<span>  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>In <a title="Bewitched Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bewitched">Bewitched</a>, Endora is the older woman of the series.<span>  </span>She is Samantha’s mother and is also a witch.<span>  </span>Her character does not approve of Samantha’s husband, Darrin, nor does she approve of the fact that Samantha is attempting to live a “mortal” life.<span>   </span>In the show Endora is portrayed as being ecce2ntric and her “grotesque by comparison” to her daughter.<span>  </span>Her clothing is strange, as well as her choice of makeup and especially her mannerisms. <span>  </span>A big thing that this section of the chapter examines is the fact that men are not supposed to be attracted to Endora, she is the mother figure, the older woman, the crazy uninhibited older woman.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Its remarkable how much women’s roles have changed throughout the past 50 years.<span>  </span>Women are now prominent figures in many previously male dominated careers.<span>  </span>Although we are continuously making huge strides in women’s rights throughout the world, television shows and movies continuously depict women in stereotypical “women’s roles”.<span>  </span>Family oriented TV shows and movies continuously show the mother in the kitchen, driving kids around, etc.<span>  </span>While it is up to the man to make the money and provide for the family.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>When women are portrayed as career oriented and driven, they are often ostracized.<span>  </span>Shows like <em><a title="Lipstick Jungle" href="http://nbc.com/Lipstick_Jungle">Lipstick Jungle</a></em> and <em><a title="Cashmere Mafia" href="http://abc.go.com/primetime/cashmeremafia/index?pn=index">Cashmere Mafia</a></em> are about women in business with strong and prosperous careers.<span>  </span>However, while they succeed in their careers, they are often depicted in dysfunctional relationships, or unable to have a relationship.<span>  </span>The reason for these dysfunctional relationships is often because the men (or women) in the relationship feel as though the career woman is too work oriented.<span>  </span>Women are not allowed to put their career’s first.<span>  </span>Women are expected to put their families and significant others before their careers.<span>  </span>When a woman does put her career first, she is seen as different and abnormal.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>In chapter 36 the character of Samantha is examined in respect to her role as the lead of the show as well as a woman within the show.<span>  </span>For example, she is a witch and therefore could easily use her magical abilities to clean the house in a second.<span>  </span>Although she has this ability, Samantha decides to perform these household chores the “mortal way”, believing this is what the “typical mortal woman” would do.<span>  </span>Samantha also tries not to use her natural magical gifts, as Darrin, her husband, does not like it.<span>  </span>Darrin wants to be a normal family and for Samantha to perform her normal matronly duties.<span>  </span>She is prescribing to the ideal that the man is the head of the household, and he expects certain things.<span>  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Bewitched allowed its female viewers to really think about their prescribed place within the family.<span>  </span>It allowed these women to, for 30 minutes a day, live outside of their typical life. <span> </span>Thankfully women today no longer need this television escape, they can live independent lives.</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[‘SATC’ withdrawal not getting any easier after five years]]></title>
<link>http://goodbuygirl34.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/%e2%80%98satc%e2%80%99-withdrawal-not-getting-any-easier-after-five-years/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dawn Raftery</dc:creator>
<guid>http://goodbuygirl34.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/%e2%80%98satc%e2%80%99-withdrawal-not-getting-any-easier-after-five-years/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So they’re filming the next cinematic installment of “Sex and the City” this fall. Can’t say I’m too]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Guida tv quotidiana: i telefilm in onda mercoledi 11 marzo 2009]]></title>
<link>http://magseries.org/2009/03/10/guida-tv-quotidiana-i-telefilm-in-onda-mercoledi-11-marzo-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>inotelefilm</dc:creator>
<guid>http://magseries.org/2009/03/10/guida-tv-quotidiana-i-telefilm-in-onda-mercoledi-11-marzo-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ecco l&#8217;elenco dei principali appuntamenti della prima serata telefilmica, dopo il salto trovat]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[¡¡¡Nos mudamos!!!]]></title>
<link>http://serieina.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/%c2%a1%c2%a1%c2%a1nos-mudamos/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Felipe</dc:creator>
<guid>http://serieina.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/%c2%a1%c2%a1%c2%a1nos-mudamos/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[http://www.serieina.com/ Así es, tras casi 9 meses publicando entradas en este humilde blog ha llega]]></description>
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<p>Así es, tras casi 9 meses publicando entradas en este humilde blog ha llegado el momento de dar un salto y comenzar una nueva época. Imagino que muchos de vosotros os preguntasteis estos días por qué no actualizábamos el blog con la cantidad de noticias que hay. No nos hemos olvidado ni mucho menos sino que decidimos mudarnos a un nuevo servidor (uno propio) y hacernos con un dominio propio y estas cosas llevan su tiempo, sobre todo con la cantidad de problemas que hemos tenido a la hora de pegar este pequeño gran salto.</p>
<p>El caso es que, después de meditar si dar el salto o no, estamos muy ilusionados con lo que hemos hecho y con el resultado final. Todo esto no sería posible sin la ayuda de alguién imprescindible: <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Harmony</strong></span></span> de <a href="http://www.onehundredtearsaway.com/" target="_blank">One Hundred Tears Away</a> con la que siempre estaremos en deuda y agradecemos enormemente su trabajo; el suyo y el de su novio, dos personas claves y vitales en esta nueva etapa que vamos a comenzar. Además de Harmony me gustaría hacer una especial mención a todos los bloggers que nos ofrecieron su ayuda: <strong>Kyra</strong><strong></strong> de <a href="http://www.kyratomorrow.com/" target="_blank">Maybe Tomorrow</a>, <strong>Thrusnext </strong>de <a href="http://alfinaldelaescapada.com" target="_blank">Al final de la escapada</a>,<strong> Sunne</strong> de <a href="http://elblogdesunne.com/" target="_blank">El Blog de Sunne</a>, y toda la pantilla de twitter. Es increible  la cantidad de buena gente que hemos conocido a través del mundillo de las series. ¡¡¡Gracias por todo!!!</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">A partir de ahora para visitar Serieína tienes que escribir la siguiente dirección:</p>
<h2 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.serieina.com/" target="_blank">http://www.serieina.com/</a></h2>
<p>Una dirección facilita, ¿no? Como es lógico, desde hoy mismo, este blog va a permanecer inactivo ya que desde ahora vamos a escribir todas las entradas en nuestro nuevo blog; un blog con mucho más estilo y muchas más funciones que este que estais leyendo. ¿Quién nos iba a decir a nosotros en junio pasado que ibámos a tener un servidor y dominio propio? Muchisimas gracias por leernos día tras día. Sin vosotros no hubiese sido posible.</p>
<p>Por último, sólo me queda despedirme del verde y dar la bienvenida a&#8230;. (no voy a decir el color, tendreis que visitar el blog xD) y también comentaros que para celebrar esta nueva época de Serieína, tenemos preparado un concurso en el que sortearemos algo muy difícil de conseguir y que os va a gustar&#8230;</p>
<p>Os invitamos a pasaros por la nueva y defenitiva Serieína&#8230; ¿A qué estaís esperando?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[ Guida Tv settimanale: dal 2 al 8 marzo 2009]]></title>
<link>http://magseries.org/2009/03/02/guida-tv-settimanale-dal-2-al-8-marzo-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>inotelefilm</dc:creator>
<guid>http://magseries.org/2009/03/02/guida-tv-settimanale-dal-2-al-8-marzo-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nuovo aggiornamento settimanale della guida tv telefilmica: questa settimana assolutamente da non pe]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Milwaukees, Small AM, Ben Trovato, and The Mellowtraumatics at Maxwell's: 2/21/09 Hoboken, NJ ]]></title>
<link>http://rockandracehorses.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/the-milwaukees-small-am-ben-trovato-and-the-mellowtraumatics-at-maxwells-22109-hoboken-nj/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sarah K. Andrew</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The Melody Bar. The Court Tavern. Plum Street Pub. My college years were filled with late nights and]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://community.hearnewbrunswick.com/video/the-melody-bar">The Melody</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shaggy/sets/59097/">Bar</a>. <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&#38;friendid=375355564">The Court Tavern</a>. <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&#38;friendID=347598969">Plum Street Pub</a>. My college years were filled with late nights and local rock. The Court Tavern was my favorite place in town, but I probably spent the most time watching bands at <a href="http://media.pushing9.com/about07.htm">The Budapest Cocktail Lounge</a>. At the end of school, my husband-to-be <a href="http://www.purevolume.com/jonandrew">Jonathan Andrew</a> played in a band called The Angry Monsters. The Monsters played with all the great bands in town and I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time immersed in New Brunswick rock. </p>
<p>Members of a few of these bands had a reunion show at Maxwell&#8217;s in Hoboken, NJ on Saturday night. </p>
<p>First up was the female-fronted quartet The Mellowtraumatics, a late-90s band which boasted two future Jersey rock powerhouses. Front-chick and rock vixen Christina Alessi would go on to greater success with Hoboken-based combo <a href="http://www.heytigerband.com/">Hey Tiger</a>, who self-released the successful debut <em>September</em> and subsequently <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/195619164/">opened for Bon Jovi at Giants Stadium</a> (<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/193406997/">which I photographed &#8211; woo hoo!</a>). After the break-up of The Mellowtraumatics, guitarist and riffmaster Pete Marceau went on to join <a href="http://www.myspace.com/heropattern">Hero Pattern</a> and prove to be the missing piece this promising band needed in order to take the next step &#8211; a number of well-received indie releases and a handful of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Get-Van-Road-Black-Flag/dp/1880985764">get-in-the-van tours</a> across the country. The reunited-for-one-night-only band closed their set of funky and atmospheric tunes with their classic &#8220;Stalker&#8221;, much to the delight of the Mellowtraumaniacs in attendance. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3301836081/" title="Christina Alessi at the Mellowtraumatics reunion in Hoboken NJ by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3487/3301836081_8b3b167541.jpg" width="381" height="500" alt="Christina Alessi at the Mellowtraumatics reunion in Hoboken NJ" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3302467396/" title="The Mellowtraumatics at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3566/3302467396_e21aeb3a31.jpg" width="500" height="380" alt="The Mellowtraumatics at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3301837183/" title="Christina Alessi at the Mellowtraumatics reunion in Hoboken NJ by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3537/3301837183_f469cf5794.jpg" width="421" height="500" alt="Christina Alessi at the Mellowtraumatics reunion in Hoboken NJ" /></a></p>
<p>The second act of the night were Manalapan natives Ben Trovato, who formed in high school in the late 1990s aand hadn&#8217;t performed together for nearly a decade. On Saturday night, they were back to their old tricks- frequent tempo chances, spastic riffing, and heart-on-their-sleeves high school poetry. The band is fronted by the multi-talented <a href="http://www.valemmich.com/">Val Emmich</a>, who is once again <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-Daggers-Val-Emmich/dp/B0017V7HE8/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=music&#38;qid=1235461430&#38;sr=8-1">releasing music independently</a> after <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Slow-Down-Kid-Val-Emmich/dp/B0002YLDUA/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&#38;s=music&#38;qid=1235461430&#38;sr=8-2">Slow Down Kid</a>, his major-label debut on Sony Records in 2004. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/valemmich">Emmich</a> can also be seen on the small screen on shows such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_Betty">Ugly Betty</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Rock">30 Rock</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashmere_Mafia">Cashmere Mafia</a>. Ben&#8217;s set was the truest time capsule of the night; hearing them brought me back to late nights at the Budapest Lounge, when they played with such New Brunswick luminaries as The Angry Monsters, <a href="http://cdbaby.com/cd/rosemarypure">The Rosemary Pure</a>, and frequent guests from DC, <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&#38;friendID=69131713">Anne Summers</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3302768558/" title="Pedals by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3384/3302768558_0c4754605b.jpg" width="500" height="364" alt="Pedals" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3301957833/" title="Val Emmich at the Ben Trovato reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3426/3301957833_7af452e2f6.jpg" width="332" height="500" alt="Val Emmich at the Ben Trovato reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3301956583/" title="Val Emmich at the Ben Trovato reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3533/3301956583_3318f051fd.jpg" width="348" height="500" alt="Val Emmich at the Ben Trovato reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ" /></a></p>
<p>Third out of the gate was the band who organized the event, Small AM. Formed in Sparta, NJ in the late 1990s under the name Wisemaster Joshu, the band evolved from a jangly, rootsy quintet into a double-guitar rock powerhouse, taking equal doses from international supergroup Radiohead and local legends <a href="http://www.prosolarmechanics.com/">Prosolar Mechanics</a>. After several years gigging on the local scene, Small AM released their self-titled full-length debut in 2002 on local label <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E6D6153EF930A35753C1A96F958260&#38;sec=&#38;spon=&#38;pagewanted=all">Childlike Records</a>. Reuniting for the first time in 5+ years were vocalist/guitarists <a href="http://www.myspace.com/readymadebreakup">Jim Fitzgerald</a> and Damien Musto, bassist Jim Lovegrove, and drummer Ralph Capasso. Opening the set with standout &#8220;Heather&#8221;, the band tore through the majority of their self-titled album, including a bruising rendition of &#8220;Anyway&#8221;,  a few unreleased numbers from a never-completed follow up, and an outstanding new song entitled &#8220;The Starting Line&#8221;. They ended with the perennial set-closer &#8220;Perfect Day&#8221;, repeating the signature closing riff until band and crowd alike were sated. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3303129722/" title="Small AM reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3589/3303129722_3334b888fa.jpg" width="340" height="500" alt="Small AM reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3303008994/" title="Small AM reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/3303008994_29e989c6c0.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="Small AM reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3302976578/" title="Small AM reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3654/3302976578_f021741bc6.jpg" width="500" height="400" alt="Small AM reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3302156055/" title="Small AM reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3329/3302156055_bff835c08b.jpg" width="364" height="500" alt="Small AM reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3303056620/" title="Small AM reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3548/3303056620_4720779070.jpg" width="500" height="444" alt="Small AM reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3302251297/" title="Jonathan Andrew: Small AM Superfan by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3478/3302251297_f502d85a3b.jpg" width="500" height="446" alt="Jonathan Andrew: Small AM Superfan" /></a></p>
<p>Closing the night was the reunited original lineup of Jersey mainstays <a href="http://www.milwaukees.com/">The Milwaukees</a>. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of their classic breakthrough record <a href="http://www.milwaukees.com/bio/"><em>Missile Command</em></a>, Milwaukee-in-Chief Dylan Clark was joined by the original rhythm section of bassist Dave &#8220;Posty&#8221; Post and drummer Scott Pohlman. The band tore through songs from their early period with the energy and passion for which they&#8217;ve been known throughout the local scene for the last decade plus. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3302276471/" title="Set List by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3480/3302276471_80ecc57972.jpg" width="500" height="364" alt="Set List" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3303115674/" title="The Milwaukees reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3598/3303115674_804049daa5.jpg" width="500" height="400" alt="The Milwaukees reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockandracehorses/3302298317/" title="The Milwaukees reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ by Rock and Racehorses, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3467/3302298317_d04ed36d80.jpg" width="500" height="400" alt="The Milwaukees reunion at Maxwell's in Hoboken NJ" /></a></p>
<p><strong><em>By Sarah &#38; Jonathan Andrew</em></strong></p>
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<link>http://wednesdaynights.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/sunday/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>leandrooassis</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[* O Wednesday está de volta. Dei uma parada porque fiz uma puta maratona de “One Tree Hill”. Durante]]></description>
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<p>* O <strong>Wednesday </strong>está de volta. Dei uma parada porque fiz uma puta maratona de “One Tree Hill”. Durante menos de 1 mês vi em média 125 episódios da série, chegando assim na 6ª temporada &#8211; Episódio 6&#215;16. Fodástico. Vi também a ÓTIMA “The Big Bang Theory”, “Secret Diary Of A Call Girl” e “How I Met You Mother”, que ainda estou terminando. As próximas serão: “October Road” e “Cashmere Mafia”. Ah, viram “Chuck”? Voltou, tá bem morno. Assim como “Gossip Girl” e “Ugly Betty” &#8211; dessas duas, não aguento mais ver um episódio inteiro! Triste.  Quero “Samantha Who?”, quero “Greek”, quero MAIS!</p>
<p>* Estou ouvindo bastante esses CDs aí:</p>
<p><strong>Kings Of Leon &#8211; Only by the Night.<br />
Keyshia Cole &#8211; A Different Me<br />
Bethany Joy Lenz &#8211; The Collection<br />
Kate Voegele &#8211; Don&#8217;t Look Away</strong></p>
<p>E as trilhas de “One Tree Hill”, é claaaaaro!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lipstick Jungle: Could Zucker and Silverman Grant a Reprieve?]]></title>
<link>http://allthetelevision.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/lipstick-jungle-could-zucker-and-silverman-grant-a-reprieve/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
<guid>http://allthetelevision.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/lipstick-jungle-could-zucker-and-silverman-grant-a-reprieve/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My support of Lipstick Jungle came about in a very odd fashion. In the early months of 2008, when NB]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>My support of <em>Lipstick Jungle</em> came about in a very odd fashion. In the early months of 2008, when NBC debuted this show opposite ABC&#8217;s <em>Cashmere Mafia</em>, I thought for sure that <em>Cashmere </em>was going to come out on top.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 349px"><img src="http://weblogs.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/blog/lipstick_jungle.jpg" alt="Lipstick...?" width="339" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Lipstick...?</p></div>
<p><em>Cashmere</em> had Lucy Liu, Miranda Otto, and the characters and intial plot points seemed to be much more interesting and unique. In fact, I tuned into ABC to catch the pilot of the show. <em>Cashmere</em> also had a jump over <em>Lipstick</em>, by debuting in early January, while <em>Lipstick</em> did not start airing until February.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 346px"><img src="http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/01_03/CashmereMafiaSPL_468x326.jpg" alt="... or Cashmere? The two do NOT mix." width="336" height="233" /><p class="wp-caption-text">... or Cashmere? The two do NOT mix.</p></div>
<p>Of course, ABC&#8217;s version of the &#8220;powerful women in NYC having professional and romatic lives&#8221;-show was summarily cancelled after only seven episodes (episodes that weren&#8217;t incredibly engaging). <em>Lipstick</em> survived &#8211; sort of. It, like <em>Cashmere Mafia</em>, only got seven episodes during its first season.</p>
<p><em>Lipstick</em>, however, came back for a second crack at bat. I happened upon the &#8220;season&#8221; 2 premiere, and was hooked. Interesting characters, solid performances, and despite the presence of fashion and money, <em>not</em> as self-interested as <em>Sex and the City</em>. These women seem relatively real. Which is bizarre. Because it&#8217;s American television. Moreover, the <em>men</em> in their lives are real too. That, in combination, is extremely bizarre.</p>
<p>Imagine my discontent last night, when at the end of another superb episode, I was greeted with a <em>montage from the series</em>, heralding <em>potentially the series finale of the show</em>. Of course, NBC had kind-of-sort-of announced its end in the fall, but the reality of it came as a shock to this freshly-minted <em>Lipstick</em> addict.</p>
<p>So, with a heavy heart, we must embrace the end. Or must we?</p>
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<p>Brooke Shields had gone on record from the beginning of the &#8220;cancellation&#8221;, proclaiming that it <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/news/brooke-shields-lipstick-jungle-isnt-been-canceled">wasn&#8217;t over yet</a>. Of course, nobody really believed her. I, for one, despite my respect for Shields, thought her more than simply optimistic, like the final spasms of a headless chicken running about screaming, &#8220;I&#8217;m alive!&#8221; (Which is a feat for even a chicken <em>with </em>a head.)</p>
<p>But have the tables turned? At this month&#8217;s TCA (Television Critics&#8217; Association) panel, NBC has said that it has not yet given <em>Lipstick Jungle</em> a death sentence.</p>
<p>NBC-Universal president Jeff Zucker and Entertainment co-chair Ben Silverman decided to wait in the wings, and send Angela Bromstad out to face the music of the ravenous reporters. Rather than announce the series&#8217; end, Bromstad actually said that they had not yet reached a decision to cancel the show.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:small;">“There’s an affinity and appreciation for those shows and not something I would cavalierly toss aside even if they weren’t meeting expectations. We can’t stop striving for that but we won’t replace shows beloved by fans,” she said. Minutes earlier, however, she told journos gathered at TCA: “We live in a world we have to have both (quality and ratings). We have to have ratings.&#8221; -Bromstad<br />
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<p>So what does this <em>mean</em>? On one hand, the season finale brought us a <em>montage</em>. That&#8217;s bad news. On the other hand, Bromstad has only recently been upped to head of the NBC scripted division. Before, as part of her previous duties, she had a <em>role in developing Lipstick Jungle</em>. Significant? Perhaps.</p>
<p>It seems to me that if <em>Lipstick</em> was axed, it would be definitely axed. The fact is, in its potentially final days, it&#8217;s picking up notice and viewers. (even if these viewers find the show online or on DVR or demand) It still may very well be cancelled. But let&#8217;s be honest:</p>
<p>NBC is historically the place for shows that do not get the ratings in the early years. <em>Cheers? Seinfeld?</em> Yeah&#8230; I thought so. <em>30 Rock</em>, the celebrated show of the entire year, <em>still</em> isn&#8217;t getting the ratings it deserves.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_BcAhLr85Pvs/R4vnxf0WFBI/AAAAAAAAT9E/chLjDlgirF0/s400/lipstick+jungle+2.jpg" alt="" width="328" height="250" /></p>
<p><em>Lipstick Jungle</em> deserves a fair shot. Despite having an incredibly short first season, and being smack dab in the tumult of the writer&#8217;s strike, the show gathered an impressive amount of momentum and has inspired a small, but growing, loyal fan base. And who doesn&#8217;t enjoy brand loyalty? (Perhaps the networks, judging by some of the decisions.)</p>
<p>I get it. Ratings. n. That which keeps a television network afloat.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t help but hope that Bromstad (and NBC) meant what she said about quality, not just for the sake of <em>Lipstick Jungle</em> or NBC, but for scripted television in general. We must find a better way.</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t help but think about that comment at the Globes last weekend &#8211; yes, ratings, box office numbers, MONEY is important, but there&#8217;s something to be said for doing something because there&#8217;s a good story to be told, and a group of people who want to tell it.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Kashmir Mafia]]></title>
<link>http://wordage.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/kashmir-mafia/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://wordage.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/kashmir-mafia/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;ve bought the DVD of Kashmir Mafia,&#8221; Steven told me. I nodded vaguely. A film a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve bought the DVD of Kashmir Mafia,&#8221; Steven told me. I nodded vaguely. A film about separatist fighters in the disputed Himalayan region, by the sounds of it. An unusual choice, for sure, but possibly interesting.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s by Darren Star,&#8221; he explained. That seemed a little odd. A bit of a departure for the Starmeister after Sex &#38; The City.</p>
<p>My eyes fell on the box. It was spelt slightly differently to how I&#8217;d imagined.</p>
<p>&#8220;Cashmere Mafia&#8221; to be precise. A TV show about four women in New York. Not such a departure after all.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[What's On My idiot Box: V.Mars, Kardies &amp; Lipstick]]></title>
<link>http://unknowntheartist.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/whats-on-my-idiot-box-vmars-kardies-lipstick/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>unknowntheartist</dc:creator>
<guid>http://unknowntheartist.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/whats-on-my-idiot-box-vmars-kardies-lipstick/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So the week is finally over, AGAIN, and I am at home just chillin&#8217;. Have been watching Veronic]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[So the week is finally over, AGAIN, and I am at home just chillin&#8217;. Have been watching Veronic]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Unknown Opinions: Just to clarify about Boogiehead22]]></title>
<link>http://unknowntheartist.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/just-to-clarify-about-boogiehead22/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>unknowntheartist</dc:creator>
<guid>http://unknowntheartist.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/just-to-clarify-about-boogiehead22/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you hover over any of my jewellery pieces, it may say behind it &#8220;Boogiehead22&#8230;.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[If you hover over any of my jewellery pieces, it may say behind it &#8220;Boogiehead22&#8230;.]]></content:encoded>
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