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I’m watching Parenthood and just wondering - do none of the spouses (besides Jasmin) have families? Like, none of Joel’s family showed up to the adoption? WTF?
Not sure why this won’t embed, but continuing down the list of “things I thought I had missed because I don’t have cable but hoorah for the internet,” here’s the NY Philharmonic concert from New Year’s Eve.
If you missed it last night (as I did), here’s the Great Performances special Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy.
(It trips me out a bit that the thumbnail for the video is the same shot of Sondheim I use for the FYSS business cards and theme.)
Say what you will about The New Normal, the episodes where Shania impersonates gay icons are the best.
strictlyalright replied to your post: 3dmelody replied to your post: For the final act…
Or maybe you could tell your story differently?
I’d love for you to say more about this.
Because either race & ethnicity matter, or they don’t.
And if they do matter, then telling a story about existing in an insular circle where you only encounter people just like you if a very different story than one that features other perspectives. A large part of the story of Girls is about the naval-gazing insularity of Hannah and her friends (but especially Hannah). The fact that she doesn’t encounter people all that different from her is part of the story. It’s part of what makes her (as Jana put it) “a total asshole,” which is off-putting for some viewers and totally compelling to others.
Emily Nussbaum compared the character to Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, which I think is an apt comparison. (And I have never been able to get into Curb for that reason. I suspect the difference for me might be my relative distance from the characters, i.e. how much I can see myself in each of them.)
For the final act of my week+ being home sick, I watched all of Girls. I know I’m way behind on this, but wow did I love this show. I think Lena Dunham might be the 21st century Philip Roth.
I know when the show initially aired a lot of people had strong feelings for and against it. Can anyone point me towards articles/blog posts that summed up how they felt?
What’s better than Brenda Vaccaro in a musical? Brenda Vaccaro hawking Playtex Tampons.
(For my younger followers, you may know Brenda as Johnny Bravo’s mama.)
Sylvia Fine Kaye’s Musical Comedy Tonight was a series of three specials that ran on PBS in the late 70s and early 80s, recreating some of Broadway’s best showstoppers with incredible talent, including Bernadette Peters, Carol Burnett, Ethel Merman and more. And now all three are on YouTube. Above is the first episode. Here are links to the second and third specials.
In 1988, Dorothy Loudon recorded the theme song Kander & Ebb wrote for a sitcom called The Thorns. In 2012, someone realized it had some resonance with our current political climate and posted it to YouTube as “A Love Song for the 1%.”
