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Boromir's guess the famous game #219 - Annie Edson Taylor - nyctc7 wins
Boromir's guess the famous game #217 - Virginia Woolf - hownos was not afraid of her
Boromir's guess the famous game #214 - Fictional Homecoming Queen, Laura Palmer - hownos is the winner
Boromir's guess the famous game #211 -- Joan of Arc -- Won by LauraGrace
Boromir's guess the famous game #207 -- Bjork -- Won by hownos
Boromir's guess the famous game #203 -- 'Twas Christina Ricci -- Won by LauraGrace
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<blockquote>The distance between their homes and the theatre is irrelevant. </blockquote>
Oh, the fact that the majority of the complaints and objections are emanating from the USA is very, very relevant indeed. It's just Americans Americaning.
Yup. Its longevity is largely due to its adaptability. You take a simple premise -- alien in a box, adventures in time and space -- and... it turns out to be infinitely flexible.
The show has been evolving to suit the times since 1963. Long may it continue.
Indeed. It's still popular in the UK and probably more popular than it has ever been before outside of the UK. It's going nowhere anytime soon.
Ratings do matter for BBC shows, but they're only one of the many factors involved. For example, the Audience Appreciation Index matters just about equally to ratings for most programming. And the BBC being a public service broadcaster, it can continue to broadcast shows that serve a public interest -- even a <i>minority</i> public interest.
For example, the BBC has been broadcasting shows such as The Sky at Night for decades, which has very small audiences. A commercial broadcaster would have ditched it a long, long time ago.
The BBC absolutely isn't a commercial broadcaster. It doesn't carry advertising, so it isn't reliant on maximising the value of its advertising.
That said, popular prime time shows such as Doctor Who would be sidelined or axed if their ratings fell too far and remained low over a period of time, because they're expensive to make and a public service broadcaster needs to be sensible with its money.
But Doctor Who is in no danger. Its recent ratings have been fine -- comparative to other popular BBC shows (rather than comparative to figures it used to get two decades ago, by which metric all shows are doing badly) -- and it's a cornerstone of British popular culture.
If worst came to the worst, Doctor Who would only be rested. There is no real prospect of it being cancelled outright again, because it's one of the corporation's most valuable properties.
Eh. I forgot egg-and-spoon. The answer is obviously egg-and-spoon, but those cowards on the international Olympics committee won't include it because they know it'd overshadow everything else.
110 meter hurdles. Nice and quick... but also people acting like horses for no discernibly good reason. So it has a comedy factor too.
Honorary second place to speed walkers -- the daft sods.
Cool. Yeah, Infinite Two Minutes has the edge over River for me -- possibly because its concept is stranger -- but they're both really fun films. I wonder if he'll make a third in a similar vein.
Yes. Worth pointing out again that she also happens to be a classically trained, up-and-coming actor -- who got very good notices for Antigone at the Mercury and has been in Othello and Macbeth for the National Youth Theatre. So, yes, not unusual casting at all.
I've never seen her in anything myself, so I don't really have an opinion on whether she's any good or not. I assume she is. But the idea these folk have that she's ill-suited to the role cannot be based on anything other than her looks -- which rather indicates to me that they don't go to the theatre anyway. Let alone <i>this</i> theatre for <i>this</i> play.
I wonder who has got them riled up about this actor they don't know. Was there a Daily Mail hit piece or something? They're very easy to manipulate. Not a single thought of their own.
<blockquote>Also Juliet is supposed to be an attractive woman</blockquote>
Actually, she's supposed to be a child of around 12 or 13 years.
She was exclusively played by fully-grown adult men for the first sixty years or so of the play's existence, because women were not permitted on the stage in England until after the Civil War (or more accurately, until the Restoration).
Since the late seventeenth century, Juliet has been played by countless actors -- most of whom will have been fully-grown women who could read the lines properly in the correct rhythm. Whether you personally find those women to be attractive or not probably didn't factor into the casting choices for those other iterations of the play any more than they did -- or should -- for this one.
I saw it this evening. I don't think I enjoyed it quite as much as Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes -- that's the one I'd still recommend to people first -- but it's not far off. Got the same energy and low budget inventiveness and manages to squeeze every last drop out of its premise without ever feeling like it is in danger of overstaying its welcome. Good stuff.
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