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Post by berkley on Jan 25, 2021 22:09:30 GMT -5
I bought a few paperbacks at a charity sale, pre-covid... Airframe was quite gripping, and State of Fear was utter dreck. Back in the mid-1990s, after reading Jurassic Park, which I found entertaining, I picked up cheap copies of pretty much everything I could find by him and then read them in order of publication. Based on that, I can tell that you that the ones worth reading are all pre-1980, i.e., Andromeda Strain, Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery and Eaters of the Dead (on which the, in my opinion, not very good movie The 13th Warrior is based). You can safely avoid everything else he originally published under his own name - I soldiered all the way through Rising Sun, Disclosure and Lost World, all of which I almost threw at the wall when I finished them. By the way, in the late '60s and early '70s, he also wrote a number of crime/thriller novels originally published under the pseudonym John Lange (none of which I've read) and one, A Case of Need, under the pseudonym Jeffrey Hudson, which I have read and found pretty good. I'd be interested in reading some of those 'John Lange' books. Anyway, The Great Train Robbery is a really fun movie...
Yeah, those early ones were all good, or at least I enjoyed them a lot as a kid. I read Congo in the 80s and found it very disappointing, though I slogged through it to the end, I think from lack of anything else to read at the time. That more or less put me off trying any of his other books. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 25, 2021 22:26:12 GMT -5
I always thought Fran Drescher was funny, talented, and attractive. But yeah, I admit that her laugh can get kind of grating I've watched her work since before the Nanny, so she's okay in my book; but, she has vocal qualities that are steel claws on a blackboard. A friend had the audio book of her memoir and we listened to it in his car, on a trip and it was pretty funny, but that was one nasal trip! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2021 22:31:38 GMT -5
the ONLY time I've *ever* laughed at Fran Drescher
the punchline at ~2:30 is so worth it
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Post by berkley on Jan 26, 2021 1:41:22 GMT -5
I always thought she was really nice looking, though I didn't watch the Nanny itself. Somehow I knew her from elsewhere - though I can't recall now what I would have seen her on before she became well known from the Nanny. Was she a guest on Seinfeld, or some other show before then?
I assumed she was playing up the nasal accent as part of her show-biz persona. As an outsider, to me it just seemed like one more American accent amongst all the others we were bombarded with on tv and in movies.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 26, 2021 4:03:34 GMT -5
I always thought she was really nice looking, though I didn't watch the Nanny itself. Somehow I knew her from elsewhere - though I can't recall now what I would have seen her on before she became well known from the Nanny. Was she a guest on Seinfeld, or some other show before then?I assumed she was playing up the nasal accent as part of her show-biz persona. As an outsider, to me it just seemed like one more American accent amongst all the others we were bombarded with on tv and in movies. She may have appeared in other shows, but to me, she'll always be Bobbie Fleckman:
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Post by brutalis on Jan 27, 2021 8:49:59 GMT -5
Continuing the Fran Drescher inanity. What if Fran was the Bride of Frankenstein? Or if she played Lily Munster? Morticia Addams maybe? Bride of Chucky? Can you see and hear it? Can you ever unseen or not hear it?
Don't ask me why she has crept into and stuck in my imaginative thoughts this week. I have no idea why. Must be the long hours last week and this week at work so my tired brain is malfunctioning?
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 27, 2021 17:56:11 GMT -5
Fran was also in Cadillac Man, with Robin Williams and Tim Robbins. She mentions doing a bedroom scene with a very hairy and very sweaty Robin, in her book.
She was also in Saturday Night Fever, UHF, Hollywood Knights and Ragtime, all before The Nanny. Also multiple tv appearances, before getting her own show, including Who's The Boss, Night Court, 9 to 5, Silver Spoons, Fame, ALF, and Dream On.
Never watched more than a clip or two of the Nanny but she is a good performer. Great gams, too.
On a serious note, she is also a survivor of a rather horrible rape of herself and a roommate, a cancer survivor and activist for cancer, AIDS and other charities.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 27, 2021 20:38:58 GMT -5
I have loved Jennifer Beals from her first appearance in the movie "Flash Dance" until today
There I said it
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 27, 2021 21:39:29 GMT -5
I have loved Jennifer Beals from her first appearance in the movie "Flash Dance" until today There I said it What happened today? |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 27, 2021 22:00:02 GMT -5
I have loved Jennifer Beals from her first appearance in the movie "Flash Dance" until today There I said it What happened today? I think I love her more  Don't tell my wife... |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 27, 2021 22:00:48 GMT -5
I dated a girl that looked like her in High School.
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Post by berkley on Jan 27, 2021 22:57:07 GMT -5
I have loved Jennifer Beals from her first appearance in the movie "Flash Dance" until today There I said it What happened today? He stopped loving her today - George Jones wrote a whole song about it. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 29, 2021 19:36:50 GMT -5
I had to wait until I was 56 to finally have a wood burning oven at home... and when it's minus twenty outside, it's just bliss.
There. I said it!
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 29, 2021 23:14:49 GMT -5
I had to wait until I was 56 to finally have a wood burning oven at home... and when it's minus twenty outside, it's just bliss. There. I said it! Well, you could have had that before, though getting the ashes out of an electric or gas stove is a bit of work. |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 30, 2021 1:18:30 GMT -5
I had to wait until I was 56 to finally have a wood burning oven at home... and when it's minus twenty outside, it's just bliss. There. I said it! I've lived in houses with an open fireplace -- or, in fact, multiple fireplaces at times -- since the age of 2. I love having an open fire. It's so cosy and comforting. It's also handy when you need to find out if that ring you have is the "one ring to rule them all."  Here's a snap of our living room with the fire lit and our cat enjoying the warmth...  |
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