Wednesday 3 October 2012

Cape Verde







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  1. For two seasons, Tracy is on a dogged quest to EGOT win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. He supposedly achieves this goal, but does the math add up? We know he won an Oscar for the gritty drama Hard to Watch: Based on the Novel 'Stone Cold Bummer' by Manipulate. He also put a one man show on Broadway, which presumably earned him a Tony. The Grammy could have gone to "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah," "Fat Neck Girl," or another of his original songs. But what about the Emmy? One Redditor thinks he never won one at all. Instead, Tracy counted the fake Emmy that Liz gives him in "Secrets and Lies." He got the idea from Whoopi Goldberg, who proudly counts her Daytime Emmy.

    All of five films debuted at number one both Iron Man movies on this same weekend but none hinted at the type of fanbase that this weekend's enormous $200.3 Design Your Own Shirt million suggests. And, before you ask, yes I left off Ang Lee's 2003's Hulk on purpose. No need to mar the occasion.

    Now the show has returned to Netflix with the shortened titled Queer Eye (the original show also shortened the title during its run) with five new gay men ready to offer their help to a hapless guy. My wife convinced me to give the new show a spin, and we pretty much devoured all eight episodes over the course of the weekend. The new Queer Eye fixes the flaws of the original and, as they point out in the first episode, the new version is T Shirt Design Online about moving from tolerance to acceptance.

    EL: Something we didn't really tell the audience, but I knew in my own heart and mind, was that in her back story, Tauriel was orphaned when she was a young, young elf. She's still a young elf she's only 600 but at some point in her life, she was orphaned, and her parents were killed at the hands of an orc, or orcs (I'm not sure how many). And that influenced a lot of the decisions that I made for the character at the beginning of the film, and her attitude, her demeanor, her presence, her coldness, the anger that sort of seethed out of her was this need for revenge, this need for justice, this need to make things right in a world that had wronged her. And then as Kili enters her world, he opens up her Clothing Designer heart and mind and her soul to the notion of innocence again. She sees innocence and purity in him, and she sees a spark of life that she hasn't known since before her parents were killed, and it reminds her of the young elf that she maybe threw aside in her pain. In a weird way, it's a coming of age story, and yet when we come of age, if we do it with grace, then I think in a way we return to some of the innocence that we held in childhood. In our maturing and our wisdom, we realize the infinite wisdom that children have in their idealism and in their passions. So I think it's a beautiful arc for the character, and I was very excited to play it.

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