Word: m
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prepared. Sure, ostensibly I have an ample cache of bankable practical skills--I can put together a mean PowerPoint presentation and can do basic arithmetic with the best of them. But when it comes to answering the really important questions--how to live and what to love--I'm afraid that my performance would fall in the bottom percentiles...
...very beautiful role, and the script was quite impressionistic and very touching. The part was a beautiful part for any actor to play, of my generation definitely. I didn't think I had much of a chance because I'm not American and I'm not on anybody's list. Nobody but Harmony would have cast...
...most difficult and time consuming part was becoming American--I'm not gifted with accents or dialects, and I had to spend a lot of time trying to lose my Scottish accent. I also worked for six weeks in a psychiatric hospital. To begin with it was scary because I was working with people who had committed atrocious crimes-it was a high security place--but by the end of it I was fairly sad to leave...
Movies are expensive. It's easy to overlook how much you shell out to see one--going to the movies is such a standard activity one barely thinks about how much is being plunked down. If you catch yourself in this trap--ignoring your expenditures because, "hey, I'm just going to see a movie"--then it's probably a good idea to remind yourself exactly what this proposition consists of. You are paying good money for the privilege of spending two hours sitting down. Now this seems obvious enough, probably even condescending, but you'd be surprised what people...
...Really, this film should aspire to be like "Friends". Without the ability to luxuriate in fluff that a feature accords, I'm confident the TV writers could have taken the same material and made it succinctly engaging, with more consistent jokes and probably more sincerity to boot. Instead, the movie infuriatingly waters down what might have made a decent sitcom, and we're left only with the remnants of sitcom artifices, without any punch...