HIGHLA-L Digest - 11 Mar 2006 to 12 Mar 2006 (#2006-53)

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      There are 9 messages totalling 385 lines in this issue.
      
      Topics of the day:
      
        1. First con reports and photos from Leeds
        2. Untitled Claymation Immortal Movie (2)
        3. Debbie? Debbie? RE: HL Alum HI Debbie!! (6)
      
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      Date:    Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:12:43 EST
      From:    Dotiran@aol.com
      Subject: First con reports and photos from Leeds
      
        
      John Bierly has posted two photos of Adrian at Leeds. Drool thunk.
       
      _http://www.adrianpaul.net/current/newswire.shtml_ 
      (http://www.adrianpaul.net/current/newswire.shtml) 
       
       
      and the first con reports have shown up on the HLBB [possible spoilers for  
      The Source in them, those lucky dogs got to see a Source promo film.]
       
      _http://www.highlander-community.com/ubb//ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=17;t=
      000937_ 
      (http://www.highlander-community.com/ubb//ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=17;t=000937) 
      
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      Date:    Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:54:20 -0600
      From:    Ginny Gibbs <red57metoo@yahoo.com>
      Subject: Untitled Claymation Immortal Movie
      
      Earl Heinrich wrote:
      
      >This sounds like it has the possiblity of becoming as good a script as the Highlander IV one that was assembled so long ago.  I like the part where the Hunters return to kill off the questing Immortals (and their sheep), but are foiled when Duncan and the gang (sheep included) all file into a Blue Police Call Box, which then disappears, leaving the Hunters to face the strange pepperpot shaped creatures which have just arrived bent on world conquest.  "Exterminiate!"   ZAP!  Dead Hunters.
      >Earl J. Heinrich
      >
      >-------------- Original message -------------- 
      >From: Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@COX.NET> 
      >
      >  
      >
      >>>But hey, Earl, welcome. In case anyone forgot to mention it, 
      >>>*some* of us are looking forward to the next HL movie due out 
      >>>probably in the fall. 
      >>>      
      >>>
      >>I think more than a few of us are looking forward to a new HL movie. It 
      >>may well be god-awful but at least we'll have something new to talk 
      >>about for a few weeks. And we could get surprised - it could be a good 
      >>movie. Odder things have happened. The fact that Duncan and Methos 
      >>start off the film herding sheep gives me real hope. The fact that they 
      >>later dress as geishas gives me some pause. The talking lion is 
      >>disturbing but I like the question of whether an Immortal would 
      >>willingly cut off his own leg to avoid decapitation. The mimes worry me. 
      >>I'm not convinced that Claymation was the way to go but, hey, it's a 
      >>chance Panzer/Davis had to take. Above all, I'm glad that we will 
      >>finally be seeing those twin Immortals we always wondered about. 
      >>    
      >>
      >
      >  
      >
      Ah. speaking strictly on a technical and special-effects basis for the 
      movie (working title: "So Long, Squishy Immortal Gay Geisha, and HAND"), 
      I think Claymation is the ONLY way they could possibly have gone, and I 
      will defend my thesis to the death. I have a heavy duty Weasel poker 
      here, and I'm not afraid to use it!
      
      For example.
      
      This completely solves Adrian's little :whisper: hair problem.
      Ditto the Richie character's little :whisper: head problem
      Enables the entry of a favorite character from fandom into glorious 
      Canonicolor. Alternate title: "The Return of the  HHH"
      Finally, enables plenty of product placement for tobacco products in 
      Duncan's new dojo/TV studio, as clay cigarettes aren't covered by the 
      "no tobacco" rules.
      
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      Date:    Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:47:51 -0500
      From:    Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@cox.net>
      Subject: Re: Debbie? Debbie? RE: HL Alum HI Debbie!!
      
      Marina critiques:
      > (That's 90 min of my life I'm not getting back.) (Only 
      > one scene worth watching.) (That's okay, you need not guess.)
      
      I thought we had long ago decided that when subtext became text, the
      slash lovers in the audience weren't interested? 
      
      As for the movie in question, how one reacts may be a function of where
      one was raised. I can't help but believe that the issues of deeply
      closeted cowboys in the mid-20th century are more likely to strike a
      chord with Americans than those from different  backgrounds.  Not that I
      think one must be an American to understand gay cowboy movies, only that
      some aspects of the movie are more American than universal. Likewise, I
      think there are nuances of movies about other topics (sectarian violence
      in Ireland, apartheid, cultural/religious clashes in the Balkans, etc )
      that would resonate more deeply with people from the country afflicted
      by the problem than they would with an American viewer. 
      
      OTOH, perhaps you just thought the acting was shite.<eg>
      
      Wendy (Is it possible that Heath married and impregnated his co-star
      *just** to dispel rumors of his sexual orientation?)(And if true, what
      about Jake?)(DEBBIE!)(We're talking about the sexual orientation of
      actors!!!)(And by "sexual orientation" I mean gayness)
      
      
      Immortals Inc.
      immortals_incorporated@cox.net
      "Weasels for Eternity" 
      
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      Date:    Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:55:21 -0000
      From:    Jette Goldie <jette@blueyonder.co.uk>
      Subject: Re: Debbie? Debbie? RE: HL Alum HI Debbie!!
      
      From: "Wendy" <Immortals_Incorporated@COX.NET>
      
      >  Not that I
      > think one must be an American to understand gay cowboy movies, 
      
      Nah,  they weren't "gay cowboys".
      
      They were slashy shepherds.
      
      Jette Goldie
      jette@blueyonder.co.uk
      
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      Date:    Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:26:38 -0500
      From:    Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@cox.net>
      Subject: Re: Untitled Claymation Immortal Movie
      
      Ginny says:
      > Ah. speaking strictly on a technical and special-effects 
      > basis for the movie (working title: "So Long, Squishy 
      > Immortal Gay Geisha, and HAND"), I think Claymation is the 
      > ONLY way they could possibly have gone, and I will defend my 
      > thesis to the death. I have a heavy duty Weasel poker here, 
      > and I'm not afraid to use it!
      
      The danger of Claymation, as I see it, is the tendency to create
      caricatures of the actors involved. For example,  PW has one very
      prominent physical feature that you just *know* the Claymation artists
      won't be able to resist making even larger than it is. Frankly, I think
      it will detract from the overall story if Methos walks around through
      the entire movie with a huge protuberance. It will be especially
      off-putting in those scenes where he has to work closely with other
      actors. At the precise moment when the viewer is suppose to be wondering
      if Duncan and Methos will be able to survive the coming onslaught of
      vampiric Inca warriors, everyone will actually be wondering if Duncan
      loves or hates the way Methos' over-sized bit feels when it bumps up
      against him.
      
      > For example.
      > 
      > This completely solves Adrian's little :whisper: hair problem.
      
      Now now... I'm sure he has as much hair now as he did when he started
      Highlander. It's just that more of it is on his back than on his head
      now.
      
      > Ditto the Richie character's little :whisper: head problem 
      
      Richie has a little head problem? Maybe he should talk to Methos <eg>. 
      
      > Enables the entry of a favorite character from fandom into 
      > glorious Canonicolor. Alternate title: "The Return of the  HHH"
      
      Hubert H. Humphrey wants to come back from the dead and be in "The
      Source"?  I mean...being dead is bad, but is it *that* bad?
      
      I'm just hoping that the latest rumor I heard was wrong- that Duncan
      discovers that ignoring Ahriman wasn't the right tack to take after all
      and that gibbering dwarves have been multiplying in exponential numbers
      all over the world. Duncan and his friends must face an army of Little
      People the likes of which hasn't been seen since Dorothy fell from the
      sky. (Did anyone else notice that the "Other" man found on "Lost" and
      now being held captive is named Henry Gale and arrived, so he says, on
      the island in a hot air balloon?)
      
      Wendy(Alternatively, Duncan discovers that he was actually found under a
      cabbage in Dunfries and isn't a Highlander at all.)
      
      Immortals Inc.
      immortals_incorporated@cox.net
      "Weasels for Eternity" 
      
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      Date:    Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:36:55 -0600
      From:    Kamil <kamilaa@gmail.com>
      Subject: Re: Debbie? Debbie? RE: HL Alum HI Debbie!!
      
      <Wendy>
       I thought we had long ago decided that when subtext became text, the
      slash lovers in the audience weren't interested?
      
      <me>
      *raises hand* Don't put me in that grouping -- I lovedlovedloved both
      the short story and the movie, *sniff*
      
      <Wendy>
       (Is it possible that Heath married and impregnated his co-star
      *just** to dispel rumors of his sexual orientation?)
      
      <me>
      Now, now, Wendy, you know actors nevereverever do things like that.
      Why, I'm sure Tom Cruse loves Katie deeply, with a glorious,
      couch-jumpy kind of love the likes of which this world has never seen.
      One weeps at the purity of their love. And hopes that the turkey
      baster was also purified beforehand. o_0
      
      <Wendy>
      (And if true, what about Jake?)(DEBBIE!)(We're talking about the
      sexual orientation of actors!!!)(And by "sexual orientation" I mean
      gayness)
      
      <me>
      I was in drama club in high school. Perhaps as a result I have a
      skewed impression of the sexual orientation of people who enjoy
      acting. But the ones in my high school were all queer. Including me.
      <g> Had one ever made it to LA I doubt they would've changed their
      orientation just because they were in LA. But had they made it in the
      business I suspect they would have acquired a publicist who would like
      you to think they were as straight as, well, Tom Cruise. Or possibly
      John Travolta. <g>
      
      DEBBIEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      
      --
      Kamil
      Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the
      eating of snails to be immoral?
      Antoninus: No, master.
      Crassus: Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn't it?
      Antoninus: Yes, master.
      Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a
      question of morals.
      Antoninus: It could be argued so, master.
      Crassus: My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes . . . both snails and oysters.
             Spartacus
      
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      Date:    Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:51:29 -1000
      From:    MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net>
      Subject: Re: Debbie? Debbie? RE: HL Alum HI Debbie!!
      
      Rottie--
      highlanderworldwide-subscribe@yahoogroups.com)
      > Last time I looked there were 955 *active* members.
      
      So, for you, "active" is defined as "signed up for an email list"?  No 
      wonder obesity is so rampant these days.
      
      
      >  it is all run by Carmel McPherson.
      
      Here, we're not-run by Debbie.  Alternatives are always good.
      
      Nina (some Souce plot tidbits are finally out & about) (spoiler spaces are 
      so pedestrian) (& a pain to type & scroll around) (& Debbie's not here to 
      enforce them) (so, why bother?) (DEBBIE??????????????????????)
      mac.westie@verizon.net
      
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      Date:    Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:58:10 -0600
      From:    Kamil <kamilaa@gmail.com>
      Subject: Re: Debbie? Debbie? RE: HL Alum HI Debbie!!
      
      < Nina>
       (some Souce plot tidbits are finally out & about) (spoiler spaces are
      > so pedestrian) (& a pain to type & scroll around) (& Debbie's not here to
      > enforce them) (so, why bother?) (DEBBIE??????????????????????)
      
      Do tell? I'm far too lazy to go search for same, so please enable my
      laziness and share? With or without spoiler spaces (although if
      someone still has the ascii swords I'd love to be able to copy it;
      again with the please enable my laziness), it's all the same to me.
      
      I suppose adding SPOILER to the subject should be sufficent to protect
      the spoiler virgins.
      
      One would hope.
      --
      Kamil
      Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the
      eating of snails to be immoral?
      Antoninus: No, master.
      Crassus: Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn't it?
      Antoninus: Yes, master.
      Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a
      question of morals.
      Antoninus: It could be argued so, master.
      Crassus: My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes . . . both snails and oysters.
             Spartacus
      
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      Date:    Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:44:59 -0500
      From:    Wendy <Immortals_Incorporated@cox.net>
      Subject: Re: Debbie? Debbie? RE: HL Alum HI Debbie!!
      
      Kamil says:
      > (although if someone still has the ascii swords I'd love to 
      > be able to copy it; again with the please enable my 
      > laziness),
      
      No spoilers here - but I can give you the sword. 
      
      Sword.
      
      Not shaft.
      
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      There are probably other swords but this is one Dragon Wendy used. I
      wonder where Wendy Milner is now. Still on her mountain top?
      
      Wendy (We don't need no stinkin' spoiler spaces!)
      Immortals Inc.
      immortals_incorporated@cox.net
      "Weasels for Eternity" 
      
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