Tonys and Prisoners and Friends
Jun. 6th, 2004 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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whytcrow over the phone this afternoon. She's sounded tired, but bearing up well, considering. Surprise hospital visits are not fun for anyone. Hopefully the second surgery will clear out the last of the problems and she can come home to family and friends. boffo9, thank you for keeping us updated when you can.
Then I escaped into Hogwarts and its world by finally seeing PoA. I was hoping to see it Monday away from the maddening crowds, but the paycheck beckons more.
Wow. Wow. I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected. I honestly hadn't liked what I'd seen in the inital pictures released, but I was willing to wait and see. I do want to see it again. I missed so many details in the first run-through.
The palette was very different. With Columbus' two movies, everything was bright and shiny. Cuaron's felt dark and ominous, yet magical in the right places. I'm still not sold on Peter or Sirius, but I liked Lupin. I approved heartily of his choice of music. I do wish Thewlis infused a little more of Remus' humor into the part, since I liked that aspect of his character in the books, that he still had the mischevious side underneath the respectable veneer. Aunt Marge was an old-fashioned type of witch, who deserved exactly what she got. I wonder if Petunia was silently pleased, since Marge insulted her family. Fudge was just perfect down to his pinstripes. Buckbeak was so pretty. The Knight Bus was just as wacky as I imagined. Gambon made a more lively Dumbledore, but I wish they'd done a little more with Trelawney. Or at least let McGonagall have her "So who'd she predict would die *this* term?" line.
The Tony Awards were a very odd mix.
Hugh showed he could sing and dance and shimmy in gold and flirt with a puppet... and pick up a Tony. I wasn't wowed by what I saw of Avenue Q. It was cute, but meh. Maybe it was their choice of song for the showcase. I loved what I saw of "Wicked". I was surprised "Assasins" wound up the hit revival. For such an undeniably creepy show, it has some powerful music. I remember hearing the "Ballad of Booth" during the Sondheim Carnegie Hall show a bunch of years ago and my mixed feelings over that powerful song. (And then discovering spydaddy Victor Garber played the original Booth... meep.)
whytcrow over the phone this afternoon. She's sounded tired, but bearing up well, considering. Surprise hospital visits are not fun for anyone. Hopefully the second surgery will clear out the last of the problems and she can come home to family and friends. boffo9, thank you for keeping us updated when you can. Then I escaped into Hogwarts and its world by finally seeing PoA. I was hoping to see it Monday away from the maddening crowds, but the paycheck beckons more.
Wow. Wow. I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected. I honestly hadn't liked what I'd seen in the inital pictures released, but I was willing to wait and see. I do want to see it again. I missed so many details in the first run-through.
The palette was very different. With Columbus' two movies, everything was bright and shiny. Cuaron's felt dark and ominous, yet magical in the right places. I'm still not sold on Peter or Sirius, but I liked Lupin. I approved heartily of his choice of music. I do wish Thewlis infused a little more of Remus' humor into the part, since I liked that aspect of his character in the books, that he still had the mischevious side underneath the respectable veneer. Aunt Marge was an old-fashioned type of witch, who deserved exactly what she got. I wonder if Petunia was silently pleased, since Marge insulted her family. Fudge was just perfect down to his pinstripes. Buckbeak was so pretty. The Knight Bus was just as wacky as I imagined. Gambon made a more lively Dumbledore, but I wish they'd done a little more with Trelawney. Or at least let McGonagall have her "So who'd she predict would die *this* term?" line.
The Tony Awards were a very odd mix.
Hugh showed he could sing and dance and shimmy in gold and flirt with a puppet... and pick up a Tony. I wasn't wowed by what I saw of Avenue Q. It was cute, but meh. Maybe it was their choice of song for the showcase. I loved what I saw of "Wicked". I was surprised "Assasins" wound up the hit revival. For such an undeniably creepy show, it has some powerful music. I remember hearing the "Ballad of Booth" during the Sondheim Carnegie Hall show a bunch of years ago and my mixed feelings over that powerful song. (And then discovering spydaddy Victor Garber played the original Booth... meep.)
