Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.
One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??
The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.
Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!
I first had PG Tips from a little tea shop in Carmel-by-the-Sea in California. It was lovely. Brought it home. Got some later elsewhere, and it wasn't nearly as good. All Yorkshire now. My son's friends in the UK are pleased as punch that his mom has Yorkshire tea and an electric kettle.
If you weren't there you don't know how big these Taster's Choice commercials were in the early 90s. It was so exciting when another 30/45 second episode would drop. RIP Anthony Head. 💔
0 F = extremely cold
100 F = extremely hot
0 C = kinda chilly
100 C = you're dead
Conclusion: centigrade is a scale created by complete morons
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1. 90% of the #Stargate fans I know are female…
2. Starting in Season 8 of SG1 and in Atlantis, shows that eventually it would not be just the American Military in charge. The Russians pushed for a team. Many of the scientists were international. So, it was heading toward a multinational operation.
3. 15 years of passed and a million things could have happened in the interim. Maybe we I dunno made a treaty with the Wraith, because we got a working retro-virus. Obviously we were heading toward war with the Lucian Alliance. Here’s a thought maybe we build ZPMs and send Atlantis to rescue the Destiny?
4. I would think after 30 years Earth’s population knows about the Stargate. So the story will have vastly changed and would bring in a new audience.
I’m disappointed and disgusted with @AmazonMGMStudio You have shown fandoms, You lack knowledge, understanding and creativity. If you don’t like our Stargate, give it to someone who does! You are more than welcome to create your own IP directed at your targeted demographic. Stop ruining others work!! #SaveStargate
From my book, JUSTIFY THIS, in the chapter about GOSNELL:
"We were filming the movie in Oklahoma, and there was one role that we still had not cast. I just had not seen anyone that struck me as right for the role.
On a Sunday after the second week of shooting, I went to a Waffle House (my favorite restaurant chain by the way) in Oklahoma City. The place was very busy, and the manager was going around apologizing to everybody for their meals being late.
I kept looking at her. There was something about her. She was very attractive, and she had a tattoo on her neck. There was a certain toughness about her, and she way she carried herself was so poised and competent. There was a strength and a wisdom to her that I thought would really read on camera.
I felt moved to go and talk to her. I waited until she had a free moment, and I said, “Look, I know this sounds like a crazy pickup line, but…um, have you ever done any acting?”
Obviously having never been asked that question, she predictably responded, “Um, no.”
I said, “Look, I know this might sound like a cliche pick-up line, but…I really am a director from Hollywood and I really am shooting a movie here in town, and there’s a part in it that you would be right for. Would you mind if I got the script and let you read it with me to see if it’s something you want to do?”
“Um, okay.”
I drove home and got the script and went back to the Waffle House and sat down with her in a booth to read the script together. I explained that the character only had three or four lines, but they were very important to the story. I said, “I think you could do this. Would you be willing?”
She was understandably skeptical of this guy who suddenly showed up at her job claiming to be a Hollywood director and offering her a role in a movie. “I don’t know. How much would it pay?” she asked.
I said, “Well, it’ll probably be at least two or three days of work—and it’ll pay about eight hundred and thirty dollars a day.”
She said, “Okay.”
Probably a little better than Waffle House.
The first day she came to work, she practically brought her entire family with her to make sure I wasn’t some sort of crazy serial killer. We shot with her a couple of days, and she did very well. She was a natural. I kept telling her, “Tessya, don’t try to be interesting. You’re interesting enough. Just tell the truth. Let the words do the work for you.” And she was terrific.
On the third day, one of the producers, Ann, came over to me and said, “You’re not going to believe this.”
I replied, “Oh no. What now?” I was sure someone had quit, or some location had fallen out, or some other low-budget-movie disaster had occurred.
She said, “The thing that happened to her character in the movie happened to her in real life.”
I said, “What are you talking about?”
“Tessya, in her real life, went to have an abortion, and when they let her listen to the heartbeat of the baby, she decided not to go through with the abortion. She had her baby, just like her character in the movie.”
I was floored. I felt the hand of God was at play here. I believe God led me to that Waffle House to find her. That something inside me, telling me, when I first saw her, “She can do it! She can do it!”—was Him.
She is now the proud mother of three boys, including her firstborn, whose heartbeat changed her life.
@sagesteele@WaffleHouse