From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V8 #18 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Thursday, March 12 2009 Volume 08 : Number 018 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Lucy on L Word, Flight of the Conchords and Angle of Death ["KTL" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Lucy on L Word, Flight of the Conchords and Angle of Death > Lucy was on L Word last night - well barely on the L Word her voice was > there > and she did pop up at the end. > The > L Word went off with a muddled episode and an unsolved mystery. The fans > should chase the producer down with torches and pitchforks. > Laugh! And long leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. (Kind of like those 40,000 gummy souls in FIN-except they were all smiling. And being so gummy, probably didn't bump very much either.) > Flight of the Concords was much better. The has a very odd sense of humor > but > a gentle charm. Lucy played a good nature if slightly loopy emissary from > New > Zealand's tourist board. I liked her look - she played down the glamour > and > looks like real civil servant. I enjoyed her playing the woman who growing up wasn't all that interested in the boy next door who was obviously very interested in her-and now he's the Prime Minister of her country and she's working for him. Deft fending off of his sorrowful/resentful reminders of their checkered past while still maintaining that sunny New Zealand girl next door charm. I LIKE this character-I'd like to see her become a recurring character. (But then, when DON'T I want Lucy to become a recurring character?) > > Lucy has now made her appearance on Angel of Death as Eve's sympathetic if > larcenous neighbor. Again Lucy has given up glamour and is appropriately > shabby as a retired prostitute - a southern prostitute no less. I look > forward to more appearances. I'm hoping she becomes Eve's sidekick and > doesn't come to a violent bloody end. Get this-I haven't been able to see this yet. I'm on vacation and blithely logged on-and got a message that the episode can only be shown in the U.S. And here I am in Mexico, DAMMIT! It better still be streaming next week. > > Lucy has a real flair for character roles. She seems to enjoy them and > she > makes them very memorable. Hopefully she will do more of them. > > Cheryl Yeah, it's been a great week for Lucy (um, I wrote, just playing with words, "Lucyspotting", like trainspotting. But it sounded like maybe a bad sanitary napkin joke, so I didn't go with it). . . . for seeing Lucy in various venues and characters. Go Luce! KT ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:51:28 -0800 (AKDT) From: "KTL" Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] LL on "Flight Of The Conchords" > Hi all, > > I don't usually get HBO, but I'm in a hotel that has it, and am taking the > opportunity to watch > "Flight Of The Conchords" (a hilarious sitcom about a dim New Zealand > musical duo and their > misadventures, it's even funnier if you're actually in the music biz). I LOVE this show. But like you, I seldom get to see it since I don't have cable either. It is SO quirky. And so dead pan. And so funny. It's an enormous hit for HBO-I pant with lust waiting for it to be released on DVD so I can see all the eps. I > just about fell off the > bed when Lucy Lawless showed up in this episode, as the New Zealand Prime > Minister's long-suffering > assistant, Paula. > > I'm choking from laughter, it's hilarious. Keep an eye out for it on HBO > -- I'm not sure what the > episode title is, but it has something to do with hair gel I'm sure. (And > there's a special bonus > Gary Numan musical parody in the middle ... oh the brilliance.) Mary D's excellent site has clips up-but only the scenes Lucy is in. Here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/ccywoy Lucy mentioned her guest shot at the con-she said it was called "New Zealand Town". The full meaning of which didn't strike me until I saw the clips and realized that they were trying to set up a new New York neighborhood-like Chinatown, Germantown and Little Italy. THAT'S a hilarious concept to me. It's not like we've got masses of En Zedders immigrating into NY and living in little self-imposed ghettos of like lineaged individuals. I enjoyed Lucy's kind of down home girl accent and her expressions and gestures that had a home-spun cheeriness and optimism about them. This is probably one of the least sophisticated characters she's ever portrayed. I love how this show always "takes the mikey" out of themselves. One of the best laughs for me in the clips was the sheep wandering down the streets of New York at the end. I will be in a hotel this weekend-I'm hoping I catch the rerun on HBO. KT > > -- > =============================================== > Meredith Tarr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V8 #18 *************************************