From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V9 #6 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 Wednesday, January 20 2010 Volume 09 : Number 006 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Idol [Lee Daley ] [chakram-refugees] Lawless in Spartacus [klossner9@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:30:23 -0500 From: Lee Daley Subject: [chakram-refugees] Idol With Simon leaving, there is a need for a new abusive judge. Rene as in 'Lyre Lyre' "They All Suck!" ========================================================= 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: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:54:41 EST From: klossner9@aol.com Subject: [chakram-refugees] Lawless in Spartacus I have a tearsheet from a recent TV Guide but I've lost the date. It is an article on Spartacus: Blood and Sand. After mentioning executive producer Rob Tapert and praising their unknown leading man -- But the execs didn't push their luck when casting the plum female role, Lucretia, a desperate, social-climbing conniver married to Batiatus (John Hannah), the downwardly mobile owner of a gladiatorial school. They simply handed it to Tapert's internationally adored wife, former Xena star Lucy Lawless. "I keep being asked, 'Why are you doing the sword and sandals thing again?', but this is so different," Lawless says. "And who doesn't want to play Lady Macbeth?" In a career first, Lawless has agreed to perform topless-- frequently. One sequence has Lucretia and her husband carrying on an everyday conver- sation while being manually stimulated by slaves in preparation for sex. "We really pull the audience in a whole other time and place," Lawless says. "When some people see that scene, they'll flee their living rooms and never turn on their TVs again. Others will go, 'Wow, I'm really not in Kansas anymore! What's next?' And that's the crowd we'll attract. Spartacus is not a show for lightweights." So Starz, Tapert and Lawless are going the sex and history cable TV route. I'm afraid it will be as far below The Tudors as The Tudors was below Rome. Boeotian ========================================================= 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 V9 #6 ************************************