Monday, June 15, 2009

"Lost in Austen" over and over again...

Spent the weekend watching "Lost in Austen, "a clever and long time travel switching places movie. It got my partner thinking about other Austen movies worth making:

"The Ladies of Longbourn and Their Pubic Topiary" (also sometimes appearing under the title, "Longbourn Landing Strips")
"Meryton Madness: Lydia and Kitty's Midnight Merrymaking with the Men in Regimentals"
"Caroline Bingley: Lit Bitch"
"The Collins Brothers: Snot Goes the Weasel"
"George Wickham, Able (and Constant) Swordsman"
"True Tales of Bourgeois Bellyaching" (also know as "If I Had Ever Learnt, I Should Have Been a Great Proficient")
"The Fuckable Fitzwilliam Darcy"

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Nurse Jackie


Oh yes. Edie Falco is back and luminous as a no-nonsense nurse with an attitude on a new Showtime series "Nurse Jackie." She's the scrappy nurse that will save your life while practicing her own form of justice. It's funny and dark and worth every second of your time.
The doctors are cartoonish, but hey, this is from the nurse's POV. My sister is a nurse and, while nurses aren't all saints, some doctors are baffoons.
My favorite line is when Jackie is talking to a barely out of the womb yappy intern: "Let me ask you something? Shut up. I like quiet and mean. those are my people." Priceless.
http://www.sho.com/site/nursejackie/home.do