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[xinexine72]

1. Where were you when it turned 2006

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[el_jefe59]

I know nothing of this Ugly Betty of which you speak. What is it?

[xinexine72]

It's a new show on ABC. It's adapted from a Colombian show called Yo Betty la fea (I think). It's about a young, sweet, idealistic woman working for a fashion magazine. She looks like a "before" picture, but it's all about how beauty is really on the inside. It's just a wee bit heavy-handed, still, but hopefully that will calm down. It's only been on 4 times.

[el_jefe59]

Sounds interesting!

[metaphorsbwithu]

I loved Neve Campbell in Last Call. She played Frances Kroll, F. Scott Fitzgerald's secretary in the last year of his short life. Very vulnerable and restrained. Jeremy Irons was FSF and Sissy Spacek had a few short scenes as his wife in which Fitzgerald sees her while hallucinating (she was in a mental institution as you may know) ... deliciously creepy.

I've seen pics of Ugly Betty before but don't watch much tv and don't have cable.

I miss Sweetness and Gilda a lot.

Dennis spelled back-ways is sinned.

[xinexine72]

I actually haven't seen Neve in very much, but she got good reviews for When Will I Be Loved. I've had total strangers (bank tellers, grocery store cashiers) tell me I look like her, and once, at a Halloween party, someone thought they knew me because of the resemblance.

I dig F. Scott, and I know about poor, crazy Zelda, dying in a mental institution fire. I bought Save Me The Waltz at a book fair years ago, but I haven't read yet. Maybe I'll pick that up next.

If you're interested, Ugly Betty is on ABC, and not cable. I find it amusing and sweet.

If I had been a Dennis, mom was going to nickname me "Denny". Which I find kinda gross, especially paired with my last name. As it is, she wanted everyone to call me "Christie" instead. I don't see the point in taking out that one letter. And then there's the bad pairing with my last name again. Everyone just naturally started calling me Chris, and mom got tired of correcting them.

[metaphorsbwithu]

Frances Kroll's book Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald should be in a library near you. I read a couple of bios on FS and Zelda many many years ago. It was an interesting time. Wow. You resemble Neve Campbell (according to some)? That's a very nice compliment. I always had the face people would say I reminded them of someone but they didn't know who. I heard that a hundred times. But good for you. Sometimes when you write a certain way, you remind me of someone ... but I can't remember who.

I ran three miles yesterday. Going out now to brave the chill air.

[xinexine72]

I read a very good bio of F. Scott several years ago. I don't remember the exact title, but it was edited by Matthew Bruccoli (or something like that). Poor man--consumed/overwhelmed/unsure of his genius (although a bad speller), overshadowed (he felt) by Hemingway (who admitted that Fitzgerald was the better writer, and told him that Zelda emasculated him) and then ruined by his alcoholism.

You know he was an uncredited writer on Gone With the Wind? The scene where Ashley returns from the war, and he and Melanie go up to their room, leaving Scarlett shut out in the dark, and it's all done without a word, was one of his revisions.

[yourbodyaboveme]

I dig Ugly Betty!

[paladin_shadow]

LOL, " I have my uses"? I've always said I'm like a mace, good to smite people but not much use otehrwise, did you mean that? :P and you got the birthday right, m'dear.... I dont hink you resemble anyone but you and a very gorgeous you it is, as well... ; )