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I remember when some people would compare Nichole Ritchie to Lucy.I could not believe that people were comparing the two!michelle said:
Anyone remember Dallas?
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I loved " Dallas". I was totally convinced that it was true to life about life in TX at the time, ROFLOL.
I was in a national Internet Dallas fan club online a few years ago. I've seen every episode in reruns to the point that I can quote entire blocks of dialogue. Have the seasons released on DVD, of course.
I don't know what the movie will turn out to be like, but I will be there!!!
I never thought Victoria Principal was that good a choice for Pam, so J. Lo would be a fine movie Pamela Barnes Ewing, IMO. Certainly NOT a good Sue Ellen, and I am surprised that Linda Grey isn't raising heck about that. Linda looks fantastic and should play her own self!!!
Principal,otoh,was known for her " relationships" with people in Hollywood from a very young age, not her acting abilities, and never did much of anything after " Dallas" except a few movies on Lifetime. Then she married a plastic surgeon, started up her really mediocre quality cosmetics empire and has turned her surgically altered nose up at everything " Dallas" since.
Oh, well, I am more interested in the men in the movie anyway, LOL. The TV show was all about the men. It was written by men for men. Larry Haggman has said that in many interviews down through the years.
About the original show, which is all I can comment upon until the movie is released:
The men-
I thought Cliff was so funny and goofy.. Now I know that Ken Kercheval was stoned through most of his run on the show.
Bobby was adorable and the one I would have hit the hayloft with. He's aged well and is cute on " Bold and Beautiful" in the promo I saw.
JR had quite a lot of power in the first few seasons, something I was taught to look for in a man, like Sue Ellen and her psychopathic sister did, LOL. Larry Haggman is a hoot. He also ran off a couple of Exec. Producers and directors which he didn't like, and the studio bought out Phillip Capice's contract because he and Haggman hated each other so.
Ray was a perpetually wounded soul and misunderstood cowboy with a good heart who screwed his underaged niece in the hayloft in the first season, ROFLOL. The writers wrote themselves into a corner with that SL.
Jock was OK, and apparently Arthur Davis was beloved by all the cast. I thought he pronounced business as "bidness" which was strange, and had a very weatherbeaten look.I never really understood the hero worship because he was NOT kind to the women in the family, and used his sons. I loved Howard Keel's patriarchal potrayal better as Clayton and thought he should have ended up with Sue Ellen, at least for a few good years. He had a genteel gentlemanliness to him that I loved. I have wished that he was the original Jock.
The women:
I looked quite a lot like a younger, more innocent version of Sue Ellen, wore clothes and jewelry almost identical to hers, but never drink. I drove a MB 450SL convertible like Pam, but was nothing like her. I thought Lucy was a mindless little twit except in her lines where she fought with JR.
She was the " eye candy" character, IMO.
Miss Ellie was portrayed as a long-suffering saint on earth, putting up with so much scheming and crap under HER inherited house and property. I disliked the way she cried with her mouth open and her face up, like a baby bird drinking water. She should have had a stylish hairstyle and more clothes, befitting a wealthy Dallas matriarch. Those stupid loose cotton house dresses look like what people in nursing homes wear in the day room.
She also should have been strong enough to kick her grown up kids out of the house with their fortunes and a good college education.. they might have had a chance at a normal life that way.
The woman I liked the most on the show was not a Ewing, although she wanted to be one for a while: Mandy Winger. She started out young and gulliable and used by JR, but by the end of her apppearance, she left JR laying flat out in the dust. Deborah Shelton was gorgeous, and left acting to be a preacher's wife and a mother.
As everyone has pointed out at one time or another, the Southfork ranch was wierd in that there apparently weren't any guest rooms or multiple phone lines in the mansion. I remember JR and Sue Ellen's re-marriage with the guests stuck in a storm on the living room FLOOR all night. There were no phones except the one on the hall table downstairs, and the configuration of the swimming pool changed several times, LOL.
Early 80's iconic things we probably won't see in the movie: A drink before dinner in everyone's hands, maxi pad sized shoulder pads, huge " car phones", hookers used to sweeten big corporate deals, and offices with wet bars and " Sun God" carved ugly office doors. No JR sitting at a Commadore type 286 computer, LOL.
J.R. to Bobby: " You are the family pimp. Keep the bankers supplied with booze and broads."
The best part of the show was the annual BBQ and someone ending up in the pool.
So do I remember " Dallas" or what?
I was in a national Internet Dallas fan club online a few years ago. I've seen every episode in reruns to the point that I can quote entire blocks of dialogue. Have the seasons released on DVD, of course.
I don't know what the movie will turn out to be like, but I will be there!!!
I never thought Victoria Principal was that good a choice for Pam, so J. Lo would be a fine movie Pamela Barnes Ewing, IMO. Certainly NOT a good Sue Ellen, and I am surprised that Linda Grey isn't raising heck about that. Linda looks fantastic and should play her own self!!!
Principal,otoh,was known for her " relationships" with people in Hollywood from a very young age, not her acting abilities, and never did much of anything after " Dallas" except a few movies on Lifetime. Then she married a plastic surgeon, started up her really mediocre quality cosmetics empire and has turned her surgically altered nose up at everything " Dallas" since.
Oh, well, I am more interested in the men in the movie anyway, LOL. The TV show was all about the men. It was written by men for men. Larry Haggman has said that in many interviews down through the years.
About the original show, which is all I can comment upon until the movie is released:
The men-
I thought Cliff was so funny and goofy.. Now I know that Ken Kercheval was stoned through most of his run on the show.
Bobby was adorable and the one I would have hit the hayloft with. He's aged well and is cute on " Bold and Beautiful" in the promo I saw.
JR had quite a lot of power in the first few seasons, something I was taught to look for in a man, like Sue Ellen and her psychopathic sister did, LOL. Larry Haggman is a hoot. He also ran off a couple of Exec. Producers and directors which he didn't like, and the studio bought out Phillip Capice's contract because he and Haggman hated each other so.
Ray was a perpetually wounded soul and misunderstood cowboy with a good heart who screwed his underaged niece in the hayloft in the first season, ROFLOL. The writers wrote themselves into a corner with that SL.
Jock was OK, and apparently Arthur Davis was beloved by all the cast. I thought he pronounced business as "bidness" which was strange, and had a very weatherbeaten look.I never really understood the hero worship because he was NOT kind to the women in the family, and used his sons. I loved Howard Keel's patriarchal potrayal better as Clayton and thought he should have ended up with Sue Ellen, at least for a few good years.
He had a genteel gentlemanliness to him that I loved. I have wished that he was the original Jock.The women:
I looked quite a lot like a younger, more innocent version of Sue Ellen, wore clothes and jewelry almost identical to hers, but never drink. I drove a MB 450SL convertible like Pam, but was nothing like her. I thought Lucy was a mindless little twit except in her lines where she fought with JR.
She was the " eye candy" character, IMO.
Miss Ellie was portrayed as a long-suffering saint on earth, putting up with so much scheming and crap under HER inherited house and property. I disliked the way she cried with her mouth open and her face up, like a baby bird drinking water. She should have had a stylish hairstyle and more clothes, befitting a wealthy Dallas matriarch. Those stupid loose cotton house dresses look like what people in nursing homes wear in the day room.
She also should have been strong enough to kick her grown up kids out of the house with their fortunes and a good college education.. they might have had a chance at a normal life that way.
The woman I liked the most on the show was not a Ewing, although she wanted to be one for a while: Mandy Winger. She started out young and gulliable and used by JR, but by the end of her apppearance, she left JR laying flat out in the dust. Deborah Shelton was gorgeous, and left acting to be a preacher's wife and a mother.
As everyone has pointed out at one time or another, the Southfork ranch was wierd in that there apparently weren't any guest rooms or multiple phone lines in the mansion. I remember JR and Sue Ellen's re-marriage with the guests stuck in a storm on the living room FLOOR all night. There were no phones except the one on the hall table downstairs, and the configuration of the swimming pool changed several times, LOL.
Early 80's iconic things we probably won't see in the movie: A drink before dinner in everyone's hands, maxi pad sized shoulder pads, huge " car phones", hookers used to sweeten big corporate deals, and offices with wet bars and " Sun God" carved ugly office doors. No JR sitting at a Commadore type 286 computer, LOL.
J.R. to Bobby: " You are the family pimp. Keep the bankers supplied with booze and broads."
The best part of the show was the annual BBQ and someone ending up in the pool.
So do I remember " Dallas" or what?
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Well hello there Amraann,Amraann said:OMG You are too Funny!!
You made me almost choke on my breakfast
Nice to see you.She also did a great job in Out of Sight with George Clooney. They had such great chemistry. That scene with them in the trunk of the car...Amraann said:
I can't see her as Sue Ellen though. Kim Cattrall might be a better choice. As for Pam, this may seem like an odd choice, but I would like to see Julianne Moore. I like Scarlett Johansen for Lucy. I will refuse to see it if simpleton Simpson is cast.
If this doesn't have "tanked at the box office" written all over it, I don't know what does. However, with a smorgasboard of super-stars set to be in it, maybe it won't flop.
Why can't Hollywood leave well enough alone? Doing movies based on classic t.v. shows hardly ever works. You can't ever go back and capture the "magic" again, even with a cast full of super-stars.
Why can't Hollywood leave well enough alone? Doing movies based on classic t.v. shows hardly ever works. You can't ever go back and capture the "magic" again, even with a cast full of super-stars.
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shopper said:
Yeah, we almost got up and left shortly into " Bewitched".
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I thought the role of Lucy was going to Scarlett Johannson?
I dont know, I was just wondering who she would play? I cant see Jessica Simpson as anyone else on there...Who knows..... http://people.aol.com/people/galleries/0,19884,1194540_5,00.htmlJules said:
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michelle said:
In all honesty, I think Jessica would do a better job of playing dingy Lucy than Scarlett. Jessica even has the right accent.
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Who's gonna play Bobby and Miss ellie?? And won't J'Lo be extremely preggers in October?? There is only so much that lights and mirrors can hide:dance:
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Kinda related:
Victoria Principal Files for Divorce
Dallas actress Victoria Principal has filed for divorce from her husband of nearly 21 years, prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Harry A. Glassman, M.D., according to papers filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Principal, 60, is citing irreconcilable differences. The couple have no children and separated on March 25, according to the papers, which were obtained by PEOPLE.
It is unclear whether the divorce has anything to do with a domestic violence incident three years ago that led to Principal's brief hospitalization and Glassman's arrest.
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1197916,00.html
Victoria Principal Files for Divorce
Dallas actress Victoria Principal has filed for divorce from her husband of nearly 21 years, prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Harry A. Glassman, M.D., according to papers filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Principal, 60, is citing irreconcilable differences. The couple have no children and separated on March 25, according to the papers, which were obtained by PEOPLE.
It is unclear whether the divorce has anything to do with a domestic violence incident three years ago that led to Principal's brief hospitalization and Glassman's arrest.
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1197916,00.html
Ah, dear Dallas. first show i ever watched regularly when i arrived for collage in London in 1979 because people there were talking about it and i asked, "What's Dallas?"
hee hee. i was about to become embroiled in the world of soaps as at home we didn't really watch television, except for the news and i found a whole new world was going on without me.
didn't last long as i would wander away after a while and TV hasn't ever really done it for me. short news programmes sometimes and even the include hollywood gossip rather than news as such.
i have that part of me missing and i can't seem to make it fit. i think a lot of it has to do with so much advertising one has to see when watching which irritates the heck out of me.
i can't see a film of Dallas really working as those who loved the show will find fault with a new rendition and those who never really knew it might not take to it.
hee hee. i was about to become embroiled in the world of soaps as at home we didn't really watch television, except for the news and i found a whole new world was going on without me.
didn't last long as i would wander away after a while and TV hasn't ever really done it for me. short news programmes sometimes and even the include hollywood gossip rather than news as such.
i have that part of me missing and i can't seem to make it fit. i think a lot of it has to do with so much advertising one has to see when watching which irritates the heck out of me.
i can't see a film of Dallas really working as those who loved the show will find fault with a new rendition and those who never really knew it might not take to it.
Jules said:Kinda related:
Victoria Principal Files for Divorce
Dallas actress Victoria Principal has filed for divorce from her husband of nearly 21 years, prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Harry A. Glassman, M.D., according to papers filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Principal, 60, is citing irreconcilable differences. The couple have no children and separated on March 25, according to the papers, which were obtained by PEOPLE.
It is unclear whether the divorce has anything to do with a domestic violence incident three years ago that led to Principal's brief hospitalization and Glassman's arrest.
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1197916,00.html
Possibly to do with her truly awful plastic surgery?
http://images.absolutenow.com/rp/Principal_J88495916.jpg
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Amraann said:
i thought she was good with Richard Gere, as a dance instructor...i like Richard Gere in anything though (slobbering)...
i rented a movie called An Unfinished Life, & she's in it...it has Robert Redford & Morgan Freeman also...haven't watched it yet, but i'll give a quick review after i do...
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