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[AstonMartin]

Whoo Hoo! Congratulations to The Queen of the Broken Hearts, you smartypants! You and my Mum can do all the potions and charms!
My homegirl NS, whoop whoop! You can I can take on transfiguration and magical creatures!
Mari

PS I am up to Chapter Eleven of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it's great, crying already....bye for now!

I've just finished Deathly Hallows. oh my WORD!!!! It's the best of the lot. I seriously did not believe that I could enjoy it more than Goblet of Fire.

[DonnaLJo]

I've just finished Deathly Hallows. oh my WORD!!!! It's the best of the lot. I seriously did not believe that I could enjoy it more than Goblet of Fire.

I have never read a single Harry Potter novel. Is it necessary to start with the first book? Or can someone read Deathly Hallows & enjoy it as a stand alone?

[abfirefighterchi...]

Do any of you watch either the Shield or Rescue Me? I love them both.

The Shield is etremely dark, and must give Los Angeles's PR and tourism people migraines!
I find it amusing that Michael Chiklas's previous role was as the COMMISH, a total 180 degree different from Vic Mackey! Wathing the show you are fully aware that Mackey and crew deserve to get caught and go to prison. In the same breath you are trying to figure ahead and see if there is a way for them to get away with it! That is what is brilliant about it, the audience wants to root for the baddest of bad guys.

Rescue Me is in a whole catagory of it's own! Dennis Leary is phenominal! I want VDO to at least be nominated(and of course win), but Leary has earned it, whether he wins or not. Portraying the inner workings of the guys at a firehouse is difficult to get right. Then writing episodes full of action, and humor, pain and simple joys has to be difficult as well.

[Mari Welsh]

I have never read a single Harry Potter novel. Is it necessary to start with the first book? Or can someone read Deathly Hallows & enjoy it as a stand alone?

She does explain the salient points of things that happened earlier DonnaLucy. I just feel in my opinion that you should start from the beginning or you wouldn't be invested in what happened to the characters. Rather like watching Endgame as the first L&O:CI you'd ever seen, it wouldn't mean much beyond the murder mystery to you. I have to say that from my point of view it would be time well spent!
Mari

PS: Stayed up all night and finished it at 4am! Loved it and sobbed for ages....I thought I would! I'll miss them all, and my faith wasn't misplaced.

[krodgers]

I have a ? for the Mod squad! Why were certain members authorized to vote on the Dedication topic, and others were not?

[peachybc]

I have a ? for the Mod squad! Why were certain members authorized to vote on the Dedication topic, and others were not?

Hi KR,


I have no idea what you're talking about. Any member of this board can vote in any poll that's up and that they want to vote in. The only member voting restriction is that a member can only vote once in a poll. Once a member has voted in a poll they cannot vote again.

PeachyBC

[krodgers]

Hi KR,
I have no idea what you're talking about. Any member of this board can vote in any poll that's up and that they want to vote in. The only member voting restriction is that a member can only vote once in a poll. Once a member has voted in a poll they cannot vote again.

PeachyBC

Are as members, able to vote out another topic if we think it doesn't apply to LOCI?

[Rose Bush]

Do any of you watch either the Shield or Rescue Me? I love them both.

The Shield is etremely dark, and must give Los Angeles's PR and tourism people migraines!
I find it amusing that Michael Chiklas's previous role was as the COMMISH, a total 180 degree different from Vic Mackey! Wathing the show you are fully aware that Mackey and crew deserve to get caught and go to prison. In the same breath you are trying to figure ahead and see if there is a way for them to get away with it! That is what is brilliant about it, the audience wants to root for the baddest of bad guys.

Rescue Me is in a whole catagory of it's own! Dennis Leary is phenominal! I want VDO to at least be nominated(and of course win), but Leary has earned it, whether he wins or not. Portraying the inner workings of the guys at a firehouse is difficult to get right. Then writing episodes full of action, and humor, pain and simple joys has to be difficult as well.

ab,
I don't watch The Shield but loved Chiklis as Curly in the Three Stooges TV biopic. Curly was such a sad character in real life and he was so good. I get teary-eyed just thinking about it.

I started watching Rescue Me last year and am saving my pennies to get Seasons 1 & 2 on dvd. Denis (yes, that's how he spells it and I've never heard him pronounce it but I think it rhymes with Menace) Leary is a revelation. I just thought of him as an angry comedian until I saw this show, but he is an actor who does comedy, not the other way around. And to think he created the show too is just amazing. I actually thought I was watching Backdraft the first time I saw it but I know that movie by heart and didn't remember Leary so I kept watching. I love those characters. They are so real and at the same time out of this world. I taped Wednesdays show and haven't see it yet so don't tell me anything. Did you watch the first 2 seasons and if so, are they worth buying the dvd's?

[AstonMartin]

She does explain the salient points of things that happened earlier DonnaLucy. I just feel in my opinion that you should start from the beginning or you wouldn't be invested in what happened to the characters. Rather like watching Endgame as the first L&O:CI you'd ever seen, it wouldn't mean much beyond the murder mystery to you. I have to say that from my point of view it would be time well spent!
Mari

PS: Stayed up all night and finished it at 4am! Loved it and sobbed for ages....I thought I would! I'll miss them all, and my faith wasn't misplaced.

Yep, me too. Cried like anything - and not only cos of the sad scenes!! Didn't you just love the ending! My very favourite book of the series. I wish I could get my memory modified so I could read them all again anew.

DonnaJo, I agree with Mari - start with the Philosopher's Stone and work your way thru the 7 novels. If you read Book 7 and you love it, you'll be so sorry you didn't start at the beginning.

[abfirefighterchi...]

ab,
I don't watch The Shield but loved Chiklis as Curly in the Three Stooges TV biopic. Curly was such a sad character in real life and he was so good. I get teary-eyed just thinking about it.

I started watching Rescue Me last year and am saving my pennies to get Seasons 1 & 2 on dvd. Denis (yes, that's how he spells it and I've never heard him pronounce it but I think it rhymes with Menace) Leary is a revelation. I just thought of him as an angry comedian until I saw this show, but he is an actor who does comedy, not the other way around. And to think he created the show too is just amazing. I actually thought I was watching Backdraft the first time I saw it but I know that movie by heart and didn't remember Leary so I kept watching. I love those characters. They are so real and at the same time out of this world. I taped Wednesdays show and haven't see it yet so don't tell me anything. Did you watch the first 2 seasons and if so, are they worth buying the dvd's?

Yes, absolutely worth it! If you think they are messed up from where you started, when you see the others you'll understand a small portion where the craziness comes from. The first two seasons especially does a wonderful job expressing the emotional torment the aftermath of Spet. 11th still has over the emergency responders of that day. He earned that nomination, and especially if VDO isn't in the running I want him to win. No offense to Mr. Chiklis, he is wonderful in his role as well.

Go onto ebay first, you can save alot of money buying off of there. Thankfully FX seems to understand and appreciate his brilliance.

Do you know that he has a foundation in which he supports fire companies around the country? The foundation helps low funded companies purchase apparatus and other vital safety equipment. He started it because his cousin was a FF and was killed in Worcher(sorry if I screwed up the spelling) Mass. fire at a cold storage facility, a total of 6 FF died that day.

[hullbound]

That fire was horrible. there were reports that there were 2 homeless people who were squatting there still in the building. The fire was started by a candle that they lit. they were out before the FD even got there. It was so sad. Leary has done so much for the FF. I don't know all they do to raise money but I know he is also a hockey fan so they have celebrity hockey tourneys.

On the lighter side, he and Lenny Clark together doing an interview-Hilarious! They show up in the broadcast booth at Fenway Park-seems like at least once a year. They are just so funny. They have the two guys (Gerry Remy and Don Orsillo) who call the Red sox games for the local sports station in tears because they are laughing so hard. It is very entertaining.

And ab, just in case you you are curious about the spelling of the city, it is Worcester. We pronounce it kind of like Woostah Double O sound as in wood. (I know-- who cares ? )

I can't watch "Rescue Me". I know it is a great show and that's probably why I can't watch. It is too upsetting for me. I always seem to catch episodes like the one in which his son was killed.

[abfirefighterchi...]

That fire was horrible. there were reports that there were 2 homeless people who were squatting there still in the building. The fire was started by a candle that they lit. they were out before the FD even got there. It was so sad. Leary has done so much for the FF. I don't know all they do to raise money but I know he is also a hockey fan so they have celebrity hockey tourneys.

On the lighter side, he and Lenny Clark together doing an interview-Hilarious! They show up in the broadcast booth at Fenway Park-seems like at least once a year. They are just so funny. They have the two guys (Gerry Remy and Don Orsillo) who call the Red sox games for the local sports station in tears because they are laughing so hard. It is very entertaining.

And ab, just in case you you are curious about the spelling of the city, it is Worcester. We pronounce it kind of like Woostah Double O sound as in wood. (I know-- who cares ? )

I can't watch "Rescue Me". I know it is a great show and that's probably why I can't watch. It is too upsetting for me. I always seem to catch episodes like the one in which his son was killed.

No that's great thanks! I would have slaughtered that pronoucation! LOL!! Yes, I read about the fire and all the details, a FF curiousity. That type of thing happens everyday especially in the larger cities. Fortunately FF aren't always hurt. You have to search the building every time unless you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that no one is inside. I would rather be hurt or die knowing I did everything I could, than to play it safe and know I could have done more.

[Rose Bush]

Yes, absolutely worth it! If you think they are messed up from where you started, when you see the others you'll understand a small portion where the craziness comes from. The first two seasons especially does a wonderful job expressing the emotional torment the aftermath of Spet. 11th still has over the emergency responders of that day. He earned that nomination, and especially if VDO isn't in the running I want him to win. No offense to Mr. Chiklis, he is wonderful in his role as well.

Go onto ebay first, you can save alot of money buying off of there. Thankfully FX seems to understand and appreciate his brilliance.

Do you know that he has a foundation in which he supports fire companies around the country? The foundation helps low funded companies purchase apparatus and other vital safety equipment. He started it because his cousin was a FF and was killed in Worcher(sorry if I screwed up the spelling) Mass. fire at a cold storage facility, a total of 6 FF died that day.

ab,
Thanks for the info. I knew it was someone in his family but I thought it was someone who died in 9/11. I still have problems watching stories about 9/11; that's probably why I didn't watch it when it started. You can see by my screen name that I'm not into reality, but Rescue Me is so well written that I will begin reliving the day with Denis Leary's show. I found Season 1 at a branch of our local library and I'm gonna pick it up tomorrow. If I can't find Season 2 at a library, I'll go into ebay.

I don't follow award shows very closely. I mostly watch the red carpets and the fashion police shows after the awards. The only awards show I stay up for now is the Tonys and that's to see the live performances from the nominated shows. I wish they would tape the final performances of Broadway shows and sell them. I remember they did that with James Whitmore's one man show, Give 'Em ****, Harry (about Harry Truman) when I was in high school but I've never seen them do it since. I still may get on Jet Blue to see Vanessa Redgrave before it closes in August. I haven't done anything crazy in six months, so I'm overdue. Middle-aged crazy signing off.

[Flatpack]

Wow;lots of Potter fans!
I took my girls to the village where they film alot of it,Lacock. Its in the area that got horrendous flooding last weekend,so i hope it didnt go under water! its the same village that was used in the BBC production of Pride and Prejudice.Some of these villages are under contract and when the film people come in the villagers are housed elsewhere. they give up their homes for the duration of the shoot. That happens to Hambledon in Berkshire where the cottages are mostly rented . that village is used alot in Midsummer Murder series,and also i think for Bridget Jones 2.

I have pictures of my two sitting in the quad of Lacock abbey,which is filmed in the school sequences. The village is well worth a visit if anyone tours close to Bristol.

[AstonMartin]

Wow;lots of Potter fans!
I took my girls to the village where they film alot of it,Lacock. Its in the area that got horrendous flooding last weekend,so i hope it didnt go under water! its the same village that was used in the BBC production of Pride and Prejudice.Some of these villages are under contract and when the film people come in the villagers are housed elsewhere. they give up their homes for the duration of the shoot. That happens to Hambledon in Berkshire where the cottages are mostly rented . that village is used alot in Midsummer Murder series,and also i think for Bridget Jones 2.

I have pictures of my two sitting in the quad of Lacock abbey,which is filmed in the school sequences. The village is well worth a visit if anyone tours close to Bristol.

Sounds like just the sort of thing my son would enjoy. He's a HUGE Potter fan (as am I) as well as a Dr Who fan. We've taken the boys to Cardiff to the Dr WHo museum and they both got such a kick out of seeing the areas where they've done a lot of filming. But to show him Harry Potter film sites would be a real thrill to him. Platform 9 and 3/4 at King's Cross doesn't quite look the same as in the film.
But you're right, with all the awful flooding, let's hope it's still there. We were supposed to go to Worcester for 2 days but we've had to cancel.

[krodgers]

FYI for SVU fans, Christopher Meloni will be on Late Night with Conan O'Brian tonight @ 1235am.

[abfirefighterchi...]

That fire was horrible. there were reports that there were 2 homeless people who were squatting there still in the building. The fire was started by a candle that they lit. they were out before the FD even got there. It was so sad. Leary has done so much for the FF. I don't know all they do to raise money but I know he is also a hockey fan so they have celebrity hockey tourneys.

On the lighter side, he and Lenny Clark together doing an interview-Hilarious! They show up in the broadcast booth at Fenway Park-seems like at least once a year. They are just so funny. They have the two guys (Gerry Remy and Don Orsillo) who call the Red sox games for the local sports station in tears because they are laughing so hard. It is very entertaining.

And ab, just in case you you are curious about the spelling of the city, it is Worcester. We pronounce it kind of like Woostah Double O sound as in wood. (I know-- who cares ? )

I can't watch "Rescue Me". I know it is a great show and that's probably why I can't watch. It is too upsetting for me. I always seem to catch episodes like the one in which his son was killed.

The show can mirror what FF's see everyday. It can be very hard indeed, knowing you did everything you could and people still died. If you ever get used to it, you need to hang it up. Faith plays a huge role, you see Tommy Gavin struggle with that in the show. I would like to think that the guys I know aren't THAT screwed up! LOL!!

[Flatpack]

Snap with Doctor Who and the Cardiff museum, AstonMartin!Didnt you think it interesting to see the clips of each doctor undergoing transformation and how that reflected the technical expertise of each era from 1960's to 2007.

Curious how a programme so demonstratively part of BBC London is now made in BBC Cardiff and headed by a Welshman. It has breathed new life and depth into the series. Lets hope it keeps the programme clear of all the current scandal going on down south!

[Rose Bush]

The show can mirror what FF's see everyday. It can be very hard indeed, knowing you did everything you could and people still died. If you ever get used to it, you need to hang it up. Faith plays a huge role, you see Tommy Gavin struggle with that in the show. I would like to think that the guys I know aren't THAT screwed up! LOL!!

I hope they're not beating themselves up on an empty elevator. I almost choked when I was watching that scene where the guard is watching Denis beat himself up; what a great director they have too. Tommy does seem to be the most messed up of the FFs, but his personal life is the most mixed up too. I still haven't seen last Wednesdays and there's another one on tonight. I don't know where the days go.

Since I'm here on the OT thread and it's about a firefighter, we had an article in our local paper about a volunteer fire fighter who had just gotten the NYS Law & Order award. Of course Law & Order popped out on the page and right next to it is a very handsome, Italian American with curly grey hair and the cutest little pug nose and in my mind I'm writing a script for Vincent to play Jim Bucci, Jr.. He's 45 years old, married with 3 kids and has a towing company and is a volunteer FF for two small towns, Rush and Honeoye and is up for a national award. He also got an award from the Sheriff for helping with a homicide investigation! A hunky hero right in my own back yard. Just thought it was interesting.

[AstonMartin]

Snap with Doctor Who and the Cardiff museum, AstonMartin!Didnt you think it interesting to see the clips of each doctor undergoing transformation and how that reflected the technical expertise of each era from 1960's to 2007.

Curious how a programme so demonstratively part of BBC London is now made in BBC Cardiff and headed by a Welshman. It has breathed new life and depth into the series. Lets hope it keeps the programme clear of all the current scandal going on down south!

Russell Davis is just fantastic isn't he! You can see his enthusiasm from a mile away and it's infectious! I love Dr Who but I'm not a die hard fan as I have little interest in watching pre- Eccleston, purely beause of the FX that weren't available then. (we didn't have Dr Who where I grew up)

Hmm re the BBC scandal. I do hope that the children who won the chance to design a Dr Who alien or the chance to star on the show weren't part of it all (like the children of BBC staff or something!!!)