Welcome to In A Lather. i'm sookie, and here you'll find my takes on celebs, tv shows and movies that are favs of mine, that i hope are or soon will be favs of yours too. Also events in the entertainment and fashion industry.Thanks for stopping by, and please feel free to comment.
Duke Collins Season 5 Episode 8, held true to Christmas tradition. Well what qualifies as traditional for Nip/Tuck. There was an assaulted Santa [the titular Duke Collins], Christmas decorating---not only in the Troy/McNamara Malibu home, but also at McNamara/Troy, the latter courtesy of professional carolers [who were also victims of assault] as a barter offering, via the late beloved
Hedda Grubman's
endowment for plastic surgery procedures for those who know where Rodeo Drive is, but can't afford it's pricetags. Also there was fruitcake [poisoned], secret santa gifting between Sean, Christian, and Julia [Sean gets the gift of betrayal and heartache], and the unavoidable awkward family gatherings.
My favorite parts of the ep aside from getting to see Wilber, Conor, Annie and baby Jenna, was the line about holiday martinis vs a regular martini, and the outrageously funny bedroom farce. Merry Christmas Everyone.
and for something completely different---an extra-terrestrial abductee survivor!: Dr.Joshua Lee [George Coe] This Screencap Image CourtesyExtraordinaryJulian.com
Once again PJ Bloom provided great tunes [my fav was Lil' Mama's Lipgloss].
Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy provides some juicy behind the scenes info on episode 5.07 Dr.Joshua Lee
Wednesday 12~12~07 1:19:22am "It was a good one, yes?
Some fun tidbits for you guys. This was Brad Falchuk's directorial debut. And it was the most expensive, most difficult to shoot show of the year, other than the finale, so hats off to everyone. It took FOREVER to film, largely because of so much location work.
A good story for you. Brad was directing the scene with Christian and Matt in the hallway, where he throws him in the elevator. I watched a take or two and told Brad and Julian "Have Christian throw the cup of tea he's drinking at Matt." Julian and Brad liked the idea, they did it, but didn't tell John! So the reaction on John's face "what the fuck?!" was completely genuine, and John, being a pro, kept in character and that was the take we kept. I loved it, it was so very Christian.
I also so loved Kimber in this epi. I found that Rabbit Fur Coat song and played it for the writers in the room, so we built a make-over montage expressly for that song. Sometimes, that's how it works.
Also, hats off to Ms. Joely Richardson. She had the flu the night we shot that horrible woods abduction scene, but never wavered and gave it her all and I think both she and Portia were brilliant.
As for Bradley Cooper's camo briefs: his idea, I believe. Hilarious.
i'm a gemini from wash.dc, married 35 yrs to an aries from san antonio texas.
i'm sookie, he's tex, together we are sookietex.
Many people think i adopted the name sookie after HBO's TrueBlood heroine Sookie Stackhouse.
Nope. It's not my birth name, but my older brother gave me the nickname sookie when i was a baby.
Best and might i add most prescient gift bro' ever gave me ;D
hubby and i live in nyc and even though we like it here, we dream of the day when we'll pull up stakes and move to austin, or maybe some other town in the lone star state.
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i am a child of the south, a "boomer", born in 1958, a child of the television age. This was a time when "African-Americans" referred to themselves as "colored". In fact on my birth certificate under racial description, "colored" is the word that is used. Today i still affectionately refer to myself as a "colored child". my paternal great grandpa was Blackfoot Nation, and my maternal great grandmother was also Native American, [but i have not found out which Nation]---i affectionately refer to that part of my heritage as 'injun'---hey i'm never going to be described as politically correct and have no desire to be.
my mother was a woman who was far ahead of her time in terms of "feminist" survival. Long before it was fashionable, she was a single parent. She did have support, and not just financial from my pop, but they did not live together as husband & wife. In fact they never did take that walk down the aisle...but that's another story. Mom was a woman who worked outside the home long before most women of her generation would have even thought of making that choice, much less do it. She fully appreciated the value, neccessity, and strength of a loving extended family. She did not need anyone to tell her it "takes a village".
When mother was at work, i, the youngest of 4 (2 sisters 1 brother & me), was alternately cared for by mother's eldest sister, "auntie" as we used to call her, and our nextdoor neighbors. They were like family to us. We called the elder woman 'grandma' (to this day I do not know her given name), and her daughter Miss Elsie, or more usually 'aunt'Elsie. They were very religious folk. God fearing, bible reading, honest, and i and my family loved them dearly. 'Aunt'Elsie always made sure my days were full of activity, but one of my favorite times of the day was when she would look at her watch and say "oh my, we'd better hurry, it's almost time for my stories". By her 'stories'
she of course meant the day's soap operas. For Elsie and her mother, watching the soaps was sort of a guilty pleasure, but at the same time they made it seem sacred. It was a ritualistic activity. Her favorites were The Edge of NightThe Secret Storm and General Hospital
Paul Harvey would say i am giving you "the rest of the story" so that you may better understand its importance, and how it relates to the spirit of this blog. Which is to say we all have drama of some level going on in our lives, so sometimes the plotlines of our favorite shows may seem either tame, empathetic, or absurd, depending on where life may take you on any given day.
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