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.
"Bill's always the hotdog man." ~ Barb Henrickson Wife #1 i guess that line sums up why HBO's Big Love is naughty but nice. Season 3 episode 1 titled "Block Party" finds the Henrickson clan still trying to fit in with their "traditional" neighbors while maintaining their polygamous lifestyle. It's time for the neighborhood block party, and the Henricksons have been dis-invited by the other residents. In previous years, Bill always manned the block party hotdog stand, hence Barb's unintentional double entendre utterance. The family thinks they're being ostracized because the neighbors across the street [Pam and Carl] 'outed' them to the rest of the community. Pam convinces them that she has not betrayed their confidence---the block association's map of the neighborhood lists the Henricksons as "inactive" and has greyed out Nikki's home entirely. Nikki's public last name being Grant, the same as Mormon prophet Roman Grant, is the reason for the grey-out of her property. Although the community does not know for certain that she is in fact Roman's daughter, they're not taking any chances.
And speaking of 'outing'...Alby Grant may still be a closeted gay man, but someone knows his secret, and wants him gone.
Some rough trade was recruited to try and make that happen. My guess is Adaleen [played by Mary Kay Place], 4th Roman Grant wife is the one who hired someone to get rid of Alby. Whomever the culprit, Alby survives.
One sub-plot of the ep touches on the subject of families residing on the compounds discarding teen boys. They are sometimes referred to as "lost boys" . Franky, who is also Bill's baby brother comes to him for help. Franky has been tossed out for the usual reason---perceived to be too much of a sexual threat to the elder males, including his own father Frank [played by Bruce Dern]. Franky's character is only slated for 4 [inclusive of ep 1] episodes, but i'm hoping the show will aggressively address this issue.
Big Love airs on HBO Sundays at 9:00pm Please check your local listings.
*The Butterbeans & Susie song "I Want A Hotdog For My Roll" was not used on Big Love but it has always been a fav of mine and i couldn't resist including it in this post.
Fictional litigator Patty Hewes, of Hewes & Associates is back. In Damages' second season opener, the high powered lawyer, [sanguineously duplicitous Glenn Close] is the "it" girl of NYC's social scene and talk show circuit. Having won a precedent setting hefty settlement for the plaintiffs in a class action suit against billionaire Arthur Frobisher for stock manipulation, she's better than golden---she's titanium.
At season 1's cliffhanger, Frobisher, played by Ted Danson [so villainous, yet so freakin' handsome] was shot and left for dead by an employee who decided to take the law into his own hands. Arthur is now at a private medical facility recovering from his wounds, alternately assessing his life and those he's wronged and hatching schemes to regain his cock of the walk status.
Last season, Ellen Parsons [my favorite Damages character] played by Rose Byrne, realized too late that being Hewes' protege comes at an extremely heavy price. Frobisher's henchmen murdered her hottie doc/fiance, Ellen was framed for deed, and Patty tried to have her killed. In season 2, Ellen is in group therapy for post traumatic stress, and working with the FBI to give Patty some long overdue payback. Ellen is tougher and smarter than Patty had bargained on, and as my grandma would say 'is more than time enough for her'.
Supporting characters: Tom Aldredge as 'Uncle Pete', Patty's undercover right hand man, knows where the bodies, and the skeletons are. Mario Van Peebles' FBI agent Randall Harrison is nice eye candy. Tate Donovan's Tom Shayes is the perfect lap dog for Patty.
Looking forward to learning more about new character additions: William Hurt's Daniel Purcell and Marcia Gay Harden's Claire Maddox.
Damages airs Wednesdays on FX at 10:00pm [please check your local listings]
Happy New Year everyone. We're just hours away from the airing of Nip/Tuck Season 6, um, that is Season 5 part 2. Yes for months now, i've been referring to the upcoming season of Nip/Tuck as it's 6th. i have mentioned that the FX Network was identifying it as a continuation of Season 5, while the fans were thinking of it as Season 6. Today i acquiesce, say uncle, 'well alright o.k. you win', i surrender. Since the show's creator Ryan Murphy has taken to referencing the upcoming season as #5, part 2: [quote]
[unquote] , i sookie, respectfully yield. After all, it's his baby, who am i to say 6 when he says 5/2. As i post this, my pineapple juice and yogurt are in the fridge chilling
FX airs Nip/Tuck Season 5 Part 2 January 6, 2009, Tuesday at 10:00pm [please check your local listings]
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.
a bit more about me and In A Lather public domain image credits
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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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![The Henricksons [minus #2wife Nikki]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0fDcCG1ZcNmg80TqzauW8K77-rnlJHflOR8io7AbcWb6A4Bx7leZC-ypRA8CGk85QmccXMYeEg-xPISeA7BEbfXxV7mn0zEsWJCiow-IJqx69K8Bjisf6BtEqyYCpAPaxgN4RY039vzVB/s1600-h/hendricksonsS3.jpg "The Henricksons [minus #2wife Nikki]")
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and has greyed out Nikki's home entirely. Nikki's public last name being Grant, the same as Mormon prophet Roman Grant, is the reason for the grey-out of her property. Although the community does not know for certain that she is in fact Roman's daughter, they're not taking any chances. ![Alby Grant [Matt Ross]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOZNToe3RRzbd8I0tWjN5qh97kR1D4RNYQYpGJ-Pzj_7JuFc3sPAxlWSx3yib6AbYieIJXRBmb8BJZX5d7Ssk08bteuXbJywyYzGOKbqzc6THZZ2H4bwXsrQKwS_n3Eyvxy-nIqe42jn0d/s1600-h/alby_S3.jpg "Alby Grant [Matt Ross]")
Some rough trade was recruited to try and make that happen. My guess is Adaleen [played by Mary Kay Place], 4th Roman Grant wife is the one who hired someone to get rid of Alby. Whomever the culprit, Alby survives. !['lost boy' Franky Harlow [Mark L. Young] and brother Bill Henrickson [Bill Paxton]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1UPN8WWNPyNTTTU0sO_q2JB2DEFDbftgIbBfJqfLJlgBoq-0hbmAQmP6OGwCxtvB3q-GV7Bbcm0cfnWqRlYCdKMFwQ3_8l_p_DJhZc2LyL462SybyspvhMsNitc_UacZDEBvazPvJl959/s1600-h/Bill_and_babybroFrankylostboy.jpg "'lost boy' Franky Harlow [Mark L. Young] and brother Bill Henrickson [Bill Paxton]")
Franky, who is also Bill's baby brother comes to him for help. Franky has been tossed out for the usual reason---perceived to be too much of a sexual threat to the elder males, including his own father Frank [played by Bruce Dern]. Franky's character is only slated for 4 [inclusive of ep 1] episodes, but i'm hoping the show will aggressively address this issue. 
