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[rm]

And in real news from the real world.

Beverly Sills died. I met her several times in passing as a teenager doing work for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation (I worked both in the NYC office and at the national headquarters for a while, and was on their national youth board). She was gracious and will be missed.

Scooter Libby's sentence got commuted: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/02/libby.sentence/index.html
I have outrage fatigue.

Comments

[beemerbike.livejournal.com]

It kills me GB hasn't been evicted from the White House, yet. He's a disgrace. The sad thing about the situation is it entirely ruined an agents career with her cover being revealed. And she's just SOL. There's no compensation for what has been done. She'll spend the rest of her years as a desk jockey while Dick and George sip bourbon and do coke and play with their guns.

[gina-r-snape.livejournal.com]

I still think because they couldn't get the sleaves to roll up on the costume, for real

That's the funniest explanation I've heard yet. And you're probably right.

Just commented on mysduende's LJ. It's horrible, HORRIBLE what they are doing to Snape.

As for Scooter Libby. We should've placed bets on how quickly he'd get off.

[rm.livejournal.com]

The sleeves on that thing really won't roll. it's too tight, several buttons would have to be undone. It would take too long in the scene and Snape would never work without his clothes perfectly fastened. So I think they were like "effects or fuck it?" and went for fuck it. And that's actually, as mad as I am about missing that scene, probably the better choice. As the power in that moment is that he doesn't use magic, but just yanks the sleeve up in a fury.

[gina-r-snape.livejournal.com]

Well I still think it's a gaping hole in the film because it's Snape's first big IT moment. He was ambiguous before then, but after that his allegiance becomes the big canon debate. Of course, learning he is a half-blood is the next big IT moment as I see it. Sure, there's overhearing the prophesy, but I predicted that and I'm sure most Snape fans were not surprised either.

btw, will you be going to the pizza birthday thing for leopard_lady on Saturday? I saw her invite, but since I only met her for a few minutes, I'm not sure it applied to me and I won't know anyone else.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I will, in fact, be there. Come on by. She is truly very social.

Also, back to Snape, I love all the half-blood clues that were lying around. The logic puzzle in book one, the rolling us his sleeve to show the Mark (as opposed to a pompous, Lockhart-esque magical flourish about it -- which is what we might expect from movie!Snape), etc.

[gina-r-snape.livejournal.com]

Cool. I will try to make it.

Yes, I always wondered why Snape never used the word muggle or mudblood or halfblood, etc in the entire series. I found it rather peculiar. And of course, in CoS he refers to a matchbox but in GoF most of the wizards at the Quidditch World Cup found matches perplexing.

Snape would not use a magical flourish, I agree. It's a strong, bold, determined almost sexy move. Rickman could have pulled it off I think.

As for flourishes, though, I did have something of a fondness for the flippy 'do wig in the first two films. :0)