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Movies and TV / Re: Richard Dutcher on LDS Film:
« on: August 14, 2006, 01:15:04 PM »
In more ways than that.  Another point made on Motley Vision is that the highest grossing LDS film in Utah was The Other Side of Heaven, making 1.7 million in 23 weeks.  There just isn't funding to support much LDS stuff right now -- and lack of funds will keep LDS movies crappy and/or experimental.

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Movies and TV / Richard Dutcher on LDS Film:
« on: August 14, 2006, 12:01:26 PM »
Richard Dutcher (God's Army, States of Grace, Brigham City) spoke last week, and offered this analogy about LDS film:

"There was this girl who no one was paying any attention to. But I started flirting with her and saw her potential and I saw how beautiful and intelligent she could become. She could be perfect. I fell in love with her. But then she started dating other men. She started fornicating with pimps and morons. I told them how fragile she was, but they wouldn't listen. Now she's fading back into obscurity. She's dying. The end."

(Quoted on A Motley Vision: http://www.motleyvision.org/?p=268 )

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Stephanie Fowers / Re: AWOL
« on: August 14, 2006, 09:57:12 AM »
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* stacer raises hand

Well, there's also one right here...
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So, Stacer, in twenty words or less: what makes you tick?   ;)

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Stephanie Fowers / Re: AWOL
« on: August 11, 2006, 06:27:04 PM »
I read A Single Thought all the time, because my next book's protagonist is a thirty-ish single female, and I'm trying to get a better handle on what makes them tick.  Generally, I find it entertaining and interesting.

However, a recent column included a bizarrely hypocritical (and funny) statement.  She begins by talking about she has four make-or-break issues with guys.  She makes a few slight consolations, trying to imply that she's not OCD, but says these things:

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Why should I be with a man who can’t take care of me properly?  I do a great job of taking care of myself now and I won’t settle for life, let alone eternity, with someone who does a second rate job of it.

...

Men need to step up to the plate and be good enough for the women.  I can’t remember the last time I actually met a single man who was not only good enough, but also smart enough to be asking out women.


Her four issues are these:
1. Dependibility
2. Fingernails
3. Blushing
4. Shower Curtains

So, after making these statements, and presenting herself as an extremely particular person, who likes things just a perfectly certain way, she makes the following rant about men:

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I actually do meet “good enough men” upon occasion.  They just tend to be the same exact men who are too busy to be dating, or too focused on finding a perfect conifer that they miss the trees for the forest.[/b]


Hello pot?  It's kettle.  You're black.

I've read and re-read the paragraphs, and I swear she doesn't mean this tongue-in-cheek.  (Or, if she does, it doesn't come across that way.)

Here's the full article: read it, because maybe I'm wrong.  http://www.ldsmag.com/singlethought/060510curtain.html

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Robison E. Wells / Re: The Counterfeit
« on: August 04, 2006, 10:42:30 AM »
I appreciate your cheek kicking.

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Robison E. Wells / Re: The Counterfeit
« on: August 03, 2006, 04:43:18 PM »
The new Seagull bestseller list is out, and I'm #3, baby!  Climb the ladder!

(I'm #41 on Deseret Book's website, but you know how that goes.)

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Bucca Party
« on: August 02, 2006, 07:08:44 PM »
I'm all in, assuming I'm invited.

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Everything Else / Hey SE
« on: August 02, 2006, 01:57:37 PM »
Check your PMs.

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Robison E. Wells / Re: You can hear the music on the AM radio
« on: August 01, 2006, 07:52:45 PM »
Nope.  It wasn't even a real interview, I guess, it was just part of the time that Seagull paid for so KSL would advertise the new store.  (That is my assumption, at least.)

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Robison E. Wells / Re: You can hear the music on the AM radio
« on: August 01, 2006, 01:20:14 PM »
Really?  Cool.  I'll have to time it.

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Robison E. Wells / Re: Signing Schedule
« on: July 20, 2006, 05:01:55 PM »
I know.  I keep meaning to fix it, but I don't.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Question as to Mistborn's release price
« on: July 20, 2006, 03:27:32 PM »
Well, it's not on Amazon, but it's on B&N.com (as well as seagullbook.com and deseretbook.com).  So there.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=1598111167&itm=5

http://seagullbook.com/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=440240&Category_Code=

http://deseretbook.com/store/product?sku=4967212

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Movies and TV / Re: Review: Lady in the Water
« on: July 19, 2006, 11:03:51 PM »
Am I the only person who found The Village enjoyable?  Sure, the twist was dumb, but the tone (the "feel") was incredible.  The cinematography was wonderful.    The characters were great.  I get the feeling that most bad reviews of the movie were based more on ongoing frustration with Shyamalan's formula than on the movie itself.

(Note: I'm certainly not saying that it was a four star movie, but I can't see it as anything less than three.)

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Movies and TV / Re: Transformers The Movie!  (again)
« on: July 17, 2006, 09:29:40 AM »
Since when did Michael Bay care about realism?

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Robison E. Wells / Re: You can hear the music on the AM radio
« on: July 14, 2006, 05:14:35 PM »
Yeah, it was really really short, which was lame.  The sad thing is that I sat there and talked to Doug Wright and Steve Salles for a long time (during commercials) and we talked about the book and the DB/Seagull thing, but when it came time to get on the radio, they were up against the hourly break, and I was only on for a couple minutes.

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