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Ailatan
10/14/09

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It's like The Brontës in NY.
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PhillyLass
10/14/09

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Hmm, so the mom will be a heartless bitch/career woman. And she'll play favorites with her son. How many stereotypes can AS-P squeeze into a single character? Also, I still have not forgiven her for abandoning GG at such a critical moment. Or for inflicting that Parker Posy crapfest on the world.
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PhillyLass
10/14/09

@PhillyLass: And while I'm on a roll, what is the oh-so talented Lauren Graham up to these days? Aside from a couple of small and crappy parts in movies post-GG, she's pretty much disappeared. Will someone give her a show already?
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DexterHaven
10/14/09

@PhillyLass: She's just taken over Maura Tierney's role in Parenthood for NBC so your wish is answered.
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jigglyball
10/14/09

@PhillyLass: I cosign the need for more Lauren Graham on TV. I'm looking forward to watching her on Parenthood ever so much, but it's still been far too long.

I met her once, and she's as delightful and funny and kind as I'd imagined.
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Maritsa
10/14/09

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At first I thought "Yippee!" but then I remembered: (1) this show will not star Lauren Graham, Kelly Bishop, or that guy who played Michel; and (2) the last thing Amy did was that terrible Jezebel James show.
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Renata Halpern
10/14/09

@Maritsa: Hearted for your love of Lauren Graham, Yanic Truesdale and Kelly Bishop. Especially Kelly Bishop (long story, love her a lot).
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AFever
10/14/09

@Maritsa: I know, I realized that I assumed that Lauren Graham would play a sister, and now that I know she's not, I'm substantially less enthusiastic.
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jigglyball
10/14/09

@Maritsa: I recently re-watched Dirty Dancing, and realized for the first time that Mrs. Houseman is played by Kelly Bishop. I was like, "Oh my god, Baby's mom! She's playing Emily Gilmore all over again! Or... was she playing Mrs. Houseman on Gilmore Girls... or...?" and then my head exploded.
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Mary McCarthyite
10/14/09

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I cast my vote for Christine Baransky in the role of the mother.
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GirlyQ is a manta ray
10/14/09

@Mary McCarthyite: If this is true, I will watch this show RELIGIOUSLY
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Mary McCarthyite
10/14/09

@GirlyQ is a manta ray: If it was true, then I'd be watching the show too. Cross your fingers.
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rowingrowingrowing
10/14/09

@Mary McCarthyite: I am betting it will be Blythe Danner (Christine Baransky is currently on "The Good Wife" in a criminally tiny supporting role).
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Renata Halpern
10/14/09

@rowingrowingrowing: I would love to see Christine Barnansky or Blythe Danner but what about Anjelica Huston like The Royal Tenenbaums? She'd have three Margot(s)!
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Ailatan
10/14/09

@rowingrowingrowing: Good!

As long as it's not Holland Taylor, I'm on board.
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NorthernLite
10/14/09

@rowingrowingrowing: I watched Good Wife last night and thought Baransky was overacting like a 1920s silent movies star.
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Mary McCarthyite
10/14/09

@NorthernLite: Wait, is that a bad thing?
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hortense
10/14/09

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And their mother, a domineering literary-lioness

I loved Gilmore Girls (well, seasons 1-5, anyway) but based on this description (cold, domineering, tough as nails mother), I'm not sure how this character will be anything but the poor man's Emily Gilmore. Unless she casts Kelly Bishop, and then it will just be Emily Gilmore: The New Class, which is fine by me.
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Renata Halpern
10/14/09

@hortense: If it was Kelly Bishop then I'd buy a TV and cable just for this show!
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SouthernComfort
10/14/09

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Three sisters living in the UES? Will one be named Hannah?
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bluebears
10/14/09

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Finally, at long last, someone is making a show to represent rich white woman who live in NYC. Now if only these women like to shop....(fingers crossed)
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wealhtheow
10/14/09

@bluebears: Perhaps someday, if we are very lucky, there will be a show about other rich white people in NYC. Perhaps teenagers, or an amusing band of twenty-somethings.

I know, I know--it's a pipe dream.
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Mary McCarthyite
10/14/09

@bluebears: Solution: make the characters Greek and move them out to Astoria. That would be a show I'd watch!
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wtfox?!
10/14/09

@bluebears: I know! I dare not hope to much, but damn, I was really starting to think they'd never do something like this.
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bluebears
10/14/09

@wealhtheow: dare to dream, dare to dream...
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Mrs. Stephen Fry
09/25/09

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I love Gilmore Girls. Love. It. I, too, was a latecomer, but the early seasons are perfect.

I've always loved Seinfeld, and I can still stop and watch it when I run across it. I watch on DVD, too. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the shizz, my friends.
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judgingamy
09/25/09

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Gilmore girls is more than about a teenager. That show is very very smart. I'm glad that people are catching wise. Season 1 is weird to watch though, and I think that's because it was the only season made in the 1990s, so its much like the friends effect described here, with the ricky martin jokes.
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judgingamy
09/25/09

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I watched all of the friends episodes in a row, during the two months I was unemployed. Two things I learned:

1. The term BFF originated in Friends. Phoebe uses it in the episode where they're on a beach, and everyone looks at her confused. I did research, and this is actually where "BFF" came from and that blows my mind.

2. Why does everyone make fun of Ross for being smart? Whenever he tells a story, people pretend to sleep. I always wanted to know what else he was going to say. Why did we value dumb people so much in the 90s? And is this why Bush was elected?
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TheUptightMidwesterner
09/25/09

@judgingnora: I used BFF in 3rd grade- that was in 1977.
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girlhowdy
09/25/09

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Never mind Friends--I don't get all the love for My So-Called Life. Never did, probably never will. It was high school as written by a self-serious precocious high-school-age kid who was enrolled in a suburban high school for maybe a month before persuading her folks to home-school her. Ugh.
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bananastand
09/25/09

@girlhowdy: Wait, what?
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bananastand
09/25/09

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My boyfriend once pointed out to me that 90% of the conflicts in Seinfeld would have been solved easily if they had cell phones.
So, yeah...a bit dated.
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Red-headed bookworm
09/25/09

@bananastand: Hehe, I wonder about older movies and shows sometimes and think about how different they would be if cell phones had been around and popular then.
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LadyNo Fondles Sweaters
09/25/09

@Red-headed bookworm: Sometimes I feel like cell phones have ruined drama. Now there has to be the "my battery died!" moment to allow anything bad to happen. Or on the flip side the whole plot is driven by tech.

Note: The other night in my semi-recurring dream about getting lost but having to be somewhere very soon, my subconscious managed to work in my iPhone. I was trying to get back to a bar where I had forgotten to close my tab, but when I looked it up on my phone I kept finding the wrong address. That my phone is now worked into my dreams is more scary than the dream itself.
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stacyinbean
09/25/09

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I dunno, sometimes I cringe when Seinfeld comes on screen in a too small sweat shirt, REALLY light, tapered jeans and white sneakers! And you have to admit Elaine's clothes were TERRRRRIBLE! And the hair poof?
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SlayBelle
09/25/09

@stacyinbean: I think I'm the only person who didn't like Seinfeld in its original run, and I know I'm the only person in the room who dives for the remote when it comes on after the Simpons reruns. The characters grated on me, and frankly, I just didn't think it was funny.

There. I said it.
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Red-headed bookworm
09/25/09

@SlayBelle: I always thought it was just "okay", not briliant or anything but now, it makes me cringe.
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Lulu82
09/25/09

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Tea town? Londoners drink a lot of coffee. And a lot of other drinks too - we're a world city, not a Shropshire village.

I find watching Friends incredibly comforting - like drinking soup in bed, or something. They show a million re-runs on British tv, and I still watch it, even if I never intend to. I thought it was pretty lame in the 90s, but the older I get, the more I appreciate how well-written it was. And it's sweet and rather innocent.
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Sadie
09/25/09

@Lulu82: I understand this - but it's also true that it's FAR less of a coffee city than any in the U.S. - where, by the way, there are always non-coffee options. And don;t worry, I've lived there for long periods and love it. That said, yes, dumb generalization - picking up on something in one of the articles about how many of the visitors didn't even drink coffee.
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SeanTheSean
09/25/09

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A "tea town"? Are we talking about 16th-century London, or an exciting parallel-universe London?
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