Gracious.

Jul. 21st, 2006 10:48 am
truepenny: artist's rendering of Sidneyia inexpectans (Default)
[personal profile] truepenny
There are over 500 of you.

::waves to everybody::

Since I have to write a synopsis of The Mirador today, and since synopsis-writing is an activity which I both hate and am incredibly bad at, I'm going to issue an open invitation:

Tell me something about yourself.

It's an invitation, obviously--nothing even as strong as a request--so if you don't want to, no harm, no foul. But if you'd like to (and this applies as much to the people I know as the people I don't) ... tell me something. Make it as long or as short, as serious or as goofy as you want. If you are a reader who doesn't have a LiveJournal account, that's totally cool, too--just please remember to sign your comment.

Date: 2006-07-21 05:15 pm (UTC)
sovay: (Psholtii: in a bad mood)
From: [personal profile] sovay
(Although a bad film version of The Charioteer might make me lose the will to live...)

Yes. Do not remind me of Oliver Stone's Alexander. (I watched it with friends as a double feature with Kingdom of Heaven. We must have been suicidal.) I kept feeling that one of the scriptwriters must have read just enough of Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy to bastardize them both. It hurt. So much.

Date: 2006-07-21 05:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] st-egfroth.livejournal.com
I avoided it for precisely that sort of reason! (I enjoyed the biography by Robin Lane Fox that it was supposedly based on, but I haven't yet read Mary Renault's Alexander biography to compare).

Date: 2006-07-21 05:25 pm (UTC)
sovay: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sovay
but I haven't yet read Mary Renault's Alexander biography to compare

Honestly, I like the novels better than the biography . . .

Date: 2006-07-21 05:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com
Me too - and the Stone film? That was my birthday treat. Sob. And a press show (10.30am), so when they did the intermission thing there wasn't even any ice cream. Tho' when the cinema manager came in to ask how it was going, we did disgrace ourselves by telling him. In detail.

Date: 2006-07-21 05:44 pm (UTC)
sovay: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sovay
and the Stone film? That was my birthday treat.

Condolences!

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