Hollywood Cannon
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Objectively I laughed at the pick but I will hold the line with you my brother.
Pick something else.
NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread - PHASE TWENTY-THREE SKIDOO!
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Pick something else.
Lord Defect
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Wait for your next turn to make your next stupid pick, Copernicus.
ajgoal
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Is there any chance you played hockey at any point in your life? Asking for a friend.
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Welllll anyway.
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It's actress time. I admit to trolling with my last pick. We are gonna be real this time. We are gonna
NATALIE WOOD
What I've done here is select a 30s style actress who kicked off her career in the mid 40s and was in films until she did the dying in the 70s. Her life is a bridge across Hollywood eras. I think she's fantastically underrated and had the unfortunate luck of being born too late. Her acting style harkens back to the Silent Era; her eyes do a huge amount of heavy lifting. She could quietly steal scenes and attention. It's also quite an assertive style of acting, lending her an intensity that was generally unwelcome in starring actresses in the 50s and most of the 60s. If she had been able to ply her craft in the 20s and 30s I think she gets the credit she should have. I wish she had gotten better roles, but in the weaker films I've seen her in she's always a captivating strong point. I had already decided on her when Gypsy came on, and that sealed it. There are so many people in that film that annoy me to the point where I want to turn it off, and every time I'm close Natalie gets me to stick around. It's a shame Hollywood generally didn't know how to use her at the time.
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It's actress time. I admit to trolling with my last pick. We are gonna be real this time. We are gonna
NATALIE WOOD
What I've done here is select a 30s style actress who kicked off her career in the mid 40s and was in films until she did the dying in the 70s. Her life is a bridge across Hollywood eras. I think she's fantastically underrated and had the unfortunate luck of being born too late. Her acting style harkens back to the Silent Era; her eyes do a huge amount of heavy lifting. She could quietly steal scenes and attention. It's also quite an assertive style of acting, lending her an intensity that was generally unwelcome in starring actresses in the 50s and most of the 60s. If she had been able to ply her craft in the 20s and 30s I think she gets the credit she should have. I wish she had gotten better roles, but in the weaker films I've seen her in she's always a captivating strong point. I had already decided on her when Gypsy came on, and that sealed it. There are so many people in that film that annoy me to the point where I want to turn it off, and every time I'm close Natalie gets me to stick around. It's a shame Hollywood generally didn't know how to use her at the time.
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CanadianFlyer88
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Welllll anyway.
Thank you Defect! Uncontroversial Defect! Valid Defect! Smoothed Defect!
It's actress time. I admit to trolling with my last pick. We are gonna be real this time. We are gonna
NATALIE WOOD
What I've done here is select a 30s style actress who kicked off her career in the mid 40s and was in films until she did the dying in the 70s. Her life is a bridge across Hollywood eras. I think she's fantastically underrated and had the unfortunate luck of being born too late. Her acting style harkens back to the Silent Era; her eyes do a huge amount of heavy lifting. She could quietly steal scenes and attention. It's also quite an assertive style of acting, lending her an intensity that was generally unwelcome in starring actresses in the 50s and most of the 60s. If she had been able to ply her craft in the 20s and 30s I think she gets the credit she should have. I wish she had gotten better roles, but in the weaker films I've seen her in she's always a captivating strong point. I had already decided on her when Gypsy came on, and that sealed it. There are so many people in that film that annoy me to the point where I want to turn it off, and every time I'm close Natalie gets me to stick around. It's a shame Hollywood generally didn't know how to use her at the time.
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@GKJ begs to differ.
Aw what the f***, I decided on her before he picked and completely missed his pick
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ajgoal
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You have to delete the forum first.
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I thought you told me she was a smoke show when I picked her. Then I realized it was the bad pick.
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I have no memory of this place.
Anyways, I've thought of an excellent actress who was in her first film in 1967 if I want to be spiteful about this.
Lord Defect
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You told me to make a new pick!
You joke but I was about to ask cap that. Then I remembered he grew up before hockey was invented.
I have a feeling she was a toddler in this film and didn’t become an actual actress until the 80’s.
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Lord Defect
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Has it been confirmed that Jojo isn’t one of those Godlike AI?
Also, how do you do the strike through?
Asnito
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Highlight everything you wrote, cut, open ChatGPT, paste it, then it will do a strike through for you
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Geez. This has taken forever. I've assessed out more actresses than I can remember, and I am settling on one I originally dismissed after I discovered she's in a favorite film that I will allow to cancel out her early-career transgression.
LILLIAN GISH
In the early days of film, theater actors treated it like a thing for amateurs, the washed up, or for actors who owed too much to a bookie or something. Gish was a major reason that changed. She took film acting seriously and created a ton of staple film acting techniques. Instead of using stage techniques, she realized that film needed to be more subtle and nuanced with less bombast and exaggeration. She invented film acting. Seems kind of important and useful. She reigned supreme in the box office for something like 15ish years, which also gave her enough studio influence to push for higher budgets and exercise control over product quality, an interesting idea at a time when studios were largely focused on cranking out films fast and cheap. She doesn't get credit for it, but she directed too. She inspired and guided the wave of talent that would follow her, and was active from just after the Titanic sank and into the 1980s. After that she became dead though.
@Hollywood Cannon ok let's try again
LILLIAN GISH
In the early days of film, theater actors treated it like a thing for amateurs, the washed up, or for actors who owed too much to a bookie or something. Gish was a major reason that changed. She took film acting seriously and created a ton of staple film acting techniques. Instead of using stage techniques, she realized that film needed to be more subtle and nuanced with less bombast and exaggeration. She invented film acting. Seems kind of important and useful. She reigned supreme in the box office for something like 15ish years, which also gave her enough studio influence to push for higher budgets and exercise control over product quality, an interesting idea at a time when studios were largely focused on cranking out films fast and cheap. She doesn't get credit for it, but she directed too. She inspired and guided the wave of talent that would follow her, and was active from just after the Titanic sank and into the 1980s. After that she became dead though.
@Hollywood Cannon ok let's try again
Lillian Gish was indeed very important to film history, and cool. And hadn't already been picked before.
We start the day with my brother @Hollywood Cannon on the clock, @DancingPanther on deck, me on the lido deck, and @BernieParent on the lido afterdeck. Let's put all the ugliness and ugly stupidity behind us.
This morning I was thinking about shows that were cancelled too early. There are two that come immediately to mind, total no-brainers - "Freaks and Geeks" and "My So-Called Life," both of which ran for only one season. "Freaks" was undisputedly great. It had great writing and a great cast. Obviously, Seth Rogan is a massive tool, and James Franco and Busy Phillips are slightly lesser tools, but all of them suited their roles perfectly, and Judd Apatow reined them in masterfully. All of the nerds and the sister were cast flawlessly, and all of them acted perfectly. It was an all-time great, and NBC should be collectively held over the fire for putting it on Fridays in the first place, and then for not seeing what they had afterwards and moving it. They have never replaced it on Friday nights to this very day anyway. They are stupid.
"MSCL" wasn't that level of quality, obviously - it was too beholden to its time and embraced caricature too often at the expense of individuality. But there was substance beneath that veneer, and it deserved to be developed further. No one needed to see any more of Jordan Catalano's textbook slacking or his cool car - the real crying shame about the show's cancellation it is that there was never a resolution between Angela and her neighbor on the bike, Brian Krakow. That was a fully fleshed and real relationship, and it deserved some kind of ending, not the sudden drop into oblivion that it got.
There are many more shows that got cancelled too soon that don't come instantly to mind - because my memory is monkey shit - but a personal favorite of mine from the early Aughts was "Invasion," which also ran for one season. It was kind of stupid, but I liked it. I miss it.
We start the day with my brother @Hollywood Cannon on the clock, @DancingPanther on deck, me on the lido deck, and @BernieParent on the lido afterdeck. Let's put all the ugliness and ugly stupidity behind us.
This morning I was thinking about shows that were cancelled too early. There are two that come immediately to mind, total no-brainers - "Freaks and Geeks" and "My So-Called Life," both of which ran for only one season. "Freaks" was undisputedly great. It had great writing and a great cast. Obviously, Seth Rogan is a massive tool, and James Franco and Busy Phillips are slightly lesser tools, but all of them suited their roles perfectly, and Judd Apatow reined them in masterfully. All of the nerds and the sister were cast flawlessly, and all of them acted perfectly. It was an all-time great, and NBC should be collectively held over the fire for putting it on Fridays in the first place, and then for not seeing what they had afterwards and moving it. They have never replaced it on Friday nights to this very day anyway. They are stupid.
"MSCL" wasn't that level of quality, obviously - it was too beholden to its time and embraced caricature too often at the expense of individuality. But there was substance beneath that veneer, and it deserved to be developed further. No one needed to see any more of Jordan Catalano's textbook slacking or his cool car - the real crying shame about the show's cancellation it is that there was never a resolution between Angela and her neighbor on the bike, Brian Krakow. That was a fully fleshed and real relationship, and it deserved some kind of ending, not the sudden drop into oblivion that it got.
There are many more shows that got cancelled too soon that don't come instantly to mind - because my memory is monkey shit - but a personal favorite of mine from the early Aughts was "Invasion," which also ran for one season. It was kind of stupid, but I liked it. I miss it.
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Geez. This has taken forever. I've assessed out more actresses than I can remember, and I am settling on one I originally dismissed after I discovered she's in a favorite film that I will allow to cancel out her early-career transgression.
LILLIAN GISH
In the early days of film, theater actors treated it like a thing for amateurs, the washed up, or for actors who owed too much to a bookie or something. Gish was a major reason that changed. She took film acting seriously and created a ton of staple film acting techniques. Instead of using stage techniques, she realized that film needed to be more subtle and nuanced with less bombast and exaggeration. She invented film acting. Seems kind of important and useful. She reigned supreme in the box office for something like 15ish years, which also gave her enough studio influence to push for higher budgets and exercise control over product quality, an interesting idea at a time when studios were largely focused on cranking out films fast and cheap. She doesn't get credit for it, but she directed too. She inspired and guided the wave of talent that would follow her, and was active from just after the Titanic sank and into the 1980s. After that she became dead though.
@Hollywood Cannon ok let's try again
Hollywood Cannon
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Hollywood Cannon
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I'll be honest here... i'm kind of disappointed here that this guy is still available (from what I can tell). He's the Prince Prick of All Pricks.
We're going to select Corey Perry to fill out the final Spite F spot on our roster.
Evgeni Malkin - Jonathan Toews - Corey Perry
Nicklas Lidstrom - Scott Stevens
Chris Osgood
@DancingPanther wow us with your dancing.
We're going to select Corey Perry to fill out the final Spite F spot on our roster.
Evgeni Malkin - Jonathan Toews - Corey Perry
Nicklas Lidstrom - Scott Stevens
Chris Osgood
@DancingPanther wow us with your dancing.
DancingPanther
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Spite Goalie: another smooth brain from the Broad Street bullies days, I have recently learned BERNIE PARENT refused to praise franchise best Claude Giroux, instead continuing to imbue this stupid f***ing organization with entitlement and hubris, lamenting on how Giroux just doesn't play hard enough. Not like the teams he played on back when hockey was for tough, unathletic drunks.
In my 10 mins of googling I couldn't seem to find the direct quote, so it might have been a podcast. Regardless, even in the best case scenario of if it not being true, I will continue crusading against the worst thing to happen to the organization in its history: the Cup teams from a half century ago. Add him to the pile of Broad Street bullies stuffed in the box.
@BernieParent
In my 10 mins of googling I couldn't seem to find the direct quote, so it might have been a podcast. Regardless, even in the best case scenario of if it not being true, I will continue crusading against the worst thing to happen to the organization in its history: the Cup teams from a half century ago. Add him to the pile of Broad Street bullies stuffed in the box.
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