I'm kinda liking Gulager now

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Is that so wrong?-)Lois

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[nq:1]Is that so wrong? :-)[/nq]
Nah, he's pretty much proven the doubters wrong. Obviously, I still haven't seen the finished product, but a lot of the shots they showed looked really top-notch. Not that he's not still eccentric, pushy, and downright immature at times. But, apparently, he can direct.

Stephen Mack
"Nobody's smart enough to be wrong all the time." -Ken Wilber

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[nq:1]Is that so wrong? :-)[/nq]
Who the **** is Gulager?

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[nq:2]Is that so wrong? :-)[/nq]
[nq:1]Nah, he's pretty much proven the doubters wrong. Obviously, I still haven't seen the finished product, but a lot of the shots they showed looked really top-notch. Not that he's not still eccentric, pushy, and downright immature at times. But, apparently, he can direct.[/nq]
Just goes to show that in teevee SOP is CYA. It looks like Feast is an excellent film, but what are the odds? From the blogs it sounds like the shoot went pretty smooth the director was competent top notch, but the series director either didn't have the right footage or just decided to tell the wrong story of the production.

Sounds like the series director/editor took moments of frustration and blew them up into a plot, a fake plot. The real story of PGL seems to be some guys getting a break working incredibly hard to make the best film possible. It's really too too bad that that story did not get told.
Chris Moore complains in his blog that the ratings are down for the series. Could it be that the audience sensed that the story being told was not the truth? Id like to hear from the the guys making the series, it would be appropriate, a meta view of PGL. Why did they go with the theme that the director was a problem child, plump, recalcitrant, lazy. It does look like Gulager lost weight on the shoot, but the series put in every shot of him eating possible.
The blogs repeatedly report that the big moments of trauma on the series were just blips of day to day production issues. Gulager is a hero, that's the story that should have been told. The series director should have been the one to be fired.
Here's the project blogs:
http://www.bravotv.com/Project Greenlight/Blogs/
Chris Moores latest comments:
Greenlight/Blogs/moore 8.shtml

-sam

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[nq:2]Is that so wrong? :-)[/nq]
[nq:1]Who the **** is Gulager?[/nq]
Okay, that's who he is.

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[nq:1]Just goes to show that in teevee SOP is CYA. It looks like Feast is an excellent film, but what ... hero, that's the story that should have been told. The series director should have been the one to be fired.[/nq]
Yeah, but actually I think the most interesting - or atleast entertaining - episodes were the ones early on when Gulager looked like a total brat. Now that things are going so well, they've had a lot of trouble creating drama. Ooh, we're going to show the assembly - you know, the one that everyone on the set thought was great - to Andrew Rona... stay tuned to see if he hates it and the whole film gets flushed down the toilet.
And, of course, he loved it as well.

Stephen Mack
"Nobody's smart enough to be wrong all the time." -Ken Wilber

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[nq:2]Is that so wrong? :-)[/nq]
[nq:1]Who the **** is Gulager?[/nq]
Don't you remember that old Disney "series" with (I think) Kurt Russell? "Gulager, Gulager, Gulager always searching for news." (Or something like that.)

RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"

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[nq:2]Who the **** is Gulager?[/nq]
[nq:1]Don't you remember that old Disney "series" with (I think) Kurt Russell? "Gulager, Gulager, Gulager always searching for news." (Or something like that.)[/nq]
Actually, it was Roger Mobley, not Kurt Russell. And "Gulager" was spelt "Gallegher" back then. But I did remember the "Gallegher, Gallegher, Gallegher..." part right.
[nq:1]From a website who's owner has more time on his hands than he knows whatto do with:[/nq]
The catchy theme song, sung in bouncy barbershop quartet style, was written by Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman, who did the songs for Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, among others.
"Gallegher, Gallegher, Gallegher, Gallegher, Gallegher Ohh, Gallegher, Gallegher, runnin' down the street After another newsbeat,
Gallegher, Gallegher, wearin' out his shoes,
Nosin' around for
Who, what, when, where, how,
What, when, where, why,
What, when, where, news nosin' around for news."
"A lad was born with printer's ink flowin' through his veins (his veins), And big bold headlines rollin' through his brains (through his brains). He'd follow up a story no matter where it led
Unafraid,
He made the grade
Where others feared to tread (feared to tread).
No slicker could out-trick him, no one was quicker than (quicker than) That sharp as a thorn,
Natural born
Newspaperman!"
"That's Gallegher, Gallegher, runnin' down the street After another newsbeat,
Gallegher, Gallegher, wearin' out his shoes,
Nosin' around for
Who, what, when, where, how,
What, when, where, why,
What, when, where, news Gallegher got the...news..."

I remember liking the show, but 1964!? I didn't even know I was that old.

RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"

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What in the **** is the matter with you, RonB?
Me?
Been in the Motel6 all day today. Never did git up the gumption to take a shower. Not a ahell alot goin' on in 29 Palms. Finally decided to go out an rustle me up some chow. Flipped the 'ol coin and it was "Jack In The Box" tonight.
Sitting in line at the drive-thru and awonderin' there was this breeze, you know, ablowin' off the desert? Got to thinkin' agin **** I remember that smell. Takes me back when I was a kid. Forty-some years ago, born on the desert, an I still remember that smell. Not a bad smell either kind of a clean smell a desert smell.

While I was awaitin', there was this big 'ol beetle on my windshield and I had "Black Magic Woman" aplayin' on the radio an that beetle was tryin' to walk up the windshield but he wasn't gettin' much traction, so he was just kinda slippin' just as much as he was awalkin'.

So I had this big 'ol beetle kinda moonwalking right there in front a me on the windshield and "Black Magic Woman" was aplayin' on the radio, on a breezy desert night. You gettin' the drift a this so far?

It was kinda freakin' me out and got me to thinkin', you know how's all this gonna play out? Started wonderin' real hard on that then all the sudden this light starts aflashin' in my mirrors and this horn starts ahonkin' and this guy behind is yellin' his brains out, callin' me an *** and tellin' me to git movin'.
Then that beetle just plumb fell down, right there underneath my windshield wipers and then that song ended and I drove on up to drive-up window and got my food.
You want to know what happened after that? This is the weird part. When I ordered my cheeseburger I told 'em I wanted one with just mustard and pickles what some people call a Texas cheeseburger. An sure enough, that liddle 'ol sign they got there popped up and said "1) Jumbo Jack with Cheese, plain, + mustard, + pickles, or some such thing like that.
Pretty **** smart sign I'm thinkin' got it just right, I'm thinkin'.

So this is the part that ties it all in. Something strange happened to that cheeseburger. When I got back to the Motel6 and opened the wrapper on that cheeseburger that I bought plain with mustard and pickles it had everything on it! Everything!
Now what the **** are the chances of somethin' like that ahappenin'? Not very likely I'd think. And I'm pretty damned sure I saw a black cat last night too. So all them weird things you hear about in the desert? They just might be true.

Paulo Joe Jingy
That and the car don't need no gas no more. I broke the needle on the gauge so it don't go down an the gas in the tank don't go down neither. Just exactly the way the voices said it would happen too.

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I thought you liked Clark Kent?

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Isn't he that stupid magician who slams watermelons with a hammer at the audience and splashes them with fruit juice

I'm kinda liking Gulager now

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