Goodbye "Gilmore Girls." The sharp-witted saga of an independent mother and daughter that added to the luster of the young WB network, will end its run after seven seasons.
i havent watched the last two seasons but maybe ill tivo the finale.
from wolcott:
The Shamus may talk tough and drink hard liquor without a straw, but he's not afraid to show his tender giblets and pay tribute to the nearly departed Gilmore Girls--yeah, you heard me right, punk, The Gilmore Girls:
Yes, my name is Shamus and I'm a Gilmore Girls addict...
Here was a show that we'll probably rarely see again. It had heart and smart. It was full of fizzy joy: a '30s screwball comedy reinvented for the new millenium, with Lauren Graham's Lorelai Gilmore as a descendent of those savvy, fast-talking dames brought to gleeful life by Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell and Carole Lombard. Lorelai's love life was a mess, but she worked on the relationship that counted the most. And a mother-daughter relationship has never been explored with such depth and warmth and sweet, zingy humor than the one between Lorelai and Rory, played expertly by Alexis Biedel. But the show also dared to show Lorelai as a single parent (and a young one, who had Rory at 16), struggling to do the right thing by her child, while trying to find her own sense of self, her independence as a businesswoman and hopefully the right man to share it all with. Lorelai also faced an ongoing battle with her chilly, emotionally distant mother Emily (the deft perfection of Kelly Bishop). Lorelai Gilmore is one of the great characters in TV history, an important one, perhaps the best female character since Mary Richards, and don't get me started on those chowderheads at the Emmy awards who never once gave Graham a nomination for her brilliant, multilayered, often tongue-twisting work.
I had a brief audience with Alexis Biedel in my capacity as Vanity Fair's Hollywood Youth Correspondent, and was she ever a Maid of Constant Sorrow, so laden beyond her years with poetic malaise that I was afraid the sprinkler system would go off and we would all drown in tears. But Biedel was lustrous, funny, and beguiling on the show, and, sadly, will probably never get a movie role comparable in range and complexity to Rory, just as everything Sarah Michelle Gellar has done post-Buffy has been a reedy discount. She'll certainly never again get such clever ocarinas of dialogue to play, as evidenced by the rich samples of repartee chosen by the Shamus, including this bit about one of my favorite movies:
Lorelai: Solaris?
Rory: No. Not again.
Lorelai: I'm telling you there's a story there somewhere.
Rory: Yeah. The story is you, calling yourself Mrs. Clooney for two hours.
sniff sniff. wannnnnnhhhhhhh.
girl troubles
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- bill 5-04-2007 4:21 pm
i havent watched the last two seasons but maybe ill tivo the finale.
from wolcott:
The Shamus may talk tough and drink hard liquor without a straw, but he's not afraid to show his tender giblets and pay tribute to the nearly departed Gilmore Girls--yeah, you heard me right, punk, The Gilmore Girls:
Yes, my name is Shamus and I'm a Gilmore Girls addict...
Here was a show that we'll probably rarely see again. It had heart and smart. It was full of fizzy joy: a '30s screwball comedy reinvented for the new millenium, with Lauren Graham's Lorelai Gilmore as a descendent of those savvy, fast-talking dames brought to gleeful life by Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell and Carole Lombard. Lorelai's love life was a mess, but she worked on the relationship that counted the most. And a mother-daughter relationship has never been explored with such depth and warmth and sweet, zingy humor than the one between Lorelai and Rory, played expertly by Alexis Biedel. But the show also dared to show Lorelai as a single parent (and a young one, who had Rory at 16), struggling to do the right thing by her child, while trying to find her own sense of self, her independence as a businesswoman and hopefully the right man to share it all with. Lorelai also faced an ongoing battle with her chilly, emotionally distant mother Emily (the deft perfection of Kelly Bishop). Lorelai Gilmore is one of the great characters in TV history, an important one, perhaps the best female character since Mary Richards, and don't get me started on those chowderheads at the Emmy awards who never once gave Graham a nomination for her brilliant, multilayered, often tongue-twisting work.
I had a brief audience with Alexis Biedel in my capacity as Vanity Fair's Hollywood Youth Correspondent, and was she ever a Maid of Constant Sorrow, so laden beyond her years with poetic malaise that I was afraid the sprinkler system would go off and we would all drown in tears. But Biedel was lustrous, funny, and beguiling on the show, and, sadly, will probably never get a movie role comparable in range and complexity to Rory, just as everything Sarah Michelle Gellar has done post-Buffy has been a reedy discount. She'll certainly never again get such clever ocarinas of dialogue to play, as evidenced by the rich samples of repartee chosen by the Shamus, including this bit about one of my favorite movies:
Lorelai: Solaris?
Rory: No. Not again.
Lorelai: I'm telling you there's a story there somewhere.
Rory: Yeah. The story is you, calling yourself Mrs. Clooney for two hours.
- dave 5-12-2007 9:09 pm [add a comment]
sniff sniff. wannnnnnhhhhhhh.
- bill 5-12-2007 10:11 pm [add a comment]
girl troubles
- dave 5-16-2007 4:57 am [add a comment]