Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/31/2012 07:48 PM Report

Saw it on Saturday.

"Have more sex." Now you have been counseled.

When Carell smiles his trademark smile I expect a punch line. Perhaps miscast?

Muslims could easily use this movie to justify plural marriage especially since Streep's character cuts Jones off first (and this is not sufficiently explained in the movie).

Yes, TRANSITIONS are a big deal in life and in this case the transition between no children at home and retirement. What do you do with yourselves?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/08/2012 11:23 PM Report

Meryl was on "The View" today and asked about her own marriage and how she kept it going for 33 years. She appeared befuddled and she said she did not write the script and marriage is an individual experience.

She is quite correct but there are stages in marriage just like there are stages in raising a child.

In any event, her acting is secondary to being married 33 years in America and especially 33 years in her industry.

Meryl, you really are amazing.

blank  08/08/2012 09:16 PM Report

there's nothing i can do i'm just stuck in this situation i'm really happy about moving

i'm not going to watch this show anymore unless it's about science

(my plan is to sleep move physically rehabilitate and try to get better)

in the clouds i'm going through the sky

Tatina  08/08/2012 04:16 PM Report

To the last comment from the individual who feels 'fobbed' by women. Your message comes across as a disheartened idealist in life and does not see the sacredness of the mundane. May you meet 'the one' soon to place you back on track of the living. Ciao,

Ellen_Dibble  08/08/2012 10:10 AM Report

Somehow the media has to depict sex as transcendently important (not transcendentally, no). The issue of Hope Springs is apparently the wife's finding herself in a meaningless marriage, which the husband had no clue of. The clips seemed to think the central issue was sex. The one female in the group, Meryl Streep, was trying to express for her team the broader issue of connectedness. She referred to women's magazines which are always telling about better ways to please your spouse, better ways to be sexual. Agreed, she was one "against" four, at some disadvantage. Did they have women's magazines way back when, before glossies at checkout counters, and before consumer-driven anxiety about having the latest shade of rouge or lipstick, etc.? I don't think so. Women's interpersonal obsessions have only gravitated that way in modern America. So skip the anxiety-provoking magazines. I'm sure lots of us were thinking, What could she say instead? (And coming up with nothing neat.) Still, how funny that film seems to be, and I can't remember ever seeing Charlie Rose enjoying himself so much. I can't square that with his having been in Jordan over the weekend, and presumably still in another time zone, but what else is new. The ending, with Nora Ephron, and the film about Julia Child: The best marriages have no plot -- hmm.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/08/2012 02:02 AM Report

"In "Hope Springs," Kay Soames (Meryl Streep) attempts to bring intimacy back to her marriage of 31 years by ambushing husband Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) with a week of intense marriage therapy."

So Charlie, you are 5 years older than Tommy Lee and 7 years older than Meryl.

How would you Charlie bring intimacy back to a relationship of 31 years?

I have been married almost 29 years and don't understand the question because I have a libido and a functioning hydraulic system.

I also understand what Meryl was going on about.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/08/2012 01:51 AM Report

It is hilarious that Meryl doesn't remember that she is the key to this whole project. (Steve Carell made a great joke about it.)

"From the beginning [producer] Todd Black was like 'the way we do this is we get Meryl.' "

From the screenwriter: "What I was interested to know was talking to friends who have been married because I haven’t. So I wanted to make sure I wasn’t going far afield or saying things that were crazy when it came to people that were married."

Both of these quotes speak volumes.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/movies/Hope-Springs-for-Spec-Scriptwriter-165159786.html

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/08/2012 01:35 AM Report

Meryl Streep is correct about releasing the film in August instead of December.

December is a really bad time for this kind of film because the ones who have the time are the ones who are on vacation.

December is not a time that presents much free time for women unless they do take vacation.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/08/2012 01:32 AM Report

Steve Carell mentioned shooting in digital and how the takes were much longer.

"When filming Rope (1948), Alfred Hitchcock intended for the film to have the effect of one long continuous take, but the cameras available could hold no more than 1000 feet of 35 mm film. As a result, each take used up to a whole roll of film and lasts up to 10 minutes. Many takes end with a dolly shot to a featureless surface (such as the back of a character's jacket), with the following take beginning at the same point by zooming out. The entire film consists of only 11 shots.[2]"

Interesting idea but I am not a fan.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/08/2012 01:19 AM Report

Charlie,

I watched this segment on a rectangular screen LG television in a Comfort Suites in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Your face/make-up was as orange as the Tennessee Volunteers.

Steve Carell's teeth appeared so bleached white that they might have glowed.

The picture itself was distorted and everyone looked really fat--perhaps 35 pounds fatter.

What a difference a television can make in what my perception is of reality.

If I watched you every night on such a set subliminally I would think it best to color my face orange, bleach my teeth day glow white and gain 35 pounds in order to conform to our hard-wired herd mentality.

tabs  08/07/2012 05:36 PM Report

The last time Meryl Streep was on Mr Roses show she seemed distant and not very involved in the discussion which is at complete odds with this show. The whole cast and director seemed to be having a good time which in ones mind might make for a good movie.

REMant  08/07/2012 11:36 AM Report

The last time I recall seeing Tommy Lee Jones he was turning down Lesley-Anne Down for a wealthy exhibitionistic minor with a large chest, who went on to marry one of the Colbys, I think. Since Meryl Streep turns me off in any form, I won't bother with this movie nor watch the interview, but I will say that "spicing up" a relationship is an oxymoron. Men never "fall" for the women they want to marry. And women who want them to are making a big mistake to begin with. A man is happiest with a companion, not a sex partner, no matter how much women like to think so. That this script is by a woman, then, comes as no surprise. The problem would actually be to keep the participants from getting involved in extramarital affairs. The easiest way to avoid that is by not getting married in the first place, or failing that, not spending your lives working 9 to 5, and especially not seeking status in the process, another feminine foible. You don't find men sleeping their way to the top just because men occupy all the top positions, and it would be helpful if females would stop fobbing all their problems off on them.