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Jun. 13th, 2012
Yvonne Strahovski on "Dexter"
Jun. 13th, 2012 09:00 amFormer Chuck star Yvonne Strahovski has booked a killer follow-up role.
The actress scored a multi-episode arc on season 7 of Dexter, playing a woman who helps Miami Metro Homicide solve some cold cases. But casting scoop warns: There’s more to Hanna McKay (Strahovski) than meets the eye, and Dexter (Michael C. Hall) is the first to suspect it.
This is the first post-Chuck television role for Strahovski, who played agent Sarah Walker on the show, which concluded its five-season run in January.
-- ONTD
Ah, what timing, just as I've finished watching all of "Chuck". I have never gotten into watching "Dexter", but I think I will have to tune in now, even though I think I will actually be turned off seeing Yvonne playing a character other than Sarah. I think I'm stuck on her that way. But I'm curious. In any case we will have to wait until autumn before the new season airs. At least we'll have something to look forward to. It's always a long summer.
The actress scored a multi-episode arc on season 7 of Dexter, playing a woman who helps Miami Metro Homicide solve some cold cases. But casting scoop warns: There’s more to Hanna McKay (Strahovski) than meets the eye, and Dexter (Michael C. Hall) is the first to suspect it.
This is the first post-Chuck television role for Strahovski, who played agent Sarah Walker on the show, which concluded its five-season run in January.
-- ONTD
Ah, what timing, just as I've finished watching all of "Chuck". I have never gotten into watching "Dexter", but I think I will have to tune in now, even though I think I will actually be turned off seeing Yvonne playing a character other than Sarah. I think I'm stuck on her that way. But I'm curious. In any case we will have to wait until autumn before the new season airs. At least we'll have something to look forward to. It's always a long summer.
Yvonne Strahovski on "Dexter"
Jun. 13th, 2012 09:00 amFormer Chuck star Yvonne Strahovski has booked a killer follow-up role.
The actress scored a multi-episode arc on season 7 of Dexter, playing a woman who helps Miami Metro Homicide solve some cold cases. But casting scoop warns: There’s more to Hanna McKay (Strahovski) than meets the eye, and Dexter (Michael C. Hall) is the first to suspect it.
This is the first post-Chuck television role for Strahovski, who played agent Sarah Walker on the show, which concluded its five-season run in January.
-- ONTD
Ah, what timing, just as I've finished watching all of "Chuck". I have never gotten into watching "Dexter", but I think I will have to tune in now, even though I think I will actually be turned off seeing Yvonne playing a character other than Sarah. I think I'm stuck on her that way. But I'm curious. In any case we will have to wait until autumn before the new season airs. At least we'll have something to look forward to. It's always a long summer.
The actress scored a multi-episode arc on season 7 of Dexter, playing a woman who helps Miami Metro Homicide solve some cold cases. But casting scoop warns: There’s more to Hanna McKay (Strahovski) than meets the eye, and Dexter (Michael C. Hall) is the first to suspect it.
This is the first post-Chuck television role for Strahovski, who played agent Sarah Walker on the show, which concluded its five-season run in January.
-- ONTD
Ah, what timing, just as I've finished watching all of "Chuck". I have never gotten into watching "Dexter", but I think I will have to tune in now, even though I think I will actually be turned off seeing Yvonne playing a character other than Sarah. I think I'm stuck on her that way. But I'm curious. In any case we will have to wait until autumn before the new season airs. At least we'll have something to look forward to. It's always a long summer.
In 2001, "The Producers" taught real-life producers that theater-goers were willing to pay $500 for a two-plus-hour musical. Since then, more shows have started using dynamic pricing to charge the most when they expect demand to be strongest.
Last year, "Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway" (a one-man show, which is as labor-efficient as you can get) made $1,468,189 for eight performances, a record for its theater. The limited-engagement star-studded show, which can push $600 a pop, is a perfect storm for high prices. Covering the celebrity's pay check and the cost of the space requires producers to charge high prices to cover the costs in a short period. The short run itself creates scarcity, concentrating audience interest in a small window where they're less price sensitive. ... Throw in the rise of tourism to New York is -- up 8% since 2008 -- and you're a long way toward understanding why Broadway ticket prices are going to keep going up as long as the rich keep getting rich[er].
-- Andrew Sullivan's Dish
Wow, and I thought the only thing keeping me from seeing a Broadway show was distance. Not that I have any real interest in seeing a Broadway show, even if it were only ten bucks. I just didn't know that it would take one's life savings to catch a show.
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Last year, "Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway" (a one-man show, which is as labor-efficient as you can get) made $1,468,189 for eight performances, a record for its theater. The limited-engagement star-studded show, which can push $600 a pop, is a perfect storm for high prices. Covering the celebrity's pay check and the cost of the space requires producers to charge high prices to cover the costs in a short period. The short run itself creates scarcity, concentrating audience interest in a small window where they're less price sensitive. ... Throw in the rise of tourism to New York is -- up 8% since 2008 -- and you're a long way toward understanding why Broadway ticket prices are going to keep going up as long as the rich keep getting rich[er].
-- Andrew Sullivan's Dish
Wow, and I thought the only thing keeping me from seeing a Broadway show was distance. Not that I have any real interest in seeing a Broadway show, even if it were only ten bucks. I just didn't know that it would take one's life savings to catch a show.
.
In 2001, "The Producers" taught real-life producers that theater-goers were willing to pay $500 for a two-plus-hour musical. Since then, more shows have started using dynamic pricing to charge the most when they expect demand to be strongest.
Last year, "Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway" (a one-man show, which is as labor-efficient as you can get) made $1,468,189 for eight performances, a record for its theater. The limited-engagement star-studded show, which can push $600 a pop, is a perfect storm for high prices. Covering the celebrity's pay check and the cost of the space requires producers to charge high prices to cover the costs in a short period. The short run itself creates scarcity, concentrating audience interest in a small window where they're less price sensitive. ... Throw in the rise of tourism to New York is -- up 8% since 2008 -- and you're a long way toward understanding why Broadway ticket prices are going to keep going up as long as the rich keep getting rich[er].
-- Andrew Sullivan's Dish
Wow, and I thought the only thing keeping me from seeing a Broadway show was distance. Not that I have any real interest in seeing a Broadway show, even if it were only ten bucks. I just didn't know that it would take one's life savings to catch a show.
.
Last year, "Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway" (a one-man show, which is as labor-efficient as you can get) made $1,468,189 for eight performances, a record for its theater. The limited-engagement star-studded show, which can push $600 a pop, is a perfect storm for high prices. Covering the celebrity's pay check and the cost of the space requires producers to charge high prices to cover the costs in a short period. The short run itself creates scarcity, concentrating audience interest in a small window where they're less price sensitive. ... Throw in the rise of tourism to New York is -- up 8% since 2008 -- and you're a long way toward understanding why Broadway ticket prices are going to keep going up as long as the rich keep getting rich[er].
-- Andrew Sullivan's Dish
Wow, and I thought the only thing keeping me from seeing a Broadway show was distance. Not that I have any real interest in seeing a Broadway show, even if it were only ten bucks. I just didn't know that it would take one's life savings to catch a show.
.
1984 (2,9) The Forgery
Jun. 13th, 2012 06:00 pmBefore Winston arrives at Charrington’s shop, we will get a taste of the rough work week at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history to accord with the fact that Oceania is now at war against Eastasia instead of Eurasia.
_ _ _
By the third day his eyes ached unbearably and his spectacles needed wiping every few minutes. It was like struggling with some crushing physical task, something which one had the right to refuse and which one was nevertheless neurotically anxious to accomplish. In so far as he had time to remember it, he was not troubled by the fact that every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink-pencil, was a deliberate lie. He was as anxious as anyone else in the Department that the forgery should be perfect. On the morning of the sixth day the dribble of cylinders slowed down. For as much as half an hour nothing came out of the tube; then one more cylinder, then nothing. Everywhere at about the same time the work was easing off. A deep and as it were secret sigh went through the Department. A mighty deed, which could never be mentioned, had been achieved. It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened. At twelve hundred it was unexpectedly announced that all workers in the Ministry were free till tomorrow morning. Winston, still carrying the briefcase containing the book, which had remained between his feet while he worked and under his body while he slept, went home, shaved himself, and almost fell asleep in his bath, although the water was barely more than tepid.
With a sort of voluptuous creaking in his joints he climbed the stair above Mr Charrington's shop. He was tired, but not sleepy any longer. He opened the window, lit the dirty little oilstove and put on a pan of water for coffee. Julia would arrive presently: meanwhile there was the book. He sat down in the sluttish armchair and undid the straps of the briefcase.
-- “1984” by George Orwell
_ _ _
By the third day his eyes ached unbearably and his spectacles needed wiping every few minutes. It was like struggling with some crushing physical task, something which one had the right to refuse and which one was nevertheless neurotically anxious to accomplish. In so far as he had time to remember it, he was not troubled by the fact that every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink-pencil, was a deliberate lie. He was as anxious as anyone else in the Department that the forgery should be perfect. On the morning of the sixth day the dribble of cylinders slowed down. For as much as half an hour nothing came out of the tube; then one more cylinder, then nothing. Everywhere at about the same time the work was easing off. A deep and as it were secret sigh went through the Department. A mighty deed, which could never be mentioned, had been achieved. It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened. At twelve hundred it was unexpectedly announced that all workers in the Ministry were free till tomorrow morning. Winston, still carrying the briefcase containing the book, which had remained between his feet while he worked and under his body while he slept, went home, shaved himself, and almost fell asleep in his bath, although the water was barely more than tepid.
With a sort of voluptuous creaking in his joints he climbed the stair above Mr Charrington's shop. He was tired, but not sleepy any longer. He opened the window, lit the dirty little oilstove and put on a pan of water for coffee. Julia would arrive presently: meanwhile there was the book. He sat down in the sluttish armchair and undid the straps of the briefcase.
-- “1984” by George Orwell
1984 (2,9) The Forgery
Jun. 13th, 2012 06:00 pmBefore Winston arrives at Charrington’s shop, we will get a taste of the rough work week at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history to accord with the fact that Oceania is now at war against Eastasia instead of Eurasia.
_ _ _
By the third day his eyes ached unbearably and his spectacles needed wiping every few minutes. It was like struggling with some crushing physical task, something which one had the right to refuse and which one was nevertheless neurotically anxious to accomplish. In so far as he had time to remember it, he was not troubled by the fact that every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink-pencil, was a deliberate lie. He was as anxious as anyone else in the Department that the forgery should be perfect. On the morning of the sixth day the dribble of cylinders slowed down. For as much as half an hour nothing came out of the tube; then one more cylinder, then nothing. Everywhere at about the same time the work was easing off. A deep and as it were secret sigh went through the Department. A mighty deed, which could never be mentioned, had been achieved. It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened. At twelve hundred it was unexpectedly announced that all workers in the Ministry were free till tomorrow morning. Winston, still carrying the briefcase containing the book, which had remained between his feet while he worked and under his body while he slept, went home, shaved himself, and almost fell asleep in his bath, although the water was barely more than tepid.
With a sort of voluptuous creaking in his joints he climbed the stair above Mr Charrington's shop. He was tired, but not sleepy any longer. He opened the window, lit the dirty little oilstove and put on a pan of water for coffee. Julia would arrive presently: meanwhile there was the book. He sat down in the sluttish armchair and undid the straps of the briefcase.
-- “1984” by George Orwell
_ _ _
By the third day his eyes ached unbearably and his spectacles needed wiping every few minutes. It was like struggling with some crushing physical task, something which one had the right to refuse and which one was nevertheless neurotically anxious to accomplish. In so far as he had time to remember it, he was not troubled by the fact that every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink-pencil, was a deliberate lie. He was as anxious as anyone else in the Department that the forgery should be perfect. On the morning of the sixth day the dribble of cylinders slowed down. For as much as half an hour nothing came out of the tube; then one more cylinder, then nothing. Everywhere at about the same time the work was easing off. A deep and as it were secret sigh went through the Department. A mighty deed, which could never be mentioned, had been achieved. It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened. At twelve hundred it was unexpectedly announced that all workers in the Ministry were free till tomorrow morning. Winston, still carrying the briefcase containing the book, which had remained between his feet while he worked and under his body while he slept, went home, shaved himself, and almost fell asleep in his bath, although the water was barely more than tepid.
With a sort of voluptuous creaking in his joints he climbed the stair above Mr Charrington's shop. He was tired, but not sleepy any longer. He opened the window, lit the dirty little oilstove and put on a pan of water for coffee. Julia would arrive presently: meanwhile there was the book. He sat down in the sluttish armchair and undid the straps of the briefcase.
-- “1984” by George Orwell