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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 24, 2015, 05:56:23 pm ---I just finished that one. Crazy that they have reality and game TV shows related to plastic surgery!
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We do too, don't we? At least we have had. There was a reality show -- I think called "The Swan"? -- that conducted dramatic makeovers on people that included plastic surgery.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 24, 2015, 05:56:23 pm ---I just finished that one. Crazy that they have reality and game TV shows related to plastic surgery!
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 24, 2015, 11:59:02 pm ---We do too, don't we? At least we have had. There was a reality show -- I think called "The Swan"? -- that conducted dramatic makeovers on people that included plastic surgery.
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Oh, yuck. I think I remember hearing about The Swan. But whoever does a show like that, it's just creepy.
Jeff Wrangler:
I read the Colm Toibin fiction piece, but only because I read somewhere that he's gay. The narrator of the story certainly is.
Jeff Wrangler:
Over supper this evening I finished the March 23 article about the woes of the Metropolitan Opera under Peter Gelb. This amounted to a duty article for me because opera just isn't my thing (sorry, Meryl :-\ ). On the other hand, I recognize the Met as an important cultural institution, so I read the article.
Anyway, I did come away from the article with something that I find amusing. The Met's production of La Boheme was designed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1981. That means that when Cher and Nicholas Cage went to the Met in Moonstruck (1987), they were seeing Zeffirelli's production. ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
During an abbreviated lunch today, I read Louis Menand's March 30 article on a new book called 1995: The Year the Future Began. I won't give away Menand's conclusion, but in a way, for me, 1995 really was the year the future began. It's the year my mother died, and all of the sudden I was faced with a world without her. :-\
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