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Jeff Wrangler:
Right now I'm trying to decide if I should bother with the cybersecurity article in Nov. 4. It looks awfully, awfully long.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 11, 2019, 11:53:51 am ---I realized this morning I did want to read that profile of Adam Driver. It seems at least I still have that issue.
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 11, 2019, 02:04:21 pm ---Report back if you can figure out why he warranted such a long profile!
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You probably weren't wrong to skip the Driver profile. I didn't think it was particularly long. It was interesting to me because I've been hearing the name a lot, but I had no idea who he was--Girls isn't exactly my taste in TV. ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 12, 2019, 09:52:16 pm --- I didn't think it was particularly long. It was interesting to me because I've been hearing the name a lot, but I had no idea who he was--Girls isn't exactly my taste in TV. ;D
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Well, by long I meant multiple pages. I'd read a one-page profile of Adam Driver. Maybe even two or three. But I think it was like, five or more, right? And he seemed like just an average guy who's a good actor.
Girls probably isn't your taste because you like Westerns and things like that, and it's more urban, ironic, etc. I watched the whole thing and thought it was good. It's not as "girly" as you might imagine. I actually would read a longish profile of Lena Dunham. Her parents were fairly successful artists, she made her first full-length feature theater film in her early 20s. Her younger sibling, Cyrus Grace Dunham, just published a book called A Year Without a Name that was excerpted as a New Yorker personal essay a while back. He's either a trans man or possibly just nonbinary -- the essay wasn't entirely clear -- but he does use he/him and was born a biological girl. I didn't realize as I was reading the essay that he was Lena Dunham's brother; I just found that out yesterday.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 13, 2019, 09:21:55 am ---Well, by long I meant multiple pages. I'd read a one-page profile of Adam Driver. Maybe even two or three. But I think it was like, five or more, right? And he seemed like just an average guy who's a good actor.
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It seemed to me that the length was pretty typical for The New Yorker. I can see where it might be too long for you because you've already read profiles of him. I had not; I only knew the name.
--- Quote ---Girls probably isn't your taste because you like Westerns and things like that, and it's more urban, ironic, etc. I watched the whole thing and thought it was good. It's not as "girly" as you might imagine. I actually would read a longish profile of Lena Dunham. Her parents were fairly successful artists, she made her first full-length feature theater film in her early 20s. Her younger sibling, Cyrus Grace Dunham, just published a book called A Year Without a Name that was excerpted as a New Yorker personal essay a while back. He's either a trans man or possibly just nonbinary -- the essay wasn't entirely clear -- but he does use he/him and was born a biological girl. I didn't realize as I was reading the essay that he was Lena Dunham's brother; I just found that out yesterday.
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You know, there was a longish profile of Lena Dunham in ... wait for it ... The New Yorker. I read it for the same reason I read the Adam Driver profile--knew the name, nothing else.
My taste for old Westerns and so forth really has nothing to do with whether or not I might have liked Girls. Good or not, what possible interest could a show that centers on young, generation-whatever women living in NYC have for me? No relevance whatsoever. (Neither did a show like Queer as Folk, about the travails of a bunch of young gay guys.) Before you ask, for me, anyway, relevance doesn't enter into action shows or procedurals. They're escapism for me. Urban drama is not.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 11, 2019, 02:08:46 pm ---Right now I'm trying to decide if I should bother with the cybersecurity article in Nov. 4. It looks awfully, awfully long.
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I read less than a page, then quit.
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