BetterMost, Wyoming & Brokeback Mountain Forum
Our BetterMost Community => Chez Tremblay => Topic started by: littleguitar on July 07, 2006, 09:33:47 am
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that's the word on TOB anyway, haven't confirmed it but supposedly the BBM Oprah will be on today... just in case anyone is interested! ;D
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Thanks, Mandy. Unfortunately, it looks like they're covering the Wimbledon men's semi-finals all day today on our local NBC affilliate, so I'll miss out on re-Tivo'ing it, I'm afraid. Oh well. I did TiVo it and save it (and enjoy it) for a long time before, so I'll survive. :)
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Hunh, my TiVo doesn't seem to know it's on. Oh well, as I recall, there were aspects of that show that annoyed me so much it kind of balanced out the BBMfestiness of it for me. Mostly Oprah's interrupting and lack of "getting it."
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My Tivo says it is on today :D
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My "RePlayTV" says it is on today as well. 4pm Eastcoast time, on CBS Networks.
It was a cute show. I'll record it too. The cast more than makes up for Oprahs silly questions. Not to mention her saying that this was the movie to win, then the next week she says that about Crash! UGH!
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My "RePlayTV" says it is on today as well. 4pm Eastcoast time, on CBS Networks.
Well, that would explain why I wasn't finding it on NBC... ::)
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Well, that would explain why I wasn't finding it on NBC... ::)
Ha ha ha! Sure enough! ;)
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Weird, I thought Oprah was always on NBC. Wimbledon is on NBC during that time today here. Oh well, I saw them on Oprah the first time. Thanks Mandy!
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saw BBM oprah again today. heath & jake are just so cute!
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I loved every minute of seeing this again. Too cute, Heath mugging when they asked who was the most serious...and Jake and his Jack Nasty loves you...LOL and Anne Hathaway talking back to Oprah priceless!
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I have it on tape from the first time, but it is great watching it with the rest of the country. Maybe it will get to someone who missed it the first time, and open a whole new world for them too.
Based on the questions asked, I don't think Oprah "got it". She liked the movie because all the right people in the world liked it. She had the cast on her show, because it was the talk of hollywood, the film to see. It still bugs me that she would ask whether or not the boys thought that having an affair on their wives was 'conflicting'. If she really understood the movie, she would know that they had no other real choice. If she really understood Ennis's struggles, that question would'nt have come to mind.
However, Oprah has a huge audience, and if their exposure was able to get even a few to discover Brokeback Mountain, then I am grateful for it.
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I have it on tape from the first time, but it is great watching it with the rest of the country. Maybe it will get to someone who missed it the first time, and open a whole new world for them too.
Based on the questions asked, I don't think Oprah "got it". She like the movie because all the right people in the world liked it. She had the cast on her show, because it was the talk of hollywood, the film to see. It still bugs me that she would ask whether or not the boys thought that having an affair on their wives was 'conflicting'. If she really understood the movie, she would know that they had no other real choice. If she really understood Ennis's struggles, that question would'nt have come to mind.
However, Oprah has a huge audience, and if their exposure was able to get even a few to discover Brokeback Mountain, then I am grateful to her.
Yeah, you are 100% right, Oprah was clueless. Too bad, she usually has a brain... I didn't even bother to tape it, but maybe I should have anyway.... oh well.
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I HATED the Oprah show. She was so phony.
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I HATED the Oprah show. She was so phony.
Yes, Eric...SHE was, but they weren't and Jake nailed her twice about her disingeniousness and then Anne talked back too. I loved that....when Jake said " what are you trying to get at?" and then Heath's compassionate and intellegent comment in answer to that revolting suggestion about them being on the Down Low...god Oprah was totally clueless but they handled it. I was proud of them and enjoyed their interaction with each other
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I agree, Victoria, Oprah obviously tried to ask all the salacious questions trying to make them squirm, including a reference to Jakes break-up. Seemingly to try and get all the details in before their half hour was up. But Heath, being the eloquent man that he is, succeeded in moving the conversations to a better direction. Oprah seemed to revert to her old "gossipy" self, you know, like her shows from the 80's.
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Does anybody of you know where I can find this show on the internet?
Never had a chance to see it. It's not on youtube anymore. I know it's on heathledgercentral.com, but this doesn't work on my computer :(
I'd appreciate your help very much. The winner will earn 100 kissing smilies and my endlessly gratefulness :).
Any ideas???? Someone?
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Penth, try IheartJake, they've got it too. Here's the link, the Oprah clip is the last one of the "talkshow" clips:
http://iheartjake.com/talkshows.htm
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I HATED the Oprah show. She was so phony.
I did, too, Eric. I taped it and watched it a few times when it was first aired because the cast were all so adorable and I enjoyed Jake's and Heath's interaction and obvious chemistry. But I finally deleted it from my TiVo because I just can't stand her. Pretty much every question she asked was retarded, and those she asked about the movie just showed, as others have said here, that she didn't understand it at all. She's an idiot, a phony, and a hypocrite. I haven't watched her show in years because she pissed me off so bad a long time ago when she did this thing on a couple who had lost four babies to SIDs (the clear implication being that they had killed them themselves) and then - surprise! - had the audience filled with other couples who had just lost one baby to it. She tries to portray herself as having come oh-so-far from those Springeresqe type shows and being so above all that, but truth is she's never got much farther than that. It's probably just as well I missed it this time around - I'm still pissed off enough about the last one to stoke my days for a while.
I have a question for you, Oprah: Don't you find it conflicting that you have all this influence on pop culture and yet you don't begin to have the nearest clue?
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Thank you Mikaela
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Thanks! (*trying to look grateful for the rest of my life* ;))
Yes, Eric...SHE was, but they weren't and Jake nailed her twice about he ingeniousness and then Anne talked back too. I loved that....when Jake said " what are you trying to get at?" and then Heath's compassionate and intellegent comment in answer to that revolting suggestion about them being on the Down Low...god Oprah was totally clueless but they handled it. I was proud of them and enjoyed their interaction with each other
Couldn't agree more, Vic. I especially liked Heath's comment.
Heath and Michelle are so cute together. I mean not what he said about her (though it was cute), course he's expected to say those nice things, what else could he have said? But the way they interact, their looks at each other. I believe they're really, really very much into each other and happy together.
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**Grins delightedly** So many kissing smileys should really stoke the day! Glad to be able to help out. :)
I remember being thrilled when the Oprah show first aired, because it was the first time in forever that Heath and Jake appeared together to promote the film. That was the best bit of the whole show, seeing them actually together there when the two of them appear from behind those panels after that overly melo-dramatic introduction from Oprah. But.... the show was a disappointment to me, as to others here, because it seemed so shallow and simplistic, and asked those same old, same old tired questions. The kiss..... well, at least by then Jake had perfected his way of deflecting that one, seeming almost way too glib in the process.
There were good and nice points inbetween, and all the 4 cast members aquitted themselves very well, so endearing, including Anne H's delightful little quip - but overall it wasn't something I felt the urge to rewatch.
(I'm a clueless foreigner who haven't ever had the opportunity to wathc Oprah before, so I didn't know what to expect at all, except I know she's a force to be reckoned with in the US.)
And since I've now admitted to being a cluless foreigner anyway, with English not being my first language, - what does being on the Down Low mean? ??? It's a colloquialism, I suppose, - and I can't quite make it out from the context, though I've got some sort of hunch of course, - but it might be wrong.
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Mikaela, on the Down Low is a slang expression in the black community here for when two "straight" black men have sex. Someone please help me if I'm being way un-hip here, but my understanding is that to them it's "OK" (as in socially acceptable amongst their straight colleagues) when it's referred to in this way - like it's something they just do every once in a while for a thrill but nothing more.
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Thank you. I'm very glad I asked; - my hunch was totally wrong. As was Oprah's, if *that* was what she got out of watching BBM.
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Hi Mikeala, here is another explanatiion, courtesy of Diane:
There is a "phenomenon" in the US with African-American men. It is called being on the “down low”. To make a long story short, these are two men getting together to have sex. Neither one sees themselves as gay. But they are having sex with another man. There are no emotional ties. It is strictly sex. The other piece of this whole “down low” thing, is that neither one of the men can be “gay”. Now how bizarre is that? To you and me, we would say … “these guys are gay”.
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Hunh, I never knew what on the Down Low meant. I love when I can feel naive instead of like I've been around the block too many times.
Turns out that my TiVo did record it (of course), but I haven't watched it yet.