On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:05:26 GMT, "Sharpe Fan"
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>"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:23:57 GMT, "Sharpe Fan"
>> <sharpeseagle2003NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Just a few post-Gg observations:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Lauren Graham apparently either got really pissed off at Alexis or
>>>> really prepared for the writers' strike because she's sure got
another
>>>> commercial gig so suspiciously soon after Gg's indefinite hiatus
>>>> started. She's done the voiceover for the new American Express Plum
>>>> Card (for small businesses). Usually, commercial campaigns take
quite
>>>> some time to air. Several months and sometimes even up to a year
>>>> depending on how big the campaign is and since it's AmEx, I'm
figuring
>>>> that it's a fairly big campaign launch. I spotted the commercial
>>>> during Countdown and then thought it was hilarious that it *didn't*
>>>> air during Samantha Who?, especially since, well, that plum color is
>>>> pretty.
>>>>
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>>>> -- Rob
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>>>Is Alexis a spokesperson for Visa or something? How does LG doing an
AmEx
>>>commercial have anything to do with AB?
>>
>> Lauren going toward alternate sources of income -- two voiceovers so
>> far (Special K and now AmEx). And that's even considering that IMO,
>> Graham is a *terrible* voiceover person, with a delivery so clipped
>> and rushed in a not-Amy-like way that she simulates emotion without
>> actually delivering any emotion. IOW, I think Lauren rushes her
>> voiceovers.
>>
>> -- Rob
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>You postulated that a possible reason LG is doing the AmEx voice-over
>because she is pissed at AB.
No. I postulated that Lauren having such gigs lined up so
suspiciously quick after the start of Gg's indefinite hiatus
*indicates* that she's either pissed at AB or more quickly anticipated
the writers' strike than most people in Hollywood (or, I'll add here,
both.) You're inferring a statement of cause-and-effect where I only
state corroboration.
And I said that that doesn't address why I think LG's work on said
voiceover sucks even though I think that LG otherwise walks on water.
Keep in mind, commerical work, while a source of steady and
substantial income for the duration that the commerical or series of
commercials are running, are nevertheless considered a step down from
acting on prime time or the movies. They're considered more along
the lines of a working vacation.
>I realize that this has some hyperbole (I hope), but I still don't see
any
>connection between LG doing a commercial and anything to do with AB.
Well, the show's on indefinite hiatus and she's done a commercial,
four movies and the Evan Almighty press junket since the season
wrapped in April. That's an hellaciously busy schedule, one that
Graham likely wouldn't have been logistically (much less physically)
able to do had the show not gone on indefinite hiatus. Her movie with
Matthew Perry (Birds of America) and the Evan junket, obviously yes,
as the former was an indie that went into production shortly after the
season wrapped and is the sort of thing that Lauren does in-between
seasons of the show and the latter was a pre-existing obligation that
would have otherwise precluded her from doing other gigs for the rest
of the summer.
BTW, while every actor likes to get a new role -- because hey, it's a
paying gig -- no one actually *relishes* the idea of having to go out
on 40 auditions just to get one of them (literally. 40:1 is the rule
of thumb and it doesn't change until you're Tom Cr^ize and own your
own studio and religious cult. And, yes, she's going to have to
audition for movie roles even *with* her NBC Universal deal for a
possible TV series, which might even be subject to being
force-majeured out by the writers' strike anyway. If someone else is
the reason that you're out of a job, no matter how much you might feel
for him/her, you're going to be at the very least disappointed that
it's the other person's decision that put you out of a job. And with
the rigors of Gg's schedule, I very seriously doubt that Graham really
would have wanted to *have* to do three movies in a row right after Gg
with no real rest between the show, the first movie, the Evan junket
and the other two movies. Which is what I suspect that she felt she
*had* to do in order to be set fundage-wise for the duration of the
WGA strike *and* any potential strike by SAG.
Including the *filming* of Evan Almighty, which took up virtually all
of the summer of 2006 (I think Carell still had a month of filming of
Evan to do when The Office started filming s3 in 2006), that would be
approximately two years of 12-to-16-hour days, often seven days per
week, that Lauren's been filming since the top of season 6, a year
before filming of Evan started, but which marked the start of this
virtually nonstop period of filming for Lauren. So, you know, I think
Lauren probably expected her vacation to have started a little bit
earlier than, like, approximately now. Okay, early November, but I'm
rounding. I still think it's reasonable to speculate that her
vacation started 3 months later than she expected.
And yeah, that disappointment at AB for the show ending likely
factored into her decision to take on so many gigs so quickly.
Sustaining this sort of a pace for so long has a high burnout rate to
consider. It'd be a different thing if the movies were basically just
long cameos like her walk-on role in Sweet November or The Pacifier
(roles that only took a week or less each to film), but she has
substantial roles in these movies.
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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