You need perfectly tragic on a good way? You bring in Claire Danes.
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She also wrote a short story called “Transcendental Wild Oats” about her father’s failed Transcendentalist commune that’s pretty funny. I haven’t read it since college, but I remember it being affectionate but scathing about idealistic men who can’t care for themselves.
...and no one can possibly be as awful as Winona Ryder so what the hell.
It was originally written as two books, with Good Wives being a sequel to Little Women. In the US, it’s almost always combined into the one volume.
Yeah, it ends at Christmas with their father returning and the next part starts with a big time jump.
I suspect one of those kind things Pratt did to make the world a better place is vote GOP/trump. So I’ll pass, Kath, thanks.
I’m thinking that, as well. This many people aren’t being blackmailed, etc. They are full on drinking that koolaid and are finally taking off whatever decent person skin suit they may have been wearing. Lindsay Graham sounds batshit these days, but maybe he always was. I’m not ready for the level of crazy we are all…
Other UK children’s editions of classic literature:
Yeah, they won’t say it out loud, but the reason why the Republican base is so panicked by the thought of Democrats taking control is because the Republican Party is the party of white people. It’s not Medicare for All that panics them. It’s not “socialism” that puts them in a tizzy. It’s the thought of what might…
Wait, what? To each his own, I guess, because Winona is my absolute favorite Jo. As a matter of fact, the 1994 version is my favorite adaptation of Little Women.
For me the giveaways are the people who insist on writing a billion words about how perfect and lovely their family/relationship/life is, as if anyone who is actually happy with their life would feel the need to explain that to anyone else.
Hot take.
I don’t think that the Republicans who support this mad dog regime are doing it as a matter of temporary expedience anymore. I think that they believe that the Republican base has openly embraced racial bigotry, nativism, and contempt for common decency for the foreseeable future and have grasped that as their future…
Oh! And I forgot about Claire Danes! She was perfectly tragic (in a good way)!
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the Winona Ryder-starring version, but I remember it quite fondly. Kirsten Dunst as the youngest sister who was obsessed with outward appearances was a standout.
And everything bad about social media is turned up to 11 around the holidays: the superficiality, the humble brags, the performances of happiness, #blessed, etc. Give it a rest, the more photos you post of your family frolicking in the snow, the less surprised I'll be when the divorce announcement comes
Little Woman is Louisa May Alcott’s masterpiece & this sounds like an interesting, worthy adaptation.
I have already spontaneously complimented three people today and it was not due to some forced resolution, just me being me (i.e. real). Some days, I don’t compliment anyone spontaneously, because forced ≠ real.
Fuck everyone involved in this story. Fucking morons.