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[lapsedmodernist]

1. Random Fionn conversation:

me: I am going to eat you up!
Fionn: I am going to eat *you* up!
me: but I am too big! I won't fit inside your tummy!
Fionn: Well, I could eat you every day.

2. Watching the new show "Homeland"--it is REALLY good! It's funny, though, that sometimes Claire Danes, who plays this tough, cunning, bipolar CIA operative sometimes totally has Angela Chase expressions/mannerisms--at other times she seems to have the affect of Cara Thrace from "Battlestar Galactica"--especially in the scenes she has when she is drunk and on the way to hooking up with Brody--actually their dynamic, that painful-to-watch, alcohol-fueled braggadocio reminded me of those flashback scenes in the series finale of BSG of Cara and Lee starting to get it on on the table while Lee's brother/Cara's fiancee is passed out on the couch a few feet away

3. Going to Berlin next weekend. Seeing totalvirility who is arriving from India via Finland, hopefully with copious photographs of his newborn surrogately-gestated (what is the adjective for that?) nephews.

4. John Sayles wrote a novel! Did y'all know this? It's called "A Moment in the Sun" and I am totally going to read it, even if one of the Amazon reader reviews says that by the time they got to p.700, they realized he needed so many pages in the book so that he would have enough space for every possible bad thing ever to happen to his characters.

5. In another pop-culture link, I realized that one of the screenwriters for "Fringe" is Akiva Goldman, which makes sense when connected to the news I read that Akiva Goldman is the one adapting Helprin's "Winter's Tale" for the screen (supposedly)--I know it's not obvious (even though the show makes all these explicit shout-outs to the book), but I see such a connection between "Fringe" and "Winter's Tale."

6. I am still jet-lagged or post-jet-lagged or something. I took like a 3-hour nap today. I am sure that will work out great when I try to go to bed at a reasonable hour.

Comments

[rivertumbled.livejournal.com]

this is the first i've heard of winter's tale being adapted for screen! that could be amazing or amazingly horrible...here's hoping for something sublime. that book deserves it.

do you have any dream casting?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

some casting potentialities being bandied about there: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a349370/russell-crowe-to-play-villain-in-akiva-goldsmans-winters-tale.html

For my own dream casting--now that Fringe and The Winter's Tale are so intertextually intermingled in my head, how about Peter Bishop as Peter Lake? Not really...but man, I don't even know who could play him! I am now imagining the entire cast of "Fringe" cast in "Winter's Tale". I have a very non-corporeal idea about Peter Lake--funnily, I always imagined Bevery as a young Cate Blanchett, and I think Anna Torv looks quite a bit like Cate Blachett...if they were going for casting an actress of the actual age that Beverly is supposed to be in the book, then maybe Saoirse Ronan. Or Bryce Dallas Howard (how she looked like "Lady in the WAter"). I could have seen Anthony Hopkins playing Jackson Meade 10 years ago but maybe not now...

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

btw you watch "Fringe," right? You see the connection, no?

[rivertumbled.livejournal.com]

yes! i love fringe.

& i think saorise ronan would be a wonderful beverly. did you see the photos of her in the december vogue? i bought the magazine for them...a pre-raphaelite homage:

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/64572180.html

peter lake will be hard. i'll have to think...

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

wow those are great. Yeah, I think I somehow associate Beverly's consumption with a certain pre-Raphaelite aesthetic.

So about the connections between the two--obviously there is that whole Peter Lake/Peter in the lake thing, the alternate new york, the character who disappears out of reality and then returns unexpectedly, that time young Olivia was reading the freaking book in a "past" episode--but what I wonder besides that is if the whole part of the narrative about Walter and Peter crossing over via the ice on Reyden Lake is somehow an allusion to the whole Lake of the Coheeries part in the book--it's this idyllic place in the rural countryside, and also a place where, over the ice of the lake, the barrier between two worlds lies (in the book the cloud wall).

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I guess I want to know if all these seeming similarities are intentional or not--Peter Lake is a master/savant mechanic; Peter Bishop's "thing" is that he can fix anything mechanical, Peter Lake is introduced as running from the criminal gang he made enemies of during his life as a thief, Peter Bishop is introduced as hiding from the sketchy people he made enemies of during his life as a conman; the characters in Winter's Tale aspire towards a Golden Age; the Fringe team's vision of healing/collaborating universes resolves itself in an "Amber" universe...

[rivertumbled.livejournal.com]

i would like to know that too...i hope they are intentional.

i am planning a re-read of "winter's tale" for this winter. it has been too long...