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Post by carl1951 on Nov 29, 2007 12:46:45 GMT -5
Congratulation on reaching 3K posts.
Karma for the accomplishment.
Later, Carl
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Post by hoosier on Nov 29, 2007 18:29:24 GMT -5
Congratulation on reaching 3K posts. Karma for the accomplishment. Later, Carl Thanks and thanks for the karma! ;D |
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Post by matilda on Dec 2, 2007 7:22:08 GMT -5
OK heavy Moonlight advertising campaign underway so no doubt a summer holiday special - looking good.
And I'll get to find out who this Alex O'Loughlin bloke is.
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Post by hoosier on Dec 4, 2007 18:26:45 GMT -5
This week's TV Guide has an article on Alex O'Loughlin/Mick St. John.
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Post by Duchess of Lashes on Dec 4, 2007 19:11:11 GMT -5
Yes there is a nice Behind the Scenes article - but if you thought that one was good, wait until next week's TV Guide issue (December 10) which sports a follow-up article about the man who plays our favorite Friday night vamp - sneak peek available:  Meet Alex O’Loughlin, the vampire who’s getting hearts pumping on Moonlight Alex O’Loughlin loves the rush he gets from doing his own stunts. “I really feel like I’m participating in life when I’m strapped into a harness and hanging precariously over the ground,” says 31-year-old Australian actor, (whose last name is pronounced “o-LOCK-lin”). As Moonlight’s crime-fighting vampire/private detective Mick St. John, he gets plenty of chances to revel in those daredevil moments. His character often leaps from rooftops and catwalks in pursuit of both mortal and immortal lawbreakers. On a fall afternoon on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, however, the actor finds himself earthbound, shooting an indoor scene where Mick is pondering the ongoing plot about whether or not the evil ex he killed is still alive. Between takes, he ducks out to an alley to puff a Cuban cigar. Costumed in trademark Mick garb--black jeans, boots, dark shirt--he apologizes repeatedly for the smoke, his gentlemanly concern something you’d expect from Mick St. John. But while Mick is smoldering and reserved, O’Loughlin is playful. “He’s a bundle of energy,” says costar Sophia Myles, who plays reporter Beth Turner, the woman Mick loves but can’t have. “And he’s funny--he makes me laugh all night long With our schedule, 16 hours a day, six days a week, I couldn’t have hoped for anyone more wonderful to work with.” The intense routine means that the actor doesn’t get to see his girlfriend, Australian actress/singer Holly Valance, as much as he’d like, although she recently guest starred as Lola, the gorgeous vamp Mick fought to the death. The two met while doing construction work for a mutual friend and have been dating for a year and a half. How’s she handling his burgeoning staus as a heartthrob? “She’s a sex symbol,” O’Loughlin says of her status Down Under, “so probably the same way that I do, which is just deal with it. To me, it’s weird.” “What’s great about Alex is he can turn on the sex for the job, but he never abuses his good looks,” Myles says. “He knows his place in the universe.” Right now that’s a pretty sweet spot. Besides Moonlight, he’s appearing in two films: In “August Rush,” he’s a passionate musician, and in next year’s “Whiteout” (with Kate Beckinsdale), he’s a rough-and-tumble pilot. “He’s one of the baddies,” O’Loughlin says. “But I mean, who is bad? You know?” The actor understands all too well the complicated histories that drive people to do what they do. He was raised by his mom, a nurse, after she split with his dad, teacher. Money was tight, his clothes were second-hand, and he rarely had anything new. “I didn’t feel that engaged with the world as a kid,” he says. “I wasn’t the fastest learner. I didn’t feel like I fit.” When he did a school play and heard the audience’s laughter, “it was one of the first times in my life I felt a connection with people.” His life began to come together at 19, when a friend shocked him with a harsh lecture about how he was wasting his natural ability to entertain people. “I realized that every time I’d gone to the movies, I’d walk away with this awful feeling,” he says. “I don’t know if it was envy or yearning, but I worked out that I was watching people do what I wanted to do.” After graduating Sydney’s National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2002, he began making regular trips to Los Angeles for work, eventually landing Moonlight. Now it’s dusk and O’Loughlin slips into Mick’s overcoat, turns up the collar and heads to an outdoor set for a night shoot that just might involve leaping from tall buildings. But even if O’Loughlin gets to do his stunts, it won’t be enough. “They’ll only drop me a certain amount of stories, and I want to go from the top,” he says, and then adds with a laugh, “They’re like ‘Dude, you can’t. If you die, we don’t have show.” |
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Post by Duchess of Lashes on Dec 4, 2007 21:08:21 GMT -5
And now, as being reported on several different fronts, this quote from CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves:
New Fall Shows
We put on five new shows, and I think two [ Moonlight and Big Bang Theory] will be back a year from now, assuming the strike is over by then, which we assume it will be. I think that's pretty good.
This sounds like very promising news for those of us who have tuned in to Moonlight and found that something special!
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Post by matilda on Dec 4, 2007 22:15:59 GMT -5
oh Duchess, I can see the interest in this Aussie lad!
Tks for visual.
Matilda
Have just googled him - OMG he is from Sydney and dates bloody Holly Valance and won a Logie - I really have been under a rock. I also note that there was a rumour that his bioloogical father was Bon Scott, bless. Well you would jack up if you were the parents but on the other hand it would be a great claim to fame.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2007 22:37:04 GMT -5
HOLY SWEET NECTAR OF THE GODS, LORI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Duchess of Lashes on Dec 4, 2007 22:39:05 GMT -5
HOLY SWEET NECTAR OF THE GODS, LORI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Haven't heard it put quite that way before - but that pretty much sums it up for me! |
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Post by matilda on Dec 5, 2007 9:23:25 GMT -5
Yup.
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Post by Chris on Dec 5, 2007 15:28:32 GMT -5
HOLY SWEET NECTAR OF THE GODS, LORI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe I should pray for some "Moonlight" here too...... ;D - Chris  |
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Post by Duchess of Lashes on Dec 16, 2007 10:41:12 GMT -5
After a very long two week hiatus, Moonlight returned on Friday night and promptly did something I didn't think possible..it outdid itself. Prior to Sleeping Beauty, I had a favorite episode (one that I've watched at least ten times over) but that one has just slipped to number two! Intricate story lines were so deftly woven together in this one and in those story lines, with new revelations about the past, with the continued growth of the characters and the relationships being forged, came a few steps forward and a few steps back...establishing once again that there is still a very defined barrier between what Beth/Mick want and what they can't have. This time, though, after being the one to pull away on so many occasions before because it could never work, it was Mick who was willing to open up and take the gamble; and this time it was Beth who pulled away from him, frightened, perhaps, by what she had just witnessed, wondering, perhaps, if Mick hadn't been right all along. But the barrier that exists between them isn't as solid as it once was....the wall is gone (and the symbolism of the window was, I thought, absolutely brilliant!)  "Let's do something...something fun, something quintessentially New York."  "Look, I don't know...I didn't leave things very well with Josh."  "Yeah, of course."      For those of us who enjoy this show like no other, it is going to be another very long three weeks until the next episode. |
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Post by hoosier on Dec 17, 2007 19:32:23 GMT -5
I heartily agree, this episode was...wonderful. Even though I believed (I couldn't say "I knew" because lately they have been killing off main characters on shows) that Josef survived the attempt on his life (can you technically say that since he is, you know, one of the undead  ), I got caught up in watching Mick's reaction. Josef is one of his oldest friends and even though he does try Mick's patience, they are friends. And the revelation that Josef, who doesn't want to be emotionally involved with humans, who constantly counsels Mick to not be so involved with them, was and still is in love with a mortal woman! Wow! |
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Post by Duchess of Lashes on Dec 17, 2007 20:28:56 GMT -5
It was Joszef's supposed death that led to one of the most heartfelt and angsty moments of the night, perfectly played by Alex O'Loughlin, and that was Mick's attempt to reconcile the loss of his friend, struggling to maintain control of his emotions, unable to wrap himself completely around it.
"I've outlived so many of my human friends, you think I'd be used to losing people by now.....he survived 400 years. In 400 years he saw so much...so much history...he was history...and now he's gone... and that loss to me is so enormous....that I'm not even sure if I know how to mourn him."
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Post by maggiethecat on Dec 18, 2007 9:58:42 GMT -5
"I've outlived so many of my human friends, you think I'd be used to losing people by now.....he survived 400 years. In 400 years he saw so much...so much history...he was history...and now he's gone... and that loss to me is so enormous....that I'm not even sure if I know how to mourn him." I think I know how this show is going to get around the WG strike: by recycling old Highlander scripts. Oh, wait -- they're already doing that.   |
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), I got caught up in watching Mick's reaction. Josef is one of his oldest friends and even though he does try Mick's patience, they are friends. And the revelation that Josef, who doesn't want to be emotionally involved with humans, who constantly counsels Mick to not be so involved with them, was and still is in love with a mortal woman! Wow! 
