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Grazie infinie, Minic@t, te ne sono grata!!!!

Da Living Scotsman, è un articolo su Scrubs, ma viene citato House, anzi Hugh e Dr.Cox, in un contesto che non mi garba tanto...


Fri 29 Jun 2007

ANDRENA MULLANEY

• Scrubs, E4

COMPARED to most American comedies, Scrubs is diet cola: much less sugary than most, with a refreshingly bitter aftertaste. The young doctors and their mentors at the Sacred Heart Hospital only spend about 15 per cent of their time on hugs and meaningful learning experiences, as opposed to the likes of Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives which usually hit around 85 per cent.

Okay, so Zach Braff's goofy Dr JD might bond with a Wise Patient and have a Meaningful Moment of Insight into his current situation (having accidentally knocked up his new girlfriend in circumstances revealing a surprising lack of knowledge for a medical professional). But any sappiness is immediately followed by him being spray-painted as the Stars and Stripes by his janitor nemesis and hung from a flagpole.

But as this sixth - and penultimate - season began, the likeable cast are no longer the fresh-faced interns, or "newbies" as the show has it. They've had to find new storylines for them, unfortunately resulting in three simultaneous pregnancies among the main characters, which seems like overkill.

And the more bizarre sequences which always used to be presented as dream sequences or fantasies are now portrayed as actually happening. A dodgy opening gag about JD being abducted to Las Vegas by some old gay men, nearly pressed into a civil partnership and joining the Blue Man Group on stage, should really have ended with someone shaking him out of it. That was straining too hard for laughs, but Scrubs still has some moments of surreal fun carried off naturally, like all the hospital staff getting on down in reception to Dr Turk's groovy N'Sync ringtone.

And Dr Cox's sarcastic, angry, mean senior physician is a treat, a proto-House without the yucky medical mysteries or Hugh Laurie's dodgy accent. Occasionally he tries to reform. COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSAAAAAAAAAAAAA? Ma come si permettono?????

"I'm through with anger," he declared to his equally caustic wife.

"Oh, is this going to be like the time you quit drinking? 'Cause that was the longest 20 minutes of my life," she snapped back. Of course, a few scenes later he's thrown a TV out of a window.

While the baby storylines threaten possible cutesiness and the wacky stunts can get out of hand, if Scrubs keeps to its short and snappy formula, it should remain a tasty treat.

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Ma guarda tu...

Ragazze, ovviamente vi quoto tutte.
Una delle tante ca@@ate che certi giornalisti scrivono senza perchè e senza per come.
"Perdona loro, perchè non sanno quello che dicono"...
L'accento sforzato di Hugh Laurie. Non hanno capito niente. Non sanno niente. Ma soprattutto totale mancanza di rispetto verso un attore di enorme talento che si fa un c@lo cosi per dare il meglio di sè.

Lo, grazie per l'articolo!

E grazie a te Minic@t cara, per la traduzione e per avermi pensato!

come se gli scozzesi potessero permettersi di giudicare gli accenti....

che però il loro accento mi piace tanto... mi sono abituata con Life on Mars e the Gene Genie!

Ciao a tutti,
girovagando per il web ho trovato questo articoletto che - a detta del redattore - e' il risultato di un'intervista a Hugh Laurie condotta via posta elettronica.
Mi sembra di averne gia' letto un pezzo da qualche altra parte, ad ogni modo mi sembra carina e verosimile, e la posto (sempre sperando di non fare cosa vietata e che l'articolo non sia gia' stato citato altrove, della qual cosa eventualmente mi scuso con le admin).
La fonte e' qui:

http://www.pastdeadline.com/2007/05/why_hugh_laurie.html

Why Hugh Laurie Is the Coolest Man On Earth

So about this time every year, I help put together a number of special issues of The Hollywood Reporter in advance of nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards. We here at the trades call it Emmy Season (not to be confused with our four regular seasons in Southern California: Fire, Flood, Earthquake and Pilot). As such, I have an opportunity annually to talk shop with all sorts of TV series and made-for-TV movie producers and stars discussing the merits of their projects/of themselves for Emmy consideration.

The process can be a little bit awkward -- I mean, you know, asking people to essentially tell you, "Yeah, I deserve an award from my peers." Those who coat their answers in wit, irony and self-deprecation tend to come across best. It's why I so adore Hugh Laurie, who won a Golden Globe this year for his protrayal of Dr. Gregory House on the hit Fox medical drama "House." He's British, though you wouldn't know it from his impeccable American accent on the show. Better still, while the man is a brilliant performer, he never takes himself at all seriously, as I've found on the three occasions when we've spoken.

I was disappointed that Laurie hadn't the time to talk on the phone in advance of Emmy season this time but jumped at the chance to conduct an interview via e-mail. I sent questions through his publicist. The answers arrived a scant two hours later. I offer the exchange here in its entirety, eloquently demonstrating why Laurie is my favorite actor on this or any other planet.

1. "I'm a bit confused. How does "House" get an Emmy nomination for drama series...while you personally do not? You ARE House. To my mind, it was a bit like honoring the meal while ignoring the chef who cooked it. Did you feel this way, or did you not have the time and energy to become properly incensed?"

Hugh Laurie: "I'm greatly flattered by your analogy, but I'm not sure it's quite right. (Executive producer) David Shore is really the chef, (executive producer) Katie Jacobs is the Maitre D', and I am merely the waiter. 15% is considered normal."

2. "Did receiving an Emmy nomination for series notably energize the "House" staff? Is there now a swagger in everyone's stride?"

Laurie: "Swaggering is actually forbidden on the set. Something to do with insurance. But I think everyone was pleased and proud to be nominated. I hope so anyway. A lot of people work incredibly hard on the show and it's nice to be recognized for it."

3. "Where do you keep your Golden Globe trophy? Does it make an effective bookend? (And congratulations, by the way.)"

Laurie: "Forgive me for being pedantic here, but I actually now have two - so your bookend idea works even better. Particularly since they weigh more than any earthly substance could in that volume. Friends who try and pick them up assume that I've welded them to the shelf. They are now installed in my son's bedroom, which I have converted into a Hall of Fame. He sleeps in the garden."

4. "Has your work schedule lessened at all or is it as unfathomably insane as ever? How much longer can you conceivably keep up this exhaustive pace?"

Laurie: "It's as unfathomably insane as ever, made more so by the fatigue. I have seen camera operators fall asleep against the viewfinder during a take. If we were pilots, we wouldn't be allowed to fly. But we're not, so there's no sense getting all hyperbolic about it. I do worry about how long we can go on like this. I worry that tiredness will make us worse and people will lose interest. Or that someone will fall over, or crash their car driving home. That would be horrible."

5. "Will Dr. Gregory House ever be happy?"

Laurie: "I think it's unlikely. Perhaps that will be the last scene we ever do. House on the doorstep of a rose-covered cottage, his arm around Donna Reed, two moppets scampering at his feet, maybe a Labrador. The camera will pull back and back, a helicopter shot, House and Donna waving, getting smaller and smaller. Then House will pull out a shoulder launched missile.... there'll be a flash of light, getting bigger and bigger, filling the frame, then BLACKNESS.

"That's my pitch."