Stevie Movie in Pre-Production/Lohan to Play Stevie

[David]

Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

David, IMO this post reads like a script from TLC [/SIZE]

Well, I flit from style to style, depending on my mood. Sometimes I effuse in the Pauline Kael style: breezy & slangy. Other times I carefully shape each phrase, each morpheme, in the Barzunesque manner.

Rhetorical styles are like hats to me: put one on first, & then put on another! I vamp campily one minute & turn elegiac & lapidary the next!

[BTFLCHLD]

Originally Posted by David

Well, I flit from style to style, depending on my mood. Sometimes I effuse in the Pauline Kael style: breezy & slangy. Other times I carefully shape each phrase, each morpheme, in the Barzunesque manner.

Rhetorical styles are like hats to me: put one on first, & then put on another! I vamp campily one minute & turn elegiac & lapidary the next!

Yes, I can't help but notice.

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by David

Well, I flit from style to style, depending on my mood. Sometimes I effuse in the Pauline Kael style: breezy & slangy. Other times I carefully shape each phrase, each morpheme, in the Barzunesque manner.

Rhetorical styles are like hats to me: put one on first, & then put on another! I vamp campily one minute & turn elegiac & lapidary the next!

Doesn't 'lapidary' have something to do with gem stone cutting?

Nevermind- just looked up the definition as an adj. David, in all seriousness, do you use words like this in your speech, or just in writing? I think it's amazing that you (and people like you) can remember words like that and use them correctly. I thought words like that only showed up on the GRE. Which, by the way, you would do wonderfully on.

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by David

Well, I flit from style to style, depending on my mood. Sometimes I effuse in the Pauline Kael style: breezy & slangy. Other times I carefully shape each phrase, each morpheme, in the Barzunesque manner.

Rhetorical styles are like hats to me: put one on first, & then put on another! I vamp campily one minute & turn elegiac & lapidary the next!

why not pick one and stick with it? sometimes it annoys.

EDIT: don't take offense, I'm just being honest.

[ELIUD]

David. Dude. When we say things like "Stevie is interesting" or "Christine is boring" we do so expressing individual opinions. Yes some of us don't realize how subjective those statements are but unless we preface it with "I hereby declare for the world to know that in fact..." then please, consider these comments deserving no more scrutinizing than as if they were coming outta our ass.

[David]

Originally Posted by jannieC

Doesn't 'lapidary' have something to do with gem stone cutting?

Nevermind- just looked up the definition as an adj. David, in all seriousness, do you use words like this in your speech, or just in writing?

I write the way I talk, generally. When I talk, I go from one rhetorical style to another! It's a wacky good time. Whew!

I think it's amazing that you (and people like you) can remember words like that and use them correctly.

Well, I don't know ... I mean ... I don't know ... I do crossword puzzles, which test one's ability to recall little-used words. Plus I do make my living working with words & with other aspects of language. I get paid to read something & to spot words that aren't used correctly & finally to replace the rotten words with better words.

I thought words like that only showed up on the GRE. Which, by the way, you would do wonderfully on.

I took the GRE--I went to grad school--& I didn't exactly ace it! (The GRE I took--tailored to my education plans--had two parts: literary history & general language.)

[David]

Originally Posted by ELIUD

David. Dude. When we say things like "Stevie is interesting" or "Christine is boring" we do so expressing individual opinions. Yes some of us don't realize how subjective those statements are but unless we preface it with "I hereby declare for the world to know that in fact..." then please, consider these comments deserving no more scrutinizing than as if they were coming outta our ass.

Here's Jason's exact quote:

"even if I had no bias towards Stevie, she'd still be the most interesting."

By the way, Jason rocks!!! My reply in no way disparages--oops, sorry, I mean mocks--Jason.

[David]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

why not pick one and stick with it? sometimes it annoys.

EDIT: don't take offense, I'm just being honest.

None taken. Excellent point! But I can no more pick one rhetorical stance & stick with it than I can pick one mood & stick with it! I'm a seething, roiling cauldron of moods, tones, styles. I'll play the orator as well as Nestor/Deceive more slily than Ulysses could/And, like a Sinon, take another Troy/I can add colours to the chameleon/Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, etc. etc.

[gypsysoul]

Can we have some fun and cast this movie please. My dream team:

Cameron Crowe -director

Scarlett johansson - young Stevie /Kate Winslett -older Stevie

Rufus Sewell -young bearded Lindsey / Billy Crudup - clean shaven LB from Tusk onwards

Emma Thompson - Christine
Bob Hoskins -John
McKenzie Crookes (with dark wig) -Mick

Story centres around SN & LB romance from teenagers to The Dance. End with Silver Springs - not a dry eye in the house.

My only request - the Stevie/Mick fling is dealt with by way of voiceover

[sparky]

Originally Posted by David

Well, I flit from style to style, depending on my mood. Sometimes I effuse in the Pauline Kael style: breezy & slangy. Other times I carefully shape each phrase, each morpheme, in the Barzunesque manner.

Rhetorical styles are like hats to me: put one on first, & then put on another! I vamp campily one minute & turn elegiac & lapidary the next!

You light up my life.

[ELIUD]

Originally Posted by david

Here's Jason's exact quote:

"even if I had no bias towards Stevie, she'd still be the most interesting."

By the way, Jason rocks!!! My reply in no way disparages--oops, sorry, I mean mocks--Jason.

Yes some of us don't know how subj...oh nevermind.

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by David

My reply in no way disparages--oops, sorry, I mean mocks--Jason.

Oh stop it, disparage isn't a big word. Words like 'morpheme', 'elegiac', and 'lapidary' are the types of words I'm talking about. I was curious if you use words like that in your everyday speech.

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by David

None taken. Excellent point! But I can no more pick one rhetorical stance & stick with it than I can pick one mood & stick with it! I'm a seething, roiling cauldron of moods, tones, styles. I'll play the orator as well as Nestor/Deceive more slily than Ulysses could/And, like a Sinon, take another Troy/I can add colours to the chameleon/Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, etc. etc.

ok, that made me laugh.

[GypsySongbird]

Originally Posted by ELIUD

David. Dude. When we say things like "Stevie is interesting" or "Christine is boring" we do so expressing individual opinions. Yes some of us don't realize how subjective those statements are but unless we preface it with "I hereby declare for the world to know that in fact..." then please, consider these comments deserving no more scrutinizing than as if they were coming outta our ass.

it was actually alot more like - christine is boring - fact

rather than, yea i think christines a bit boring

if you re-read your posts

just pointing out

[ELIUD]

No that isn't right. "Christine is boring" is an opinion. "Christine is ugly" is a fact.