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[Cap]

@filmlover

 

https://deadline.com/2019/05/magic-mike-musical-creative-team-cancel-workshop-1202607031/

 

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The Magic Mike musical has lost some of its mojo. Book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, composer Tom Kitt and lyricist Brian Yorkey have exited the project – “creative differences” is the official word – and a private workshop of the musical originally set for this week in New York has been postponed.

 

Ten Bucks the Creative Team Wanted to Do a Serious Musical, and everyone else was like, "It's about Strippers.  Let's Not Over Think This."

[filmlover]

1 hour ago, captainwondyful said:

@filmlover

 

https://deadline.com/2019/05/magic-mike-musical-creative-team-cancel-workshop-1202607031/

 

 

Ten Bucks the Creative Team Wanted to Do a Serious Musical, and everyone else was like, "It's about Strippers.  Let's Not Over Think This."

I mean Magic Mike musical already sounds like a joke you would hear on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or something. Poor Channing though. First Gambit, now this. I blame @Tele Dondarrion just because he tends to curse any property he's a fan of.

[Cap]

23 minutes ago, filmlover said:

I mean Magic Mike musical already sounds like a joke you would hear on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or something. Poor Channing though. First Gambit, now this. I blame @Tele Dondarrion just because he tends to curse any property he's a fan of.

I think Magic Mike could be a really fun show.  Do it at Studio 54 like Cabaret where there Orchestra was tables instead of theater rows.  Make sure there's tons of audience interaction.  Ask for Tips for Broadway Cares/Equity Fight AIDS.  Structure is like an old vaudeville show with a loose story tied in.  Don't forget it exists to be a tourist and Mommy trap.  It is good theater?  Probably not.  But it'd be FUN.    

[dxmatrixdt]

how come BOT might be a #1 destination for Lady Gaga?

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i'm all for fantasizing about that chin ballooning out a little bit

 

 

 

Edited May 8, 2019 by Clubs Are Trash

[The Futurist]

8 hours ago, AJG said:

I’m watching HBO’s Chernobyl and I have a question for all the old people here that can remember the 80’s: were you guys just so casual around nuclear energy? Did you think it was super clean and safe? Also if you didn’t have a VCR how did you watch movies at home?

Nuclear energy is safe and clean.

You can rest now.

[DeeCee]

The Soviets were probably showing Soviet versions of films like this into the 80's.

 

 

[terrestrial]

10 hours ago, Water Bottle said:

In the US, I took "Spanish" but since Spanish was technically my first language...

I can say that the Spanish they teach is like super basic for the most part and won't really teach you the language. The US doesn't really make a real attempt to make students bilingual even when the option is present. 

 

4 hours ago, Webslinger said:

Many high schools just require two years, which may be the only two years U.S. students get of any non-English language instruction. As such, a good many English-as-first-language students just get extremely basic instruction that isn't even close to usable outside of a classroom setting during those two years, and the ones who don't excel in it tend to quit after they're no longer required to take it.

 

4 hours ago, cannastop said:

I took two years of German and no Spanish in high school. Got into a 3rd year level German course in college my first semester. Might have been because my high school German teacher was a native speaker.

 

4 hours ago, DeeCee said:

I did Japanese all through high school. 

I can still count in Japanese, know the greetings and a few phrases. 

I assume that makes me bilingual. 

Edit: Impeccable timing.  A woman from Japan just called with a product enquiry.  All I'll say is that she spoke very good English so my Japanese wasn't tested.

I just checked the nouveau I think is the least a pupils is expected to reach (the shortest time in school = 9th grade of a least level school, the least difficult degree):

Fountas & Pinnell / Common Core 'U' or higher at the end of a least level school ending as a 9th grader

As a comparison to a native speaking grade:

what I think is matching to be able to read books and other material for a fifth grader at the end of the year in the US, not sure about the British grades, maybe around the same.

CEFR B1 nouveau I think matches now for said 9th grader example, the nouveau is increasing in the middle-long run as they start now years earlier than in the past to learn the first foreign language

= at my time with luck in the 7th grade in a specialised for a theme school (me technical), in 5th grade in an academic route allowing/preparing school.

Later they started in 5th grade for the lesser schools, since a few (???) years they start now in either the 2nd grade or latest the 3rd grade (grade 1-4 is ~ basic school for 'all', the split up starts  mostly in 5th, 7th, and for the 'lesser levels' after the 9th grade again they can change to a higher level)

A good in languages 12th grader should reach C1, but a 12th grader always has a 2nd foreign language to learn as well, the additional one starting in the 6th grade nowadays, in the past it was 2 years later I think)

 

Reading/watching a movie... is often a step higher level possible, than in 'using' it I think.

E.g. even the weakest 9th grader can follow a movie like e.g. Ready Player One around the mid of the school year, but would not be considered more than B1 in any case at the end of the school year (if at all as a weak one), hence why I prefer the Common Core or the British book band (~ enhanced version) system, how to interpret the CEFR description seems to differ in a too big way.

Basic problem for that seems, that an adult foreign language learner brings a higher understanding of complex situations and grammar of his/her own language, also specialised knowledge for certainn professions and governmental details.... and as CEFR is a lot used for those kind of courses:

refresh and increase for e.g. someone who wants a certificate for profession or foreign academic studying reasons, how to interpret/apply that to a 9th grader....

 

Plus a lot gets forgotten fast by a former pupils, if not used after school for a time.

 

I am probably not a good example of an average older German, as I learned a lot of English afterwards, but the younger Germans here, I think their nouveau is a good indicator for the degree foreign language gets actually taught here.

[filmlover]

Meanwhile, a TV show about the college admissions scandal is on the way. lol guessing who will play Huffman and Loughlin will be fun.

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/college-admissions-scandal-series-works-annapurna-tv-1208560

[dxmatrixdt]

1 hour ago, Clubs Are Trash said:

how come BOT might be a #1 destination for Lady Gaga?

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i'm all for fantasizing about that chin ballooning out a little bit

 

 

 

 

sucks for Madonna. 

No offense, but being a Diva Queen in the 80s 90s and 00s must have sucked ass compared to what the contemporary social climate offers for Lady Gaga.

 

 

It would be so funny to see a kids educational show with George Lucas teaching kids about not overextending their reach into the cookie jar (but they can still have extra portions) and a segment about not running in the house

 

 

[Mulder]

Anyone else having this weird glitch where the forum shows you as the only person online?

[TomCruiseTop]

11 hours ago, AJG said:

I’m watching HBO’s Chernobyl and I have a question for all the old people here that can remember the 80’s: were you guys just so casual around nuclear energy? Did you think it was super clean and safe? Also if you didn’t have a VCR how did you watch movies at home?

In relative terms (e.g. in relation to coal power) it is safe and clean. That's not even factoring in the future reactors like ITER or DOMO. 

[TomCruiseTop]

1 hour ago, Mulder said:

Anyone else having this weird glitch where the forum shows you as the only person online?

Same here, probably for the past few weeks. 

[Jake Gittes]

3 hours ago, filmlover said:

Meanwhile, a TV show about the college admissions scandal is on the way. lol guessing who will play Huffman and Loughlin will be fun.

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/college-admissions-scandal-series-works-annapurna-tv-1208560

they should play each other ofc.

[DeeCee]

Quicksand is very good. Some good performances. 

[DeeCee]

5 hours ago, Mulder said:

Anyone else having this weird glitch where the forum shows you as the only person online?

It’s happening right now. 

 

Is there anybody out there?

[TwoMisfits]

6 hours ago, terrestrial said:

 

 

 

I just checked the nouveau I think is the least a pupils is expected to reach (the shortest time in school = 9th grade of a least level school, the least difficult degree):

Fountas & Pinnell / Common Core 'U' or higher at the end of a least level school ending as a 9th grader

As a comparison to a native speaking grade:

what I think is matching to be able to read books and other material for a fifth grader at the end of the year in the US, not sure about the British grades, maybe around the same.

CEFR B1 nouveau I think matches now for said 9th grader example, the nouveau is increasing in the middle-long run as they start now years earlier than in the past to learn the first foreign language

= at my time with luck in the 7th grade in a specialised for a theme school (me technical), in 5th grade in an academic route allowing/preparing school.

Later they started in 5th grade for the lesser schools, since a few (???) years they start now in either the 2nd grade or latest the 3rd grade (grade 1-4 is ~ basic school for 'all', the split up starts  mostly in 5th, 7th, and for the 'lesser levels' after the 9th grade again they can change to a higher level)

A good in languages 12th grader should reach C1, but a 12th grader always has a 2nd foreign language to learn as well, the additional one starting in the 6th grade nowadays, in the past it was 2 years later I think)

 

Reading/watching a movie... is often a step higher level possible, than in 'using' it I think.

E.g. even the weakest 9th grader can follow a movie like e.g. Ready Player One around the mid of the school year, but would not be considered more than B1 in any case at the end of the school year (if at all as a weak one), hence why I prefer the Common Core or the British book band (~ enhanced version) system, how to interpret the CEFR description seems to differ in a too big way.

Basic problem for that seems, that an adult foreign language learner brings a higher understanding of complex situations and grammar of his/her own language, also specialised knowledge for certainn professions and governmental details.... and as CEFR is a lot used for those kind of courses:

refresh and increase for e.g. someone who wants a certificate for profession or foreign academic studying reasons, how to interpret/apply that to a 9th grader....

 

Plus a lot gets forgotten fast by a former pupils, if not used after school for a time.

 

I am probably not a good example of an average older German, as I learned a lot of English afterwards, but the younger Germans here, I think their nouveau is a good indicator for the degree foreign language gets actually taught here.

Thank you for the proficiency chart - my daughter learns Japanese now from an online tutor in Japan, and when I was selecting a tutor, I always wondered what their English levels were (b/c I didn't know what those designations meant...but I wanted her to have a tutor she could talk to in English if she was struggling in Japanese:)...

[Jake Gittes]

5 hours ago, Mulder said:

Anyone else having this weird glitch where the forum shows you as the only person online?

 

[terrestrial]

1 hour ago, DeeCee said:

It’s happening right now. 

Is there anybody out there?

Pink Floyd The Wall comes to mind...

 

Same strange effect since at least yesterday, tried different brothers browsers and locations, I am 'all alone' here too

No matter if in a thread or the 'home' start view, where usually all members and guest as a sum were to see, all alone

 

I mean with home this

https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/

 

Edited May 8, 2019 by terrestrial

[LexJoker]

28 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

Pink Floyd The Wall comes to mind...

 

Same strange effect since at least yesterday, tried different brothers and locations, I am 'all alone' here too

No matter if in a thread or the 'home' start view, where usually all members and guest as a sum were to see, all alone

 

I mean with home this

https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/

 

How many brothers do you have, and are they all BOT members?

[LexJoker]

Vietnamese version of Endgame is amazing.

 

**WARNING: NSFW VIDEO**

 

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Edited May 8, 2019 by LexJoker