Can I be a dissenting voice here? Personally, I can't stand Lawrence, and find her as phony as Monopoly money. In a weird discovery for me, I heard Kristen Stewart with Leonard Lopate a couple of weeks ago and thought she's exactly what Lawrence puts on the pretense of being: Someone who honestly doesn't give a rat's ass about "stardom" and who is far more interested in doing interesting projects and then going away and living (what sounded like) a real life among actual people until she comes across something she thinks is worthwhile. Before this interview, I had no interest in Stewart at all, marking her as "that Twilight girl," but I found her to be interesting, funny, and savvy. Lawrence always strikes me as Acting Too Hard at being "quirky" and "normal" and comes across as anything but for me.
If nothing else, she owes me Big Time for both "Silver Linings Playbook" and "American Hustle." --Dave Sikula On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 10:12:16 AM UTC-8, Joe Hass wrote: > > We talked a year and a half ago about Lindsay Lohan's appearance on > Letterman, and how Dave had handled her. The only reason I knew about it > was seeing a TV promo, which prompted me to watch it. > > I had first heard about Ms Lawrence's appearance being slightly "wacky" > last week via an email newsletter and finally got a chance to watch it this > morning. Two things struck me as I watched it: > > 1. Jennifer Lawrence is what I think we all hoped Ms Lohan would turn > into. About five minutes in, as they've wandered off into the > deconstruction of the two sentences her best friend, I thought "That > could've been Lohan. Albeit four years younger, that could've been her > interacting with Dave that way." It was the playful version of the Dad Dave > we saw that March night. > > 2. This is probably as close to what we lovingly refer to as "Old Dave" as > we'll ever see now. When, as the staff tried to make heads or tails of Dave > wanting to see the trailer (and someone please help me: who is the female > behind the podium?), I expected him to refer to them as pinheads. I went > back and watched her previous appearances, and saw him shift from "Oh God, > Another Young Actress" mode into "Old Friend Of The Program" mode, and it > was as fun to watch those twenty-odd minutes unfold. And as they walked off > hand-in-hand, I thought, "I would pay a significant amount of money to > watch these two interact for an extended period of time." > > I read in the New York Times about the tribute to Elaine Stritch from a > couple nights ago, and how I wished I could've seen that. Having watched > how they must have edited down who knows how much time down to fit, I wish > I could've been in the Ed watching it. > > My favorite moment of the Carson Farewell Tour was Bob Newhart mockingly > breaking down the next to final week and begging Johnny not to go. When > Lawrence went down that route, and drew Dave to admit that, yeah, he > probably *could* keep doing this until he died, I felt this odd touch of > poignancy that wasn't intended, but was there. > > God, we're gonna miss him. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYpXpTLrlwU > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
