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I am brain-dead tonight so this is rubbish - just a place-holder. Please do something else if you can think of a decent one!

I hope you are right Spiro. Re your interest in film, are you thinking of it from the POV of writing a script perhaps?

Interest in film goes back to A level Media Studies, although is pretty neglected these days with work & family committments. 'Bridesmaids' was probably the first grown up film I've actually seen at the cinema for about a year. Used to go up to 3 times a week.

I do have an idea for a screenplay though (possibly more tv drama than film but we'll see). It is a very tiny seed at the moment and will require huge amounts of research but am hoping to go one one of these courses next year, or better still this, if I could swing it.

Both look fabulous, Spiro, I am speechless with longing.

I am speechless at the cost but not planning to do anything about either until next year.

Don't suppose Mr M would dispatch you over to the UK for a couple of weeks - we could be study buddies ?!

Well, ladies, I have Mr Jackman in my drawing room. We are watching Australia.

Thorin does not set my pulse rating, but that's to be expected as all things Tolkein leave me cold. Have more photos been added to that magazine page? There were several there that I didn't recognise from Friday, but maybe that was because I went into a swoon before I'd looked at them all.

Spiro - Go for it!

@ Maud.

ROFL @ "'artistically vaild' Pfffft." :o

Oh, Spiro, read it, reeeeeeeeeeaaaaad it! I can't be the only one who loves it! Some of it is so beautiful! I am going to find the bit I'm thinking of later and post it and defy you all to not like it :)

The film courses look very exciting, Spiro! Is your idea the same as the novel, or something else? You should definitely try to do it, I think you would get a lot out of it.

The shot in the head thing wasn't here but I forget where it was - I don't do the fanboards (not from a judgemental point of view, just from a time point of view) so maybe it was Facebook or Twitter?

Sure wish I could, Spiro.

I console myself that short story or novel writing is my first love. Of course, I could then always turn my blockbuster book into a blockbuster script. And be very p*ssy when the lead actor turns up with his pages of notes and wants to muscle in on the character construction. That could involve days and days of intense negotitation.

I just need to remind myself what a decent costume looks like.

intense negotiation?

Haven't heard it called that before.

Twigs the script is something very different from the novel. I did get the Hobbit out of the library and read the first few pages which seemed fairly promising, but am still plodding along with Far from the Madding Crowd atm.

Oh, I love the Thorin costume, Maud. Just a little taken aback with the fierce face. I wish we could have seen more of the outfit though, I need to check if he's got those Paddington Bear type wellie- like boots or not.

Would that be intense negotiation in his trailer with the blinds drawn, Massive?

I see everybody's 'on the right page' , re my script, then. And I never once mentioned any names, either.

What was that about a decent costume Maud?

Massive have you read the interview where he says he's sure screenwriters find him a pita to work with as he's constantly quizzing them about the character he's playing?

have you read the interview where he says he's sure screenwriters find him a pita to work with as he's constantly quizzing them?

What, moi?

::selflessly puts self forward as assistant negotiator::

Just incase the whole process becomes a bit too exhausting for Massive .

Spiro, I've just finished Far from the Madding Crowd - It is a bit of a plodder, isn't it? I detested Bathsheba by about a third of the way through and ended up forcing my way to the end of it. She's such a bitch to Gabriel and I couldn't find any empathy for her at all.

Please would one of you amazing writers adapt a Georgette Heyer novel into a screenplay that may just possibly require a tall, dark, handsome Man in the lead role?

I owe you an apology, Spiro. As I opened your link, I assumed you were going to show us an indecent costume.

Thanks LadyD !

All my screenplays will require a tall dark handsome Man in the lead role, naturellement.

::Lobbies for Jane Eyre, having a few vague ideas about who she'd like to see as Mr Rochester::

a tall, dark, handsome Man in the lead role?

and a plump Essex girl who needs her roots doing as the lead female role? :)

Oh goodness, how you can all moan about Tolkein when you are reading Thomas Hardy.... yaaaaaaaaaaaawn :)

OK, so I found the bit I love in LOTR, where I was going to prove you all wrong but upon re-reading it out of context I realised that it was going to prove you all right, not wrong :) The phrase "Hail to thee, Lady Of Rohan" is not a good start :o

Last D - I'm about halfway through (Capt Troy has just rocked up). Bathsheba is definitely a silly moo but I can't say that I actively dislike her. I am enjoying the dialogue but finding Hardy's long-winded descriptions of the Wessex countryside somewhat turgid.

I PMSL when I read the bit from the VoD in it's proper context. Sums up how I feel about marriage these days in a nutshell!

As for you, Massive...

What, moi?
whistles, innocently

No, me neither!

ROFL @ "Hail to thee, Lady Of Rohan". I can categorically say I wouldn't get beyond that as the first line in a novel .

Twigs, I think a GH adaptation would need a mousy, slightly plump southerner-living-in-the-north heroine, to be honest. Sorry.

YY Maud, I have been in love with Mr Rochester since I read an abridged version of JE when I was about 10!

I'd also love to see him in a remake of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Teddy Lloyd though.

Rumbled!

""Hail to thee, Lady of Rohan"? In the words of John McEnroe, you cannot be serious.