The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part 14, version 2.0 — Page 109

Every fans counts, except the ones that don't willingly accept the reign of the new Super Cool Exclusively Fun Fan Club.

Duh, you guys.

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Updated On: 11/23/07 at 01:54 PM

Not sure who Jill Paice is and what that has to do with anything being discussed in this thread, but congrats, I guess.

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Updated On: 11/23/07 at 02:51 PM

One of the female leads in Curtains. And therefore, absolutely nothing.

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Updated On: 11/23/07 at 02:54 PM

Is this the "Me and Larry" website, or a new one?

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Who knows? One of the many, many explanations that weren't given.

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However, that doesn't negate the fact that questions about whether one would be willing to buy an Adam magnet is market reseaerch, not appropriate material for a documentary.

Right, especially when she made mention to me that I should look for new merchandise at his upcoming shows. It's very hard for me to believe that those questions weren't asked with some sort of intent to get a feel for what publicity on her part would prove worthwhile.

Of course, there is NOTHING wrong with asking fans if they would buy an Adam magnet or t-shirt, and there's nothing wrong with asking fans what websites they check for information. But ask us in a survey, not when shooting a documentary about his career.

Updated On: 11/23/07 at 04:18 PM

Clearly they only asked about the shirtless magnets was because YOU implied you wanted to be asked about shirtless magnets. Their questions were formed based on what you said!

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No, no inside joke. They did ask us if we'd buy them, although I doubt they were being serious in thinking it was a good idea. On the other hand, they probably would sell...

The impression I got from Lexi's comment about manipulation wasn't so much the assumption that manipulation was per se the intent, but rather than she FELT manipulated. Which, given the evidence, I can understand. Whether the goal was to use others' ideas as her own or not. I'd like to believe it wasn't, but nothing really seems genuine here.

I have a Civilian button on my bulletin board. Circa '04! Does that make me a candidate for market research?

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Just to clear something up, I personally don't care if she uses any ideas I might have given to her at any point (I don't think I even gave too many real ideas). It's not a question of "stealing ideas," at least for me. My problem with the questions about the marketing and merchandise is that I felt the documentary crew (her included) was using an inappropriate avenue to solicit responses to those types of questions. If you're shooting a documentary about Adam's career, there's no need to ask those questions as part of the documentary. That's why we feel manipulated, as though the documentary crew wasn't entirely forthcoming with all of the reasons why they wanted to film this documentary.

To be fair, I want to mention that she said we were the only three asked about management and marketing. I don't know how much stock to put into that, though, considering the one other person I've spoken to who also did the documentary said those topics were prevalent. Judge for yourselves...

Which is ironic, because that's basically what she accused Lexi of.

Yeah, I'm not sure why the mentions from her of a) how she doesn't know why I want a part in her work if I feel her work is subpar, and b) how no artist wants to be told what to do by his fans. I never made any mention to her of wanting to be a part of her PR campaign, and although I discussed what I'd like to see from Adam in her documentary, this entire argument was not about what Adam should do as much as her own bad PR.

Basically, I don't think she saw where I was coming from, and perhaps I didn't see where she was coming from either. However, what bothered me more than anything was the extremely condescending attitude coupled with the repetitive insistences that she was being friendly.

Updated On: 11/23/07 at 06:11 PM

Can someone fill me in on the time line here? When were you asked about marketing? I completely agree that it's fine for his 'managegment' to perform market research, but not under the guise of a documentary.

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