The Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, Part Four — Page 56
#1377
Posted: 11/4/08 at 5:37pm
I've been glued to the election coverage for hours even though I know there's no point. Company seems like a good alternative.
#1378
Posted: 11/4/08 at 6:49pm
Company is always a good alternative - to *almost* anything.
#1379
Posted: 11/4/08 at 6:55pm
My mom and I started embarrassingly harmonizing on Company at my aunt's house a few days ago. It was pretty loud and obnoxious. I've been wanting to watch it ever since then.
I'm debating between going out to watch election coverage, or going back to sleep. (I'm sick, don't judge.) It's times like these that I wish I hadn't banned TV from my bedroom.
I'm debating between going out to watch election coverage, or going back to sleep. (I'm sick, don't judge.) It's times like these that I wish I hadn't banned TV from my bedroom.
#1381
Posted: 11/4/08 at 7:35pm
Thanks. :) Fortunately I meant go out to the living room, but that's feeling like too much of a trek right now. (I'm not actually sick, technically, I just have a badly twisted ankle and sore limbs from an inconvenient tumble.) I think I'm gonna lay down with a book, pass out, and wake up to watch stuff around 10-ish.
Every time is Jesse L. Martin time. That is my decree.
Every time is Jesse L. Martin time. That is my decree.
#1382
Posted: 11/4/08 at 7:42pm
Skittles, I hope you look half as good as she does when you are 79 years old.
Don't worry, dear, my family ages fabulously, even without the plastic surgery.
I'm attempting to figure out picture-in-picture on my new TV so I can watch news and Jon and Stephen simultaneously.
Don't worry, dear, my family ages fabulously, even without the plastic surgery.
I'm attempting to figure out picture-in-picture on my new TV so I can watch news and Jon and Stephen simultaneously.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#1383
Posted: 11/4/08 at 8:57pm
Oooh that's a good idea.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#1384
Posted: 11/4/08 at 10:10pm
I saw a Speed the Plow TV spot twice tonight, during the CNN election coverage. Raul's haircut is amazing. That ad must have been expensive to run during this show..
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
Updated On: 11/4/08 at 10:10 PM
#1385
Posted: 11/9/08 at 6:45pm
This is niiiiice. 
"Esparza....giving the best performance of his career to date....cements his status as one of Broadway’s finest actors with his performance here."
Mamer revival rings relevant
"Esparza....giving the best performance of his career to date....cements his status as one of Broadway’s finest actors with his performance here."
Mamer revival rings relevant
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#1386
Posted: 11/9/08 at 7:00pm
I'm sorry, but I can't take anything that calls this his best performance seriously. It's great, and it's showing off a side of him that I think a lot of people didn't know was there, but... no.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#1387
Posted: 11/11/08 at 12:57pm
Raúl seems quite tickled by Billy Crystal's backstage visit:
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#1388
Posted: 11/11/08 at 1:05pm
I didn't even recognize Billy Crystal -
But I do love that grey shirt on Raul - part of the third scene costume, I think. Maybe he gets to keep it at the end of the run.
But I do love that grey shirt on Raul - part of the third scene costume, I think. Maybe he gets to keep it at the end of the run.
#1389
Posted: 11/11/08 at 1:12pm
I thought it looked purple on stage. 
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#1390
Posted: 11/11/08 at 1:26pm
The tie is positively epic. Absolutely mesmerizing....
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#1391
Posted: 11/11/08 at 1:32pm
It's like they made it out of curtains. From my grandma's previous apartment.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#1392
Posted: 11/11/08 at 5:11pm
Emcee - that means all our grandmothers had the same curtains! lol
#1393
Posted: 11/11/08 at 5:49pm
Y'know, I have to say I really have a hard time seeing Charlie Fox wearing that tie. It's just not....him. And even in the 80's, that was NOT fashionable. I don't think it ever was (outside grandma's curtains). It might not be so bad if the colors weren't so....hideous. Yeah, that's the word - hideous. 
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#1394
Posted: 11/11/08 at 5:59pm
Yes, but think about it in the frame of what Raul was saying about Charlie as someone who tries way too hard to live beyond his means, and all of that.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#1395
Posted: 11/11/08 at 6:30pm
OK, yeah - Charlie is living beyond his means, trying to be fashionable.
It's just -- there's just no way that tie was ever fashionable. Not even Orbachs would have carried that tie (in joke for those who lived in LA in the 80's ).
It's just -- there's just no way that tie was ever fashionable. Not even Orbachs would have carried that tie (in joke for those who lived in LA in the 80's
).
Sarcasm is an allergic reaction to stupid people.
#1396
Posted: 11/11/08 at 6:39pm
Trying too hard often backfires! I don't know, I'd like just think if they chose something that wasn't at ALL fashionable, they did it with a reason. But I also think John Doyleism taught me to want there to be reasons for everything.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#1397
Posted: 11/11/08 at 7:15pm
I guess I picture Charlie wearing a Brooks Brothers striped tie - trying for the old "school tie" look. But maybe that's expensive but too tasteful.
#1398
Posted: 11/11/08 at 9:29pm
I honestly love the tie. And I was giving Raul props when I saw those pictures, not realizing it was part of his costume. Oh well.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#1399
Posted: 11/12/08 at 10:27pm
It's the kind of costume piece he might conceivably appropriate for future use.
#1400
Posted: 11/15/08 at 8:47pm
Awfully quiet on this thread... Anyone been to see SPEED-THE-PLOW lately? Em, did you take your mom, and did she get to meet the Raul? I hate the threat that PUSHING DAISIES may be cancelled. I really wanted another episode or two with Fredo.
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