GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

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i think that would hit harder if it wasn't actually a show about economic privilege already

The backlash against this show is so strident. I don't get it.

"born on third. think they hit a triple" kinda a decent description of the text of the show really, except for the 'thinking they hit a triple' part. more like, 'born on third. think they struck out.'

backlash? almost everything i've read about this show everywhere (except for like 2 blog posts) has been incredibly positive

Were any people really really really mad when Robert Downey Sr.'s son and Blythe Danner's daughter and Beau Bridges' son made that movie with Vince Vaughn's BFF about the problems of a young arms dealer with daddy isues?

lol at "the drummer of bad company's daughter" being the mark of privilege. i mean, she probably wasn't destitute, but ...
annnnnyway, is this show funny? or not.

lol I mean Lloyd Bridges, whoops xpost

surprised they didn't play up that she's the daughter of puppeteering superstar Jeff Dunham

I refuse to watch anything by Joss Whedon because holy fuck he's a third generation tv scribe, was born with a silver pen in his mouth ohhh it just fills me with class rage

Thought this was alright, hoping that the show is able to evolve past examining its own privilege/entitlement though, as I'm pretty sure that's gonna get old fast.

"and you thought they cancelled 'how to make it in america'" predictably got a lol out of me

Were any people really really really mad when Robert Downey Sr.'s son
....

Probably not, bcz Senior made avant-garde films, tho I guess Putney Swope was a sleeper quasi-hit.
(box set next month btw)

who is Laurie Simmons?

wasn't "born on third. thinks s/he hit a triple" popularized by ex-Tex Gov Ann Richards re Dubya?

Probably not, bcz Senior made avant-garde films, tho I guess Putney Swope was a sleeper quasi-hit.
(box set next month btw)

who is Laurie Simmons?

this is great

I don't have time for art art, that's not how I roll

"being the son of a notorious hollywood gadfly is really no advantage, certainly not up there with being Bad Company's Drummer's Daughter."

do you have time for google? it's attached to the box you're currently using.

Were any people really really really mad when Robert Downey Sr.'s son and Blythe Danner's daughter and Beau Bridges' son made that movie with Vince Vaughn's BFF about the problems of a young arms dealer with daddy isues?

lol, i bet all these ppl wish they had even a tenth of the exposure that Girls has. ppl weren't really mad bc ppl didn't care?

it was Jim Hightower on Bush Sr., I think (xps)

it was pat o'brien on billy bush.

ooooh, L Simmons does "interactive dollhouses" -- what could I be missing?

maybe they should make Chris Walken a regular so there's someone around whose parents ran a diner.

oh, was this iron man 2? lulz

feel like being the progeny of successful showbiz people is a different kind of privilege than having parents who are just rich in some other way. i haven't thought any further about it tho..

haha mordy i wasn't gonna say anything because people have been really overly unclear about when they're being sarcastic here lately

i just think it's funny when that is and isn't thrown around scornfully. anybody more bothered by Lena Dunham's success than the Strokes...

oh man i think i have ptsd from the strokes war, come on

well, people care about your pedigree when you're new, not after you've spent two or three decades proving your mettle. not that the iron man/girls thing was meant to be taken too seriously, obv.

people really care that you're Bad Company's Drummer's Daughter?

well it doesn't play into the narrative if she doesn't have a famous parent as well

they care enough to make it a punchline in an apparently controversial joke poster (xpost)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD2BwwGE9uo

Tiny Furniture is not as bad as the first Strokes album, true

oh, was this iron man 2? lulz

1. Have a mom who makes interactive dollhouses.
2. ?
3. Profit.

My friend's dad used to play drums in the Interactive Dollhouses.

only lolsy to bring up Bad Company because of Dunham's quote "The only thing that would make it not a coincidence is that they came in with a preternatural willingness to play and an understanding of the creative process that probably comes from being raised around it."

oh man

really want someone to make the iron man 2 version of that poster

Lloyd Bridges's son isn't in Iron Man 2.

guys it's iron man 1, jeff bridges isn't in 2, the possibly less privileged mickey rourke and sam rockwell are

lots of occupations run in families!

Flashing back to Marc Maron and Mindy Kaling talking about living near Harvard Square, going into butt-sniffing detail block by block for 15 minutes in order to judge whether she was privileged or legit.

actually rockwell was the son of actors and Mickey's dad was an amateur body builder IS THERE ANYONE IN HOLLYWOOD WHO DID NOT HAVE AN UNFAIR LEG UP MY GOD

Sam Rockwell has been living off Somebody's Watching Me royalties for years.

lol

I do agree w/ L.D. that Brian Williams' work in TV "news" relies entirely on "the creative process."

since it's a show about privileged kids from upper + upper-middle-class families, i think it's pretty understandable that the actors/writers/creators are from a similar background?

David Crosa and J.T. Leroy are the only honest men left.

Acting is a trade, like cobbling or blacksmithing.

literally nobody is outraged that the show did not sufficiently audition actresses of blue collar parentage, it's just something funny to talk about, it wouldn't even be a talking point if all four of the leads didn't each have a parent in show biz

since it's a show about privileged kids from upper + upper-middle-class families, i think it's pretty understandable that the actors/writers/creators are from a similar background?

It's called acting, Dustin, dear boy.