Season 2, Episode 14
A delivery van robbery ends tragically for one of the driver, but nothing on the manifest is missing. Steve and Joe must face the Yakuza and Danny helps his ex-wife, Rachael, with her labor.
Kono: Good job. Where'd you put the wire boss?
Steve: Let's just put it this way, when we're done, he can keep it.
Danny: Inhale through your eyes and exhale through your...vagina. Can you do that?
Rachael: Just keep reading.
Danny: I mean it'd be impressive if you can.
Danny: Please keep in mind that I am helping my ex-wife deliver another man's baby so cut me some slack.
When I first heard they were going to be making a movie of One for the Money, I was wary about who’d they choose to play everyone. After all, how can you really hope to equal the mythos of Ranger in real life? I had nothing to worry about.
I went to the first showing on Friday with my mother (I got her hooked on the series). The theater was fairly full especially for mid-day on a work day. There were only 5 men in the theater who were there with their wives. For the most part, it was groups of women, elderly women. Listening to the conversation before the movie and during previews, I swear the theater was filled with Grandma Mazurs. Gods, I hope to be like these women when I grow up.
The movie was funny, but not falling out of my seat funny. Of course, the book wasn’t as funny and outrageous as later ones in the series are. It stuck fairly faithfully to the timeline of the book with the exception of combining the two major plot climax scenes.
Katherine Heigl was fantastic as Stephanie. She captured the irreverent and slightly insecure desperation that Stephanie was under wonderfully.She also looks great as a brunette and I want those boots.
When I saw the commercials I thought Jason O’Mara didn’t look like I had pictured Morelli, but he sounded just like I imagined Morelli would. Over the course of the movie, he really grew on me. He also has one hell of a smoulder. Whew.
Daniel Sunjata has all the attitude and moves of Ranger. Something felt missing though. As I heard a little 80+ year old woman say when we were leaving the theater, “Ranger should have been sexier.” Not that Sunjata isn’t sexy. He is. It’s just hard to compare with how Ranger is written in the series.
Debbie Reynolds was Grandma Mazur. There really was no other choice for that role. Vinnie (Patrick Fischler), Connie (Ana Reeder) and Lula (Sherri Shepherd) were well cast as well and fit with expectations of the characters.
All in all it was a fun movie that I plan to buy when it comes out on video though I won’t see it in theaters again. I hope they make more movies from this series. I’d love to see more car destruction and would love to see who’d they cast as Mooner.
So if you’re a Plum fan, get yourself to the theater.
Season 3, Episode 12
A student at an exclusive prep school believes the scholarship funds are being embezzled from the endowment. Peter goes undercover as a prospective parent, but Neal steals the show when he accidentally ends up as a substitute literature teacher.
Neal: Did Hogwarts book a field trip?
Peter: Looks like it.
Peter: It's like you're an alias savant.
Mozzie: Well, Neal is more of a romantic and I'm a Machiavellian puppet master so what we're going to give you is game...to get the girl.
Mozzie: Do you know how many women I've wooed using an apropos quote from Victorian literature?
Amber: Oh, I love Aspen except for the snow.
Mozzie: You'll be happy to know I just did the equivalent of the hoisting of the boom box.
Comments:
1) Lying lessons. I would have loved those as a kid. I only mastered BSing (according to my sister).
2) Wow Matt Bomer can do Byron. Oh, can he ever do Byron. For non-poetry aficionados, you can see the full poem at poets.org. I think what I need is a clip of that so I can play it whenever I'm feeling down, or lonely, or it's Tuesday. Whatever.
Season 2, Episode 2
Nora and Josh deal with the fact that she's been turned while he tries to hide the fact she killed Hegeman to protect him. Things come to a head though at the mixer for Josh's medical school. Aiden must decide what he's willing to do to be the new second of Boston and Sally learns a new trick from a bad crowd.
Aiden: Why are there ghosts in there punching each other in the balls?
Season 2, Episode 1
Sally attends her high school reunion while Josh and Aiden face the consequences of their actions the month before.
Sally: I got to say I'm a little surprised you're haunting the high school.
Stevie: Why? Because I killed myself to get out of here?
Sally: Yes.
Comment: How in that entire month did Josh never notice the scratches on Nora's arm? How on earth did he miss something like that?
White Collar, USA Network's break out drama, has entered its third season. Renaissance criminal, Neal Caffrey, puts his Machiavellian mind to legal use by helping Peter and his team to smoke out white collar felons.
Neal Caffrey................Matt Bomer
Peter Burke..................Tim DeKay
Elizabeth Burke......Tiffani Thiessen
Mozzie......................Willie Garson
Diana Barrigan.....Marsha Thomason
Clinton Jones.............Sharif Atkins
Sara Ellis................Hilarie Burton
Note: All rights to quotes and pictures are retained by USA Network, and the White Collar creators and producers.
Season 3, Episode 11
Keller has Elle and Peter and Neal must track down Mozzie and the treasure if they hope to rescue her. Ross McCall guest stars.
Neal: Picture yourself shooting Keller right now?
Peter: No. I don't want to shoot him. I want to smash in his face repeatedly.
Mozzie: I'm currently sticking bamboo under his fingernails.
Neal: You are one for the classics.
What will you find when you go online? Not much of anything if MPAA, RIAA, and Congress have anything to say about it which is being demonstrated today by Wikipedia, Reddit, and others.
I urge all of you to call, email and tweet your congresspeople. You can look up their information at: usa.gov. Petition are also available for signing at the links below. Please join myself and millions of others in letting our government know that we are against this attempted suppression of free speech. There are better ways to prevent online piracy and a solution can be reached with the help of the tech industry rather than on the money and pressure of the entertainment industry.
For information on SOPA and PIPA including links to the full text of the bills visit:
Google: End Piracy, Not Liberty
Wikipedia: Stop Online Piracy Act
Arstechnica: SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power"
The Verge: Why The Verge and Vox Media are opposed to SOPA
Blog.Reddit: A technical examination of SOPA and PROTECT IP
Geekosystem: SOPA May Be Shelved, But PIPA Is Still On
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