**Breaking** “The L Word” Spin Off: Alice Pieszecki Lands in Jail!

Its a Shakespeare quote lol (well, its originally in english, translate in french and then i retranslated with my poor english skill.
"comme il est vrais qu'un coeur libre a besoins d'une prison"

"il se battent avec autant d'ardeur pour leur servitudes qu'ils le feraient pour leur libertés"- quote Spinoza

the problem is that when you are to suspicious about the chains, you can fail create link.

Le loup: tu ne peux pas m'approcher, je ne suis pas apprivoisé.
le petit prince: apprivoisé? qu'est ce que ça veux dire?
le loup: ça veux dire créer des liens.

I like very much Leisha, i give her a rose i forged when she was at montreal. i thought i will be brave enough to talk a little but i was so shy in front of her... i give the rose and run away like a wet pussy

I have a lot of friends still in that industry who have the inside skinny on the current trend. It makes short term business sense, especially with the economy circling the bowl as it where. Scripted serials are expensive, especially if the show is a hit and the audience begins to get attached to particular characters. Add in all the new distribution technologies and related debates about residuals and royalties, well...

Unscripted reality, talk, and news shows tend to utilize fewer writers, smaller production crews, much smaller facilities, etc. Fans also tend to be loyal to the show, not the talent, since the latter (and mostly unpaid) tends to change every season. This eliminates union issues almost entirely, if not the unions themselves. That translates into huge profits. Given the transnational corporate nature of today's media, profits are everything.

And here I was thinking I was the only one old enough to remember the origins of that phrase,

Kate Moennig has a tendency to keep her personal views of the world to herself, which includes her personal life. She tends to be type-cast into lesbian and transgender roles, primarily because of her androgynous appearance and mannerisms, so her fan base also tends to come from that spectrum of the population.

Trust me, though, she has other projects going on, including the comedy-drama film "Everybody's Fine" and the psychological thriller "Remorse." The latter promises to be one of her best roles yet, if the Hollyweird rumor mill is correct.

I personally had issues with the character Alice (though the actor is wonderful), mainly because I sensed a sort of phony-ness about her, as well as a double standard morality. That's probably because I know too many people like that, I dunno. Alice winding up in jail or prison is plausible with that personality type. I'm just worried about the male fantasy oriented factor of "lesbians in prison" that seems to be the direction the new series will go in. God how I hope I'm wrong on that, it would set lesbians and women back decades.

Rumor has it OC will be revived somewhat (forums only) to promote the spin-off and get fan ideas for future scripting. Personally, if I wanted to be used like that, I'd go back to dating guys, and that isn't going to happen in this lifetime, lol.

Tex you didn't get that invite I sent? Well you know you're invited anytime.

Pardon the jump in ladies, BUT, PK, you didn't invite me to dinner?!?! What? And I do have some opinions about TLW and Ilene that could have added some color to the evening!

Feeling left out,

Tex

Interesting theory. I just thought it might be that they were trying to get an idea early on about what the fans reaction would be to the pilot and subsequent lesbian prison drama. If enough people cry "yuck!" then they might not pick up the spin-off.

You're bad Minnie.

Um, it is very easy to create an automated "personal" reply. I've programmed one myself for a user database.

Hi BtFan,

"Jennifer alludes to things not working out all that well for TiBette or Bette."

FYI, when Jennifer Beals and Ilene were at the Nickel Bar in cleveland someone asked about Bette and Tina and Jennifer looked at Ilene and said something like (I'm paraphrasing), "I can tell them can't I...that they (Bette and Tina) are safe?"

Why so upset about the show and Ilene? I don't think she has spit on anyone. She brought Tina and Bette back together for the fans so she is listening somewhat. They've made some really bad choices IMO regarding storylines and character development....and I honestly believe they're shooting themselves in the foot with this whole lesbian prison thing, but hey nobody is perfect.

I was having dinner with friends last night and we were talking about the L-word and laughing. We have fun when we watch it. It all depends on how you look at things I guess.

As for the OC I really think it had to do with money problems. I don't see it as us being cheated or used by Showtime and Ilene. It was simply a business venture that failed.

Chin up BT - xoxo PK

Hey, BP, what you doing up so late (early)?

Ilene? Gave up on that woman after Season 2 ..... then 3.....then 4 - being that I'm a TiBetter, three years of foreplay was a bit much.

Viacom learned that the best way to kill off a popular series was to first make it unpopular. This has been a trend with them for about two years now, after CBS's "Jericho" had to be revived for a second abbreviated season do to fan outrage over its cancellation (the series originally ended with a fantastic cliff-hanger).

Seems the rest of the media giants are going the same route, slowly killing off scripted serial shows so they can replace them with cheaper and more profitable unscripted reality, news, and talk shows.

I'm going to be catching up on a lot of reading.

Oh really!? Is it posible to have an automatic service of deleting accounts on request? Kind of like autopilot?

There is this huge mystery going on, and just maybe it might come alive with info and new features at a precise time with, and in tune with the new season.

I have no clue, but just thinking out loud.

I ended up closing my user account with OC after my email box started getting filled with some pretty creepy spam linked to the site. Months of no answers about what is going on at OC, but closing my account was handled within minutes. That tells me they're allowing the site to be overrun, intentionally, not out of neglect.

Check to see if they have another ride coming up in 2009 - since you're already prepared and all.....

"it's done a Dallas" I like that a lot! I would change my schedule to watch Dallas - now that was a series!

I never liked Happy Days....and have mercy for saying this - I'm not a big Ron Howard fan......Hollywood blasphemy, I know, but.....

T