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Venice: the thread
Topic Started: Sep 17 2009, 10:22 PM (6,379 Views)
ekny
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ps: so... what WAS the new content? Honestly, it stopped making sense after the first 2 paragraphs. If you could kindly extract whatever nuggets apply I'd be grateful. My ibuprofin await....
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Downside: 30-second unthought-out backstage-Emmy clip: if you pull that too often & charge people money for it, they will be pissed.

Dude, so true! I had totally forgotten about that! Look how genius these were--they completely raised my expectations and disappointed them, and then I forgot all about it once they started promising new things. I feel so manipulated.
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...and then I forgot all about it once they started promising new things.


I love that K and H leaked they, Team Venice (hey, let's get with the lingo), were going to do their own spoilers via puzzles and clues. LOL. That's one way to keep everyone distracted and to diminish the impact of the volunteer subtittlers who will likely have the transcript of the episodes, and hence know what happens, ahead of streaming. :ph43r:





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Trying to read this article and feeling a thousand years old. My apologies in advance.

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Kimmy: We know exactly on Twitter who are in the chats because of the way that they’re talking and I think that it’s just amazing how engaged they have become with it and with each other.


Translation: what a marketing opportunity is this? We can tailor our output from their input.

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  Hope: So right there I think the advertisers will eventually catch up to the benefit of doing it on the Internet, of having the eyeballs there, of being able to not just have it being in a television box to have users click on whatever it is have it completely interactive.


P&G come back - we can do it for you!

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As far as sponsorship, we are having meetings. We’d love to get a sponsor to underwrite the production aspect of the series.


If not P&G then maybe that gay ambassador dude or some other really rich gay person.

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Hope: We get hits on the website from over 85 countries including Qatar and some wild countries where I’m like “Are they even allowed on the internet?”


Qatar and other wild countries. I know, I know she didn't mean it that way, but this is one moment when the editor really needs to have been in there.

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Kimmy: Oh God yes, most definitely! Actually when I start to blog, which will be relatively soon, I’ll be because I’ve talked about the fact that I write to a play list that I make for each of my characters when I’m writing for them or the tone of the scene and so I’ll be doing my play list but then we’ll be doing the weeks that we air whatever artists are featured they’re going to be on our website for sure. Everybody is going to get to know everybody.


Sooo, if we all purchase the songs she wrote it to, we can watch with the appropriate sound track -- another revenue stream!

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So it would really have to be the deal of the century where we would be able to keep our creative control because that’s part of the joy in knowing that the three of us can say yes or no and really it’s all been about yes and there hasn’t been any no. That would be very difficult to lose that.


Translation: one season.
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ekny
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Oh, you are deadly accurate when you Parse. I can only admire your mad skills. So neatly done. (Note to self: next time, allow skewers some time to cool before using: meal still sizzles nicely w/o charing to a crisp.)

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So, assuming my Otalia bucks are transferable (hey! everyone else has been doin it, cmon guys!), I'd like to wager a small but high-odds bet on who Gina's Love Interest will be. (For all I know this has already been announced: saw a snippet the other night, probably on twitter, so realized it was some kind of Issue [or tease]. Haven't been following beyond that.)

I'm going to go with MG, for a long-shot. Here's my thinking: it needs to be someone she's worked with, that she knows she *can* work with. Someone she's essentially already screen-tested with. Possibly this is a stupid bet because MG is older, thus not hot enough. <shrug> For all the marketing savvy team Own It has displayed to date, I rather doubt this particular actor thinks that way; she's too exquisitively sensitive to issues around aging. MG looks good, she works well with CC onscreen. That's what I'm basing this on: CC's choices thus far seem to have been pretty sensible, that way.

The real issue is does person X have screen chem w/CC. (For the record, I don't believe she has chem with absolutely everything & everyone.) CC can clearly act with someone younger & doesn't seem threatened by that, which is both nice and admirable. So she already has that demographic hook line and sinkered. She can (and likely will) play blonde because this is, hello, set in Venice. (Oh shush, all you sensitive Cali people, geez. *I* didn't think this silliness up.) Which means her opposite number(s) will likely be brunette. And MG would make both shippers and OTP people INSANE with angsty goodness: having both JL & MG as love interests would be the trifecta of soapy unwellness. I mean goodness. I mean: it would make everyone's head explode (shortly after computer screens all over the country spontaneously combust following the intial snogging sequence, of course).

I realize I'll lose this bet rather spectacularly, but it was so much fun to make I don't even care. And I do have all those extra Otalia bucks to squander. ...It would also be a supremely ballsy thing to do, since the nice straight lady would then be having scenes with the nice gay lady, which would pretty much be the last word to all those involved with GL's production screwage. Not to mention which would earn CC so much extra street cred it wouldn't matter if the plot totally blew for the entire first season.
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As much as I would love Gina's distraction to be played by MG - I'm betting all my Otalia bucks that it won't be her.

My guess? Laura Wright. She's been working with CC and Kimmy on another project and CC mentioned her in a tweet recently.

Since I pay no attention to those clues on the Venice site - I'll just have to wait for the announcement to see if I am correct.

Oh by the way ... Venice site is ridiculous! I have no idea what any of it is supposed to be. Now granted, I haven't spent a lot of time trying but it seems ... messy.
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dunno who's LW? Some former L-word chick, I'll bet? I'm sure you're right, regardless. (Everyone is right but me, on this. Just thot it'd be fun to get people's spec.) As for their site--where you been, girl? we been bitching for weeks! :D
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As for their site--where you been, girl? we been bitching for weeks!


I have no idea where I've been! Missing out on the bitching fun I guess!

Laura Wright is currently on General Hospital, but spent many years on GL playing Cassie (I think she was original recipe Cassie) and I come armed with a couple of clips ... Olivia and Cassie mud fight:

Mudfight 1

Mud Fight 2


Yeah the mud fight is lame, but someone had these posted elsewhere and its the easiest way to show you LW!
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dunno who's LW?
No, not L-word just same initials. he he...Had to look her up myself since I don't do soaps (Lie, short boring story to CC isn't it?) She's on General Hospital. She has a job so I wouldn't think so. Although I forgot to check where they film GH.

I'd raise you MG bet, ek, except I think I'm out of Otalia bucks, plus I don't have an alternative to suggest.
And you won't have to wait for the "announcement" as the crazed twitter masses figure out the "puzzles" very fast.

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Venice site is ridiculous! I have no idea what any of it is supposed to be
What? You don't want to post in deadend threads? What? You can't find who posted where? What? You're wondering where the CONTENT is? Yeah, what ek said.

Myself, I'm wondering if I should take bets on how long it will take to update that SMASHING website logo with the replaced cast member (read major snark in that comment). Can't believe that website logo was the best design the talented rabid fans submitted.

Still wish Venice Team Own It luck. I can stand looking at somemore CC, I admit it.

ETA: Oh that Cassie. Do I admit here I've watched that mud fight? :silly
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Can't believe that website logo was the best design the talented rabid fans submitted.


I think the final logo decision was based on ease of use. Meaning, the one picked probably is easiest to transfer to tshirts etc. It's simple and one color. It's the only way I can believe that choice, because I tend to think most of us could whip up something more interesting than that!

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She has a job so I wouldn't think so.


The woman from OLTL has a job too, but is doing Venice. Oh and GH films in Calidornia.

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I'll admit to watching the mud fight just the other day while doing Important Research on Subtexty Goodness and, sad to say, I was not feeling much between CC and LW. I thought the potential, given the scene, was totally there but --- am I missing something?

MG would be extremely fun, I agree. And we know about the ekny nose for soaps. But I'd stick with a bet on someone younger, not older, possibly younger than JL. The cast seems to be missing an Extremely Hot Young Chick.

I can loan you some Otaliabucks, solitasolano, since I just won all of yours on that last bet. ;) Double or nothing?

Perhaps this is part of the stealth marketing: A website sooo bad it generates massive word of mouth?
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Venice promises for the week:
(Not in any particular order of delivery except for the Tuesday live podcast.)

1) Tuesday live Venice podcast with CC and JL interviewed by Mimi T.

2) Part 3 Venice Q&A up on YT.

3) Store, with boxers, of course, will open.

4)Wednesday the Motherlode (their term not mine) of clues will reveal the character and actress to play Gina's "distraction."

That's some busy Own It/Team Venice ladies, for sure.


ETA: because I wasn't wearing my glasses before so needed to fix some spelling and punctuation before I earned too many typo black marks.

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I can loan you some Otaliabucks, solitasolano, since I just won all of yours on that last bet.  Double or nothing?

Ouch! How many pairs of Venice boxers with CC lip prints on them do you need or want? You're on! :party
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I feel like a complete idiot, but you'll have to forgive me because I went out of town and my head has obviously forgotten everything she used to know about this world. Who the fuck is MG?
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Thanks for the news gathering solitasolano - I haven't the slightest idea where to collect these tidbits.

The Venice web banner is now updated. It's getting kind of crowded up there with Gina and Tina. But at least Jeff Branson has his clothes on.

The betting is currently on who will be Gina's new distraction - but I am not sure I really need any Venice boxers, with or without lip print. (MG would be Maureen Garrett).
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Ah, thanks, right, Holly. Yeah, I totally don't see it, sorry e. She's too old. CC has already said that the Gina character is younger than her (so, probably in her 30s), and if she plays against a romantic partner who is that much older, it's just going to make her seem older.
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