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Post by kathryn on Jan 3, 2023 17:17:51 GMT
They didn't do a single second of promotion for the Netflix series. Oh boy. The Netflix series IS a promo. You are not that ignorant. You know full well that anyone with a Netflix production coming out would normally be talking it up in every media outlet to try and promote it.
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Post by kathryn on Jan 3, 2023 17:16:12 GMT
Facts? None of this is based on facts. And that is the problem. If Harry is serious about wanting to heal a family rift, he is going about it completely the wrong way. Yes, it is based on facts. What happened post-Netflix series with the exposure of the Palace lies about being contacted for comment and how they briefed those denials to the press via their pet journalists is a clear example of exactly what Harry is saying. It’s a fact that the Royal Press offices use friendly journalists to plant lies about Harry and Meghan in the press. Those journalists report those lies without even attempting to do any basic journalistic verification of them. They act as stenographer for the Palace press officers so that they don’t have to go on the record with their lies. As for Harry healing the family rift - that is very much up to the rest of the family. It’s pretty clear what Harry would need them to do. They could simply tell their press officers directly to stop lying via journalists now that has been exposed, and that would be a start. They could even defend Meghan against the utter vileness that the likes of Jeremy Clarkson come out with instead of attending lunches with him. But they are clearly not willing to do so.
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Post by kathryn on Jan 3, 2023 17:07:35 GMT
I don't find anything about Kanye West funny. Indeed, Kanye is clearly in the grip of a very serious mental illness that is destroying his life - has already destroyed his marriage and much of his career. Nothing funny about that.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 30, 2022 15:05:42 GMT
no spoilers....but changed a significant part which involves the ending...but really...see this show Is that a change to the ending of the stage version or a change from the original film? Its fantastic entertainment but its also a terible musical. All the bits of contemporary 50s music are great, and the bits of film score included are marvellous. They could have cut all the original musical numbers - but then I suppose it would be a very short show.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 30, 2022 15:04:11 GMT
Well, this was good fun for a Rush ticket price. I didn’t think the original Music added very much to the story or character though - the best musical bits were the covers. Was it a TodayTix ticket, kathryn? What seat did you get? Yes, TodayTix. S30 - which was totally fine although red on theatremonkey.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 29, 2022 18:19:04 GMT
Well, this was good fun for a Rush ticket price.
I didn’t think the original Music added very much to the story or character though - the best musical bits were the covers.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 28, 2022 18:25:32 GMT
To be honest I really don’t care how anyone dresses their kids, assuming the kids are warm in winter and cool in summer and decently covered...
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Post by kathryn on Dec 28, 2022 10:43:54 GMT
You won’t find a complete list anywhere - it’s only major appointments/movements that get reported on. No-one normally cares about minor staff changes. It’s only if the press can make a story out of it to suit the slant they want that anyone outside the household will know. Like this one: www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/two-members-kate-middletons-staff-13725624.ampPlenty of senior staff have moved on from positions with Will & Kate (and Charles!) over the years - some of them to other roles connected to them, some for reasons such as having a family, some of them to work for the Sussexes when they split households. Staff movement is normal and expected. It’s turned into a negative story when it’s Harry and Meghan for a reason - which is the point Peter Hunt makes here:
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Post by kathryn on Dec 27, 2022 20:58:00 GMT
As long as Luke Evans isn’t in it!
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Post by kathryn on Dec 26, 2022 10:02:19 GMT
I'd feel more secure alone in a room with John Barrowman than Harvey Weinstein. ]If he'd held his hands up and made it clear that he understands this and is regretful of his actions then this would have been forgotten by now (IMO) - at least it should under normal circumstances. It’s hard to regret something that made people around you laugh and encourage you to do it more for years. Particularly when you had no ill intentions. If people around him hadn’t been laughing he wouldn’t have been doing it. That doesn’t make the behaviour right, of course (bullies often have an audience of sycophants laughing at their cruelty, for example). But it is confusing when people who claimed to find it hilarious (and many, many Who fans were entertained by those stories) are now condemning you for it. Also, I have to say I don’t think it is true that a sincere apology would make any difference to some - people enjoy their outrage and sense of moral superiority and self-righteousness too much.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 23, 2022 16:36:35 GMT
I know I read at some point in the last few years that staff at Clarence House have witnessed William screaming at his father, and Charles being as averse to conflict as Her late Majesty, simply takes it meekly. I don't know about William; considering the overload of media abuse his parents took over the years, and the leaks from both sides, I don't blame him for being suspicious, but purposely planting false rumours with different people to test their loyalty, making Kate wait for ten years before finally marrying her, cultivating an affable image when he's temperamental and said to be stubborn as well...why play games with people you supposedly care about? Why test them? Let's say my level of respect for him is below that of his brother or father. At least he is married to someone who is sensible, who's been willing to play the game without appearing to break a sweat. No one asks to be born into that family, but frankly that's not a life I'd want to marry into either. I can't remember where I saw this, could have been social media- but somebody was saying that Kate has been (is currently?) abused by William. Obvs there are so many rumours about the royals but this one surprised me at the time. Giving this thing about William's anger management issues, now that gossip seems more plausible... I would caution that social media tends to run away with itself and exaggerate gossip. There’s no credible reports of anything like ‘abuse’. Affairs, yes, shouting at people, yes. But nothing more than that.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 19, 2022 23:53:11 GMT
. Also their work with the guest star (the filmed version having Tom Hiddleston) is great - it’s always funny to have talented actors read awful dialogue and getting their surnames wrong Hiddleston has genuine comic chops.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 19, 2022 23:51:32 GMT
The bits with actual Tom Hiddleston are great.
The rest of it is thoroughly meh.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 19, 2022 19:18:44 GMT
The Play Wot I Wrote was on BBC4 last night, should be up on Iplayer all over Christmas.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 17, 2022 10:27:18 GMT
You can’t believe that our dear future King has an anger management problem? You’ve obviously not seen the many gossip stories featuring anonymous ‘Palace sources’ that describe him being ‘incandescent’ and ‘furious’.
That’s the thing about briefing the tabloids - they don’t actually care about William, they are just biding their time until they knife him in the back. They’ve been dropping hints like that for ages even among stories that are meant to be positive towards him.
Harry is far from the only person who William has screamed and shouted at. He’s just the first that has gone on the actual record and not hidden behind anonymity.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 17, 2022 9:43:19 GMT
It looks like the Royal Press offices have been caught out this time variety.com/2022/tv/global/harry-meghan-docuseries-buckingham-palace-1235464017/I count 3 claims from the documentary about briefing and lying that have been evidenced in this one story: 1. The press offices giving the negative briefing to journalists 2. The negative briefing being a downright lie 3. The follow-up face saving briefing is also a lie, because one of them did respond to the initial contact and then stopped, and the other didn’t try and contact anyone at Archewell until after the deadline had passed. It also kind of looks like they deliberately sent their requests for clarification to Netflix and Archewell staff who are unrelated to the production (Netflix haven’t even been able to locate the email!), knowing they couldn’t possibly get a response by the production deadline, so that they could claim the lack of response was not their choice and that they didn’t get a right of reply. They could have just said ‘no comment’ up front instead of trying to use their tame journalists to smear the production company. They should have realised that they’d get push back from the companies involved - it’s their professional reputations at stake.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 16, 2022 15:17:39 GMT
So how are the entire families bar her mother meant to feel from the unending accusations and claims from this couple, especially when the vitriol has been done to line their bank balance. As ever it's a one sided story from them, howling despair about the slights to them while showing no compassion or concern to how their barbs wound others. Having been caught out on so much already with their neverending changing version of their stories they should find they are challenged with their outpouring than they have been. 100m for selling out your family will at least buy them comfort in their bitterness filled and lonely future. They were not paid 100 million 'to sell their family out', they were not in fact paid 100 million for anything AT ALL. They have a 100 million 'production contract' with Netflix IE they have 100 million to spend on making the productions they wish to make. The only 'payment' they receive themselves is for whatever their roles are on whatever production it is they make. ] Yes, there’s a documentary about the Invictus Games coming, and originally ‘Pearl’ would have been under that deal, until Netflix decided to cut most of their animation content in development. It’s much like the Shondaland deal - it covers content to be produced over multiple years, but it gets reported on as of it’s a one-off thing.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 16, 2022 15:12:47 GMT
eta: Update: 3.2/10 on IMDB - H&M inching ahead of The Kardashians as the third worst reality TV show evah (!)
You're really doing this? Uh huh, technical analysis has already described this as ‘review bombing’ - people making multiple new accounts just to leave a negative review. It’ll be the same people using VPNs to make multiple Twitter Accounts dedicated to hate content about them. And there’s a reason for that - there’s a very lucrative ecosystem of ‘influencers’ monetising this content on YouTube and other social media platforms. Which was of course covered in the series.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 16, 2022 14:21:44 GMT
It’s December 2022. They are talking now about the things that happened in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
If Samantha and Thomas Markle has just behaved like normal family members, instead of just running to the press at the first opportunity, the situation would doubtless be different.
If the staff of certain members of the Royal Family had not leaked stories to the press multiple times, including details of the proposed plans to move away, the situation would doubtless be different too.
Things are as they are because of what has happened. It’s not where Harry and Meghan wanted or anticipated being at the outset. Everyone reaches the end of their tether at some point.
And honestly they’ve been quite careful and selective about what they have said about individuals. For example they don’t touch at all on the nature of the negative stories about other family members that got buried in favour of attacking Meghan. Meghan even keeps suggesting that her father is not solely responsible for his terrible behaviour (insisting that the letter must have been signed for by someone else, thinking his phone was ‘compromised’).
They’d have been better able to cope if they’d been less naive and more cynical.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 16, 2022 9:31:35 GMT
Despite spending 10 years as an officer in the army, with tours to Afghanistan, we're now expected to believe that, rather than the Taliban, Harry was terrified by his brother shouting at him. Poor love. I know this will shock you, but Harry doesn’t love anyone in the Taliban. Having people you love furious at you and attacking you is a very different thing. We are vulnerable to hurt and fear in a totally different way with the people we love. But this basic understanding of human relationships and emotions appears to be beyond some people. 🙄
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Post by kathryn on Dec 16, 2022 9:29:05 GMT
Hmm yes, I’ve always thought that being famous is overrated! Give me rich and anonymous over ‘rich and famous’ any day!
It’s funny, it has struck me before that the people most furious about Harry and Meghan ‘whingeing’ and leaving are the ones most invested in the idea that being a Royal or marrying a Royal is a fairytale. That being part of a very rich family with big palaces and pretty jewellery must be wonderful.
It’s always looked like a thoroughly miserable existence to me.
Now, yes, of course, being thoroughly miserable with a roof over your head and a full belly every night is very different from being thoroughly miserable living on the streets, or struggling with the option of either heating or eating.
But human brains are remarkably resistant to the notion that ‘many people have it worse than you’. When you are miserable, stressed, or depressed your brain is totally focused on that. This is not a personal flaw, it’s inherent in humanity - if this were not the case just about everyone would be a lot happier and mentally healthier.
Anyone in that situation would be looking for ways to get out of it.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 15, 2022 0:01:21 GMT
The reason she takes the pictures is for privacy for the children. She is within all rights to protect them. Harry and Meghan have every right to leave but the way they did it was appalling. And the monetising of their one thin story, with. Or actual evidence is tiresome. What was ‘appalling’ about the way they left? What did they actually do that you object to? I’d really like to understand.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 14, 2022 19:19:08 GMT
Yes, to be clear I think Kate is well within her rights to only release photos of her kids she herself has taken.
But I’ve seen grumbling from more than one professional photographer about the money they are not earning from photos of them. And snark about the quality of Kate’s work.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 14, 2022 15:06:25 GMT
SW can you shed some light on Kate's photography? I cant see anything from a google search. Please and ta Kate always takes and releases her own pictures of the kids on social media. She doesn’t do photo calls or portraits with professionals, and the newspapers don’t get Exclusives. That means there’s lots of photographers (and media outlets) who’d normally be able to score a nice little income for official Royal portraits who are missing out, and newspapers can’t use even bland official portraits to drive clicks - you just follow the Royal SM account to see the kids pictures. Eventually the people losing the money are gonna get pissed off…
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Post by kathryn on Dec 14, 2022 15:02:30 GMT
). Looking at how the press are already creating personas for the Cambridge children and writing negative coverage of the younger two in order to prop up the heir, what on earth position will they be in in 20 years, when all the other working royals are dead or elderly, and it’s all resting on workshy, belligerent William and his children who’ve grown up in a much more hostile media/social media landscape than any royal before? When the children are old enough to feel the full force of the press, and resent their lack of privacy and being fed to the wolves? I do wonder if Harry and Meghan will fade into obscurity (or settle into the “California socialites who do charity work” lifestyle or if they’ll continue to be a thorn in the royal side. I don’t see them ever returning. It’s funny, Harry’s comments about making a world a better place for your kids is so often taken as a dig just at Charles, but it applies just as much to William. What happens when Prince George gets a girlfriend (or possibly even a boyfriend - statistically we’re bound to get a bi or gay Royal at some point) - is she going to get the same treatment? How likely is any girl to want to date any of the Royal kids, if what they see ahead of them is what happened to Meghan (and Kate, and Sophie, and Fergie…). What happens to Charlotte and Louis when the slimmed down monarchy model of King, POW, and PoW’s children, makes them redundant Royals? Will they be allowed to exit gracefully, or will they be used as scapegoats like Harry has been? Even if Harry and Meghan fade into Californian obscurity (which I don’t think they will - they’ve networked themselves into a prominent position that will see them tapped for initiatives for some time to come) this problem does not go away, it just repeats unto the next generation.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 14, 2022 14:38:01 GMT
Booked for the first Saturday preview and discovered that I have enough loyalty points for a cheap ticket, so treated myself to the matinee on the 12t September too (muck-up matinee!!).
Plenty of seats left for later in in the run.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 14, 2022 9:41:55 GMT
Yes indeed, why listen to what the people themselves have to say, rather than taking the Daily Mail’s word for it?!
The Daily Mail and The Sun are so known for being fair and reasonable commentators on public events….
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Post by kathryn on Dec 13, 2022 20:30:38 GMT
I don’t think we’re going to hear anything that Royal-watchers don’t already know. There’s been loads of journalists saying that they were negatively briefed by Kensington Palace sources for ages, and even hinting that those briefings were done to make William look good at Harry and Meghan’s expense. Including the likes of Dan Wooton!
The way to not let it ‘come to this’ would have been not briefing negative stories to the press about one brother and his wife to protect the other brother. That was never going to end well. Particularly not when they were already white supremacists making credible death threats - as has been confirmed recently.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 12, 2022 13:51:51 GMT
Kinda glad that I forgot about this going on sale at midday! I’ll check back after work I think.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 11, 2022 19:17:20 GMT
Trans women are over 4x more likely to experience violence than cis women. Go to the bathroom. Sit in the stall. Do your business. Wash your hands. Get on with your day. The bigotry is repugnant. ‘Gender-neutral’ toilets are a stupid idea if violence is the concern, because the source of the violence is men!! ‘Gender-neutral’ toilets are actually just mixed-sex - everyone gets exposed to potential violence! It does not reduce the risk for anyone. Trans women are still at risk, and women are also exposed to an increased risk and lose their privacy, dignity and comfort into the bargain. Which tells you that the ‘violence!’ argument is a red herring. It’s not really about that. It’s about a weird desire to break down the social barriers we have around the sexes, to pretend that it’s all ‘socially constructed’.
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