Riordan was also big on Charter Schools here, with the same result (as is the case everywhere with charter schools).
Damien Lewis might have chosen that particular time to pull the plug - and rightly so - but he also has a history of not sticking with a character who doesn't grow (see: "Homeland") past the initial interesting stuff.
Riordan was also big on Charter Schools here, with the same result (as is the case everywhere with charter schools).
Damien Lewis might have chosen that particular time to pull the plug - and rightly so - but he also has a history of not sticking with a character who doesn't grow (see: "Homeland") past the initial interesting stuff.
well, he can also afford that luxury...he works in England whenever he wants to and he's successfully become big tv star and if he wants to do movies, he certainly could (although why he'd want to these days is a good question, but a different one). he's also born rich, but that's beside the point, since he's extraordinarily talented (I watch him in "Band of Brothers" whenever I can, just to see how easy he makes it look...I fancy myself an acting aficionado, being one of those guys who managed to make it to England at least once a year, just for the plays...a cliche, I realize, but fuck it...it was tremendous fun). I though the Axe thing ran out of steam awhile back, actually. and his role on "Homeland" had also pretty much exhausted the character, so I figure his sense for when the interest runs out tends to be pretty acute. so let's assume that he could've stayed if he wanted to, but also had a pretty good excuse to split...I don't think his kids are all that old, either. so if they're Eton-bound or whatever equivalent, it's probably best not to disrupt this process, although they all probably have theatrical ambitions anyway....
thing is, as everyone's noticed, once those Brits found the right dialect coaches, most of them knew that all other things being equal, they were gonna get the jobs. and, as my Dublin friend Seamus used to say, "Fair play to 'em, too, the Sassanach motherfuckers."
"Band of Brothers," the ten best war movies ever made. And then "the Pacific," made by the exact same creative team, and they completely fuck it up beyond all recognition (hint: don't make a show about two guys who never knew each other existed. As someone who just finished his *third* book on the Battle of Guadalcanal, I can assure you they could have just limited the series to the period August 7-November 30 1942 and found *plenty* to do. But no, they take two really excellent books and fuck up the interpretation of both. I've never actually watched the entire series through, it's so fucking awful). I had great hopes about their third one, Masters of the Air, until I heard who was involved as the directors, and then I thanked god they finally put it on Apple, which I will never watch, rather than HBO, where I'd have been too tempted to watch.
Well, this turned into a digression from what this page of the Substack is about, didn't it?
"Sassenach" - reminds me how much I like "Outlander."
And the British actors will all tell you the reason they take jobs in America is because of all the dentists they can take the kiddies to.
regarding the charter school thing: if that's everyone's experience, why does it remain an issue. and uh-oh, the answer is obvious. follow the money....
there were some egregious examples of Charter Schools here where it turned out that at least one of them was spending the day doing military-style drilling for more than half the day. they have two years to make the case for continuing, so that's two years of very easy money. and quite a bit of it, too.
Riordan was also big on Charter Schools here, with the same result (as is the case everywhere with charter schools).
Damien Lewis might have chosen that particular time to pull the plug - and rightly so - but he also has a history of not sticking with a character who doesn't grow (see: "Homeland") past the initial interesting stuff.
well, he can also afford that luxury...he works in England whenever he wants to and he's successfully become big tv star and if he wants to do movies, he certainly could (although why he'd want to these days is a good question, but a different one). he's also born rich, but that's beside the point, since he's extraordinarily talented (I watch him in "Band of Brothers" whenever I can, just to see how easy he makes it look...I fancy myself an acting aficionado, being one of those guys who managed to make it to England at least once a year, just for the plays...a cliche, I realize, but fuck it...it was tremendous fun). I though the Axe thing ran out of steam awhile back, actually. and his role on "Homeland" had also pretty much exhausted the character, so I figure his sense for when the interest runs out tends to be pretty acute. so let's assume that he could've stayed if he wanted to, but also had a pretty good excuse to split...I don't think his kids are all that old, either. so if they're Eton-bound or whatever equivalent, it's probably best not to disrupt this process, although they all probably have theatrical ambitions anyway....
thing is, as everyone's noticed, once those Brits found the right dialect coaches, most of them knew that all other things being equal, they were gonna get the jobs. and, as my Dublin friend Seamus used to say, "Fair play to 'em, too, the Sassanach motherfuckers."
"Band of Brothers," the ten best war movies ever made. And then "the Pacific," made by the exact same creative team, and they completely fuck it up beyond all recognition (hint: don't make a show about two guys who never knew each other existed. As someone who just finished his *third* book on the Battle of Guadalcanal, I can assure you they could have just limited the series to the period August 7-November 30 1942 and found *plenty* to do. But no, they take two really excellent books and fuck up the interpretation of both. I've never actually watched the entire series through, it's so fucking awful). I had great hopes about their third one, Masters of the Air, until I heard who was involved as the directors, and then I thanked god they finally put it on Apple, which I will never watch, rather than HBO, where I'd have been too tempted to watch.
Well, this turned into a digression from what this page of the Substack is about, didn't it?
"Sassenach" - reminds me how much I like "Outlander."
And the British actors will all tell you the reason they take jobs in America is because of all the dentists they can take the kiddies to.
regarding the charter school thing: if that's everyone's experience, why does it remain an issue. and uh-oh, the answer is obvious. follow the money....
there were some egregious examples of Charter Schools here where it turned out that at least one of them was spending the day doing military-style drilling for more than half the day. they have two years to make the case for continuing, so that's two years of very easy money. and quite a bit of it, too.