Hola starwriter :wave: . Si, vivo en Buenos Aires. Ever been here?Quote:
Originally Posted by starrwriter
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Hola starwriter :wave: . Si, vivo en Buenos Aires. Ever been here?Quote:
Originally Posted by starrwriter
No, but there is a funny story connected to that fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by crisaor
A couple years ago I was seriously thinking about retiring in BA because the cost of living there was so cheap compared to Hawaii. To get the inside scoop on living in BA, I contacted my friend Eric, wrote dozens of emails to a group of American ex-patriates who had an online forum, and did a massive amount of research on the web.
Eventually, I changed my mind about retiring in BA, but I had all this information and I didn't want to waste it, so I wrote a short story ("At Home in the Antipodes") about an older American who lives in BA. The story got rave reviews from readers, but one in particular astounded me. A Porteno attending the University of Michigan emailed me to say that my story was the best description of life in BA he had ever read!
Want another porteño's opinion? ;)
Sure, here's the full version:Quote:
Originally Posted by crisaor
http://www.summersetreview.org/04fall/antipodes.htm
(I hate the 10,000-character limit here. I have to gut my story or run it in two parts and very few ever read Part II.)
Gilmore Girls is one of my favourite tv shows. But they've only started showing it recently and it's still in its 2nd season here in India.
LOL why? We always seem to get things later than most European countries... we got the Chocolate Factory movie one month later than in Russia... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Themis
I'll google this thing and find out if it is shown maybe on some pay-tv thingy...
*back after googling*
:rage: :mad: :crash:
I HATE when this happens... I retreat everything I said, this show IS actually shown here and I know people who watch it though I've never tried myself.
What mislead me was this horrible habit of changing titles, which causes me this kind of mistakes all the time (people online talking of shows I think I dont know until I realise they just have been translated in a way that has nothing to do with the original): in fact, it's called "Una mamma per amica" (roughly translatable as "Mum as a friend" :rolleyes: ), which made it kinda hard to guess :rolleyes:
http://www.gilmoregirlsitalia.homestead.com/
Why does Italian TV change the titles of American programs? Surely, "The Gilmore Girls" would be easy enough to translate into Italian. There might be some devious reason, like showing bootlegged copies. When I was in Costa Rica, every bar in San Jose showed bootlegged American movies and there were video shops everywhere selling them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koa
I have no clue why...Everyone younger than 50 knows the word 'girl' I think... so they could have left it as it was (after all Dawson's Creek is Dawson's Creek here too...) or just called translated it literally... But it normally happens to tons of movies and tv shows (it sometimes took me months to find out I did know some show some English speaking person was talking to me about....:rolleyes:). If what you mean, starr, is 'pirate' unauthorized copies, I doubt that's a reason, our pirate industry works perfectly whatever the title is :D
I'd really like to find out why... Is some over-sweet mother-daughter relationship the main theme of this show? Cos that title alwyas made me think of that...
I wouldn't call the relationship over sweet, even though the mother and daughter are very close. To me what is so funny is how the daughter often acts like the parent. The mother goes off on flights of imagination and the daughter has to reel her in by constantly saying "Mom!" Lorelai (the mother) is intelligent and very funny herself, but she also has serious emotional issues which makes her vulnerable and endearing. From what I have read, Lauren Graham (the actress) puts a lot of her own personality into the role. I can't wait to see Graham star in a dramatic film because I think she is very talented (not to mention gorgeous.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Koa
Well I guess that's pretty much what I had in my mind, though the emphasis on it on the Italian title is still kinda annoying I guess...
I basically don't watch TV(I could easily live a year without it as long as I had a neverending supply of books), but I use to love Gilmore Girls, when I was younger.It was about the only US show I watched.I very very rarely even watch TV, but I loved the first two seasons of this.Especially as I use to like Rory and Dean at the start, and then when Jess came.But here in Australia, they pulled the show(and this was after it kept on been shown infrequently), so here it only lasted up to where Rory just goes off to college(note: they showed this about a year after the US), and then, if I remember correctly, introduced this annoying guy and it soon ended.But I did happen to read online that there is about another one or two seasons that never probably will never air in Australia, and Rory loses her virginity to Dean and Jess disappears or something happens with him?Anyway, I still think Alexis Bledel is really cute, and I liked her character at the beginning as she was actually not another braindead bimbo character, and liked books etc.But when did Jess become the Romantic poet?I can't remember him even liking books or reading one at all!He's surely the exciting wild type of guy, but I see him more of a rebel without a cause, than a rebel with a cause.Jess is interesting but I only love(If I had to pick an ideal type of guy myself) the rebels with a cause.And I did think Dean treated Rory better at the beginning, and was lovely in that nice and sweet-decent guy kind of way.
The first season was probably the one I remember best, and the characters were all so fresh- I started watching it each week, till it was cancelled here.
Gilmore Girls is probably shown in Pakistan (or is available in DVD) but it sounds like one of these cheap, corny American sitcoms I usually wont touch with a ten-foot bargepole.
Gilmore Girls isn't really a sitcom but a drama-comedy (if there's such a thing). The show's pretty different than the usual stuff on TV...with fast-paced and witty dialogue.
I don't know how the show develops later though as the show's just into its 2nd season in India. But so far, I've enjoyed watching it.
You can order a CD of the complete episodes of year 1 through 4 here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aurora Ariel