缘分

缘分这个东西真的很奇怪
也很奇妙。
博客的这个标题用了很久了，
当时还在寻觅，
谁曾想到，你的出现是那么的突然，却又那么的顺理成章。
如今，真的是
"All over you, now"

从今天开始记录我们的一点一滴，YOU & ME.

触碰

2009年3月25日 18时55分

原来，

人的身体是个很玄妙的东西。

一切，却自然地发生了。

除了强烈的认同感，那么就应该是，爱。

或许，此刻的思考，显得幼稚。

只是，沉湎于你的拥抱，太害怕转瞬即逝。

看着你孩子般熟睡的面庞，该怎么如何爱你呢？我的宝贝。

我们是不是开始的太快？来不及反映的太多？

你说，想，就可以做到。

对，我是积极的，充满信心的。

我想……

因为我们确定

2009年3月25日 20时50分

我们开始的很快，

因为Feeling对了，

Timing对了；

and you are the right one，

我们都在心里这样形容对方，

不是吗？

so，就不要再浪费宝贵的时间了。

未来...

“现在”这个概念只在人类脑海中存在8秒，

8秒以后将要发生的都是未来...

我们无法掌控，

所以我们至少要掌控住这每个8秒，

为了未来而努力。

让我们放慢些脚步，

享受现在这相对轻松的环境。

我认定了的，

是不会轻易放开的。

I promise...

新的一年，新的开始

写在09年初：

新年的钟声是从餐厅厨房的那台小电视里传出来的，我忙的连回头看看电视的时间都没有。

09年的第一天，难忘的忙碌的日子！！

可能09年都将会是忙碌的一年；朝着追寻的目标奋力前行的一年

但是，喜欢这样的感觉，心里踏实，hehe

Jennifer Beals Thrown a Curve By 'L Word' Final Season Change

By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
Dec 17, 2008


Jennifer Beals reveals she was "completely" surprised to find out that the final season of her "The L Word" series has been transformed into flashbacks. She admits to this column that she's been thrown "a little off-balance by it. It seemed very different from what we had done prior, but you kind of roll with the flow. We'll see what happens."

Jennifer Beals Thrown a Curve By 'L Word' Final Season Change (Image: Wenn)

Asked whether she likes the way her Bette Porter character's storyline has been handled, she says, "I don't know how the show has been edited. It's completely different from the way we shot it, in a way, since it's all being shown as flashbacks."

The Showtime series, returning Jan. 18, completed its production in October, and "they just recently put the trailers together," she notes. She did not learn of the change from the producers. "Somebody else told me -- Rachel," she says, referring to cast mate Rachel Shelley.

It might seem strange, to say the least, that the lead actress of the six-year-old lesbian drama series would be kept in the dark about such a wholesale change in the structure of the entire last season, but the Yale-educated Beals is circumspect about that.

"They didn't have to tell all of us, or any of us," she says. "The only thing is, it would help me with doing press. I really have no attachment. To me, after it's done, I rarely watch it. All those people in the studio that were there when we wrapped -- all the crew members, the production team, everybody -- they're all responsible for what we accomplished. Ilene Chaiken," she says of the show's creator-exec producer. "It's not me, it's a collective. That's the beauty of film and television."

As for what is next, Beals, who has a 3-year-old daughter with husband Ken Dixon, says she's "taking a little time to relax. I'll find another project, and I hope it will be as satisfying as 'The L Word,' and we'll see. I'm not in a huge hurry. I've been reading scripts with women characters who are not drawn very thoroughly. To be on a woman-centric show and then read scripts where a woman is an ancillary character is a rude awakening."

又一段整理。

tibette.com crissu又为星期天下午的问题作了补充
JB & Lu and RS Q&A Sunday afternoon part II

Question: If all of you would have the opportunity to work together again, would you and what kinda project would you like it to be?

The scene that followed this question on stage was so funny Jennifer said that she would love to do some kind of a cowgirl movie and I think that she also made a reference to Brokeback Mountain, only with ladies And then Rachel looked at her and asked her if she would like to wear the hat and placed it on Jennifer’s head. Jennifer looked soo cute with it and kept arranging it on top of her amazing hair Then Rachel said that she would love to make something else but for the life of me I can’t remember what it was but somebody from the audience yelled Charlie’s Angels! (I was still staring at JB with the cute hat ) and then Rachel said yeah, that was fun! and JB said… yeah, for you… I would be Charlie! which would mean we’d never see her, only hear her voice Then Laurel said that she would have to stick with her partner (JB ) cause she would also love to do a cowgirl movie. And said that both her and Jennifer can ride a horse but what would british lady Rachel do in the cowgirl movie she doesn’t know And then Rachel said I’ll ride a donkkkeeyyyy! and started making these hopping riding movements which was totally hysterical and cracked Jennifer up sooo hard, she just guffawed

Question: A girl from Korea asked Jennifer about her TLW promo trip to Japan and if she’d ever do one in Korea

Jennifer talked about how Japan is a traditionally pre-homophobic country and that she saw maybe 2 gay bars in Tokyo but the whole trip was a great experience for her. And though little of the community can be seen on the surface, the dvd-sales in Japan went through the roof after her trip. And if opportunity ever rose she would love to do another promo trip, for example, to Korea. Then here Jennifer passed the cowboy hat on to Laurel for wearing who put it on and looked like the hottest cowgirl ever, especially in those jeans And then Laurel said that she had thought about wearing her chaps for this Q&A but Rachel had talked her out of it And Rachel said, yeah, I told her that no one would want to see Laurel wearing her chaps which I thought was a reference to Jenny’s – no! no one would ever want to see Nina having sex! in season 5 eppie 2 Laurel was like oh… I thought it would’ve looked cool But then she adjusted the hat on her head and said that she feels like enough of a cowgirl anyway and feels like doing this – brought her sexy jean-clad legs up in the air in front of Rachel and clicked her heels together and then once more on the other side.

Question: a girl talked about how we have dreamed of a tibette wedding and if it will happen in season 5?

Jennifer mimicked locking her lips and throwing the key over her shoulder and Laurel pulled the cowboy hat over her eyes. Audience cracked up They of course couldn’t say anything but said to take it up with Ilene… and mentioned the possibilities if we got a TLW movie, who knows.

Question: A lady got up and apologized if the next question is boring to Laurel and Rachel, it is only for Jennifer and asked Jennifer about her training for the triathlons and what motivates her?

This was hilarious again because as soon as the lady said that the question is only for Jennifer, Rachel put her head on Laurel’s shoulder and Laurel hers on top of Rachel’s head and mimicked sleeping Then the audience cracked up again and Laurel and Rachel “woke” up and started playing patty-cake and Jennifer was just helplessly laughing along with us looking at them and commented that these two should have their own comedy show Jennifer then talked about her training, she said that starting up, for her, it was simply a matter of train or perish. About programs, she said there are many great ones available on the net and you just gotta keep at it, but once you get into the groove, it can also be very addicting in addition to being fun and there is the danger of over-training. She said that the best motivation for her is linking the triathlon with charity so that when the alarm goes off at 05:30 or some ungodly hour and the bed looks so warm and cozy, she gets up with the thought that – it’s not about me, it’s about somebody else The next question was veeeery difficult to understand, English was not the first language for the girl but to begin with she started… Jennifer and Rachel, I love you both… but I have to say, Laurel, I absolutely adore you. Laurel’s face at this moment was amazing, I think she blushed a bit and got this really shy, adorable look on her face and said thank you in an emotional tone of voice. Jennifer and Rachel were just looking at Laurel with these lovely smiles on their faces, it was a really nice moment. Then the girl went on to talk about her and her girlfriend and like I said it was not easy to understand for the guests or the audience but basically from what I understood, they had been together for years and she is gay and the girlfriend is bi and the girl was just trying to say thank you to Laurel for doing an awesome job with the season 3 and 4 going back to men storyline because it helped her to understand her partner better in terms of choosing to be with her when she could have had the easier, accepted lifestyle with a male partner and other issues she has to deal with. Laurel said thank you to the girl because it had been a complex storyline but now she can understand better that it really was important to explore it on the show.

Question: Somebody asked Jennifer one of the infamous WHY’s – why cheat with Candace?

Jennifer was like hmm… the carpenter… but before she could say anything Rachel piped in with this questioning look on her face – cause she was hot??? which was hilarious cause it cracked Jennifer and Laurel up and in turn the audience and if I remember correctly, we didn’t get a better answer, we were all just laughing.

Question: A question about the John Lennon & Yoko On famous photo pose scene from season 5 finale when Tina is comforting Bette on the bed after the Hammer museum event, Tina’s body language is really rigid and her right hand is caressing Bette’s hair but her lift is in a fist, it looks like she is really angry, was she?

Laurel was wooh, you ladies really do notice everything! She says that she thinks that Tina was not so much angry as feeling guilty at that moment, guilty because of the way things happened. And said that sometimes when doing a scene, you move around or are positioned in some really awkward ways for the scene to work and the director just goes –freeze! and you lock your body and try to hold it because the director assures you that it will look amazing on screen. Laurel mimicked freezing here which was really funny And said that she doesn’t remember making a fist in that scene but maybe she was holding on to the bed sheet or something to balance her body.

Question: Tina’s background, will we see more in season 6?

Laurel said that yes, it will be discussed but can’t really say anything more. But she did confirm that there is an adoption storyline.

Question: A girl asked a cool question, she said to imagine a parallel universe where they are all gay, who would they marry? And joked that they can’t say her cause in that parallel universe she would be totally not gay.

Laurel said that she would marry Tina Fey and Jennifer said Kelly Lynch, whom she would make dress up as Ivan from time to time Rachel said that she’s totally crushing on Beyonce right now, it’s like she can’t escape her, everywhere she goes, she sees her

Question: A girl asked Laurel that we know from a previous con that she has kissed Angelina Jolie and who did she like kissing better, her or Jennifer Beals?

Audience cheered and whistled here of course and they all were kinda looking around smiling on the stage and then Laurel asked in a sexy low voice, well what do you think? and the fan is like, I know what I think but I wanna know what you think! Laurel just smiled for a moment and then said, well what do you think? Jennifer Beals! And then added, how was that even a question? Insert huge clapping and cheers and wolf whistles from the audience here.

Question: Somebody expressed sadness over the show ending and I think that the question was something like if there is any way to save it?

They said that there is no way of saving the show but mentioned the movie again which is a very real possibility.

Question: To all the ladies, how did The L Word change your lives?

This was the most emotional moment of Sunday, Jennifer answered first. Right away you could see that this was a deeply personal question for her, she talked a bit about how she hadn’t been political at all before The L Word and teared up when she said that all of her life she has identified as “other” and becoming involved with The L Word and getting to know this community of people, she felt an instant connection to us for we are also often categorized as “other”. She tried not to start crying and made a joke about forgetting her tissues this time so Laurel very graciously took this pinkish tablecloth off the small table next to her and handed it to Jennifer who dabbed her eyes with it. It was such a cute and also sad moment so one of the girls from the audience walked up to the stage holding up a little tissue packet in her hand and Jennifer stood up, walked to the front of the stage and took it But then Jennifer really choked up when she said that not a very long time ago her own existence would have been considered illegal… (here I think she was talking about the racial segregation in the US and the legal banning of interracial marriages which wasn’t fully lifted in the US until the Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia in 1967…1967!!! I urge you ladies to read a bit about this historical civil rights case to better understand why Jennifer felt so emotional here and drew parallels to the gay community’s struggle for equal rights). Rachel and Laurel were both looking very emotional too watching and listening to Jennifer and the cowboy hat which had made it’s way back to Rachel by that time was then handed to Jennifer again who put it on her head and used it like an emotional balancer cause she said that the hat is so cheery. She said that talking about this here with us is like the cheapest form of therapy for her and also hearing the many wonderful, personal stories that so many of the people have shared with her here and altogether during her time on the show…here she started to tear up again thinking about it and took a couple deep breaths and then tried to concentrate on the hat. She touched the little feathers around the rim of it and said with this half-forced cheerfulness – feathers! I feel so gay! That helped relieve the intenseness of the moment and many people in the audience who had teared up right along with Jennifer, laughed. And then to finish up, Jennifer said that of course there were other things that The L Word taught her – like for instance, dental dams! She didn’t know what those were before and she was just thinking, how do they do that? It was really funny Rachel also talked about how the show had changed her, she had also become more political thanks to it and become aware of so many issues that she hadn’t given much thought to before. Then it was Laurel’s turn and I think that listening to Jennifer so freely and honestly sharing her deepest emotions with us made her emotional as well and made her want to open up more on a personal level too. She started by sharing with us some of what her life had been like before The L Word, she used the word transient describing it because she had moved so many times before the show, all sorts of places in the US, New York, Chicago, doing some small-budget movie in Timbuktu. She said that she hadn’t been in a relationship for years before she met her husband Paul and had been living this kind of fleeting life, not putting down roots anywhere. And then she got the part of Tina and right after the pilot she got her very first house and many of the things happening to her paralleled Tina’s life, like wanting to start a family which coincided totally. And then half-joked that with the new adoption storyline on the 6th season and Laurel’s adoption of a baby girl a while ago, Rose Troche had sworn to her that they weren’t stealing ideas from Laurel’s life for the show Laurel also talked about how the show has given her emotional security in so many ways and she has met so many people from the community over the years and at the conventions and I think that all the memories hit her here thinking about it and her voice started to tremble and she teared up too and took a break from talking And Jennifer just wordlessly took the hat off her head and handed it over to Laurel who put it on her head. It was adorable Laurel then went on saying that she doesn’t deal well with things ending in her life and good-byes altogether, she made a reference to her parents divorce and said that she just has a tendency to close herself and her emotions off and act like it’s not a big deal. But The L Word was a huge part of her life for 6 years and it really has changed her in so many ways

翻译：
jb&lu&rs的Q&A,星期天下午,part 2

Q:如果你们有机会再次合作,你们乐意接受什么样的?
jb说她乐意去拍一部女牛仔的电影.认为最好只和女孩子们在Brokebackm 山那边拍.(这不是女版断背山吗?)rs看着她,问她是否愿意戴这顶帽子(就是照片中那顶粉色的),说着就把它戴在jb头上了.帽子戴在jb头上特别cute.
然后rs说她乐意做一些其它的,但她也搞不清是什么,但有些观众叫喊着charlie's angels(看来人们对那段还记忆犹新),rs说是啊,很有趣哈!jb说是啊,偶还是charlie呢!(虽然剧中没有,只有声音)
lu说,她还是很乐意粘着她的partner(jb),因为她也希望拍女牛仔的电影(两人啥意思?已经分不开了)然后说她和jb可以骑一匹马,但不知道rs怎么办呢?rs说她可以骑一匹驴.(三人怎么这么暧昧啊..)人们都有些歇斯底里了,jb是笑得起都起不来了...

Q:一个来自韩国的女孩问jb,TLW promo trip到过日本,是否有意来韩国?(怎么没人问什么时候能来中国)
jb说了日本怎么开始形成les团体的雏形,她知道可能在东京有两个gay bars.对她来说那次拜访是很好的体验.虽然从表面看来只是一个小团体,但在那次拜访后,dvd销售地异常火暴.如果有机会的话很乐意到韩国去.
然后jb让lu也戴下帽子,看谁戴得更象hottest女牛仔,特别是lu穿着牛仔裤,然后lu说她应该穿皮裤,但rs叫她拿下帽子,说是啊,偶告诉过她没人要看lu穿皮裤,这jenny最确定了.用了电视剧里的那句台词,不,不,不,没人想看nina having sex!于是lu表现得,不是吧的样子,挺cool的.然后她调整了下帽子,说觉得自己很象女牛仔,在rs面前翘着腿碰了下脚跟,然后又换了条腿.

Q:有个女孩说是多么想要tibette结婚啊,在第五季会发生吗?
jb抿抿了嘴,不说,lu把帽子遮住眼睛,观众都笑翻了,当然她们守口如瓶,只有ic有发言权,也许会在TLW电影中,才会拍到,谁知道呢.

Q:一个女人站起来说,很抱歉,可能对lu和rs比较无聊,仅仅是问jb有关三项运动的,以及是什么激励她的?(偶觉得不要说jb,偶都boring了..真是浪费时间,而且说了很多..)
又一次欢闹开来,因为这个女人竟然说只想问jb,于是rs把头靠在lu的肩膀上,lu又把头靠在rs头上,假装睡觉.然后观众又一阵骚动.lu和rs就假装拍了下脸,醒了.jb无能为力地看着她们笑着,好象要她们继续表演.
jb谈到了训练,她说刚开始,也许是简单地训练or是毁灭性的,关于这个比赛,她说网上很多人都在做,你可以和他们联系.但如果你处在最佳状态,你会觉得热衷于这项运动会很有意思,但是训练过度是很危险的.她说她会去比赛在很大程度上是为了慈善事业,她会把闹钟调在了5:30分or一些并不是训练的黄金时段.当然躺在床上是又暖又舒服,但她还是会准时起床,因为那对她并不重要,重要的是在能帮助其他人.

jb对于英语不是母语的女孩子提出的第二个问题很难理解,但当那个女孩开始提问时,(jb和lu,偶爱她们俩,但偶不得不说,lu偶好崇拜你.lu的脸在那刻,真得好让人吃惊,偶认为有点泛红,有点害羞,看着她的脸偶只想说谢谢你那么具有感情的语调,jb和rs看着lu,露出微笑,真是非常美的时刻),然后那个女的说到她和她的女友,虽然听不太懂,但大家明白她们在一起已经很多年了.她是gay,对方是bi.她说谢谢lu在第3第4季从男人回归的故事路线的表演,因为它帮助她去更多得理解她的partner.为什么会选择她的原因,而且更容易去接受她曾经有男性伴侣,和一些其它事.lu说谢谢那女孩,因为那很复杂的故事线,现在能更好的领会到电视剧所展示的重要性.

Q:一个问题有关第五季最后,John lennon&Yoko(甲克虫乐队的这种事也知道?太厉害了)的经典动作被用到了.当时是在那个晚会后tina在床上安慰bette,tina 的身体语言表现得很刚强,她右手爱抚地拨着b的头发,但她左手握着拳,看上去很生气,是不是?(天啊,观察得如此细微,不说,偶都不知道,当时只觉得jb 那动作很怪..)
lu说wooh.你们还真注意到了每个细节!她说她认为tina并没有很生气,只是对所发生的事很内疚,有时拍个场景,导演叫你别动时,你正好处在移动状态or做着一些非常笨拙的动作,你要控制住你的身体,试着保持住,因为导演明确你要盯住屏幕.她假装停住,很有意思.她说她不记得那时握了拳头,可能只是为了使身体保持平衡,来保持状态吧...

Q:tina的背景,在第六季会出现吗?
lu说是的,这会被谈及,但偶不能说得太多.但她确定有收养的故事路线.

Q:一个女孩问了一个很cool的问题,她说想象一下如果是在平行宇宙中你们都是gay,谁会结婚?但决不能认为平行宇宙中你们也不可能会是gay.(蛮恶劣的问题)
lu说她会嫁给tina fey而jb说是kelly lynch她必须穿得象是ivan.rs说她现在完全被beyonce倾倒.意思是要她走到哪,她得跟到哪,

Q:一个女孩问lu偶们知道你上次已经和angelina jolie结过吻了,你觉得和jb比,哪个好?
观众狂喝彩,还吹着口哨,当然她们都微笑着看着舞台,然后lu用很性感的语调说,你们是怎么想的呢?你们fans所想就是偶所想.但偶首先还得听听你们的想法.(lu真得好坏啊..)当然,如果你们认为是jb.那么这就不成问题了.于是观众欢腾起来.

Q:有人表现得很沮丧,因为电视剧将结束,那个问题可能是是否还有希望接着拍呢?
她们说,没指望的,但提到的电影拍的可能性比较大.

Q:想问你们,the l word是如何改变你们的生活的?
jb第一个回答,这是一个很感人的星期天.对她来说,这个问题很私人化,她说了在the l word之前没有政治倾向.哭着说,她把"other"(指les团体)看成自己,并融入到the l word,而且去认识这团体中的人们.她觉得自已和所谓"other"有了直接联系.她试着不哭,开了个好象没带纸巾的玩笑,这时lu把身边的那台粉红色的桌布拿起来,交给jb去擦泪水.这太有意思了,就在那悲伤一刻,一个观众中的女孩,手里拿着纸巾走上舞台,于是站着的jb,走上前去拿了.

接着jb真正哽咽起来,她说她曾经一度认为自己的出生是非法的.(指1967年前,不同种族人是不能结婚的.)rs和lu都感动地看着jb,倾听着她的话,她说她在这里说这些,就象作廉价的心理治疗,她在这里分享了很多,美好的其它人的私人故事,一起观注电视剧.于是她想到这,又一次哭泣了,作了几次深呼吸,然后把注意力放在帽子上.她碰了碰边缘的羽毛,好象快活了点.--羽毛,偶感觉很gay.这使她缓解,很多观众也和jb一起哭泣一起笑.结束时,jb说the l word还教给她一些其他的事--象instance,dental dams(指那些les用的性用具),她说她以前都不知道,她想了想说,她们是怎么用的呢(很有趣).

rs也说电视剧是如何改变她的.她更关心于政治,更多地意识到以前从不关心的事情.

然后是lu,由于jb先前那样真诚的分享她的感情,所以使她也更想更私人化地述说自己感想.她讲了些在the l word之前的生活,她简短地描述了她已经很多次搬家,在美国new york,chiacgo,还在Timbuktu,那里她拍了些小成本的电影.在遇到她丈夫paul前她从没有一个很长时间的恋爱关系.只是喜欢短暂的生活,也不想落地生根.然而自从扮演了tina,在pilot后,她有了自己的第一座房子,发生了很多事来源于tina的生活.比如说想要开始一个家庭.比如有点玩笑式的,在第六季有收养路线,而lu在不久前收养了个女婴,rose troche警告她不要再抄袭剧中tina的生活.lu还说了电视剧给她在很多地方有了安全感,以及这几年认识了很多来自那团体的人们.在 converntions,因为所有的回记一下子感染了她,她的声音有些颤抖,她也哭了,于是停了下来没说话.此时jb一句也没说,把帽子脱了下来,交给 lu,让她戴上,很可爱.

lu然后说,在生活,她没有把事处理妥当和所有人再见,她说到她父母离婚,她想把自己封闭起来,然而她举止看上去好象没什么大不了.但在the l word的6年,占据了她生命中的一大部分,在很多方面上改变了她.

两天提问的整理

JB & Lu and RS Q&A Sunday afternoon, part I

All three appeared on stage and got a huge applause of course. Rachel was wearing this very cute pink cowboy hat with little feathers surrounding the rim of it and KISS ME QUICK written on the front, she looked adorable She took a few quick steps and sat next to Jennifer before Laurel got to the seats and looked very pleased with herself for getting to sit between tibette

After they had all sat down, Jennifer started up with “Rachel owes you an orgasm” referring to yesterday's Q&A. And Rachel delivered which was funnnnyyyy

Question: Describe Leisha with one word and how is it working with her?

Laurel said that it’s very difficult to describe Leisha with just one word but would have to say that she’s a true renaissance woman. She can do absolutely anything, she’s an amazing actress, singer, you can give her a 10 page monologue and she’ll deliver it perfectly an hour later. She is also the queen of improvisation and an incredible comedic talent.
Jennifer added that she’s also a decent carpenter… a carpenter!
Laurel said that she had seen Leisha before in “All Over Me” and thought she was just amazing. Then Laurel went in to audition for the part of Tina, saw Leisha in the bathroom and thought – oh god, don’t be auditioning for Tina or I’m fcuked!

Question: Somebody asked why didn’t the smoke alarm go off during the stir fry sex scene cause Bette had left all the food cooking and what happened to all the food?

Jennifer said that the pot and pan probably had to be thrown out afterwards and that the alarm did go off but for a totally different reason

Question: How much could the actresses influence the storylines?

Jennifer said that Ilene has always had a very open door policy and also a pretty clear vision where she wants the storyline to go but the dialogue was often altered in different ways when somebody improvised a line during a scene that they just felt would work better in that moment. During 6 years they all got to know their characters very well.
Laurel added a little tidbit about sex scenes that you could always tell when Ilene was very happy with one cause she would walk in the door with this huge smile on her face And say – beautiful work!

Question: What was Bette thinking/feeling during the throw-down scene with Jodie in season 5?

Jennifer said that Bette was feeling… ashamed, for what she was doing behind Jodie’s back… afraid… confused… and angry at Jodie – why couldn’t you be the person I needed you to be to get over this other person in my life? A very emotionally complex scene.

Question: Would you consider doing another series?

Jennifer said yes, why not, if it’s a really good character and the series would be something that she believed in, because she couldn’t dedicate herself to something for like 6 years if she didn’t believe in it. And added that it would be kinda hard though cause she is a bit spoiled now after the wonderful crew that she got to work with on The L Word.
They all talked more about being spoiled for having done a series on cable, about all the feature directors they had doing the episodes so that every episode felt like a mini movie vs doing a movie where sometimes a director comes in, takes the script and kinda traffic cuts their way through it. They talked about the different layers of a relationship, the freedom to explore all the different aspects and stages of it while doing a series vs a movie when you just do a few intimate scenes with another actor / actress and have to develop a kind of a background story for the couple and the storyline in your head and just really think it through for yourself in order to give the part your best.

Question: We never saw Bette and Tina grieve for the loss of their son, did they? Sometimes it felt like he was just forgotten.

Jennifer said that no, he was not forgotten and that Bette & Tina probably did grieve for him in private and always will. And Laurel added that the birth of a new baby probably helped to start healing some of the wounds and for the sake of all of them they had to do their best to try and move on.

Question: Jennifer was asked if Bette ever saw the other sculpture that Jodie was working on before going all vengeful and presenting the video installment instead?

Jennifer was soooo cute here trying to make sense of what she was being asked and said that we ladies notice and remember all the details a lot better than her Then Laurel and Rachel tried to make sense of it too and got to the season 5 artist dinner at Jodie’s and the sculpture Jodie showed to the others on the roof while B&T were having their moment in the kitchen Then Jennifer was like yeah! that sculpture and Rachel said that it was the video installment. Jennifer was like, noooo, Bette didn’t see the video installment until the Hammer Museum event and Rachel was like noooo, it was a different kind of video installment, like a tribute to Bette that Jodie eventually changed into a kind of mockery of Bette after she found out about Bette and Tina. And Jennifer was again like, noooo, why would that video installment be up on the roof? Rachel was like I don’t know! That’s just how I understood it And then Laurel turned to the audience and said – and that’s why a relationship between these two would never work! making everybody crack up It was really funny

JB and Lu Q&A Saturday afternoon, part II

Question: About the basketball scene in season 4, how much was improvised?

They said that pretty much all of it was scripted and choreographed but some of the shots at the basket were improvised. It was a lot of fun shooting that scene.

Question: Jodie’s art-show, Bette’s feelings during watching the video installment.

Jennifer said that Bette was embarrassed and humiliated by it.

Question: Bette’s relationship with Jodie, a deaf person vs. Bette’s relationship with Tina, a hearing person.

Jennifer said that it’s difficult to answer this but that it’s not really about deafness but more about the kind of person Jodie was. But yes, their problems did also stem somewhat from Bette’s limited ability to carry out conversations with her in sign language and that it was probably very frustrating to Bette at times not to be able to express her thoughts and feelings more freely to Jodie. Sometimes Jodie just couldn’t hear what Bette was saying… and then Jennifer said that of course there were moments where Tina probably wished she couldn’t hear what Bette was saying And throwing Tina into the mix made the situation even more complicated. And Laurel was like, I didn’t do anything! You grabbed my wrist and kissed me, remember! And Jennifer replied that Bette was only reading Tina’s mind

Question: The Shebar kiss scene, how much was scripted, how much was improvised?

Jennifer said that the crying wasn’t scripted, it was just something that happened when they were filming the scene. Originally the scene was supposed to be more about sex, physical attraction that they just couldn’t deny anymore. But when they started filming it, then it became clear to both of them that it was about something much, much deeper than just sex, there were a lot of emotions and memories just bubbling to the surface and it was really just about Bette realizing how deeply she missed Tina.
So in the middle of that scene when Jennifer/Bette started sobbing, Laurel said that she just went with the moment and so Tina comforted Bette, Tina was the strong one there. That moment was really the beginning of equality between Bette and Tina as individuals.
For Laurel that scene was just an incredible high, she said that it’s something you strive for as an actress, when you get so into the character and scene that it all just comes naturally to you without much conscious thought and she just felt an incredible rush acting opposite Jennifer in that scene, who gave her so much to work with and she just took her cue from Jennifer when Bette started sobbing and went along with it. It was a very emotional scene to do.

They both also talked about the dysfunctions in Bette and Tina’s relationship and how they had begged Ilene to give them a scene where they could really process some of their issues. After seasons 3 and 4 Jennifer and Laurel were both really glad to see Bette and Tina becoming friends, Laurel said especially when Tina helped Bette with her relationship with Jodie, it was very selfless. And then Jennifer added that of course Bette then just followed that up with engaging in another affair Jennifer said that she just wished that Bette would have ended her relationship with Jodie first before starting another one with Tina.

They were both really happy when they got the script with the elevator scene, there was finally going to be a real discussion between Bette and Tina. Laurel said that she was really glad that Tina got to apologize for some of the things that she had done and that she just utterly loved Bette’s line - it feels like I’m coming home.

Question: The toughest scene that you have done on The L Word.

Both said season 1 finale, The Scene after Tina gets betrayed seeing Bette touching hands with the carpenter. The way Laurel said – the carpenter – came out so disgustedly, it was really funny and the audience was of course booing They talked about how Tony Goldwyn filmed that scene without any breaks and they just had to do a 7-8 minute long really deeply emotional scene that was utterly draining and then you didn’t get to take a break but had to go again right away. And Laurel said that the part of the scene where Tina flips Bette over on the bed was so difficult because Jennifer is so incredibly strong and she tried and tried and just couldn’t do it. So finally she just asked Jennifer – please let me flip you over! And Jennifer was like, oh! So that’s real effort you see in that scene

Question: A girl from Ireland asked Jennifer about her Irish roots.

Jennifer said that she does indeed have some Irish roots and even has relatives in Dublin.

Question: Jennifer, what is the coolest item you stole from the set?

Jennifer said that she didn’t steal anything that when she wanted something she just asked politely and of course more often than not was told no! But the thing is that they wanna keep stuff for the movie Jennifer did say that she bought the bike that she rode on during The Pink Ride and that it’s a very cool bike.

Question: Jennifer was asked about the fcukin’ dwarf scene in season 2.

Jennifer said that she had so much fun doing that scene, one of the greatest things about acting is that you get to do some really cool stuff you never would in real life Jennifer said that because she has brothers she has no problem fighting a man The guy who played the dwarf was really awesome and really went with the scene and Bette was just rockin’ it and living out all her frustrations on the poor guy. Jennifer said that sometimes she wishes that she could keep Bette in her back pocket during arguments cause she’s great at them

Question: How Jennifer prepared for the role of Bette?

Jennifer said that the first couple of seasons she prepared really fastidiously but that as time went on it got so much easier to just become Bette and she didn’t have to prepare so much anymore. She talked about the scene in season 1 when Bette comes home after finding out that Tina had miscarried and there are some Provocations protestors on their front lawn. When she read over the scene, the extra playing the female protestor was supposed to start moving away when Bette came out of the house and asked them to leave but when they were shooting it and Jennifer / Bette asked them to leave, the woman didn’t move! Jennifer said that she didn’t know if somebody had just forgotten to tell the extra that she was supposed to move back but she went with it and projected Bette’s feelings and emotions at that moment and started physically pushing the woman to get the hell off her lawn The scene came out great but later she really apologized to the woman for pushing her and apology accepted of course

Question: About filming the sex scenes, how much is scripted and the chemistry between Laurel and Jennifer

Jennifer and Laurel both talked about the physical part of the scenes which are always choreographed pretty much down to the very last detail but on an emotional level, it’s almost never just about sex, a sex scene. There is always a deeper layer, often it’s about hurt or revenge, vulnerability or domination, passion and loss and you have to figure it out for yourself before shooting it to find the best way to project those emotions through physical acts.

They said that the chemistry isn’t really about anything they do on a conscious level themselves, that it’s almost like a third separate entity that just exists between them. They just give 100% to all their scenes and it turns out the way it turns out. Laurel said that the first time she sensed the good connection her and Jennifer have was after filming the pilot scene that came after they had kicked the guy out of the threesome and they were in the camera truck and the director asked oh, do you wanna see it and they were like sure It was a really good scene.

Question: What does Laurel admire most about Tina and Jennifer most about Bette?

Laurel said that she likes that Tina has a lot of patience and kind of a sense of grace about her. She talked about how Tina has changed over the seasons and has become a stronger person both in her personal and professional life and that she really likes that.

Jennifer said that she admires Bette’s tenacity and her loyalty to her friends. Sometimes she also really likes the righteous part of Bette and said that season 6 Bette is the best of all, she laughs a lot more

Question: When you got the part were you aware of the impact the show would eventually have?

Jennifer said that she really had no idea about the impact when she was first approached by Showtime. She talked to both Ilene Chaiken and Rose Troche and all she saw was a great, very complex character, it’s always about the character to Jennifer, she didn’t really think about it being a gay character. But season by season she of course became more and more aware of it.

Then Laurel started talking about how she went to audition for Tina’s part and at first they asked her to try out for the part of Shane. She was like whoa! but did her best, injected a little Randy Dean into it but felt that she wasn’t cool at all And then she tried out for Tina but said that it had been a very awkward audition because she didn’t have a real sense at that point yet who Tina was supposed to be, she was written originally as this more aggressive, kind of a political character.

Then she was asked to come in again for a kind of a coaching meeting with Rose Troche where she had to act out this really weird scene about this couple, both who’s names are Bettina and how they shorten the names to Bette and Tina cause it‘s easier (it was something about showing how many couples there are out there who both have the same first name) and Laurel thought wow! they must think I’m really lousy But Rose Troche told her that are you kidding, they love you for this part or they wouldn’t be doing this and told Laurel to just be herself. So after that Laurel went in for an audition with Ilene and all the bigwigs of Showtime sitting in and had a really great audition.

So a bit later she was called up and told that they have this final thing for Laurel to try out before they decide about the part, Laurel would have to meet her on-screen partner so they could see how they look together and interact… and of course that turned out to be Jennifer Beals.

Jennifer told us about how she was filming a movie at the time and she was called up about a try-out meeting with a couple possible Tina’s. So they arranged for the actresses to come to JB’s movie set and meet with her at her trailer. Jennifer said that when the first actress arrived, she warned her before going into the trailer that she has her dogs with her and that they’re big and can be scary-looking but just to stay calm and then the dogs will be calm too and everything will be fine. But when they entered the trailer the actress saw the dogs and got frightened and screamed so Jennifer had to lock the dogs in another part of the trailer to keep them calm. And the actress kept mumbling smth like… why do we have to do this, this is so stupid, so stupid!
Jennifer said that she did her best to help the actress out because she could see that it was difficult for her and someday she might be in a similar situation and would like the other person to really give her a chance too. But it really wasn’t going too well, like at one point the actress asked what university Jennifer went to and she answered – Yale. And the actress answered kinda snootily (Jennifer did a really funny voice imitation here )… oh, I went to Harvard! I studied psychology. And Jennifer thought to herself… well, obviously you didn’t learn very much

Laurel said that she had been so nervous before going to meet Jennifer and she had had her husband drive her down to the movie set and he told her you’ll do great! So she got to Jennifer’s trailer who also told her about the dogs before going in and she stayed calm and the dogs stayed calm so obviously she passed the dog test And then they just started talking, Laurel had recently gotten married so they talked about their weddings and stuff that goes on in a person’s life around that time and it just felt comfortable talking to each other and not awkward at all. Their conversation was recorded so that Ilene & Co could watch afterwards how they interacted. So Jennifer said that afterwards when she had talked to the producers she said (pointing towards Laurel here) – that’s my vote!

Jennifer said though that it’s not really fair to be hard on this actress because she had obviously been very nervous and probably just wasn’t really sure what to do with herself. Laurel said that the other actress had later told her that she is glad that she didn’t get the part cause she wouldn’t have been comfortable with all that nudity Laurel just got a really cute, kinda smug smile on her face and said – well here I am 6 years later! Enough said!

Question: How was the last day of filming, was there something you did together as a cast when you finished filming?

They both said that they had all finished filming at different times and that Laurel finished earlier than Jennifer and yeah, that they had a kind of a wrap party, well not really a party but everybody just got drunk and stuff was just starting to sink in. And at this point of the Q&A you could see that talking about all of this had really brought back a lot of memories for both Jennifer and Laurel and then Jennifer teared up and said that it is really just now sinking in for her that it’s over and that it feels like a good-bye and she turned to Laurel and said that Laurel is absolutely fearless in acting and that she ultimately makes everyone playing opposite her better and Laurel said that’s how she feels about Jennifer. Then Jennifer really started crying and said that she couldn’t have wished for a better partner and up until now she hasn’t really had a chance to just say thank you. And you could see Laurel’s face crumbling here and then Jennifer got up and Laurel got up and they just hugged each other really, really tight and Jennifer kinda hid her face in Laurel’s neck and Laurel kissed the side of her head and they comforted each other.

That was the end of Saturday’s Q&A and as you can imagine there was a standing ovation by this time in the hall and it was just incredibly intense and emotional to witness that scene on stage. Jennifer and Laurel were both amazing in sharing so much of their emotions with us and I just feel incredibly lucky having been there.

翻译：

星期六下午的问题,第二部分:

Q:请问第四季篮球那场,哪些是临时表演的?
他们说,很多是照剧本读的和设计的.但是对于打篮球那段,有些是临时表演的.这段里有很多有趣的场景.

Q:在jodie的艺术展示会上.b看到部分vedio时是什么感觉?
jb说b感到困窘和耻辱.

Q:能比较下bette与jodi一个失聪者之间的恋爱关系,和tina一个正常人之间的恋爱关系的差别吗?
jb说这很难回答.因为这并不是与失聪有关,而是更在于jodie本身的性格类型.但不能否定,在与jodi手语交流时,在一定程度上限制了bette与她的交流.这也是造成当bette在某时想表达自己真正情感时,无法正确的传输给jodi,而情感上极度受挫.有时,jodi无法听懂bette在说什么.这正是某种程度上应了tina希望jodi不能完全理解bette的想法.而正因为这使tina处于一种比较混乱的境地甚至更复杂.就象lu所说,偶什么也没做.请记住,是你抓住偶,吻偶的.jb回答到,bette只是能读懂tina的想法而已.

Q:在shebar的吻戏中,多少是按剧本,多少是临时表演的?
jb说哭没有在剧本中.只是在拍摄时不知不觉中就发生了.原本的场景只是要求更性感,更有强烈的肢体反应,并不是去拒绝.但是当开始拍摄时,两人都很清楚,这比sex包含得更多,有更多的感情和回忆在表面上起伏.而且bette正的很想tina.
因此在场景中,当bette哽咽时,lu说她也能感受到那刻,只想安慰bette.tina在当时很坚强.那一刻标志着,做为个人的tina和bette都处在平等的起跑线上.
对于lu来说,那场戏无语伦比的高涨.她说作为演员有些东西震憾了她,当她入戏,在那个场景中,一切就无意识地,自然而然地发生了,她只是回应着对方,在jb更多的起发和暗示下(来自于剧中bette一个人开始哭泣时).于是偶们制造了一个很感人的场景.
她们也谈到了bette的oct以及tina的关系,和如何去求ic能给她们一个场景去处理好她们的事情.在三季和四季中,jb和lu都希望能看到 bette和tina成为朋友.lu说特别是当tina主动帮助bette和jodi的关系.是多么的无私.jb附和到,当然bette只是又坠入了另一个无法自拔的affair中.jb只是希望bette能先和jodi分手然后和tina开始.
当她们能演电梯场景那段时,她们很开心.这能让bette和tina讨论出最终结果.lu说她很高兴tina为一些她所做的事做了道歉.她只是完全地被bette的台词感动了--这感觉象是回家.(偶对此也很感动的...)

Q:谈一下哪场是你在the l word中最艰苦的戏?
两人异口同声地说是第一季结局.这场景是tina发觉bette可能背叛她,特别是看到bette和木匠拉手后.lu用那种可憎的语气说到木匠这词.这很有意思,所有观众都一片嘘声.她们说到了tony goldwyn希望拍摄不要停顿,他们只是想拍7-8分钟左右的感情戏,是那种象泄愤似的.然后你得不停息地,做重复地动作,为了让它更棒.然后lu说到有个场景是有关tina在床上翻身上bette.这很难因为jb无可思义的壮,她试了一次又一次,但都不行.所以最后她叫jb,请让她翻上去.jb象是说"oh",然后出来的效果,你们能从电视上看到.

Q:有一个女孩问了jb的血统?
jb说她确实一部分是来自爱尔兰,确切地说是都伯林.

Q:jb,以你的位置,你得到过(直译地话应该是顺手牵羊过,但偶觉得很不雅)最cool的东西是什么?(指作为演员,可以得到赞助商的一些赠品)
jb说她可没,当她想要什么时,她总会有礼貌地问一下,当然大多数情况下不会说不,但当她想收藏下电视剧的纪念品时,她说她买下了the pink ride里的那辆自行车,那辆车真得很cool.

Q:jb你谈谈有关第二季中,你骂那个人是侏儒?
jb说在那场景,有很多有趣的地方.最有意思的是,你会做一些在生活中不可能做的cool事.jb说因为她有兄弟,所以从来没和男人打过架.那个扮演侏儒的人,真得很恶心,bette在场景中,把所有的不满都发泄在了他身上.jb说有时希望能把bette放在口袋里,随时遇到争论时,让她来处理.

Q:jb演bette这个角色是如何作准备的?
jb说作为剧中的第一对.她曾一丝不苟地准备,但到扮演时会发现作为Bette会很简单,但是剧中的她却很难准备好处理各种事.她说到第一季的场景,有关 bette回到家找到因为流产而伤心的tina,然而另一些挑衅地抗议者,却站在她家的草坪前.当bette从家里出来,那个客串演员女性抗议者准备要走时,bette要求他们离开.但他们攻击bette,然后bette再次要求对方离开,那个女人没动.jb说她可能没收到通知or不清楚,她需要移回来, 她处在那,作为有强烈保护意识的bette来说,她只会用肢体去把她推出自家草坪,拍摄结果很好,但她很抱歉,去推那个女人,当然对方接受了.

Q:关于拍摄性场景,有多少是剧本中的,以及jb和lu之间的化学反应是怎么样的?
jb和lu都说肢体上的场景,总是事先设计了很多躺倒,到最后细节.但从感情程度来说,这不仅仅是sex,sex scene.是有更深的意义.经常带有受伤和报复性,攻击性or支配性.是激情还是失落是要她们自己去弄清的,然后自已脑子中事先设计好,怎么通过肢体动作让摄象从最好的角度去展现这些情感.
她们自己对于解释之间的化学反应也不是很清楚.只是一种在她们之间存在的第三个实体.她们只是100%地投入,想要的结果就出来了.lu说第一次感觉到, 就是jb拍好pilot(她们被那个男孩踢出3p)的场景,她们来到摄制棚,导演说,oh,你们想看一下吗?他们都很确信这场景拍得真好.

Q:lu你是否很更欣赏tina,jb也同样吗?
lu说她喜欢tina那么耐心,那么温柔.她谈到了tina在性格上和职业上是如何在这些季中成为一个坚强的人.她真得很喜欢这个角色.
jb说她欣赏bette的坚韧和对朋友的忠诚,有时她也象bette那样有正义感,说第六季的bette是最棒的,她大笑.

Q:当你得到角色有没有意识到电视剧结束后对自己的影响?
jb说她真得没意识到对自己的影响,当她第一次到showtime.她和ic和rose troche聊了下,是一个很棒,很复杂的角色.她们总是谈着作为演员的jb.她起初并不知道她要演的是一个gay的角色.但一季季后她当然意识到了.
然后lu说,当她回想起再一次来到拖车见rose troche,要她演那对couple尴尬的情景.她们被称作Bettina,以及如何为了容易点把bette和tina名字缩写成那样,(从剧本看,好象为了让更多人知道很多couples是那样的,拥有相同的第一个姓),lu想,他们可能认为偶是真的les.但rose问她是不是开玩笑,她们爱你的角色,她们不会那样做,告诉lu做她自己就行了.然后lu进了有ic和showtime要人坐着的录影棚,试演很成功.
然后不久,打电话过来说,最终决定是否要她演还需要去见见荧屏上的partner jb,看看两人是否合得来,有interact.
jb告诉偶们,她在拍电影时接到电话需要她见一下演tina的人选.于是他们安排在jb拍摄地点的拖车上和她见面.jb说当第一个人选到达时,jb提醒她在她进入拖车时,她的狗会呆在她身边.她们很大,看上去可能很可怕,但只要安静地呆着,那些狗会很安静地,一切都会好的.但是当她们进入拖车时,那个演员看到狗,很害怕,还尖叫,因此jb不得不把狗锁在另一个拖车上让它们冷静,而且那个演员还一直咕哝着,为什么偶们要这样做,很愚蠢,十分愚蠢!
jb说她尽可能的帮助那个演员,因为她可能明白对她有多困难,有天,她会遇到相同的情况,其它人也会给她机会.但真地也不会顺利.那个演员还问jb是哪所大学毕业的,她回答yale.那个演员说得有点势利(jb模仿她的口气).oh,偶是harvard!偶学的是心理学.jb看看她,明显没学好...
lu说她遇到jb前也很紧张,是她老公用车送她来的,并告诉她她很棒.她来到jb的拖车,她又说了一通狗的事,当然她过了狗的那关.然后两人开始聊起来. 当时lu刚刚结婚,她谈到了他们的婚礼,以及那时在人生伟大时刻所发生的所有事.她们谈得很轻松而且一点也不窘.他们的谈话被录了音,从而让 ic&co能够从中观察到她之间的interacted.因此jb说那之后她和制作人说铁定是lu,那就是偶的选票.
jb说可能对那个演员有点不公平,因为当时她可能太过紧张,都没意识到自己做了什么.lu说,那个演员不久前还自鸣得意地和她说起,她很高兴她没得到那个角色,因为她完全不能很轻松地象lu那样cute的演裸戏,lu回应到,是啊,偶都演了6年了.(说得真棒)

Q:最后一天拍摄是怎么样的,作为演员,当你们结束时,一起做了些什么呢?
她们同时声称她们在不同的时间结束拍摄的.lu比jb早些,她们有 wrap party.然而不是真正的party,但每个人都喝了点酒,有些事情才开始认识到.那时在Q&A你能发现谈论这些实际上让偶们回忆起lu和jb 以前的点点滴滴,于是jb开始哭泣,说现在她也意识到了.结束了,感觉象是再见,然后她转过头向着lu,说lu在表演上毫不畏惧,她只会让对方的演员演得更好.lu说,她觉得jb也如此.然后jb开始哭泣,说她到现在再也找不到象lu那样好的合作伙伴了而自己都没机会和她说声谢谢.你可以看到lu当时是多么感动,然后jb抓住她,lu也抓住jb,她们真地拥抱了,很轻柔,jb把她的脸藏在了lu的颈下,lu吻了下她脸的一边.她们彼此安慰着.(忽然想到最后一场在那个游泳池的那段,还有shebar那段)
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星期天下午:part 1

Q:用一句话概括下leisha,以及和她合作如何?
lu说那很难用一句话概括的.但不得不说,她是一个蛮复古的女人.她任何事追求完美(想到dh中的bree),她是一个很棒的演员,歌手,如果给她一分十页的独白.她能在一小时后完美地演绎出来.她是即兴创作的女王,极具喜剧天赋(lu的评价真得好高)
jb附和道,她也是一个正派的木匠 ---一个木匠 !(很嘲啊..)
lu说她以前在"all over me"中见过她.当时就觉得很棒.然后当lu进入摄影棚面试,看见leisha在洗手间,就想,不会吧,她也是面试tina的,偶真够霉的...(lu好搞笑啊..)

Q:有人问,为什么当拍stir fry场景时,没有报火警,而当时bette正烧着东西,那些食物后来怎么样了?
jb说那些锅,拍好后可能已经扔了.确实当时关掉火警,但完全是另外的原因.

Q:bette和jodi在第五季那个throw-down场景时,她是怎么想的呢?(指bette和jodi sex那段)
jb说bette感觉很羞愧,因为她在jodi背后做的事,她害怕,困惑,和对jodi的愤怒,为什么她不能成为在偶生命中比其它人更需要的人呢?是一个很复杂的场景.

Q:你们有没有考虑过其它的电视剧?
jb说是的,为什么不呢,如果有好的角色,她相信那个剧会带给她点什么的.因为她如果当时不相信的话,也就不会这六年来献身于此.能在the l word如此出色的剧组中工作后她有点受宠若惊,所以要找到合适的有点难.她们谈论着电视剧,说所有的执行导演,每集拍得都感觉象在拍迷你电影.而拍电影时,导演有时会进来,拿着剧本,要求cut一些他们正拍的东西.她们说到了不同工作层之间的关系.自由地探讨了各个方面,在舞台上当你拍电视剧or电影时,你只是和另一个演员先感觉下之间密切的关系,然后把你们的背景不得不发展成,成为couple的故事线,然后把那个故事线印在你的脑子里,并从自己的角度来考虑,以便能更好的扮演角色.

Q:偶们没有看到bette和tina因为失去儿子而伤心,难道她们不会吗?有时感觉她们可能忘记他了.
jb说没有啊.他是不会被遗忘的,而且bette&tina也许私下,也许经常会伤心.lu附和道,新生儿可能帮助她们治愈伤痛,这对于她们也是有好处的,而她们应该试着更好的继续生活下去.

Q:jb被问,是否bette曾经看到过其它的jodi做的雕塑,就是那个因为复仇而用视频出展代替了的原本雕塑?
jb 很cute.她试着弄清被问的是什么,然后说女士们注意到的细节明显比她多,然后lu和rachel试着给她启示,当说到第五季里在jodi家的晚餐,jodi曾让其他人参观了在房顶上的雕塑,而bette和tina在厨房里时,jb忽然叫到是啊,那个雕塑.rachel说那是个video的雕塑.jb说不.bette从来没看到video雕塑直到她参加了Hammer Museum event ,rachel说不是的呀,和那个不同的,先前那个是为了赞扬bette的但后来发现你和tina,为了嘲笑bette就换了一个.jb又一次说不,为什么要把vedio雕塑放在房顶上呢?rachel也搞不明白.然后lu转向观众,说那就是为什么jodi和bette两人就是不来电!这使得大家狂笑.. (lu真得很搞笑..)

A bit more from the amazing Laurelfan on OC

"I saw Laurel kiss Jennifer's cheek and say something in her ear. I didn't see Jennifer just because her head was behind Laurel's, it was hard to see.

The place was crazy by that time, everyone was standing up and cheering, some fans were crying, many people were standing up and crowding in front of the stage taking pictures.

It was so touching how Jennifer kept going with her "thank you" to Laurel, even after they finished hugging and obviously so emotional, crying and everything. She said "You're amazing. I wouldn't have been as happy with anyone else. I mean it." It was the last thing said before they left the stage together. It somehow seemed so fitting that they honored each other in such a way, with the fans as part of it."

L5 Convention -no.2

這位 fan 補充了些 Q&A 的東西

Folks have posted great reports on all the boards, so I’m just gonna add in a few extra bits from the Q&A that I haven’t seen anywhere else so far... May include very vague possible spoilers...

許多粉絲都貼了很棒的 L5 實況在各個版上, 所以我只補充一些遺漏的 Q&A... 也許包括了非常模糊但有可能是劇透的東西...

They were asked how they felt about Dana dying and JB said “it sucked” and Laurel agreed, they were not happy with that storyline at all.

她們被問到了對於 Dana 的死有什麼感覺, JB 說 "爛透了", LH 也有同感, 她們對這個故事線感到非常不開心.

At the meet and greet, Jennifer met a fan from Venezuela who had come over because she feels so isolated and the show has been a massive support to her, and both JB and the Venezuelan girl started crying.

在 meet and greet 時, JB 遇到了一位從委內瑞拉來的飯, 她來這是因為她感覺到被孤立, 而這部戲給了她很大的支持, 然後 JB 和這位委內瑞拉女孩開始哭了起來.

One girl travelled up from Preston (of all places ) on the same train as Laurel and her husband. She asked Laurel if she was indeed Laurel Holloman, and Laurel laughed and said no, before admitting that actually she was

一位從普雷斯頓來的飯剛好與 Lu 及她老公坐同一架火車, 她問 Lu 是不是真的是那位 Laurel Holloman, Lu 在承認前大笑說不是.

Jennifer mentioned that she’d met a fan from Birmingham, Alabama who said the mayor there had forbidden a gay pride march. She talked about this for a while, stopped, thought for a moment and then continued saying she’d now got into “militant mode” and that although she didn’t want to belabour the point, she urged everyone to write to the mayor with their comments/complaints.

JB 提到她遇到一位從阿拉巴馬伯明翰來的 fan 跟她說伯明翰的市長禁止同志遊行. 她討論了這個議題一陣子, 停下來, 想了一下, 然後繼續說她現在處在開戰模式中, 雖然她並不想批評這點, 但她鼓勵大家寫信給這位市長表達觀點.

When they were asked about their husbands and what was the one most special thing they’d ever done for them, Jennifer said it was just the way he was, and immediately teared up and then dabbed at her eyes with her silk scarf. Uber cute . Laurel said it was what her husband did every day, which then then realised had a bit of a double meaning, and started laughing.

當她們被問及她們的老公及有什麼是她們老公為她們做過最特別的事時, JB 說就是他待人處事的方式, 然後馬上哭了並拿起她的絲質圍巾輕拭她的眼睛. 超可愛. Lu 說就是她他每天在做的事, 當她意識到這句話有點雙關語的意思時開始笑了起來.

For the morning photo shoot Jennifer had on the same outfit as she had for the afternoon Q&A, although I think she may have put on stockings under her trousers at lunchtime because it was pretty cold. Laurel changed her entire outfit at lunchtime. In the morning she had a green sweater, some sort of scarf, brown cords and scruffy New Balance Sneakers. They both looked uncomfortable during the photo shoot IMO and a lot of people commented on this. They seemed much happier later on stage during the Q&A, and when they were relating their ‘trailer’ stories towards the end of the session and the camera guy was signalling for them to wrap it up, Jennifer said “oh forget that,” and just carried right on with her part of the story.

早上拍照時及下午 Q&A 時 JB 穿著一樣的衣服, 但我猜午餐時她加了長襪在褲子裡, 因為天氣真的很冷. Laurel 在午餐時換下了整套衣服. 早上她穿了綠色毛衣, 圍巾, 咖啡色燈芯絨褲及 New Balance 的運動鞋. 在拍照時, 她們兩個看起來很不舒服我覺得, 且有很多人討論這件事. 在 Q&A 時她們看起來開心多了. 當她們講到她們的'拖車故事'時這個見面會已到尾聲了, 攝影師給了她們一個結束的信號, JB 說 "噢, 不管啦", 然後繼續講她的故事.

She did a very funny impression of the other actress who was also up for the part of Tina (both Laurel and this actress went to meet Jennifer on location), by flicking her hair around and making out that she was some sort of diva. She was scared of Jennifer’s dogs in the trailer and Jennifer had to shut them away, whereas Laurel was very cool with the dogs who Jennifer said can be “intense” and a bit big and scary. Apparently this other actress said to Jennifer, “so you went to Yale” and Jennifer’s like “yeah” and the other woman says “well I went to Harvard and did psychology” to which Jennifer thought to herself “well you obviously didn’t learn very much”. And then after the Pilot was filmed, Laurel bumped into the same actress who said to her “it’s just as well you got the part, I could never have done all that nudity” to which Laurel laughed and said “yeah, and here I am six years later”, like a big kind of “up yours”. They were both too polite to say who the actress was, but Jennifer then graciously said that being an actress is brutal, you never know where your next job is coming from and that this girl was probably very nervous.

她做了一個很有趣的模仿, 是模仿另一個為 Tina 試鏡的女演員, 她不停拂弄她的頭髮試圖證明她是個大咖. 她嚇到了在 JB 拖車裡的狗, 所以 JB 必須把狗關在車外. 相反的, Laurel 跟 JB 說的可能會很緊張很嚇人的大狗處的非常好. 當這位女演員對 JB 說 "你是耶魯的", JB回她 "是啊", 女演員說 "我是哈佛的, 我唸心理學", JB 在心裡想說 "看來你學的不太好". 在拍完 Pilot 之後, Laurel 恰巧遇到這位也去為 Tina 試鏡的女演員, 這女演員對 Lu 說 "幸好你得到了這個角色, 那些裸露的床戲我永遠做不來", Laurel 笑著說 "是啊, 我還做了六年呢" 有種對這女演員相當不以為然的意味. 她們都很禮貌的不提這位女演員的名字, 但 JB 寬容的說做為一個女演員是很難受的, 你永遠不知道你的下一份工作在哪, 這位女孩可能很緊張吧!

She also said that Bette laughs a lot more in S6. But she was massively irritated by the way Bette kept having affairs in previous seasons. Rachel seemed surprised when asked if anyone dies in S6.

她還提到 Bette 在 S6 中多了很多笑容, 但她對 Bette 前幾季的劈腿很不開心. Rachel 對於被問到在 S6 中是否有人死時感到驚訝.

Jennifer also said she loved that scene with the car accident guy (the “f***ing dwarf” scene) and that she’d had such a laugh with that guy, and that she loved to do stuff like that, behaving in a way that she never would in real life. She then said that she’d love to have Bette in her back pocket for next time she gets into an argument with someone.

JB 還提到她很喜歡那場車禍的戲, 她和那個男的還笑場了, 她很喜歡拍這樣的戲, 做一些在現實生活中她絶不會做的事. 她說她會很想把 Bette 放在她的口袋裡在遇到跟某些人有爭論的時候.

Both were asked what they were going to do now, and Jennifer said she had absolutely no idea, while Laurel said she was “going to sleep late”. Jennifer laughed and said “you’re so not going to sleep late!”

Lu 跟 JB 都被問到她們目前打算做什麼, JB 說她完全沒有任何想法, Lu 說 "打算敖夜" JB 笑著說 "你才不會敖夜咧!"

I’ll be back with more if I think of anything else . They were both AMAZING!!

如果我有想到其他任何東西我會回來補充. 她們倆真的太棒了!!

L5 Convention的消息－1

另一位粉絲的 report

Credit to TK4BP from l-word.com

以下是以 TK4BP 的語氣翻譯


I MET JENNIFER AND LAUREL TODAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
今天我見到 JENNIFER 和 LAUREL 了!!!!!!!!!

SOOOOOO GOD DAMN HAPPY!!!!!!
真他媽的開心!!!!!

Ok the convention was amazing, like B&TF said, the Q&A with Jennifer and Laurel was really good, very emotional at the end, I think a lot of people were crying.
The reception they got last night when they first walked out on stage was amazing. Laurel came out first and she got a huuuuge round of applause, she was like SHIT!!
Then she said something along the lines of 'my good friend Bette Porter is here!!!' and everyone went crazy. When JB came out literally everyone ran to the front of the stage, it was pretty incredible. She got quite choked up by it and said that they have THE BEST FANS!!!!! and she said that her very good friend Laurel Holloman had assured her not to worry because she was amongst friends

這個聚會太棒了, 就像 B&TF 說的, JENNIFER 和 LAUREL 的 Q&A 非常棒, 近尾聲時充滿了情緒化, 我想有許多人都哭了. 當她們在昨晚的招持會上出現時很令人驚喜, Laurel 先出場且得到了非常多非常大的掌聲, 她出現了一付 "天哪" 的樣子. 然後當她說 '我的好朋友 Bette Porter 就在現場!!!' 所有的人都瘋狂了起來. 當 JB 出瑒時所有人都衝到舞台前, 十分驚人. 她哽咽的說他們有最好的粉絲!!!! 又說她非常要好的朋友 Laurel Holloman 向她保證過不須要擔心因為在她周圍的都是朋友.

Ok, so today I had my pic done with Jennifer and Laurel. Everyone was reaaaally excited and nervous to see them up close. They showed up quite late and when they did walk in the room I think everyone was totally star-struck. They just seem to have this presence about them, it’s kind of indescribable. Jennifer looked really shy and nervous at all the people, but she looked GORGEOUS! She was wearing the outfit she's wearing in the pics with Laurel. Laurel was really casual, in combats and trainers but still looked great. Then they sat down on chairs and each guest had to sit on a chair in between them for the photo. It was kinda weird, would have preferred to be standing but I guess they would have had to stand for about 2 hours!! It was amaaaaazing being that close to them, even if it was for about 5 seconds! They both said hi to you and then I said thank you to them both and they said you're welcome and gave me a nice smile! They did look quite nervous though I must admit, especially Jennifer.

今天我和 Jennifer and Laurel 照了象. 每個人都很興奮又緊張的看著她們一起出現在眼前. 她們出場的很晚, 當她們走進會場時, 我想每個人都被她們的風采迷住了. 好像她們天生就有這樣的氣質, 相當難以形容. Jennifer 在人群中看起來很害羞及緊張, 但她看起來非常美麗. 她的穿著可在她與 Laurel 的合照中看到, Laurel 的穿著呈現休閒風, 但看起來很棒. 她們在她們的位子上坐定, 每位來賓坐在她們中間以便照象. 感覺很怪, 站著似乎比較好, 但我猜這一站大概要 2 個鐘頭. 如此近距離地坐在她們中間的感覺太美妙了, 即使只有 5 秒鐘的時間! 她們會跟你打招呼, 然後我向她們說謝謝, 她們回我不客氣並對著我微笑, 但我必須說她們真的看起來很緊張, 特別是 Jennifer.

In the Q&A they both seemed a lot more relaxed. I'll try and remember as much as I can, hope it makes sense!!!

在 Q&A 時, 她們似乎放鬆了許多. 我會試著儘我所能的記起所有事情, 希望它讀起通順.

Of course they got an amazing applause when they came out, everyone was practically fighting to get closer. Someone asked Jennifer to do some of the 'moans' from VDay and to get Laurel to help her!! She did the African American one, which was really funny, then Laurel did her own version of it which was hilarious! She said ‘ahhhhhhh Goddamn’! Jennifer got asked a lot about politics and about the work she does for charities and she said that even though America has elected Obama, there is till so much work to be done and we can all help to make a change and fight for what is right. She talked about gay rights and how we should all protest against discrimination.

不意外的她們一出現就得到了許多的掌聲, 每個人都爭著想靠近她們. 有個人要求 Jennifer 表演 VDay 上的 '呻吟' 並請 Laurel 協助她!! 她做了美藉非裔的那一個, 那真的很有趣, 然後 Laurel 以她自己的方式表演了一個很好笑的 '呻吟'! Laurel 的表演: 「啊..啊..啊~~~~ 天哪」! Jennifer 被問了許多關於政治及慈善工作的問題. 她回答說很多美國人都選歐巴馬, 且還有很多需要被實現的事情要做, 而我們可以幫忙做些改變並為對的事情爭取出頭的機會. 她提到了同志議題及我們應該反對歧視.

OK on to the Tibette stuff.....
When asked about their chemistry...Jennifer said she felt really connected with Laurel when they act together and that people always comment on their chemistry! This bit was was really funny, she said she doesn’t walk into a room and see Laurel and immediately go ‘oooh chemistry!’. She said the thing they have between them is like an entity, that is beyond them and is just simply there, they can't explain it!! Laurel said the first time they realised their chemistry was watching a playback of the pilot scene (the love scene) and she said she realised then that she was a part of something special. Laurel said she loved working with Jennifer because they are both so committed to creating a fantastic story for their characters and Jennifer gives her a lot of emotion to work with. They talked about the first time they met in the trailer and how Laurel was really at ease with Jennifer’s dogs and they talked about their weddings and started crying. And they talked about the other woman who was auditioning for Tina who JB didn't really like but was trying to be fair to...it was quite funny, she was saying how the woman was scared of her dogs and how she thought it was stupid that they had to be filmed chatting. JB said that after Laurel left the trailer she said to Rose Troche ‘I know who gets my vote' (awwwww).

好了, 接著是 Tibette 的相關問題.... 在提到她們之間的化學反應時, Jennifer 說她感覺與 Laurel 是一體的當她們在對戲時, 而大家一直將之歸為她們的化學反應.這是非常有趣的片刻, 她說她並不是在走進房間看到 Laurel 的那一剎那就感覺到 '噢~~~ 有化學反應!'. 她說存在她們之間的是一種屬性的物質存在, 那是超越了她們能理解的東西, 就這樣存在在那裡, 她們無法解釋這現象. Laurel 說她們第一次感覺到這種化學變化時, 是在她們觀看她們在 pilot 裡的 love scene 時, 她還說她頓時感覺到她是某種特別的東西的一部份. Laurel 說她非常喜歡與 Jennifer 一起合作, 因為她們都很努力在為她們的角色創造一個美好的故事, 而 Jennifer 提供了充分的工作情緒. 她們提到了她們在Jennifer 的拖車中的初次會面, Laurel 是如何輕鬆的與她的狗兒們相處, 並談論她們的婚禮時哭了. 然後她們談到了另一個女人為 Tina 試鏡時 JB 並不喜歡但還是很公平的對待她, 那十分有趣, 她說那個女人很怕她的狗, 而且她覺得聊天的情形還要拍攝下來實在很蠢. JB 說在 Laurel 離開她的拖車後她對 Rose Troche 說 '我知道該把票投給誰了'

The kiss in Shebar- Laurel said this was one of her favourite scenes ever because it showed the real truth between the characters. JB said it originally read as more of a sexual scene in the script but when they did it, all these emotions came to the surface and they just went with it. Like her crying wasn't scripted. Laurel said it was amazing when Jennifer does something like that and she gets to play off it. JB said this scene shows how they have become equal in their relationship and that Bette realises just how much she misses Tina and everything that goes with it.
Laurel started joking around about the kiss scene, saying it was all Bette and not Tina who made the kiss happen and how Tina was just sitting in the bar having a drink and then SOMEONE (looking at JB) grabbed her arm! Then JB just goes….Bette was just reading Tina’s mind! It was really cute.

在 Shebar 中的那場吻戲 - Laurel 說這是她最愛的場景之一因為這場戲展現了兩個角色間最真實的真情. JB 說在原來的劇本中這是一場含性慾的戲, 但當她們詮釋時, 所有的情緒在那時浮出表面, 而她們只是隨著情緒走, 像她的哭戲並不在劇本裡. Laurel 說那很棒, 當 JB 這樣做時她會跟著改變演法. JB 說這場戲表現出她們在她們的關係中已在對等地位, 而 Bette 發覺到她有多麼想念 Tina 及所有隨之而來的東西. Laurel 開始開玩笑說都是 Bette 挑起這個吻的, 不是 Tina 起的頭, Tina 只是坐在 bar 前喝酒, 然後某人(看著 JB)抓住她的手腕! JB 就回說, Bette 只是看透了 Tina 的心意! 真的很好玩.

The hardest scene they ever had to do was the sex scene at the end of season 1. They kept the camera rolling and they said it was physically and emotionally draining. Laurel said that Jennifer is SO physically strong that she literally couldn’t flip her over!! Haha. And she had to say to JB ‘let me flip you over!!!!’. When they mentioned the carpenter she got a huge boo of course!

最困難的一場戲是第一季的最後一場床戲. 他們讓攝影機不停轉動, 他們說那是一體力與情緒的損耗. Laurel 說 JB 的身材肌肉非常的壯所以她完全無法翻到她上頭去(對...就是騎上去的意思)!! 哈哈, 所以她必須對 JB 說 '讓我翻上去'. 當她們談到木匠時想當然耳的響起超大噓聲!

More to come….
待續......

风之画员

你就这样盛开
用我诚心的手指
载着无尽的孤独
呼喊着你的名字

你就像那花一样在笑
越是惧怕越是转身
你的眼神照亮我的前方
招手叫我过去
一步 又一步

我的心无法停止
被你这道强风

我的心无法停止脚步

爱情 我的爱情 痴傻的这份爱
愚蠢的我 明知道你会离开
就算思念会哭坏我双眼
依然想活在你视线内

loving annabelle

loving annabelle

2006

Directed: Katherine Brooks

Written: Katherine Brooks (with Olivia Bohnhoff and Karen Klopfenstein)

Every year on the queer festival curcuit one film inevitably creates more buzz than any other. For the 2006/07 season that film was Loving Annabelle.

It's easy to see where the buzz has come from, and where the limited production budget went. This film is gorgeous. Cinematographer Cynthia Pusheck (whose bio is truly impressive) has shot a film that I can only describe as lush. There's not a single sharp edge in this dreamy, ethereal project. Unfortunately, that's also part of the problem.

Loving Annabelle is OK, but not great. Despite its provocative subject matter, there's something oddly sedate about the film. I expected more passion, much more angst (considering the life-altering decisions that these characters are making), and more painful conundrums.

It goes like this. Annabelle (Erin Kelly), is the rebellious daughter of a powerful female Senator. She's been kicked out of her second high school and has been dumped by her mother in a small, exclusive Catholic boarding school. She might look the part, with her constant smirk, hunched up shoulders, streaked hair and relentless smoking, but Annabelle is not your average rebellious student.

Annabelle meets Simone (Diane Gaidry), a beautiful and troubled English teacher. Simone has had a tragic affair in her past, with a girl she grew up with. She's lived a stunted existence, dating a man she does not love and teaching at her old childhood school to stay close to the memories of the woman she lost. She responds to Annabelle instinctively, but her adult maturity warns her that doing anything about her feelings would be inexcusably wrong.

Annabelle is sexually aggressive, and clued in to Simone's tragedy as no-one has ever been before. Regardless of how mature she seems though, Annabelle still reacts like an impetuous teenager, which is the only thing standing between Simone and disaster. However, Annabelle knows Simone can't resist her forever.

Erin Kelly's performance is the only thing holding this all together. The film relies on Annabelle's believeability, and even though sometimes I think her dialogue left much to be desired, she's got an excellent physical presence onscreen. There's a raw sexuality about her that I can see would be difficult to resist, and the sex scene, once we get to it, is visceral and sexy.

If only they hadn't felt the need to shave off all the rough edges, this could have been brilliant. A few more risks should have been taken, with the script, the cinematography and the direction. There needs to be less lingering and more movement. More should have been made of the claustrophobic atmosphere of the boarding school setting, to really make us feel how trapped Simone feels, how she's unable to breathe until Annabelle comes along to throw open a few windows. This film is so full of "could have been" that it's downright frustrating.

Back in 1998, Brooks and Karen Klopfenstein released an underrated film called Outtakes which was a sweet, funny look at two women trying to make a film who against all odds end up making both a film and a relationship work. I loved it because it was so real. Loving Annabelle is another competent contribution to her growing body of work, but despite being prettier, isn't nearly as emotionally honest as that previous film.

Fingersmith

fingersmith

2005

Directed: Aisling Walsh

Written: Peter Ransley 

Sarah Waters is having a fabulous run when it comes to having her books adapted for the screen. First came the lavish production of Tipping the Velvet which exactly captured the spirit of the book, even if the filmmakers chose to cut a few corners with some characters and changed the ending. Now we have Fingersmith, the second BBC production of a Sarah Waters novel. While I'm not quite as willing to wax rhapsodic about this production as I was about Tipping the Velvet, it was a solid, engaging story with few things worth griping about.

As with all films that involve intrigue of some kind, to outline too much of the plot is to do both the film and the audience a disservice. In broad terms, Fingersmith follows the story of Sue Trinder (Sally Hawkins) and Maud Lilly (Elaine Cassidy), two young women whose pasts are intertwined in ways they could not possibly imagine and who are caught up in a scheme twenty years in the making. At the behest of a con man named "Gentleman" (Rupert Evans), and with the encouragement of her foster-mother Mrs Sucksby (Imelda Staunton), Sue agrees to help in a plan to rob Maud; a young, wealthy girl who lives at the country estate of Briar.

According to Gentleman, Maud Lilly, who lives alone with her eccentric uncle, is due to come into her inheritance of forty thousand pounds when she marries. However, Mr Lilly keeps her so locked up and isolated as to negate the possibility of that ever happening. Gentleman proposes to pose as Mr Richard Rivers, a suitor for Maud and an employee of her uncle, while Sue poses as Maud's maid. Her role in the con is to help convince the naive, impressionable Maud that she is in love and ought to run away and marry Rivers. After that has happened, Rivers will have Maud locked up in an asylum and take her cash for himself. Sue's share in the booty will be three thousand pounds.

Of course, if the scheme went exactly as planned there would be no story. Things start to go desperately awry when Sue and Maud begin to develop feelings for one another. The unravelling of the con and the unveiling of the characters' different motivations forms the bulk of the plot.

Fingersmith must have been an extremely difficult tale to adapt, considering the backpedalling, twists and turns the plot takes in the novel. The first episode of the mini-series takes its time to unveil the growing feelings between the two girls and concentrates solely on telling the first third of the novel in exquisite detail. Unfortunately this left the other two-thirds of the book -- the part of the novel that contains most of the action, plot twists and revelations -- to be told in just one episode. The langorous pace of episode one makes the second episode feel rushed and out of synch with the first.

I'm not certain that anyone watching without the benefit of having read the novel would feel the same, but I was also disappointed at the lack of development of the minor characters. I think this is where the Tipping the Velvet adaptation shone, because even the smallest of the characters introduced were all three dimensional. The inhabitants of Lant Street (Mrs Sucksby's house) were not at all colourful, nor did we really get to see much of the sanctimonious inner-workings of the inhabitants of Briar, or the devilish inmates at the madhouse.

I understand that the story concentrates on the main characters by necessity, but with so little attempt at exploring their surroundings and the characters within them, the settings the two girls existed in weren't as alive and vibrant as I feel they ought to have been. Ignorance will be bliss for people who have not read the novel, but I can't help feeling a bit cheated, especially since the barking mad inhabitants of the asylum (including the staff and doctors!) afforded such a wonderful opportunity for further character development.

While there is no doubt that Maud and Sue were perfectly cast (the chemistry between the two girls was nothing short of electric), they could have used a bit more imagination with the casting of Gentleman. For such a pivotal role, I really didn't think Rupert Evans had what it takes. It requires a great amount of subtlety and finesse to play a good con man, but Evans seemed to respond to every situation with the same overly-affected, sour expression.

Where Fingersmith excels though is in breaking down the story into its smaller elements; exploring the nature of love, guilt, yearning, greed and passion. How thin is the line between love and hate? What crimes are beyond forgiveness? This adaptation also succeeds in getting right to the emotional heart of the story. This will satisfy incurable romantics and lovers of tortured love stories everywhere. Not a single opportunity was missed to drive home the lingering effect their brief love affair had on the two girls. The strength of that memory powers all their thoughts and actions for the remainder of the film; much more so than any anger or thirst for vengeance.

Sarah Waters has been single-handedly responsible for reclaiming the Victorian era for lesbians, and I applaud the BBC for not compromising on her vision. I love the grittiness, and the nuance-perfect performance by Elaine Cassidy as Maud is worth the price of the DVD alone. The scene from Maud's wedding night is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful; such a desperate plea for comfort is remarkably at odds with her otherwise restrained demeanour. The scene reveals so much in an instant about what is going on beneath the surface, and in the end, reading what is going on beneath the surface, the con within the con, is really what the story is all about.

Linda Bergkvist

"What advanced me the most with my digital work was when I figured out that I could try all of the things that I was far too shy to do on traditional canvas."

She is an award-winning artist from Sweden whose digital paintings have been featured widely including Master and Excellence awrds in the EXPOSE series.Linda is also co-author of d'artiste Digital Painting where along with three other artists she delves into her own style and techniques in the way she approaches her art.Linda is as much a storyteller as an artist with an evocatinv illustration style featuring mystical settings and stnning characters.Though she studied English with the intention of becoming a teacher,Linda cut her studies short to work as an illustrator.Linda now spends her time as a comic book colorist,a part-time theacher of Photoshop at a local university,and as a freelancer.

你

眼看2008年也快到尾声了；

看着朋友们带来的你的消息，觉得你似乎又长大了些，懂事了些；

突然意识到，有一年多没见了，这是我们认识以来分开时间最长的一次，

曾经以为我终于能将你丢到一边了，可是丢是丢了，却总还是在心的某个角落，是我使的劲儿还不够大吗？呵呵，是吧。

曾经以为我又重新找到了爱，可是爱是爱了，却是那么的短暂，你总会出现在天枰的那一端且高高在上，是我太偏心了吗？呵呵，是吧。

曾经以为再次见到你的时候会不知所措，可是，虽然只是透过镜头看到的你，还是会让我情不自禁的笑出声来，是那种从心里甜出来的喜悦......（天啊，是幸福的感觉，对，没错，还是你，还是只有你能给我的感觉。）

所以，我这依然是爱吧，是正在爱的，对吗？

OH MY LOVELY JENNIFER!!!

世界各地的fans为Jennifer准备的礼物

一件在世界各地走了5个月的shirt，集合世界各地fans对她的爱与支持：

心形的路线～～～～～～

更可爱的是Jennifer，她穿上了这件可爱的充满创意的衬衫来表达对fans的感谢，oh my lovely Jennifer。

害羞的Jennifer。

完全完全完全可爱的Jennifer。

草稿纸

完全是上课时候无聊的产物～～～～～

跟旁边的韩国人没法用语言交流，所以就.....hahaha