ToToToToT: Aranci, datteri! Pagliacci omicidi!

[Sparks]

1) Bring him home, although this is too close

2) Little Fall of Rain

3) Castle on a Cloud

Is it easy to love Javert?
oui
non
purple indifference

[falling_dance]

1) Bring him home, although this is too close

I'm sorry.

Oui.

true, false, or l'indifference violet: Alun Armstrong and Jenny Galloway are the best Thénardiers.

[Sparks]

l'indifference violet
Is it funny that Helena Bonham Carter (who looks like Sasha Cohen) is cast with Sascha Baron Cohen as the Thénardiers?

[falling_dance]

Yes.

As I go on pretending it's 1997:

Helena Bonham Carter once remarked in an interview that she was “punished” for her background - she is the great-granddaughter of Herbert Asquith, the Liberal prime minister - and could not get certain roles because she was not “trendily working class”.

Famously, it prompted fellow actress Kathy Burke to write an open letter to Time Out which read: “As a life long member of the non-pretty working classes, I would like to say to Helena Bonham Carter (wholly pledged member of the very pretty upper-middle classes): shut up you stupid c---.”

Team Burke
Team Bonham Carter (something about misunderstood irony)
Team Be friends!
Team Somebody's too lazy to find the original Time Out interview in question, to say nothing of the most famous letter in reply

[Sparks]

Team be friends!

Helena in:
Alice in Wonderland
King's Speech
Harry Potter movies?

[falling_dance]

I haven't seen any of them. My guess is that she was most impressive in The King's Speech. Does saying that I liked her performance in Howards End count for anything?

Same question...

[Buzz]

HP movies


Pick one of these to have dinner with:

Angela Merkel
Indira Ghandhi
Margaret Thatcher
Hillary Clinton
Corazon Aquino
Kristina de Kirchner

[falling_dance]

Angela Merkel, though it would be interesting to bring Indira Gandhi back from the dead.

on the median:

flowers
trees
grass only
no vegetation at all

[Cachoo]

Flowers

2009 Stop Motion Films: pick a favorite

Coraline
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Mary and Max

[Buzz]

Mary and Max

Cannes flm festival
OR
Sundance film festival

[falling_dance]

Cannes

Two recent one-liners by Heather of GFY that made me laugh out loud:

"This is what a deck of cards would look like if it became sentient and opened a brothel."
or
"I thought Cosmo had an iconic repeated cover pose — hand on hip, etc. — but maybe I made that up, or the great Joanna Coles is changing that now that she’s swooped in to, presumably, rescue it from being a magazine that shouts things at vaginas."?

[Buzz]

This is what a deck of cards would look like if it became sentient and opened a brothel.


Lost city found in the Bay of Cambay India:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1768109.stm

Exciting and significant
OR

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Exciting and significant.

SPs at the Russian Nats that missed the top six (and which I liked):

Gosviani's
Makarova's (mistakes and all)
Stavitskaia's

[Kwanita R]

Anyway...

Allegra McEvedy
Jamie Oliver
Gordon Ramsay
Marco Pierre White
purple nota with some roughly chopped coriander

[Buzz]

1. Gosviani
2. Jamie Oliver
3. Hello Kwanita!

Do you plan on staying up to see in the new ear?

YES
or
NO

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"ToToToToT: Happy New Ear!" might work as a new thread title.

I'll probably be up at midnight, anyway.

's Carmen, or his Saint-Saëns medley FS?

[Cachoo]

Saint-Saens!

Tap Dancing or Clogging?

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Tap dancing.

Esther Williams or Sonja Henie?

[l'etoile]

Sonja Henie. Esther W is also beautiful, though.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
or
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-jones

[falling_dance]

Douglas and Zeta-Jones.

"I Dreamed a Dream"

Patti Lupone
Ruthie Henshall
Anne Hathaway
Susan Boyle
someone else (please specify)
purple dislike of the song and/or Les Miz questions generally