Last night I experienced my first L.A. rain, while I was walking from the parking lot to the movie theater to see "Hairspray." The rain was rather lame. Barely a drizzle.
"Hairspray" was great, though. The main actress, Nikki Blonsky, was extremely watchable and the way they staged her songs, with her singing in a world of her own as everyone else just walked by her, completely oblivious, totally drew me in and showed you how special the character was. I was not so hot on John Travolta, who was completely unconvincing as a woman and in the role in general. None of the characters really had a chance to breathe the way they do in the stage version, which is about 45 minutes longer and has more actual dialogue, and funnier dialogue as well A lot of the characters felt underwritten -- Travolta's, Christopher Walken's and especially Amanda Bynes' as the best friend. But overall a very fun experience.
The YouTube system auto tcmahes the text to our voices using a beta detection system. In other words, we don't have much control. Also, the captions are based on the original script and may not match 100% (same basic info). The fubar'd characters are our fault not stripping out the smart apostrophes before uploading.
Posted by: Abdi | Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 08:29 PM