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Post by Vittoria on Apr 1, 2009 7:02:39 GMT
Welcome Ellie! Indeed, Rufus certainly has a "sweep you off your feet" effect, doesn't he? I can hardly imagine what it would be like to get to know him personally.
Have fun! Grab a drool bucket for some of these posts.
Vi
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Post by eleanor on Apr 1, 2009 20:52:30 GMT
Hi Spice and Vittoria,
Thank you for your lovely welcome!!
Rufus has been in my mind for a very long time. As I said before, he appeared on my TV screen back in 1993 and I was hit by a sledge hammer....he is so talented and so beautiful. He doesn't know it or so it seems, despite many women like us raging on about him!! I love his interviews, he is so articulate and very interesting to read. I love listening to his voice too, slightly gruff with a very pleasant tone and a way about him. By all accounts when people meet him, he seems very kind and obliging...oh what a man!
Yes, I know, I have got it bad...I'd love to meet him someday and perhaps I will, who knows?!!
Elliexx
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Post by tipou on Apr 2, 2009 1:32:27 GMT
eh ellie, hi! i am late in welcoming you but i do it sincerely nonetheless.
just make yourself at home, take a drool bucket as vittoria said, please don't mind our sometimes tasteless but always funny jokes, and enjoy. look everywhere.... pics are hidden in the most surprising places.
oh, and, dont get me wrong, i love rufus' work as much as the next board member, but if you look for "depth" in his work, EH might not be the best place to look. but a lot of charming close-ups though! and of course, the Green-Eyed Wonder himself is always above reproach, so even if i litterally swore at my tv during some episodes, i pre-ordered the dvd series on amazon.
anyway, welcome, and hope tho see you in threads!
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Post by robbiesheik on Apr 2, 2009 5:40:51 GMT
Welcome Ellie.
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Post by Vittoria on Apr 4, 2009 17:31:03 GMT
Hi Spice and Vittoria, Thank you for your lovely welcome!! Rufus has been in my mind for a very long time. As I said before, he appeared on my TV screen back in 1991 and I was hit by a sledge hammer....he is so talented and so beautiful. He doesn't know it or so it seems, despite many women like us raging on about him!! I love his interviews, he is so articulate and very interesting to read. I love listening to his voice too, slightly gruff with a very pleasant tone and a way about him. By all accounts when people meet him, he seems very kind and obliging...oh what a man! Yes, I know, I have got it bad...I'd love to meet him someday and perhaps I will, who knows?!! Elliexx OMG, I am actually listening to Peter Gabriel singing SledgeHammer right now- no kidding. What timing!... Anyways, yes from what I have heard, Rufus is a very nice man. I am totally in the same boat with you about his voice and how interesting and articulate he is. Perhaps one day I will meet him. I'd love to just sit and have a latte or drinks and talk.... Although I am an Authentic Submissive looking to be Collared by the right man, I'm sure I can hold it together for a civilized chat. ;D |
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Post by eleanor on Apr 6, 2009 16:30:35 GMT
Thank you kind people for such warm welcomes!
Well, I have just managed to get up out of bed after 4 days of the hell that is streptococcal tonsilitis.......it..was..bad. I used to get it as a kid but it knocked me down completely. Doctor came, my temp was 39 degrees plus, lots of penicillin and fluids, mum doing me soup, cats (I have 4) lying all over my bed for company.
So I apologise for not answering people but that is where I have been....beginning to feel stronger now although throat still sore.
I am going to watch Gone to Seed tonight for a bit of much needed 'Rufus therapy' to aide my recovery...I must be feeling better!!!
Elliexx
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Post by rueful on Apr 6, 2009 20:15:36 GMT
Sorry you've been so sick, ellie. Somewhere in the "Other Rufus Stuff" section there is a thread devoted to the miraculous healing powers of Rufus, so I hope Gone to Seed works wonders for you!
When you're up to it, please let us know how you liked it in the Works thread.
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Apr 6, 2009 20:59:32 GMT
Ooh, Ellie, sorry to hear you've been unwell, but pleased to hear you're feeling better. Rufus therapy is always a good idea!
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Post by peach on Apr 16, 2009 1:44:30 GMT
Ellie, belated welcome to you and hope that you're feeling better.
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Post by judypatooty on Jun 23, 2009 21:29:50 GMT
Re-opening this thread. I was just trying to recall how it was I first noticed Rufus. I think it was last year sometime. I was on a blog written by a group of romance writers whose books I love. In a thread on their message board, someone had posted a photo of Rufus and Gerard Butler (who is the other actor I go completely "fangirl" over). It was like "Hello. Who are you and why haven't I noticed you before?" Of course, I immediately started Googling. That led to renting DVDs and the rest is history. It finally took the announcement of Roof's role in The Pillars of the Earth to lead me here. What fun to have found such a cool group of women who are just as insane as I am!  |
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Post by vmaciv on Jun 24, 2009 3:37:07 GMT
I have to say that I am actually 58. And I am absolutely not given to becoming smitten over any actor. But there was something about Jacob Hood that affected me. I admire an actor that can play a man and yet show vulnerablity and not be afraid of it. That actually takes quite a bit of self confidence and courage. I absolutely loved Dangerous Woman and Dark City. I also loved him in Tristan and Isolde. An das I am reading TPOTE I believe that same vulnerablity will be on display. I believe in one of the other threads someone asked for a comedy. I would take a contemporary role that shows the complexity he is capable of. I am hopeful that the indie films he mentioned in his interview do show another side of him and are more contemporary. As for his voice, it is divine. But as I have said before I think the beauty of soul is what is portrayed on stage. That is not learned it is a gift.
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Post by eleanor on Jun 24, 2009 15:25:44 GMT
So true vmaciv, so true. I long to see Rufus in a stage production, Shakespeare if possible, just a little dream of mine.
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Post by judypatooty on Jun 24, 2009 16:30:38 GMT
I'm 50 and never imagined that I would be fangirling over an actor at my age. Heck, I haven't been all swoony over an actor since I hung a poster of Bobby Sherman over my bed in 1970!  I would definitely fly to London to see Roof in a stage production. I've been wanting to go back across the pond for several years now and that would be a wonderful excuse to go! I really want to see him do more comedy. As he so ably proved in TOTS he not only has the acting chops but the all-important comic timing to be totally hilarious in a part. Ahhh. Bobby Sherman. Then  and now (a San Bernadino County sheriff's deputy!)  |
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Post by numbat on Jun 25, 2009 6:10:17 GMT
Well i'm poking my head briefly out of my Rufus stupor (induced by watching 10 new DVD's in the last 5 days including 6 hours of Middlemarch, 4 hours of Charles II, & 3 hours of HOT) to say that i have solved the mystery!!!! I couldn't work out how i could have ignored Roof for my entire life, and yet suddenly he was having such an effect on me. This is the answer:  Yes indeed, i watched Cold Comfort farm yesterday and realised that i knew THIS intimately. Robert Post's child, there's always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort farm, something wicked in the woodshed - i knew it all!!!!! & Seth, & Seth, & Seth!!!!! I had taped & watched this many, many times when it had been shown here in the mid 90's, but i guess more important things (you know, like life!) seemed to have gotten in the way. Almost nothing of Roof's is ever shown here (& when TOTS was on i remember not watching it because of Shirley's screaming in the ads - i don't think they even showed Rufus) & i've just never ended up going to see the movies he's been in. Get this, my husband wanted to see T&I at the cinema (coz he's a bit of a sucker for a love story), but i told him i didn't want to because it would just be like Romeo & Juliet - and there's nothing that annoys me more than that story of 2 silly adolescents killing themselves because of teenage "love" !!!! Yet, i find Marke & his kind heart (and his sexy, sexy hair & permanent 5 o'clock shadow), to be THE most alluring of all Rufus's characters. So time & time again it just never happened, i managed to keep avoiding him until i stumbled upon that one fateful episode of EH (the last one of the three that were shown here) and went - mmmmm, i know that face!!!!!!! So now i get it, i've been in love with Seth for all this time and it's just taken me the best part of 15 years to find him again!!!!! Gee, and i thought i was just going crazy, LOL!!!!!! ;D |
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Post by judypatooty on Jun 25, 2009 14:31:50 GMT
Oh you're far from crazy, Numbat! :-) I think THIS was the photo that my friend in the other forum posted that made me sit up and take notice. Yes, it's Seth Starkadder himself. Yummy!   Of course, it made me immediately put Cold Comfort Farm at the top of my Netflix queue! |
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