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Post by GreenEyesToo on Sept 6, 2008 11:53:10 GMT
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Post by peach on Sept 10, 2008 0:39:39 GMT
GreenEyes Too,
I liked it although not enuf Ruf, he's in two episodes that I seem to remember and he doesn't have a large role. Not too fond of the powdered wig, but still good. Would liek to hear what you think of the production as a whole.
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Sept 10, 2008 10:01:54 GMT
Yes, I knew it was just two episodes - my "spies" over there kept me well-informed! I will still probably watch all the episodes, if only to properly understand the storyline when Rufus pitches up. I'm still annoyed that so much of his role was cut. I've seen a couple of clips, and my biggest curiosity is the accent he uses - it seemed a bit Giles-from-The Woodlanders-ish, so I'm interested to find out how like the other characters that is. And the wig? It's still better than his ratty Clarkson one!!  |
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Sept 27, 2008 12:59:22 GMT
A very kind lady on the Rufus Yahoo group has just alerted me to the fact that the series starts on More4 at 5.30pm THIS afternoon! I hadn't checked the listings as I thought it would be shown later in the year!  Rufus isn't in the first few episodes, so if any Brit comes across this after 27 September, all is not lost! |
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Dec 16, 2008 23:12:27 GMT
And for those in the UK who missed it on More4 in the autumn, it's to be shown on Channel 4 from 27 December, at 5.30pm. That means I can tape it now  |
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Post by peach on Dec 20, 2008 3:57:22 GMT
GE2 how much bigger was his part originally? According to the books I've read on the subject Hamilton played a large part in our becoming independant. But then the series would have been called "Hamilton" wouldn't it?
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Dec 20, 2008 15:08:28 GMT
Peach, I remember reading that Rufus was very unhappy about how much his role was cut - so much so that he declined to take part in the publicity rounds for it. From that, I'm guessing that a LOT ended up on the cutting room floor (dear HBO, we can give those edits a good home....!  ). Or maybe the powers-that-be just realised he was acting everyone else off the screen......hee-hee! |
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Post by kate2009 on Mar 10, 2009 4:53:47 GMT
I have all of them,do you want to get it?GE2?
But there just little time.
Alexander Hamilton was a brillian people in the history of Britain...but the show named John Adams,so the guy must wrong about anyting.
hahaha.
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Post by kate2009 on Mar 10, 2009 5:22:43 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_HamiltonHis intense rivalry with Vice President Burr eventually resulted in a duel, in which Hamilton was mortally wounded, dying the following day. At dawn, the duel began, and Vice President Aaron Burr shot Hamilton. Hamilton's shot broke a tree branch directly above Burr's head. A letter that he wrote the night before the duel states, "I have resolved, if our interview [duel] is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire", thus asserting an intention to miss Burr. The circumstances of the duel, and Hamilton's actual intentions, are still disputed. Neither of the seconds, Pendleton or Van Ness, could determine who fired first. Soon after, they measured and triangulated the shooting, but could not determine from which angle Hamilton fired. Burr's shot, however, hit Hamilton in the lower abdomen above the right hip. The bullet ricocheted off Hamilton's second or third false rib, fracturing it and caused considerable damage to his internal organs, particularly his liver and diaphragm before becoming lodged in his first or second lumbar vertebra. Chernow considers the circumstances to have indicated Burr to have fired second, and taken deliberate aim. Another of Hamilton's legacies was his pro-federal interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. Though the Constitution was drafted in a way that was somewhat ambiguous as to the balance of power between national and state governments, Hamilton consistently took the side of greater federal power at the expense of states. As Secretary of the Treasury, he established¡ªagainst the intense opposition of Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson¡ªthe country's first national bank. Hamilton justified the creation of this bank, and other increased federal powers, with Congress's constitutional powers to issue currency, to regulate interstate commerce, and anything else that would be "necessary and proper". Jefferson, on the other hand, took a stricter view of the Constitution: parsing the text carefully, he found no specific authorization for a national bank. This controversy was eventually settled by the Supreme Court of the United States in McCulloch v. Maryland, which in essence adopted Hamilton's view, granting the federal government broad freedom to select the best means to execute its constitutionally enumerated powers, specifically the doctrine of implied powers.
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Mar 10, 2009 13:47:34 GMT
I have all of them,do you want to get it?GE2? Thank you, Kate, but I taped it when it was shown. The DVD set is available in the UK now, too. |
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Post by kate2009 on Mar 20, 2009 8:54:33 GMT
Peach, I remember reading that Rufus was very unhappy about how much his role was cut - so much so that he declined to take part in the publicity rounds for it. From that, I'm guessing that a LOT ended up on the cutting room floor (dear HBO, we can give those edits a good home....! ). Or maybe the powers-that-be just realised he was acting everyone else off the screen......hee-hee! I will prove why his part must been cut. |
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Post by uncorked on Mar 24, 2009 13:40:19 GMT
I saw the original JA last year and didn't like it.(I think I was the only one) Rufus was not in it very much and one scene was done behind a closed door and you did not even see him. When he was in it --he was of course great. When I was in NYC last year in March --Huge billboards were up and did not even have his name on them. I asked him about it before Rock-n-Roll and he said they had said that his part was suppose to have a rewrite but it never happened --I think it may be on some of the older messages
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Post by kate2009 on Mar 24, 2009 16:12:33 GMT
Who can tell me where I can upload *.DOC files
Please?
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