TiVo Community Forums Archives - Mr. Sterling: False Advertising

TiVoCommunity.com
(c)opyright 1995-2005 All rights reserved
indexcheckTC
This area is a static history of posts in the TiVo Community Forum Archive.
This archive history was made for the simple indexing of search sites like Google.

Pages:1

Mr. Sterling: False Advertising
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)

Posted by: Philosofy

The promos for this week's episode showed an attractive blonde tripping into Mr. Sterling's arms, and showing there was some attraction there. I watch the episode, and see the (former?) porn star Jenna Jameson is in the show: I'm thinking someone sets Mr. Sterling up to ruin his reputation. I get all the way through the show, and see that the blonde falling into his arms is NEXT week. Not a major big deal, but pretty misleading if you ask me.

Posted by: ClutchBrake

I think the woman was the secretary we seeing rushing in first thing in the morning to answer the phones. Could be wrong.
I still like the show but the scene with his chief of staff (?) in his office with her crying about racism was utterly LAME. That was a really cheap and lame thing for the writers to do. The actress, however, was awesome in that scene. That was the best acting I have seen on the small screen in a while.
They seem to be moving a bit towards the evil Republican story angles. If that keeps up I will lose my interest. The show started off very neutral but it is beginning to lean left.

Posted by: Lori

The woman is Portia DeRossi.

I'm with you, Phil. It was irritating. :(

Posted by: murgatroyd

quote:
Originally posted by ClutchBrake
The actress, however, was awesome in that scene. That was the best acting I have seen on the small screen in a while.

Audra McDonald

Yeah, you hire a three-time Tony winner, you get some good acting. ;)

Her Playbill bio from Sweeney Todd:

quote:

"Sweeney Todd"
Soprano Audra McDonald (Beggar Woman) created the role of Marie Christine in the 1999 Lincoln Center Theater world premiere by Michael John LaChiusa. On Broadway, she has earned Tony Awards for featured roles in Ragtime (1998), Master Class (1996), and Carousel (1994). She made her Carnegie Hall debut singing selections from Porgy and Bess with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas, in a concert televised internationally and recorded for BMG Classics. In 1999, she also performed with the Cleveland Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Marin Alsop, and the Boston Pops with Keith Lockhart (in the nationally broadcast Evening at Pops). She sang at the 1999 BBC Proms with Simon Rattle and also performed in the Divas at the Donmar series in London, which was broadcast this spring on PBS.
On television, Ms. McDonald was first seen in the movie Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years (CBS) and subsequently on NBC's Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and the ABC/Walt Disney Television production of Annie. In addition, she was featured in My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies, a PBS broadcast from Carnegie Hall. Ms. McDonald has also appeared in the PBS productions Leonard Bernstein's New York and Some Enchanted Evening - A Salute to Oscar Hammerstein, and was featured on 60 Minutes.
Ms. McDonald's new solo recording, How Glory Goes, features songs by Harold Arlen, Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome Kern, alongside works by today's generation of musical theater writers. Way Back To Paradise, Audra McDonald's debut solo recording (which inaugurated her exclusive contract with Nonesuch Records), was named Adult Record of the Year for 1998 by the New York Times. Other recordings include Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town (on EMI); the original soundtrack of Tim Robbins' film The Cradle Will Rock and the original cast recording of Marie Christine (both on BMG); My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies (on Hybrid); and Leonard Bernstein's New York (on Nonesuch).
Born into a musical family, Audra McDonald grew up in Fresno, California. She received her classical vocal training at The Julliard School, graduating in 1993.

When I saw she was on Mister Sterling, I set up a SP, but couldn't make it through more than half the first episode I tried to watch. :(

Jan

Posted by: efilippi

I put up with some of the Mr. Sterling absurdities the first couple episodes figuring they were just needed to set the stage and introduce the characters. But the episode a couple weeks ago where he somehow shames an INS official into allowing some poor soul to continue cleaning offices, paired with the stunt of forcing Senators to do their own tax returns just flipped me out. Notice that he had to spend forever on his own return when he doesn't have any money!

This became even too stupid for me. Scratch one season pass.

Posted by: ClutchBrake

quote:
Originally posted by efilippi
Notice that he had to spend forever on his own return when he doesn't have any money!

Guess he has never heard of TurboTax. :)

Posted by: Philosofy

Well, they did it again. Last week's preview showed him kissing some attractive blonde, and tonight we are introduced to an attractive, blonde, TV reporter who he does absolutely no kissing with, but we see him with Portia DeRossi on the previews for NEXT week. VERY irritating. I just can't see why they keep doing this.

Posted by: DanT

If you didn't watch the previews, you wouldn't have this problem! ;)

Posted by: Philosofy

True, Dan. I don't know why this bugs me so much, but it does. I like the show, and will watch it regardless. I just can't figure out why they do it.

Posted by: bobbi

It bugs me too. :) I'm one of those people who sits and waits for scenes I saw in the previews to come up (I've managed to ruin movies doing that...WHY must they show the end of movies in previews?). When the scenes from the previews don't show up in the show two weeks in a row...I get annoyed.

Posted by: chloejackson

I don't watch Mr Sterling, but I do agree that misleading promos are annoying.

Another type of misleading promo that bugs me is when it turns out the promo scene was really a DREAM or FANTASY or HALLUCINATION sequence when the promo bills it as real.

Will & Grace and The Sopranos are especially guilty of selling promo scenes that turn out to be dream sequences.