AMC: Got Balls?
Mary Pelis
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Didn't hear the band playing Korn
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Didn't hear the band playing BBMak
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Didn't hear the band playing Brittney/Christine/insert bimbo of choice
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Didn't hear the band playing Santana (Damn! - I love them!)
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Gillian wins the prize for the most outlandish, uh, ballgown at the
Plexiglass Ball. I'm wondering where she stuck the handle of that
shovel on her chest. Maybe, if it snows, Ryan will just have to tip her
upside down and push her around the parking lot!
Greenlee's haute couture creation is a close second. She should only
dance with very tall men, or she'll put someone's eyes out! It would be
a beautiful gown except for those rabbit ears - bet she can pick up tv
channels in Japan with those puppies!!!
Speaking of puppies - Dixie's pugs looked very happy in their little
formal home for the evening. Although I don't think she's gonna be able
to do a *real* waltz in that thing, the style & color were fabu. Give
in to David, Dix - it's bigger than both of them, er, um I mean **you**.
We can always count on Opal to be *out* there - I will only address the
hat: a reject insect from "A Bug's Life" - but at least it was in
black.
Maybe I'm just a sucker for pastel colors, because I found the majority
of the gowns were hideous in their pigmentation. Varying shades of bird
guano comes readily to mind when looking at Hayley, many of the
anonymous waltzing Matildas, Gillian and Bianca. Light skin tones
(especially in the winter) are not helped much by mustards, burnt
oranges, or certain shades of green (IMO). Erica looked washed out in
her cream/goldish gown also. The burgundy's I liked just fine - Nessie,
Laura, Eugenia.
Did anybody look at the Crystal Ball "memento" & think "Candle Scents
from Glade"?
Mary "I want *mine* in Apples and Cinnamon" Pelis
Jayneau
<snip great assessment of gowns at Crystal Ball>
I was particularly fascinated by the hired dancers, especially those who
started cutting a rug right after Ryan and Gillian began the first dance.
Talk about overdoing it! They were whizzing by like they were on roller
skates! Way overkill, especially on that postage stamp sized dance floor.
Jayne
Aisling Willow Grey
<wiping tears from eyes>
ROFLMAO! I am really getting this image, Mary. And you know, we here in
the Pine Valley environs _did_ get about five inches of snow. Good to know
that Gillian isn't _totally_ useless!
>>Maybe I'm just a sucker for pastel colors, because I found the majority
of the gowns were hideous in their pigmentation. Varying shades of bird
guano comes readily to mind when looking at Hayley, many of the anonymous
waltzing Matildas, Gillian and Bianca. Light skin tones (especially in the
winter) are not helped much by mustards, burnt oranges, or certain shades
of green (IMO). Erica looked washed out in her cream/goldish gown also.
The burgundy's I liked just fine - Nessie, Laura, Eugenia.<<
I have to say, I liked the jewel tones just fine, and really was glad there
wasn't a theme color this time. That's just ridiculous, to expect that a
whole townful of women would conform to a theme color scheme with their
gowns!
Erica's, I thought, looked like she had come to the Crystal Ball straight
from bed. Mussed hair, frumpy nightgown, slightly dazed look in her eyes.
Very housefrau-esque! Binks put her to shame!
I wonder why they always put Liza in dresses that make her look like a
tank. She's a statuesque woman; she doesn't need dozens of yards of
skirt! I'm recalling her second wedding dress with Adam (the kimono), and
I'm certain she'd look much better in form-fitting dresses than dresses
with skirts larger than Godzilla.
>>Did anybody look at the Crystal Ball "memento" & think "Candle Scents
from Glade"?<<
Yes. And besides the shameless hucksterism (I don't want something that is
'created memorabilia'; it would be much more meaningful for them to sell
something that we know from the show: miniature portraits of Erica like the
one in her house; a line of Greenlee's lingerie; an FM radio shaped like
Dr. David's stethoscope, etc.), it was _so_ forced, the way Dimitri held up
the candle in the pre-ball scene with Edmund, Ryan, and Gillian -- and so
badly staged and executed, the bit with everyone getting their candles
lit. Sheesh!
I'm glad Palmer mentioned the fact that he was surprised Ryan had been
entrusted with the running of the Crystal Ball based on what happened at
his last party; if they hadn't mentioned it, it would have been like the
elephant in the corner of the room!
The professional dancers are really too much like being hit over the head.
It's very pretty to watch them whirl, but the scene would feel much less
self-conscious if they had them come onto the dance floor like regular
people, possibly a bit hesitantly because they're not sure when they're
supposed to join Ryan and Gillian. And, they shouldn't all be dancing like
it's been choreographed, whirling and moving simultaneously! It looks
ridiculous! If they're professional dancers, it should be a snap to have
them just dance like credible, regular high-society types. As it is, all
the whirling-in-tandem made me worried we might get a chorus line of the
women of Pine Valley, or a Busby-Berkeley-esque scene of the men doing
synchronized swimming in the punch bowl or something.
Aisling "and Colby coming out tapping to 'On the Good Ship Lollypop'" Grey
FAC Pine Valley Ghostbusters Local #707
D&L
> Gillian wins the prize for the most outlandish, uh, ballgown at the
> Plexiglass Ball. I'm wondering where she stuck the handle of that
> shovel on her chest. Maybe, if it snows, Ryan will just have to tip her
> upside down and push her around the parking lot!
I couldn't agree more with this, her dress was UGLY in one word. That flap
in the front must have been to catch any crumbs she might spill and save
them for later.
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> Greenlee's haute couture creation is a close second. She should only
> dance with very tall men, or she'll put someone's eyes out! It would be
> a beautiful gown except for those rabbit ears - bet she can pick up tv
> channels in Japan with those puppies!!!
Along with her makeup, she looked like she was direct from Star Trek, the
early years.
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> Speaking of puppies - Dixie's pugs looked very happy in their little
> formal home for the evening. Although I don't think she's gonna be able
> to do a *real* waltz in that thing, the style & color were fabu. Give
> in to David, Dix - it's bigger than both of them, er, um I mean **you**.
>
Dixie is looking pretty good these days, must be some plastic surgeon
working on all of her. Wish I could afford it !!!!!!
> We can always count on Opal to be *out* there - I will only address the
> hat: a reject insect from "A Bug's Life" - but at least it was in
> black.
Opal is just Opal, a wonderful hearted person.
> Maybe I'm just a sucker for pastel colors, because I found the majority
> of the gowns were hideous in their pigmentation. Varying shades of bird
> guano comes readily to mind when looking at Hayley, many of the
> anonymous waltzing Matildas, Gillian and Bianca. Light skin tones
> (especially in the winter) are not helped much by mustards, burnt
> oranges, or certain shades of green (IMO). Erica looked washed out in
> her cream/goldish gown also. The burgundy's I liked just fine - Nessie,
> Laura, Eugenia.
No one had much color on today, very blah!!!
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> Did anybody look at the Crystal Ball "memento" & think "Candle Scents
> from Glade"?
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I'l take mine in Rasberry, thank you
Claudine
>working on all of her. Wish I could afford it !!!!!!
She's all natural. Wish I looked like that. UGH. Not fair!
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Diane Johnston
Aisling Willow Grey wrote:
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> >>Mary Pelis wrote:
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> > Bet Mr. Blackwell's having a field day
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> > Gillian wins the prize for the most outlandish, uh, ballgown at the
> > Plexiglass Ball. I'm wondering where she stuck the handle of that
> > shovel on her chest. Maybe, if it snows, Ryan will just have to tip her
> > upside down and push her around the parking lot!<<
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LOLOL
She's so skinny, she IS the handle
diane
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Lady Taker
> her dress was UGLY in one word. That flap
>in the front must have been to catch any crumbs she might spill and save
>them for later.
Can you imagine someone dancing a wonderfully romantic dance with her and
glancing down into her er... *cow catcher*... and seeing a weeks worth of toast
crumbs, spare rib bones and drips of blue cheese dressing caught in its folds?
Volfie -> then they'd find out for a fact the the princess is a little piggy
Lady Taker
>>started cutting a rug right after Ryan and Gillian began the first dance.
>>Talk about overdoing it! They were whizzing by like they were on roller
>>skates! Way overkill, especially on that postage stamp sized dance floor.
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>>Jayne
I thought they looked *frantic*. As if the director had just shrieked, "LOOK
LIKE YOU'RE HAVING A GOOD TIME, DAMNIT!" There was way too much flipping of
skirts and quick movements to make it look elegant. If Jillian and Ryan hadn't
moved immediately to the inside circle they would have been trampled in the
frenzied swirling.
Volfie -> reminded me of a childhood story where tigers ran in a circle so
quickly that they became a big puddle of butter
DonnaB
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That makes me crazy every year at this shindig! And, I mean, I adore
ballroom dancing, the spectator sport. But, when the professional
dancers whoosh by in the background, especially with their heads
tilted so perfectly, as the PVites are carrying on with their dialogue
in the foreground I always get a bad case of the giggles. Somehow it's
so absurd. And, then, when anyone we know begins to dance, with or
without dialogue while dancing, no matter how good they are, they
aren't that good, and that is so marked that it absolutely cracks me
up & soon I am hollering at the TV that either one group should dance
not as well as they can or one group needs lessons, but, that they
should meet somewhere in a middle ground!
Whoosh.
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BriZ Day
if I'm clogging this newgroup with the same comment over and over.... but why
in the world were there high school students at the dance? I'm talking about
Mr.McStudly Soccer Player and 1/3 of the blonde squad. Who could they have
known that would have invited them? And Erica tried to keep Bianca away because
it was "an adult party." Bianca being invited I can understand...she's Erica
Kane's daughter. But the other two? It was just weird.
Brianne
Hilda Alvarez-Strang
Mary Pelis <m...@physics.umass.edu> wrote:
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What about the music? Mary mentions it in her spoiler space. OK, I
don't expect Pine valley's fabulous people to get down and funky with
Eminem, but hello...is everything going to be a waltz? I understand the
first dance should be a waltz, OK, but come on...can we get a little
Santana, some modern slow songs...something of this century!
Come on, wouldn't you love to see Vanessa, Opal and Grandmama, along
with Palmer, Dr. Joe and Dimitri doing the Electric Slide? ;)
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The country club set. They bring their kids everywhere.
Sharon Campbell
vol...@aol.comBV12 (Lady Taker) wrote:
> Mary said about Jillian's atrocity:
> > her dress was UGLY in one word. That flap
> >in the front must have been to catch any crumbs she might spill and save
> >them for later.
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My husband thought she was going to hold her speech there.
On another note: Standing next to Bianca, Erica really showed her age.
Bianca has such beautiful, flawless skin. She looked lovely at the ball.
I'd only be photographed next to Eugenia if I were Erica.
Scampie
DonnaB
(BriZ Day) wrote:
P&E: These posts & replies to them are showing up, timely.
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"D&L" <dlmac2...@home.com> wrote:
only have one to add because Mary's critique was right on... I thought
Liza's dress was absolutely the worst, the most unflattering, shapeless,
almost an afterthought, what are they doing to that woman?! Did she get
that at K-Mart? I don't get why she's constantly the most frumpy
woman at any of PV's formal occasios=ns. She's attractive, she's got a
decent figure (I thnk), if they'd ever show her in something halfway
flattering. Liza DOES have balls to wear that ugly gown anywhere. On
the other hand, I did like Rain's very simple black dress, she looked
great. Erica was not made for that color, otherwise the gown was okay.
Gillian looked ridiculous and why the hell was Ryan hosting after that
fiasco on the yacht, that seemed too far fetched. Immediate shades of
the yacht/libidozone fiasco. Nevertheless, I did enjoy the show.
ladybug
Tante Joan
Well, I hate to inject a note of reality into this travesty of a
charity ball, but in my capacity as a fundraiser for a medical center,
I can tell you that often corporations will take tables of ten for an
event as a charitable deduction, then donate the table back to the
event-givers so that they can fill the seats with those who cannot
afford tickets on their own. Usually these tables can include people
who benefit from the charity's programs; occasionally they are filled
instead by ordinary employees of the donor corporations. Why don't
the corporation execs go, you may ask? Well, many times they do, but
a corporate CEO can support a different charity every night of the
week for the entire year in a large city, and that much rubber chicken
would daunt even the most philanthropic captain of industry. They go
to a sampling, and give the seats away for the rest.
Brooke indicated that some of those girls were from the shelter, their
gowns provided by Myrtle Fargate on loan from The Boutique. Opal no
doubt donated the hair and makeup services of the Glamorama to give
these waifs (see how skinny they were!) a good time. Of course, being
chaperoned by Brooke is not my idea of a good times, but that's just
me...
-- Tante Joan Welsh, FAC CatRuth
I'm a BABE!
founder of SPERM, the Society for the Prevention
of Enmity to Repentant Mothers
Loading up Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane
for all the Smart Women of Pine Valley
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kk
she looked so bad. her hair and the gown were tres' kim basinger, who
would've looked stunning in them. why does marcy walker look like an
old bag? she's a beautiful woman...kk
Mary Pelis
kk wrote:
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> regarding liza...i thought the same thing, and couldn't figure out why
> she looked so bad. her hair and the gown were tres' kim basinger, who
> would've looked stunning in them. why does marcy walker look like an
> old bag? she's a beautiful woman...kk
Today's episode prompted me to mention Liza's evening gown, since I got a
better look at the back. Do you remember an old Saturday Night Live skit
about the big-a$$ed family? Liza **was** Tammy Widette. Man! Her butt in
that dress looked more like a shelf for really big reference books! If I
were Liza/Marcy, I would have the person who made me wear that thing
keel-hauled! It was as bad as that nightmare she wore to her last wedding,
when she put the Oh, no! in kimono!
Mary "You don't see the *guys* walking around in ugly *tuxes*!!" Pelis
sha...@webtv.net
looked wonderful. Erica, well I liked her new "do" anyway. Bianca looked
"WOW", even Rain cleaned up real pretty. Greens looked like she was
dressed for Halloween, going for the super-hero look?
Opal, as always, looked super chic. Liza looked like her monster dress
was gonna swallow her whole any second...damn, that was one big get up
she was wearing! Dixie, looked MARVELOUS!! As for the ever confused
Gilleygirl....well...I guess she thought she was a bulldozer that night!
And as always, poor little momma choking Halley must have been last in
line when they were handing out the gowns....cause that was one damn
ugly dress she was wearing! But at least they didn't have to dance the
swirly in them! I was getting dizzy watching those couples swirl around
in little circles, with those damn silly grins on their
faces....probably thinking about the money they were gonna make out of
this gig...and all they had to do is look stupid!
Shaqqie"who does all his swirling in the privacy of his home....dancing,
just dancing Coutillier!"
panthera pardus
Best
Dixie: pure elegance. It was a great color and it looked fabulous on her.
The only quibble I had is with her hypercurly hairdo. I thought it
detracted from that lacework that was on her dress. A smoother hairstyle
would have worked better.
Laura: again, simply elegant. However, as others have mentioned, the Micky
Mouse ears thing around her neck was all wrong.
Greenlee: most of the comments seem to be against her dress, but I liked
it. I thought it was sort of "Dynasty Meets Flash Gordon" and it flattered
her. The hairdo was off though. Such an avant garde dress should have been
topped by a more daring 'do.
Bianca: for the record, in evening wear I don't care for pastels or earth
tones so I would have liked Bianca's dress even more if it had been a jewel
tone. Nevertheless, it was dramatic in a way that really suits her
personality. And, I gotta say it, that girl is, well, "ripe" isn't she?
Erica looked like a stick figure standing next to Bianca.
Leslie: oh, her dress was absolutely killer. Forget "Fatal Attraction."
Leslie's look was pure 1940s B&W Joan Crawford As a Very Bad Woman. And she
had on the best jewelry. (Plus, she made me really miss Arlene. Arlene
would have *worked* that outfit.)
So So
Erica: please, did she just pull her one of her satin sheets off her bed
and drape it around her? Oh, no, I forgot, it came from Myrtle's boutique,
soon to be renamed "Linens R Us."
Vanessa: her usual "mature nth wife of a wealthy man" look. She carried it
well.
Hayley: geez, she really loves that kerchiefs-as-clothing look. Again with
the kerchief top...enough already.
Brooke: okay, here's what happened: She waited too late to get a dress so
she stopped by Cloth World, picked up a couple of rolls of fabric, and
draped and pinned it around her body. Yuck.
OMG, what were they thinking
Gillian: she's usually right on the money but this time the dress was
hideous. Apparently designed by Salvador Dali on acid, with fabric that was
dragged through a swamp.
Liza: a scoop-necked, poofy, velvety dress is not made for this woman. She
really should stick with the straight-lined, masculine look she usually
wears.
Special Achievement
Opal: as usual, she stood out in an outfit that only she could pull off.
Rain: like she said, she cleans up good. She put that no-fashion-sense
Brooke to shame.
Grandmamma: (sorry, her name escapes me) Again, a dress that said, "This
is what 40-year-old haute couture looks like. Like a million damn dollars."
Debbie "and where was Marian?"
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And where did they learn to dance like that! The high school boys I know
would have absolutely no idea how to waltz, and even if they did, wouldn't
be caught dead doing it in public!
Peg
Lynn Riley
Aisling Willow Grey wrote:
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> an FM radio shaped like Dr. David's stethoscope, etc.),
'stethoscope'? Is that what the kids are calling 'it' these days?
LR
Hope Braun {CDYN68}
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>On another note: Standing next to Bianca, Erica really showed her age.
>Bianca has such beautiful, flawless skin. She looked lovely at the ball.
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>I'd only be photographed next to Eugenia if I were Erica.
Bite your tongue. Grandmama looked fabulous!
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NewMama
br...@deer.cig.mot.com (Hope Braun {CDYN68}) wrote:
> In article <scampbe-0301...@scampbe.bucknell.edu>
sca...@nospam.edu (Sharon Campbell) writes:
> >
> >On another note: Standing next to Bianca, Erica really showed her
age.
> >Bianca has such beautiful, flawless skin. She looked lovely at the
ball.
> >
> >I'd only be photographed next to Eugenia if I were Erica.
>
> Bite your tongue. Grandmama looked fabulous!
She did, didn't she? I kept thinking, "SHOW those young girls how to
wear a formal, Grandmamaaaa!"
I'm disappointed that Phoebe didn't make an appearance, too. Class
things up a bit.
WhippersnapperMama
Kathy Monroe
>Gillian wins the prize for the most outlandish, uh, ballgown at the
>Plexiglass Ball. I'm wondering where she stuck the handle of that
>shovel on her chest. Maybe, if it snows, Ryan will just have to tip her
>upside down and push her around the parking lot!
Gillian had post-it notes stuck in there with her lines, stage
directions, etc. Doing the Crystal Ball on short notice prompted
these reminder notes.
Kathy "and I believe that they make post-its in that particular shade
of puke green" :-))
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1998 Crystal Frango
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