PaperDolls: Anyone watch? I have some comments

Peter J

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Jul 19, 2004, 8:01:15 PM7/19/04

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The storylines were by the numbers, to put it mildly. I was surprised at how
many rising stars the casting people managed to find (Nicolette Sheridan, a
shockingly young Terry Farrell). It's funny that Terry, who so resembled Brooke
Shields, did not get the Brooke Shields psycho stage mother (that went to
Nicolette).

Terry's mother (Jennifer Warren) - is she the same Warren who sang Love Lift Us
Up Where We Belong, Right Time of the Night (I love that song), and the duet
with Bill Medley for Dirty Dancing?

Warren's husband is so gorgeous (much more gorgeous than his unfunny real-life
son, Matthew Perry, ever was) that Warren falling for some gawky, pushy
tell-all tabloid reporter makes absolutely no sense.

Morgan Fairchild looks exactly the same now as she did 20 years ago. With the
help of lighting and gauze, of course.

Is it just me, or does the Caswell (Farrell's character) home look *exactly*
like the Karen Fairgate/Mackenzie home from Knots Landing? The kitchen, the
living room, the dining room. Exactly the same.

The whole Lloyd Bridges are disposable characters with disposable stories (and
the director should be ashamed for those cleavage shots with Mimi
"exercising").

I can see why the show did not find an audience. There are far too many
characters and trite plotlines.

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Anthony D. Langford

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Jul 19, 2004, 8:54:51 PM7/19/04

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Peter J wrote:

I taped it, but haven't watched it yet, but plan to do so tonight. I
was surprised to see how little Morgan F. has aged though. If she's had
work done (and I don't know if she has), she's got awfully good surgeons.

Anthony

Rthrquiet

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Jul 19, 2004, 9:42:21 PM7/19/04

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peter...@aol.comnospam (Peter J) posted:

>Terry's mother (Jennifer Warren) - is she the same Warren who sang Love Lift
>Us
>Up Where We Belong, Right Time of the Night (I love that song), and the duet
>with Bill Medley for Dirty Dancing?
>

That's Jennifer Warnes, Peter. (For a while she seemed to be the movie theme
queen, didn't she? I guess she's long since passed that mantle to Celine Dion
[who should at least have to do time in purgatory for that horrific Titanic
song, which still makes me want to run screaming from the room whenever I hear
it]).

Michael

Peter J

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Jul 19, 2004, 10:33:14 PM7/19/04

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>rthr...@aol.comatose (Rthrquiet) wrote:

>
>That's Jennifer Warnes, Peter.

Thanks.

Did you get to watch any of Paper Dolls this weekend?

Roscoe Born joins the show eventually, doesn't he?

The home of the Lloyd Bridges family is eerily similar to the Carrington
mansion. I keep picturing the crew sneaking onto various primetime soap sets.

Donna B

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Jul 19, 2004, 11:59:05 PM7/19/04

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In rec.arts.tv.soaps.misc on 20 Jul 2004 02:33:14 GMT in Msg.#
<20040719223314...@mb-m15.aol.com>, peter...@aol.comnospam
(Peter J) wrote:

> Roscoe Born joins the show eventually, doesn't he?

I don't see him listed at IMDb here, which is the TV movie, listed as 1982,
and apparently then considered the 2 hour pilot.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0084466/fullcredits

But he is on the full list of the related 1984 series.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0084466/fullcredits

I TiVo'd the show & haven't watched it yet.

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Jul 21, 2004, 8:19:17 PM7/21/04

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Hi Everyone,

I'm the newbie, in shock to actually find a conversation somewhere about
Paper Dolls. I have the original '82 movie starring Joan Collins, I
enjoyed the pilot and I vaguely remember the show's run. I believe
singer John Waite also joins, portraying himself ~ he becomes
Nicolette's boyfriend and puts her in a video. And Lauren Hutton doesn't
come in until near the end, right? I think the show had enormous
potential but was shown too much from the older set's perspective, not
enough focus on the models themselves. For instance, rather than seeing
Taryn actually arrested in her drug scandal, we see Lloyd Bridges
reacting to the tv news. I agree there is way too much going on and
there are far too many extraneous characters. It'll be interesting to
see how it all unfolds. :)

Nick Cassaro

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Jul 27, 2004, 12:31:55 AM7/27/04

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> I can see why the show did not find an audience. There are far too many
> characters and trite plotlines.
>

That's exactly it. The first ten minutes were very good, but then we
had to meet everyone's father and husband and brother-in-law and
cousin and housekeeper. It got too hard to keep track of. Morgan
Fairchild was very good as Racine, the show should have concentrated
on her dirty business dealings and bed hopping.