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Post by Jablea on Jan 21, 2023 14:48:02 GMT -5
I'm going to have to finally agree with those who are not on team beard. He looks so much lighter, fresher, younger in these pics where the beard is either invisible or looks like shadow. I still like him in scruff, with more ginger, and getting rid of the dark sideburns that meet up with the beard which square up his face. I just looked at my DH and yep same sideburns but although his are now turning grey they never weren't ginger although when the gray did start to appear he was trying to touch them up. inshort - I've always been team beard but the current darkness makes him look Machiavellian. |
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Post by LindaG23 on Jan 21, 2023 14:56:54 GMT -5
Jablea — Are you OK?!?! I ran to get the virtual smelling salts in case I needed to revive you. Personally I think one day on team no beard is healthy, lol. In all honesty, I not sure I even remember what his unhaired face looks like... but I'm willing to find out!
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Post by Jablea on Jan 21, 2023 14:57:25 GMT -5
REVIEW by RogerEbert.com Sundance 2023: Fairyland, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Magazine Dreams
One of my biggest surprises in the decade I’ve been covering this fest has to be Andrew Durham’s “Fairyland.” Not only was it stuck with a 9am premiere on a business day—not usually a great sign of quality—but it’s of a genre of drama that usually doesn’t work for me. Memoirs that are effective on the page often lose their emotional impact when translated to the screen, usually because filmmakers destroy all the personal touches in an effort to make something more broadly accessible. Durham never does this. The debut director, who was given the book on which this is based by producer and friend Sofia Coppola years ago, finds the right balance between personal touch and giving space to tell someone else’s story. It’s a film that’s rewardingly rich in detail, and it’s the specificity of it that gives it so much of its emotional heft because we have to believe characters exist in the real world before we care what happens to them. We undeniably do here in a film that I suspect will move many people who lived through this dark chapter in history. “Fairyland,” based on the memoir by Alysia Abbott, opens in the ‘70s with the death of Alysia’s mother, killed in a car accident. It completely throws Alysia’s father Steve (Scoot McNairy) for a loop, and he decides to move across the country with his young child, becoming a part of a Haight-Ashbury commune run by an outgoing character played by Maria Bakalova. It’s here that Alysia realizes that her dad is gay as he first falls for one of the guys who crashes on the commune couch (played by Cody Fern) and then later dates openly in the San Francisco scene (including a long relationship with a guy played by Adam Lambert). While Alysia’s grandmother (Geena Davis) questions Scott’s ability to raise his daughter, he imbues her with a creative spirit, pushes her independence to a level that will allow her to standout later in life, and generally does the best he can in his situation. He uses the phrase “noble failures” late in the movie, and I think that’s a beautiful way to describe a parent who may stumble even as he’s trying his best. -------more www.rogerebert.com/festivals/sundance-2023-fairyland-still-a-michael-j-fox-movie-magazine-dreamsWhat a great review. I can't believe they have posted a still of him on the set and in character yet. Glamberts love to press like buttons. |
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Post by LindaG23 on Jan 21, 2023 14:59:17 GMT -5
I am waiting patiently to find out what "Charlie" looks like. Probably a tall bearded white guy with great hair and maybe freckles.
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Post by svca on Jan 21, 2023 15:36:21 GMT -5
Jablea — Are you OK?!?! I ran to get the virtual smelling salts in case I needed to revive you. Personally I think one day on team no beard is healthy, lol. In all honesty, I not sure I even remember what his unhaired face looks like... but I'm willing to find out! Me too!!! I hate beards, on anybody. I'm ok with the scruff, but I hate beards as a general rule, especially bushy ones. Yuck lol. Lucky for me, hubby has never, in all the time I've known him, been able to grow a beard. He tried to grow a mustache, long, long time ago, and it came in so blonde, that he looked like he had a milk mustache  |
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Post by pi on Jan 21, 2023 16:47:45 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jan 21, 2023 16:55:23 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jan 21, 2023 17:05:02 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jan 21, 2023 17:11:08 GMT -5
‘Fairyland’s Andrew Durham, Cody Fern & Adam Lambert On The Need For “More Nuanced, Complicated” Portrayals Of Queer Individuals On Screen – Sundance Studio< embedded interview video> ![]() When Sofia Coppola first read Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, she immediately connected with the “beautiful and unique story” before her, optioning it for her longtime friend Andrew Durham to direct.
“We share a similar sensibility,” Coppola shared in a Friday appearance at Deadline’s Sundance Studio, “and I thought because he grew up kind of in that world and had some similarities in his childhood, that he could tell the story the best.”
The 2013 memoir published by W. W. Norton & Company examines the concurrent coming-of-age journeys of Alysia Abbott (Emilia Jones) and her father Steve (Scoot McNairy), a poet and gay activist who picks up and moves the pair to San Francisco following the tragic passing of his wife. It’s in the Bay Area, during the ’70s and ’80s — with the AIDS epidemic looming — that Steve is finally able to live his life to the fullest as an openly gay man, even as he struggles with his responsibilities as a single parent
The film adaptation titled Fairyland marks the feature directorial debut of Durham, who likewise felt a strong pull to the story at hand. “I had never connected with a memoir so much because Alysia Abbott was around my same age,” the director recalled yesterday. “We both grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area together, and we both had gay fathers…and her experiences were so similar to mine.”
Durham was joined at our studio not only by Coppola, Jones and McNairy, but also by cast members Cody Fern and Adam Lambert. The conversation had him reflecting on depictions of the LGBTQ+ community in film, and where Fairyland looks to add more nuance. “There’s a tendency, when you have anyone who’s sort of considered marginalized in society, to make sure that we present them in a way that is very positive, which I believe in,” he said. “But…I think that’s a very narrow scope sometimes, and quite often, we are not given the opportunity to have more developed…more nuanced, complicated characters, just like everyone else. That’s what I loved about Alysia’s memoir, is that [Steve] wasn’t the poster child of perfect parenting. And I think there’s a lot of universal themes with that, too.”
Fern agreed that oftentimes, stories centered on gay characters present a “deified or heroified version” of their story — though it’s through understanding the “complications,” “faults or flaws” of a character that true connection to them is possible. “I really enjoyed that [Fairyland] was an incredibly nuanced story about the conflict of a man coming to understand himself, and raising a child in this environment, and what is right and what is wrong,” said the actor. “[It shows that] we all make mistakes, and that there are beautiful things that come out of those mistakes, as well.”
Lambert, too, praised the depth of Fairyland‘s storytelling, noting at the same time how important it continues to be to give stories like that of Alysia and her father the kind of attention they deserve. “The LGBTQ community is basically under attack again in the United States, and there’s a lot of parallels to the time that we’re exploring in the 1970s…We don’t live in full harmony yet, even though we’re trying,” he said. “When I saw the film, one of the things I realized was, what a beautiful piece for anybody out there that doubts that a gay person can be a parent, anybody that doubts that gay people go through the same things as they do. I mean, it’s a real beautiful exploration of that, and showing that the daughter ends up being a wonderful, complex, smart, healthy woman, and she’s okay. I think that’s a really nice thing to walk away from with this story.”
More + video.. deadline.com/video/fairylands-cody-fern-adam-lambert-emilia-jones-on-sundance-drama/
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Post by pi on Jan 21, 2023 17:13:06 GMT -5
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