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Post by liss31d on Oct 3, 2007 9:51:22 GMT -5
I was reading the BSC Blog and they've featured this book this time! One thing I definitely agree with is I can't believe Kristy called Cokie's outfit (I think she was wearing a white peasant blouse and a flowery skirt) "utterly ridiculous." I don't see what's wrong with what she's wearing... like Tiffany said, especially considering what ridiculous outfits Claudia comes up with and supposedly looks "cool" and "sophisticated"... "the Queen of Dibble" ;D
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Post by lark on Oct 3, 2007 12:05:04 GMT -5
^ ITA! It's kind of ridiculous. "Claudia was wearing a plastic bag accessorized with a rope belt and a tin can hat. On anyone else it would have looked weird, but on Claud it looked great! Cokie was wearing designer jeans and a shiny black v-neck shirt. She looked awful."
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 3, 2007 14:29:03 GMT -5
I always thought they called that outfit of Cokie's ridiculous because they weren't used to seeing her looking so flowery and innocent, and in high heels and such. Plus, they made a big deal about anyone who showed up to the set in anything other than ratty shorts or jeans...they always mentioned what the PR lady was wearing because she was practically the only one who dressed up daily.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 3, 2007 16:46:05 GMT -5
^ Agree. I think the comment was a lot more of how Cokie presented herself, though it came out as being about her outfit. Besides, people tend to pick more at those they don't like ;D (Not that Cokie doesn't totally deserve it ;D)
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Oct 3, 2007 17:04:39 GMT -5
I just read Tiff's blog post about this one, too, and now I know why I didn't like this book the first and only time I read it. I read it when it first came out so I don't remember it, but man, it sounds like it sucked.
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Post by greer on Oct 3, 2007 17:09:57 GMT -5
i have always liked it. i have bad taste in bsc books generally though.
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Post by supprazz on Sept 26, 2008 10:55:28 GMT -5
Why is a 13 year old looking after a star on the set? In Hollywood don't they have strict rules about actors under 16 or even 18 having parental guardian supervision on the set?
I liked Mary Anne's outfit on the cover and I thought it was cute how Claire was "scaring" Carson.
I forgot all about the food poisoning though.
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 18, 2009 21:34:29 GMT -5
Speaking of the cover, doesn't Claire look much older than 5? Yes, the sitters usually look older but this (I think) is the first time than one of the kid's looked older or almost older than MA, who as Dawn might say, sported a rather ugly "boy-haircut." Scary thought, but I do agree with Dawn on that one.
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tiff85
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Post by tiff85 on Mar 20, 2009 20:10:49 GMT -5
I agree that the subplot is okay, but sometimes it can be kind of foreshadowing.
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Post by icequeen on Jul 29, 2009 6:40:13 GMT -5
So, I pulled this book out of some storage boxes the other day when I was doing some cleaning, and was surprised because I didn't even remember owning it (Usually I have a pretty good mental checklist going on.) Firstly, I never have, and probably never will have, any experience working with movies. But is it likely they would have travelled everything and everyone to the east coast to film aspects of their straight-to-tv movie in a little town one of the stars suggested?? I'm just thinking slightly lower budget movie here, so not really sure. Secondly, I realised that if I owned the book I Know I would have read it before, but it must have made no impression on me at all because I hardly remembered a thing from it. My conclusion second time around was that it was fun to 'see' the girls and Derek on a movie set, and it would have better read for me without the mystery. How did crazy Lindsay manage to get her hands on the wire gear to actually tamper with it? Is the mystery I would like solved. And how did she know Derek, and nobody else, in a party scene, was going to slip on the oil (?) she put on the ground. What would she know about the scene blocking? I actually had a bit more to say, as I havent posted here in awhile, and this book is the first I've read in awhile, but its bed time and my brain is shutting down
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Post by otempora541 on Jul 29, 2009 9:22:58 GMT -5
Anybody here have a feeling that this book was created to explain how the BSC movie was created? The timeline fits no?
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Post by alula on Jul 30, 2009 0:13:06 GMT -5
There have been a few times movies and TV shows have shot scenes in my town--the ones I remember off hand were the movie of Dennis the Menace and the episode of The West Wing where CJ goes home to visit her dad. (LOL, I was away at school then and I was like "OMG we took a Christmas card picture where CJ is!" But we live close enough to Chicago for there to be plenty of local production people, and they were only there for a few days--it seemed like they did way more filming in Stoneybrook than that.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Feb 4, 2010 21:30:33 GMT -5
I just read this for the first time, and was very disappointed there were no vampires. If Sweet Valley can do it, the BSC should Haha, but seriously. This one was kinda boring.
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Feb 28, 2010 9:19:23 GMT -5
I remember being disappointed by that too, but when Sweet Valley had books with those themes, it was an all different category, and maybe this wouldn't have belonged in the mystery one.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Mar 22, 2010 21:54:41 GMT -5
The Vampires in the SV series were in the regular SVH series, not the thrillers... Is that what you mean?
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