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I was, however.. once an extra in a 'dance' sequence in a filmWasn't that the Bollywood version of The Matrix ?  Keanu comes to his senses to find himself in a lovely shiny suit with wide lapels, and possessed of the shiniest teeth in the world... Trinity dances towards him in a brightly-coloured long swirling dress, bedecked with jewelry, and the orchestra starts playing..
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>Tsuwm and I have been trading much worse insults for ages (fortunately his choice of words are so obscure that I generally don't understand them)!
Jo, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte.
(jazzy, hope that helped...)
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Oooo shanks, us ladies would like to see that one, I'm sure. What type of dance scene? Anything REALLY interesting going on  . Can't you transfer it onto the web?
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>Jo, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte.
Tsuwm - that's exactly what I would expect from you!
By the way, I am in no way shaped like a turnip!
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JazzO, I'm repeating/refining my question since it was apparently lost in the melee: What "quality" American sitcoms are you comparing Britcoms to?
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>Tsuwm - that's exactly what I would expect from you!
and so I say...
>By the way, I am in no way shaped like a turnip!
...so you say.
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This was many years ago, I never watched the film, and I doubt if any of it exists any more (film stock is expensive). I cannot even remember the name of the blasted thing. If ever you find yourself watching a Hindi movie released in 1984 (or thereabouts), starring Kumar Gaurav and Anuradha Patel, and you see them doing a dance in a 'disco' - it is possible that I am one of the leetle dancers in a corner somewhere. (In one scene we had to carry the 'hero' around the floor, crowd surfing style. After the tenth take most of us were so fed up we started pinching him as we did it. I'm not sure he ever realised...)
I had a slightly more substantial role in a TV film called 'Picnic' - where I was supposed to be playing a brat younger brother (teenager). Since I was 22 at the time, the rosiness in my cheeks is not due to the virility of youth, but my constant hangovers... Again, I have no idea whether or not any of it is extant. In any case, I am a lousy actor, and I would be very happy if all evidence of my thespian efforts ceased to exist.
Perhaps the only 'role' of which I am at all proud (?!) is one in a 90 second drug awareness film. I played the junkie/hero, and if only for the fact that I mainlined Vitamin B, and 'chased' something call 'churan', I value it. In this matter too, however, I have been remiss about collecting anything like a portfolio. The only VHS copy I had of it succumbed to mould a long time ago.
For what it's worth, I do not act, and haven't attempted to do so for nigh on 10 years now.
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Boy, shanks, for someone who doesn't act you have been in a good number of roles - this compared to ME - who's last stint as an actor was as an elf in a grade three Christmas play
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JazzO, I'm repeating/refining my question since it was apparently lost in the melee: What "quality" American sitcoms are you comparing Britcoms to?
I didn't really have any American sit-coms in mind when I wrote the post. I'm just not very used to Brit-coms and can tell there's a difference between the two types of comedy. I did like Seinfeld, but unfortunately, that's not on anymore.
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I was 'into' it in college - because that's what my group of friends did - be fashionably depressed, smoke non-filter cigarettes, write poetry during the monsoons, drink loads of tea, and 'do' drama. It all seemed frightfully important at the time. Alcohol was mandatory. Cannabis was not unknown.
Then we grew up a bit. Now that happy band has dispersed and we have become journalists, and TV producers, and lawyers, and left-wing activists, and IT consultants, and yoga 'gurus' and failed marketeers. Actually, that's probably not too bad, considering what we could have become...
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