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Posted Mar. 26, 2007, 9:52 a.m. ET
Et Tu Rome!
By Dennis Dermody
I felt like taking the asp to my breast like Cleopatra did after I watched the series finale of Rome last night. This season was just spectacular, crackling with with wit and plenty of nudity and violence to make history interesting. But James Purefoy as Mark Antony was absolutely phenomenal, as was Ray Stevenson as Titis Pullo, Kevin McKidd as Lucius Vorenus and the wonderful Polly Walker as the lusty, vicious Atia. It made me recall this season's scene where Sevilia (Lindsay Duncan) stabbed herself to death in front of Atia's house only to have Mark Antony comment sardonically: "Now that's an exit..." No kidding.
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welll unfortunately they are not doing any more with ROME or so I hear....its to bad...even though I know the history...You would think they could keep it on since they dumped carnivale....but good news,not sure if you ever read it but The Preacher by garth ennis is coming to HBO...it was a DC/vertigo comic about a preacher and a Drinking Irish vampire who go cross country to find out why god hads abandoned his post....there are pretty ticked off angels looking for him as well .....this will be excelllent.Now if they can only get Neil Gaimans Sandman into production....
Posted at 9:24 p.m. ET on Mar 26, 2007 by randy focazio
I realize it is a cost-prohibitive series, but Time Warner's New Line really should make a feature length film of this. I've blogged on the subject at length. Overseas box office -- "Rome" is unbelievably popular in Europe -- would recoup most costs if they kept it below $40 mil or so.
Posted at 11:44 a.m. ET on Mar 27, 2007 by Ron Mwangaguhunga
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