Random JoA Stuff...

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 06 Jan 08 :: 07:42

Of course that's me.

notsofairytale · 06 Jan 08 :: 09:34

Ooo, I thought so! A little random fact: My sister named her mermaid tattoo Melody ;P

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 06 Jan 08 :: 20:54

Sweet!!!

notsofairytale · 19 Jan 08 :: 20:43

Do any of you know where Joan was filmed most of the time? I know during the "Recreation" commentary, Joe mentioned Long Beach.

But my real question is, in "Game Theory," is that the CSULB campus AKA, where Joan and Adam visited Dawson State? I even saw a tad of Brotman Hall and the infamous dang stairs I hate going on, haha. But who knows, maybe other campuses look similar to 'LB.. I'm going to hate myself if it was.

EDIT: It was the CSULB campus. http://chris-marquette.com/gallery/disp … =51&pos=34 I see the WAMU ATM! Everytime I need to go there, I'll be thinking, "holy cow, Chris Marquette walked through here"

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TheCentralScrutinizer · 28 Jan 08 :: 21:39

Guys, Joan Of Arc wants to be my friend:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu … =265483235

notsofairytale · 28 Jan 08 :: 22:00

Whoa, that's... cool... did you accept? LOL!

TheCentralScrutinizer · 28 Jan 08 :: 22:05

I'm thinking about it...

notsofairytale · 28 Jan 08 :: 22:34

That IS really random and I thought I get interesting requests, ha!

TheCentralScrutinizer · 28 Jan 08 :: 22:39

Notice she has Jesus and The Bible on her friends list...?

notsofairytale · 28 Jan 08 :: 22:44

Yep. Now you MUST accept.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 28 Jan 08 :: 23:01

Or be struck down by lightning from on high. Man, we really shouldn't joke about this stuff. Good thing God doesn't actually smite. Or pop. There's no popping.

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 29 Jan 08 :: 04:18

Weird. How did she even find you? I get annoyed when people I don't know add me on myspace.

justme · 29 Jan 08 :: 04:21

She's kind of a martyr, too.

notsofairytale · 30 Jan 08 :: 04:36

Sisterdebmac wrote:

Or be struck down by lightning from on high. Man, we really shouldn't joke about this stuff. Good thing God doesn't actually smite. Or pop. There's no popping.

LMAO! Ohhh, that ending of that episode still gets me teary-eyed.. Well, the part where Lady God tells Joan to carry Adam's burden for a change

TheCentralScrutinizer · 12 Mar 08 :: 03:51

OMG! This is so cute...

From an interview with Mike Welch:

gt.com: ...you seem really proud of the cast. how do the actors in the fictional stories relate as real people when the scene is finished?
MICHAEL: We all get along very well -- it's basically become like a second family. It was like that from the start. We see each other so much on the set -- sometimes more than we see our own families, because we work so much! But, we do get along really well, and thank God, because if we didn't, that would be really difficult spending fourteen hours a day with someone you don't like. I feel like if every single one of us, especially in the family, were not on board for the ride, it wouldn't be as interesting. I've made some long-term friends from the show. I've actually known some people from the set for a long time. Chris Marquette, who plays Adam, I've known for about six years. Aaron Himelstein, who plays Friedman, I've known him for quite a while, too. But, we were just acquaintances until I started on the show. Then, I started working with them, and now we hang out together after work, too.
gt.com: it's almost like real high school.
MICHAEL: Exactly! Actually, Chris made a joke once that he thinks that the high school scenes in the show are going to replace his actual high school memories. He won't think back to high school, he'll think back to Joan of Arcadia!
article here: http://www.girlything.com/michaelwelch.html

And look at Chris and Mike in this pic. It's almost like Chris is blowing in his ear:

TheCentralScrutinizer · 12 Mar 08 :: 05:08

About Adam, but... not:

Syosset Girl, 14, Gets to Shine in TV Role
By RAHEL MUSLEAH
Published: March 10, 1996
FOR 14-year-old Paige Tiffany, the last few weeks of school have been far from typical.
Instead of her usual regimen of studies at Our Lady of Mercy All-Girls Academy in Syosset, Paige has spent at least 15 hours a week since Jan. 29 in a makeshift classroom at Lifetime Studios in Astoria, Queens, catching up on work she has missed while rehearsing and shooting her role as Heather Brody in the new situation comedy, "Aliens in the Family."
The half-hour show, produced by Jim Henson Productions, makes its debut on Friday at 9 P.M. on ABC. It is the story of a single father, Doug Brody (John Bedford Lloyd, AMC's "Remember WENN"), who was abducted by a spacecraft and found romance with a beautiful alien scientist and single mother, Cookie (Margaret Trigg, HBO's "Girls Night Out"). Doug and Cookie return to Earth to marry and raise their blended "Brody Bunch" family. Doug's two human children, 14-year-old Heather and 9-year-old Adam (Chris Marquette), are alternately delighted and exasperated by their three extraterrestrial siblings: Spit, a gangly 14-year-old who enjoys antics like opening his large, bluish cone-shaped head topped with coppery spikes in order to display his brain; 10-year-old sister, Snizzy, who swills Heather's shampoo and plays with radioactive plutonium, and baby Bobut, who is actually emperor of the universe.
"I was lucky," Paige said, sitting outside the small cubicle that serves as her dressing room. "This character is pretty much like me. It's not that hard of a job." Like Heather, Paige has a brother, Parrish Robert, 12, with whom she admits she does not get along very well. Like most teen-agers, she is fond of the phrase "like, you know," said together or separately, and loves soda (she gave up Dr. Pepper for Lent).
But unlike Heather, Paige wouldn't be allowed in school with the very short fuschia plaid skirt and matching jacket she is dressed in for the last scene of the first episode. Usually, she wears a kelly green and navy uniform.
At 5 foot 5 inches, with long golden hair, a pretty, expressive face, ready laugh and vivacious manner, it's easy to see why Paige has been a successful model with the Ford agency since the age of 2. She was born Paige Tiffany Verducci in Palo Alto, Calif., of Colombian, Irish and Italian descent. Her parents dropped her last name for her modeling career because they were advised that it sounded too ethnic, said Paige Verducci, Paige's mother, who has the same first name as her daughter. The family moved to Long Island six years ago. Parrish and two of Paige's cousins also model and act.
Paige began her career by doing advertisements for diapers and dolls and soon became the cover girl for a national sportswear line, Little Lady Sportswear.
Since she appeared in her first television commercials for department stores at the age of 6, she has done many more, and has been featured in Seventeen and other magazines geared toward teen-agers. Her television credits include "All My Children," "One Life to Live" and "Saturday Night Live."
But, Paige stressed, "I'm a lot besides a model."
"I have, like, 10things on a list, and that's just one of them. People could know me as an athlete. I play soccer, softball, basketball, football, tennis and I swim." Her father, Robert, a businessman, has a degree in physical education.
School, she said, was her priority, followed by modeling and acting. An honor roll student, her work is faxed back and forth between her school and the teachers on the set who are provided by Education on Location.
"I don't think an average kid could handle all this," said Christel Smith of Commack, who tutors Paige at the studio in math, science and Spanish when Paige is not needed on the set. "Sometimes the kids are exhausted. They're working all day and they have to study. The kids have to like it. If they don't like it and it's a parent's dream, it doesn't usually work." Paige has another tutor for the humanities.
This past winter, Paige was already balancing a tight schedule: junior varsity basketball team, a starring role in her school's production of "West Side Story" and Student Council representative. It required a lot of evaluation and organization, said Mrs. Verducci, an airline stewardess who juggles her schedule for her children's careers.
Then the part of Heather came along. "It was getting hard," Paige said, "but I just went with the flow."
Paige was chosen from among 50 other girls who auditioned for the part, said Andy Borowitz, one of the executive producers who, with his wife, Susan, created and wrote the program. "We were charmed by her charisma," he said. "She'd mainly done modeling, so she wasn't an extremely experienced actress, but she seemed unaffected and natural. We liked the fact that she was the same age as the character instead of that phony TV thing of casting a 20-year-old to play a 14-year-old."
"When you haven't done a TV show before," said Mr. Borowitz, who also created "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," "it's daunting to be in front of the cameras. It's very different from being in a high school play where you perform in front of your friends and you can be in your element. This is being thrown in the pool with experienced actors. But Paige is such a centered, well-balanced kid that she's fallen right into it. She's been able to pick up lessons from the experience of the other actors."
Paige does not take any other acting lessons, although she once tried several sessions. "I didn't like being told how to say my lines," she said. "I felt like a robot. If I want a specific mood, I just get into it. If I want to be sad, I just get sad and then I cry.
Mrs. Verducci said both Paige's personality and the values her school espoused helped to alleviate any jealousy among Paige's peers. "In school they try to instill Christianity and getting along with people," she said. "And Paige doesn't brag about her accomplishments. The girls ask, but she keeps it low key."
The Verduccis are careful about the parts Paige accepts. Once, Paige recalled, she was sent a script in which every line included a curse. "If I couldn't even say it in front of my parents, there was no way I could say it in front of the cast and other people," she said.
Her schedule doesn't allow for watching much television, she said. Even on weekends, she plays basketball and football with the youngsters on her block. They are all boys, she said. Her mother said she will not be allowed to date until she is 16, and even then, only in groups. In the meantime, the family goes to the movies, church and vacations together.
Mr. Borowitz said the goal of the new show was to provide goofy entertainment for the whole family. "My wife and I remember watching TV with our parents," he said. "We appreciated it on different levels, but at least it was a family experience. It seems like television is getting very ghettoized. There are kid shows too juvenile for parents, and adult shows too racy and inappropriate for children."
Brian Henson, president of Jim Henson Productions, conceived the show's premise. The Borowitzes then created the characters and brought the idea to life.
Mr. Borowitz said that because of the number of characters in the show, he has been able to keep the two children in the show in supporting roles so they are not overwhelmed and overworked.
In the premiere episode, Doug thinks his family would be better off of only he could get a raise at the office. Bobut uses mind-control techniques to make Doug's boss give him a promotion, but soon Doug is drowning in work, which takes him away from his family just when they need him most. Heather worries that Spit will hold her back from becoming friends with the most popular girl in school. Adam's frog dies, and Snizzy tries to resuscitate it by recombining its DNA. Instead, she creates a monster.
"That frog got too big too fast," Doug concludes. "So did I. We don't need a bigger house. We just need to get along, and love each other like a real family."
"Stop this tedious moralizing," Bobut interrupts.
Despite the lightheartedness, Paige said she thought the show's message was learning how to mix with different types of people.
ABC has ordered eight episodes of the show.

LOL! If we find a pic of Chris in this thing, will we see 9-YO Adam? He was probably happy at that age.

deedee · 12 Mar 08 :: 06:37

This is random but anytime I listen to this song.. I think of Adam for some reason in regards to how he first reacts to Joan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOtMcMDd … re=related

Am I crazy or does anyone else get that vibe?

notsofairytale · 14 Mar 08 :: 03:27

LMAO, Doree, I like that song It doesn't remind me of Adam's first reaction to Joan, but I understand how you may get that.

And thanks for posting the article, Deb! I enjoyed it. I wish I had some other experience to think about if I had to think about HS, hah.

Editsound · 17 Mar 08 :: 17:49

I have been trying to think of all of the shows which have "borrowed" from JOA since it was cancelled. There was "Wonderfalls", "Saving Grace", and recently "Eli Stone". It seems like I am forgetting some. Any ideas?

TheCentralScrutinizer · 17 Mar 08 :: 18:41

Wonderfalls actually debuted in the same season as JoA, Rick. It just didn't do very well. And I think you've got them all. I can't remember anymore shows like that. Anybody else?

justme · 17 Mar 08 :: 18:47

I thought "Wonderfalls" didn't premiere until fall of 2004. (Before JoA's cancellation, but after its debut) I'm not sure.

"Pushing Daisies" has the same kind of other-worldy thing going that "Eli Stone" has. And, if you stretch your parameters a little bit, I think you could throw in "Medium", too.

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Editsound · 17 Mar 08 :: 18:50

Really, I knew I hadn't heard about "wonderfalls" until long after it had come and gone. It is strange that 2 shows with so many similarities could have appeared with no common inspiration.

justme · 17 Mar 08 :: 18:57

Fox had pretty much decided to cancel "Wonderfalls" before it had even premiered. I think they only aired 3 or 4 episodes. But while they might look similar on paper, I think the two shows had enough differences to make them both interesting. "Wonderfalls" was played much more for laughs, and the main characters were adults, so they could be much less oblique and coy about their sexuality, among other things. Though it was hilarious, it never had (for me, at least) the emotional impact of JoA. Despite very similar premises, WF was NOT "Jaye of Nigara Falls".

EDIT: The first episode of "Wonderfalls" aired on March 12, 2004. That same night, CBS aired "Requiem For A Third Grade Ashtray".

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Editsound · 17 Mar 08 :: 19:07

Actually I kind of like "wonderfalls" (although you are right that it doesn't have the depth of JOA), and I'm not saying any of these are the same show, it is just that there is that element of an other worldly force (usually religious) which guides the main character to do good. Often in ways that don't make sense to the main character until after it all plays out. What made JOA special, was that it did so much more with that premise.

Editsound · 17 Mar 08 :: 19:09

Classic, they aired "wonderfalls" opposite JOA.

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