Clearly he has a fatherly relationship with her. What wasn’t so clear was who it was who called – the butch gay guy?
Yep. They are friends outside of work. It was established early on in the show.
Speaking of, Tom and Butch spent a night together tending Ivy through some crisis or other at her apartment. Somehow the topic of “You’re gay? What a small NYC Theatre World, that makes two of us!” never came up? Because Tom seemed truly shocked to learn this later.
Apparently it’s not at all uncommon for good looking butch straight guys to share a bed with good looking diva wannabes in a totally platonic way.
I’m pretty sure I’m in the minority here, but I find Angelica Huston’s performance to be comically terrible. I don’t know if it’s the same in other things she’s done- I’ve only seen her in one or two other movies, and that’s going back to The Grifters- but she telegraphs her performance in the worst way. It’s like she’s “ACTING!”, while everyone around her is acting. I think McPhee gives a better performance.
As always, this show continues to be 70% trite and recycled soap opera, 15% engaging and interesting well-acted drama, and 15% singing and dancing. I really enjoyed Tom filling in as the studio head, but much of this episode was kind of tedious and obvious.
So boyfriend might have a job in DC - but hasn’t even scheduled an interview and already they are slamming doors and walking out? Plus, is it that far of a commute from DC to NYC? Geez, I think even Amtrak has a fast train that would allow some commuting until things have been decided - get over it already.
After all the Uma hype, it was great that she appeared for 2 seconds at the end of the episode. Previews do show her doing more in the next episode, but still…
Whenever you need several million dollars, just ask your friendly bartender! He will not only slap a stack of bucks, conveniently located behind the shot glasses, onto the bar - he will then call a buddy who has too much money. Happens all the time.
Tom and lawyer BF - that was the fastest, friendliest break-up in the history of Gay romance; Tom was even able to finish his bowl of cereal. Perhaps they should teach Grace sans Will how to do that.
Yes, the “Don’t Say Yes Until I’ve Finished Talking” was great. But it was 2 minutes of great and 40 minutes of mediocre to bad.
I don’t know how we’re supposed to have any sympathy for Grace (i don’t even know her name in this show). She was horrid to those highschoolers and the interviewer and Tom and her son. And I didn’t really feel bad for her crying at the end of the day.
Derek hallucinating Karen as Marilyn was weird, especially since she had said all of those lines so very, very flatly. If she’d finally managed to act well, then it would make sense, but she wasn’t good.
And Eileen treating the investors like that was unforgiveable. She might need them again someday.
^ Yeah, I thought that was incredibly stupid. Next time she needs money, I hope they each write a check and then burn it right in front of her.
I say this with an unblemished record of staunch heterosexuality, but I could watch Tom sing and dance to musical numbers all day. That was the best 2 minutes of this show, so far (not just this episode- this show).
Hahahaha, I want to see Katharine McPhee realize she no longer has her rich boyfriend’s huge Manhattan apartment to live in on her nonexistent salary.
And, yes, Morticia, antagonize all the possible angels in New York because your shady bartender boyfriend introduces you to Sting Bono and his drug money.
Still, this was a pretty enjoyable episode–liked the Zanuck number, and Ivy and Brit director, whatever his name is, are awfully cute together.
Derek, and I find him quite toothsome, with or without Ivy. Preferably without.
I find him revolting. The character, not the actor. Every time he touches Ivy I want to throw up. This feeling probably has a lot to do with Ivy too because she also makes me want to hurl. If Ivy never appeared on the screen again I would not be sad. Her character makes me so angry I want to throw things at the screen. There are so many people like her in the theatre and it’s part of the ugliness of it.
Derek continues to be the only one who actually seems to care that they’re, you know, putting on a show, and that his pathetic little love life takes second place to that, and therefore I’m still rooting for him, even though I think I’m not supposed to like him.
Oh, except for Tom. Christian Borle is really my hero. That was the awesomest straight-actor-acts-gay-character-acting-straight-character I have ever seen. I want more numbers like that and much less soap opera, please!
This would be a great name for a rock band.
So that was supposed to be “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”
Is it wrong to be hoping for a Kill Bill-ish slaughter?
At least this episode gave me more of what I thought the show was going to be about, the trials and tribs of producing a Broadway-bound musical, as opposed to a soap opera set in the world of show business. What’s it like when your star wants to re-write your show? Personally I’d have told her to sing the lyrics and recite the lines 'cause the show is already written, but I like seeing the situation dramatized. Unfortunately, we know she’s heading for a comeuppance and dismissal because, just like in real life, she’s a movie star, and isn’t going to be a regular cast member in either the fictional musical or the TV show.
Can’t . . . stop . . . *watching *. . .
Do you think she’ll be dismissed? Once she showed up for the meeting, it was clear she was actually going to do what needed to be done – her suggestions were clear, coherent, and to the point – and I thought the number they did with her was actually pretty good.
I don’t think Uma Thurman is going to be a regular cast member of the show, so I speculate that she’ll be gone one way or the other. Maybe she drops out for a more lucrative film opportunity or, given the soap opera nature of the show, the crazed boyfriend plays a role in her departure.