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It's so much easier to post videos here than photos here, bud. LOL Here's Alice Halsey: Her origin story is that the little girl who originally played the character of Rachel on Days got yanked by her parents because the show wanted her to play out a storyline where she would have to shoot her uncle and then get amnesia about it until later. The parents thought their daughter wasn't mature enough to handle that, so Alice Halsey got swapped in because she was. Alice played that out; people started raving about her; and then she left Days for the broader pastures as Laura on the new Little House on the Prairie. Girl is good. Like "I can see her winning an Academy award when she's an adult" level good. What I like about her face for Courtney is that she's got this cool, cat-like face. (I can also see her as a Maddie fancast because I always thought Jeanine was supposed to have a feline-like quality to her.) Also, like I said, she played Demon Spawn pretty damn well, which makes her being Laura Ingalls now even funnier. The alternative idea I have for Courtney is Julia Butters, a child actress who made her mark as the precocious child actress who has a conversation with Leo's character in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. She then starred on a sitcom called American Housewife and recently starred as Lindsay Lohan's daughter in a Freaky Friday remake. This is her when she was 12:

Another possible Courtney- Alice Halsey? She played a Demon Spawn on the soap opera Days of Our Lives and is now starring as Laura Ingalls on the Netflix Little House on the Prairie.

Ezra Frech's (disability advocate and athlete) face is actually REALLY close to how I pictured Young Ace.

Maybe Mark will bring back He Who Should Not Be Named. No, but seriously, there are some characters I'd want to see are up to now, in the year of our Lord 2006. (It's a given that the next book starts in 2006 because pretty much every book starts off in the same year that the previous book ended, at least since Bloodlines. Mark hasn't strayed from that formula since then.) As always, Alejandro, because if there's anybody I could see winding up in a lot of dangerous and dramatic situations, it's the slutty gay son of a Mexican don. LOL I side with Private Tim on wanting to check in with Alisdair, too. I'd be kind of interested in seeing what Beau and Ethan (the lesser known Danfields) could be up to. Beau would be around 23 and Ethan would be 20. (My head cannon is that Wade was born in 1980, Mary Ellen was born in 1981, Beau was born in 1983, and Ethan was born in 1986.) And maybe, just maybe, Darius finally graduates from college.

But then how do you feel about the lazy river they put in?

To get us in the mood... Meltdown Mood List 1.) "When You Were Young" by The Killers 2.) "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley 3.) "Buttons" by the Pussycat Dolls 4.) "London Bridge" by Fergie 5.) "Crazy Bitch" by Buckcherry 6.) "Hate Me" by Blue October 7.) "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" by Stars 8.) "Too Little, Too Late" by JoJo 9.) "Tim McGraw" by Taylor Swift 10.) "Far Away" by Nickelback 11.) "A Public Affair" by Jessica Simpson 12.) "Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood 13.) "Boston" by Augustana 14.) "Stolen" by Dashboard Confessional 15.)"Totally Fucked" from Spring Awakening

I think I have Courtney Clearault fancast. Child actress Julia Butters.

Courtney is in this extremely weird place where she's too young to really hang out with Will, Jeremy, John, Darius etc etc but she's also too old to be besties with Riley, Maddie, Bobbie, etc. God, middle school age is the worst. (She's close to turning 11, which should translate roughly to her going off to 6th grade this fall.) I think it's smart for Mark to bring Courtney in because he can pull in "bridge" characters through her. By that I mean he can bring in characters that are the same age as Courtney. It will be useful to have that whenever Mark decides that he's finally had enough of the Elder Millennial characters (so Matt, Wade, Will, Jeremy, Travis, etc) but isn't ready yet to have Riley and Maddie be 15 years old. Always nice to see the Boston crew. I wonder what day school Wade insisted on Maddie and Riley attending. (They're turning 6, so they should be getting ready for grade school.)

I saw this, and laughed, because Mark writing so many characters as having green eyes makes fancasting a challenge. I basically just learned to ignore because whenever I do happen to find an actor with green eyes (like Asher Angel or Matt Cornett), Mark doesn't seem all that enthused. LOL

You can take the boy out of the mid-West, but not the mid-West out of the boy...

The Last Days of Disco was much more accessible which is how I got into the Whit Stillman oeuvre. Also, how adorable was Matt Keeslar? Shame he didn't take off. The guy balanced goofy nerd with hunk perfectly.

Yeah, glad you signed off on this one. I've been eyeing a new Wade fancast for years because the OG Wade fancast got really weird and tatted up. Lol

I haven't seen the show, but there's a clip circulating on Gay Twitter because his character is apparently being set up with Scott McCall from Teen Twink. I mean Wolf. I totally thought he gave off a Wade vibe. https://x.com/TBarbiePrint/status/2112575726016676134

I thought this was giving Wade. Long narrow face, chestnut brown hair, blue eyes, pretty yet adorably geeky, and very, very white-looking. (Just ignore the burnt sienna styling which probably wasn't even his idea.) Thoughts? The actor's name is Taylor Bloom. He's a theater kid who just got his big break with the new NBC t.v. series Line of Fire.

Huh, okay. I totally had her figured for a character of a Whit Stillman film. It looks like she's actually Jewish and her roots are in Long Island.