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Saturday, June 09, 2007
A few things
While doing a Google search for websites mentioning Tracey, I came across a couple of pages I hadn't seen before.
One was a review of the R2 Girls On Top DVD set that was released in January in Europe. Now since I have the 2 North American sets that came out a couple of years ago, I wouldn't be interested in this one -- unless it contained something not on the North American ones. And it did: an interview with Tracey from January 1984. The opportunity to acquire what would become the earliest talk show appearance of hers in my collection was one I couldn't pass up. So thanks to Amazon.co.uk and my region-free DVD player, this set is on order and should make its way across the pond in the next few weeks.
The other one has little to do with Tracey, but it's rather poignant because it describes things that did not happen due to other, terrible events. It is a listing from TVTalkShows.com of the scheduled guests on the Today show for the week of September 10-14, 2001. Had those planes not been hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center, we could have seen Derek Jeter and Diane Lane talk about their latest projects that Wednesday. On Friday, Stephen King would have been on to talk about his new book, and Macy Gray would have performed on the plaza. And perhaps, in an alternate reality, they did. And maybe, in that alternate reality, I Could Never Be Your Woman is in American movie theaters, and Tracey's received great reviews for her role as Mother Nature. But not in our reality.
One was a review of the R2 Girls On Top DVD set that was released in January in Europe. Now since I have the 2 North American sets that came out a couple of years ago, I wouldn't be interested in this one -- unless it contained something not on the North American ones. And it did: an interview with Tracey from January 1984. The opportunity to acquire what would become the earliest talk show appearance of hers in my collection was one I couldn't pass up. So thanks to Amazon.co.uk and my region-free DVD player, this set is on order and should make its way across the pond in the next few weeks.
The other one has little to do with Tracey, but it's rather poignant because it describes things that did not happen due to other, terrible events. It is a listing from TVTalkShows.com of the scheduled guests on the Today show for the week of September 10-14, 2001. Had those planes not been hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center, we could have seen Derek Jeter and Diane Lane talk about their latest projects that Wednesday. On Friday, Stephen King would have been on to talk about his new book, and Macy Gray would have performed on the plaza. And perhaps, in an alternate reality, they did. And maybe, in that alternate reality, I Could Never Be Your Woman is in American movie theaters, and Tracey's received great reviews for her role as Mother Nature. But not in our reality.
