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What an awful disappointment. The Ewan McGregor segments were whimsical and fun. The father/son segments, tedious as all get-out. And what a stupid, trite Hollywood ending, which you could see coming a mile away. Bor-ring.

It's a pity when moviemakers take a popular book or books and

then make a movie with elements that contain very little of what's in

the books. Don't they know that readers will be terribly

disappointed? This movie diverges from Laura Ingalls Wilder's

books in so many ways that it's ludicrous.

A blond Laura? Ma with her hair in a braid? Charles offering to go

for the wheat during the Hard Winter and being stopped not by

Caroline but by Almanzo? Almanzo's horses "PT and Barnum?"

(they were SKIP and Barnum). Where are Prince and Lady? The

teacher was Miss Wilder, Almanzo's sister, not some stranger?

And who was "Patsy?" Where's Laura's nemesis, Nellie Olson?

Just awful. Don't bother. Reread the books.

Fun, fast-paced series following the trials and tribulations of life as a struggling actor. Interesting insights for us non-actors on why some people get cast and others don't, with peeks into the seamier side of "the business."

I suppose I missed the episodes where they talk about *why* they want to be an actor, but that would be interesting background.

Watching some of them in auditions and acting class makes me feel as if I could act better, though ... some of them are quite shrill and/or wooden.