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	2006.07.20  19.14 Ha ha ha! Page down a few times, look for the image... (My husband posted that, btw) Mood: amused

	2006.02.20  21.03 The French ice dancing team just did their free program (4 minutes) to the Original Fench Concept Album of Les Miserables. Very cool... costumes were amazing as well. You never hear this music too much...

	2006.01.17  21.25 All right, I know that this is really random but I had to mention it and get some feedback so that I know that I'm not really crazy. I was watching the South Park movie... and there is a whole section that reminds me of Les Miserables. Am I nuts? Mood: confused

	2005.04.17  15.44 Ladies and germs, after an unconscionably long hiatus the Les Miserables Fan Fiction Index is updated and back in action. Check it out!

	2005.03.29  19.43 Does anyone have the lyrics to the Encore multilingual singing of "Do You Hear the People Sing?"? That'd be really neat. Thanks! xposted to lemiz, mizzies, broadway.

	2005.03.29  19.42 TAC Does anyone have the lyrics to the Encore multilingual singing of "Do You Hear the People Sing?"? That'd be really neat. Thanks! xposted to lemiz, mizzies, broadway.

	2005.03.27  12.43 Community Plug x-posted to corinthe Are you interested in political events of the July Monarchy (1830-1848)? Ever see the musical Les Miserables? Or one of the many movies based on Victor Hugo's epic novel? Or even read the novel yourself? The insurrection from which Jean Valjean rescued Cosette's beloved Marius was based on a true event in French history. Additional to his own fictional barricade, Hugo wrote briefly of a larger one at the Cloistre Saint-Merry. This barricade was led by a man named Charles Jeanne. This man, who was decorated as a hero for his actions during the revolution that put Louis Phillipe on the French throne in 1830, was tried and condemned for similar actions following the funeral of General Lamarque in June 1832. Jeanne was sent to prison on Mont-Saint-Michel, which broke his health and sent him to an untimely death in 1837. Come share in the discovery of the facts about Jeanne's life, what actions made him heroic in one instance and treasonous in another, what scandals plagued his imprisonment, and what connections he may have had to secret societies in Paris. Francophiles and historians welcome. saint_merry

	2005.02.03  12.52 Plug Shiny and new: mizfic, a community especially for sharing all of your miserable fanfiction. (crossposted: corinthe, lesmiz, mizzies)

	2004.11.04  13.38 Clothing gush Photos of various dresses circa 1830-35, found in various museums. I thought it would be some nice eye candy if anyone's bored. The forums at Sense & Sensibility are good for Romantic era clothing stuff, too. That's where I got the link from. :-) Mood: lazy

	2004.11.01  19.50 just a question Ok, so this might start out as nothing to do with Les Miserables, but i was watching Mighty Morphin Power Rangers yesterday morning and Skull was dressed as a jailbird for halloween with 24601 on his chest. This got me to wondering, how many shows/movies use this number? i know The Simpsons do it on a regular basis (it was Principal Skinner's prisioner number in Vietnam) but i was really curious... Has anyone else seen this anywhere? Mood: curious

	2004.09.24  16.34 I can't beleive i forgot so much It's been years since I read les miserables and I forgot alot of things. How was General LeMarque killed? how did this lead to the barricades? was it around 1832 at this time? Louis Phillipe was in power right and france was going to hell because of him right? sorry. I'm doing this thing on enjolras for school and I've forgotten alot of historical context.

	2004.07.24  13.40 The World Has Lost an Enjolras X-posted to mizzies, lesmiz, and do_me_enjolras. Serge Reggiani has died. Only those of us who are die hard fanatics of all things Mizzy would know this fellow. He played Enjolras in one of the better film adapations from the middle of the last century. The man looked nothing like our blond hero, and I have never heard his real voice since the version of the movie I have is badly dubbed into English. But this version had most of the best lines and at least Enjolras's proper death. It is a sad thing to lose artists who seem to live so close to their work. PARIS (AFP) - The French singer and actor Serge Reggiani died overnight of a heart attack at the age of 82, his agent said. ( Read more... ) Mood: nostalgic

	2004.04.28  10.43 I don't think I posted this here yet... I've created a community for Regency and Romantic Era Clothing freaks. It's improperly named regencyclothing, mainly because I think that's going to be the biggest draw (c'mon, who's into Romantic Era besides us? ;). But come babble about it, anyway. Mood: awake

	2004.02.23  09.25 ok... Saw Les Miserables for the 5th time on friday night. It was good... not the best i've seen... but still good. i do have to say... i'm not sure if i like the touring cast at the moment... or maybe it was just an off night. Cosette was the best i've seen... and Fantine was not a skinny woman but a larger sized one (she looked great) and she was a brunette!! most times i've seen an african american woman in the part they give her a blonde wig but they gave her a brown one... that was neat... and then in the wedding scene... When Thenardier is like, "This one's a queer, but what can you do?" the guy goes over to slap him and Thenardier kisses him. Is this normal and i just don't remember it... or was that new? it was... interesting... Mood: curious

	2004.01.12  21.33 Another barricade book! Barricades: The War of the Street in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848 by Jill Harsin. And she knows who Jeanne is! Mood: excited

	2004.01.07  15.15 Les Mis movies? Hi! This is my first post in this community! To get straight to the point, I know that there have been a few movies made based on the novel, the most easily accesible one being the 1998 version with Liam Neeson and Geoffrey Rush - which, from all reports, doesn't seem to accurately portay Victor Hugo's work. But a few friends of mine have told me that they once saw on tv a mini-series I think it was, based on Les Miserables that kept extremely close to the novel. I think it was possibly a french-made production? If anyone has any ideas about what this would have been and/or where I can get my hands on it, or even if anyone knows of a movie or mini-series that has done justice to the book, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks! Desert Butterfly Music: 'La Devise Du Cabaretier'

	2003.11.05  12.07 Crossposted from my journal... ( For all you costume freaks out there (**EDITTED**) ) Mood: excited

	2003.09.09  23.47 This is cross posted in the community "lesmiz" and my lj... Hey...do you guys think if I made a community like "claim your mizzie" or something like that anyone would join? It would basically be a community where everyone could claim a character (from the book or musical) and then you could write fanfic about your character or more like a RPG you could post messages to eachother from characters or just post about your character...does such a community already exist? If so, would there be need for another one? I have a code Im burning to use and I think this would be really cool...mostly cuz I like claiming things and such..so let me know

	2003.07.29  15.34 cross posted in [Unknown LJ tag] So my friend and I are cool kids so we went to safeway and we ended up in the candy aisle and we were thinking of if the actors in les mis's voice's were candies what candies they would be. So these are people from the Original Broadway Cast, The Complete Symphonic Recording and the Tenth Anniversary Recording. So you can check out our list if you want. ( mmm...candy ) Mood: nerdy

	2003.07.25  12.46 Hey I was thinking of getting an audio version of the book, cause I'm way too busy to read it again :( Anyway, anyone have any suggestions of a good one?

	2003.07.24  11.54 hardcover fetish greetings all. here's a quick question i have about les mis, the novel, that i thought could possibly receive an answer here. my predicament is as follows: i want the novel in a big, hulking hardcover edition, unabridged, preferably weighing over six pounds. it might seem weird, but i have a fetish for insanely huge hardcovers, and have all my favorite novels in such a form (atlas shrugged, the stand, etc). the flimsy mass market paperback just doesn't do this book justice! however, here's where the difficulty arises: i've read and greatly enjoy the McAfee/Fahnestock translation of the novel, but can't seem to find it anywhere in anything but mass market paperback. it would seem that it's just not produced otherwise. the most abundantly available hardcover translation is the Charles E. Wilbour translation, which i've read a bit of and have a pretty strong distaste for (it's just that it's too concrete-bound and lacking in artfulness in my opinion (a translation must have both the precision of mathematics and the beauty of nietzsche!!)). so the real question - can any of you either a.) point to where i might procure a McAfee/Fahnestock hardcover, or b.) suggest another translation that's available in hardcover that is at least somewhat closer in spirit to my preferred edition than Wilbour?

	2003.06.19  12.38 Calling all ficcers (crossposted from mhari) FANFIC CHALLENGE! The goal: to slash every possible pair of Les Amis in one great and glorious ficfest. Go, go, go, sign up. You know you want to. :D We still need at least eight one or two more people. Pairing assignments will be sent out when all the spaces are taken.

	2003.06.17  23.28 *makes heart beat again* They should not scare me like that. I haven't quite gotten used to Les Mis being closed on Broadway. And on my 35th birthday too. What a pain. But I heard a squeak about "mourning the tour" from someone, and frantically began searching the official website and finally Playbill Online for news of the tour. The tour not having dates listed on the ticket finder didn't make me happy. No, not at all. And then I found the article about the tour being on hiatus. A hiatus. Just a short break. I do not like that there is no Les Mis in the US for even just a few months. Quick. Where's the closest student production? Mood: relieved

	2003.06.13  18.09 If you asked to be added in, oh, the last month or so, I probably lost it. I've been busy. Go ahead and comment on this and I'll try to be better. Mood: birthdayful Music: kitty mrrows