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Author Topic: SORDID LIVES: Example of Wonderfully Quirky Characters  (Read 994 times)
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« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2008, 08:25:52 PM »

Oh, I read these bios...

'S a shame I don't get that channel on the cable.  'S even more of a shame I don't have cable.

"Quirky" just doesn't begin to cover it... The creator of this show might have cribbed a few chapters from the Diagnostical Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, Fourth Edition, commonly known in the trade as the DSM-IV.

Whoo.

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« on: August 04, 2008, 08:33:42 PM »

There's a LOT of lessons to be learned from the Logo TV series SORDID LIVES.

Take a look at the cast and their character bios (aka backstory) and then watch some of the teaser clips from the show to see these marvelously funny characters. Note that they are loaded with quirks (see my article on character development for the "Quirks List": http://scriptnurse.com/wcms/index.php?chardevelop).
http://www.logoonline.com/shows/dyn/sordid_lives/cast.jhtml

Want to see these wonderfully wacky and quirky characters come to life? Here's a clip:
http://www.logoonline.com/video/?id=1590757&vid=256251
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