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Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 12:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved the clips they put together when various of them were doing impersonations of the others.. and the clip of Tim where he kept repeating the same phrases.

Heidi did seem pretty wooden all season.. saying the same phrases each week and air kissing the people she had just dismissed.



Wendo
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08-07-2000

Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 8:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gina, Wendy did take it on the chin well. Most reality tv participants blame editing, producers, etc. Wendy didn't do that and I respect that (even though her behavior on the show was, admittedly bad.)

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Friday, February 18, 2005 - 6:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have to give her credit too for the way she handled herself. I am really looking forward to seeing everyone's collections.
This show is really unusual in that it's totally based on talent. Wendy is correct, the judges aren't aware of the backstabbing, behind the scene shenanigans.
I just hope the evil one doesn't end up having the best line! LOL

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Friday, February 18, 2005 - 11:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
With her new color job, Wendy reminds me of the lady who plays Karen on Will & Grace.

Gina8642
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06-01-2001

Friday, February 18, 2005 - 12:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Megan Mullally. Love that name.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gonna rain tomorrow and I plan to tuck up in bed in my jammies and watch the marathon!!

Zachsmom
Moderator

07-13-2000

Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 7:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Seamonkey told me today about this show and how it's going to be on ALL DAY tomorrow!

I am debating on whether or not to read this thread or just wait until tomorrow to be surprised...what a quandry..lol

I will probably be on this thread tomorrow giving my opinions on individual shows. Maybe we should start a 'marathon chatters' thread so we don't disrupt this thread?

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 6:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just watched most of the marathon. Austin was robbed. :-(

Lurkin
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02-15-2002

Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dont know if anyone saw , but Saturday Night Live did a skit of Project Runway

They were to redesign a suit for Colonel Sanders They did, Heidi, Jay, Kara, a great Wendy and Micheal Kors.

Very funny

I got caught up on the show. Maybe they just didnt show it all but Tim seemed to give Wendy a lot of pulling aside help. If it weren't for him I dont think she would have won the Nancy O challenge also the top Nancy wore into talk to them wasnt only the same color but looked identical in design to me.

Still love Jay and Austin.

I hope they do this show again

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 8:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm only partway thru the marathon, but have seen them all before.. oh I'm inthe swimsuit episode.. and it clearly says Wendy Pepper, age 39..

So her whine on The View that she was older than everyone else? Pfft! Karasaun is 37.

A agree that Austin was robbed, sigh..

Max
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08-12-2000

Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 8:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've been watching the marathon since I never did catch this show. I like it!

In the last episode (the Grammy dress), they show Wendy's age on the screen as 40. Maybe she had a birthday between the swimsuit and the Grammy designs! LOL She's certainly the snarkiest of all of them and very much two-faced, always being sweet to people's faces and then stabbing them in the back in cofessionals or whenever she gets the opportunity in front of the judges.

Who is the Tim guy? I totally missed that and can't find anything on the website about him except Q&A stuff with his opinions of the show and designers. He stuck his nose in way too much towards the end, IMHO. I kept wanting him to shut up and let them either sink or swim on their own. He did seem to give a lot of "steering" to Wendy. Maybe he felt sympathy for her because she's closer to his age or something.

I'm bummed that Austin go the boot instead of Wendy. Overall, his designs have been much better and more consistent.

Kara Saun's designs are amazing. She's very talented! Her designs are, for the most part, something that could be adapted to look good on just about anyone, not just models, and I like that.

I like a lot of Jay's stuff, too, but it's much more "fashion-forward" than most people would be comfortable with. He's definitely a character and I like how he takes chances with some of his ideas.

If I was picking, though, I'd pick Kara Saun to win, hands down.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 9:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL.. I'm on the futuristic collection episode and now Wendy is 40.. but I didn't realize Kevin also was 37.. so Wendy's claim to be so out of the norm in that group.. eh!

Tim is some bigwig from Parsons School of Design, where they have their workroom. He did the weekly journal on the website too..

I agree.. at the beginning they said he was there as support but couldn't do it for them.. but he certainly saved Wendy..

Max, our theory, well it wasn't my original insight but I think it is true, is that once Wendy won the Banana Republic contest with her black dress with cape, they had to keep her in since Banana Republic is a major sponsor and art of the reward :-)

I agree. Kara Saun is amazing! Austin has such style and is his own unique self and true to that self and Jay is a hoot!

Wendy.. bleh. I think especially when she literally took the fabric Kara Saun had already chosen and put it in her pile for the orange dress.. that really should have knocked her out. But they let someone choose and she chose Wendy, even though the final outfit she wore wasn't exactly what Wendy designed.

Have you seen the reunion show? I think most of the contestants think it should be Kara or Jay, not Wendy. (from the final three)

Max
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08-12-2000

Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 11:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They didn't show the reunion as part of the marathon. Maybe they'll reshow it before the finale.

Gina8642
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06-01-2001

Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 11:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finally got to see the first episode - the only one I didn't catch during the last marathon - that got me hooked in the first place...

Just reconfirmed my impression that Wendy seemed really nice at first, which made her back stabbing that much harder for the others to take when it became public.

Also made me see where Morgan's bad reputation started in the first place. Funny that Julia completely missed a runway event and still ended up being F3 - whereas Morgan was only late. Perhaps her excuse was better?

Of the models that made it to the end or close, only Martinique wasn't picked early in the first model selection. Wendy's model looked great even then. (Can't remember her name, but she wore Wendy's postal uniform and Austin's swimsuit. She and Martinique are my favorites.)

While Wendy's Banana Republic dress was very nice, I thought Austin's was better...

Looking forward to the finale...

Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Monday, February 21, 2005 - 12:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't know if I agree that Austin was robbed. I do agree that he is a talented designer. Many of his outfits were gorgeous. However, as the judges and Tim commented regarding Austin, his designs sometimes didn't complete the assignment; instead, he would do what he want. Granted, his outfits were lovely but, if they didn't accomplish the task what's the point. In the end, Austin will do much better than being the Project Runway winner. With some money behind him I think he'll be very successful. Much moreso than if he were constrained to work for Banana Republic for a year.

As to the finale this week, I think all three have an equal chance. Although, it is interesting to note that Jay never won a competition whereas the other two did; Kara won four and Wendy two.

Personally, I'll be surprised if Kara doesn't win. Of all the designers she showed the widest ability to design a variety of outfits for different purposes. An ability to listen to direction and design accordingly.

My order would be:

Kara First Place
Wendy Second
Jay Third

I liked both Wendy and Austin's BR dresses but thought Wendy's was better. (It sold out so quickly at BR too.) You can't go wrong with a solidly designed black dress.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, February 21, 2005 - 7:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
WICKED WENDY

By ADAM BUCKMAN
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Maybe Wendy Pepper has just gotten a bad rap from jealous competitors on "Project Runway."
February 21, 2005 -- NOT that Wendy Pep per should care one way or another what I think, but I am praying for her to win it all on "Project Runway."
I crave nothing more than to see the looks on the faces of the two other finalists — sanctimonious Kara Saun, 37, and malicious Jay McCarroll, 29 — when the judges award the 39-year-old mom from Middleburg, Va., the show's grand prize in this Wednesday's two-hour finale (9 p.m. on Bravo).

She richly deserves it. Few reality-show participants have ever been as maligned as she has been over the course of this cutthroat series.

And, as she demonstrated last Wednesday, when she had mud flung at her from all sides during that bitchy reunion special, she can take the heat.

I'm certain her two co-finalists would have run crying to their mommas if they had been the ones under attack. Come to think of it, that's exactly what one of Wendy's more outspoken critics — the atrocious Vanessa Riley — did during the reunion show as soon as tart-tongued Jay aimed his venom at her.

Vanessa, who was the fourth contestant eliminated on the show, got up and ran from the room — not only a loser, but a sore one, just like most of the other nine losers whose design instincts were not sharp enough to get them to the finals.

Getting to the finals is one of the grand prizes on "Project Runway," the fashion-biz reality show spearheaded by supermodel Heidi Klum. For their final competition, the three surviving contestants were each invited to design a collection of 12 pieces and then mount a real fashion show for the industry, the press and the "Project Runway" judges on the opening morning of Fashion Week under the big tent in Bryant Park.



The winner also gets $100,000 in seed money to invest in his or her own business.

The fashion shows, which I was lucky enough to attend, were Feb. 4. Predictably, Jay and Kara were cheered wildly like the crowd favorites they are. Wendy received a more reserved style of polite applause, thanks probably to the way she has been portrayed as a villainess on the show.

It's an unfair portrayal because her alleged transgressions always seemed so slight — such as the time she grabbed a bolt of orange cloth that Kara was thinking of using.

The alleged hijacking took place in a Garment District fabric store, where, as most New Yorkers know, if you snooze, you lose. I'm siding with Wendy on this one — if Kara wanted that bolt so badly, she should have kept her hands on it.

Meanwhile, back at the fashion shows, Wendy stunned all her naysayers by putting on a knockout presentation. When it was over, it was clear she had just as much a chance of winning as Kara, the L.A. costume designer who most "Project Runway" fans are picking to win.

Wednesday's finale is all about the fashion shows and the four months of preparation that went into them. I've seen it (minus the announcement of the winner) and I won't spoil it by revealing anything that happens.

However, I can tell you it is a hell of a TV show

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02212005/entertainment/40207.htm


Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 2:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
They showed the reunion later than the marathon.. I got a couple of copies and actually saw it (again) at 5am on Monday. Good show. Looking forward to Wednesday. Still hope Wendy is not the winner. I'm sure she will profit from having her line shown but I'd hate to have her tactics validated with a win, and yes, I still think she barely squeaked through several times and some times that was partly because she had badmouthed others, including one time the one who was sent home. That left her still in the show for the crucial episode where she beat Austin. Who is to say that someone who had been sent home couldn't have been just as competitive at that point in the show, but because Wendy kept slipping through, they were gone?

But whatever.. don't like her and hope she isn't #1.



Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 8:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
FINALE TONITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heidi Klum was on the Today show this am. She was wearing an outfit designed by Kevin (looked like a twinset and skirt), it was really nice looking.



Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 8:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Clawing their way to the top

'Runway' face-off tonight

By MARISA GUTHRIE


Jay McCarroll shows one of his designs during Fashion Week.


Clothes designed by Jay McCarroll


A Kara Saun dress


Kara Saun


A Wendy Pepper dress

The claws come out tonight at 9 when the rags- to-ratings hit "Project Runway" crowns its queen Bee on Bravo.
Get real, darling. It's the fashion business.

According to host Heidi Klum, there is a (gasp!) "huge fight" in the two-hour finale. See if you can tell who squares off.

Only Jay McCarroll, Kara Saun and Wendy Pepper remain from the 12 designers competing for $100,000 in seed money and a mentorship with the Banana Republic design team.

Their final test: Take four months and $8,000 to come up with a Fashion Week collection to parade for designer Michael Kors, Nina Garcia of Elle and pixie actress Parker Posey.

Winning simply means losing 11 people along the way, says Pepper, a 39-year-old mother from Middleburg, Va., the show's resident evil character.

"The point is not to become friends with 11 people," she says. "The point is to get rid of 11 people. If you want to call that villainous, you can, but I just call it realistic."

"[Wendy] is delusional," says McCarroll.

"She seriously thinks that everyone had a strategy on the show," he adds. "There are parts of her I cannot f— stand. She's a weirdo.

"Hopefully after this whole ordeal I'll never see her again."

McCarroll's Fashion Week display of bold sweaters and wraps with a futuristic bent receives more applause than Pepper's equestrian-inspired collection. Saun's spangly, sexy pieces accessorized with brightly dyed fur jackets does, too.

Much of the tension on the show was between Pepper and 37-year-old costume designer Saun, whose beautifully tailored designs and sunny disposition have positioned her as the contest favorite.

"Honestly," says Saun, "in the beginning, I was rooting for [Wendy]. Then you see her whole strategy thing and it's like literally being stabbed in the back. This is not 'Survivor.' You do not have to do it that way."

But such ugliness is a natural part of the world of high fashion.

"Every morning we open up the trashy magazines and we rip each other apart," says Klum.

"'Oh my god, look at her hair! She's fat! She's skinny! She looks like a cow! She had her lips blown up! She had her breasts done! She walks like a stork! Oh my God, what was she thinking?'

"That's what we do. In other businesses they do it, too; it's just we don't put a piece of paper in front of our mouth."

To hear Klum tell it, the most Machiavellian reality-show contestant has nothing on a catwalker with a raging case of envy.

"There's so many bitchy girls in the modeling world," Klum says. "They whisper things in your ear before you go out or they take your shoes and they switch the sizes so when you're walking down the runway your shoes are too big and you're falling all over the place."

And if the sharpened stiletto fits, Pepper is happy to wear it.

"I'm in the fashion business," she says. "People in the fashion business make a statement. Who will be remembered when this is over? It will be me."

Indeed, Pepper knows that in the cut-throat world of couture, spectacle sells.

"Did Wendy Pepper show up on the screen," she asks. "Yes! Did the editors have a grand old time? Yes! Did the viewers sit there on the edge of their seats? Yes!

"I'm counting the minutes they spend on me, and I think I come out pretty well.

"Some people didn't get me," she says. "They didn't understand me. They didn't know what I was trying to say. But it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

"I'm still waiting for my broom to come in the mail!"



http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ent_radio/story/283434p-242892c.html

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 10:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Man, I hope she doesn't win!!!!!!

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 10:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i'm hoping she does! lol! none of these people got this, they're out for the money and the publicity to make it in this business. she will be remembered. and if her designs can muster up, she'll do well. that is why austin will do well, he will be rememebered and his designs can stand up.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 10:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think the others prefer to be remembered for their designs.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 10:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah, I know what you are saying, Landi. But I hate it when the villain wins. It is like we reward awful behaviour.( Look at Omarosa - the best remembered Apprentice!!)

So I guess we are teaching our kids that, if they want to make it and stand out, they need to be villains???

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 10:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
no, the problem is with reality shows in general. and we could get into the psychological reasons we watch. but we're all talking about wendy, and she knows she's on a reality show. she definitely knows she is on a reality show.

we have found that when people play nice on reality shows, we don't watch. we (the viewers) want drama and chaos. if this was a true contest where we the viewers were not a part of this, it would be run entirely different. and what i'm saying goes for every single reality show out there. from survivor to big brother to the apprentice and now to project runway.

we all "love to hate" the bad person.

can you remember all the names of the good people on the reality shows? no, it's very difficult. they usually got kicked off at the very beginning.

that's what i'm talking about.


Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 10:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yep, I agree with you 100% Landi. WE, the audience (me included), do do this. (Sigh, I just wish we didn't). I like to keep the villains around for the drama and chaos..then I want them to LOSE in the end. That's how hypocritical I am