Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for August 02, 2012

Poor Tiff. I think she’s trying to convince herself. This is one instance where I think Simon Cowell would be very helpful

I wonder what they said about Zeye on the Rotten Tomatoes website.

That’s okay Tiffany, 20 years from now Zeye will become a cult classic and then you will be famous. As long as they restore your 8 seconds.

…I can hardly wait!

Sometimes you really try to like someone like Tiff, but often they just end up being very trying. Someone yesterday (Ottodesu?) asked if all girls named Tiffany are unusually self centered. I’ll back him up on that, even to the exter that their fathers often call them Princess as well. I blame the parents for raising little empresses. Note: not all Tiffanys are spoilt, but there is a website called “girlsnamedTiffani dot com”.

A person could be nice to Tiffany but…she would never notice. She’s bent on having an extended ‘pity party’ so one should just stand back and let her. Luann is a little snotty here but who could blame her. Perhaps she should just ‘overkill’ her expressions of sympathy until Tiffany gives up .

This is just Evans trying to retcon the fact that Tiffany already did all kinds of grunt work to get her part whereas Luann believes she’s entitled to fame and Juliard because she wants it. It’s sloppy.

Her expressions of sympathy? She’ll just try to get Quill’s address.

Meow. Cat fight! Cat fight!

hahaha…I just saw that movie yesterday..hahahaha. Nice one.

Luann makes a good point by accident. Drama and acting is about playing a part – looking and acting like someone else. In other words you need to be good at being 100% fake. Also an aspiring actress needs to make the best of all her assets – skill, traing, natural ability and looks. She needs to be able to present herself. Tiff is unlikely to learn anything from anyone, but Luann would benefit by climbing down from her high horse and learning a couple of things from Tiffany.

Luann is indeed being very catty—which is to say, insecure and teenaged—here, but then there really is no reason to like Tiffany….

Yes Luann, even your comic strip can be saved by 8 seconds of Tiffany:)

It appears that Luann is no longer intimidated by Tiff. About time.

Good point Luann.

On Mythbusters they did.

100% fake? Tiff really should consider a career in adult films…

In the World of Tiffany it would.

I am waiting for the MST3K/Riff trax/Cinematic Titanic treatment of Zeye.

Not that there is anything wrong with it, but why is Luann settling for Junior College? Is this the set up, so that Greg can keep her at home and not alter the strip dynamics too much? I think having Luann move away from home and experience life as a college freshman would be a great shot in the arm to this strip. A whole bunch of brand new drama and insecurities.

“..at the local junior college”? Couldn’t come up with a fake name for the school, like Pitts Junior College?

I’m sensing a graduation in the near future…Luann had matured alot, but still a teen, Greg and move her out of high school it will WORK!! Do it Greg, do it!!!

actually you can myth busters did it.

Well, if she didn’t think so, no one else would.

Huh!

Back in MY day, callin’ somebody a “100% Fake” would have be cause for a FIGHT!

Kids these days…….,

I’m confused. Why is Tiffany’s actual hard work and participation in a major motion picture (flop or otherwise) completely worthless, but Luann’s vague plan of maybe one day taking acting classes at the local community college is an inspirational guide to others? Evans can keep trying to convince us Tiffany is the evil one, but she’s the only one who goes out and takes active steps towards achieving her dreams, even if they don’t always work out, while Luann sits home complaining and whining and sniping at people who dare to be up front about who they are and what they want.

Luann, let me ask you…you and Tiffany…which one of you has been in a movie and who hasn’t?

I have a saying – “A One Hit Wonder is one more hit than most people get.”

Let’s see – what experience did these girls have in show business? Well, Luann was a star in the West Side Story high school drama – Tiff was… uh… oh yeah – had a “key role” in the Eyez of Zeye movie – (backup stunt double for the actress who plays Zeye’s friend). Yeah, that’s certainly a key role :-(.She even admitted to Crystal that she was “not IN it exactly” but at least she made some friends and may have been in a crowd scene.

Why are Tiff’s eyebrows in her hair?

you need both to succeed as an actress … i think. an EGO that can take endless rejection and rationalize it away (like Tiff) and at least some training (like Luann). Just a little opposing dialog here. They both have a certain skill. You have to have pluck, luck, and some talent.

Her good friend Crystal was making fun of her for having a tiny part in the movie and the fact that she was doing stuff like getting coffee for the stars of the film (all of which Tiffany did enthusiastically, it seems). Seriously, reverse the dialog in today’s strip and it’s more accurate considering that girl who wouldn’t go out with Greg in hs… I mean Tiffany… is supposed to be the villain because we’re told as much.

@Miles Hoffman – I sure remember when they had to give the award to The Duke because he never got one and was about to leave us. The other trouble with Midnight Cowboy – who do you give the award to – Hoffman or Voight – a tough call.

“Zeye flopped ’cuz they cut my scenes.” Tiff’s gotta be more desperate than dumb. Nobody is THAT dumb……….

How could a two hour dud be saved by adding 8 seconds of Tiffany?-You know, Luann might be right. It might take ten seconds.(Why is my tongue so firmly stuck in my cheek?)

“Tiffany just wants to be a starlet.”-No, she wants to be A CELEBRETY!!!!

“One day when they’re all finally mature and grown up Luann and Tiffany will end up being best friends.”-I heard a fellow tell a class at high school that after graduation 90% never see each other again, or that they never see 90% of their old classmates. I know that number isn’t true for me, but it IS true that many of the people you were once with daily for some four years are people you only see at class reunions or in passing on the street. Many of them are people you are glad to not see again.

At least no one is blaming Tiffany for the film being a dud.

Really good arc.

Here’s a line for you to practice Tiff, “You want fries with that?”

A reader on another site posted this idea, which I thought has a lot of merit – so I’m reposting it here:.Greg can use the Junior college idea to add an extra dimension to the strip. It’s common for high school students to take courses at a Junior college while still in high school. Since this school is supposed to have a good drama department, Luann could still be in high school, but take drama courses, voice lessons and be in college productions. This way Greg doesn’t have to create a whole new cast of characters—just one or two, and at the same time Luann can grow up little and have some interesting new experiences.

What Greg is setting up is something like the race between the tortoise and the hare.

Exactly……Hoffman in Hook, Hoffman in Tootsie, Williams in Ms Doubtfire