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I wasn’t planning to do a post about the potential Best Picture nominees. After all, the last thing we need is another blogger weighing in on the big categories. However, a reader asked. Plus, I just returned from AMC’s all-day marathon showing of the five nominees. I’m drunk enough off an odd sense of accomplishment–earned [...]

It’s interesting (and potentially industry-shaping) to see a couple of actions lately from the FCC that seem to indicate it intends to take a more active role in television. First, news broke of a draft memo in which the FCC suggests that Congress can make laws restricting violence on TV, and that doing so would [...]

I don’t know about you, but most years when I fill out that entry form for the Oscar pool at this party or that, my selection for “Best Animated Short” is based on little more than which title sounds fun to me. Well, not this year! On Tuesday I caught a screening at the Academy’s [...]

E! Online reports that wheels are in motion to put out a spin-off to Grey’s Anatomy, centering on the character of Dr. Addison Montgomery (formerly -Shepherd.) It’s interesting to see that the idea is at a very, very basic stage of development, and yet contracts are already in place. No ideas for the plot or [...]

I recently underwent a tragic personal misfortune. It is the kind of turmoil that only those who have endured similar loss can comprehend.I don’t have TiVo any more. I moved from a TiVo-ed home to a primitive, unenlighted domicile lacking this particular luxury. My thumb still pulses three times whenever I see a commercial. And [...]

This week, one of the students I tutor fed me some amazing comedy. During one of our sessions, he asked me about the planet Uranus–in complete innocence and sincerity–”Why do some people call it YŎŎR-ə-nəs, and other people call it yŏŏ-RĀ-nəs?” As a general philosophy, short of breaking the where-babies-come-from story before mom and dad [...]

Grey’s Anatomy has been picking up steam for me. Perhaps it’s not as brilliant as last year’s Super Bowl cliffhanger, but a lot of dopey distraction has been cleared aside, and some more genuine character conflicts lately show promise for interesting stories to come. However, did you notice that in last night’s episode, Izzie had [...]

Part of why television is the medium in which I aspire to work is the length and breadth of character development afforded to its writers. To me at least, part of where television becomes a vital art form is when a show dares to draw characters that grow, learn, and/or change. Over the last week, [...]

If you’ve been watching the news lately, you’ve seen how 10 days ago the guerrilla marketing campaign used by a third-party PR firm for the upcoming Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie “paralyzed” the city of Boston. I, for one, am happy to know that should America ever actually find itself in a real-life game of [...]

I’ve been blogging for a few months now, and I guess it should be no surprise that the post that has seen the most attention is the one entitled, “Character Development and Naked Women.” I’m thinking that from now on, every time I come up with a post title, I should append “and naked women.”I [...]

Since this week marks my one-year anniversary living in the City of Angels, I thought I’d post some of what I’ve learned about this town in which I’d rather not dwell, and the industry that keeps me dwelling here. Following are my top ten observations of things you just don’t see anywhere else but La-La-Land. [...]