I’m not fond of some of the labels and diagnoses that psychologists use with children, but it’s fair to say that one of the students I tutor has a… disorder, which causes him to have a… deficit… of… attention. There, I think that was subtle enough. Anyway, I find that a large part of my [...]
Summer is upon us. It’s Memorial Day weekend, and another sweeps month has come and gone. A few cable shows remain, but most of the good stuff on TV has ended it’s season or series. (Bye-bye Veronica. I sure would have liked to watch you take down the elite white-man secret society, as we were [...]
The last thing the world needs more of is written evidence that I am a geeky nerdy loser geek. Still, I couldn’t help being annoyed when I read this article in yesterday’s Variety about a new He-man movie coming out. Sure, some of my annoyance stems from the fact that yet another fond memory of [...]
OK, before I step too far into the land of sacrilege, let me begin with the caveat that I love Jane Espenson. Not only does she maintain one of the most useful blogs a writer could hope to find, adding a genuinely useful tidbit with alarming frequency, but the woman wrote some of my favorite [...]
After a week of all the big announcements from television networks about next fall’s TV schedule, I thought it might be nice to consolidate all of the schedules, grid-style. Those of us planning our next TV spec script can use this to help figure out which show would be a good choice. (A tip from [...]
I shan’t dwell on all of this week’s fall TV schedule announcements. (That’s right. Shan’t.) There are bloggers and sites much more useful than mine for gathering that information. However, I’ve conjectured over the last weeks, both to friends and on this blog, and I thought I should hit the highlights. ***Some items contain minor [...]
Variety says the next Mamet movie has found its final cast member… Tim Allen. This is a joke, right? Like April Fools, ha ha? Chocolate and peanut butter, sure. But Tim Allen and David Mamet? I’m not seeing it… LEVENE I’ll tell you who’s to blame. It’s Mitch and Murray, that’s who. TIM ALLEN ARRRRRRRUUUUAAAGH? [...]
OK, not quite secret messages, but hidden enough if you don’t speak Spanish. In tonight’s episode, as in the first season’s finale, Catalina spoke directly to the viewer. She delivers the lines as if angry, but they’re really messages of thanks to the audience. If my high school Spanish is trustworthy, tonight she said something [...]
“It’s silly. It’s a silly movie. There just isn’t much there. Once you take it all apart, there’s not much story, is there?” That’s what George Lucas reportedly said about Spider-man 3. Um. I haven’t seen Spider-man 3, yet. I’ve heard it disappoints. But… the guy who wrote Annakin’s line about not liking sand because [...]
Rumor has it, the powers that be at CW are liking Rob Thomas’s Veronica Mars remix, where she skips past college and the show picks up a few years later with Veronica in training for the FBI. Combined with the scheduling holes left by the cancellation of Seventh Heaven and The Gilmore Girls, and since [...]
From time to time, I glance at the statistics for this web site. The most entertaining aspect is seeing what people search for that brings them to my domain. This week, someone googled the phrase “Christina Ricci naked super Blade Runner.” I’m not sure precisely what that searcher was hoping to find, but I like [...]
There came a day during college when a friend offered me some very logical advice. He pointed out that I was getting C’s in my engineering classes, but A’s in my film classes. Film seemed to make me happy, but engineering did not. Perhaps, he suggested, I should rethink my focus. Not smart enough to [...]
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