Here are some things I learned/pondered while away, but first a quick reminder: I’m in class all day Monday so blog will be quiet, BUT 2 of my 3 major projects are due Monday so soon my schedule will be free! Ok so the things I learned:
On Thursday’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” Seattle Grace’s chairman of the board visited the doctors and said “Fix this” before pulling down his pants and revealing grapefruit sized testicles (caused by the legendary Amazonian-peinis-fish). The above pic is the reactions of the doctors, captured in a reverse-angle/between-the-legs shot with something dropping into frame.
Well I got a press release from ABC (via my old reporter email address) saying that the “something” was really Mitch Pileggi’s (Skinner from “x-files”) face as he bent down to pull down his pants. When I re-watched the episode, which I taped, I saw that this was true. Though it is odd that Pileggi’s face looks so much like a warped scrotum.
The mistaken scrotum was so dubious that bloggers across the country were leading with headlines like “Grey’s Anatomy Went ‘Nuts’ Last Night” “Censors ok with Scrotum” “Grey’s Jumps the Shark (penis fish) Again”and “Grey’s Anatomy Sneaks a Swollen Scrotum Past Network Censors.” Obviously these people couldn’t take the time to review the episode (which is posted online at ABC and the fake-scrotum drop takes place around the 7 minute mark).
Oddly enough, on CBS’s “C.S.I.” which airs at the same time as “Grey’s” someone groped the enlarged testicles on a dead body. The testicles were not shown, which is good for Pileggi because it means no one mistook them for his face.
Man I love May Sweeps! I just wish upfronts would hurry up and get here!
Forget the presidential election. I’m backing Nathan Petrelli for congress.
Welcome to the Nathan Petrelli for Congress campaign site. Through this site, you can learn about me, the issues facing our district, and how you can become a part of the campaign.
I’ve made no secret of the fact that my father’s death prompted me to run for Congress. With my father’s memory at the heart of my campaign, I bring his philosophy to the problems that face our district and our nation today. With a philosophy centered on family, personal responsibility and the desire to make a difference, I will build a brighter future for all the constituents of the 30th Congressional District.
Remember, I began my campaign with my family in mind. But when I represent you in Congress, it’ll be with you and your family in mind.
There is a form to sign up for email updates. Since the site is sponsored by NBC similar to the Prima Papertech site, if you want some “heroes” scoop I’d suggest signing up. It’s where I’ve been getting a lot of stuff lately. Also if you want a HUGE spoiler, then check out the most recent graphic novel which explains who was originally supposed to blow up New York.
As a sweeps stunt, NBC and “My Name is Earl” is doing a smell-o-vision episode. What you do is buy the current issue of TV Guide (I already have mine) and inside is a card with numbers on it. When next week’s episode airs, the numbers will appear on the screen and you scratch the correlating box to find out what the characters smell.
I know its really dorky and cheesey, but at the same time it’s sooooooooo cool! I just hope they end up doing one of these for “The Office.” That would be CRAZY!
Like “Buffy Season 8″ Joss Whedon is doing a comic version of “Angel Season 6.”
Wedon: Season six—that is, the storyline we were planning to pursue—made much more epic and fleshed out quite a bit. We’re looking at it as a 12-issue miniseries, to keep it tight and intense. Brian and I have been exchanging juicy ideas. And some that are more bran-y. For health.
In related news, Whedon is also talking about his recent “Wonder Woman” drama.
Nobody interfered with my vision [On the Wonder Woman movie] because literally, nobody ever said, “No, no. We want it this way.” I told them what was I going to do, they said do it, I did it, they said no. I said okay. I could feel the end for a long while. I could tell they weren’t enthused and you know our conversations were never about what the movie was about, the very few that we had. And so I just felt like, if they know what I’m going for, they don’t like it, and they may not even know, and they’ve told me they don’t even know what they are going for, just that I’m not giving it to them, so it wasn’t like they were interfering. They gave me all the freedom in the world, all the rope in the world in which to build my noose.
Everyone who thinks they know what “The Simpsons Movie” is about needs to think again. Writer, director & producer James L Brooks spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the upcoming film and revealed that much of the film’s final content is not yet settled.
“It started out as people wanting to know what it was about, and then we were having fun with it, putting out false story lines. We’ve revealed more with each successive trailer. We’ll continue to do that” he says.
More surprising is the news that much of what’s seen so far will NOT be in the final film - “We saw a trailer the other day, and somebody said 70 percent of the things in it — based on where we were eight weeks ago — are no longer in the movie, because we keep on fooling around.”
Brooks says there are 94 speaking parts so far. Also stuff from the test screening in Portland a month or two back has been edited - “We changed a lot of jokes. We physically changed one character, and we basically rewrote that character and another” says Brooks. Show creator Matt Groening added “We changed some language in the movie, because some people were bugged.”
This seriously sounds like its straight from “X-files.” Billions of bees have gone missing world wide. That’s missing. Not dead (though its safe to presume they probably are dead) no bodies have been found!
The phenomenon was first noticed late last year in the United States, where honeybees are used to pollinate $15 billion worth of fruits, nuts and other crops annually. Disappearing bees have also been reported in Europe and Brazil.
Commercial beekeepers would set their bees near a crop field as usual and come back in two or three weeks to find the hives bereft of foraging worker bees, with only the queen and the immature insects remaining. Whatever worker bees survived were often too weak to perform their tasks.
It sounds silly, but this could drastically affect the price of produce which require bee pollination or anything with honey in it.
Captian America was arrested in Florida for groping women, saying dirty things to a burrito, and smoking pot. No seriously! A doctor had been attending a superhero themed costume party and was later arrested for being a creep. The Smoking Gun has all the details: (Read on …)
I’ve really been wanting to post about this topic, but Blog@Newsarama has done it way better than I ever could. I’m also posting this because of a little thing known as FREE SPEECH. So here is what Blog@ had to say:
I’ve deliberately avoided talking about the whole Todd Goldman mess up ’til now, mainly because it’s such an unbelievable clusteryouknowwhat that I knew it would take more blogging power than poor little me could muster. But now, circumstances compel me to speak up, namely because other people are being told to shut up. (Read on …)
Stephen King comments on writings and violence.
I’ve thought about it, of course. Certainly in this sensitized day and age, my own college writing — including a short story called ”Cain Rose Up” and the novel RAGE — would have raised red flags, and I’m certain someone would have tabbed me as mentally ill because of them, even though I interacted in class, never took pictures of girls’ legs with my cell phone (in 1970, WHAT cell phones?), and never signed my work with a ?. (Read on …)
Remember the guy who did the naked/pregnant Brittany Spear’s sculpture? Well he’s finished his next project and its called “Paris Hilton Autopsy.”
The life-sized sculpture depicts a supposedly dead Hilton, in the nude except for a jeweled tiara perched on her head, with Tinkerbell (in matching tiara) lying across the heiress’ shoulder. A cell phone is clutched in Hilton’s hand.
To help ram the message home, the Hilton sculpture has an open abdominal cavity and its innards are removable, as if the Simple Life star were really being splayed out for an autopsy. All of the internal organs have been rendered to scale and visitors to the exhibition will be encouraged to don a pair of gloves and pick through the plaster-and-clay remains.
I couldn’t make up this sh* even if I tried!
Here is a link dump with some of the things I would have posted about while I was gone:
I know. I know. I’ve been realyyyyyyyyyyy bad this past week cause of being busy and the storm and my work load is only getting worse. Next week is the LAST week of classes. So I’m just struggling to get everything done in time. Plus now it seems I have to go out of town for part of next week too! So I’m going to officially take a blogging-vacation. New updates will start again on April 27th!
Update:
errr massive massive DVD encoding problems and I was in the lab for about 13 hours today…but i’m almost back!
This is my only post about what happened at Virginia Tech. What happened was tragic and I understand that as a nation we often morn together, but I think what the media is doing is total bullshit. To the news stations and papers, its not about reporting its about ratings and numbers. It’s wrong and it’s why I despise journalism. It’s also why I think it’s awesome that Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine said, “People who want to take this within 24 hours of the event and make it their political hobby horse to ride, I’ve got nothing but loathing for them.”
We’ve had power outages and the heat has been going off multiple times a day. I’ll get back into the swing of things with posts tonight or in the morning, once I’m caught up on work I couldn’t do becuase of no power.
I love “24,” though this season isn’t really up to par. Whit at Pop Candy pointed out this post on the “South Park” forums which says that the show, which recently spoofed “24” was given a suitcase nuke from the “24” producers.”
Matt and Trey were blown away, (figuratively). They want to proudly display the nuke in the office next to the Emmy—if it fits. Everyone here was really proud of the “Snuke”. We all feel honored that “24″ liked the show we did about them enough to send us a bomb.
It’s just so cool that “24” loved the fact that “South Park” spoofed them instead of getting all pissy and mad.
Ausiello has a long interview with Keri Russell. I’ve been a fan of hers since her “Felicity” days and man I really miss that show. Amongst the many things discussed is that she has a two episode arc on “Scrubs” where she plays an old college friend of Elliot’s and makes out with JD.
It was such a blast, I can’t even tell you. They are so professional on that set, and I think it has so much to do with Bill. He’s just so cool and keeps everyone so aboveboard. When we met about me doing this role, he said, “Basically, I just wanted to meet you because we have a ‘no a–hole policy’ on the show.” And it’s true. They have huge monologues to do, and they just show up and bang it out. And that’s not usual for a show in its sixth year. By the third year of a show everyone’s usually showing up late, people don’t want to be there, they don’t have their lines memorized. But they were so sharp and professional. If anything, I was the slacker. Because when you’re pregnant, you kind of have pregnancy brain. It’s strange. People don’t believe you, but your memory goes. I had these monologues to do with Zach and there were times I was like, “Uh-oh. I don’t know what I’m saying. This is horrifying.”
In other “Iron Man” news, Aint It Cool News, has the first glimpse of the classic Iron Man suit.
I love that it’s easily something that would be built out of weapon parts, thrown together with whatever was handy and made to look, in pieces, like it could be part of whatever weapons Tony Stark is being forced to build as a POW.
I love the flame thrower. I love it all… It’s big, it’s badass! Can’t wait to see it moving, shooting flames at the bad guys!!! What do you folks think?
Leslie Bibb, who I know from WB’s “Popular” but most know her from “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” has been cast in “Iron Man.” Since Gwyneth Paltrow is the leading female, Bibb’s role is probably a small one.
Pop Candy has a decent interview with former Wonder Woman writer Jodi Picoult.
Yeah. Like, right off the bat, I tried to get her out of her bustier, ’cause let’s face it, no woman would ever fight crime in one. But that was a no-no. (Laughs) And basically, if I had made a misstep … Like, for example, if you want to have another character from the Justice League in your book, you have to jump through a whole bunch of hoops to make sure they can guest star. For the most part, what surpsised me was trying to organize my narrative into 22 pages and to really have to focus on pacing and action vs. dialogue, and how to get my story across in a very finite format, because, obviously, when you write a novel you have all the time and space in the world.
Want a free burrito from Chipotle? Then buy one on the 14th or 15th, save your receipt, and take it back on tax day, April 16th for a free burrito. …of course the ad says “no strings” but isn’t it a string that I have to first buy a burrito?
This is a movie waiting to happen. Two hikers got lost in the rain forest for like six weeks and survived by eating beetles, frogs and spiders.
“After 12 days, we hadn’t arrived in Saul. We thought that someone would come looking for us, so we stopped. We waited for three weeks in the same place. We heard helicopters pass, and we figured that we had to make ourselves seen. So we cut down trees to make a fire,” Pillois told reporters, according to RFO television. “We ate palm seeds, we drank water because we always had a river next to us, where we washed. We also trapped insects and beetles. We ate frogs and tarantulas.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if their story has already been optioned by a studio. I also don’t get why hikers don’t take GPS tracking units. It would stop things like this from happening.
I really don’t like “The Sopranos.” I’ll watch it on DVD ‘cause it is so popular, but I was happy to learn its ratings are down while “Entourage’s” are up! (oh and i tottally stole that headline because its just sooooo bad I had to use it)
The last season of “The Sopranos” kicked off on HBO Sunday night with 7.66 million total viewers — a solid audience but well below the 9.47 million drawn to the first episode of its previous season in March 2006. While “Sopranos” was not quite measuring up to its year-ago numbers, the premiere of the third season of “Entourage,” which scored 3.77 million viewers, was up 40% over the viewer number for the second-season kickoff.
Warner Bros sent out a press release saying that Steve Carnell’s “Get Smart” has started filming. It’s a pretty long winded press release and the only important into is that filming started March 21st, but in case you wanted to read it, here it is: (Read on …)
Production has been backed up on the “Gilmore Girls” set. It seems after Lauren Graham got the script for the season and possibly series finale she went to the producers and demanded changes. The internet has been spreading the rumor that Graham didn’t like the some emotional Luke/Lorelai scenes, but TV AA is saying otherwise:
“Didn’t like” is a little harsh, but, yeah, she requested a few tweaks, which, per my Girls mole, “resulted in some nice changes.” One crazy rumor making the rounds is that Lauren wanted fewer Luke-Lorelai scenes. As I mentioned in my latest vodcast, nothing could be further from the truth. The details about who does what changed, but the amount of time they’re on screen together is just the same. And it’s just as significant to their story line.
Also, the season finale is set up in such a way that it could also serve as a series finale if The CW can’t get Lauren and Alexis to sign fro another season.
It seems Tom Brevoort has always been a fan boy:
The big commonality amongst all of us, aside from the hobby itself, was our interest in talking about it–everything from the classic anc cliche “who’s stronger” arguments to discussions about a particular writer or artist. It was such a pleasure to find somebody else who spoke the same language to communicate with, to find common ground with.
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This is a not-really funny deleted scene from Monday’s “How I Met Your Mother.”
For those “Medium” fans out there who can’t see the future, stop worrying. It’s looking more and more like the show will be renewed. NBC just ordered six additional episodes for the current season, something they would never do if they already knew they were going to cancel it.
Also, its been rumored for a while that Lifetime has offered a large sum of money for the shows syndincation rights. It’s so much money that even if NBC canceled the show then CBS (owned by Paramount & Paramount makes the show) will pick it up.
Remember when I posted about ABC greenlighting a pilot starring the Cavemen from the Geico commerdial? It seems they tapped Martin and Mike Schiff, the creators of “3rd Rock” to helm the show.
“Bill and Mike have written some of the most unique characters in television,” ABC TV Studios’ executive vp Julia Franz said. “Their background and sensibility lends itself to the kind of tone and storytelling we’re going for on ‘Cavemen.’ We thought they would be the perfect fit with the team of producers who brought us the project.”
I am not posting about David Goyer’s Green Arrow, Dragon, Sci-fi, or Batman projects. Go read EVERYONE else’s blog. I’m just tired of reading GOYER GOYER GOYER for the past two days.
After its disastrous opening weekend, many have begun the manic speculation as to why “Grindhouse” failed to click with US audiences. The film’s extended 192 minute runtime, lack of audience awareness of the ‘Grindhouse’ concept, and generally bad counter programming move to release the film at Easter is being cited as the most likely reason.
“I’m incredibly disappointed. We tried to do something new and obviously we didn’t do it that well” and adds that according to research, it was that runtime that was “the single biggest deterrent,” Harvey Weinstein said.
The fate of the films now is in question and there’s already one idea - splitting the movie in two like it will be in European territories. With what is said to be a near $70 million budget, and an at least admitted $30 million marketing cost, the company is in definite need to try and recoup its money.
“We could split the movies in a couple of weeks. Make Tarantino’s a full-length film, and Rodriguez’s too. We’ll be adding those ‘two missing reels’ that’s talked about in the movie” says Weinstein.
Seems that Orlando Bloom was spotted at the Tower Bar restaurant in Hollywood with “Superman Returns” producers Mindy and Jon Peters and the movie’s director, Bryan Singer.
Big deal, he was probably there with girlfriend Kate Bosworth right? According to Just Jared no, seems Bloom was actually there to talk business - more specifically a role in the upcoming sequel “Superman: The Man of Steel.”
What that role might be is unknown has lent itself to frenzied Net chatter. With Routh signed for several films, some have said villain. Others have speculated that it’s as Lois Lane’s new love interest (makes the most sense), but for some reason I can’t help but think Brainiac.
That Oscar winner Tom Hanks and his unfortunate coif have finally signed on for the Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons should be no surprise, but apparently he’s getting the “biggest salary ever paid to an actor in the history of Hollywood.” Cinema Blend.com claims a source confirms that Hanks will return for the adaptation of author Dan Brown’s other novel, which introduced Hanks’ Dr. Robert Langdon character.
Also scheduled to be on board: Ron Howard as director, Akiva Goldsman penning the script and model Gisele Bündchen as a co-star. The start date is set for July. Da Vinci of course, topped $750 million at the box office, and Cinema Blend notes Hanks’ salary for this one — in which we find Langdon investigating the Illuminati, a secret society whose members have supposedly discovered the power of antimatter, which they plan to use to destroy Vatican City — could top $50 million.
Sci-Fi has found their Flash Gordon for their new “Flash Gordon” show. Eric Johnson, (Whitney from the early seasons of “Smallville) has snagged the roll. The first season of the show will run 22 episodes and is set to premier in August.
A girl from Indiana was suspended in Febuary for saying bad things about her principal on myspace. The girl was upset about the principals piercing policy and used “vulgar” language toward the principal. This led to the girl being suspended. Unless the girl was making death threats or posting comments while in school the school has NO right to suspend someone for things they say outside of school. It seems the US court system feels the same way:
“While we have little regard for A.B.’s use of vulgar epithets, we conclude that her overall message constitutes political speech,” Judge Patricia Riley wrote in the 10-page opinion.
It’s a slow news weekend. So I thought I’d share some photos. The above pic is a rough test for the title-cartoon in “An American King.” (Read on …)
Kevin Smith is talking about his new movie “Red State,” which he plans to film later this year. It’s going to be a horror film and steals from real life Kansas preacher Fred Phelps, who’s group is famous for it’s “God hates Fags” website and picketing funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq.
“That dude has always fascinated me and he’s really informed the horror movie that I’m working on. The movie’s called ‘Red State’ and it’s very much about that subject matter, that point of view and that position taken to the absolute extreme. It’s certainly not Phelps himself but it’s very much inspired by a Phelps figure. The notion of using a Phelps-like character as a villain, as horrifying and scary as that guy can be, there’s even something more insidious than him that lurks out there in as much as a public or a government that allows it and that’s the other thing that I’m trying to examine in a big, big way… there’ll be people saying, ‘This ain’t a horror movie!’ But to me, it is.”
I can’t picture a movie being scary while still having Smith’s lonnnnnnnnnnnnnng drawn out dialouge.
Laura Dern says that Steven Spielberg asked her to be in “Jurassic Park 4″
“Well a certain fellow is the one that called me and it’s hard to say no to him cause he’s always got something totally genius up his sleeve so we’ll see what they have in mind. But I don’t know anything about it at this point. I’m told it’s happening and I’m told they’re calling me. I’m told that Ellie Sattler is involved in it. I think within the year. I think they want to release it in 2008.”
CBR gossip columnist Rich Johnson sent me an email pointing out a short Easter theme film he posted on You Tube. It’s called “Free Crème Egg” and he goes around trying to give strangers a crème egg. It’s actually very reminiscent of the first episode of “The Scott King Show” where I walked around the boardwalk trying to give away a dead fish (I was like 16). My real curiosity is how Lying in The Gutters got my email address!
I think the general consensus is that “October Road” is a hoaky show. However, there is a group of people, like myself, who continue to watch it! I mean the dialogue is choppy and at times flat out unbelievable. But for some reason I can’t force myself not to watch.
I blame the shows Everwood/Stars Hallow vibe because I keep watching hoping it will get better. I also have do admit that Odette Yustman is HOT. Even people at TV Guide and E! are dealing with the same confusion that I’m going through:
Have I been hotnotized by Bryan Greenberg? Hotnotized, for those of you who don’t know, is WWK-speak for the phenomenon that occurs when a TV actor is so smokin’ that you fall under the show’s spell, overlooking all of its obvious flaws. You know, the very phenomenon that kept Baywatch on the air for 12 years?
So why do you watch “October Road?”