Monday Links
A Thanksgiving hangover edition of the links…
I have to tell ya, me and Steven Spielberg have remarkably contrasting opinions on television.
After being married to Paul McCartney for four years, she is going to inherit millions of dollars for doing virtually nothing, and Heather Mills is getting an opportunity to start an acting career on (of course) Desperate Housewives. I’ll just openly admit that I am hoping it blows up in her face somehow.
Kevin Smith is teaching a film/television course at UCLA. Naturally, it will double as a series for MTVU. And Friends producer Kevin Bright is also teaching television production courses at Emerson University in Massachusetts. Sadly, though, his class will not also serve as a case study.
If it takes James Gandolfini and Steve Schirripa getting a little over-zealous while shooting a fight scene for the upcoming season of The Sopranos, to reassure us that it is indeed filming, then I am all for it. Also, Tony and Bobby Bacala get into a fight? Sounds like Bobby is going to channel some Soprano rage that I am sure has rubbed off from Janice.
Jennifer Aniston may or may not be considering a turn on Dancing With The Stars. Needless to say this might be worth a second thought.
Annette Bening is going to make her hosting debut SNL this season. After one of the most storied actressing careers in the history of filmmaking, she has had dozens of years to capitalize on this. why has Bening now, with this downtrodden cast, decided to host the fledging sketch show? In the 80’s thru the mid-late 90’s the cast was capable of carrying the host. Nowadays, she will needs some comedic chops just to not look ridiculous.
And finally, TBS is developing its own sitcoms now. The first of which is entitled My Boys, a series about a single, female sports writer living in Chicago with all platonic male friends. I cannot say I am going to watch this show, but it is probably passed due for a premise like this one. In college, every single girl I knew had, like, a dozen guys she hung out with. And because said friends were like accessories in a purse, they were commonly referred to as “man bitches”.
My apologies for the vulgarity, last nights Wire recap coming up a little later.
August 1st, 2007 at 9:11 am
[...] and I can’t believe I’m going to publicly admit to having watched this, My Boys. A year or so ago I, in so many words, demolished this show as being something for emasculated men an…. And I stick by my guns, but the show does fit that audience and, well, everyone needs something [...]