Could the co-dependent relationship between Hollywood development execs and writers be any more dysfunctional? Like most Tinseltown marriages, it’s born from mutual desires and devolves quickly to a strained partnership. To get their projects produced, writers need the execs, and to find new projects, execs need the writers. They can endure long separations and even [...]
Sometime during your twenties, you’ll become aware that you’ve been asked to plan or attend more bridal showers and bachelor/ette parties than you ever thought possible. Who among us has not participated in group bitching sessions about the costs, hangovers, and time eating responsibilities involved in supporting friends during the precious days leading up their [...]
Fred Willard and Jane Lynch’s hilarious parody of Entertainment Tonight-ish hosts in For Your Consideration highlights what Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries do best – it shows blinding American enthusiasm at its zenith. So, if the aggressive cheeriness of network entertainment shows leaves you in sugar shock, you’ll likely gravitate towards the flavor of The Rotten Tomatoes [...]
Everyone remembers the opening scene from Guns N Roses’ Welcome to the Jungle video, right? Axl gets off the bus from Nowhereville, U.S.A., and is thrust onto seedy Hollywood Boulevard for the first time. Did you ever wonder what happened to innocent Axl between getting off the bus and becoming L.A. rocker Axl? Oh. Maybe [...]
Considering America’s love affair with fame-whores, actresses playing whores, scandals involving whores, and reality television, it’s curious that it took so long for a reality show featuring whores in competition (excluding VH1 celebrity dating shows, HBO’s Cat House, and Playboy channel dating shows) to come to comedic fruition.
This clever satire is the sliced bread of [...]
While most of us bemoan the recession, adjust to scaling back our expenses, and live in fear of the dreaded lay off, an ambitious out-of-work actor decided to buck the trend, throw in the towel (temporarily), and take a dreaded office job (no, his name’s not Scotty).
He also decided to share with us the voices [...]
Ever since Tina Fey’s over-sharing, sarcastic, self-deprecating persona made her the “it girl” of female comedy, it seems as if countless other comedic actresses have attempted to duplicate her mojo. In the web series My Two Fans, what Liz Lemon lacks, Kate Maxwell has on her side.
If you’re terrified of candy-colored vivisectionists, and your nightmares were archived into a graphic novel, and that novel suddenly sprang to flash-animated life, it’d probably look a lot like Medical Island.
Darkly sinister, quirky, and engaging, the Miyazakian web series is a collaboration from veteran animation producers Margaret Dean (Ren & Stimpy, Scooby Doo, The Batman) [...]
