So this is where our culture lies? This is the endgame? A musical based on a forgetable powderpuff of a Reese Witherspoon movie?
America has officially quit. Sure, you figured this out years ago. That makes you brighter than Mick LaSalle, who decided to review Epic Movie.
Is this an entirely cynical act, or is someone actually proud of this? This question is not really within the appropriate scope of a review, yet "Epic Movie" is so bereft of anything resembling wit or inspiration, that the mind immediately goes to questions of motive -- as though it were a crime. What were the perpetrators, uh filmmakers, thinking?
They were thinking that the Scary Movie franchise -- an annual survey of disjointed references to whatever movies came out the week before -- is a factory-farmed golden goose on antibiotics. And that's all. You think the people behind Legally Blond: The Musical are living their lifelong creative dreams? How about Thomas Harris? How about anyone working at Spike?
Damn, Mick LaSalle, now you're making me wistful. I remember when I first had that inkling that maybe some people in show business were only in it for the money. I was eight years old, and Bo & Luke Duke suddenly disappeared, replaced overnight by despised clone-cousins Coy & Vance.
A quarter century has since passed. Oh what I would have given, Mick LaSalle, to live in your technicolor mindworld where pop culture is art produced by artists for art's sake.
But, sadly, I turned nine.
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About eight months ago, the wife saw an ad on Craigslist for marketing director at Adult Swim.
"You could totally get that job, and it would be so cool," she said.
"Maybe, but we'd have to move to Atlanta."
Well, it looks like that job's about to open up again.
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Conservatives often claim that liberals only protest wars to feel good about themselves. This time, they're right.
Second Life Avatars Against the War. Are they fucking kidding?
Does anybody actually do anything in Second Life other than stage marketing events there?
Posted by: fiat lux | January 31, 2007 at 11:28 PM
Oh yeah, I have been breathlessly following the ATHF story on BoingBoing. I also was excited to see that a certain "Seamus" posted a story, but it involved an Irish government minister getting a tumor ID'd by a doctor who saw him on the tele. You mean to tell me that you're not the only Seamus in the blog-o-sphere? Say it ain't so!
Posted by: Podgers | February 01, 2007 at 02:56 AM
My inklings were Little House on the Prairie related. I can't remember if it was when Albert got a drug problem or when Shannen Doherty joined the cast. Either way, I knew that the show was being kept alive for some reason other than the story itself, and I was embarassed for them, and had to stop watching. Probably I stopped when Albert became a drug addict, and then tuned back in, and was horrified to see Shannen having a creepy rape dream sequence thing happening. It was over for me then.
Posted by: Andrea | February 01, 2007 at 04:11 PM
about legally blond, check out this sneak review:
www.showbizdavid.typepad.com
Posted by: james | February 02, 2007 at 12:38 PM