Tuesday, October 14, 2003
I DON'T RATE IWPs: Welcomes are due (I'm sure) to Scott Keith, who is doing his bit to cut the clutter at the start of his 411 columns by offloading some of the off-topicness to his own blog. If you read that heading and are one of the few readers who have no idea what an IWP even is, you're probably better off that way.
AWWWWWW, CRAP: Just heard from MSNBC's Countdown that a new Pink Panther movie is in the works, with Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau. While I'm sure that Steve will do the best he can under the circumstances, when a person is as inseparable from a role as Peter Sellers was, and considering MGM/UA's abject failure to keep the franchise going (TWICE!) following Sellers' death, it make you wonder why the hell showbiz doesn't learn from its failures like the rest of us occasionally do. It took US television at least 10 years to get the hint after the variety format stopped bearing fruit.
But then, there are moments of shocking lucidity in the entertainment industry, the ones that make me think maybe the cranial-anal insertion syndrome isn't as universal in Cali as I thought it was. It was a stirring moment when Hollywood, after one movie, just said no to Carrottop. It's days like those that I feel proud to be an American. At least until I see that damn phone ad.
AWWWWWW, CRAP: Just heard from MSNBC's Countdown that a new Pink Panther movie is in the works, with Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau. While I'm sure that Steve will do the best he can under the circumstances, when a person is as inseparable from a role as Peter Sellers was, and considering MGM/UA's abject failure to keep the franchise going (TWICE!) following Sellers' death, it make you wonder why the hell showbiz doesn't learn from its failures like the rest of us occasionally do. It took US television at least 10 years to get the hint after the variety format stopped bearing fruit.
But then, there are moments of shocking lucidity in the entertainment industry, the ones that make me think maybe the cranial-anal insertion syndrome isn't as universal in Cali as I thought it was. It was a stirring moment when Hollywood, after one movie, just said no to Carrottop. It's days like those that I feel proud to be an American. At least until I see that damn phone ad.
|| Eric 1:13 AM#
