It was a small part, I know, almost a walk-on, but I thought she was great as the assistant in "Good Night, and Good Luck."
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Except that if you cut the show by 30 minutes, you're cutting a third of the advertising, and thus a third of the budget. So you'd have to let some writers and/or cast members go, and then instead of a 90 minute show with 30 minutes of chaff, you have a 60 minute show with 20 minutes (or more) of chaff.
"You'd be surprised what you can get used to / When your only other choice is… Houston"
— Chagall Guevara, "Take Me Back To Love Canal"
Was anyone else surprised that there was no review of the show?
There was sort of a similar effect at newspaper publisher Gannett back in the day when the late Al Neuharth ran the company. On the one hand, the company had a good record for hiring and promoting women and minorities — on the other hand, Neuharth famously chewed out the designers of an early USA Today prototype…
Nope, Methodist: http://www.adherents.com/li…
I'm surprised no mention was made of "2001: A Space Odyssey," with product placements that — like the movie itself — looked oddly anachronistic by the time the real 2001 rolled around. Pan Am, the once-real airline which ran the shuttle to Earth orbit in 2001, had gone out of business. There's a video call over AT&T,…
And Fred Armisen played *him*, too.
I loved Robbie Coltrane's Falstaff in the Branagh "Henry V," although he didn't have as much to do as Welles, so I can't really object to Welles as a selection.
I do think there's an chance that they'd start meddling with the show to the extent that Colbert would get frustrated and leave at the end of his contract.
Not likely. CBS, as Les Moonves has pointed out, is making much more money with Colbert than they did with Letterman, because they own the Colbert and Corden shows (as opposed to Worldwide Pants owning the Letterman and Ferguson shows). So even with Colbert running well behind Fallon, CBS is still doing considerably…
"Best Time Ever" was NOT a variety show, despite everyone calling it that — it was a glorified game show / hidden camera prank show. (NPH is one of the few people who probably could carry an old-style variety show, but this wasn't it.) Its success or failure has nothing whatsoever to do with the success or failure of…
Back when he was on "Late Night," Conan was doing one of his bad-college-mascot bits and ad-libbed something about the website "hornymanatee.com." As soon as they went to break, his producer informed him of this rule and suggested they edit that ad-lib out of the show before air time. Instead, they registered the…
The ice cube episode of "Going Deep with David Rees" actually aired during the show's first season on National Geographic. That's pretty much been the way Esquire has been running them — a new-season episode, immediately followed by a repeat from the NatGeo season.
No mention of the feature film adaptation starring Robert DeNiro?
"I counted two flubbed lined, one dropped prop, some klutzy fake piano playing"
I wouldn't normally flame for a typo, but a typo in the sentence when you're criticizing someone for their flubbed "lined" is worth noting.
Only they're not "abandoning PBS." PBS will still get to carry the show — delayed by a certain number of months. And it's more like PBS was abandoning the show. This way, the show will continue to exist, will continue to air on PBS, and will probably have more new content each year than it would otherwise. I know I…
"Predominantly white casts," yes, but by far the best and most memorable thing about "The Sound of Music Live" was Audra McDonald singing "Climb Ev'ry Mountain."
Of course, as much of a British icon as James Bond is, some people don't realize that the very first portrayal of James Bond — *before* Sean Connery — was as, and by, an American: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…