Part of my job is to deal with the archives. Today I had a special assignment that had a lot of scripts passing through my hands.
A sampling of some of the titles:
Absence of Malice
Adventures of Robin Hood
My Fair Lady
Fugitive
Public Enemy
The Matrix
Risky Business
The Right Stuff
Rebel Without a Cause
Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
Casablanca
Dirty Harry
Driving Miss Daisy
Harry Potter
Chariots of Fire
Collateral Damage
Streetcar Named Desire
Searchers
Magnolia
The Usual Suspects
Unforgiven
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Exorcist
Maltese Falcon
The Syfy Channel just made a deal to increase its wrestling programming by making Friday nights Smack Down night.
Yep. Dr. Who. Stargate Atlantis. Eureka. Caprica. And Sweaty Men In Tights.
What gives these days?
I understood when a channel would branch out in a related way – like the History Channel making a historically-based movie; or Cartoon Network making a live action episodes of Ben Ten – a cartoon.
But they’re not even trying anymore.
Cartoon Network is making random live actions; good luck finding a music video at Video Hits One; and not only has AMC officially renounced the “C” in their name, the “M” doesn’t fit with their programming either.
(Hey, I’m all for Breaking Bad, Mad Men and The Prisoner – but what do they have to do with American Movie Classics?)
And now the science-fiction network adds wrestling to its identity.
You know what’s around the corner.
Lifetime partners with World Extreme Cage Fighting.
Hannah Montana does a cross-over episode with Dexter.
Nickelodeon puts a Sex and the City block between Spongebob and iCarly.
BET gears their prime-time programming to celebrate Confederate History Month.
Jason tried to calm me down when I saw the news about Syfy (pronounced “siffy” “s” plus “iffy”).
He suggested that maybe the wrestlers will be monsters versus mad scientists.
My fav: 2. We’re already at page 30 and you haven’t set up the sequel yet.
And Mashable is reminding us of some of the best trailers re-cut for a different meaning. The most enjoyable for me are the first - Scary Mary (Mary Poppins as a horror movie ), and the last, The Shining as a feel good comedy.
"My wife’s ringtone sounds like mine. I sometimes can’t tell which phone is ringing; she told me to stop bugging her by asking, cuz it’s usually for me."
“Black-and-white thinking is attractive because it’s reductionistic, it simplifies everything so we don’t really have to comprehend. It allows us to feel intelligent without understanding, and once we are intelligent, we feel superior. People who don’t agree with us are just dumb.”
“A few days ago a prominent woman in my church posted a note on the internet for her friends to see. She stated that her 4 year old son liked to listen to Rush Limbaugh with her, and he had just told her “I hate liberals.” This excited her and she boasted of how proud she was of her little 4 year old.”
