Tracy ,'The Message'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
In part it was a device to fit long words into small headlines, but it was also to create a clubby feel among the paper's entertainment industry readers
That's cheesy as hell. I don't mind it when it evolves, but when it's designed for that purpose it makes me @@.
Reading that list of slanguage made me very angry. They're making the language deliberately impenetrable, and grrrr.
What I found interesting, however, was how many common terms used today were apparently coined by Variety, like "biopic" and "sex appeal." And, apparently, "fave." Some of their shortenings are in widespread use these days.
Please tell me (and the disc jockey I was listening to with gritted teeth this morning) that "biopic" isn't supposed to rhyme with myopic.
I always thought it did, but I found out otherwise a few months ago. Or maybe several months ago. In any case, it still sounds that way in my head.
I didn't think so. I thought it was for biographical picture. Biopic. BUY-oh-pik.
Please tell me (and the disc jockey I was listening to with gritted teeth this morning) that "biopic" isn't supposed to rhyme with myopic.
Back in the early days of MTV, I heard Martha Quinn pronounce "molecule" as "Moe-leck-you-lee." Someone on the other side of the camera corrected her on the air.
I doubt there's an "official" pronunciation of a word that Variety made up, but I typically rhyme it with myopic.
I doubt there's an "official" pronunciation of a word that Variety made up
Surely there's one so the in group can recognise each other in public.
[eta: I am quite amused that one of the in-context links for the first one is the Aeon Flux trailer.]
I stand corrected.