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For fans of the Wire and Simon: The Baltimore Sun just gutted its staff.
Oh the Sun has been gutting its staff and content for a long while now. Last week they stopped having the Monday & Tuesday "Life" or whatever sections as separate sections and jammed what content they kept into the Sports and front page sections. It's ridic. I can't give up my local paper delivery addiction though. What would I read as I walked the dog in the morning?
I thought maybe you all in Premium would find this funnier than the people at DN seem to. [link]
post toasties Just got around to reading this thread. Squee! Thanks for the info glam. I love Big Love; it's terrific to read more about it.
HBO has just ordered 9 episodes of the pilot Treme from The Wire writers David Simon and Eric Overmyer which has been in development for the pay channel. It's a post-Katrina hourlong set in the New Orleans music scene and will be filmed there.
Yay!
I'm REALLY excited about that, considering I don't know when I'll see it.
It's kind of funny that I've ended up an Entourage fan, cause when I was on HBO .com that was Not Done among Wirefiends. Cause we, you know, Keep it Real and all that...have no need for that...I believe the term I learned was "Hollywood dreck"...the irony of using Yiddish to diss a Hollywood show never escaped me. We generally got along with the Deadwood folks, sent pseudo-rivalrous woof tickets to the Sopranos paisans, and tried to pretend SATC and Entourage didn't exist.
Aw, imho Entourage is much better than SATC. I really can't stand SATC, but I find Entourage terribly disarming. (Even as I type that, I wonder if that's some kind of internalised misogyny speaking, or jealousy, or something? But I don't THINK it is. I just - really, I cannot wrap my head around the level of consumer culture that SATC seems to represent. I cannot find it in my heart to give the faintest shadow of a fuck about designer brands. But I suspect Entourage is just as guilty of this vacuous twaddle, isn't it? But - it has Ari Gold.)
I think "Sex" is cute. But I don't think you're missing anything if you don't watch it. Ironically, I've never felt the urge to...pimp it to anyone, despite the name. I think it gets/got SO MUCH attention that it hardly needs my particular obsessive brand of fandom love. Because I guess I like being the underdog, like writing genfic when everyone else is about "VinceandErictheirloveissofuckin'pure!!1"(Yeah, I get it. I don't need to know about it, but I get it.Eric is cuter than Mandy Moore, imo) Much like nobody fics the Sopranos...ok, I won't say nobody...once in the long desert between new eps, I did actually findSopranos fic at FF.net. It was okay, but not good.
Oh the heck with Ari, it's Eric who keeps me coming back. Eric and Ari's wife - she's terrific. Adrian Grenier doesn't hurt the eyes either. I'm behind on the series. The last eps I watched the making of Medihine, however you spell it. Loved the director!