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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!

Oh! Speaking of Adrian Grenier, The Devil Wears Prada was on network tv the other night and I watched the last 45 minutes. I'd seen it before, & read the book, and like the movie and the actors. Anyway, I'd forgotten AG was in it, as the boyfriend, requisitely adorable. The person I completely forgot was in it is Simon Baker - an Oh! It's the Mentalist! moment. Also Tracy Thoms from Rent and Wonderfalls.

I believe it's "Medellin", as in the drug cartel.(That *still* isn't spelled right...the trials of being a brain-damaged crime freak.D'oh!) Eric is the group superego.I like Eric a lot, but I admit I don't pay much attention to him because I *am* him. Well, with breasts. Totally loyal friend, inclined to be subordinate, tougher than I look. Ari fascinates me because he doesn't go around worrying about doing the right thing like I do(except at home, which keeps him human.) Yeah, Vincent Chase is a foamy dude, and he knows it, too. He could be much more of a bastard than he is. That was a good movie, Java.

Entourage: OMGWTF happened to Beverly D' Angelo's face! She looks like she ran into the Carver from Nip-Tuck. Yikes...it's like plastic surgeons need bouncers..."You've had three procedures...you're cut off." And it's exceptionally weird on that show, because of Gold being Gold. Because if it were some kind of *effect*, just for Barbara Cooper, agent bitch-goddess, one might expect Ari to be all "I've known Babs so long she was on her first husband AND her first face...Isn't that right, baby?" I still swear there's no way wrinkles look worse than that.