Month: September 2013
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 9/17/13
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Ron Shelton (BULL DURHAM) is developing a new Showtime drama series focused on the L.A. Lakers basketball team. (Cuz Ron also is the genius – for reals – behind WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP, proving he knows all anybody needs to about basketball drama.)
- Stefan Jaworski (THOSE WHO KILL) ) is writing the pilot for FX’s AMERICAN PSYCHO drama series, a sequel to, right, that’s it – the AMERICAN PSYCHO film. (Cuz there aren’t enough TV series about serial killers on the air, and this one’s already got a following.)
- Kerry Ehrin (BATES MOTEL) has written the pilot for an untitled NBC comedy about two women who are partners in the Boston PD. (Serial killers? BATES MOTEL writer? The city that’s home to the Boston Strangler? Guess there aren’t enough serial killer shows on TV after all.)
- Dan Bucatinsky (GREY’S ANATOMY) is adapting his book Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight into a drama for ABC. (Um, this doesn’t sound much like a drama, does it? But then, its first season GREY’S ANATOMY was called a comedy. Soo…)
- Scott King (THE NEIGHBORS) is developing the comedy THE AFTER PARTY for ABC…and, simultaneously, another comedy called CLOTHING OPTIONAL, for Fox. (They’re both about families, but the family for Fox is, um, naked. Works for us.)
John Ostrander: Fashion Statements
by John Ostrander
My good friend Martha Thomases, as usual, wrote an interesting column this week on her way to the Baltimore Con. She wrote about choosing what to wear at the Con and that, in turn, set me to thinking and provided grist for my own essay mill. Some weeks I need a lot of grist.
Something that’s important in comics and too little discussed is the importance of clothes. The fashion choices made by a character says something about that character. What you wear makes a statement about who you are even if that statement is, “I don’t care.” As often as not, my criterion still is, “Is it clean? Is it clean-ish? Does it at least not smell? Does it not smell too badly?”
However, I can dress up. I clean up fairly well, to be honest. I’m not keen on wearing ties but I know how and when to do so. I like hats, especially fedoras, although the Irish cloth cap works well on me. One wonderful fan made me a beret like GrimJack wears and I like that a lot and can be seen at conventions with it.
Another Reason to Admire Hunter S Thompson
We admit it. We’ve never thought all that highly of Hunter S Thompson‘s so-called “gonzo journalism.” Mostly because it seemed pretty mundane to us. But his life? Ah, that was gonzo indeed. Have a taste of it:
You Aren’t Only What You Do, You’re Who You Are
For the first decade or so of TVWriter™ our BBB LB (that’s, uh, “Beloved Big Boss Larry Brody for those who missed those glorious days) used to harp about how “whatever your job title, you’re really a salesman.” This drove writers insane cuz let’s face it, most writers see themselves as just about anything but salesmen.
These days LB doesn’t have to keep pushing that idea.
First, because now he can say “whatever you’re writing, you’re really an entrepreneur” and make it all sound, well, rather grand. An existence we all want to rise to.