NOTE FROM LB
D’neh, the Navajo Dog, is back in this remembrance of days far more glorious than any I’ve experienced that are part of showbiz. Who knew real life could be so shiny and bright?
I met my friend the wild Indian at dawn,
Time for TVWriter™’s Monday look at our 5 most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are, in order:
I prefer watching movies on the big screen first, as big a screen as I can get. That said, I don’t always get to see them first in the movie theater. Any number of films that have become my faves I saw first on the small screen. Sometimes there’s a good reason for this; sometimes there’s no particular reason.
42 was one of those films.
It starred Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson who was the black baseball player who first integrated Major League Baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. (You may know Boseman better as the Black Panther in MCU films.) It also stars Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers who hired Robinson. (Ford you know from… well, you know Harrison Ford.) It was written and directed by Brian Helgeland, who also wrote and directed A Knight’s Tale.
Bri Castellini, TVWriter™’s favorite starving young indie filmmaker, strikes again:
We find this video interesting because there are so many even dickier things that reliable sources have reported about Brando over the years that Bri didn’t list here. Instead, she very professionally stuck to what appears to be her professional pet peeve – of the moment, anyway – thereby making this the perfect video for TVWriter™ to post as a public service to new filmmakers.
Thanks for your service, Bri!
Arika Okrent’s series on the origins and histories of the words we use when we write, talk, and think is a big fave here at TVWriter™. Gather ’round, kiddies, whilst she tells us how to insult the hell out of people by drowning them in “class:”
More by Akira Okrent HERE