If this was really intended for Broadway we’d be freaked out and probably angry for reasons having nothing to do with its quality. (Proprietary fan knee-jerk reflex thing, you know?) But as a fan video we find it, well, how does “incredible” sound?
And, speaking of sound:
LB’s good bud and one of our favorite bloggers (InvisibleMikey) has a spot-on recommendation for our TV viewing:
Ah, politics. The fakeness, lies and weasel-words. The facade of assumed importance. The grand parade of lifeless commodities. During the weeks the political conventions are broadcast I feel as if quality TV, normally one of my maintenance drugs, is only available from secret labs run by chemistry students.
Just in case you also want to avoid the convention broadcasts, here’s a hidey-hole I discovered. There’s an award-winning series from Danish TV about a female Prime Minister and politicians who have to choose between family life and serving a nation. It’s called Borgen, and it’s one of the best political drama series ever made. Superbly written and performed, it’s a less preachy, more plot-heavy, European version of The West Wing.
Don’t mess with the writer of THELMA AND LOUISE, doods. For any number of very good reasons. (Hey, she created NASHVILLE too.)
Academy Award Winning Writer Callie Khouri Slams Movies About Women As Relegated to Trash Heap – by Melissa Silverstein
Callie Khouri gave the movie business a lot of years of her life. It’s been an up and down relationship. The up – winning an Academy Award for writing Thelma and Louise. The down – wanting to direct and getting pigeon holed into the chick flick box because she had made a movie about women.
…because writing’s all that counts in this life anyway…um, if you’re a writer.
Fear and Focus – by Charlotte Rains Dixon
We don’t always think of fear and focus at the same time, but there’s very good reason to pair them.
Focus. It’s what we all desire, what gets the writing done. Because the words don’t go on the page without it.
This thing gets bigger/better/more important each year. Talk about a way to jump start your TV career!
The 2012 New York Television Festival Announces Its Winners, Including ‘Galaxy Comics,’ ‘Shrink’ and More – by Alison Willmore
The eighth annual New York Television Festival wrapped last night ( Saturday) by announcing the winners of its main Independent Pilot Competition, as well as the final selections for various scripted and unscripted contests that come with development deals at networks like Fox, A&E, Lifetime and others.
The festival, which ran from October 22 to 27 in New York, included panels, workshops, industry pitch sessions and screenings of all 51 selections in the IPC, broken up into the categories of animation, comedy, drama and unscripted.