Category: Opinion
A Quick Thought About Robin Williams
Can you imagine how difficult it must have been for an over-actor like Robin Williams, whose whole career has been about going off and careening around any and all scenes eating every actor and prop in his path, to underplay the way he did on that episode of LOUIE where Louis C.K. and Robin meet at the burial (it wasn’t really a funeral) of a mutual acquaintance (he wasn’t really a friend)?
Or, conversely, can you imagine how difficult it must have been for Louis to keep Robin down the way he did? To succeed where so many other directors have failed?
If You’re One of Those Who Wonder What WILFRED’s All About…
…read the article below:
Wilfred – Are we ever going to get to the truth? – by Michael Noble (CliqueClack.Com)
SATURDAY MORNING SLAM?
No, it isn’t an iHop breakfast. It’s something even more sinister:
TeamTVWriter Press Service has just learned (read “We got a press release”) that the WWE and Saban Brands have joined forces to produce SATURDAY MORNING SLAM, a kids show on the WC. It’s the first time in over a decade that the WWE has had a show in a kids time slot, and if that doesn’t prove that society is breaking down, nothing does.
LB: Alas, Poor Aaron…
by Larry Brody
…Sorkin, that is. Looks like everyone’s after him these days, and not in a good way.
And a short while ago he was such a golden boy. Screenwriting Oscar winner! Beloved creator of THE WEST WING! Toast of what we used to call “the Intelligensia” with his cult fave SPORTS NIGHT.