Well, I’m shrugging, for one. And if I don’t represent the whole world, then WTF?
I jest. Of course, I jest.
But not about the fate of THE GLADES.
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munchman: The Best Show on TV is…
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And here’s why:
munchman: Showtime Prez Sneers at His Audience
Or, to be more specific. At us. You and me. I wanted to title this post “Showtime Prez Affirms His Belief in Kickstarter,” but then I got all freaked about people missing the irony…and my anger.
Cuz Showtime President David Nevins wasn’t being positive about Kickstarter in any way when he mentioned it the other day. In fact, he was being a dick. In other words, if you think the Borgia family is a bag of bad, wait’ll you get a load of this guy.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Nevins was on his way into the Beverly Hilton Hotel for a Television Critics Association press tour event when he saw a protester with a message to save Showtime’s recently cancelled series, THE BORGIAS.
munchman Recommends: “Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution”
Actually, the full title is Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad. But, clearly, author Brett Martin didn’t have headlines in mind when he came up with it.
This is good, though. Really good. Well written and informative. An explanation of how the television business, in which writers have always been the objects of contempt, ended up depending on a showrunner-driven creative machine. (While still holding those very writer-showrunners in contempt.)
Hell, I can more than recommend this. If you want to be a TV writer, or already are a TV writer, and you’re looking to get to the top, Difficult Men et al is a must-read.
munchman: Are You a Female VoiceOver Actress? Tough Shit, Baby
My girlfriend, who shall go unnamed here cuz she thinks I’m an embarrassment, is a voiceover actress. Not for cartoons cuz those go to, like, major and occasionally minor stars, but for commercials. Her biggest role so far was as a talking cheeseburger. Or maybe she was a french fry. Taco shell? Some kind of fast food thing anyway.
Being a woman and trying to make it in voiceover is like being a Jew trying to get a gig as a death camp commandant. It’s like impossible – cuz showbiz as an industry is more sexist than the vilest Republican House of Representatives member. Hollywood just plain doesn’t want to hear women’s voices, no matter how stentorian, saying, “In a world where…” or “…Stars tomorrow. Be there.” And Hollywood thinks that the audience shares that sexist prejudice.