Yesterday we brought you Part 1 of Robert X. Cringely’s look at showbiz and the tech biz and how they’re each trying to screw the other trying to work together. Time now for Part 2:
By Robert X. Cringely
Tag: screenwriting
See-Read the Illustrated Version of the MOONRISE KINGDOM Screenplay
Nobody can say that Focus Features doesn’t know how to campaign for an award.
The screenplay for the Focus Features film MOONRISE KINGDOM (which we thought was brilliant, btw), written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola, has been nominated for the Best Original Screenplay of 2013 Award by 4 different organizations:
LB: If I Hadn’t Made It in Television, I Would’ve Been a Comic Book Writer
…Like my buddies Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway. (Although Gerry did a fine job of escaping that ghetto, didn’t he, by rising to Co-Executive Producer of LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, among other TV shows?).
I’ve always thought that those working in the two media had a lot in common, and recently two writers still working in comic books have cemented that theory – John Ostrander and Martha Thomases. Here’s Martha’s take on soap opera, which coincidentally happens to be right in line with, yeah, you guessed it – mine.
Soap by Martha Thomases (ComicMix.Com)
munchman Sees 1600 PENN
…And I can honestly say that it’s every bit as bad as the picture above indicates.
THE GOOD:
HAWAII FIVE-0 Pulls Another Ratings Stunt
In yet another desperate attempt to make up for the fact that the show sucks, HAWAII FIVE-0’s unsung marketing geniuses once again prove that they’re better at their jobs than the writers by coming up with a truly fascinating gimmick.
They’re giving us not one, or two, or even three, but seven – count ’em seven – “unreleased” songs by Jimi Hendrix as the sound track for the January 20th episode.
As major Hendrix fans, we’re thrilled, even though: