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Dollhouse Demolished
All you need to know about what went wrong with Dollhouse is in the commentary for the second version of the first episode. Whedon is clearly very unhappy with what he's watching, fixating in particular on the boat and opening bike scene, but can't really say it. Pretty much all the criticism the show gets seems to be as a result of the studio notes and the changes he had to make up front in order to get the show on the air, the wobbles expressions of Whedon having to deal with the fallout.... [more]
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at 2:57 AM on November 12, 2009
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Six-year-old artist.
Well is father is an art dealer and he says that the boy has been around artists and auction houses all of his life. That was in the BBC Breakfast interview. The father in that interview seemed very shy and wondering what all the fuss was about. He even said he was embarrassed that his son was having an exhibition. They also had pictures of his neighbours dogs and they were very good also.
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at 2:16 AM on August 2, 2009
As for drawing -- as he says in the ITN report he sometimes draws them out first then puts in the colours, but that's not unusual for an artist. But generally we've just seen him working freehand.
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at 2:18 AM on August 2, 2009
jscott: gosh you're right. Though he isn't wrong about the film -- it does pull its punches at a vital moment.
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at 4:32 AM on August 2, 2009
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Adam Curtis's It Felt Like A Kiss
"Is there any reason this is posted on the BBC site behind their license wall..."
Or to put it another way...
"Is there any reason this is posted on Hulu behind their license wall?"
Runs both ways, I feel.
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at 3:45 PM on July 24, 2009
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The Alchemists of Sound
.. and before anyone asks, the strange man with the beard has nothing to do with anything. He's a friend of the director Victor Lewis-Smith and was essentially put in there to keep your attention/
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at 2:49 PM on March 5, 2009
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Quake Live
24854 in queue.
I haven't seen a queue that long since The Krazy House in Liverpool in the late 90s.
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at 3:00 PM on February 25, 2009
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"A lot of writers are mad."
First time I've seen it in a UK context, anyway.
It's the first time it's been used. The BBC employed it in their press releases when the show began again on television in 2005 and it stuck, though RTD has since been variously described as 'Lead Writer' and 'Executive Producer' which are both equally true. When asked he's often cited the likes of Joss Whedon and Aaron Sorkin as comparable figures.
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at 9:52 AM on November 10, 2008
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David Tennant Calls Time On Dr Who
Wendell: Actually it's the next but one. He has 12 regenerations which means there's thirteen incarnations. Though I think it unlikely they'll simply stop there. In one of the novels we meet a version who's regenerated up to forty times.
The Patrick Stewart story was a fan fabrication. There's a game out there to see how stupid a story fans can get published. It's probably the source of the Patterson Joseph story too. The tabs pay £400 a time for any old tattle.... [more]
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at 2:01 AM on October 30, 2008
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What Are You Doing Here?
But you have to love sheer geekiness of the commitment. To quote: "The original (which went to the end of Eccleston) took seven months to make - Six to watch all the episodes and one to edit it together."
That's longer than some marriages...
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at 12:13 PM on October 4, 2008
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Man of steel, woman of retcon, kid of non-existence
The problem with Superman Returns is that its a very singular vision of the myth, which is probably why I loved it so. It's a love letter to the original films and also the symbolism of the comic strip, if it didn't quite deliver in terms of its action sequences it more than made up for that in atmosphere.
It is a shame that we'll not now see what happens next in that version of the story, at least not on screen. The status quo set up in there -- with Supes/Clarke... [more]
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at 12:53 PM on September 23, 2008
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The Who we never knew
I'm betting Davis subbed it in...
Nope, Davies touched narry a word of Moffat's scripts. He didn't even know about River Song until he got the script through. He even admitted in a an interview that he'd happily sit around rewriting the work of every other writer, but Moffat's work is sacred and gold.
There's a discussion to be had here about what the scripts looked like before Russell made his 'final pass' but its to be... [more]
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at 3:43 PM on September 22, 2008
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42 + 1?
Gosh, I'm glad I'm not the only one. I expect Penguin and Colfer assumed that fans would be pleased that the story would be carried on, that we'd be happy to simply spend the time with familiar characters no matter who the author is. What they haven't realised is that for many of us, this is personal. For some of us, particularly those of us who are Doctor Who fans too, Adams is or rather was something of a folk hero, and the story of the actual writing of the books as important a tapestry... [more]
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at 12:28 PM on September 17, 2008
Oh and the film was rubbish, mostly because it had the audacity to throw out most of Douglas's agonised over, finely tuned, quotably funny dialogue in favour of something which was inferior and often had the ring of being improvised.
But I'll admit that Zooey's Trillian was the best of the lot, with apologies to Sandra and Susan.
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at 12:32 PM on September 17, 2008
"it was, as i understand, douglas adams who did most of the writing for the movie."
Actually its his structure which generally survived -- including the use of the gun. The script, however, went through many, many revisions before it reached the screen, ultimately by Karey Kirkpatrick, who having said in this interview with himself how important Douglas's words are, dumped most of them before it reached the screen.... [more]
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at 1:23 PM on September 17, 2008
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Don't Watch That, Watch This
That almost makes up for that godawful new ad in which Suggs sits at the dinner table marooned in a giant ice cube. Almost.
Suggs, mate, what where you thinking?
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at 8:14 AM on September 1, 2008
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Geoffrey Perkins is dead
I texted a friend to tell him last night and he was unconvinced enough to text back saying "really?" That's how surprising this is.
We've lost Geoffrey far too early.
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at 8:08 AM on August 30, 2008
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US Presidential Campaign Videos
And there was me expecting a thin box underneath:
[This post has been deleted for the following reason: Campaign Filter -- Cortex]
Not really. That's amazing. Thanks so much!
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at 3:09 PM on August 27, 2008
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Go Superlambanana, go.
Actually, they've been extremely popular, which is why I thought they'd be worth posting about. Its been far more inclusive than you'd expect it to be. Example.
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at 8:57 AM on July 25, 2008
chrominance: Having read the FAQ at the main website, you'll know they'll only be in situ until the end of August when they're too be auctioned off for charity, and that there is a repair team on constant call out should any of them be vandalised in the mean time. Oh and that they're made of fibre glass yet covered in a variety of materials. So you'll already agree that this usual state of affairs doesn't apply here.
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at 10:09 AM on July 25, 2008
spicynuts: I wasn't talking to you snarkypants
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at 10:53 AM on July 25, 2008
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The Case for the First Folio
Well I know, but I decided it was too good a piece of writing despite the format.
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at 5:03 PM on January 25, 2008
verstegan: True, although there is very much the prevailing argument in the actual book that what they're trying to do is edit the Folio as is, preserving (though modernizing) the plays in that form. Other versions of the complete works are available.
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at 2:36 AM on January 26, 2008
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The Manners Manifesto
My best example of the making a connection thing happened to me in Paris. As I wrote in my diary back in the day:
I’m sitting in the café at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. On the table before me are an espresso and pain du chocolate, and they are all I can smell. Around me people are talking in a din of different languages. A Japanese girl is seated on the table almost but not quite opposite to me. She has brought an espresso as well. We smile at each other, and we share... [more]
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at 3:49 PM on January 7, 2008
iamkimiam: That is weird but lovely. It's good to know there are other people out there who that kind of thing.
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at 4:15 AM on January 10, 2008
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Rant Of The Century
Plus there's a *lot* of context surrounding that review in that he hated the first two films and gave them equal trashings even though the listenership and Simon Mayo largely disagreed with him, at least on the first one.
I'm a great fan of his reviews and presenting and have been for years. It's worth looking at his wikipedia page for more comment and context:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kermode
But really I... [more]
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at 2:23 PM on January 9, 2008
