What story would be the most adaptable for a Sandman screenplay?
I'd guess the damning Nada to hell storyline, though honestly a Death movie would probably be more commercially accessible than Sandman. The labyrinth plots combined with the humorless, self pitying protagonist would just be too hard to translate into a mainstream popcorn flick.
@momof3wildkids: Since 1789. But I'd concede it's not a particularly relevant qualification.
@that charlie sedarka: or at the very least it should read "an olitical" :)
Joseph Kennedy II was really the only family member who would have been qualified to serve in the Senate. But then again, Ted wasn't particularly qualified the first time he won.
At the risk of sounding like I was dropped on my head, maybe the move is for Rolling Stone to stop presenting itself as a publication about music completely.
Even putting aside Hunter Thompson, the most memorable pieces I've read in Rolling Stone over the last few years have been long form articles on topics such as bug chasers, a tiny subsection of the gay community that actively tried to contract HIV; a story about a average suburban American kid who become a violent African drug lord; and even a piece in the latest issue about a blind kid, who used to "swatting" to seek revenge on woman who wouldn't give him phone sex.
All stories that have absolutely nothing to do with music.
When sites like TMZ can provide on demand beaver shots and celebrity meltdowns, showing Britney Spears posing with a purple Teletubbie just isn't provocative anymore. And as Foster pointed out, in terms of music journalism, Rolling Stone just doesn't have a clear cut niche anymore.
I say downsize the operation (even further), and make it into a less highbrow, more pop culture Slate.com, focusing on the long form human interest stories they actually do well. Or at least spin that off into a different site, so when the new Rolling Stone.com inevitably does fail, not everything goes down with the ship.
On a scale of 1 to 10; I'm officially worried.
I'm sure NBC isn't thrilled but they can't be in full panic mode either. Leno didn't start beating Letterman until his Hugh Grant "Devine Brown" interview, which was 3 years after he got the Tonight Show.
I'll bet Conan is beating Dave in half of that time.
Why are you singling out Al Franken as a Jew? Is Norm Coleman somehow less Jewish?
@OrneryBabe: The skank is suing Google to reveal who called her a skank.
(Other than me.)
@Private Hangnail: Between the problems keeping his publicist and that kiddy movie The Pacifier, he might actually be veering closer to Octomom territory.
@CountryClubRepublican: He created a $2.9 trillion defect; I don't think him making 7 million dollars disappear is going to impress anyone.
@Not The Red Baron: If there could be a press conference pop up, where you could give him an arrogant smirk every time a competent reporter asks him a question, that would work too.
Being made of cardboard, he wont be able to even complete a sentence but from what I recall that's what his real Q&As were like anyway.
His last hit film was in 2002. Firing Vin was probably the only way to get him some press.
Given how introspective he is, do you think Crown got a guarantee that he'll hand in a manuscript that was more than 10 pages?
Apparently there's an accordion on every track of this album... I'm for anything that could prod Weird Al into making a sequel to his hilarious tribute song "Bob".
Ron Silver was mostly playing villains even before he changed political parties... why would anyone blacklist him if that was already their impression of him?
You know, if someone turned that "you've got mail..." notification into a G-Mail add on, I'd totally use it.
I just wouldn't use AOL Mail again... ever.
Wrath of Khan is easily the ugliest.
So did a bunch of would-be-supermodels end up jail? Sounds like a TV show that Showtime would green light.
I love watching Kitchen Nightmares but what he does almost every single time is simplify the menu, both to make it easier to cook and less exotic to local tastes.
Even on Hell's Kitchen consistency and efficiency are often valued over creativity. So for someone who's billed himself as a pragmatic businessman, the eroding restaurant empire is probably a lot more embarrassing than being labeled a pretty average cook.
