The Loquacious Limey

Well, could you sleep last night?
In what has to rank among the most over-rated, over-hyped and utterly meaningless events in all of human history, People magazine have posted their oh-so precious pics of the new Brangelina product online.
…I’m so excited, I can hardly stay awake.
The magazine allegedly paid $14-million for the pictures, which can be [...]

Tuesday’s earthquake only lasted about 15 seconds – and I must confess to being somewhat dismayed that none of its Earth shuffling influence made it up here — but it apparently caused some major discomfort in parts further south…
The “Big Brother” crew, located in Studio City, were close to the epicenter and the cast were [...]

It’s been rumored for years but the story is finally gaining substance. That pillar of truth and insider info, Peter Bart, has let it be known that Paramount are currently restoring one of the most revered and seminal films in the history of the medium – The Godfather. The negatives for the 1972 classic are [...]

There is only one group for whom I practice greater contempt than the entire negotiating and directorial staff of the AMPTP, and that is people who wear fur. For them is reserved a special blend of revulsion that burns with the passionate intensity of a thousand imploding suns, the merest contemplation of whose quenchment is [...]

Yesterday, thousands of Writers marched down Hollywood Boulevard to protest what their bosses would call ’slave wages’ if the same numbers were found in their salaries. Now a group called “Film LA,’ whose job it appears to be to know these things has determined that the Strike could cost the city more than $20m a [...]

In support of the WGA, this blog and many others related to Entertainment will not publish on Tuesday, November 13th. To read more, go here

NBC Direct, the “free” service from NBC that lets you download full episodes of shows like The Office, 30 Rock, Las Vegas, Biggest Loser and more, has opened on NBC’s main site.
Currently in that annoying cop-out known as “Beta,” and originally scheduled to open last month, the new video service lets you download NBC shows [...]

After yesterday’s malevolent demands by the AMPTP that every word a Writer may have even contemplated committing to paper belonged to them and must be surrendered immediately or incur a Fatwah, we reach another low-point in the course of any strike; The Opportunists.
The picket lines on the East Coast are rapidly becoming clogged and in [...]

This should be titled, “Mediation Won’t Work…So Let’s Try Fear”…
Members of the Western arm of the WGA whose unproduced scripts were shopped or bought by a Studio now have until tomorrow [Friday] to give those scripts to the Union for their ‘Script Validation’ program. This is an attempt to keep track of possible rogue writers, [...]

Well, it’s on. As of 12.01am PT today, WGA members downed tools and formed a picket line. This could be long, and will certainly be both costly and acrimonious. But the political camps are already seizing on the strike as a platform for their own campaigns; Sen. Barack Obama, [D-Ill.,] already declared his position and [...]