Archive for April, 2010

So, I guess the idea here is that with their respective NBC sitcoms still flying pretty high despite obvious declines, Carell and Fey can jerk out whatever quirky rom-com they want in exchange for big cash payoffs.  Many, many people will trust this combo to make something promising, but with writing like “I don’t...
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It’s curious business bumping into people from our pasts. People whom we haven’t seen since school; people whom we haven’t thought of in decades and because of that lack of constancy have faded into the obscurity of our minds, along with a myriad of other half-forgotten memories. Then, when we do see them, eons...
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It’s cool that when I’m leaving for work you’re tuning your instrument and crooning softly to yourself, and when I’m on my way home, you are wailing on that acoustic guitar with a rock/rhythm and blues style that could net you a couple of weeks on “American Idol.”  But I think you’d need to...
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Sure, we can pretend it's surprising that you're being incarcerated.
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Much is made of the fact that hairdressers are infamous for their conversational skills, darting from topic to topic without consequence or care. It is also true that these same topics are of little consequence or care to the common folk, mere idle chit-chat whilst one is being provided with a service at an...
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Kate’s job as a supermarket manager may not sound too hard for a recent college graduate but you try to get as many happy customers in and out the door as quickly as possible in this time-management game.  Sure, you can hire union-member assistants to fill the shelves, mind the cash registers, and otherwise...
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You're about as much of an artist as a monkey that accidentally shits in the shape of a heart.
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According to Wikipedia, the characteristics of the Bel Canto as an operatic vocal style include: “the ability to execute fast, accurate divisions” and “a pleasing, well-focused timbre.” Without understanding these musical terms precisely, Ann Patchett’s PEN/Faulker award-winning Bel Canto seems to include similar characteristics as it floats seamlessly between narrative perspectives and introduces characters...
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Updating your status because its Friday night and the gang’s coming over for canasta?  Cut. I’m assuming this is done because the person in question thinks the general response to “Fifty cent Jello shot’s at O’Leary’s” is for all of her Facebook friends to nod pensively and say, out loud to no one, “My,...
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Rather than disrupt a small chain of solid SNL episodes, Kristen Wiig, Will Forte, and Maya Rudolph should have promoted MacGruber themselves. Unless there is ever a re-release of Breach, the creators of SNL should only ask Ryan Phillipe to host if Jon Hamm is unavailable.¹ ¹ Saturday Night Live – Saturday Night Live...
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