I will now delve into a bit of speculation on the part of Saturday Night Live. I may be way off base here, but the show’s 34th season finale may have been the last for Darrell Hammond. There’s no official word from either the show or NBC that Hammond is leaving, and a quick look around [...]
Last week I did a little dumpster diving on the Hollywood backlot and pulled out a collection of vomit-inducing big screen adaptations that failed miserably to live up to the TV series that inspired them. The putrid stench of their incompetence still clings to the walls at FOX, Warner Bros., and Universal. No amount of [...]
Is there a more definitive fictional British character than James Bond? I say no. You could argue Sherlock Holmes, I guess. What about Ebenezer Scrooge? Robin Hood and Macbeth deserve consideration as well. However, none of those personae has reached the same pop culture icon status as 007. Ian Fleming’s suave spy was a hit [...]
Hollywood loves an easy sell. They prefer projects with built-in audiences because the risk of failure is lessened. More and more producers are looking to repackage television shows from past and present in hopes of striking gold. It may be a lazy practice, but it does make good business sense. In an industry where misses [...]
