I write nothing for Blogcritics for 3 months, then 4 in a week. My latest is an interview with Canadian actor Andrew Airlie (Intelligence, Reaper):
Interview: Andrew Airlie of Defying Gravity “I don’t think they went into it with the idea, ‘OK, let’s find something that will satisfy the sci-fi and the Grey’s crowd,'” Airlie explained, pointing out the inspiration for the show was the BBC pseudo-documentary Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets. “They found the source material interesting on its own, and they dramatized it and boosted the production value.” Read more.
I rant a little at Blogcritics about the Emmy change announced yesterday. The Emmys diminishing the role of the writer should be as unthinkable as the Oscars diminishing the role of the director.
The Emmys Snub Writers … Again “Jeff Greenstein, currently a writer/producer on the upcoming Parenthood, formerly with Desperate Housewives, and a long-time Emmy judge, said the news was the talk of the writers’ room. ‘I find it ironic that the year after the skit with the five reality show hosts saying ‘we got nothing’ – the biggest bomb in Emmy history – that they’d kick the writing awards off the show.'” Read more.
Here’s my interview with author, word nerd, and Oscar nominee Quinn Cummings:
Interview: Author Quinn Cummings of Notes From The Underwire “I suspect – I hope – we’re coming into a more modest, more realistic age, where the goal of life won’t be to get the Bentley you drive to the Hamptons. Aspiring to that much fabulousness is exhausting. Sometimes I can practically hear the exhalations of relief when someone writes in to admit that they, too, are just trying to get through a day without falling up a flight of stairs.” Read more.
Passenger Side Takes An Eccentric Ride Around LA “It’s fitting that Passenger Side, a film about a day-long road trip around Los Angeles and environs, had its premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival. It’s also fitting that I saw it two hours after arriving in Los Angeles after being the passenger on a week-long road trip. But the LA of Passenger Side is not the LA of a tourist, unless that tourist were particularly fond of transsexual prostitutes, middle-of-nowhere gas stations, and low-rent porn shoots.” Read more.
My first (mostly) House article for Blogcritics in forever includes interviews with two mental health professionals: the president of the American Psychiatric Association and a psychologist/psychotherapist:
As the 2008-09 television season ends and networks begin to reveal plans for their 2009-10 schedules, a surprising pattern emerges.
Pilots in contention for the upcoming season include NBC’s Legally Mad, with Kristin Chenoweth as an attorney with flashes of psychosis, and FOX’s Maggie Hill, whose title character is a heart surgeon with schizophrenia. Canada’s Showcase recently ordered Shattered, a 13-episode series starring Callum Keith Rennie as an ex-detective with dissociative identity disorder.
Renewed freshmen series Fringe and 90210 feature main characters coping with psychiatric conditions. And among the more senior series, House led up to Monday’s season finale with a storyline involving suicide and Hugh Laurie’s dysfunctional doctor questioning his sanity after confronting his inner Cutthroat Bitch: Wilson’s dead girlfriend Amber appeared to him as a facet of his tormented psyche.
