When you create something for public consumption, you’re putting yourself in a very fragile position. For example, creating a popular television show means handing your beloved characters over to the world for weekly scrutinizing. Then again, it also means handing them over for weekly adoration. But no matter how beloved a show, movie, album, or book might be, no creator is perfect. And by default, no creator’s work is perfect.
That being said, there are few times in the world of pop culture where a creator has come forth and apologized for a large piece of work. Do...
That being said, there are few times in the world of pop culture where a creator has come forth and apologized for a large piece of work. Do...
- 4/22/2014
- by Samantha Highfill
- EW.com - PopWatch
Entertainment Geekly is a weekly column that examines contemporary pop culture through a geek lens and simultaneously examines contemporary geek culture through a pop lens. So many lenses!
James Bond and the Doctor don’t have very much in common. Bond is a violent British superspy. The Doctor is a pacifist alien traveler. Bond jets around to exotic locations and uses expensive gadgets; the Doctor spends a curious amount of time in Wales and uses semi-abstract technology that makes funny noises. Weirdly, if the two characters ever met, they would probably be enemies. Bond is the kind of guns-blazing loose...
James Bond and the Doctor don’t have very much in common. Bond is a violent British superspy. The Doctor is a pacifist alien traveler. Bond jets around to exotic locations and uses expensive gadgets; the Doctor spends a curious amount of time in Wales and uses semi-abstract technology that makes funny noises. Weirdly, if the two characters ever met, they would probably be enemies. Bond is the kind of guns-blazing loose...
- 11/29/2013
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
In early autumn next year, the film industry will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond movie, Dr No, after which there will be rather smaller celebrations to mark the anniversaries of the more short-lived pseudo-Bonds, anti-Bonds and Bond send-ups including Jason Love, Harry Palmer, Matt Helm, Derek Flint and, for die-hard chroniclers of the genre, Neil Connery in Operation Kid Brother.
Harry Saltzman wore belt and braces in the early 60s, co-producing the Bond films and the Palmer series launched by The Ipcress File. Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films have now done something similar as producers of the deadly serious Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (where the guests at an MI5 Christmas party sing along to the comic theme song of the 1965 Bond rip-off Licensed to Kill) and the 007 parodies featuring Rowan Atkinson as the dim spy, Johnny English of MI7, a child-like,...
Harry Saltzman wore belt and braces in the early 60s, co-producing the Bond films and the Palmer series launched by The Ipcress File. Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films have now done something similar as producers of the deadly serious Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (where the guests at an MI5 Christmas party sing along to the comic theme song of the 1965 Bond rip-off Licensed to Kill) and the 007 parodies featuring Rowan Atkinson as the dim spy, Johnny English of MI7, a child-like,...
- 10/8/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
HollywoodNews.com: The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced its jurors for the festival that kicks off today at L.A. Live.
The narrative jury consists of director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, The Glass Shield),
screenwriter/producer Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt), and La
Weekly film critic Ella Taylor. The documentary jury is comprised of director/actress Karen
Moncrief (Blue Car, The Dead Girl), director Arthur Dong (Licensed to Kill, Hollywood
Chinese), and film critic and journalist Robert Abele. Writer/performer Sandra Tsing-Loh
(solo show “Mother on Fire,” novel If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now), actor Andrew
Garfield (Boy A, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) and director Tommy O’Haver (An
American Crime, Ella Enchanted) round out the shorts jury.
“I’m so excited to have all these great talents join us at the Festival this year,” said Artistic
Director David Ansen.
The narrative jury consists of director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, The Glass Shield),
screenwriter/producer Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt), and La
Weekly film critic Ella Taylor. The documentary jury is comprised of director/actress Karen
Moncrief (Blue Car, The Dead Girl), director Arthur Dong (Licensed to Kill, Hollywood
Chinese), and film critic and journalist Robert Abele. Writer/performer Sandra Tsing-Loh
(solo show “Mother on Fire,” novel If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now), actor Andrew
Garfield (Boy A, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) and director Tommy O’Haver (An
American Crime, Ella Enchanted) round out the shorts jury.
“I’m so excited to have all these great talents join us at the Festival this year,” said Artistic
Director David Ansen.
- 6/17/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
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