1) Both Hilly Kristal (founder of CBGB) and Richard Jewell (hero, then suspect in the bombing at the 1996 Olympics) died today. That leads me to this question: do obscure semi-celebrities die in threes? If so, who’s next?
2) Doesn’t new Yankee phenom Joba Chamberlain look like he’s Ricky Gervais’ younger brother?
Here’s my appearance on Attack of the Show last night. Besides the fact that I kept my mouth open the whole time, I don’t think I did too badly. Enjoy!
For those of you with digital cable, tune in to G4 at either 7 PM or 10 PM ET tonight; I’ll be on the “geek chic” channel’s Attack of the Show, talking about how networks are dealing with pilots that are leaked to BitTorrent and other places on the Interwebs.
Here are the details; the segment I’ll be on is called “The Loop.” This is the third time I’ve done the show, but the first time in about a year. The reason why I say “I think” I’ll be on is that I could be bumped at the very last minute. But right now, I’m 99% sure I’ll be on.
Oh, and later tonight, at 10 PM, I’ll be participating in the second full episode of TV Squad’s revived podcast, which is being hosted by BlogTalkRadio. Details here. So it’s a very busy multimedia kind of day for me. Woo.
I just realized that the link that I posted for Andy Breckman’s radio show, Seven Second Delay, hasn’t been updated since 2001. So, here’s some more up-to-date links: the show’s blog (which happens to have a link to my article at the top… don’t worry, there’s no quid pro quo deal or anything like that), and a list of archived shows.
By the way, if anyone can tell me what the Robin Williams quote I discussed yesterday actually means, let me know in the comments. I’ve been hearing that damn quote for 20 years now (I even had the soundtrack, which had all of Williams’ bits as Adrian Cronauer interspersed between the oldies), and to this day I have no idea what it means.
I just came back from a dance lesson (yes, I’m taking dance lessons… more on that later), and the one block walk from the dance studio — it’s over Hennessey’s bar! — to my apartment was just a murky mess. I’ve finally stopped sweating, about 30 minutes after coming back to my AC-bathed home (and that’s a victory in and of itself, considering how poorly the AC has worked in my building over the last few summers).
Anyway, my Andy Breckman profile has finally been posted at New Jersey Monthly’s web site, complete with the sidebar about Breckman’s writing staff at Monk (which was completely rewritten, save for the quotes I got. But the larger article is 95% how I wrote it, which is pretty satisfying to me, considering how long it is). It was a fun article to do, as I followed Breckman around for two days, from the show’s offices to the studios of WFMU, where he does a weekly radio show, to his home. The writers’ room experience was interesting, especially seeing how Andy and his crew break down the story of an episode into acts and scenes within those acts. And that’s before the script is even written.
Oh, and being in the writers’ room led me to another story lead, which I can’t talk about right now. But it’s an exciting one.
By the way, the line in the post’s title is from Good Morning, Vietnam. No, I don’t know what it means, either. But it was probably the last live-action movie where Robin Williams’ random improvised humor was actually funny. Unfortunately, it also led other filmmakers to make movies where Robin “winged it,” leading to pretty ugly results.
