kfan:
My favorite. About as GPOY as it gets.
(The Paul Feig Freaks & Geeks post-mort on AV Club this week is top-notch & highly recommended if you are into things like TV and writing and inspiration and constraints and Finding Ways to Make it Work.)
(Source: youtube.com)
Reblogged from kfan with 20 notes / Amusing Freaks and Geeks Television
Beasties not even bothering to pretend they aren’t lip syncing on American Bandstand, 1987.
The Sorkin Way
After writing two of the most interesting movies of the past several years (The Social Network and Moneyball), Aaron Sorkin has returned to television via HBO, which is premiering his dramatic series The Newsroom next month. On the set, as a blue-chip cast—including Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterston, Emily Mortimer, and Olivia Munn—revel in (and wrestle with) their dialogue, James Kaplan hears about the intellectual and emotional underpinnings of Sorkin’s fictional world, from his love of screwball to his passion for argument.
(Source: longform)
Reblogged from longform with 7 notes / Aaron Sorkin Television Long Reads
70% of Sunday news guests are Republicans
86% are male, 92% are white.
Between June 2011 and February of this year, 70 percent of all one-on-one interviewees on the four biggest political talk shows — NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation and Fox News Sunday — were Republicans. The numbers were even more lopsided in favor of men and white guests:
Coupled with the news that came out earlier this week that only 3% of news stories ask scientists about global warming, the corporate media should be absolutely ashamed of itself.
The media is soooo liberal.
“It really was such a shame, the way you could be so careful, and for so long, and then go ahead and undo it all in the end, as though nothing had ever been held together by anything at all.”
—Johanna Skibsrud, This Will Be Difficult to Explain: And Other Stories
Reblogged from slaughterhouse90210 with 519 notes / Mad Men Television Literature
The Man with the Miniature Orchestra
By Dave Algonquin
There were phrases of Beethoven’s 9th symphony that still made Coe cry. He always thought it had to do with the circumstances of the composition itself. He imagined Beethoven, deaf and soul-sick, his heart broken, scribbling furiously while Death stood in the doorway, clipping his nails. Still, Coe thought, it might have been living in the country that was making him cry; it was killing him with its silence and loneliness, making everything ordinary too beautiful to bear.
The Rolling Stones cereal commercial Don Draper mentioned Sunday. Way catchier than “Heinz is on my side…”
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Everything in the scene really happened, written almost verbatim from an article on Page 1 of The Times on May 28, 1966.
“Poverty Pickets Get Paper-Bag Dousing on Madison Avenue,” the headline read. The article described more than 300 people picketing the Office of Economic Opportunity, between East 40th and 41st Streets, the day before, chanting, “O-E-O, we’ve got the poverty, where’s the dough?” Executives upstairs at Young & Rubicam, half a block from the building, shouted at the protesters, and hung up signs saying “If you want money, get yourself a job.”
And then, the article said: “A container of water was pitched out of one of the windows of the building, splashing two spectators. Later, two demonstrators were hit by water-filled paper bags thrown from the building.”
A 9-year-old boy was struck. Several women in the protest, including the boy’s mother, hurried up to the advertising agency’s sixth-floor offices and confronted a secretary about the water throwing.
“This is the executive floor,” the secretary said. “That’s utterly ridiculous.”
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