Okay, let’s just call the Oscars now and give “There Will Be Blood” the Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Best Cinematography awards–and give “No Country For Old Men” Best Picture of the year.
Why? Not because Javier Bardem is so cute with his Beatle bob–NCFOM is a better picture. Because it’s about people.
NCFOM is the lesser [...]

Tues | Jan 8 Oh, what a simpler pursuit politics must have seemed for Arnold Schwarzenegger when all it required was gathering together a few star-struck rubes and intimating your opponents were either homosexual, transgendered or didn’t smoke cigars. Back then, 2003, the thing he told us he could do best was handle money. The [...]

…which is a problem, because all of this caucus activity requires that the Daily Show be in top form.

The future of Lincoln Park homeless? Maybe hungry
Responding to my story about Star Trek filming at Lincoln Park, reader Jeanine Birong asks, “Is Daniel really sure the homeless are getting nothing from this deal? Given my experience in locations, I would bet some kind of deal was cut on their behalf. Dig deeper: I bet [...]

Of cops and the homeless at Lincoln Park
A great conversation emerging in the comments section of Daniel de Boom’s piece on the Star Trek filming at Lincoln Park. “The city has rented out and fenced off over half of Lincoln Park for Paramount Studios’ filming of the latest Star Trek movie—displacing homeless people who squat [...]

Can the city really spare cops for a big-time film? It can!
The city has rented out and fenced off over half of Lincoln Park for Paramount Studios’ filming of the latest Star Trek movie—displacing homeless people who squat there in this happiest time of the year.
The fenced-off area is a base camp for the crew. [...]

Yesterday, we learned that late-night talk show mannequin Carson Daly will begin production of his show, Last Call, again even though the show’s writers are currently on strike.
My reaction to this news was, I think, typical: “That show had writers?”
Last Call is dreadful, which is why NBC put it on at 1:35 a.m. to compete [...]

One man’s solution to the writers strike
TO: Steven, Jeffrey, Les et al.
FROM: Michael
RE: Idled production
OK, guys, listen up. Here’s a foolproof way to monetize the strike while developing a totally unique franchise with endless hours of syndicatable programming.
You’re all scrambling to put on low-cost, writer-free reality shows, but you’ve overlooked the obvious. You see, all [...]

The zombie initiative finds a sugar daddy
The ballot initiative to divide up California’s Electoral College votes to help the GOP nominee, once believed dead, is looking a little more lively, now that it’s found a new sugar daddy. And just as a writer’s strike is poised to turn the fall TV season into reruns, the [...]