Day: May 17, 2005

Okay, I stole that headline from the Observer or somewhere; sorry.

Anyway, VM contributor Tom Spurgeon offers up 10 reasons he may not see Star Wars III, including

2. If I had a dollar every time I heard someone on TV asserting Star Wars was important for no other reason than that they liked it a lot, I would still be about $49,973 short of the money one should be paid to hear people talk like that.

At the NYTimes, Virginia Heffernan’s been blogging from the “upfronts” presentations, where TV networks pitch next season’s new shows to advertisers. It’s a hoot:

In the big, comic presentations, “Hawaii,” “LAX,” and “Father of the Pride” were satirized as bad ideas. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler said that the people who created them are now in rehab. (In fact, they were probably in the audience, smarting at the slaps; just last year, of course, Mr. Zucker was hyping those same shows, doting on them, and hearing him tear them down like this year was like watching a parent smack a child.)