You know, with daytime soaps in serious trouble, it’s really time to look at other options: The Internet, like Crystal Chappell‘s highly anticipated upcoming venture Venice, and prime time. Yes, prime time. Other countries have been showing soaps in evening hours for years, and it works. And it also doesn’t have to be weekly and… Read More Lathering up over AWZ and saving daytime TV
So, I have this pattern with GH. I like one episode and then the very next one sends me plummeting back to disappointment-land. The lead up to the carnival, on Tuesday, was integrated, fun, and aside from a few missteps, incredibly enjoyable. The fall-out yesterday…? Was baffling. Can someone explain to me the need to… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
Despite the fact that General Hospital and I have a dysfunctional, on-again-off-again relationship that’s probably rivals Sonny and Carly’s (except GH has never shot me in the head!), I am still perfectly capable of recognizing what it does well. And that is ensemble-driven action work. The Carnival o’ Death playing out this week, the scope… Read More Just like a circus…or a carnival.
Writer/director Tom Gustafson’s 2008 indie flick Were The World Mine is a fantastical, musical coming of age tale that’s not so much a re-telling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as it is an homage. A very gay homage. (Though, seriously, if you’ve seen the 1999 film version with Rupert Everett, Michelle Pfeiffer and Christian Bale,… Read More Round about the earth in 95 minutes
I watch an unholy amount of television. It’s sort of my raison d’etre. And with the fall season starting next week, I’m going to be even more glued to my TV than usual. So why, then, have I become addicted to two shows that aren’t even on in the United States? Yup, I have joined… Read More Forbidden love is all that matters
Yash Chopra’s 1991 film Lamhe is the very definition of an unconventional love story. Starring Anil Kapoor (whom people now know as “the host from Slumdog Millionaire“) and Sridevi in a double role, it’s long been one of my favorite films. It makes me laugh, it makes me sing at the top of my lungs,… Read More Taking a moment to talk Lamhe
I love “the rake and the ingenue;” I love the Benedick-and-Beatrice couples who banter their way into love. And I love couples who get back together after years apart. That device cropped up twice for me this week, first while reading Natural Born Charmer, by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, and then while watching As the World… Read More Natural born charmers
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