by jaybushman March 25, 2010

LOSTies with Jed & Cara: LOSTies Moment FORD & STRAUME Opening Credits

Inspired by the brilliance of Ford & Straume, and the notional Terry O’Quinn/Michael Emerson suburban hitmen vehicle, we’re starting to plan out an entire ABC slate of shows featuring Lost characters and actors. Call it After-L*O*S*T.

Other shows in development include:

Untitled Garcia/Andrews Project: A modern fable drawing elements from Of Mice and Men, Rainman and Kung Fu. Garcia plays a drifter with a strange facility with information. Andrews plays the ex-cop who protects him as they journey from town to town, getting in adventures and helping people.

Marvin Candle, Medical Examiner: Dr. Candle solves murders with his artificial hand, a super-8 camera and his knowledge of magnetism.

What else should ABC consider for their After-L*O*S*T programming block?

by jaybushman March 17, 2010
My favorite part of this week’s Lost. Chip Lowell is all grown up and he’s packing some serious heat.

My favorite part of this week’s Lost. Chip Lowell is all grown up and he’s packing some serious heat.

by jaybushman January 16, 2010
Rob Lowe was wearing this great shirt on the Tonight Show a few nights ago. It’s a riff on the famous Benjamin Franklin Join Or Die engraving from the American Revolution, but instead of the individual segments of the snake being the colonies, they are the boroughs of Manhattan. If you embiggen the photo, you can clearly see the B.X. for the Bronx, Q.N. for Queens and M. for Manhattan, with the obscured head and tail as Brooklyn and Staten Island. I want one, but I can’t find this shirt online anywhere. We must band together to find it - we must Join, Or Die. The t-shirt quest I mean. Join the t-shirt quest. Or, um, die. OK, I’ve strained the metaphor. P.S. Most of the chatter online I’ve found about the shirt seem to assume it’s a demonstration of right-wing support. It’s obviously not. So all the wingnuts who got excited and thought Sam Frickin’ Seaborn was with them should pipe down.

Rob Lowe was wearing this great shirt on the Tonight Show a few nights ago. It’s a riff on the famous Benjamin Franklin Join Or Die engraving from the American Revolution, but instead of the individual segments of the snake being the colonies, they are the boroughs of Manhattan. If you embiggen the photo, you can clearly see the B.X. for the Bronx, Q.N. for Queens and M. for Manhattan, with the obscured head and tail as Brooklyn and Staten Island.

I want one, but I can’t find this shirt online anywhere. We must band together to find it - we must Join, Or Die. The t-shirt quest I mean. Join the t-shirt quest. Or, um, die. OK, I’ve strained the metaphor.


P.S. Most of the chatter online I’ve found about the shirt seem to assume it’s a demonstration of right-wing support. It’s obviously not. So all the wingnuts who got excited and thought Sam Frickin’ Seaborn was with them should pipe down.


by jaybushman January 15, 2010
Anybody wanna buy a talk show?

Anybody wanna buy a talk show?

by jaybushman January 13, 2010
“

…no critic was prepared for “West Wing” alum Bradley Whitford to turn up onstage for Fox’s upcoming buddy cop show “Code 58” wearing a classic ’70s push-broom on his upper lip.

Whitford, who grew the ’stache to capture his character’s retro approach to crime-solving, said the facial hair has been a cross to bear.

“Women are fascinated and creeped out,” he said, “and I always get this reaction which is, ‘Oh, are you growing that for a part?’ A kind of disgusted, creeped-out thing. And my kids hate it.”

But he did feel he deserved some credit for the personal transformation: “My growing this mustache, I gotta say, it reminds me of a lot of the work De Niro did in ‘Raging Bull.’ ”

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— More on Bradley Whitford and ‘Stache-gate | Alan Sepinwall on TV
by jaybushman January 11, 2010
Bradley Whitford’s Cop ‘Stache Cannot wait for Code 58. Action Lymon!

Bradley Whitford’s Cop ‘Stache

Cannot wait for Code 58. Action Lymon!

by jaybushman December 26, 2009
Our next t-shirt offering, from The Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality. Inspired by everybody’s favorite Big Block of Cheese Day.

Our next t-shirt offering, from The Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality.

Inspired by everybody’s favorite Big Block of Cheese Day.

by jaybushman December 21, 2009
“Now, the thing that has been exalted and the thing that American entertainment is consumed with is the individual being bigger than the institution. How many frickin’ times are we gonna watch a story where somebody [Rises up against the odds?] “You can’t do that.” “Yes, I can.” “No, you can’t.” “I’ll show you, see?” And in the end he’s recognized as just a goodhearted rebel with right on his side, and eventually the town realizes that dancing’s not so bad. I can make up a million of ’em. That’s the story we want to be told over and over again. And you know why? Because in our heart of hearts what we know about the 21st century is that every day we’re going to be worth less and less, not more and more.”
— DAVID SIMON - Vice Magazine
by jaybushman December 16, 2009
Twitter / Jay Bushman: @bronwensaurus and I have ...

Dear AMC

by jaybushman November 24, 2009

I’m through 5 out of 6 episodes of your remake of the Prisoner. Still formulating my thoughts on it, but I have one question:

What on Earth possessed you to show it 2 at a time over 3 consecutive nights? Who’s got time to devote that much attention over such a short span? It definitely diminishes the viewing experience. I’d have much rather had 6 consecutive weeks.

Or do you agree with most of the public opinion that it’s not very good, and was this a way to dump it as quickly as possible?


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