http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader.jpg Hollywood Script Reader tells it how it is in her weekly blog with FilmIndustryBloggers.com Wed, 27 May 2009 22:13:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am aware that it's been a while between blogs here. Just wanted to say that it's going to be a little longer. I'm too busy with more pressing stuff.  However, next month, when summer is in full swing, I may be able to come back and blog more frequently. I ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2009/05/27/long-time-no-blog/ I like nothing better/worse than a hard 'R' from a British person pretending to be an American person.  Linus Roach, the new ADA on Law and Order has been pleasing me no end this year.  So in case we like-a both the same, here's a list of my favorite masters ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2009/04/20/top-5-worstbest-foreign-accent-putter-on-ers-in-movies/ (WARNING: My choices in these days when i am actually busy are between writing clean, well-edited blogs never, and writing blogs with the occasional typo sometimes. I chose the latter. Apologies in advance.) In addition to making 17 Again, I heard that Zac Efron is going to star in a Footloose ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2009/03/24/stuff-i-think-they-will-and-hope-they-dont-change-in-the-footloose-remake-kids-today/ Saw: The Watchmen. Who watches the Watchmen? People who love backstory and exposition, apparently.  Some possible alternate titles - I Showed You This Already but Now Let Me Tell it to You As Well, My Blue Weiner (and Butt!), and Before We Can Fight Crime I Have Some Anxieties That ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2009/03/08/this-week-in-movies/ I got to go to the Oscars. It was fun. The best part of the night, aside from watching the my date's stuff in the show, and aside from sitting next to Alfred Maysles, was the dessert that was served at the governor's ball.   it was a box that opened ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2009/02/24/the-blog-in-which-i-brag-about-getting-to-go-to-the-oscars/ Best Film That Nobody Saw But That I Loved Maybe More Than Any Other Film: Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh + Sally Hawkins = True Love Always) Runner up: Frozen River (I have not yet met one other person in the face who saw this. See this.) Best Films That Nobody Saw Including Me And ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2009/01/27/awards-i-would-give-for-movies-in-2008/ I was so amped to blow the doors off of the Ben Lyons Sucks issue this morning, but apparently some other people have beat me to it by like 6 months and 800 blogs. So because I don't think I can add much to what has already been said by ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2009/01/20/i-am-the-ben-lyons-of-hating-on-ben-lyons/ I have just inserted myself into the tiniest controversy in Hollywood.  Loveleen Tandan got a co-director credit on Slumdog Millionaire and now a critic from Chicago and a few blogs and websites are all up in arms because she hasn't been nominated for best director and have started a letter-writing ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2009/01/12/post-holidays-post-golden-globe-blog-of-controversy/ This thing is gonna be short.  I gotta go buy some presents for others and a new mac for myself.   Because having this page load in less than 1 minute is my Christmas wish and I'm going to make sure it comes true. But Holidays, the time of family foods ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2008/12/16/comfort-films-last-phoned-in-blog-before-vacation-guys/ Sky Sweet and J-Train.  Without looking up the episode, who can tell me which celebrities are being fictionalized here? I have have been a Law and Order fan since the Dan Florek, Paul Sorvino days, but I'm pretty sure that ever since about the time Dick Wolf hired Fred Thompson and started ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader/2008/12/09/the-awful-character-names-from-the-law-and-order-episode-i-just-watched/