I'm already SO EXCITED for the upcoming 2012/2013 TV pilot season

NY Magazine has a great article on the trends for the upcoming new TV pilot season. ABC has had such success with Revenge that it looks like they've ordered a few new "soapy" dramas for 2012-2013. I of course, thoroughly approve of this decision. And one of the new shows that ABC has ordered stars Chad Michael Murray (ugh) in a...I'm so excited I'm hyperventilating... remake of Scruples, the 1970s best-selling novel by Judith Krantz that they made into an incredible mini-series in the early 80s with Lindsay Wagner. I fucking love the mini-series era from the 1980s and have been wanting someone in Hollywood to come to their senses and start remaking/rebooting them.

How the hell did I miss this news when it first broke back in January?!! And Natalie Portman is producing it?! I'm now even more convinced that if she and I met we would become fast friends for life. Here's hoping that it's super successful and leads to a run on mini-series remakes. Krantz alone has about 4 or 5 that could easily and happily be redone.
Stupid CMM has snagged the role of Spider Elliot, originally played awesomely by Barry Bostwick. And Claire Folani (why won't she go away?) will play the lead character Billy Winthrop.
I'm not kidding people, I am stoked. Especially since Krantz wrote two sequels to Scruples, so there's a rich source for lots of plot storylines.

Needless to say...

I f*cking loved the film adaptation of The Hunger Games.

Even the tiny quibbles I have with it - i.e. Gary Ross's barf-inducing, shaky handheld camera work at the beginning; the fact that they deemphasized the struggle that Katniss initially has in the arena - couldn't take away from how much I enjoyed the movie. November 2013 can't come soon enough. 

 And I already had the hots for actor Wes Bentley, but gawddam, he was so duurrrn sexy as Seneca Crane.

I want to have a million topiary-bearded babies with him. Too bad he met such an awful fate and he won't be back in the rest of the movies. Unless the producers/writers decide to do some weird fan-wank to bring Bentley back to play Plutarch Heavensbee?

One can hope.

It's here! It's FINALLY HERE!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

The day I've been waiting for, for nearly a year has arrived. The Hunger Games premieres tomorrow (well technically tonight at midnight).

I seriously haven't been this excited for a film to come to theaters since I was a teenager. And maybe not even then. Not only am I seeing "Hunger Games" at the midnight premier tonight, I'm also seeing it on Saturday morning. I am a huge dork. But I don't care.

I'm kind of surprised, and a little disappointed that I didn't go see John Carter this past weekend. Don't worry Taylor, I still love you madly.

When I get to Heaven...

This is what I want waiting for me.

Anatomy of a Music Video - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam's "Lost in Emotion"

Let's analyze this gem, shall we?

1. A few words about the clothes just to get them out of the way. There are TWO people wearing Hammer-style harem pants with reeeeeeally long zippers sewn into them. One is a man and the other is Lisa Lisa herself. The purpose of these 14 inch zippers is lost to time.
2. Speaking of zippers...wow, I forgot how popular it was in the mid 1980s to have multiple zippers (that again, served no purpose) on everything! Pants, jackets, shirts, SOCKS. This video has them all.
3. It also has men wearing multilple, colored skinny leather belts wrapped around the legs of their pants. Was this a style?
4. One of the main guys in the video is sporting a Civil War era inspired Confederacy hat. Charming. Maybe that's why Lisa Lisa gives him the stink eye.
5. I hated this shit back then when I was living it - Shoulder Pads in every single blouse, jacket, and T-shirt. Both men and women; young and old.
6. And so many headbands.
7. One of the dudes working at the carnival is wearing what can only be called a "tropical shant suit". "Shant", for the uninitiated, stands for "Short Pant". Take a gander around minute 2:00.

• One of the plot points at the beginning of this video, which is set at some kind of carnival or as the sign says - "New Street Fair", involves one of Lisa's homegirls not being able to get ketchup to come out of the bottle onto her burger.
• I guess Lisa Lisa is looking for love, but isn't interested in any of the guys who are trying to pick up on her and her friends?
• And then there's a bit about Lisa climbing on stage because there's a carnival sign that says "COME - Sing with the Street Fair Band". WTF? Weak plot.
• Finally everyone does a synchronized dance to the last verse of the song, that Lisa Lisa has been singing by herself for over 3 minutes.
• Did she actually go by Lisa Lisa in real life?

Que sera, que sera.