Lou Romano has a blog.
Wow!

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INT. NITA’S BEDROOM — NIGHT

She’s hidden by the tented-up blankets on her bed.
The dim light welling out from underneath would make
you think she’s doing the reading-by-flashlight thing.

NITA (O.S.)
I don’t get why some spells call
for these weird objects. The knotted
string you were using. Batteries.
Sugar cubes! Who needs this stuff
when you have the Speech?

KIT (V.O.)
It’s something to […]

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From the newsblog that appears on Blogger’s dashboard page:
I am overjoyed to announce that today we have o’ficially graduated the new version of Blogger from “in beta” to “.” Why is this significant? Allow me to explain via analogy:
Battlestar Galactica with Lorne Greene : Battlestar Galactica with Edward James Olmos :: Old Blogger : New […]

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Ron Moore is going to be writing the screenplay for the new version of The Thing. (via Variety and various other sources)
Go Ron!!
(And something from the Variety article that seems to have slipped under the radar: “Moore, who’s repped by CAA, just scripted an “I, Robot” sequel for Fox.”)
Technorati Tags: Ronald D. Moore, […]

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There are just a couple of things on my mind that (in light of earlier posts and responses) I want to share before I get back to the various pieces of work I need to be doing today.
Re whatever might have been going on in the ST:TNG offices as the first season got underway: […]

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Oh really?
MGM chief operating officer Rick Sands revealed the plans this past weekend during a trade show in Orlando, Florida, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
That’ll make Peter happy, if true. (And a lot of the rest of us…)
Technorati Tags: Hobbit, movie, film, Hollywood Reporter, New Line, Tolkien

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I just want to take a moment to link to this, in which the excellent Wil Wheaton gives us an in-depth analysis of the episode.
While reading it I had to stop several times to clean the tea off the keyboard, and (since Peter is still snoozing upstairs, having had a late writing night) restrain myself […]

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For those of you who’ve been asking: here’s what I’m doing at LACon. (For Peter’s schedule, you should go check his LiveJournal later today: he’ll be putting his details up there. He’s a lot more lightly scheduled than I am, though, by his own request.) (Oh, and the master schedule for the con is […]

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…is The Dark Knight. (Variety confirms the Hollywood Reporter story.)
Heath Ledger has been signed to play the Joker.
Technorati Tags: Batman, The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger, Jonah Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale, Michael Uslan

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At least they warn you.
Update: This one’s silly too.
Technorati Tags: Battlestar Galactica, wiki, Sci-Fi Channel, Ronald D. Moore, David Eick

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Not completely destroyed, it seems…but it’s going to take a while to get it back into shape, I’m sure. It was one of the world’s largest sound stages, after all. (Not sure if it was the largest.)

The fire in the corrugated metal warehouse-like stage wiped out three different sets that had been transformed into Venice […]

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In my book, anyway.
More than half of kids ages 5-17 say they did not read books for fun before the Harry Potter series came along, according to the report, which surveyed 500 children and 500 parents nationwide. Among parents, 76 percent say reading the series has helped their child perform better in school, while 65 […]

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The review itself is interesting enough, but I’m most glad I stumbled across it because in passing it helped me identify why I’ve stopped watching “24″.
Technorati Tags: Mission Impossible:III, MI:III, 24

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Now I’m happy.
Geeks the world over have reason to celebrate today – George Lucas has finally listened to their pleas and is releasing the original versions of the ‘Star Wars’ trilogy on DVD.
On September 11, two-disc sets of ‘Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope’, ‘Episode V The Empire Strikes Back’ and ‘Episode VI Return […]

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I am not normally of a litigious turn of mind. But if the incision of the gentleman in this story fails to heal properly, and if I were he, by God would I hunt down someone at Paramount to sue.
Whose idea was this inane stunt…?!
(Full story about the promotional campaign and its other backfires here.)Technorati […]

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Aww, I can’t resist.
Dark Kingdom. Based on this old Norse/Germanic tale about the Ring of the Nibelung. It was pretty nifty. The Queen of Iceland was awesome.
So true.
So I just finished watching Dark Kingdom on sci-fi, that lovely mini series and I really liked it, especially Brunhild, the amazingly beautiful, ass kicking, […]

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Well, so it’s finished airing…and SciFi is very pleased. From our producers this morning:
The premiere of Dark Kingdom averaged a 1.8 HH rating and 2.109 million total viewers (P2+).
This is the most-watched Monday program ever for Sci Fi in any second quarter.
Dark Kingdom delivered 1.181 million P25-54s, the #8 cable program for the day on […]

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A mixed bag, as I kind of suspected. (But nearly all funny, one way or the other. My favorite (surprise, surprise) comes from the paper of record:
It’s all a little reductive and soap-operaish, and viewers unfamiliar with the source material may find themselves a little puzzled about the relationship between the evil characters Alberich and […]

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Or rather, just news. Apparently there was a US Premiere party for the miniseries in one of my old home towns, Philadelphia: Phillyist covers it. And will you look at the outfit Kristanna’s wearing. Zowie!
(Even Peter’s mum, watching a DVD of the original cut, was heard to remark, “She looks good even when they’ve made […]

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