I Am Link

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--- LA Here I Come - I wish I could go, or that he'd bring the show to NYC, but Paul Reubens' run of "The Pee Wee Herman Show" live shows start out there on that other damned coast next month. Argh! The secret word is THIS BLOWS.

--- Long Time No Tim - It's been awhile since I've heard what Tim Minear's been up to other than working behind-the-scenes in various roles on Dollhouse. Minear's been behind the scenes on bunches of great but short-lived projects that I've paid attention to through the years, from Angel and Firefly to Wonderfalls and Drive and The Inside (those last two barely aired any episodes but I still ruminate on them both). Anyway, via AICN comes word he's going to be running the show for a new private-dick show on FX called Terriers, and also that he's working on an update of Alien Nation for SyFy. You make it, Tim, and I will follow.

--- Not Cast Casting News - Here are a couple of casting teats to suckle upon for the time being, see if any milk shows up or not: Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro and the whole Hobbit gang are gonna begin casting for that flick this week in LA and London. Somebody see where James McAvoy is right now!

And secondly, rumors a'swirl that John Malkovich might be playing a villain in the fourth Spider-Man film. And that Annie Hathaway is definitely the lady for the job of the other lady. We will see! Oh yes, blah blah.

---TV Tops - Newsweek made a list of the ten best shows of the 2000's and I'd rearrange it some but they made some pretty stellar choices. When I tell you that both Pushing Daisies and The Comeback made the cut you see I speak the truth.

--- And finally, over at PopWrap Jarett got his chat on with... deep breaths... Eli Roth. Insert another jealous rant o' mine here, about me skinning him and wearing him so I can do his job, et cetera. Choice bit from my beloved Eli, regarding that little "social experiment" he had earlier this year with his Blueberries:

"When I was in college I used to work as an online operator for Penthouse, posing as a woman. That's how I paid for my student films. They hired guys because guys know what other guys want to hear. So I was on an 800-speed modem in my dorm room with three other guys and, dude, I could type like 120 words a minute! So having cybersex with hundreds of people at once is actually a skill I already had. I just hadn't busted it out since college. It was like, "Hey, I haven't lost my touch!""

He also tells about a recent screening of Inglourious Basterds that was held just for rabbis and how they came up to him exclaiming how good it must've felt to shoot Hitler in the face. Love.
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