Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Word on the street is that Chuck is surviving: Like Dollhouse, it’ll go for at least 13 more episodes following some budget cuts.
The news is not so good (though a great deal more vague) for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Michael Ausiello is reporting that it’s been officially canceled.
The Hollywood Reporter’s James Hibberd reports that Dollhouse is actually getting a second season – or at least 13 more episodes. An official announcement is expected Monday at the Fox upfronts.
Please tell me this has been around for a while and we’ve all just missed it. (via)
Blast from the past. Newsweek has a fantastic audio slideshow featuring long-time fan Angelique Trouvere talking about Trek conventions of the 70’s. Don’t miss it!
Don’t blink. MTV points out the many cameos in the new film. There was no mistaking Tyler Perry, but who else missed Greg Grunberg? io9 goes into more detail on the various Easter Eggs.
He is Spock. Geoff Boucher has a great interview with Leonard Nimoy.
But everyone’s a Captain Kirk. Elsewhere on the Los Angeles Times site, Todd Martens takes a look at Star Trek in mainstream music.
Speaking of Kirk… You could get your own next time you fly.
Geek reads. Here’s a site devoted to Star Trek books. Huh. (via)
A fanboy moment. John Serba’s ten reasons why Star Wars is better than Star Trek. Can’t we all just get along? (via)
Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine and Leonard Nimoy showed up on Saturday Night Live last night.
Meanwhile, the film seems well on the way to a $76.5M opening weekend.
The fans – and George R. R. Martin himself – were pulling for Peter Dinklage to play Tyrion Lannister, and today The Hollywood Reporter announced him as the first actor cast in the pilot. We also get word of a director, Tom McCarthy.
We interrupt my real life in the H1N1 response to bring some sad news to the Stargate family. Dom DeLuise, talented comedian and the creator of the much-beloved character Urgo, has died at the age of 75.
Mr. DeLuise was also father to long-time Stargate director/writer Peter DeLuise and actors Michael (Colonel Danning from Wormhole Extreme) and David (Sam’s boyfriend Pete Shanahan).
Urgo once said, “I wanna live! I wanna experience the universe! And I wanna eat pie!” Hopefully you’re now getting to do so.
First: They’re still making new episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force? Secondly:
“We’re doing a ‘Star Wars’ parody that exceeds ‘Family Guy’s,’” Willis declared. “We skewer ‘Star Wars’ like it’s never been skewered before.”
Maiellaro, wearing a Rush Limbaugh EIB hat, complimented Willis on using the word “skewer” twice in a sentence. I tried to call his bluff on the “Star Wars” parody, but Willis just stared me down.
I’ll believe it when I see it. (via)
Speaking of low culture, here’s some righteous mocking of a gem from my own childhood. (You’ll also want to watch her take on Labyrinth.)