Shauny: “There is something compelling about a man with a ham.”
Year / 2006
WTF?
Fox News Resorts to Desperate Measures
Variety: “Now Fox News Channel, a primary source of material for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, is teaming with the exec producer of ’24’ to try its hand at a news satire show for conservatives to love. Joel Surnow, co-creator of ’24,’ is shooting two half-hour pilots of a skein he described as ”The Daily Show’ for conservatives,’ due to air in primetime on Saturdays in January.”
More Snobbery from the NYT Obituaries Department
As Locus has observed, this Stanley Meltzoff obit makes no reference of his science fiction contributions.
Arrows Hitting Telltale Targets
The Independent: “There is something practically Shakespearean about the way in which this pitiless debunker of pompous, self-regarding old men became one himself, a process that was as much visual as behavioural. As Leader’s lavish photo-spreads confirm, late-period Amis – pop-eyed, wattled and damson-faced – bore an uncanny resemblance to his old sparring partner Evelyn Waugh. Reading the excerpts from for-God’s-sake letters lamenting the editorial treatment doled out to ‘a writer of my generation’, eavesdropping on the mid-morning gin-swiller whose defence was ‘Look, I’m Kingsley Amis, you see, and I can drink whenever I want,’ you wonder whether Waugh didn’t have the last laugh.”