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1. Cool things via SmartBitches
* Harlequin has established Harlequin Studios
So basically CTV in Canada via Harlequin is going to do their version of the cheap romantic dramas that Hallmark does? Now Hallmark has competition for bad romance movie of the week.
Actually it would be one thing if the Hallmark flicks were bad or campy, but they are just sort of there. And the actors in them take the art of looking wooden to new heights.
It would be nice if they did the historicals, which are actually slightly better than the contemporaries. (I'm not sure it is possible to write or film a good contemporary romance nowadays...but I'm willing to be proven wrong.)
* Not to be outdone, Warner Brothers has decided to enter the streaming business and adapt one of the Dune books to a television series..Dune Sisterhood. I don't know, Dune to date has suffered greatly in the book to adaptation cycle. No one has done a good job with it. I don't quite know why.
* Japanese Magna Artists Have decided to characterize world flags with various Japanese Magna characters..go check out your own
* In case you ever wondered how writers would get around the limited characters on twitter...and tell a lengthy story...here you go:
About how they met their wife at a graveyard
About how the writer's kids can only go to Disney if they get enough money together to do it -- and wait, no, they want to house a homeless man with the money instead
The Saga of Lucy and Tim in twitter snippets
Why I hate twitter in a nutshell -- you have to read tiny snippets from a thread, and sometimes it's really hard to read or find them. Why people would rather hunt a way around being limited to 24 characters as opposed to just doing a blog...is beyond me. I think they are frustrated coders.
2. I'm about 64% of the way through Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
I like the legal bit, and the historical information a great deal. It gets a touch preachy on the feminism and conditions women had to suffer during that time period in India. Although at least it is equal opportunity, depicting the British as being no better in this respect and just as restrictive in their own way. Also shows the racial and class frictions.
( Read more... )
* Harlequin has established Harlequin Studios
So basically CTV in Canada via Harlequin is going to do their version of the cheap romantic dramas that Hallmark does? Now Hallmark has competition for bad romance movie of the week.
Actually it would be one thing if the Hallmark flicks were bad or campy, but they are just sort of there. And the actors in them take the art of looking wooden to new heights.
It would be nice if they did the historicals, which are actually slightly better than the contemporaries. (I'm not sure it is possible to write or film a good contemporary romance nowadays...but I'm willing to be proven wrong.)
* Not to be outdone, Warner Brothers has decided to enter the streaming business and adapt one of the Dune books to a television series..Dune Sisterhood. I don't know, Dune to date has suffered greatly in the book to adaptation cycle. No one has done a good job with it. I don't quite know why.
* Japanese Magna Artists Have decided to characterize world flags with various Japanese Magna characters..go check out your own
* In case you ever wondered how writers would get around the limited characters on twitter...and tell a lengthy story...here you go:
About how they met their wife at a graveyard
About how the writer's kids can only go to Disney if they get enough money together to do it -- and wait, no, they want to house a homeless man with the money instead
The Saga of Lucy and Tim in twitter snippets
Why I hate twitter in a nutshell -- you have to read tiny snippets from a thread, and sometimes it's really hard to read or find them. Why people would rather hunt a way around being limited to 24 characters as opposed to just doing a blog...is beyond me. I think they are frustrated coders.
2. I'm about 64% of the way through Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
I like the legal bit, and the historical information a great deal. It gets a touch preachy on the feminism and conditions women had to suffer during that time period in India. Although at least it is equal opportunity, depicting the British as being no better in this respect and just as restrictive in their own way. Also shows the racial and class frictions.
( Read more... )