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Jun. 15th, 2023 09:32 pm1. Okay, folks, I don't know what to make of this latest regarding Ao3's open source code vulnerabilities.
https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1669350441971494914
( long confusing story )
2. Listening to the Sleepy Hollow chapter in Maureen Ryan's book and it's a convoluted mess - that I can barely makes heads or tails of. Apparently neither lead wanted to be a long term lead of a television series. There was a falling out among the show-runners (isn't there always?) and apparently NB who was the female lead (Abby) was considered "difficult" while the male lead (Icabod) was given privileges. They clashed. He didn't want the show built around him either. They both got ill at the same time - he was allowed to go back to England and recover, she was forced to film an episode by herself, as the lead. The show-runner in charge - didn't understand the horror genre, Kurtzman got fed up and left, Wiseman hated how NB was being treated and the direction it was going and left. Orlando Jones was happy he got killed off. NB also wanted out. Ryan explains it thusly - NB had just graduated with honors from Julliard, had been in a play, done amazingly well, and this was her first role - and it was a lead on a network television series. The process is pilot, maybe it gets picked up (rarely - there's a million of them), if it does, maybe six episodes, maybe a year...the actors sign contracts for five to seven. Sleepy Hollow took off like gangbusters, and it got a bit claustrophobic - to be confined to a seven year contract. (I have troubles understanding this - because I've worked for the same company for 16 years, and hate hunting for jobs, but I'm not an actor for a reason - the nomadic life is not for me.) Of course none of this excused how she was treated.
My god, what a mess.
Be happy you don't work in Hollywood folks.
3. On Twitter...
I was reminded of why I hated the Angel episode "I will always remember you". ( Read more... )
4. Taking tomorrow off, and we have Juneteenth (Monday off) as a Federal and State holiday.
Goal is to make into the city and either visit the highline or Natural History Museum. Other goal - maybe go to a beach. And set up doctor's appointments.
https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1669350441971494914
( long confusing story )
2. Listening to the Sleepy Hollow chapter in Maureen Ryan's book and it's a convoluted mess - that I can barely makes heads or tails of. Apparently neither lead wanted to be a long term lead of a television series. There was a falling out among the show-runners (isn't there always?) and apparently NB who was the female lead (Abby) was considered "difficult" while the male lead (Icabod) was given privileges. They clashed. He didn't want the show built around him either. They both got ill at the same time - he was allowed to go back to England and recover, she was forced to film an episode by herself, as the lead. The show-runner in charge - didn't understand the horror genre, Kurtzman got fed up and left, Wiseman hated how NB was being treated and the direction it was going and left. Orlando Jones was happy he got killed off. NB also wanted out. Ryan explains it thusly - NB had just graduated with honors from Julliard, had been in a play, done amazingly well, and this was her first role - and it was a lead on a network television series. The process is pilot, maybe it gets picked up (rarely - there's a million of them), if it does, maybe six episodes, maybe a year...the actors sign contracts for five to seven. Sleepy Hollow took off like gangbusters, and it got a bit claustrophobic - to be confined to a seven year contract. (I have troubles understanding this - because I've worked for the same company for 16 years, and hate hunting for jobs, but I'm not an actor for a reason - the nomadic life is not for me.) Of course none of this excused how she was treated.
My god, what a mess.
Be happy you don't work in Hollywood folks.
3. On Twitter...
I was reminded of why I hated the Angel episode "I will always remember you". ( Read more... )
4. Taking tomorrow off, and we have Juneteenth (Monday off) as a Federal and State holiday.
Goal is to make into the city and either visit the highline or Natural History Museum. Other goal - maybe go to a beach. And set up doctor's appointments.