02-11-2005, 12:17 PM | #46 | |
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 916
|
Fox Greenlit "Kitchen Confidential"
Quote:
__________________
"Wal-mart is like...the WAL-MART of evil." - Jon Stewart "Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." - Johnny Carson |
|
02-11-2005, 12:25 PM | #47 |
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 909
|
Kitchen Confidential was one of the top books of 2002. or 2001. Part expose' part confessional bio, Bourdain is one of those things I dread - a more or less successful person, who is a fuckup (a self described addict who for a while had 'a tinsy heroin problem' )who is ALSO a real writer. He is also a self-described jerk and nasty person which can be off-putting.
But now that he's a 'writer-personality' his jerkness is mostly an act (reminding me of another wild-man, James Ellroy.) The book was funny, touching and full of anecdotes. Might make a funny tv show. |
02-11-2005, 12:41 PM | #48 |
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Looking for that On-Ramp
Posts: 1,734
|
I liked "Kitchen Confidential" and LOVED "A Cook's Tour," both the book and FoodTv show.
Yeah Bourdain is a mixed bag. He's also put out a cookbook, writes mysteries and nonfiction (just put out a book on Typhoid Mary). There's a whiff of Gonzo to him and he goes into these Eric Bogosian-like soliloquies. His voice also sounds exactly like Bogosian's too. I feel kind of uncomfortable with a barely reformed junkie doing hash in the desert and drinking like Andre the Giant but he is an interesting read. I liked his backroom view of the kitchens and how the cooks are a ragged bunch of tattoo'd pirates who steal, shiv & run roughshod over each other. Since this is tv, I doubt it'll be that seedy or untelegenic.
__________________
There's a fanfic in there. |
02-11-2005, 12:45 PM | #49 |
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 909
|
I used to work in a kitchen, so I can tolerate the Nepoleon complex. It's the real writer part I can't stand about him. He can really write. That bastard. *Frustrated writer skulks back to doing search-replace for day job*
Hey, Karen! |
02-11-2005, 12:49 PM | #50 | |
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Looking for that On-Ramp
Posts: 1,734
|
Quote:
__________________
There's a fanfic in there. |
|
02-11-2005, 04:21 PM | #51 |
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 909
|
Yes - I read the two novels he wrote (presumably while shooting himself up with H and working 14 hour days - I say again, that BASTARD!) "A Bone in the Throat" and "Gone Bamboo." They were both solid - though admittedly minor - crime thrillers. Both drew heavily from his time working for the Mob-backed restaurant. (Restaurants are perfect fronts for money laundering - I know, I worked in one of those too. There is a Jewish mafia, I'm here to tell ya!) I couldn't get through his 'round the world' companion to his Food Channel show - and I haven't yet read his new book or cookbook. If you like off-beat, NY based crime books (Kinky Friedman, or early Larry Beinhart) - you might give this a look.
|
02-11-2005, 07:00 PM | #52 |
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Looking for that On-Ramp
Posts: 1,734
|
It was total armchair traveling for me. I'd love to visit exotic places and explore the local culture/cuisine. Although admittedly, I'll pass on the still-beating cobra heart.
I might get the Typhoid Mary one, it's the morbidness in me that loves diseases. Sounds like the tv show will have Kyle Chandler as Jack Bourdain. Geez, I know the guy has an ego but he could at least change the last name. It's not a pilot but I wonder at CC & L&O:CI as Noth's partner. It wouldn't be as intensive as ATs, especially since they're only in half the episodes.
__________________
There's a fanfic in there. |
02-14-2005, 11:05 AM | #53 | |
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 916
|
UPN Orders Two Comedy Pilots
Quote:
__________________
"Wal-mart is like...the WAL-MART of evil." - Jon Stewart "Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." - Johnny Carson Last edited by Kit; 02-14-2005 at 11:13 AM. |
|
02-15-2005, 12:22 PM | #54 |
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 2,389
|
I'd think Charisma would be an ideal fit to play a morning show host. Granted, UPN isn't really the best place to be, but that sounds like a workable idea for a show, and one that I could definitely see her being considered for.
|
02-18-2005, 12:23 PM | #55 |
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 916
|
Good news for D.B Woodside! Hope UPN will pick it up.
Okay, a mini-rant here. What is it with guys like Shemar Moore and Jensen Ackles (SP?) getting all these roles? Shemar is absolutely gorgeous. He's okay in Y&R. However, I wasn't impressed with his acting in "Birds of Prey" (to be fair, it was an awful show). Jensen Ackles, on the other hand, I just don't get it at all. He's not even that good looking. He's pretty, but he cannot act. It isn't like he's a ratings magnet either. Afterall, He didn't really do anything for "Dark Angel", "Dawson's Creek" and "Smallville". It is amazing how we've heard nothing about about AD all this time and yet Jensen managed to nab a role in Smallville and an upcoming WB pilot called Supernatural.
__________________
"Wal-mart is like...the WAL-MART of evil." - Jon Stewart "Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." - Johnny Carson Last edited by Kit; 02-18-2005 at 12:26 PM. |
02-18-2005, 12:32 PM | #56 | |
cancelled
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 4,777
|
Quote:
__________________
Angel:"Cordelia- thinks I'm melodramatic?" Dylan:"Well, you did say that you were gonna kill my cousin." Angel:"That's not melodrama. Melodrama is- She was here?!" Stake Darla #13 Greenie Groupie #13 |
|
02-19-2005, 05:29 PM | #57 |
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 64
|
This relates waaaaay back to 'The Fog' talks from months ago. Kryptonsite.com has posted that Tom Welling and LOST's Maggie Grace (aka Shannon) are the leads for 'The Fog'. I'm guessing she takes the role that CC would've been going out for ?
|
02-19-2005, 05:51 PM | #58 | |
Rich girl, superhero
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: In your head
Posts: 12,290
|
Quote:
__________________
"We never should have brought the henchmen. We're going to be the only ones there with henchmen!" |
|
02-19-2005, 06:04 PM | #59 |
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 64
|
Hmmmmm?
According to the Hollywood Reporter...
" "Fog" is set in a Northern California town where, about 100 years ago, a ship sank under mysterious circumstances in a thick, eerie fog. The ghosts of the deceased mariners return from their watery graves to seek their revenge. Welling will play a local boat owner who never left the town, and Grace will portray a college girl who is back in her hometown for the summer. " So it may be Biel's role she's taken. I must say I wouldn't mind seeing Welling and CC in a project together. They'd bring the pretty, LOL. |
02-19-2005, 06:09 PM | #60 | |
Rich girl, superhero
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: In your head
Posts: 12,290
|
Quote:
__________________
"We never should have brought the henchmen. We're going to be the only ones there with henchmen!" |
|
Bookmarks |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Eliza Dushku Pilot | SamIAm | TV Class Reunion! | 17 | 08-29-2011 04:30 PM |
Pilot Season... | SamIAm | TV Party! | 12 | 09-22-2008 09:11 AM |
unaired Buffy pilot | tojoson | The Cordyverse | 5 | 07-22-2006 07:48 AM |
Angel - Pilot | omg angel | The Cordyverse | 13 | 03-17-2006 06:02 PM |
New ABC Comedy Pilot - why not add CC? | Jake | Charisma Carpenter | 9 | 02-20-2004 02:30 PM |