Saturday, September 6, 2003

NOT THAT YOU WEREN'T GOING TO PICK IT UP ANYWAY: But the Fall TV Preview issue of Entertainment Weekly is a must-read. Every single page. Where else are you going to find out what failed-tv-heroes Zach Galifianakis, Jon Cryer and Adrian Pasdar are up to?

Plus which, you get a hard copy version of this letter from member of the Throwing Things Hall of Heroes Tom Shales of the Washington Post, with bile a'plenty to spare:
I am a big -- in fact big, fat -- fan of EW but am dismayed almost beyond words (or I wouldn't have been able to write this) that you are giving the superrich and overexposed Stephen King a regular column (The Pop of King). His first one, predictably, was all about his damn self. Why further enrich this hack when the spot, and the money, could have gone to a bright young writer with something fresh to say? At the least, King out to donate the fee to charity. I find him more repulsive than any horror story he ever wrote.

Tom Shales
TV Critic, The Washington Post
Washington, D.C.

By the way, I haven't been watching The O.C. yet. Do I need to start?

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