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I was reminded of something earlier today, and I can’t believe that this somehow slipped past the radar screen…

Last week, May 1st, was the fortieth anniversary of the premiere of the NBC television miniseries V.

That doesn’t seem possible.  It’s like it was only yesterday that creator Kenneth Johnson unleashed his nightmarish vision of fascism on a global scale.  The Visitors came to major cities across the planet, in fifty ships each three miles in diameter.  They looked like us.  They came from a dying planet and they needed humanity’s help.  They came in peace.

And it was all a damnable lie.  Their intent was to rape the Earth, seizing every precious natural resource.  And the fate of mankind?  Something truly horrifying.  Four decades later and the scene of all those humans in cold storage still sends a shiver up my spine.

It was a grand endeavor.  What ...

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Hannibal, NBC, television, Hannibal Lecter, Jack Crawford, Will GrahamHannibal – NBC’s new series based on Hannibal Lecter and other characters from the novels of Thomas Harris – has a daring premise: exploring the motives and methods of “Hannibal the Cannibal” in his time leading up to the events of Red Dragon.  There is an execution to this show that rivals that of cable series such as The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones.  It is grisly and gruesome and graphically disturbing as anything about Hannibal Lecter should be.

But having just finished watching the pilot episode (“Apéritif”) I find myself wondering how much … or how at all… I would commit to continue following this series.

The acting quality in Hannibal is premium.  Hugh Dancy is compelling to watch as FBI Special Investigator Will Graham: a forensic profiler with a talent for getting into the minds of serial killers.  Laurence Fishburne – always a welcome measure ...

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The apparently big story right now is about the estimated fewer than 1,000 who marched in Washington D.C. today against the Second Amendment. I understand that this has made all of the major evening new broadcasts: CBS, NBC, CNN etc.

To the very best of my understanding, there was NO such coverage at all of yesterday’s March for Life, which many have calculated drew more than 500,000 to the Mall to protest abortion -the premeditated murder of unborn children – on the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Now, applying some logic here, you would think that a story regarding half a million people would dwarf that of an event which drew, at most, several hundred.

But I suppose when it comes to stories and their coverage from big media, some of them just don’t fit the expected narrative…

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Somewhere this afternoon, William Moulton Marston is spinning in his grave.

Courtesy of the Entertainment Weekly website, here is our first look at Adrianne Palicki in costume for NBC’s upcoming Wonder Woman series…

Bind me with the Golden Lasso of Truth: that looks HORRIBLE!!! It’s like a cheap-o costume that you can find at those seasonal Halloween stores instead of… GEEZ IT JUST SUCKS DONKEY BALLS TO NO END!

I was kinda hoping for an interpretation of Wonder Woman like what Alex Ross and Mark Waid came up with for Kingdom Come. That Wonder Woman boasted all her Amazonian power but tempered with all-too-mortal failings and frailties. It’s my personal favorite version of Wonder Woman ever. Heck, any previous version of Wonder Woman has got to be better than this… thing.

I don’t know when the pilot episode airs. And based on this photo, I’m not caring to ...

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Read all about it here.

If you joined one of the many Facebook groups that have sprung up to get this to happen in the past month, give yourself a pat on the back.

Maybe this is what it takes to get something done in the world today: just start up a Facebook group, like “Let’s See if this African Dung Beetle can get more fans than Glenn Beck!”

(For the record, I’ve not once listened to Glenn Beck or watched him on television, and only know what he looks like from the covers of his books.)

Sorta like that “electronic town hall” that Ross Perot suggested back in 1992. Who’da thunk that he was foreseeing Facebook? 🙂...

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Inspired by Marvel Comics’ “Civil War” storyline from a few years ago, I made these banners that you can put on your own blog or website or whatever declaring whose side you are on!

 

Yes, it has come to this: the entire western world dividing up into Team Leno and Team Conan. There are natural disasters across the globe and corrupt politicians taking us for a ride… but thank God we have our priorities in order!

/sarcasm...

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Well, it was just “that Star Wars school board campaign commercial”… but at least I can now honestly brag about having made Jay Leno and a studio audience laugh on national television! 🙂

I put the clip of The Jay Leno Show featuring my commercial (along with a few others from around the country) during this past Thursday night’s broadcast on YouTube.  Click here to behold Yours Truly’s visual effects and Melody Hallman Daniel’s awesome voice-over entertaining the entire country in prime-time!

However I don’t know how long it’ll be up on YouTube, ‘cuz as soon as I posted it the system told me that NBC Universal had already flagged it for possible infringement… which I’m thinking is just an automated response to the keywords I attached to the video.  But even so, after EVERYTHING that I’ve gone through in the past few years pertaining to copyright law (yeah I’m ...

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I’m getting MULTIPLE reports that my school board campaign commercial from 2006 was featured on The Jay Leno Show on NBC tonight! I didn’t get to see it: ’tis been a very busy evening, including auditioning for a community theater production and then grabbing some dinner. When I got back, the e-mail box had lit up like a Christmas tree.

Suffice it to say, I’m very interested in watching this to see how it played out 🙂

Thanks to everyone who’s been sending in the nice e-mails about it. And if you’re just now finding this blog because of Jay Leno running my ad: welcome! Hope you’ll like what you find here 🙂

EDIT: Last night’s The Jay Leno Show is now up on Hulu! Hit the link and go to about 36 minutes into the show.

The entire segment is hilarious! 🙂...

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CatholicVote.org attempted to buy airtime to run this thought-provoking spot during the Super Bowl tonight. But NBC refused, on grounds that the commercial time isn’t for “political advocacy or issues”. CatholicVote.org is quick to point out that People for Ethical Treatment of Animals already received approval for a racy and suggestive promo it created.

Here’s the spot that CatholicVote.org came up with. I find it to be exceptionally powerful, and well within the bounds of good taste. And in my mind, there is no reason at all why NBC should have refused to run it…

Thanks to Geoff Gentry for the heads-up....

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The long, long, long-attempted effort to relaunch V – yeah, the 1980s sci-fi franchise about the humanoid lizards come to steal our water, rape our wimmunfolk and eat us for lunch (literally) – is finally getting off the ground at ABC. The network has commissioned a pilot episode, presumably that will premiere this coming fall.

If handled right, this could be a terrific show that might pick up the same fans who are currently hooked on Lost (which will see its final season next year). Unfortunately, V creator Kenneth Johnson is not aboard for this go-round… and I’ve long thought that if he had been given complete control over his original concept, that NBC could have had one of the greatest television series of the Eighties. Alas! Too many suits ruined that…

And speaking of NBC television shows from two decades ago, June 11, 2010 is the ...

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