So today the list of Emmy nominations was released. Some interesting stuff in there. I've never been much for making predictions or anything, but let's see how many of these I can swing. A handful of these are more "want" than "expect", but hey.
Outstanding Programming
Comedy Series: 30 Rock
Drama Series: Lost
Animated Program: South Park ("200"/"201")
Short-Format Animated Program: Robot Chicken ("Full-Assed Christmas Special")
Miniseries: The Pacific
Made for Television Movie: Endgame
Children's Nonfiction: By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
Nonfiction: Deadliest Catch
Reality: MythBusters
Reality-Competition: Dancing with the Stars
Variety, Music, or Comedy Series: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Variety, Music, or Comedy Special: Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction
Special Class: Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony
Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Series
Lead Actor: Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)
Lead Actress: Tina Fey as Liz Lemon (30 Rock)
Supporting Actor: Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)
Supporting Actress: Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
Guest Actor: Will Arnett as Devin Banks (30 Rock, "Into the Crevasse")
Guest Actress: Tina Fey as Host (Saturday Night Live, "Host: Tina Fey")
Outstanding Performance in a Drama Series
Lead Actor: Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House (House)
Lead Actress: Glenn Close as Patty Hewes (Damages)
Supporting Actor: Michael Emerson as Ben Linus (Lost)
Supporting Actress: Rose Byrne as Ellen Parsons (Damages)
Guest Actor: Ted Danson as Arthur Frobisher (Damages, "The Next One's Gonna Go in Your Throat")
Guest Actress: Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet Burke (Lost, "The End")
Outstanding Performance in a Miniseries or a Movie
Lead Actor: Ian McKellen as Two (The Prisoner)
Lead Actress: Joan Allen as Georgia O'Keeffe (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Supporting Actor: John Goodman as Neal Nicol (You Don't Know Jack)
Supporting Actress: Kathy Bates as Queen of Hearts (Alice)
Outstanding Performance (Other)
Host, Reality Program: Ryan Seacrest as Host (American Idol)
Voice-Over: H. Jon Benjamin as Sterling Archer (Archer, "Mole Hunt")
Outstanding Writing
Comedy Series: 30 Rock ("Lee Marvin Vs. Derek Jeter")
Drama Series: Lost ("The End")
Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special: The Pacific ("Part Eight")
Variety, Music, or Comedy Series: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart ("Episode #15040")
Variety, Music, or Comedy Special: Bill Maher "...But I'm Not Wrong"
Nonfiction Programming: Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations ("Prague")
Outstanding Directing
Comedy Series: 30 Rock ("I Do Do")
Drama Series: Lost ("The End")
Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special: You Don't Know Jack
Variety, Music, or Comedy Series: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart ("Episode #15054")
Variety, Music, or Comedy Special: Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony
Nonfiction Programming: By the People: The Election of Barack Obama
Outstanding Art Direction
Single-Camera Series: Lost ("Ab Aeterno")
Multi-Camera Series: How I Met Your Mother ("Duel Citizenship")
Miniseries or Movie: You Don't Know Jack
Variety, Music, or Nonfiction Programming: The Who Super Bowl Halftime Show
Outstanding Casting
Comedy Series: 30 Rock
Drama Series: Dexter
Miniseries, Movie, or Special: You Don't Know Jack
Outstanding Choreography
Dancing with the Stars ("Paso Doble/Malaquena")
Outstanding Cinematography
Half-Hour Series: Weeds ("A Modest Proposal")
One-Hour Series: FlashForward ("No More Good Days")
Miniseries or Movie: The Prisoner ("Checkmate")
Nonfiction Programming: Deadliest Catch ("No Second Chances")
Reality Programming: Man Vs. Wild ("Big Sky Country")
Outstanding Commercial
Old Spice Body Wash, ("The Man Your Man Could Smell Like")
Outstanding Costumes
Series: 30 Rock ("I Do Do")
Miniseries, Movie, or Special: You Don't Know Jack
Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media
Nonfiction: Top Chef: Las Vegas
Fiction: Dexter Interactive
Outstanding Hairstyling
Single-Camera Series: Glee ("Hairography")
Multi-Camera Series or Special: How I Met Your Mother ("Dopplegangers")
Miniseries or Movie: You Don't Know Jack
Outstanding Lighting Direction for Variety, Music, or Comedy Programming
Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony
Outstanding Main Title Design
Human Target
Outstanding Makeup
Single-Camera Series, Non-Prosthetic: Glee ("Theatricality")
Multi-Camera Series or Special, Non-Prosthetic: 82nd Annual Academy Awards
Miniseries or Movie, Non-Prosthetic: You Don't Know Jack
Series, Miniseries, Movie, or Special, Prosthetic: Nip/Tuck ("Enigma")
Outstanding Music Composition
Series: Lost ("The End")
Miniseries, Movie, or Special: You Don't Know Jack
Outstanding Music Direction
Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony
Outstanding Original Main Theme Music
Warehouse 13
Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
"Down's Syndrome Girl" (Family Guy, "Extra Large Medium")
Outstanding Picture Editing
Comedy Series: 30 Rock ("Dealbreakers Talk Show #0001")
Drama Series: Lost ("The End")
Miniseries or Movie: You Don't Know Jack
Short-Form: 82nd Annual Academy Awards ("John Hughes Tribute")
Special: The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert
Nonfiction Programming: Deadliest Catch ("No Second Chances")
Reality Programming: Top Chef ("Vivre Las Vegas")
Outstanding Sound Editing
Series: Lost ("The End")
Miniseries, Movie, or Special: Alice ("Part 1")
Nonfiction Programming: The Amazing Race ("I Think We're Fighting the Germans, Right?")
Outstanding Sound Mixing
Comedy or Drama Series, Half-Hour: The Office ("Niagara")
Comedy or Drama Series, One-Hour: Lost ("The End")
Miniseries or Movie: The Pacific ("Part Five")
Variety or Music Series or Special: The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert
Nonfiction Programming: Deadliest Catch ("No Second Chances")
Outstanding Special Visual Effects
Series: Stargate Universe ("Air")
Miniseries, Movie, or Special: The Pacific ("Part Five")
Outstanding Stunt Coordination
Chuck ("Chuck Vs. The Tic Tac")
Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, and Video Control
Series: Dancing with the Stars ("Episode 909A")
Miniseries, Movie, or Special: The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert
Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking
Brick City
96 awards, we'll have to see how it goes August 29
rickie-d
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
you've got a friend in me
Just got back from seeing Toy Story 3. Words can honestly not describe it. If you haven't seen it, you're wasting time reading this when you could be out having your heart broken so good.
I was 8 when Toy Story came out, back in 1995 (it's hard to believe it's been 15 years). I remember seeing it and thinking "Whoa, cool!" It was a fun movie about toys, and it was in 3D! And everyone's friends in the end, hooray! A true classic, and the movie that put Pixar on the map.
I was 12 when Toy Story 2 came out in 1999. While by no means a bad movie, it was unfortunately pretty forgettable. It was a sequel of average proportions, not losing the luster of the first, but not really extending past either. And so the toys went into their chest for 11 years.
So now it's 2010, and Toy Story 3 has finally landed. While the first two were definitive kids' movies, this one seems to go far and beyond. While it's still fun and funny and kid-friendly (mostly because they may not understand what's going on in some situations), there is definitely a large portion of it geared directly at my generation. The twenty-somethings. The young adults who were children when Woody and Buzz first arrived.
And really, that's what the movie's about. How long can you really hold onto childish things? Everyone grows up someday, but what happens next? Toy Story 3 tackles that idea head on in many truly heart-wrenching ways.
I refuse to spoil this movie for anyone, but I will say this: steel yourself when you finally see it. The climax is, in a word, devastating. Again shining a light on us twenty-somethings that grew up with Woody and Buzz and the rest, this movie takes a cast of characters known for being fun-loving and carefree, and casts a dark, menacing shadow. No toy left behind, indeed. Toy Story 3 is an absolute masterpiece.
You've got a friend in me,
rickie-d
I was 8 when Toy Story came out, back in 1995 (it's hard to believe it's been 15 years). I remember seeing it and thinking "Whoa, cool!" It was a fun movie about toys, and it was in 3D! And everyone's friends in the end, hooray! A true classic, and the movie that put Pixar on the map.
I was 12 when Toy Story 2 came out in 1999. While by no means a bad movie, it was unfortunately pretty forgettable. It was a sequel of average proportions, not losing the luster of the first, but not really extending past either. And so the toys went into their chest for 11 years.
So now it's 2010, and Toy Story 3 has finally landed. While the first two were definitive kids' movies, this one seems to go far and beyond. While it's still fun and funny and kid-friendly (mostly because they may not understand what's going on in some situations), there is definitely a large portion of it geared directly at my generation. The twenty-somethings. The young adults who were children when Woody and Buzz first arrived.
And really, that's what the movie's about. How long can you really hold onto childish things? Everyone grows up someday, but what happens next? Toy Story 3 tackles that idea head on in many truly heart-wrenching ways.
I refuse to spoil this movie for anyone, but I will say this: steel yourself when you finally see it. The climax is, in a word, devastating. Again shining a light on us twenty-somethings that grew up with Woody and Buzz and the rest, this movie takes a cast of characters known for being fun-loving and carefree, and casts a dark, menacing shadow. No toy left behind, indeed. Toy Story 3 is an absolute masterpiece.
You've got a friend in me,
rickie-d
Sunday, July 4, 2010
three cheers for the red, white, and blue
Happy Fourth of July, everybody!
So on my way back from grabbing some groceries, I saw a tree. But not just any tree. No, this tree was standing tall over a bench on which a sapling was laid. Like some kind of bizarre arbor wake. It was kind of unsettling.
Anyway, the coming week is my last week doing work study in WPI's Technical Theatre Office. Been a good run (nowhere NEAR done digitizing photos, gotta figure out what to do about that), but the week after that I'm co-running the Frontiers Drama program! For those not in the know, Frontiers is a program at WPI where high school juniors and seniors come to the school for two weeks to learn about various stuff that WPI does. Myself and Steven Vessella are running the Drama program this year (we produced and directed, respectively, last winter's production of The Crucible). 25 kids, which is pretty cool. Plus we have someone from the UK, one from Tokyo, one from Greece, an albino Jamaican, and twins. THAT IS SO AWESOME.
Writing's been coming very slowly. I've got nine stories under the Crusaders banner cooking, probably with a few more to fill out the middle. What's tricky is that because I'm working it into (and simultaneously writing) a larger body of work, it's complicating itself, but in a helping sort of way. Example: there's a very minor crossover in the second story as a character leaves (and then shows up in the first story of the connected series). This one's pretty easy to manage, and even assists both stories pretty well. A more difficult example comes in near the end of the first volume of both, as there is a crossover that pretty much consumes an issue of each (think CSI: Trilogy). Anyway, ideas are still flowing, albeit slowly.
Not entirely sure what I'm doing for the 4th yet. There was supposed to be some tech demo filming going on today with Brandon, Steve, and Scott, but I think it might have fallen through. My dad's down in Connecticut with his relatives, not sure what my mom's side's up to, and while Holly was talking Martha's Vineyard (her dad has a boat), seeing as it's 4pm and Bebel's only just gotten up, not sure what's gonna happen with that.
The 30 Day Challenge is stalling out hardcore. About a week in my weight jumped about 3 pounds, and I'm struggling to get back to where I started. Wonderful. Meanwhile, Bebel dropped about 3 pounds and then hit a brick wall and hasn't changed in a week. So that's... yeah.
Well, I guess that's about it. Happy 4th!
rickie-d
So on my way back from grabbing some groceries, I saw a tree. But not just any tree. No, this tree was standing tall over a bench on which a sapling was laid. Like some kind of bizarre arbor wake. It was kind of unsettling.
Anyway, the coming week is my last week doing work study in WPI's Technical Theatre Office. Been a good run (nowhere NEAR done digitizing photos, gotta figure out what to do about that), but the week after that I'm co-running the Frontiers Drama program! For those not in the know, Frontiers is a program at WPI where high school juniors and seniors come to the school for two weeks to learn about various stuff that WPI does. Myself and Steven Vessella are running the Drama program this year (we produced and directed, respectively, last winter's production of The Crucible). 25 kids, which is pretty cool. Plus we have someone from the UK, one from Tokyo, one from Greece, an albino Jamaican, and twins. THAT IS SO AWESOME.
Writing's been coming very slowly. I've got nine stories under the Crusaders banner cooking, probably with a few more to fill out the middle. What's tricky is that because I'm working it into (and simultaneously writing) a larger body of work, it's complicating itself, but in a helping sort of way. Example: there's a very minor crossover in the second story as a character leaves (and then shows up in the first story of the connected series). This one's pretty easy to manage, and even assists both stories pretty well. A more difficult example comes in near the end of the first volume of both, as there is a crossover that pretty much consumes an issue of each (think CSI: Trilogy). Anyway, ideas are still flowing, albeit slowly.
Not entirely sure what I'm doing for the 4th yet. There was supposed to be some tech demo filming going on today with Brandon, Steve, and Scott, but I think it might have fallen through. My dad's down in Connecticut with his relatives, not sure what my mom's side's up to, and while Holly was talking Martha's Vineyard (her dad has a boat), seeing as it's 4pm and Bebel's only just gotten up, not sure what's gonna happen with that.
The 30 Day Challenge is stalling out hardcore. About a week in my weight jumped about 3 pounds, and I'm struggling to get back to where I started. Wonderful. Meanwhile, Bebel dropped about 3 pounds and then hit a brick wall and hasn't changed in a week. So that's... yeah.
Well, I guess that's about it. Happy 4th!
rickie-d
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