A whole Month!!

Well, it's been over a month since my last post. Quite a bit has happened. For starters, I have a new day job.

I'm an associate producer on a show called What it Takes. For all my crapping on celebs, and hating/being jealous of the cult of celebrity, my job is now to write and produce a half-hour show that is essentially a big, sloppy, wet knob job for a different celeb each week.

The other day, I poured over 10 different articles about Ben Affleck's past and career.

On the plus side, I have absolutely -no- feelings or creative ego over what I'm working on. It's actually quite liberating in a way, because I make any and all changes wanted by the network without blinking an eye.

The poor girl who's the senior producer is glad to have me on board (she's been producing the show by herself until now) and I really like the owners (Michael and Gui, a gay Egyptian/Armenian and Spaniard couple) the editors, my co-producers, the editors and even the production assistants. It's a Norman Rockwell painting of a place to work, but with lots of gay jokes and sexual harassment.

Today I field produced an interview with one of our "expert" journalists about Cameron Diaz. Field producing sounds awfully impressive, so let me spell it out for the uninitiated; I asked the questions we wrote in the office for the journalist, and wrote down the ending timecode for good takes. The shooter that accompanied me framed the shot, set up the lights, monitored the audio, mics the journalist and runs the camera.

It was exhausting.

Thursday I go to the Superman Returns DVD release party. I have to ask a few questions about "what surprises are on the DVD" and that sort of stuff for 25 minutes, then dig into the free buffet and get my free swag. I'm hoping for something made of Kryptonite.

I dig my new job.

Since it's been so long since I've posted, here's a double-subject. I wanted to blog about this months ago, but apparently not enough to actually do it.
I think Daniel Craig will be the best Bond since Connery. I know Gressis (and millions of others, to be fair) think Moore was the best Bond, and Remington Steel was excellent.
While I liked Moore fine, he was a -touch- too campy for my taste. Bond is campy, no doubt, but at the end of the day you have to believe he can really kick your ass. I don't think any of them have had that since Connery.

Jami and I saw LAYER CAKE when it came out, and we both really liked it. I said then, and I stand by the assertion that Daniel Craig looks quite a bit like Steve McQueen.

I've seen that written several places since he was announced as the new Bond, so I wish I'd written it down sooner, even though I'm sure thousands made the comparison.

I haven't really liked a Bond movie since GOLDENEYE, and I don't think there's been a great one since A VIEW TO A KILL (Moore's last one...right? It was that or OCTOPUSSY).

So I want to go on record and state I think Craig has the potential to bring something back to the Bond movies that I feel has been missing for a long time. Now, I know the writers did a couple of the more recent Bond movies, so that's a big hurdle.
The director helmed THE MASK OF ZORRO and GOLDENEYE, which is a plus, but he directed the new ZORRO movie as well, so who knows...

On a final note, I saw BORAT. Hee-larious. But, I don't know how he can do BRUNO, (my favorite Coen character) now that everyone's in on the joke.