My apologies to those seven of you eagerly awaiting a new post. The Infinite Monkey has some Monkey-in-Law related business out of town this week and who knows if they'll let me out of the hokey-pokey circle to write. I'm hoping to post something soon about the spec script world, both past and present. Hopefully the post will
a) rock, despite being written in a permanent Ativan hangover
b) show how spoiled I am
c) teach all of us the most important lesson we can learn about the entertainment business. And that is:
Don't, under any circumstance, including pain of death, date an actress.
Thank you for your patience. The request line is now open.
I learned the actress thing the hard way.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that Rachel McAdams is the exception that proves the rule.
ReplyDeleteNo, she is. Shut up.
i just found out i belong to a noble family!! Wow, that site rocks! thanks josh for giving us the tease. geez, i have to read something in the bathroom...
ReplyDeleteI'm not in the industry, but I look forward to every post. You are verbal crack. I'm addicted.
ReplyDeleteNo offense Greg, but that expression “exception proves the rule” has always bothered me. It doesn’t make sense.
ReplyDeleteOh, damn, no post.
ReplyDeleteI revolve my week around this blog...I mean, it's almost like a new episode of According to Jim...I have to be there ;)
Seriously, though, this continues to be an amazing blog.
James
Oh, damn, no post.
ReplyDeleteI revolve my week around this blog...I mean, it's almost like a new episode of According to Jim...I have to be there ;)
Seriously, though, this continues to be an amazing blog.
James
"I'm sure that Rachel McAdams is the exception that proves the rule."
ReplyDeleteThat makes perfect sense and is used correctly here.
"Proves" in the phrase "the exception that proves the rule" means "test". The same etymology explains why they test vehicles on a proving ground.
What gets my dander up is when the ignorant use the phrase to show that an exception is evidence that a rule is correct, which is just wrong.
Greg, however, is saying that Miss McAdams tests the rule - which is true, for any heterosexual male or lesbian that has the opportunity.
Yeah. Plus she's hot.
ReplyDeleteWebs, I think you're all wet (a saying which is used to mean "up in the night"--which I suppose is used to mean, uh, BZZZZZZZZZZZT Wrong!)
ReplyDeleteHere's why I think so:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_201.html
Oh, but you got that condescending, "Why is everybody but me so stupid" tone down just right, so congratulations.
Dude. I am willing to have your babies, or at the very least, touch you inappropriately.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, you might want to switch on the word verification thing for comments, to avoid the spam-merchants. More details at my genealogy site, which I believe is the only genealogy site of its kind to talk about genealogy in this way. Genealogy.
Dear Anonymous the Last,
ReplyDeleteCecil writes in that very article: "Since there is not much chance of stamping these out en masse, we may as well resign ourselves to trying to boost the sensible interpretations and suppress the rest. Here it seems to me that the interpretation I initially favored, that the exception tests the rule, comes off pretty well. "
And thank you for the compliment on my condescending tone. It's taken years to hone it to just the right subtlety.
I am totally crushing on an actress whom I do not know and probably never will. Yes, this is pathetisad.
ReplyDeleteAnd Rachel McAdams is fine. She officially has taken the AMERICA'S SWEETHEART(tm) title from Reese Witherspoon. I hear she's remarkably down to earth as well.
Yet worst of all, I heard something yesterday about Mandy Moore that crushed my little starlet-loving heart.
Nothing in particular to request except more of the same, wonderful crack. Well, maybe an explanation of the origin of "the Crimson Ape."
ReplyDeleteHi mom!
Rachel McAdams was average lay. I've had better.
ReplyDeleteCraig, you are going to a very sweet and special kind of hell.
ReplyDeleteShe's not cameoing in SM4 is she?
Security Dog,
ReplyDeleteI think that Bruce Willis actually owns (or maybe just optioned) the rights to The Cold Six Thousand. Evidently he and his Cheyenne Enterprises once had that book and American Tabloid set up to be some sort of mini-series for HBO.
Both of them are amazing books though...lets get Josh to adapt them.
hey, i like this blog, too. but geez, suck up much?
ReplyDeleteCraig,
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I feel asleep on you and hurt your feelings.
Rachel is a giving and sensitive lover who put the lipstick in lesbian. I'm totally making this up but it's been kind of fun.
ReplyDeleteSeriously. Is this what you people do while I'm out of town? At least Ferris drove the car.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the verbal crack, except that I think it should be writeen crack. We don't exact 'hear' what you're saying.
ReplyDeleteActually, this is the part of the blog where we hijack it and drive around town like those two valets.
ReplyDeleteWhat country do you think this is?
ReplyDeleteI need a device which can perform time jumps on selected objects. I could then read Josh's future posts while I relax and enjoy my life.
ReplyDeleteG.
My mother erred and only warned me against loving musicians (despite the fact she is one).
ReplyDeletefwiw, I confess my crush is on Howl which means I have a crush on a cartoon. I am probably beyond help on this - but take this as an inspiration that you can't possibly be as bad off as me (unless of course you have a crush on Dr. Aki Ross) - ha!
I want to know about Pez. And Walter Brennan.
ReplyDeleteEver read Easy Riders Raging Bulls? (Subtitled: How the sex drugs and rock n roll generation saved hollywood). A highly entertaining book about the period from Easy Rider to Raging Bull, and all the weird, egomaniacal cokeheads who pulled it off. Brian De Palma comes out, like just about every other director, actor and editor in the book, looking like a Class I Prick. It seems Hollywood is wall-to-wall CIPs. Why is that?
ReplyDeleteSee also The Devil's Candy, about the making of Bonfire of the Vanities.
Ditto Actors.
ReplyDeleteNever, ever date an actor.
"Rachel McAdams said...
ReplyDelete"I'm sorry I feel asleep on you and hurt your feelings."
Him too? Well, my feelings are a little less hurt now.
I'd like to just say how much I enjoy reading this blog and I'm looking forward to your next installments.
ReplyDeleteI hate this blog. Josh Friedman is a no talent hack.
ReplyDeleteAs for dating actresses, my personal advice is to find aspiring actresses rather than actual working actresses. Give 'em a spin, throw them a role then drop them off at Heffs. Hell, look what I did for Scarlett's career.
Scott--
ReplyDeletePez and Walter Brennan are forever linked, in all ways.
Everyone else knows this.
We've kept it from you.
We cannot let you discover why.
Someone needs to write a "Monkey-in-Law" spec and sell it for a million dollars.
ReplyDeleteI would like to know more about genealogy. Specifically, can you locate my noble ancestors? Am I at the right site?
ReplyDeletefeed:
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I dated an actress once. By the time we broke up, I had a coke habit and an 'OC' addiction. Dating actresses [or actors, for that matter, right Peggy?] is just not a good idea. Let them date each other-- that's the way it was meant to be.
ReplyDeleteAnd whoever is 'Michael Bay'-- that shit is hilarious.
Don't date an actress and never work on anything where talent is also the EP.
ReplyDeleteIs anyone else have withdrawal symptoms from the lack of a new entry?
ReplyDeleteCome on Josh, I need it!
It sort of has the vibe of a lot of guys shuffling around a parking lot, waiting for the liquor store to open.
ReplyDeleteI want to know if he still has the M3? Priorities people!
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