- Well played, Simon Cornwall. You’re the producer of the
hit cable series “The Night Manager” and as the producer or star of any big
show knows, the key is to continue building interest in the show and keep fans
hooked. There’s no better way to do that than allowing everyone to believe that
despite the show’s impressive ratings and critical success, the first season
will be the only one - only to come back a while later and cleverly hint that
there just might be another season in the offing. Cornwall decided to stop
stonewalling and admitted that another season of the show, which is based on
John Le Carré's 1993 spy novel, is possible. The show has colossal star power
with leading men Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, who have both poo-pooed the
notion of a second season. "It's based on a novel, we've got to the end of
the novel and John Le Carré has yet to write another novel, so in cold
practical terms, no, we're done," Laurie said. Ah, well done Hugh.
Couching your comment with the “in cold practical terms” tag. Cornwall has a
bit more of an inside track on this because he’s LeCarré's nephew and he says
that a second season isn't beyond the realm of possibility. "Of course, the broadcasters would love
to do another series," he said. "There's no book and there's never
been a Le Carré story that has been extended beyond the confines of the novel.
It would be interesting to try that. We wouldn't do something that we didn't
feel had a fighting chance of being even better than the first one.” Yes, the broadcasters
and their advertisers would love another season and in the end, that’s why it
will happen……..
- Stop acting like you’re the bastion of culture and
civilization in continental Europe, Poland. Clearly, you can't position
yourself as any sort of military badasses because you haven’t really done much
to brag about in any world war up to this point, so maybe acting like you’re
incredibly cultured and civilized is the best you can attempt…but it’s still
lame. That goes for you, Polish Deputy Defense Minister Bartosz Kownack, who
went on state television and described the French as "people who learned
to eat with a fork from us a few centuries ago." That seems like a really
clumsy and weak slam on France and its culinary history and yet when pressed on
the idea that he made the comment that the two countries are embroiled in a
diplomatic war over a failed defense deal, B. Kownack denied that such a
diplomatic war has broken out. He did verrrry subtly allege that the French had
compromised themselves and revealed their "class,” but wasn’t big into
providing specifics of exactly what he meant by that comment. What we do know
is that in the past week, Polish officials and representatives of Airbus have
traded recriminations over a failed multibillion euro deal under which Poland
was to have bought 50 military helicopters from the French company. On one side
of the deal, the French have accused the Poles of acting in bad faith, while
Polish officials counter that the deal was bad for their country. How that
justifies (allegedly) welching on a previously agreed-to, multimillion-dollar
military equipment deal remains unclear, so maybe Poland can find another utensil
metaphor to explain it all away………
- Keep Nick Kyrgios-ing, Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios.
Don’t worry that fans booed and heckled you during an uninspired 6-3, 6-1 loss
to Mischa Zverev at the Shanghai Masters, taking issue with you visibly not
trying during multiple segments of the match. Kyrgios clearly mailed in his
second-round match just three days after winning the Japan Open in Tokyo,
tapping a soft serve over the net and walking toward his chair before Zverev
had even returned the ball, floating other first serves in at 67 mph and simply
bypassing his chair on the sidelines during changeovers, walking straight to
the baseline and waiting impatiently to serve, twirling his racket on his
fingers. Even chair umpire Ali Nili took notice and called Kyrgios out for his
act. "This is a professional tournament, you have to act like a professional,"
Nili said. The crowd wasn’t about to sit idly by and allow Kyrgios to get away
with this sh*t and toward the end of the 48-minute match, fans began booing and
jeering. One man yelled, "Respect the game," and rather thsan ignore
some scrub in the stands, Kyrgios shouted back, "You want to come here and
play?" At his post-match news conference, someone dared to ask him whether
he thought he owed the spectators a better effort as one of the stars of the
game. What does that even mean? I'm good at hitting a tennis ball at the net.
Big deal. I don't owe them anything," Kyrgios said. "If you don't
like it, I didn't ask you to come watch. Just leave." He then claimed his
serves were soft because his arm was “a little sore,” though he did allow that
he didn't put forth his best effort and was mentally drained after winning his
third title of the season in Tokyo. Ultimately, a lot of people are talking
about men’s tennis who wouldn’t otherwise be and this piss-poor effort didn’t
hurt anyone’s bottom line other than Kyrgios, so the man just needs to keep
doing his thing……..
- You’re a disappointment and a fraud, robbery suspect who failed
to pull off off a haphazard heist at the AM-PM mini-mart at Country Club Drive
and University Drive in Mesa, Arizona. No, not because you chose food and drink
items before approaching the counter, lifting your shirt and revealing a
handgun tucked in the waistband of your pants before demanding money from the
register, only to have the clerk start crying and become too terrified to open
the register, prompting the would-be thief to sprint from the store with only
his food and drink items. No, this guy is a fraud because he made a half-assed
attempt to dress up as Batman for the robbery, but he couldn’t even follow
through on that simple task. All he could manage was to wear a black Batman
mask, black Batman gloves, a black short-sleeved shirt with a white Volcom
diamond logo on the front. Simply put, it’s a garbage effort akin to forgetting
about your big homework assignment for algebra class, hurriedly scribbling 2 +
2 = 4 on a piece of notebook paper and drawing a couple of isosceles triangles
for good measure before handing it in to your teacher and hoping she gives you
an A for effort. If you’re going to dress up as Batman, you go all in, with the
mask, full suit, cape and you find yourself a f*cking Batmobile - or a close
approximation to take wherever you’re going. If you can't fully commit to the
role, then don’t play it at all. Here’s hoping this suspect is soon captured
and vengefully prosecuted not only for the actual legal crime he committed, but
also his crimes against the name, likeness and spirit of one of the best
superheroes around. This ass hat is described as a white man, mid to late 20s,
about 5-foot-7, with tattoos on the
inside of his left elbow. He also clearly has no self-respect and no sense of
what the Caped Crusader truly means to the world………
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