Posts by Tess Lynch
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Hot Property: The Teenage Satanic Craigslist Serial Killer Demands This Theoretical Movie Treatment
Ad-supported cable or elsewhere, it seems inevitable this grisly tale will be making its way onto producers’ desks at some point in the near future. Let’s head off the studios’ efforts with a Hot Property segment, born here under a bad sign.
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Girls in Hoodies
Molly Lambert and Emily Yoshida pick their favorite entries from the ‘True Detective’ fanfic contest and share their thoughts on this year’s Oscars.
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Girls in Hoodies
Molly, Tess, and Emily announce their ‘True Detective’ fan-fiction contest and pour one out for a beloved ‘House of Cards’ character.
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I Can Haz 18-to-34 Demographic? HLN’s Millennial Makeover
Intended for an audience of “millennials and the millennial-minded”, HLN is loading its lineup with shows like “I Can Haz NewsToons” (“social media’s best satirical cartoons”) and “One.Click.Away” (a dig into mysterious online classified ads).
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For the Seventh Time, Terry Gilliam Climbs Back on the ‘Don Quixote’ Saddle
Gilliam is taking another crack at his famously cursed project, and announced that he will begin production this fall in the Canary Islands.
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J.K. Rowling and the Not-So-Secret Pseudonym
Being Robert Galbraith allowed Rowling the best of both worlds: Galbraith didn’t need to struggle or worry about his daughter waking up from her nap and interrupting his work; Rowling didn’t have to stress about telling a story that her ‘Potter’ audience would find alienating.
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‘Ray Donovan,’ ‘New Girl,’ and the Recent Glut of Script Lawsuits
The most recent script-stealing allegation is a lawsuit from writer Brian Larsen, who has claimed that the central concept of his project ‘The Swissman’ was illegally lifted and applied to what would become ‘Ray Donovan.’
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Girls in Hoodies
Molly, Tess and Emily chat about Dumb Starbucks, Shia LaBeouf’s apology performance art, their theories about ‘True Detective,’ and a very divisive episode of ‘Girls.’
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Cary Fukunaga’s ‘It’ Remake Is Alive, Well, and Ready for Us to Fantasy Cast
In an interview with Collider, producer Dan Lin indicated that of his 15 projects in development, ‘It’ was near the top of the priority list, and that Fukunaga’s work on ‘True Detective’ was “a great sample” for what he could bring to the adaptation.
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Kristen Stewart, Secret Poet, Shares Her Art With ‘Marie Claire’
Kristen Stewart, human embodiment of a Tom Petty song, has written a poem that she shared with ‘Marie Claire.’ After three pages of your typical celebrity-profile fare — dog names, sparely furnished house, the blue Vans she wore, a filmography, and truncated romantic history — you land on Page 4, which contains the money shot. The poem is titled “My Heart Is a Wiffle Ball/Freedom Pole.”
