Censorship, 'Gossip Girl' And Other Points Of Interest
Cher: Clearly too understated to play Catwoman. Bertrand Guay, AFP/Getty Images
• Cinematical and Vulture have both expressed skepticism about rumors that Cher is going to play Catwoman in Christopher Nolan's next Batman movie. I, for one, would enjoy seeing Catwoman wearing duct tape and a sailor hat. It wouldn't really be any sillier than what Batman wears.
Censorship debates, unexpected convention blogs, and potentially scandalous fall television, after the jump...
• There's a heated debate over at The New York Times over Random House's decision not to publish Sherry Jones' The Jewel Of Medina. (NPR covered the story on Talk Of The Nation a couple of weeks ago). Is there a difference between government censorship and a publisher's business decision? Consensus has not been reached after 216 comments.
• I like Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch blog very much; I really do. But I did scratch my head at the decision to have TV producers Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino blogging the Democratic Convention. In concept, it suggests a kind of monkeys/typewriters corollary along the lines of "an infinite number of magazines covering an infinite number of political events will eventually decide that the former executive producer of Gilmore Girls should cover a political spectacle." That said, the writing is livelier than much of the political coverage you'll read this week ("The Hillary supporters are out in force: loud, adamant, and for some reason, uniformly sun-damaged"), so that shows you what I know.
• The Parents Television Council, apparently not content with having its anti-Gossip Girl statements turned into promotional material by the CW, is encouraging advertisers not to support this fall's Beverly Hills, 90210 reboot -- which is called, creatively enough, 90210. The Council points out that because 90210 has not been screened for advertisers (or critics), it might contain salaciousness. Safe to say it might, yes.
10:38 AM ET | 08-26-2008 | permalink
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