Everything You Need to Know About Lost

So are you excited about the kickoff of the final season of Lost? The entire internet seems to be! But if you’re like me and haven’t watched a single episode, you may feel sort of left out of the conversation. Luckily for for us, Vanity Fair assigned a writer to spend three weeks watching every single hour-long episode, all 103 of them, and write a recap of everything that’s happened so far in about 500 words. Now I kinda want to watch Lost tonight, even though I’ll probably be confused as all hell after five minutes and change the channel. But hey, whatever. Also, you can watch this YouTube video that recaps everthing that’s happened on the show in just over 8 minutes. |Vanity Fair|

Mad Men’s Evil Genius Breaks His Silence About the Upheavel He Birthed in Sunday Night’s Season 3 Finale

Mattew Weiner on Sunday’s finale: [Getting rid of Sterling Cooper] was very scary but I knew in my heart it was what I had to do. I have to believe that if Don is as good as he says he is, there’s no way he’s going to go through the ’60s working at a firm like Sterling Cooper. Read more »

Former Female Letterman Writer Blasts Late Night Television Sexism

Nell Scovell, a female former member of David Letterman’s writing staff when he was doing Late Night with David Letterman on NBC, published a piece today on Vanity Fair’s website about her time working for him and the sexism that she believes exists across the board on late night television talk shows. Her piece provides some great insights into the atmosphere in comedy writing rooms and why women have had a difficult time getting/keeping those sort of jobs in the past. Read more »

If You Enjoy True Hollywood Stories…

Then you have to read my friend Jordan Reid Berkow’s account of being part of the original ensemble (She was the original “Sweet Dee”) that created the FX show, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, only to be unceremoniously sent packing by the network after her longtime relationship with one of the show’s stars and co-creators, Rob McElhenney, fell apart. Jordan, who’s now married to musician Kendrick Strauch of The Harlem Shakes, has refused to discuss what happened to her publicly for a long time, but finally decided to open up about it all after a lot of prodding by a lot of people. It’s a very engrossing story. You can read Jordan’s full account here and Mediaite’s Rachel Sklar has a good background piece on it all here.

It’s Not TV, It’s A Freakshow

Wondering what to watch on TV tonight? Well here’s something that should both horrify and depress the living shit out of you! It’s HBO’s new documentary, Youth Knows No Pain, which is all about the ridiculous lengths people who still don’t realize that chronic masturbation is the secret Fountain of Youth go to these days to try to look young. Among the subjects featured in the film is the infamously hideous New York-based internet person Julia Allison! Here’s the trailer: Read more »

ABC Casting Graffiti Loving Family for ‘Wife Swap’

Following yesterday’s news that Bravo is hunting down artists for The Untitled Art Project reality show competition comes another casting call for creative types of the graffiti persuasion. ABC’s “Wife Swap” is searching for “families who are passionate about graffiti as an art form!” The premise of the show involves taking mothers from two families with wildly different values and making them suffer through the other family’s strange ways before tyrannically imposing their own lifestyle on them. Hopefully this means producers will pit a household of vandals against a family of law-abiders. Imagine the drama when a graffiti-hating mom is asked to drop the spraycan-toting kids off on a bombing mission.

Photo by prideofanglia

‘Idiot Box’ Inspired Art At Gallery 1988

A Godzilla-sized Gumby, molded MacGyver, Saved By the Bell shoot out, and even a real-life Mr. Belding were all featured in the opening of “Idiot Box,” a television-themed art exhibit at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. The show closes on April 23rd, which happens to be the middle of TV turnoff week. If you can’t check the show out in person, surf through our favorite works in the gallery below.
Read more »