You only BELIEVE you were rooting for me?
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Actually, I appreciate it. So far this year I lost an Emmy and a Producer’s Guild Award.
Much like the Steelers, I believe we were talented enough to beat anyone in the league. Damn refs screwed us.![]()
Game of Thrones won the Emmy this year. The Americans won the PGA. I went to the Emmys but didn’t bother going to the PGAs. Everyone knew the Americans was gonna win because it was their final year. At the Emmys we were actually the favorites. But I don’t really love awards shows in general.
The Emmys were fun though because I got to impress my girlfriend and get her picture taken on the carpet. She’s an actress so she’s into that kind of shit.
The Handmaid’s Tale got very politicized by the press but not by the creator of the show. When it was originally being developed no one thought Trump would actually get elected. The show just caught a lucky break with that one.![]()
Oh man, for real? Then I've got a script to pitch you. It's called "Jimmy the FUCKIN Dickhead" and it's about this guy named Jimmy who runs a website where desperate people go to get handjobs, and in his spare time he's a dog. The website falls on hard times, and as less people go there for handjobs, he notices he's turning into a dog more and more and staying in dog form for longer, and also developing an intense craving to eat dogshit like a real dog. Eventually the website goes under and he turns all the way into a dog, and the second half of the movie mostly focuses on eating dogshit. Finally he gets adopted by a loving family, but they abandon him after they take him on a hike and he eats a huge pile of dogshit, then throws it up in the car on the way home, then eats the throw-up and throws up again in the house. But he finds happiness living on the street, and the movie ends with 45 minutes of dogs humping - no dialogue, no music or effects, just 45 minutes of dog-on-dog sex, some of it gay.
I typed out the whole script in half an hour on my smartphone.
IS IT TOO SOON TO WHISPER OSCAR
See you Space Cowboy ...
You know what, this was actually the original plot of Star Wars, before George Lucas got his hands on it and ruined it. There were also going to be 46 of them but the studio execs cut it down to 9 because it was "unmanageable," whatever that means. A little-known secret among the insiders in the biz.
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You may be referring to the mythical deleted scene in which Jimmy (Yoda wasn't in the original script) made "dogshit angels" in an alley where his visitors used to go for handjobs as the site was about to fail.
In any case, it's clear from all the evidence available that despite its commercial success Star Wars missed the mark in what its audience wanted to see, and likely missed out on becoming an even bigger blockbuster as a result. For example, take this poll of 18 trillion Americans from shortly after Episode IV's 1977 release:
This shows an unmistakable preference, even at that time, for characters that break the mold of the stereotypical cis white male hero. Or another data point from another survey of 500 billion moviegoers after the release of Return of the Jedi:
Clearly, the public was hoping for a non-traditional story with a diverse cast of characters, yet once again, Hollywood disappointed them in its shameless pursuit of box office numbers. It's no wonder why the town, and the industry in general, has a reputation of being superficial and "fake."
See you Space Cowboy ...