NYC Marathon is just something that makes people happy, I think.
NBC’s Brian Williams on Saturday Night Life. I watched the opening skit – Hilary Clinton’s Halloween – funny stuff; plus a real Barack Obama!!! Oh, yeah, and Brian Williams. I watched the opening monologue – funny; part of the skit where he’s a firefighter (funny fake New Yawk accent in play; funnier, since Williams was once a firefighter before he became a news guy). The skit where Alternate Universe Brian Williams (a self-important anchorman, whose favorite person is himself, and who makes fun of the Today show’s Al Roker and Matt Lauer by throwing coins at them from upstairs) – funny scary. I didn’t think Real Brian Williams lost his credibility, but the idea remains: yeah, you have a sense of humor, but what were you thinking, Brian (as he said it himself in the opening monologue).
Fred Thompson, aka Arthur Branch, the ex-DA of NYC… umm, on tv, people. ON TV! NY Times’ Jodi Kantor profiles Thompson’s acting career.
And, speaking of tv, the whole tv writers’ strike thing kind of makes me nervous. We’ll at least have episodes of stuff until January. I’d likely end up watching my many tapes rather than watch crappy reality tv, so at least that’s okay. I do see the tv writers’ point – how can the networks/production companies leave out the writers in residuals on dvd’s or other multimedia? And, there are apparently a multitude of issues that go over my head. Labor strikes don’t make things easy.