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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
One thing Bullock didn't have to deal with: aliens
The New York Times looks at David Milch's new show:
His method, and a bit of his madness, were on display here recently in front of a roomful of actors, writers, an ex-cop and a lip-reading deaf girl. They had come to Mr. Milch’s plain-vanilla offices to work on a pilot for “John From Cincinnati,” a drama for HBO. The pilot, scheduled for broadcast in the spring, is based on the travails of a mythical first family of surfing. “John from Cincinnati” is taking shape under Mr. Milch’s direction as executive producer, with the surf novelist Kem Nunn, among others, providing aquatic verisimilitude. The story defies television genre-speak, but in literature it would be called surf noir. There is a dysfunctional family viewed through the twin prisms of surfing and heroin addiction, a space alien and a lawyer named Dickstein. It should be mentioned that some characters occasionally levitate. (emaphases mine)
I don't know if it will be good or bad but I like that the man behind Deadwood is trying something really out there. It's far better than trying to make lighting strike twice as most TV producers do.
The article has many quotes from Milch that are...interesting. I must say that I do like it when creators get grandiose and a bit bizarre about their visions. I see no problem with being a little eccentric if it means that a creator is really committed to producing ambitious and thought-provoking material.
Via The Sound of Young America
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