New York Times contacted me about my article. Apparently, Harriet Miers is more important. Anyway, it turns out I didn’t write an Entertainment piece, I wrote an Op-Ed piece. So what with Miers withdrawing, there may not be room on Saturday for something about James Bond.
I’ll be in Memphis over the weekend so I’ll just wait & see.
Update: Okay, definitely postponed. They’re still interested, but the SCOTUS dance has them distracted.
I forgot to tell y’all that Barbara & Charlie & Sylvia and the cute cat and the ugly cat are all fine, and living happily in Naples by candlelight.
Also I forgot to tell you that Arthur’s hair is a color not found in nature. Except in geraniums.
Now that Harriet Miers’s nomination has been withdrawn, do you suppose she’ll be hired as a consultant to determine what went wrong with the nomination process?
Just wondering.
…that’s the expected date of publication for my article on Daniel Craig & the Bond franchise. Just figures I’ll be in Memphis and won’t be able to line my house with copies.
I heard on the radio this morning that Naples, Florida has been evacuated. That’s where Barbara and family live. Now I’m stressed. Last time there was an evacuation order she got all stubborn and didn’t go, and as it turned out, she didn’t need to go. They usually don’t in that area, increasing the recalcitrance of the residents.
I sure hope Katrina made her realize that evacuation is sometimes A Good Idea™.
The New York Times just accepted my submission of an article about Daniel Craig and the Bond franchise.
In case you’re wondering where I found the balls to submit to the Times, I didn’t. They contacted me via my publisher after seeing the press release.
I am so FULL of me right now.
P.S. The entertainment sections of the Times are still prestigious. Judith Miller doesn’t write about movies.
P.P.S. No, I don’t have a date yet. Watch this space.
Here’s the plan for Festival of Souls: Two workshops, Preparing for Ritual and The Way of Four. Workshop slots are two hours. The organizers tell me that most people use less time. Hah! They haven’t met me yet!
Then there will be booksigning, relaxing, and general merry-making.
I’ve never been to Tennessee before.
I will rent Layer Cake or Enduring Love ASAP, and until then, I’ll try to keep an open mind about Craig, but I just can’t see that any of the proposed changes, any of the rebooting of the series, necessitated firing Brosnan.
Pierce Brosnan was godly wonderful as 007, and no matter how much Craig confounds us all by being terrific (if he does), he won’t be better than Brosnan. The gratuitous firing of a successful star is something Cubby Broccoli would never have done.
This went to Publisher’s Marketplace for the “Today’s Deals” section:
NON-FICTION: POP CULTURE
Deborah Lipp’s THE ULTIMATE JAMES BOND FAN BOOK, an illustrated compendium of opinions, lists, arguments, discussions, reviews, trivia, facts, and knick-knacks, to Drew Nederpelt at Sterling & Ross, in a nice deal, to coincide with the release of 2006’s CASINO ROYALE (world). drew@sterlingandross.com
So, yay me.
To coincide with the dark, dismal announcement, my publisher issued a press release about my forthcoming The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book, to, I believe, Publisher’s Weekly Publisher’s Marketplace.
I’ll post details when I have them.
Huzzah.
