July 2007 Archives

It was a good morning, indeed, for director Walter Hill and all the folks associated with AMC's "Broken Trail" which placed second in total Emmy nominations (16).

Hill is a past Emmy winner _ for the pilot of "Deadwood" _ and has already copped the DGA award for "Broken Trails."

"Broken Trail," "Deadwood," "Geronimo," "Wild Bill,"... Yeah, you could say the man likes his horse operas.

"I liked them the best when I was a kid," Hill said this morning. "I like the seeming simplicity of the stories and the kind of moral choices that people are forced into. What makes Westerns other than big hats and horses and pistols is really people that are in difficult situations. The usual rectifying powers of society _ usually the Army or the police _ can’t fix things, so people have to do it themselves. Somebody said to me it’s like telling Old Testament stories. I think there’s a great deal of truth to that."

Hill is currently developing a Western series for AMC called "True West."

An event is not to be given the historians' once-over until 20-25 years _ a generation _ have passed, according to the old rules. You need some distance on it for meaningful analysis.
As someone who squirreled away tons of stuff about 9/11 in the days and weeks following it for my children's understanding of not only the then-fresh facts, but of the emotions wrapped around them, I think there's something to be said for thoughtful consideration of the current record.
With that in mind, I applaud History Channel for "Band of Bloggers," the online package it will launch next month on history.com. The net will be serving up soldiers' and Marines' uncensored dispatches from the fields of Iraq and Afghanistan transmitted by cell phones, computers and digital cameras. A companion TV special will premiere in the fall.

(Photo of LiLo and Samantha Ronson from Celebrity Babylon)

So we're buried in super-exciting, super-critical work here, and I've been told to keep it -- i.e. blogging -- on the DL, because a certain percussion instrument is being crushed, slowly, in a dark place ... but I digress.

Still, I cannot remain silent: I only heard about it this morning, and by it I mean the identity of LINDSAY LOHAN'S ALLEGED LESBIAN LOVER. It's club DJ Samantha Ronson, as reported on A Socialite Life via tabs of various stripes (I heard the Star and the New York Daily News, but don't quote me, 'cause I'll cut you). The info comes from people who either hacked into or had privileged access to, LiLo's MySpace page (what, she needs a MySpace page? Kids!) Star is holding the tidbit off of their Web site (that's how you make money, people, by selling magazines to people in the supermarket checkout lines -- hear that newspaper industry?). The other Daily News does have something, evidenced at the link above.

Here's the dirt from Celebrity Bablyon, for those too lazy to click:

Here is an example of one late night MySpace message from Lohan to Ronson, “Your [sic] all I have to live for, babe. I want to marry you and have children with you.” Sources say that the 21 year old actress has also been in many fights over the web with the 29 year old Samantha, Lindsay types, “Babe don’t leave me I [insert "f" word] LOVE YOU!” The relationship between the two lovebirds has been a bumpy one at best. Lohan has described the two as having an “on-again, off-again” romance. A MySpace friend has claimed that the two are obsessed with each other writing ‘I love you’ and ‘I have to have you.’ Apparently there is not so much censorship involved online with the two girlfriends, on one occasion Samantha writes to Lindsay saying “You still have me. I’m here for you. With you” Lindsay simply replies with, “I love you. You love me. Why don’t we [insert "f"word] and make a family...”

I first heard about all this at the tail end of the "Adam Corolla Show", which doesn't make me feel as bad that I'm listening to it as I would if it were "Howard Stern," but it's not something to be proud of, even if Corolla and co-hosts Danny Bonaduce and Teresa Strasser had documentary maker Ken Burns as a guest yesterday. It's the low-brow and the middlle-brow on KLSX 97.1 Free FM ... but I digress. We've got dirt on LiLo's alleged lesbian lover ... and isn't that all that counts?