A father Vs. a son!

CBS announced a surprise with their fall 2010 schedule.  It seems they will be moving the hit The Big Bang Theory to Thursday night opposite Community.

That means that Chevy Chase will be going head to head with his one time “son” Johnny Galecki who costarred with Chase in Christmas Vacation.  Galecki played Rusty Griswold in the 1989 film and you may remember Chase just presented the People’s Choice Award to Galecki and the cast and crew of the CBS hit this past year.

In another bold move it seems that the new William Shatner CBS show will be going up against the Office!

CBS is taking a shot at must see TV.  Will it work?

Check out this for more:

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b181780_holy_cbs_makes_big_changes.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=imdb_topstories

Harold Ramis and Beverly D’Angelo remember John Hughes

These articles are old but I thought somehow relevant with the return of the Griswold’s, The John Hughes Vanity Fair article and NBC’s Community’s recurring Hughes references.


Here we see how Harold Ramis and Beverly D’Angelo remember John Hughes.

Ramis: I read the screenplay. I thought it was very good. And John and I had some meetings, and I guess I probably made some notes, and then Chevy [Chase] and I did a rewrite, which I’m not sure John was happy with [Laughs]. And I didn’t see him much, and then the ending of the film didn’t work at all when we tested it, so I had a notion for a new ending for the film, and John very quickly scripted that.


I ran into him once in Chicago. I moved back there like 12 years ago, and I went to our local multiplex. The usher said, “Hey, John Hughes is in the next theater.” So I walked over and John is standing there in the tunnel [entry hall outside the theater], not going in, but standing where he can see the screen. I said, “What are you doing?” He said, “I want to see how my trailer plays.” I said, “John, you’ve got 100 million dollars. What do you care how this trailer plays?” [Laughs] And he said, “No, no, I care.” I thought, wow, that’s probably why he was so much more successful than I was—or at least productive. He really did care.

D’angelo: I always considered the Vacation movies a love story. I didn’t think of them as some kind of, you know, film with the fart as a punchline. There was a love story in every one of his movies, and the thing about those Vacation movies is that, he’s truly romantic. He told love stories. In Home Alone, it’s a love story: the parents and the child, ultimately. Boy loses girl, you know what I mean?


Chevy Chase [who played D’Angelo’s husband, Clark Griswold, in the Vacation movies] left Hollywood, too. Chevy left in the late ’80s. Hollywood’s not a place for the heart, unless you’ve got a really, really, really tough exterior. He never sold out. Never. Never. The key is that he considered the age of 12 to 21 sacred and kind of adult but without the power of [adulthood]. Cause that’s what those teenager characters struggled with: was being stuck in an adult world that they didn’t create and how to deal with that.


There aren’t any more Breakfast Clubs, there aren’t any more Ferris Buellers. We’ve gone a different way. John treated his teenage characters like the young adults that they were. They weren’t stupid and they weren’t useless. They powered the engine of his films.

Check out the full articles here:

http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/08/13/john-hughes-remembered-harold-ramis-director-of-vacation/

http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/08/13/john-hughes-remembered-beverly-dangelo-ellen-griswold-in-vacation/

John Hughes unpublished stories.

If you grew up in the 80’s you know and love John Hughes. The man gave us The Griswold’s and many other enduring characters that defined our generation.

As the 90’s hit he seemed all but to disappear becoming something of a recluse.

When he died this past year we all hoped that surely he continued to write and that one day soon tons of scripts and short fiction would be uncovered for us to treasure.

Well is seems it is slowly happening.

It seems that over the years since his 90’s disappearance from the public eye he continued to write using various pseudonyms.

The first of what he called Very, very short stories are being published at Vaintyfair.com.

Check it out and enjoy:

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/03/john-hughes-on-hudson-201003

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/03/john-hughes-slideshow-201003#slide=1

The Griswold invasion sweeps America!

Well maybe not but news of the upcoming Homeaway.com marketing is all over the web.

Not only does Clark Griswold have a Twitter and facebook accounts:

http://www.facebook.com/griswoldclark

http://twitter.com/CkGriswold

But Homeaway has lots more planed including several Web Games featuring Clark and the Family Truckster.

EW.com has an quick article dropping some tidbits like Rusty will be played by a new actor (Sorry Anthony Michael Hall fan!)

Check it out at:

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/02/04/vacation-griswolds-hotel-hell/