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The Potshots Always Find You
In the current issue of Ansible, David Langford notes: The Times Literary Supplement review of Dinah Birch’s new edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature mutters that ‘There is palpable overcompensation for the previous neglect of science fiction.’ Though Neil Gaiman’s short entry is admired, there is sniffiness about the inclusion of ‘Stephen Gallagher,…
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Robert Holdstock
I just learned that Robert – Rob – Holdstock, a good man and a superior author, has died in intensive care after being laid low by an E Coli infection. He was 61. I first corresponded with Rob when he and Chris Morgan were co-editing Focus, a magazine on writing for writers and would-be writers,…
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Questions from Planet Hood
It was quiet on the lot yesterday. Apart from the crews on the stages, most people seemed to have left early to travel for Thanksgiving. I went for a wander and found my way onto the giant set for Miami Trauma, Jeffrey Lieber’s show for Bruckheimer which is now shooting. I don’t think I’m giving…
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Kong at Christie’s
The 22-inch metal armature from one of the animation figures created for the original 1933 King Kong has been sold at auction for £120,000. Because of the perishable nature of the materials used in their construction, little usually survives of stop-motion models once a few years have passed. As with the rest of us, only…
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Callan on DVD
In the UK there’s a boxed set that calls itself season one but is actually season three. Who on earth thought that was a good idea? In the US there’s ‘set one’ and now ‘set two’ while from Australia ‘season four’ includes two episode commentaries from Woodward. Last night I hopped all over the web…
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On the Set
It’s always pleasant to work on a set where visits by family members are welcomed. It makes for a nice atmosphere. On Friday, the father of our cameraman Eric Roizman came in to watch some filming and meet his son’s co-workers. I got to lend him my chair in the video village. If you’re wondering…
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Edward Woodward
I just heard on the news that actor Edward Woodward has died at the age of 79. This is a post that I wrote in September 2008.I came across my old autograph album when I was straightening the study a couple of weeks ago. Back when I was a child I used to study the…
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Titans Will Clash
Have you seen the new trailer for the remake of Clash of the Titans? “Titans Will Clash!” I’m cool with it, because I thought Clash was a way less than perfect movie and was far from Uncle Ray’s best work… that crappy mechanical owl that has to have been inserted by the studio as a…
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Best Clearance Note Ever
From the memo detailing the legal clearances on names, brand names and any other identifiable object involved in my current script:
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Scripts Online
Over at his Complications Ensue blog, Alex Epstein provides a handy link to a site called Pilot School where downloadable scripts for a host of pilot shows can be found. I don’t know where they’re sourced from, but they include one of my drafts for the British pilot of Eleventh Hour along with Mick Davis’s…
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
