Wrong Newman
Posted on | September 27, 2008 | 5 Comments
Newman’s gone. No, not the one on the right, but the big one. Paul. The guy who’s been part of the life of anyone who has watched movies over the past fifty-some years. Titles too many to mention. Roles from Butch Cassidy to Judge Roy Bean to Buffalo Bill, and many fictional characters to boot. We have a bottle of his brand named spaghetti sauce all ready to go this evening in tribute.
I finally got to see the last six or eight minutes of the season finale of Eureka. A couple of surprises, one interesting, one possibly show-altering, though I expect they’ll come up with some way of resolving it when the show returns in the winter sometime.
The two hour premiere of Grey’s Anatomy had some interesting bits, but it didn’t exactly break much new ground. The characters are in the same state of perpetual dithering over the same old issues. The only new topic is the hospital’s ranking, and what that means in the coming episodes I have no idea. The “icicle” incident was pretty much a non-event as it didn’t really change anything for anyone, except for the way Christina interacted with the field doctor. The issue with Rose’s announcement, shown in the promos for the new season, was a fake-out of cheap proportions. The guest stars were the best part of the show. I do wonder where all that water is coming from in the preview for next week.
My review of the third Dexter novel, Dexter in the Dark, is now up. The third season of Dexter starts tomorrow night, and I have high hopes for it. The books, not so much.
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Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
September 27th, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
Thanks to being a Showtime VIP I got to watch Dexter early (I got the email about 2 weeks ago) and I was impressed. I love that show. It never lets me down. I hope you like it better than the books.
September 27th, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
I like the show a lot, and I, too, watched the first episode and like its direction for the season.
September 27th, 2008 @ 5:55 pm
Yeah, I was put off by the direction of the third novel. I still liked it, but it seemed quite the departure.
September 28th, 2008 @ 7:16 am
The series has taken the basic premise and improved on it in every way.
September 28th, 2008 @ 10:48 am
I started becoming disenchanted in the second book, with what he started with Rita’s kids. I’ll probably check out the fourth book, though, to see how he resolves Dexter’s discovery about the nature of his Dark Passenger — will he continue with that thread or shrug it off?