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In a down economy, the quick answer from studio and network executives was, “Audiences want escapism.” The idea being that after a hard day being fired from your job and getting late notices on your bills, viewers didn’t want to see characters going through the same problems. They’d rather see characters who had [...]
Sometime in early November, I was walking through my apartment complex parking lot, talking to my mother on the phone. I was multitasking talking to her and dropping off some recyclables, in addition to getting some exercise, when she dropped a bit of a bomb on me: “Dave and I are getting married”. [...]
By Sean Wimberly
To me, walking past the walls and into the inner grounds of the Texas Renaissance Festival has always felt like walking through some kind of bizarre time machine. The moment I walk through the gates, I’m transported to some hodge-podge hybrid world where old-fashioned, hand-shaped wooden buildings and oak groves meet [...] |
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