“No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Wear an Ugly Christmas Sweater”

We’re getting closer to Christmas — Thanksgiving is this Thursday — and the Facebook ads have taken a turn toward the festive and unlicensed. Case in point? James Bond-themed uply Christmas sweaters. For the record, I do not own an ugly Christmas sweater, and these will not change that. I do not care if they’veContinue reading ““No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Wear an Ugly Christmas Sweater””

A Long Way Down

Yesterday afternoon I was cleaning up my bookshelves, and I took a moment and looked at my shelf of Nick Hornby books, as one does: his novels (except the latest, Funny Girl, which I’ve not picked up), his screenplay for An Education, his book on music, even some of the Polysymphonic Spree books. As IContinue reading “A Long Way Down”

On a Remington Steele Revival

Pierce Brosnan, in a recent interview, had this to say about his breakout role as private detective/con man Remington Steele: Brosnan hopes to bring Remington back in a big-screen version of the series. “The show is out on DVD now and so we have started negotiations on making a movie out of it,” he says.Continue reading “On a Remington Steele Revival”