I Am A TV Junkie

Glee's Dianna Agron Responds to PTC/GQ Photo Controversy

We've talked about Dianna's Tumblr blog before, she mostly posts photographs of her own and some lovely prose and occasionally a poem. This is very different for her and it seems a somewhat difficult task to discuss one of the many situations that arise when an actor works on a series and is asked to do promotion for the show.

(I found the blog through Dianna's Twitter acct., which you can follow by clicking here.)

I don't think she would mind that I posted the entire text of her post here, so I have and it's after the jump.

I'm sure you know how I feel about this. Yes, they play teens on TV but these people are hardly underage, Cory Monteith is almost 30, in fact.

Glee will always be a show in the crosshairs of the conservative watchdog groups. It illustrates a worldview that is in direct opposition to theirs. That it's so popular with kids makes it even more dangerous to these people. They'll make every attempt to knock the show down. I encourage them to keep trying, I think it does wonders for the ratings.

Case in point ... I wouldn't have even known that the Dianna and castmates Monteith and Lea Michele were on the cover of GQ without the Parents Television Council telling me they were.

Dianna's comments after the jump. But please, after that click over to her Tumblr site and enjoy her other stuff, too. She has a very nice sensibility to her prose and her photos are lovely.

Oh, one more thing ... I guess it takes the ridonkulous folk at the PTC to get me interested in blogging again. Who's next? Sarah Palin? Ben Silverman? Someone on my "list?"

And, one more other thing ... do you think the PTC ever thinks about the the performers caught in the middle of these controversies and what they then have to deal with in their personal lives once they start with the torches and pitchforks? Apparently Dianna Agron could have done without their stomping around. In that aspect the PTC becomes a bit like the Westboro Baptist Church protesters.

I'm just sayin'.

Advance Word on GI Joe Movie So Bad That Aging TV Blogger Notices

That aging TV blogger would be me, by the way. As if you hadn't figured that out already! Maybe it had something to do with these images from a recent issue of GQ?

Phoenix New Times:

Well, it's technically possible that there will be some worthy action sequences. Worthy enough for $10 each plus $20 of movie snacks? Probably not. But the biggest problem geeks seem to have with the movie has nothing to do with the special effects or silly skinsuits -- or even the bobblehead toys. It's more the fact that Paramount is trampling over their childhood memories of the "Real American Hero."

People Magazine:

The studio has decided not to preview the film for most critics before Friday's opening, reports the Associated Press. Paramount says it doesn't want a repeat of what happened to its other summer blockbuster, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

"After the chasm we experienced with Transformers 2 between the response of audiences and critics, we chose to forgo opening-day print and broadcast reviews as a strategy to promote G.I. Joe," said Rob Moore, vice chairman of Paramount. "We want audiences to define this film."

Cinematical:

Already the butt of lots of jokes online and off, G.I. Joe and its small amount of marketing materials (including a trailer or two and 578 character posters) haven't exactly impressed more than four people (and some suggest those four people don't even really exist). Now I really hate to crap on a film before it hits theaters because a lot of people worked hard to make the thing and a whole ton of money was spent in the process, but the news just doesn't seem to get better when it comes to the live-action G.I. Joe adaptation no one really asked for.

I think it looks and sounds from advance notice to be the Speed Racer of Summer 2009. A shame, really, especially for those who enjoy gazing at the wonderousness that is Channing Tatum.

And I hear he can actually act, which really makes this a sad bit of news. A shame for him, but when your first big lead is in a huge film like this there are so many things that can go wrong on the way to opening night. Not his fault, but I would be wiser about picking projects that can't go horribly wrong after principle photography is done.

Just an excuse to run these great images of Tatum from GQ? Maybe. Maybe not.