Kurt Sutter, the producer of the hit sensation Sons of Anarchy, will debut a new show on the Discovery Channel May 14 at 10 p.m on the two coasts. The “reality” show will be called Kurt Sutter’s Outlaw Empires and it promises that “behind the America you know lies another world, where people live outside [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 13, 2012
It looks like the cultural sensation Sons of Anarchy is going to last for at least seven years, like Egypt’s famine or a plague of locusts. Kurt Sutter, the thespian, playwright, blogger, rebel and raconteur who imagined this drama about motorcycle outlaws without any influence whatsoever from Chuck Zito has stated that he thinks he [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 13, 2011
The riveting, completely original television drama Sons of Anarchy has concluded its season too soon. Too soon. Why must the best shows always end? Fortunately, an alternative drama title Chuck Zito versus FX Networks LLC continues. The first motion hearing was yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court in downtown Los Angeles. Admission, for fans who [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 7, 2011
As a public service to all of those who were unable to watch last night’s premier of season four of the outstanding FX Networks amazingly terrific drama Sons of Anarchy here is what you missed as faithfully as I can recount it based on my verbatim notes. Six-fifty-eight Pacific Daylight Savings Time Okay, where is [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 5, 2011
That incredibly marvelous, wonderful and important television show Sons of Anarchy debuts tonight. Again. I know. I still can’t see how important this “Shakespearian inspired drama” is but I am starting to catch on. I am trying. My “problem” may be, as casual readers who love the show frequently tell me, that I am too [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The third season of the FX Network’s most successful show just debuted. It is called Sons of Anarchy and last year’s conclusion featured 4.3 million viewers rooting for an outlaw motorcycle club. Maybe that is the best thing about this show. Maybe there is more. I am still sort of glancing at the television out [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 24, 2010
There was a popular television show in the mid-fifties called To Tell The Truth. Someone who was vaguely famous and two utter imposters would try to outsmart a four person panel. At the beginning of each round the three guests would rise and announce something like: “I am Kurt Sutter.” “No, I am Kurt Sutter.” [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 1, 2009
First Steven Spielberg showed all the rest of us “what war is really like.” Spielberg, who spent the fairly ferocious year 1968 making a film called Amblin’ for Universal Studios, has frankly explained, “My immediate political activity (at the height of the Vietnam War) was based on self-preservation. I had a draft counselor. I legally [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 3, 2009
And, now on the lighter side of the news. Way lighter. Despite all my most sincere efforts, Sons of Anarchy has still not been cancelled. In fact, it is starting to look like it never will be. Some guy in West Hollywood who is not Brad Pitt told me that Kurt Sutter’s homage to us [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 9, 2009
I am riding up through the high desert into the Eastern Sierras a week or so ago. The ride is always plagued with bugs. And, I have never owned a motorcycle with a windshield or a fairing or any of that crap so I am very aware of the bugs. At ninety miles an hour [...]
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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