Chad he says: Scientists Don't Have To Do Everything
Do as he says.
This is another episode of linking: because linking is an inherent public good.
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But if you had really listened to Chad you would have paid one of those media savvy people to link for you, right? ;)
Hey, I like to do it myself...
Which reminds me: I used to live in SoCal, and I have this idea for a script, y'know, and its like "Gore does Darwin", but like, you know, not Gore - I thought maybe we could get Morgan Freeman or maybe Samuel Jackson is available.
Get a socially conscious power couple like Brad and Angie in cameo, y'know, the Rachel Welch bit.
Socially conscious well done documentaries, that is where the action is.
Have you people call my people, ok, and we can like do lunch or something.
I don't know, the market might be a little oversaturated with Darwin next year. There's going to be two, maybe even three, feature films featuring Chuckie D and his evolution posse (Annie's Box, Evolution's Captain, and Origins). Still, might as well get while the gettin's good.
If we could get Nick Nolte to do a power point presentation about evolution, I think that would have enough of a "WTF?" factor to draw people in. We'll do lunch.
I like the Nick Nolte concept, go for the Nascar/older white male audience,
but the real audience if of course the pre-teens, which we could leverage with NSF $
So, I'm thinking Miley Cyrus - she can use an image make-over in a hurry, and she'll be a hit in the southeastern suburbias, and - GENIUS - Daniel Ratcliffe; with Jonas Brother soundtrack, maybe sneak in some Arctic Monkeys and Feist
Working title: "Darwin: A Life with Magical Creatures" for the European Market,
for the US market "Million to One: the Best of Both Worlds"
Miramax distributors in the US.
So there.
Jane Hamsher?
What we need is an astronomy reality show. Nothing says good TV like throwing a bunch of big egos onto a mountain top, locking them there and getting them to try and design observations they can agree on.
competitions on who can derive certain equations from first principles?
always funny athletic competitions like run up the mountain at 14k ft.?
who can hold their liquor the best at high altitude?
watch as the younger astronomers plot against the older ones...
And of course, touching scenes where one astronomer questions their abilities, but in the end resolves to overcome (insert unfortunate personal problem here) and "win it all"
Brilliant!
Andrew, you think Jane could sell that?
This could be taken further - like there are some obvious concepts here for bio reality shows...