Shortly after this writing, Team StarKid’s A Very Potter Senior Year will hit the net. It was filmed at LeakyCon 2012 in Chicago, IL. Those are two very special statements, to this editor (and LeakyCon co-runner) in particular, and I’d like to tell More…
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52nd Street: The SMASH Finale
I’m truly flummoxed by the amount of snark I am seeing on the Web about last night’s Smash finale. After writing half my recap in a dreary stupor at 3 a.m., I surfed around a bit to find that people More…
A Tale of Two Marilyns: Predicting the SMASH Finale
All right, so, I’m a little late to the game. I just read a spoiler about next week’s SMASH, so put your fingers in your eyes – I mean, your hands over your ears – well, just do what you More…
Previews, Plots, and Pantslessness: SMASH Episode 14
“Always happens. You go out of town and all hell breaks loose.” Yes. This is true, Nameless Chorus Boy. Ah, it’s time for all the shows to come to their dazzling May conclusions. Every relationship’s dark secret will sniff out More…
The Ten Most Whedoney Things about The Avengers
I don’t know anything about comics. I couldn’t tell you which big, muscley guy is from DC or Marvel; I couldn’t tell you what the supposed science is behind the spider that bit the guy that turned into the Hulk More…
What “Smash” Can Learn from “Glee”
[social_share/] A few weeks ago, I gave up on Glee. I was tired of the insanely inconsistent characterizations and the preachy, condescending, After-School Specialness of it all. By the time Karofsky was brought back just in time to Not Die More…
This is How We Should Adapt Books! (LeakyNews “Hunger Games” Review)
(Note: there are NO spoilers in the top half of this article, and only very very mild ones after the warning.) The question, for me, isn’t whether or not The Hunger Games filmmakers got everything right. Because they did. They More…
10 Things We Want from “The Hunger Games” Film
(Please note that this article contains spoilers about the entire Hunger Games series.) It’s almost here! If critical mass on Rotten Tomatoes can be believed this early, and can be legitimately combined with box office figures, The Hunger Games is More…
Darren Criss Turns Down X-Factor, Because He Is Smart
E! Online has reported that Darren Criss, the Team StarKid and Glee crooner, was offered – and politely turned down – a hosting gig on X-Factor. I don’t know about you, guys, but this is proof to me that Darren’s More…
Glee vs. Smash: A Show(tune)down?
Opinion column by Melissa Anelli We are finally here. Nearly three years ago, in May of 2009, we first got a look at Glee. The series has had a rocky relationship with the TV-watching public since, but there is no More…
New Sorkin Drama to be Called “Newsroom”?
Well, it’s better than More as this Story Develops. Various sources are reporting that the new Aaron Sorkin show about a left-leaning cable news show (like Keith Olbermann’s) will be called Newsroom. Which is fine, and pithy, and functional, if More…
Girl on Fire and InStyle
I don’t know about you, but I love when a fashion website like InStyle asks designers to submit their own sketches for some sort of fashion moment, real or fictional. The designs for Princess Catherine’s wedding dress alone revealed a More…
Calling “Fandom” on Aaron Sorkin’s New Show: Too Soon?
I’m never first off the mark on anything, and I’m probably not first on this either, but I don’t care. I’m calling FANDOM on the next show from scribe Aaron Sorkin, the nameless-now-but-once-known-as More as This Story Develops. I’m calling it More…
Adele’s “Someone Like You” Video: A Long Shot of Heartache
It’s after 1 a.m. here in England but it’s impossible to sleep when there’s new Adele on the Interwebs, specifically a new Adele video of the most gutwrenching song in her catalogue, “Someone Like You.” This is the song that More…

