Amazon Bond Begins

Posted 4:30 AM by Gerald So

Tuesday this week Amazon announced hiring execs Amy Pascal and David Heyman to shepherd James Bond on screen going forward. Thursday, Amazon MGM exec Jen Salke left that role for a producing deal with the studio.

From this, the industry reads that Salke was the main cause of friction between Amazon and the Broccoli-Wilson family. DEADLINE further reported Salke was left out of negotiations with Pascal and Heyman, who made their agreement contingent on reporting to Courtenay Valenti, not Salke herself.

I'm pleased with the hire. Pascal has experience producing Spider-Man and three of the latest Bonds; Heyman was behind the Harry Potter movies. That's the level of buzz expected of Bond movies.

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It's a Tie

Posted 6:30 AM by Gerald So

I wore a collared shirt and tie the other day. I seldom do, so I took a photo and made a vector cartoon:

Stopping for Death

Posted 6:00 AM by Gerald So

Inspired by Emily Dickinson, I intend this entry title to be accepting, not blunt. My brother and I are going to a nurse cousin's wake this afternoon. Her husband, a dentist, had a heart transplant a year or two ago, and somewhere in that time looking after him and their daughters, she was diagnosed with cancer and, like my mother, needed a pleural catheter at the end.

As bad as I feel for my cousins' loss, I know death is also something of a relief. Cancer ravages the body. It doesn't get the spirit. I mean the soul for believers, but I also mean one's personality in life, what everyone remembers.