Monday, June 16, 2008

EW's Mark Harris

Exactly!

Mark Harris is a columnist for Entertainment Weekly, a magazine I've read faithfully since I was in middle school. In the last few months or year or so, EW has started printing a column on the last page of every issue called "The Final Cut" where a rotation of regular contributers write a little something on whatever's been on their mind lately (as long as it's entertainment-related). Diablo Cody and Steven King are two of the other contributers and while I always enjoy reading their entries, Mark Harris consistently writes something that I've been thinking but have been unable to put into words. In the article linked to above, he discusses just how annoying it is that every article that is written about the success of the Sex and the City movie refers to it as "shocking" or "surprising" because Hollywood executives have this tendency to forget (or to just ignore the fact) that women go to the movies, too. It's so freaking spot on that I had to share it.

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