Archive for April, 2007
18 items.
I’ve pretty much abandoned movie commentary for the week. Hillbilly Jeff seems to have struck a nerve with the readership, so I’ve committed myself to telling his story. As to exactly why Tom needs someone to watch him while showering?… Well, the world may never know.
If you missed The Triple Feature talkcast on Monday night, you missed a doozie. If I were you, I would download it right away. We interviewed JoBlo from JoBlo.com and it went great! We got into a really good discussion about the nature of online journalism, objectivity, web site management and standards. Good stuff, really. My thanks once again to JoBlo for taking the time to speak with us. This was easily one of my favorite broadcasts.
Another reason you should download Monday’s show is because we’re giving away free copies of the Denzel Washington movie Deja Vu which is coming out on DVD next week, Tuesday, April 24. The first half of the two part clue was given at the end of Monday’s show. Now is the time in the blog where I give you the second half.
The second half of the clue is “OUT”.
So all you need to do is combine the two clues and send them to me at theaterhopper@hotmail.com along with your name, age and mailing address and you’ll be eligible for the random drawing!
I spent Tuesday home from work. I took a sick day, which is something I never do. Today we have a big meeting that I have to take photos for and if I was under the weather, it would have really put my department in a tight spot. So, instead of going to work sick like I usually do, I stayed home and recovered.
I felt totally useless, though because I couldn’t do anything to help Cami with Henry. I didn’t want to touch him and get him sick. Henry is actually going in for his first round of shots today at the pediatrician, so it would have been really lame if he had gotten sick the day before.
I rarely ever take sick days because I’m typically in denial about any illness I may succumb to. I don’t know why, but for the first part of the morning Tuesday, I had it in my head that I was doing the right thing by preventing those at work from getting sick and that I wasn’t sick myself. For some reason I thought I would be able to get a lot of work done while I was home. Maybe even get ahead on some of the comics!
Of course, I am a moron. Between slipping in and out of consciousness for most of the day, I was barely able to get this comic done. Oh, well.
I started feeling better around 6:00 or 7:00 last night, so Cami and I sat down to watch Smokin’ Aces, which had just come out on DVD and the good people at Universal decided to send me a copy of. I think when the movie first came out, I slagged it for trying to be a Pulp Fiction clone. In hindsight, I didn’t know what I was talking about. I was really attacking more how the film was being marketed and not the film itself.
While Smokin’ Aces certainly has it’s own kinetic style, it’s not a Pulp Fiction clone. It’s actually a little bit more comedic than I expected and there are a fistful of cameos in this thing.
I still think I made the right decision to skip it when it was in the theater, but this thing plays great on the small screen. The DVD extras were pretty cool, too. There’s a whole piece on the stunt work, which rarely is highlighted these days. So that was nice to see.
If you’re looking for a fun rental this weekend, I strongly suggest Smokin’ Aces. If you’re looking to kill a little time until then, check out this game – the Smokin Aces Card Killer Game. I found it an interesting diversion.
That about does it for me. I’ll talk to you guys soon!
[ No Comments ]
I wish I could figure out what you guys found so endlessly fascinating about Hillbilly Jeff. If I could bottle it up and sell it, I would! You guys encouraged me to take what was otherwise a throw away character and devote an entire week to his development. I don’t know that we’ve learned anything more about Jeff, exactly. Well, except that he appears to live in an outhouse. But it was a fun journey all the same, wasn’t it? I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. It was a real treat to read your comments this week and egg me on with your theories about Jeff’s activities and Tom’s dependency on them. Since there’s not much movie-wise to talk about this weekend, it was a nice little break.
Really, there’s nothing on my radar until Spider-Man 3 comes out on May 4. The only high-profile movie between now and then is Nicholas Cage in Next and that holds no interest for me. Can someone please explain to me his increasingly bizarre choices in wigs these days?
I’ve got my comic for Next in the can, but beyond that, I don’t know what movies I’m going to cover next week. I hope I don’t end up burnt out, truthfully. I’m participating in the 24 Hour Comic Challenge this weekend, so it’s very possible I might be completely tapped for ideas when it’s all over!
I ended up deciding on doing a personal story about Cami, myself and Henry’s introduction to the work for my 24 Hour Comic Challenge project. It will be something personal that Henry can look back on someday. I just hope that I can keep the quality consistent enough where he doesn’t look at it and say "You were a semi-professional cartoonist for 5 years? It shows, old man!" before he immolates it with his ray gun. I’m calling it simply "2006" because that really sums it up. 2006 was a turning point year for the two of us. We made a lot of big decisions, a lot of cool things happened to us and we ushered in 2007 with a new baby boy. It doesn’t get much better than that and I want to celebrate it.
There will be some exposition stuff. I’ll talk a little bit about how Cami and I came together as a couple and why we waited 7 years to start trying to concieve. I don’t want to make it sound more dramatic than it is. We were basically selfish. There were things in our lives we wanted to do first and that’s what the first act will probably be about. The second act, of course, will be the pregnancy. The third act, the birth.
I have all of this in my head right now. At some point, I need to sit down and type an outline. Otherwise, I’m going to be totally lost once we start working on hour 18 of the competition. I’ll need a road map and pleanty of references. I told Cami I would probably be calling her a lot on my cell phone to make sure I have dates and stuff right.
It’s my fantasy to turn this into a mini-book that I could sell on the site for cheap. Probably no more than $5 depending on the quality. I might give it the full-color treatment and take it to Comixpress and have it printed up proper. Or I might keep it in black and white and make Xerox copies that I staple together myself. Y’know, INDIE STYLE!
What do you guys think? Is that something that interests you? Is it something you would buy?
That’s all for the week. Thanks again for all the encouragement on the Hillbilly Jeff arc. I don’t know when he’ll be back again, but it may be sooner than you think!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
[ No Comments ]
Sorry, guys. No blog this morning. I’m still recovering from the 24 Hour Comics Day challenge that I participated in over the weekend. Come back later this evening for a status report on that front along with some additional news.
Be sure to listen to The Triple Feature talkcast tonight at 9:00 PM CST. We’ll be discussing Hot Fuzz and you’ll also have a chance to win a copy of another British import – The Queen, out on DVD Tuesday, April 24.
Talk to you soon!
[ No Comments ]
Apologies for the delay of this news post. I meant to post it earlier this evening but was held up partially by the conversation I was having with Cami about it, partially out of fear and partially by denial. However, I need to get this information out there and I need to get it over with.
So, effective immediately, Theater Hopper comic updates will be scaled back to once a week with comics running every Wednesday.
The reason for this change is simple. Since Henry was born, it is important for me to keep my focus on him and the well-being of my family. For a short period of time, I deluded myself into thinking this was possible while continuing to maintain three full-color updates a week. After nine weeks with Henry in our lives, it has become clear to me this is no longer the case.
While I have proven that it is physically possible for me to create three comics a week, emotionally I was short shrifting my family and that is unacceptable. These delusions of grandeur led me to believe that I could have it all. Unfortunately, I did not weigh the complete cost of my actions.
This decision has been over four months in the making. I agonized about it before Henry was born and continued to question myself after. A large part of my reluctance to do the right thing was the deep sense of responsibility I felt for you – the reader. Over the last four and a half years, your generosity and support has kept this site going and I consider myself lucky to have some of the nicest fans anyone can hope for. I pride myself on the fact that Theater Hopper has been largely immune from the some of the more juvenile and petty aspects of fandom in this genre and that can all be attributed to you.
However, my life has entered into a new phase that unfortunately eclipses that . If Theater Hopper were all that I did, this wouldn’t be an issue. But between a full-time career outside the home, being a responsible father and contributing member of my family and being a cartoonist… well, there’s only so much room in my life.
In a way, I knew something like this would happen someday. In interviews I’ve given in the past, people would ask me how long I planned to continue Theater Hopper. I was realistic about it. I would tell them that I would probably have kids and then stop.
Well, I’m not stopping entirely and that’s the compromise. For now, this is a short term solution that hopefully leaves the window open for me to come back to it full time. I find it a much more attractive option than going on a semi-permanent hiatus or closing the doors completely.
I also want to let you know that even though I am reducing my comic output to once a week, that will not alter the three-times-a-week update schedule for the site at large. I still want you to continue checking in as I plan to continue supplementing things with sketches for the immediate future and DVD and movie reviews in the near future. In the coming weeks and months, it is my goal to restructure Theater Hopper to become more than just as web comic, but to become a multi-dimensional piece that covers many different aspects of movies.
I know to some of you, this might sound counter-intuitive to the reasons I gave you for reducing the output of comics. If I’m only updating comics once a week to be with my family, why am I replacing it with new and varied content. The answer is simple. Sketches I can do anywhere. DVD and movie reviews I can do anywhere. All of these options take CONSIDERABLY less time than a full-color comic that takes a few hours each night to complete. Writing for me has been no great trick. I think I can communicate my ideas clearly and quickly. The evolution of my art has been much more of a struggle.
Please bear with me while I make this transition into a new role. With any luck, Theater Hopper will become more of a resource to film as well as an entertaining commentary on it. I appreciate your patience and understanding and hope that you continue to check the site.
Thank you for your support. I look forward to entering into this new phase of Theater Hopper with you!
[ No Comments ]
If you’re looking at the site today and wondering where the full-color comic is, then it’s likely you missed the announcement I made late Monday night.
In order to spend more time with my infant son and wife, I have reduced my output of full-color Theater Hopper comics to once a week effective immediately. I will continue to maintain the Monday, Wednesday, Friday update schedule – supplementing the site with sketches, movie and DVD reviews. With any luck, it is my goal to evolve Theater Hopper beyond strictly comics and into a movie resource for movie fans. Comics have become a great drain on my time. However sketches and reviews are something I can do anywhere. So, here we are.
Again, if you missed Monday’s blog post, I encourage you to read it. This was not a decision I came to lightly and that post speaks more to the emotions and reasoning behind it. To those who have already read it and left your words of support, I can’t thank you enough. It’s that kind of encouragement that will make this transition easier. 
With that said, part of my objective with this new model is to bring film discussion more to the fore. With that in mind, I wanted to talk for a few moments about Nicholas Cage’s Next.
On paper, it sounds like an interesting premise. A Las Vegas magician can see a few minutes into the future so the government is trying to recruit him to stop a terrorist cell from bombing Los Angeles. Previous attempts to harness his power by the government has left him a little gun-shy, so he goes on the run using his talent to stay one step ahead of them.
Phillip K. Dick was the author of the original short story called “The Golden Man”. You might be familiar with his time-bending works that have been adapted into films like Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly. I have a few friends who love his written works, but are miffed that the guy can’t seem to catch a break with a cinematic retelling. Most of them are tweaked that Nicholas Cage was tapped for the role. Looking at that goofy DaVinci Code mullet he’s sporting in this film, I don’t blame them. Nic – give it up. We know you’re bald. Just shave your head like Bruce Willis and get on with it.
What I don’t get is why they thought a title like “Next” was any good. If you ask me, you’re pretty much INVITING lousy reviews even if the movie is good! Snarky movie reviewers can’t resist the chance to insert a delicious pun into their headlines. For the latest example of this phenomenon, please consult Are We Done Yet? I’m sure Ice Cube has some opinions about it. Those are pretty much all of the thoughts I had on the matter, but keep checking back to the site during the day – and even on the “non-update” days. I’m going to try and sprinkle the blogs with more movie news and encourage you guys to respond in the comments!
Due to the fact that I was unable to participate in Monday night’s Triple Feature talkcast, I did not provide the first half of the clue to our latest DVD giveaway promotion.
On Tuesday, April 24, Helen Mirren’s Academy Award winning performance in The Queen comes to DVD. I have a handful of copies that I can give away to you guys. Again, since I wasn’t able to do the “one half of the clue” thing in the Triple Feature talkcast, I’m just going to give you the whole clue here on the site. All you have to do is access this page to get it. Be sure to include the clue along with your name, age and mailing address and e-mail it to theaterhopper@hotmail.com. Winners will be chosen at random.
Apologies to Gordon and Joe for not being a part of the show last night, but they did a great job without me. You should really download the episode and take a listen when you have some free time. They both went to see Hot Fuzz over the weekend and had some very interesting thoughts about it that I think you would enjoy!
That about does it for me and this post. Again, remember to check back to the site a little more frequently. I’m going to try and pad things out with more movie news and such for you guys to comment on!
Thanks for your patience during this transition!
[ No Comments ]
I know that today’s sketch and accompanying blog doesn’t have much to do with movies, but I’ve convinced myself that’s okay because there really aren’t any movies this week that I care to talk about. I mean, seriously – The Invisible? Next? Get back to me next week when Spider-Man 3 is about to drop. I’ll talk your ears off about movies.
To whit, seeing as the site has recently taken a new direction and I am still kind of feeling my way around between what I’ve done for the last four and half years and what I’m comfortable doing with sketches, blog posts and so on, I thought I would take the opportunity to talk to you about the 24 Hour Comic Challenge I participated in last weekend. A few of you had been asking about it and I interpreted my participation therein as being more substantial than Nicholas Cage’s latest career suicide.
For those of you who don’t know, the 24 Hour Comic Challenge is an informal competition or art experiment (depending on who is hosting the event) that poses to any artist bold enough to pick up the gauntlet “Are you able to create a 24 page comic in 24 hours? Drawn, inked and lettered. Are you man enough?”
I’ve read the exploits of nearly a dozen of my web comic contemporaries over the years that have answered that challenge. I saw it as a rite of passage that I should participate this year. It’s only been in recent months that I’ve been comfortable identifying myself as a cartoonist rather than a hobbyist. Let’s see if I’ve got the chops.
If you’ve been reading the blogs, you know that I was mulling around a few different story ideas to take to the challenge. My first thought was to do a Theater Hopper “origin” story as told through the eyes of Truman. This is a story I’ve wanted to tell probably for the last 3 years. For that reason, my good friend Joe Dunn warned me not to attempt it. “That’s a really important story,” he said. “You’ll want it to look right. You’re not going to get the results you want if you try to cram it into the challenge.”
I took his advice, but had no idea how right he was.
Instead of the Theater Hopper origin story, I decided instead to tell the real-life Tom and Cami origin story. My comic was going to be about our year together in 2006 – all of the ups and downs we experienced before we brought Henry into the world. I would talk for a while about how Cami and I met, fell in love and married. Then I would talk playfully about our selfishness as we put off having children for 6 years. After that, I would talk about the pregnancy experience. The fact that it was a personal story was something I figured would score points with Cami and permit me to scamper off on this folly.
Since I found out about the contest with only one week’s notice, I scrambled to write up a story treatment. But due to the fact that I have a 2 month-old baby at home, it was hard to find time and I was only able to draft 14 pages. I should have taken this for a clue, but I figured because it was my life and it wasn’t that long ago, I wouldn’t have that much trouble coming up with talking points that I wanted to illustrate.
Soon I would see how wrong I was.
The challenge was being hosted by Mayhem Comics in Ames, a college town that is home to Iowa State University and about a hour away from where I live in West Des Moines. The great distances between locations meant that if I was committed to doing this, I was in it for the long haul. The option for me to go home and catch a few Z’s in the middle of the competition was off the table because I would be wasting two hours commuting. It was do or die.
We were supposed to start the challenge at 2:00 PM on Saturday, but things got off to a bad start. Our $20 entry fee was supposed to cover supplies – twenty-five sheets of 11 x 17″ Bristol board on which to draw. The only problem was that the boards hadn’t been shipped to the store. So the event organizer ran off at the 11th hour to a nearby art store to buy supplies and we ended up starting at 2:30 instead.
In another example of an organizational snafu, guest judge and artist of DC’s Green Arrow and Marvel’s Ant Man, Phil Hestor was in the house a day before he was supposed to. So instead of judging all the entries, he hung around for about 15 minutes and offered feedback to anyone who thought to bring a portfolio. Phil was more than gracious, but that was kind of lame.
Fortunately, I had copies of my books for him to look at and he told me I had some funny stuff. He said he could tell that I was creating something very personal to me and doing a good job at it. “People can see through that right away if it’s done wrong,” he said. It was encouraging. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me to give him copies of my books maybe to share with his industry buddies. It was probably because I had my head down in the middle of the challenge at the time. But both he and I are going to be at the Iowa I-Con Comic Book Convention on Saturday, May 19. So maybe I can give him some then.
I felt like I was off to a pretty good start in the first few hours of the challenge. But that may have been due to the deliberately sparse opening page I started with and the giant splash panel I did on the second page. By the time we got to the third and four page, I was feeling less optimistic.
Something I neglected to mention, but when the event organizer came back from the art store with our drawing supplies, he brought back gigantic 14 x 17″ sheets of Bristol board. Granted, it’s not much bigger than the 11 x 17″ were originally going to draw on, but I’m not used to drawing my characters at that size. I’m used to drawing them at about 5 x 5″. So I had no idea what to do with proportions, line weight, composition or any of that. Complicate things by having to draw my own panels and do my own lettering (I’ve been letting Photoshop handle those chores for the last four years) and I found myself in over my head.
By the fifth hour, I started falling behind and I could see the writing on the wall. There was no way I was going to get this done in 24 hours.
Over the course of the night, I would work in bursts. The first stretch I went a good four hours. Then I would get tired and take a break. The break would last 10 minutes and then I’d work for a few more hours. Eventually, the breaks started getting longer than the working hours and by the time the guys minding the store busted out a copy of Guitar Hero II to pass the time, I was all washed up. In the end, I only finished 12 pages and started lettering the 13th.
I think it was a self-fulfilling prophecy to have only worked out the first 14 pages. I thought for sure that I could make it up as I went, but I didn’t even have storyboards. So I was figuring out page layout on the fly. Eventually, it all became too exhausting. Never mind that I was competing against three high school kids who were used to keeping these hours.
The prize didn’t end up being all that great, either. $50 in store credit for first place, $25 in store credit for second place. Really only $30 and $5 if you consider our $20 entry fee. I suppose completing the challenge would have been it’s own reward, but who would want free comics?
Actually, I ended up even FURTHER in the hole than the $20 entry fee. The same weekend the challenge was going on was the same weekend Iowa State University was celebrating it’s VEISHA celebration. It’s basically like a big university sponsored Spring Break to keep kids on campus and there is no place to park. I was actually ticketed twice for $10 a pop, so I was out $40 all together.
Things kind of worked out. I managed to sell a couple of copies of my books to the stores for about that much. So it wasn’t a complete wash. Incidentally, an astute reader pointed out that I hadn’t included the Junkie t-shirt as part of the discounted bundle packages and I just corrected that recently. So if you were looking to pick up that shirt along with some other items on the cheap, now is a good time.
By the time I got home Sunday, I was exhausted. I only ended up sleeping for about a half hour during the competition. You’d think I would have been able to get more done for having been up that long. But my brain had essentially turned to mush.
I can’t tell you how many times during the course of the evening I thought to myself “This is a mistake. I should be home right now. Why am I keeping myself away from my family to do this.” When I got home, that examination dug deeper. It would be a lie to say that my participation in the event didn’t contribute in some way to my decision to scale back the comics to once a week.
Life is short, folks and you only get one crack at it. Did I want to be the guy that was there for his family and watched his young son grow up, or did I want to be the guy hanging around with a bunch of teenagers in a comic book shop over a weekend?
In my own defense, I had no expectations of what the event would be like. But knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t have participated.
Then again, maybe it was worth it if it lead me to this kind of important realization about my life and about my hobbies. I think it’s important to stay true to yourself after you have kids. You can’t give up everything about yourself or else what else will you have left to teach them? I think it’s extremely important for creative people to have an outlet to express themselves. In that context, that’s what I thought I was doing. But the big lesson I’ve learned is that sometimes you have to take a step back and ask yourself what you’re sacrificing to do this kind of stuff and have the foresight to ask if it’s worth it.
It’s been a long week for me and everyone’s words of encouragement have been great. I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails and people have been leaving notes in the comments field telling me that I’m doing the right thing. I don’t doubt it. But you know how it is… you have a routine in your life for so long, it’s tough to shake. And me? Well, I’m pretty dense. It took me two months to come to that realization.
Things are good at home and can only get better. Even on your loneliest days, it’s amazing to know there are people out there who understand and support you, even if you’ve never met. What an awesome privilege.
So, to you, thanks. I’ll see you next week.
[ No Comments ]
Ever since it’s release date was announced even before it’s predecessor made it to theaters, Spider-Man 3 has been in the hearts and minds of comic book geeks everywhere.
Well, gang. We’re at the home stretch. Only 4 more days until you can feast upon it’s glory for yourselves.
Since I have now officially (unofficially) dubbed this week “Spider-Man week,” you can expect a lot of talk about one of the most profitable (and most expensive) film franchises in history. In fact, can we talk about that for a second?
According to Radar Magazine, production of Spider-Man 3 cost north of $300 million and that marketing costs alone could cost anywhere from $150 to $200 million. Considering the wide variety of tie-in products on the shelves, this doesn’t surprise me. I mean, why is Spider-Man on my box of Nilla Wafers? Whether or not there are any truth in the rumors, public perception is turning toward labeling Spider-Man “THE MOST EXPENSIVE MOVIE EVER MADE” and Sony (the distributor) is not keen on owning the dubious distinction. Maybe this is why the Playstation 3 was $600? To offset costs? There’s actually a really funny fake trailer on YouTube right now that poses it’s own theory as to how Spider-Man 2 will make it’s money back – product placement.
All of this is just grist for the mill since Spider-Man 3 is pretty much bulletproof going into the summer blockbuster season. Audiences already seem pre-programed to this fact if current box office numbers are any indication. Disturbia was number one for the third week in a row, but pulling in onl $9 million. It’s not surprising for a movie to do $9 million in it’s third week. However it IS surprising that there hasn’t been another film of any discernible quality to unseat it from the top spot. The Invisible came in second with $7.6 million. It all seems to speak to the larger idea that people are saving their money, staying home and waiting for Spider-Man 3 to land like the 900 pound gorilla we know it to be.
Regarding today’s sketch, I was really proud of how the blue line pencils were turning out, so I decided not to ink it. I’m really happy with how it turned out. It’s not a very dynamic pose, but it’s serviceable. I hope you guys enjoy it. Be sure to come back to the site on Friday for a sketched (and inked – natch!) image of Venom. Of course, there will be more in-depth Spider-Man discussion throughout the week. If you have your own thoughts or want to share your excitement, please do so in the comments section. Heck, even if you want to share your apathy, it’s an open forum. So let’s discuss it!
And remember – new comics are now once a week each Wednesday. I’m pretty sure you can guess what this week’s comic will be about.
[ No Comments ]
Hey, guys. I wanted to be sure and create a second blog post for this because I’ve got an awesome opportunity for you that I don’t want you to miss.
Be sure to tune in and listen to The Triple Feature talkcast tonight at 9:00 PM. In addition to the awesome hour-long content about movies you’ll be getting from yours truly, Joe Dunn from Joe Loves Crappy Movies and Gordon McAlpin from Multiplex will be in the house to add to the mayhem. Tonight’s topic of discussion will be… well, I don’t know what tonight’s topic of discussion will be. I’ll have to check with Joe and Gordon! Luckily, I downloaded last week’s episode, so I know that Joe planned on seeing Kickin’ It Old School. There’s also a possibility we’ll be talking about Nic Cage’s latest bomb Next and The Invisible.
But I won’t lie. I just wanna talk about Spider-Man 3.
That uncertainty aside, there are TWO big reasons to listen to the show tonight because we’ll be giving away copies of TWO big movies.
Our first contest is for the Academy Award winning Dreamgirls. This was a big hit last December and I loved it for the opportunity it gave Jennifer Hudson to upstage Beyonce Knowles and Jamie Foxx – two entertainers that could stand to be knocked down a few pegs. Dreamgirls is available on DVD this Tuesday, May 1 so be sure to check out the performance that catapulted a cast off from American Idol into Oscar history! Either that, or you can listen tonight’s episode of The Triple Feature for a chance to win a FREE copy for yourself!
The other big movie we’re giving away is Diggers. Okay, it’s not that big of a movie. In fact, it’s being relased on DVD and in theaters on the exact same day. But it has pedigree! Diggers is written by Ken Marino, who you may or may not remember from the sketch comedy group The State. It stars Paul Rudd as a Long Island clam digger who tries to maintain is small town way of life in the face of social change in the 1970s. I know it doesn’t sound like a laugh riot, but this film has a lot of heart to it and some great character moments along the way. It’s kind of like Wet Hot American Summer, but with a brain. It has that same nostalgia feel, but with some more drama to it. It’s a really unique film and it has a ton cool actors in it. A few of Marino’s buddies from The State show up and it also features performances from Maura Tierney and Lauren Ambrose.
Again, you can win your free copy of either one of these movies by listening to The Triple Feature, tonight at 9:00 PM CST. All you have to do is listen to the program and wait for the secret clue. Since we’re giving away two movies this week, there will be two individual clues. Hold on to those clues and then come back to Theater Hopper on Wednesday for the second half of the clues. E-mail the complete clue along with your name, age and mailing address to theaterhopper@hotmail.com and winners will be selected at random.
Most importantly, since we’re doing two giveaways this week, it will help me to keep things straight if you send in your submissions independent of each other. I know that makes you guys jump through hoops, but it will improve your odds of winning if you send one e-mail for Dreamgirls and one for Diggers. I take all the submissions I get and organize them in a folder. If you’re entering both contests with one e-mail, I’m going to have to toss out your entry. Sorry.
Remember, if you’re unable to listen to tonight’s broadcast live, you can always download completed recordings from The Triple Feature page over at Talkshoe. We have almost 20 shows under our belts and there’s a lot of good stuff there. So if you’ve never listened in before and want to get a sense of what we do, download a couple of episodes and get familiar. They’re only an hour long a piece, so they won’t take up a lot of your time. Besides, they’re a lot of fun.
Incidentally, our contests for Copying Beethoven, Deja Vu and The Queen are still running because we haven’t received the giveaway copies from the distributors yet. I’ve been reassured they’re coming soon, but technically, that still leaves a window open for you guys to win free stuff! Download the April 2 broadcast for the first half of the clue to Copying Beethoven and the April 16 broadcast for the first half of the clue to Deja Vu. Access the April 4 blog and April 18 blog respectively for the second half of the clues to those two contests. The complete clue for The Queen was given in the April 25 blog.
Hope to hear from you guys during tonight’s broadcast and thanks again for supporting The Triple Feature!
[ No Comments ]
