Piper Perabo

From Josh Berman and Allie Hagan comes Notorious, ABC’s newest legal drama. Based on the real relationship between Larry King Live producer Wendy Walker and celebrity defense attorney Mark Geragos, Notorious stars Piper Perabo as Julia George, a “tough as nails” cable news producer of Louise Herrick Live, and Daniel Sunjata as shifty lawyer Jake Gregorian. Together the pair shapes the news and the public’s sentiment by deciding which stories to air and how they air them. The premise sounds interesting enough and follows a well-worked formula, yet the show fails with both critics and fans, and is already cut down to ten episodes. It is a truth universally acknowledged that Shonda Rhimes owns both primetime and ABC. Since the arrival of Grey’s Anatomy in 2005, Shondaland has produced a number of hits for the network, and many shows have tried to emulate that success. Notorious is one of those. The show is packed tightly in between Grey’s and How To Get Away With Murder, meant for the perfect lead-in and lead-out, thanks…

to add up to my weight. I hated my large arms that always stuck out while I was wearing a tank top; I hated my small thigh gap and my thick legs. Everything about myself I hated but Kat couldn’t know. As much as I hated being fat, I hated seeing my best friend worried about me so I kept it a secret. I had started not eating important meals like Breakfast and Lunch I hadn’t started restricting Dinner yet, I would just grab a small portion and eat it. Lucky for me, my parents were really busy with…

each other “fags,” but since they cannot use that language on mainstream television, the term professional wrestling uses is “bitch”. This is followed by many clips of wrestlers intimidating another wrestler and calling the other wrestler “bitch.” Jhally and Katz speak about villains as homosexuals and how Goldust was the most predominant instance of this now. Jhally and Katz also speak about Billy and Chuck and how, while the wrestlers did not outright criticize their homosexuality, these fans…

Piper’s dialogue and with the way she handles herself mentally when she believes she has hurt someone, with her relationships that she fears will cause her harm, and even the show’s technical choices such as lighting intensifies emotions to the fear of violence. The very beginning of “Thirsty Bird” begins with Piper mentally punishing herself for ‘killing’ Pennsatucky, however as viewers know, Pennsatucky is not dead. Piper spends one month in solitary confinement for fighting Pennsatucky when a…

bourgeoisie, the “evil” (Jenkins III 63). The declaration of fans in wrestling is not only a verification of a job well done; it is a demand for more. Therefore, the continual, participatory declaration of the wrestling event indicates the existence of a contrast interpretive setting in the theater. Kayfabe expands past the physical space of the wrestling ring and the arena for the discussion and media around the event. Professional wrestling is supposed to be ‘real’ (Mazer 67). Over time;…

My grandma always said I was the Pied Piper of Sunflower Dr. I would come down fresh off the bus or bright and early in the morning. Riding down on my Mongoose bike to go meet my friends off the bus. I would come riding down and before I could get a word out they would be crawling out and begin to follow me around for the day of playing. Grandma’s house is always a great place to go. You can get food and have a great time. But you can be there too much, especially when you live only a…

Eight albums in and we’ve gone from a quiet little bar in anytown USA, steeped in nostalgia and sweetness to something else entirely. It was building from the start and although that only comes through in hindsight and by looking at the trajectory of his career, it doesn’t seem completely shocking that Tom Waits would end up making an album like Swordfishtrombones when he did, in 1983. Rising out of the jazz, blues and pop standard traditions he explored in previous albums, this is a theatrical…