Call me an idiot, but… Hey! At least wait until I’m out of the room!
I don’t get the joke. Endora… Endora…
Nope. Don’t get it.
Or is it the Moorehead thing?
[sub]I still don’t get it, but I doubt if anybody is surprised[/sub]
get what? Did I miss something?
Probably.
Just got it too. For those who haven’t yet, it’s a reference to the Witch of Endor.
“Endora.” Witches of Endor. “Macbeth.”
Now shall I explain the joke behind “Boris Badenov?”
Actually, hon, the Witch of Endor was from the Bible. I think you’re thinking of the Thane of Cawdor.
I bet the smell is getting pretty bad, anyway.
Well, Eve, I don’t think that I have ever read one of your articles until the one above (but I could be wrong), so please don’t take this comment personally. I don’t like Movieline. I’m a huge fan of movies, I really am, but Movieline doesn’t seem like a movie magazine. Every issue I get articles about what the stars are wearing or how their hair is done or some equally mundane crap. If I’m getting a movie magazine, I want to read about movies, not fashion.
If you get picked up by Premeire, I guarantee that I’ll read your articles.
Then there’s my wicked stepmother… she’s the witch of Endust.
I used to love Movieline back in the early 90s when Joe Queenan was a regular contributor and the Hollywood Kids would run blind items of nasty gossip. I will have to pick one up to read Eve’s column. BTW, what is your column’s name?
Eve, I love your writing. I don’t know where to pick up Movieline or I’ve have read your columns before now.
Hey, any copyright rules or whatever against your publishing your REAL unvivisected column in the new Straight Dope e-zine for all of us to read? Hope so!
Ike—I guess Bill Shakespeare stole from the bible, then, 'cause the three wtiches who open “Macbeth” are the Witches of Endor.
Goboy-Don’t get me started on Joe Queenan. Will the editors let ME do any full-length humor pieces, which pay ten times what I make? “No, Joe writes all our feature pieces, dear.” Bastards.
Pug—I wouldn’t recommend trying to find Movieline. My articles—as printed—suck.
I’m getting packages off this weekend to Premiere, Tatler, and Harper’s & Queen, and will send something off to Esquire next week. Just have to find the right asses-to-be-kissed on the mastheads.
Eve,
Do you own copyright, or does movieline? I’d wager that more than a few of use would like to see the unadulterated version.
Nah, they own the copyright. Which is a shame, as the stuff I send off to them is SO much better than the pap that winds up in print.
I used to review movies for them, but they had to keep censoring me. I opened my review of “The Scarlet Letter” with, “Who’d have thought it possible for Bruce Willis to marry beneath himself?” They cut that and said, “We’ll never get interviews with either of them again!” They also got a call from Oliver Stone when I said his films have the same effect on me that they had on a friend’s five-year-old: I cry for awhile, then go to sleep.
Since Movieline has been getting more advertsiers, they’re afraid of offending anybody . . .
HA! Hahahahahahahahaha!!! Whooeeee!!! Hahahahahah…
Wait a second. I still don’t get it.
Is it one of those jokes that isn’t funny? Should I go back and read Macbeth? Are they just evil and then she’s just evil and so she is named after them, or is it something more?
I don’t mean to be a pain in the ass, but if there’s one thing I just can’t stand, it’s a joke I don’t get.
Well, it’s not really fall-down-laffing funny—the point was just that the name “Endora” was a literary allusion. I might ADD that it was a throwaway line in my column, in parantheses and all. Turned out to be a real throwaway line—they cut it, of course . . .
Great. I just subscribed to Movieline only so I could read your column. Now you wanna go and leave. What could I possibly want with an Eve-free Movieline?
Wait…I checked the “Bill Me Later” option on the subscription form. Suckers. I’ll just read your column for free at Barnes & Noble until you make the jump.
Where thou goest, I will follow.
Mully said:
I notice a conspicuous absence of my name as well. Come on, Eve. Throw us a bone.
Seriously, I love your writing. It’s a shame we don’t get to experience the real deal.
C’mon Eve, just drop in a line like “dead chipmunk” or “here’s to all my friends at the SDMB” just to let us know that you’re thinking of us. They’d never edit that out.
Now, if you could work goat felching into an article, that’d rock.
(btw, what biographies did you write? I’d like to increase your next royalty check.)
Sweetie Poopie-Doo, I hate to say this, but I’m home now, and I have the Big Shakespeare in my lap, and I’m dashed if I can find any reference in MACBETH to the Witch[es] of Endor…“Dramatis Personae” lists only “Witches,” plus sundry “Apparitions,” and “Hecate.” Nothing in the text of Act I, either.
{Sorry about the “Sweetie Poopie-Doo” stuff, gang. I’m just trying to soften her up. Eve may be small, but she’s mean.}
Eve, what can I say to make you feel better?
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I buy every issue of Movieline and your column is always the first thing I read.
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I read it even before I was on this board. In fact, I was amazed when “Flora” was revealed as someone I’d heard of.
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I’ve bought and read all of your books. In hardcover.
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Joe Queenan’s last book sucked.