Writer Groupie On the Page
Title: Site Update
Date: 3/23/08
Mea very culpa.
Life, the universe, and computers all conspired to keep me from updating
this site for far too long. But I haven't forgotten about it. In fact, I have several ideas
about changing and updating it. It may take until the summer before I manage to
make these changes, but I'm looking forward to finally having the time to work on it. Thanks
for hanging in there with me!
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Writer Groupie Off the Page
Title: Paley Festival 2008 - Pushing Daisies and
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Reunion
Date: 3/23/08
I actually can’t remember the last time I went to a Paley Festival event. I know I went a couple of times in the very early years of this annual Museum of TV & Radio event, back when they did a Star Trek: The Next Generation panel with the cast and when they did a “Tribute to Gene Roddenberry” panel. And I’m sure I’ve been since then. I just can’t remember when.
What I can remember is that over the years the Festival has gotten more and more popular and has in recent years often sold out of tickets for panels within the first hours of sale for the hottest (usually sci-fi or fantasy) shows. Nowadays, as a member of the general public, it’s pretty close to impossible to get general admission public tickets to the hot events each year. I’d given up trying years ago. And that’s when the tickets were just sold one event at a time.
This year, the Paley Center decided to try a new ticketing option: the ‘premium package’: for a mere $750, you would receive 2 tickets to 4 different events (pre-packaged by groups), premium/early seating in the first four rows of the new venue of the Arclight Theater in Hollywood, a parking voucher and a concession voucher. Very nice, but I don’t happen to have $750 to drop.
So when I saw that this year’s events included a Pushing Daisies panel (one of my favorite new shows of this season) and a reunion of the cast and creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (one of my favorite shows of all time), my immediate reaction was... damn, too bad I can’t go. I even contacted my buddy, Bryan Fuller, who created Pushing Daisies and told him before the tickets even went on sale that I wished him a great panel and that I was sorry I couldn’t go, but I knew it would sell out before the general admission tickets even went on sale. (It did, as far as I could see.) Forget even trying for the Buffy panel. I mean, if I’d tried to get tickets to just the Buffy event on ebay, it might have cost me $750 for the one event alone! So clearly, it just wasn’t going to happen.
Until...
Continued: HERE
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