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Desperation promo

edited November 2005 in General news
Hi



A DVD called ABC Fall Preview Disc DVD (2005) is now given to everyone that gets season 1 of Desperate Housewives at Walmart. On this DVD there are previews for upcoming shows and movies on ABC. And as you may have guessed by now one of the movies is Desperation. So remember this if your thinking of buying season 1 of Desperate Housewives.



If anyone gets this DVD, please let me know.



Lilja

www.Liljas-Library.com

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  • The official airdate for Desperation is Thursday, 18 May, 2006
  • I have some pictures from Desperation on my site now if you want to check them out.



    Lilja

    www.Liljas-Library.com
  • Desperation is looking really good.



    I cannot wait to see it.
  • Welcome, Ganon. I saw the opening 15 minutes at World Horror Convention last year and it looks amazing.
  • What continues to delight me about SK movies is the... "star power" that becomes attached to them. I mean, there are some fairly big names that star in his movies... the list for Desperation that I saw, I knew all the names but one of them. And knew them without seeing the pictures and doing one of those "ohhhh, that's who that is!"



    Granted, they might not be as big named as Tom Hanks (who surprised a lot of people with The Green Mile), but they are all very good actors in their own right. I'm quite excited about this one. I can't wait to see it! :)
  • The cast for the TNT series this summer is pretty impressive, too. The likes of William H. Macy, Tom Berenger, Marsha Mason, William Hurt and many others.
  • I know what I'm doing tonight! I got my advance screener DVD of Desperation today!
  • I just finished watching my review copy of Desperation and boy did Garris ever nail this one. It will be very interesting to see how it is received by the general public, because it doesn't shy away at all from the religiousness of the novel, the debate between David Carver's unflinching faith and Johnny Marinville's lack thereof.



    If there's a star in the movie, it's Tom Skerritt as Johnny. A terrific performance. The rest of the cast is decent: Charles Durning as the town drunk is another notable. Steven Weber is okay--he gets better as the movie progressess, Kelly Overton makes a good Cynthia Smith though she doesn't match my visualization of the character, and Ron Perlman is a hoot as Collie Entragian, vacillating between lucidity and insanity.



    The film doesn't flinch from violence, either. There are some very shocking scenes and some real gross out moments the likes of which I don't think I've ever seen on broadcast TV.



    I won't say more at the moment, but this one had me glued to the screen. Commercials will abound of course, which might dilute the impact (my screener DVD had brief blank gaps to show where they will come), but hold on for a heckuva ride.



    I'll have more to say at www.NewsFromTheDeadZone early next week. In closing, a little parody I came up with many years ago:



    Desperation

    (With apologies to Henley, Frey et. al.)



    Desperation, a little town in Nevada

    A place you oughta steer clear of

    If you value your life

    Off Highway 50, it's just a little bit foggy

    The thing that's hanging up doggies

    Is after your wife.



    Don't you know the soma dies my son

    Only sarx remains

    The China Pits go deeper than you guess

    Now the can tah stones, those frightful things

    Have been laid upon the table

    Helping Steve get into Cindy's dress



    Desperation, most folks ain't getting no older

    The wolves are getting much bolder

    There's snakes in your home

    Oh, Entragian, no that's just Tak in his body

    And wait until you meet Audrey

    'Cos she seems to have grown



    Don't you hate it when God won't answer you

    You pray until your face is blue

    It's hard to tell the good guys from the dopes

    As you're about to lose your mortal soul

    Ain't it funny to be rescued by...some soap



    Desperation, there's people hung on the fences

    It's taking over your senses

    Tom Billingsly's drunk

    In Desperation, well here's a pretty good moral

    You'd better not carry somebody's

    (Better not carry somebody's)

    You'd better not carry somebody's

    Dope in yourrrrrr....trunk
  • Lilja reports: I just got an email from Mick Garris in which he told me that ABC has moved the airdate for Desperation to Tuesday, May 23rd. They are getting wonderful feedback to the film, and apparently that would be a stronger night for it.
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