Entertainment Weekly

[tinyshoes]

calvin said:

So much of their content is just by-the-numbers list-making. New author or not, the "Hit List" is the most pedestrian writing imaginable, and the "Five things you should know about..." and "Must List" and "Shaw Report" read as if they were dashed off while the author was using the bathroom. Do they hire these people by hanging around Burbank and seeing who gets fired as a writer for Jay Leno?

I wonder how much those people make. I should totally write for them. I don't have to put forth that much effort and I can watch the money roll in.

That said, EW is like crack to me. Crack kills, yo.

[viridian]

I'm not very interested by it anymore, even though I had a subscription about 10 years ago. Nowadays, Entertainment Weekly is one of my airport magazines: what you end up with after going into the snack shop, realizing you've already bought/read all the interesting-looking magazines, and then pick up an EW thinking, "Oh alright, I'll just get this".

That said, I always buy the year-end retrospective issue. It's still an enjoyable read.

[huntergrayson]

The only letter I've ever written to anyone, ever, was to EW to complain about King's column (the one in particular was whining about how special features on shitty mainstream DVDs usually suck and are completely commercial and crass - and my point was "yes! just like the movies themselves! Now here's the Criterion Collection, shut the hell up.")

I think EW is pretty decent for what it does - it's not Premiere but it's not Us Weekly, either. It seems to be a fairly accurate gauge of mainstream opinion of pop culture, which is just what it purports to be.

[mariposalabrown]

My subscription is about to run out. I'm probably going to renew it, but man, I am so sick of Lost or 24 being on the cover every week. I have never watched an episode of either, yet I know all about them.

I didn't realize people even bother reading King's column! I have to be really desperate for reading material to read that one.

[lefty]

Gah! What has Rose McGowan done to her face? She's on this week's cover, I barely recognize her.

[tipsygrrl]

I know! My husband was asking who she was and where he might have seen her before and I was trying to place her for him, but then just ended up saying, "She's got a brand new face anyway, so it doesn't matter what she did before." She's like a whole new person. I know she was in a car accident, but I think she'd been going to the well even before that.

[huntergrayson]

I *knew* it was her just because it was The Grindhouse Cover, but I had to check the caption just to be sure.