hmmmmm

 

..Or how about the Conan that actually matters?

Jay Leno may be a biker but he doesn't fit in the mold of Easy Rider or any of the great biker movies. He's a corporate shill and quite the weasel. To say nothing of being offensively bland-it's like when Al Bundy calls up the cable company and says "Hello. I've been watching some of your channels and there's some I want to report as offensive." Then there's a brief pause until he continues. "Lifetime." Which hits it right on the money and why Al Bundy would probably have the same feelings towards Jay Leno-so would the entire family except maybe Kelly. But in real life I doubt Christina Applegate could stand Jay Leno.

It should be pointed out that as good as some of the Saturday Night Live material has been over the years, the really top notch stuff came from the original run of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Like Conan and no doubt his staff, most of the troupe's members had pretty impressive college education credentials-I think intelligence-and the desire to be intelligent-is an important factor in writing material for an audience-if you want your audience to stick around and see what you come up with next or how your next movies direction is. I don't see how Jay Leno has anything to offer an audience they can't see on Oprah or any of the other lameass shows all over the tube.

The last thing you should do when you have truly original talent like Conan is let them walk. The return of Leno is likely to be the worst decision ever made by Zucker and company, which is really saying something. Guys like Leno are so easily replaced-if he was a radio DJ he'd easily be beaten by the newer, sharper kids on the block (as Howard Stern used to do routinely to DJ's who were riding on their coat tails in AM drive)-Leno simply has nothing to offer anybody who values their time and doesn't want their intelligence insulted.

The bottom line is that with Jay Leno it's always been all about Jay Leno-a certain amount of that is to be expected in show business or any business-but it's also true about the friends you make on your way up and down the ladder-Jay doesn't seem to have built up any good will at all and now is when he needs it as his return will be a colossal failure-there's still the problem that NBC has nothing worth watching in the 10 P.M. hour and based on the types of decisions they've made recently about what to put on the air, they won't. So there goes the lead in to the newscasts and the declining revenue of affiliates which is what the ouster of Conan was all about. Plus now there's all of this negative publicity surrounding Jay most of which he's bought upon himself-even the best PR people in the world are going to have a really hard time selling him with this black shadow-and the audience that was there-a lot of them will be gone and won't be back. That's how I see it. NBC is dreaming if they think this was a good move.

Letterman is bright, bright, bright and always has been. On a membership website featuring old time Top 40 radio disc jockeys (reelradio.com) there is an aircheck of Letterman basically broadcasting to the building he was in (some type of limited transmission) Letterman is doing a DJ thing on a college radio station-he only intros one song but what you do get to hear is a bit of the genius he had even back then before he drove his pickup truck out here and ended up on stage at the Comedy Store-he sets up a phone call for a secret sound which is a contest type of promotion that's been done on radio-he calls a woman (either his wife or girlfriend at the time) who pretends to be sleepy having just waken up who works as a waitress at a local diner-after a few minutes of basically arguing politely back and forth he plays this obscure sound for half a second-no longer-she asks him to repeat it-she has no clue what it is and takes a wild guess-horse dentures falling into a glass of seltzer water-which is the correct answer. Reportedly according to Rolling Stone years ago he would do play by play of a made up professional sports game in which the object of the game was to get the ball out of the stadium and into the opposing team's bus-like any good storyteller, there were people who believed it was real.

He did such a good job with NBC daytime that in one of their better decisions they reportedly paid him a million dollars to do nothing while they developed Late Night in the early 80's. And any one who's watched it can talk about Larry Bud Melman, Brother Theodore, greeting transit riders at the Port Authority Bus Station with warm towels (a Melman bit), smashing objects and dropping objects off buildings (for example-in the case of a young woman who disliked the bureau given to her by her grandmother-"that'll teach Grandma to mind her own business." and so on. Conan picked up on that and after a rocky start built up quite a legacy of his own bits including Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (not technically his, but obviously he went for the idea)-the classic bit of all the costumed characters outside waiting at a Star Wars film premiere "Which one of these buttons call your parents to come pick you up?" And the one with the baseball game played in old league style or whatever exactly it is-he spots an airplane ("what witchery be that?") and hits on a girl who's completely wrapped up in the role playing repeatedly-that's what talented people do-they push the envelope and they look for new ways to improve on what they've already done and also make what they're doing better at the same time-not really all that easy, but like with anything else, the longer you do it the better you get at it.

    Rodney Peterson

    Writer, Cutting Confessions-One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest meets Slumdog Millionaire and an untitled ensemble project focusing around a major market Top 40 radio station of the 70's:

    www.myspace.com/370392338

      It will be interesting to see how this plays out with affiliates and if Leno does as poorly as I think he will in conjunction with the rest of the NBC lineup will affiliates look to jump ship?

    I don't know what the choices are now, though with audiences eroding further and the number of over the air networks pretty much the same. Habits may be changing to the point that people will eschew Leno entirely-I think a lot of them already will because of the negative publicity.

    If anybody really has what's needed in place for O'Brien to step up and be a valuable asset with a minimum of changes to infrastructure I think it's ABC-they say goodbye to Nightline and Jimmy Kimmel or push Kimmel back an hour and they're good to go. And at this point the programming on ABC is way better than NBC anyway so O'Brien just might do well there. Then the audience is divided up three ways with Letterman and O'Brien going for the younger, hipper crowd which I would expect O'Brien to dominate in a short time and the default of what's left going to Leno. But if NBC's problems continue in prime time-a virtual certainty under Zucker-the Leno numbers will be disappointing, especially with all the negative image problems he'll be facing the rest of the time he's on the air (probably no later than Fall 2011 before that comes to an abrupt end.)

    By going to ABC, ABC and Conan can continue to take advantage of viewer habits and all that's needed for people to watch Conan is flip the channel. Putting Conan on Fox-especially at 11-means trying to establish a whole new set of viewing habits for the audience-especially if Fox O&O's continue their awful one hour nightly newscasts instead of going head to head with ABC, CBS and NBC with some enticing-and expensive-programming during that hour.

    Thinking about this further-if Leno fails upon his return as I think he will because of the negative publicity problem and the fact NBC has made some very poor primetime choices in the recent past-you might go with another safe comic/host in the Leno mold-he's not hard to replace at all. You might even replace him with someone a lot of people think is edgy, but really isn't-Dane Cook comes to mind-there's no shortage of qualified people. I could do the job, a lot of people could do the job-especially with the types of resources in terms of writing staff and budget The Tonight Show has.

I guess ultimately it will be up to Comcast to decide and I would think the first thing they would want to do is replace Zucker and his team responsible for a lot of these bad decisions. Maybe with other people within the company who have done well in their respective positions and give them more responsibility. The worst thing Comcast could do is continue to let Zucker make decisions.

Oh and by the way I’m aware that ABC has publicly stated they have no interest in changing their current late night lineup-what they say publicly and what is going on in meetings with those who have the power to make such decisions are probably two different things entirely and if ABC determines that Conan can be a long term fit and benefit to their on the air product and image he will certainly be very seriously considered.

Rodney Peterson

Writer

Cutting Confessions-One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest meets Slumdog Millionaire:

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really?!? this guy is going to douche the movie to pieces..........
 

guy below me IS LAME. quit calling attention.
 

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Should be JOhn CEna opeople I try and contact him cause this guy they have on this iMage is just not Conan the Barbarian he's more of a side kick of Conan, Get John Cena to play Conan the barbarian JOHN CENA is the guy that come close to looking like Arnold

 

John Cena, WTF!? Thats an obtuse choice. John Cena is The Sh*ttiest actor spawned by WWE Not to mention he has a Horrendously plain repertoire of Moves he uses in the ring & Even Worse is his robotic acting outside of it, I mean in wrestling John Cena is just a touch more talented than Hulk Hogan and ..His.. crappy Moves of A "Big Boot, a Leg Drop & His 'Hulking up' punches & Pinning." I thought You wanted Conan to Turn out Good & Picking John Cena Would ensure it's Failure.

"Put a Wig on Cena & Tan Spray Him" What The Hell!?
If You Dress up sh*t & it's still Sh*t.

Jason Mamoa is Really Bad Ass, I thought he was a Christopher Judge Knock off but he grew on me & The Trainers in Films these days Always Jack up the Actor to Superior Shape, Like Gerard Butler in 300, He's Not Cut like that anymore, but he's still fit but not Ridiculously crazy like in 300.

Momoa's Fights were Hardcore bad ass Fights on Stargate Atlantis, Cena's Fights in His Films are a bit stiff I don't thinks he's as Agile as Jason Momoa.

......Momoa Fight 1 on YOUTUBE..
..Momoa Fight 2 on YOUTUBE..
..Momoa Knife Fight (Skip to 0:43) on YOUTUBE..



 

You'll Have to Copy & Paste them, Myspace Wont Allow the Links to Work.. ..(Why Have a Link Button Then? Myspace Sucks)..

#1..  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLh_QJo1SZU
..#2..  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmc9eBBKfI
..#3..  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P3673-NZoE

Really though Jason Momoa is has been chosen to be Conan the Barbarian whether Fans and Such are unanimously positive or not. Your ....5 posts in a row.... arent going to change that or get your point across any better.  It only Degrades the Validity of your "Pro-Cena" argument, making you seem over zealous & and ultimately it works against you. ..Rhetoric will get you nowhere...

 

Look at how bad Daredevil, Ghost rider did compared to X-Men actors most of the X-men movie actors looked like the comic book drawings, Spiderman only did so well because 75 or 80 percent of the time we saw the actor in the Mask, because there was not resemblance between Tobyand comic book Peter Parker I didn't see him as Parker he looked nothing like him, but wearing a Mask 75 percent of the time made it looked like he was all that. Look at Superman returns or the old Superman movie Christopher Reeves they were a sucess we didn't have to waist time pretending to believe that the actor was superman we didn't need to they already looked like the comic book characters so we had more time to follow the story. All the best Comic book movies have had actors that resemble the characters. Look at the Fantastic four with the Exception of the Thing and Invisible women, they looked like the comic book characters and did well, sometimes the Story will make up some bad acting and JOhn Cena isn't that Bad, come on people.
If you disagree I like to hear who you think would be a Good Conan actor?

 

..Here is the Conan of the COMIC.. im adding a link, just add some hair on Cena and Some small Tan spray all part of movie Magic and you will Have John cena looking like Conan the Barbarian

 

..http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/%5CAUTOIMAGES%5CDH16637lg.jpg..

 

Im glad all of you respondid to this. But IM a total Comic books fan, but Im sorry this SG Atlantis guy is not Conan, he just isn't him. We shall see what happens when the movie eventually comes out, most movies with the comic book character look alike do very well as long as there a good story. and it's not about Just looking like him John Cena does have some acting ability don't get me wrong he's not the greates, but there are many B actors that take off really well. Many of you should actually look at the comic book, this SG atlantis Guy just wont cut it. when he picks up the Sword of Conan it just not going to work for this Lean guy to pick it up, now if you you have a BUlky guy it will look so cool and when you add korky words like in Arnolds Movie, this will all fall together and as for john Cenas Hair he just need to grow it oout and it will defenetly work, and spray him with a little bit of TAN spray. Im telling you guys and girls Look at the comic book, Conan is Bulky Mr Olympian loooking of a character. We as an Audience will totaly believe that a John Cena Type of Profile can pick up huge boulders and those huge swords, but to see some lanky tall guy without any width and Bulk, it just wont work. Look at the comic Books people and look at Arnolds Movie version, John Cena would defenetly work. And YEs the 80's was full of those Movies with one liners and it works, it would defenetly work today, also with all the SGI they will put on the movie and hopefully a great story the Actin of JOhn Cena will defently not matter as much and he's not to bad to begin with. Take a look at John Travotas "Battle Field Earth" even an A actor Can do horrible movies, if the story isn't there then not even an A actor can save it. I do animation and when I do Characters for DC or over seas, I look for good stories, because all the best acting I do with my character can't save a horrible plot or setting or the show. Acting is only a Part. Look at the Comic of Conan the Barbarian!

 

Dude, not you personally, but everyone is talking about comics this and comics that, GOOGLE THIS. Savage sword of conan.  These old mags with black and white print are fr-kin awesome! And have ya noticed how all these chicks on here are like --NNNOOOOO-HE IS JASON MOMOA HE IS HUGE, HE HAS MUSCLES, HE IS A GREAT ACTOR! Only good points on here are made by true Conan fans, NO not you newbies who only know about arnold and the movie. Which even the books said he was so full of accent he was hard to understand! So there is one for arnold! If ya people want to talk about stargate and ya chippendale wannabe who really has no apparent skills to say he is great at anything other than keeping a job---Go to the other blog! Here we are discussing the ruin of an icon, so these assholes in hollywood can sell more tickets with a heart throb as a lead role! 
 

ROFLMAO......YOU CAN'T BE SERIUOS....HAHAHA
 

John Cena is a horrible actor and needs to just stick to wrestling.  I won't have him ruin a good franchise.

 

That is the dumbest Idea I have ever heard of. John cena HAHAHAHA
 

..If the movie company expects anyone to watch this movie than they would pick anyone over John Cena. The guy they pick has to be able to act the part and John Cena can not act for anything. Jason Momoa is a fairly good actor and he is pretty good looking. Don't know if he looks much like a Conan, but he can at least act.

 

True, True- cena needs to keep to wrestling! I think everyone is going on about Cena because he has a harder and more punished look as well as a jawbone it looks like ya couldn't break with a hammer! But pulling off Conan as an actor, nope! 
 

Its not about looking like Arnold, Its more about the Conan character himself...the only thing good about Arnold was that being cheesy was part of the 80's appeal....putting another bad acting beefhead into a strong mans role is just going to ruin the rep of such a great character. I think that this guy is perfect for such a movie because its not all abot the muscle.... Its about brains stamina and faith in Odin!!
 

Odin's for vikings, lol! Arnold was perfect for many reasons, even though i did not like him playing my childhood hero! The whole movie was made without the agreement of it's creator, conan a slave? Not in any of the books i read, at sixteen he was whooping ass as a hunter and swordsman! His speech played a role too. In the books his accent was so strong they said he could hardly be understood. Oh, it is crom that conan worships. Thor is odin, lol! take it easy.
 

Faith in CROM, missy!!

 

Uh, Odin? where did you get that idea from? His god was Crom.
 

Not the sharpest sword in the armory , are you? Quit listening the wannabe black metal shit you get @ hot topic and read the REH books before mentioning Odin out of context again. Thanks!!

 

..TY...smartest comment so far..
 

conan didn't worship odin, his god was crom the god of steel
 

okay... first they said corin Conan's DAD they never mentoned anything about his god and youre a diehard CONAN fan if you know what god he prays to
 

jon cenna riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhtttttttttttttttt i we be wasting our money yet gain for a boring ass movie bad actor can you say yeah think about that one
 

Thank You!!!! I am not the only one who thinks so!!
 

i feel the same way this guy is a WAY better actor den jon cenna bka you cant see dis .............oh yes i can you i see you wackl as hell
 

OMG hell no don't put that talentless hack into such a great role
 

..Tripple H would of a good Connan!..
 

Triple H would be OK but conan was dark haired/dark skinned.
 

now triiple h maybe he has the hair
 

guy below me CLEARLY has a thing 4 John Cena.
 

True he Can't act, but you all forget what made Arnold so Great his werid Acting ability, he was just MR Olypia and he stared in hercules in the city, he was no A actor he just had apeal Cena has the facial look of a Conan the Barbarian and he has the Bulk and Im sure if they had some coaches there right with him he would get the work done. 
and yes I have seen this guy on SG Atlantis and by no stretch of the imagination is he bulky or big thick guy, hes a tall guy but to lean. Batistya sure he could be Connan the Barbarian, but he just looks to Ugly, and as for Tripple H he would have defenetly been a great Conan the Barbarian back when he was in his mid 20'S this movie came to late in his time

 

u do kno wrestling is fake right?? all u go on about is big bulky guys. stop going on about what turns u on and acknowledge, 1 conans assyrian, 2 actors are very simple minded and do not have talent or the charisma it takes to be a actor. yes ive seen him on star gate atlantis, he isnt big compaired to the great talentless cena. size has the equivalent or nil on being a bag ass barbarian tho, this guy pulled off his role better then cena ever could. by the standards of assyrians he would be a giant tho. and while arnold was mr olympia  b4 the movie he was that big cena is bigger now then arnold was at the time. 
 

1 assyrian? what fucking hyborian map you been looking at? Conan is cimmerian! 2 wtf do you mean actors don't have the skill and charisma to be actors? Seems you might ought to go to a blog where you know what you are talking about, like where ya buy cute hats that ya can wear while hitting a bong! lol  (just kidding dude, you're cool-but really #2 makes no sense.....read it as you wrote it)
 

..homie i wish i hd the bottle of wat ever you was drinking b4 you said get it through your head cena sucks and yes arnol wasn't the shit at first but cena is no where near for coann..
 

john cena does shitty b-movies..... they picked an experienced actor because they didnt want it to go straight to dvd and tv.

 

couldn't said better my self
 

....Experienced actor?  HA!  I never seen or heard of this guy in my youthful and hip life! XD  I agree, Conan should be someone like John Cena.  Conan's a freaking barbarian!  The poin is you don't need to be a good actor to be Conan.  It's very simple, "Me Conan, me kill.  You woman, me Conan, let's hump."  All in all that makes movie magic.  That's why Arnold was cast for the first role. XD....
 

I'm pretty sure you do need to be a good actor its a new age in the movie business so basically i dont give a shit who they cast just not john cena or any other c or b listed actor just give the dude in the picture some fucking roids then im sure itll be fine
 

ALRIGHT TURN THE BLOG OFF, WE HAVE A WINNER! Could not agree more, the magic is in the BELIEF of a character! Not whether he could recite Shakespeare properly! But if he does not look the part, the movie will dissapoint! 
 

Only problem with John Cena being in this movie is that it would not make enough money to pay back the banks for the loan on this film. Look at his last two movies, after 2 weeks in the theater went straight to in demand.

 

how much fucking crack have you been smoking with all these other idiots?! let me say it loud and clear for all you retards out theere FUCK JOHN CENA! HE CANT ACT NEVER WILL BE ABLE TO and yes you do need to be able to act to play conan maybe now that sum1 who csan speak the english language correctly is in the shoes it wont end up being sum shitty remake as id imagine wed get with john cena who has the talent in anything of about 3 retarded monkeys and you, you fucking dumb ass bitch
 

he really is experienced, if you'd IMDB him. unfortunately just not a mainstream actor. -_-

 

Yeah, that's true, however he was awesome in Stargate Atlantis!
 

You obviously never read anything that Howard wrote.

 

omfg where have you been jason had a roll on baywatch hawaii  then he had a roll on a show called north shore that lasted one season now hes on star gate atlantis he plays ronan,ive meet him in person hes a cool guy and hes soo fine looks alot better than arnold!!!!!! and a much better actor!!!! cant wait to see more and see the movie when it come out!!!

 

your a fuking tard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  hes a shitty conan.....   he is more of side kick looking conan needs to look like he can rip the head off of a elephant.......... and not be able to spell conan isnt suppose to be sexy just a dumb strong barbarian who is very linguistic.............. with his axe hell kevin sorbo is a better pick!!