Articles tagged with: HBO
Oprah Winfrey Gets To Make Sweary, Boob-Filled HBO Movies
Oprah Winfrey rules all mediums; television, radio, magazines and - thanks to Screaming Round Lady Go-Go 100% - Japanese anime. But there's one medium that Oprah Winfrey hasn't dabbled in for a while - movies. Sure, she was nominated for an Oscar for The Color Purple, but that was over 20 years ago. So it's great to hear that Oprah Winfrey has just signed a deal to make mini-series, movies, documentaries and series. Best of all, she's making them all for HBO, so she can either be like The Sopranos and be intelligent and groundbreaking or be like Entourage and be annoyingly smug. You know, for a change.
Hell’s Angels Founder Gives HBO The Legal Finger
Sonny Barger is a completely literate man. In the past he’s used his incredible ability to read to pen four books, maybe design motorcycle gang sleeve patches, and practice his cursive until it was pretty enough to win fourth at a state-wide cursive derby. Also he used it to found the Hell’s Angels. Yet even with such an impressive, well written, grammatically correct resume, HBO doesn’t seem to care. They think he’s a bandana-wearing douche that smells of rusty switchblades. They probably think that. We assume that is what they probably think. And now the opinion that the mega channel may or may not have is getting them drawn into court. Because Sonny Barger reads well enough to know he’s been cut out of a pretty big development deal in a biker series he helped pitch to them. Allegedly allegedly allegedly.
