Chuck in Entertainment Weekly

I just read the article and it is really good. It goes in depth and the website and Dennis is mentioned a lot.

can you copy/paste from the site?
i would very much appreciate being able to read it..

[i.e. i cant get to it due to my non-aol membership or ew subscription]

This was a great article! I recommend that we all go out and buy it! But you could just get in a long line at Safeway and read it there if you don't want to pay for it.

I was floored that Chuck's not married. I could've sworn I read somewhere that he was definitely married. Didn't we have a discussion about this?

Also lots of good plugs for the website. I think Doubleday should pay Dennis a stipend, this site is probably one of the hugest marketing tools that they have for this author. Dennis did you ever think of asking them something like that?

You deserve it... *we* know that!!!

Oh, and I promise to stop posting now... But that girl who posted pictures from Portland awhile back, I don't remember her name but she had something like "abortion technician" on her avatar, I could swear that there she is in one of the pictures, with a black bob and funky black glasses. Am I right? "abortion technician" is this you??

Just glanced at photo again, Should be funky *white* glasses, with rhinestones.

Haha that's me! Yeah my boyfriend Jonathan (teedlo on here) and I are in that picture. My eyes are closed in it but oh well.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Jordie [/i]
[B]This was a great article! I recommend that we all go out and buy it! But you could just get in a long line at Safeway and read it there if you don't want to pay for it.

I was floored that Chuck's not married. I could've sworn I read somewhere that he was definitely married. Didn't we have a discussion about this? [/B][/QUOTE]

I thought he was... and I was convinced of it when I saw the wedding ring on his hand when I went to a reading of his.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Jordie [/i]
[B]Also lots of good plugs for the website. I think Doubleday should pay Dennis a stipend, this site is probably one of the hugest marketing tools that they have for this author. Dennis did you ever think of asking them something like that?

You deserve it... *we* know that!!![/B][/QUOTE]

I've told him that so many times.

i need to get to a store and take an ew in the back and rip this article out.
it interests me.

It's the Sept 26 issue

Not that it really matters to me, but it is rather dubious that CP said he was happily married when in DC.

Who cares. At the end of the day, does it impact your enjoyment of his work?

No but it may perhaps impact my nighttime fantasies...

LOL

I am just KIDDING

bought it.

am currently reading.

Are B-lo and/or J-lo on the cover?

nope.. my cover has outkast [yay!], as well as pink and dav matthews.

it was a pretty decent article.. not the best thing ever, but certainly good. the little blurbs on each of his books at the bottom was cute..i enjoyed that. i was also happy about the mention of radiohead and depeche mode, and found his friends reactions to questions about him hilarious in a great, classic way.

and yay for dennis' press!
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I thought the article wasn't too bad.Question the reporter's focus on "The Cult of Chuck" more than his genius and knack of being totally in tune with a huge percentage of us who feel excluded and dismissed by the mainstream at large. I don't think they paid enough attention to the fact that Chuck just nails how we feel. Also sorta got ticked off with the mention of Chuck's gonzo fans; this is huge fun and no I am not a disaffected twenty-something. I am a disaffected forty-something and I have practically memorized every line ( because they are so true) in "Invisible Monsters". Thought the pretentious level on EW side sucked. And if Chuck gets to hang with Trent and Marilyn, Rock on, man!! Three of the most expressive and explosive artists existing. Love you Mistah P., don't never stop with that pen. Keeps me going and excitedly waiting for "Guts". PS-firing off an appropriate email to EW-they are missing the boat here.
Swannsonn

youre right..they did focus too much on trying to pigeon-hole chuck fans. that definitely sorta got to me, but ive seen it so much im almost desensitized from noticing. blah. : p

i noticed that too, i didn't like how they made all of chucks fan's seem like people who had never read a book in their life until Fight Club. oh well, i never trust EW or other magazine's like that completely anyway.

curses. why must the only copy of entertainment weekly i find have johnny depp on the cover?

so the bookstore at school dont even have it
i have to find it elsewhere..in this seedy town of hamilton

i have offered to transcribe it but have not yet received a reply from dennis. there may be copyright issues.

i have to say about the article that i was completely mortified when, out of the thousands of threads on this site, one of the two threads the writer of the article chose to mention was "What Would You Do If Chuck Killed Himself?" For someone looking at this site out of context, that's a dealbreaker, I would think.

and i agree about the whole not reading thing. stereotypes come from somewhere, but, let's face it, that is the stereotype of chuck fans. i think it was simply lazy reporting.

also, since when does bret easton ellis figure on the same reading level as comic books? sheesh.

kitty...dennis decided to not give any press on the article
so no transcribing is needed

not sure what you mean...not give any press?

as in not giving any coverage
sorry...i'm used to using "press" as in "press/industries"...i guess i picked that up from working at TIFF

quoting dennis here:
"Yeah. I sort of think that's a crappy article that takes potshots at Chuck. So I'm not going to go out of my way to promote it on this site. And that's saying a lot since I was interviewed for it.

Sorry, folks."

What Rita means is, I agree with a lot of you. I think it's a crappy article. I met this woman. She came to my house and interviewed me in my office. But I am not biased. It's obvious that she takes potshots at Chuck throughout the entire piece. And even worse, she labels his entire fanbase off a very small percentage of fans she saw in Portland.

Maybe she should have been at both Edinboro Chuck Conferences and done her interviewing there instead. Chuck's fans run the gamut from aged 12 to aged 60. Many of them are college professors, ex-priests, politicians, and businessmen. Yet she seemed caught up on the younger, naive fans who haven't read enough books in their life yet to give ample retorts to the questions she probably asked them.

I'm also mad b/c she took a quote of mine, where I was defending Chuck's fans, and used it out of context, so now it looks like I'm too judging them.

Anyway, it's not a big deal. The bigger Chuck gets, the more people will try to bring him down. I've let it all roll off. Many people seem to enjoy the article, so maybe I [i]am[/i] being biased. Who knows?

jealousy sucks

I liked the article the first time I read it. Now I will have to read it again.

One thing I didn't like-- how the interviewer suggested that the troubled person who gave himself a chemical burn was somehow representative of Chuck's fans, or that this was somehow Chuck's fault.

Yeah, I'll have to read it again.

[QUOTE]Yeah, I'll have to read it again.[/QUOTE]

yeah, i had to do that too. the first time it was great, because i was all excited about a chuck article in such an accessible magazine.. i definitely noticed the fan stuff the first time around, but i wrote it off slightly through excitement.
then i read it again, and that second time around, as well as the additioned of aforementioned negative opinions, the article is pretty bad.
again, its nice that its there, but it should have been better.

Besides the fact that that woman's an unspeakable bitch.

I'm boycotting Entertainment Weekly.

this is the only article ive ever bought, or intended to buy...

so i suppose that i am also boycotting, in an indirect way;)
im just a rebel like that.

angelanicole, wtf is that Bed, Bath Beyond quote about? i don't get it!
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um, on topic:
i've never boycotted anything, nor have i walked in protest's or anything of that nature. if i actually had a subscription to EW i probably WOULD boycott it over this bullshit. you always hear about the media being corrupt and printing lies, etc, but to hear the reaction of your favorite author after being fucked over by a reporter (in the latest audioblog) is almost almost like having it happen to your own friend, or at least it's as close as i've ever been.
i always take articles of any kind with a grain of salt, but i seriously think this little situation with EW and Chuck will stick in my head the next one thousand 'celebrity interview' article's i read.

Yeah. She kind of fucked him over. Even after all the sympathy and kindness he offered her.

oh..its from old school.

*goes to put that into sig*

hmmm. i haven't seen that yet, i keep meaning too.
good deal, thanks for satiating my curiosity.

watch it twice.
the first time for when you will think; 'this is a mediocre movie. fuck me for renting it.'
the second time for when you will think 'wow. what comedic genius. best.movie.ever.'

right on.
i'm normally pretty good at picking up subtle and original humor.
hell, when i saw Royal Tenenbaum's me and my gf were the only people laughing, and i couldn't understand why (until i remembered that i was in america).

the royal tennenbaums is the shit.

and nothing irks me more when people describe it as 'that weird movie'
arg..

The only funny part of that movie was the very end, what it said on his tombstone. I found that funny.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by XChuck [/i]
[B]The only funny part of that movie was the very end, what it said on his tombstone. I found that funny. [/B][/QUOTE]
and then, as if to prove my point, xchuck said....

It's not that, I just found it boring. Maybe it was because I was reading at the same time. I dunno.

what, reading in the theater?
oh, i guess it's out on DVD, huh?
well, in your defense (and everybody else's) the humor in that movie is more subtle than any other i've ever seen, aside from one or two slapstick moments. i dunno, i see humor in weird things. my friend was watching Very Bad Things today and i said, 'that movie is so funny' and he said, 'it's not a comedy.'
oh well.

i love the use of van morrison during that sequence.

I thought the whole part of the article where Karen was making fun of Chuck fans was hilarious. Because honestly, all of the CP readings I've been to (here in portland at least) have been full of young, annoying, angsty kids whos only other reading material probably IS comic books.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Dennis [/i]
[B]What Rita means is, I agree with a lot of you. I think it's a crappy article. I met this woman. She came to my house and interviewed me in my office. But I am not biased. It's obvious that she takes potshots at Chuck throughout the entire piece. And even worse, she labels his entire fanbase off a very small percentage of fans she saw in Portland.

Maybe she should have been at both Edinboro Chuck Conferences and done her interviewing there instead. Chuck's fans run the gamut from aged 12 to aged 60. Many of them are college professors, ex-priests, politicians, and businessmen. Yet she seemed caught up on the younger, naive fans who haven't read enough books in their life yet to give ample retorts to the questions she probably asked them.

I'm also mad b/c she took a quote of mine, where I was defending Chuck's fans, and used it out of context, so now it looks like I'm too judging them.

Anyway, it's not a big deal. The bigger Chuck gets, the more people will try to bring him down. I've let it all roll off. Many people seem to enjoy the article, so maybe I [i]am[/i] being biased. Who knows? [/B][/QUOTE]

soo...should i transcribe it...or what?

i got an email from you saying to do it, so i'm just going to type it in and email you, and you can do whatever you want with it. how's that.

Post it here.

That's an interesting post from Dennis that Insomnomaniac
includes above. But considering what makes so many ex-priests
EX-priests, that's a lousy example to include.

signed,

a college-educated heterosexual Chuck fan
who is past 30.

I dont like the first BIG picture of him.. i mean.. it just makes him look SOO GAY!!

haha.. sorry

so just keep asking yourself... what would jesus not do ?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by tvsr [/i]
[B]so just keep asking yourself... what would jesus not do ? [/B][/QUOTE] Very clever.

How's that working out for you?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by vigorous puppy [/i]
[B]That's an interesting post from Dennis that Insomnomaniac
includes above. But considering what makes so many ex-priests
EX-priests, that's a lousy example to include.

signed,

a college-educated heterosexual Chuck fan
who is past 30. [/B][/QUOTE]

wow, homophobia, as well as catholic-bashing, all wrapped up in one little post! is this what it means to be college-educated and over 30?

or was that supposed to be funny?

this is me not laughing.