Daily Archives: July 12, 2013

‘Sharknado’ blows us away

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“Sharknado” owned us all last night.

Social media like Twitter were ablaze Thursday night with jokes and jibes about the latest SyFy movie, featuring TV “stars” like Tara Reid and Ian Ziering fighting to survive a series of tornados and waterspouts raining … er, sharks … down on Los Angeles.

The sight of sharks falling from the sky and maliciously trying to snap up everything in sight was hilarious.

But even better was the accompanying Twitter onslaught, with almost everyone I follow, well-known and unknown, commenting on the show.

SyFy, the network behind “Mansquito” and “MegaShark” and other cheap and cheesy movies, blew up the Internet.

A big win for all of us. Especially the sharks. And Tara Reid.

More Madchen: Amick continues on ‘Longmire’

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I’ve noted before that Madchen Amick, the lovely and talented actress perhaps still best known for playing teenage waitress Shelly on the 1990-91 series “Twin Peaks,” is like gold for readers of this blog.

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So it’s been fun to note Amick’s recent TV appearances, from “Mad Men” to her latest recurring role on “Longmire,” A&E’s engaging series adaptation of Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire mystery novels.

Amick’s appeared as Deena, the rekindled flame of Henry Standing Bear (Lou Diamond Phillips), on “Longmire,” showing up so far in two episodes, “Party’s Over” and “Sound and Fury,” the latter airing just this week.

At the top is a “Longmire” pic of Amick I found. I’m looking forward to seeing more appearances of the actress – and bringing you the latest on her here.