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The EW Review
Frequently Asked Questions
Updated November 19, 2004
If you have a question, you can send it to ewreview_at_mac.com (replace "_at_" with "@" in the email address). I may answer it.
How long do you think you can keep this up?
Update 11/19/04: In fact, I've kept it up (the Review, that is, and get your mind out of the gutter) for a full year. However, I've recently put the Review on vacation until sometime early in 2005. If you want to know the details, read the final (for now) issue.
Do the people at Entertainment Weekly know about your review?
Update 11/9/04: I hadn't thought so, but it turns out that at least some of them do. I received an email from one EW contributor, Nicholas Fonseca, complaining (quite rightly) that I'd been consistently misspelling his name. Though I haven't received any other indication that the EW writers read my weekly rant, I can no longer rule out the possibility. So, if any of you are out there, remember this: I write the Review largely in fun and my commentary is often more scathing than the magazine actually warrants...though sometimes it's not. Hey, at least you're getting paid for your work.
How come some of the links don't work?
The Web is a volatile place. Links come and go all the time. The links in any issue of the EW Review work at the time I write the Review, but they can vanish in a twinkling. (Actually, when a link stops working it rarely twinkles; it usually just gives an error message of some sort. But wouldn't twinkling be nice?)
How long does it take you to write an issue of the EW Review?
As long as it takes. Usually four to six hours, not counting the time it takes to read the magazine. Don't ask me where I read it; you don't want to know.
But I do! Where do you read it?
In the smallest room in the house. And then I always wash my hands.
Do you come up with the links first, or the text of the Review first?
Usually the text, although sometimes the text will be influenced by something I've run across on the Web. Why do you want to know this? What possible business is it of yours how I write this thing?
Why are you being so touchy?
Sorry. It's not easy having to read EW so closely week after week and sometimes it leaves my nerves a bit...frayed. But, remember, I make the sacrifice for you.
Does the EW Review contain any Easter eggs?
What, like some six dozen or so links in each edition isn't enough for you? In fact, though, starting in The Momma Class Issue - September 17, 2004 I have begun to add a tool-tip comment to one or two links and, even perhaps, to other text. So go ahead, hover that mouse over each and every link...or you could get a life, instead. Your choice.