gilmore, more, more!

I ceased watching Gilmore Girls pretty much right after this season started, writing it off as officially too annoying to be watched unmuted. Hearing the news from a couple weeks ago that show creators/runners Amy and Daniel Palladino won't be back in fall was, I thought, the final nail in the coffin. But learning about the guy that's too replace them, I don't know. The final season could be really, really good.

Rosenthal had in fact written a play called "Love" about his quest to get supermodel Heidi Klum to have sex with him. Reviews of the play, which apparently contained so many profanities that it rated an NC-17, were not kind. The New York Times called Rosenthal's play "not only offensive but incompetent" and said that the way that Rosenthal talked about Klum--whom he had met during a guest stint on Rosenthal's show Spin City--was "as cruel and disgusting as actual stalking."

The New York Times reviewer wasn't the only one perturbed by Rosenthal's play. Rosenthal had sent copies to his then agents at Endeavor--Ari Emanuel and Richard Weitz--who promptly dropped him as a client. His rabbi father, after reading the play, had Rosenthal briefly committed at UCLA Medical Center.

It's almost as good as when they got Charles Manson to write an episode of Maude.

(via Defamer)