I had a few people write in to let me know that Rainn Wilson (Dwight) had a short interview with People magazine. It was so short and talked mostly of his new movie, that I wasn’t going to post it right away. But, when Rob (LITO reader) sent in this great shot of Dwight on the beet farm, I thought that this interview would be a perfect reason to write a post about Dwight and give me a chance to post this picture.
You can read the interview. here.
Well, it looks like The Office Webisode 3 is up. Well, it’s supposed to be up. Each time I try to play it, it will show me the commercial and then it will give me an error that it can’t find the webisode.
Either way, it looks like they are going to question Meredith next. The page is here. I’m sure it will work eventually and when it does, leave a comment on what you liked about it. I’ll do the same.
Here is a new video about Jim and Pam titled, “Bring Me Everything.” I think it’s wonderfully done.
Speaking of “bringing everything”, GMMR announced yesterday that Jenna will be “will be baring it all in the August issue of Jane Magazine.” Jane Magazine is the publication for the Clothes Off Our Back Foundation. This foundation auctions off clothes from celebrities and then donates the money to charities for children. I had never heard of this group, but I was glad to hear that the photos of Jenna wouldn’t be nude. She’ll be bare, but the parts will be “tastefully covered”. That’s good to hear because I think Jenna is just to classy of a person to go that route completely.
And now back to the regularly scheduled video:
I recently received an interesting email from LITO reader Clint. Here is part of it:
I am writing this time to introduce you to “The Office on NBC” Drinking Game. I created it with the help of two of my friends but I wanted to share it with you in case you or other LITO readers (of legal age of course) may find it interesting. After compiling my master VHS copies onto 2 commercial free 6 hour tapes, we were able to watch The Office on NBC contiuously ad infinitum and realized that there were a lot of running gags and other quirks that commanded a game be made of it. On top of the fact that I also like to drink and watch The Office on NBC (though not necessary) I figured other people may like to do the same. Lemme know if you are interested in getting a nice list going.
Attached to the email was a list that he has started. He calls this the “Beta List”:
Unlike Meredith, I’m not a drinker at all. But, I will totally play along with a bag full of licorice or something.
So, here’s what we need to do. Everyone leave their ideas for this game in the comments. What rules should be added? We’ll take all the suggestions and have Clint and his buddies put together the 15 or 20 official rules.
I don’t know how people get these things, but TVShowsOnDVD.com has posted some screenshots of the upcoming Season 2 DVD menus. It looks like there will be four DVD’s with a ton of good footage on them.They have the names of all the webisodes listed. Also, it looks like there are a ton of deleted scenes. That gets me excited!!
You can take a look at the here.
Will you be buying these DVD’s or are you satisfied with what you have alread?
Entertainment Weekly recently published a list of the top Fifty Greatest Sidekick. I got a kick running thru the list. In first place is Ed McMahon to Johnny Carson. But, in a respectable tenth is our own Dwight K Schrute to Michael.
You can read the Dwight listing here.
(Thanks for the tip Jennifer)
Here are a few things to mention:
Brian writes from China, “Being in China for the summer, no seller on ebay would ship a Bobble to China. But when I saw the contest I made a poster and took it with me when i went on a weekend in Beijing to the Great Wall of China.”
Awesome picture Brian, and even though Dwight couldn’t get his visa to travel himself, this definitely counts for the Schrute Travels Contest.
Where will dwight go next?
If you need a little fix of The Office today, here is a very interesting article about the writers of the webisodes. Even still, there is a lot of great information in there about much more than the webisodes.
Here is a little bit about the writing of the webisodes:
Schur explains that when the webisode idea came up and he and Lieberstein signed on to do it, the show was in that frantic time period. It turned out that Schur and Lieberstein were the only writers who had time to work on the webisodes at the time. Schur says, “We came up with this idea, and we just worked on them whenever there was a crack in our schedule where we could find fifteen minutes or twenty minutes,” with Lieberstein working on the webisodes whenever he could, sometimes just off set, while still in costume as Toby.
Lieberstein says that “like a regular episode, there is a storyline that runs through all ten of them. But they play very much as vignettes. It let us just work on one at a time. With a basic premise being $3,000 is missing — we focus on the accountants. Then we’d come up and say, OK, they’re gonna turn to Stanley now. What could happen with Stanley? And it’d be a little sketch with the accountants interviewing Stanley. It didn’t demand the kind of continuity that a regular episode does.”
You’ll want to read the whole article here.
I was so excited to see the new Office website on NBC. Just for kicks, I decided to step into the forums and see what was being written there. I was kind of bummed to see that just today they went live with a new section called, “Adventures With Dwight” where they are accepting photo’s of “Dwight’s Travels.”
They must have liked my new Schrute Travels category that I started a month and a half ago.
Well, I’ll be excited to see the pictures there anyhow. I’ve already left a note there about the contest for anyone who wants to submit the photos in both places. And at least we know that NBC reads the site so that’s a compliment. I hope they read all of the story ideas that were written. There were a ton of good ones.
“Dear NBC, Can I have a speaking part in The Office? Love, LITO”
