Happy International Women's Day!

Women Power!

Happy Birthday to Sarah Michelle Geller!

I'd like to wish Sarah Michelle Geller a wonderful 39th birthday!

Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes 🎂🎂🎂 I am feeling very loved today ❤️ pic.twitter.com/C89wShiS2s

— Sarah Michelle (@SarahMGellar) April 14, 2016

Its #ThomasJefferson bday-mine is tom..in honor of how old I feel, a throwback to when TJ and I celebrated together pic.twitter.com/Lkjt0hY5oX

— Sarah Michelle (@SarahMGellar) April 13, 2016

Happy 39th birthday, Sarah Michelle Gellar (@SarahMGellar)!#Buffy #BtVS #CruelIntentions #HappyBirthdaySMG 🎂🎉 pic.twitter.com/YOxvbRBzh9

— UPROXX (@UPROXX) April 14, 2016

Happy Birthday to the beautiful and amazing @SarahMGellar you're fans love you so much❤️ #HappyBirthdaySMG pic.twitter.com/vn1QaVY5Lv

— SarahMichelleDaily (@DailySarahSmg) April 14, 2016

Nineteenth Anniversary of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Nineteen years! How time flies!!! Happy Anniversary Cast and Fans!

From Sarah Michelle Gellar on Facebook:

19 years ago tonight, I got to introduce you to Buffy The Vampire Slayer (and #mrpointy too) thank you for taking the incredible journey with me and continuing still. I am and forever will be #grateful

Posted by Sarah Michelle Gellar on Thursday, March 10, 2016

Today in Geek History: Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered in 1997. Welcome to the Hellmouth! pic.twitter.com/KcHQoS6XtE

— ThinkGeek (@thinkgeek) March 10, 2016

#Buffy premiered 19 years ago today! Here's why it was our favorite show in 1998: https://t.co/duDCPMszbT pic.twitter.com/fadFwfR2hm

— EW Flashback (@EWFlashback) March 10, 2016

Sarah Michelle Gellar wants to wish you a happy "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" Anniversary https://t.co/CB4grLQb41 pic.twitter.com/f6FVTBCSK2

— HuffPostEnt (@HuffPostEnt) March 12, 2016

9 reasons Buffy The Vampire Slayer was TV's greatest feminist: https://t.co/nUQ5npCGid#InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/YgfrZBHQFt

— Digital Spy (@digitalspy) March 8, 2016

Buffy will forever be my hero: https://t.co/e0EYz9SwPw pic.twitter.com/6M3jASBgLX

— MTV (@MTV) March 13, 2016

Sarah Michelle Gellar Stars in "Princess Rap Battle"

LOL - Cinderella (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Belle (Whitney Avalon) throw down in the fourth Princess Rap Battle.

Buffy Turns 18 ~ Tribute in The Atlantic

The Atlantic has a great tribute to Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the show turns 18 years old.

From The Atlantic

Buffy is ... unique in that, as much as Sunnydale is a Hellmouth, high school is hell. The monsters in the first season are literal manifestations of the demons that plague teenagers—a controlling mother who's so intent on living through her daughter that she switches bodies with her, a pack of teenage boys who become uncontrollably feral, an Internet boyfriend who pretends to be a normal kid but whose real identity is much more complex (in this case, he's a demon called Moloch who got accidentally uploaded onto the Internet). In the episode “Out of Mind, Out of Sight,” one of Buffy’s classmates is ignored to the extent that she physically becomes invisible. In transmogrifying common teenage issues into actual, tangible villains, Buffy makes them seem important, and worth agonizing over. It also makes them seem conquerable.

. . . Television has had lots of complex, admirable teenage heroines since Buffy, but it's hard to think of one so consistently empowered to take control of the circumstances around her, whether in the middle of a graveyard, surrounded by vampires, or in her bedroom, grounded. Buffy’s super-strength is a physical attribute endowed by the forces of destiny, but it's also a state of confidence and competence that carries her through the varying traumas of having the fate of the world always on her shoulders.

Rest In Peace, Nanoo, Nanoo, Robin Williams

We lost a national treasure on August 11 with the death of Robin Williams. :( I share the same birthday, July 21, and that connection always made me smile.

That Williams chose to take his own life is a horrible tragedy, yet how can we judge him? Not only was he suffering from depression, but also from the early stages of Parkinson's disease, a malady he knew all-too-well after making the film "Awakenings," in which he played a caring doctor who dealt with the most desperate form of that disease. He knew that any cure was a stop-gap measure at best.

Michael J. Fox, another actor stricken with Parkinson's had this to say:

Stunned to learn Robin had PD. Pretty sure his support for our Fdn predated his diagnosis. A true friend; I wish him peace.

— Michael J. Fox (@realmikefox) August 14, 2014

To some, Robin Williams will always be the inspirational teacher from "Dead Poets Society," or the caring psychiatrist in "Good Will Hunting." Some choose to recall his more hilarious moments, such as "Mrs. Doubtfire" or "The Bird Cage." My kids loved him as the aging Peter Pan in "Hook." But for my 70s generation, Robin Williams will forever be Mork from Ork, the whimsical alien trying to understand humanity while falling in love with Pam Dawber in "Mork and Mindy."



Williams was an entertainer first and foremost. Yet like many actors and comedians he put on a jovial face to mask his depression and anxiety. Whatever lesson we get from his death, one thing we have to understand - every human being has pain of one kind or another, and all the success in the world is often not enough to kick depression.



Sarah Michelle Geller, his costar in the recently cancelled comedy "The Crazy Ones" made this statement via People

"My life is a better place because I knew Robin Williams," Gellar said. "To my children he was Uncle Robin, to everyone he worked with, he was the best boss anyone had ever known, and to me he was not just an inspiration but he was the Father I had always dreamed of having. There are not enough adjectives to describe the light he was, to anyone that ever had the pleasure to meet him. I will miss him everyday, but I know the memory of him will live on. And to his family, I thank them for letting us know him and seeing the joy they brought him. Us crazy ones love you."

From CNN

Actor Robin Williams was cremated and his ashes were scattered in San Francisco Bay, according to his death certificate.
Williams was found dead in his Northern California home August 11 from what investigators suspect was a suicide by hanging. The certificate, obtained by CNN on Thursday, says his ashes were scattered off the coast one day later.
It also says the cause of death is "pending investigation."
According to Marin County Assistant Deputy Chief Coroner Lt. Keith Boyd, investigators believe Williams used a belt to hang himself from a bedroom door.
Boyd would not confirm or deny whether Williams left behind a letter, saying that investigators would discuss "the note or a note" later.
The coroner's investigation "revealed he had been seeking treatment for depression," Boyd said.

From NBC

Robin Williams was sober but struggling with early stages of Parkinson’s disease at the time of his death, his wife said Thursday.
“Robin spent so much of his life helping others. Whether he was entertaining millions on stage, film or television, our troops on the frontlines, or comforting a sick child — Robin wanted us to laugh and to feel less afraid,” his wife Susan Schneider said in a statement.
. . . “Robin's sobriety was intact and he was brave as he struggled with his own battles of depression, anxiety as well as early stages of Parkinson's Disease, which he was not yet ready to share publicly."
. . . Parkinson’s is caused by the loss of brain cells that produce a message carrying-chemical, or neurotransmitter, that is important for movement. Symptoms can start with a barely noticeable trembling but worsen to difficulty walking and talking, depression and other disability. There’s no cure and the drugs used to treat the condition usually stop helping over time.

Happy 37th Birthday, Sarah Michelle Geller

Wishing best wishes and happy times to Sarah Michelle Geller on her 37th birthday!

Happy Birthday to me (early) pic.twitter.com/bsgHHznMkG

— Sarah Michelle (@RealSMG) April 13, 2014

It's Buffy's Birthday! #SarahMichelleGellar turns 37 today We're getting our 90's fix of #Buffy x pic.twitter.com/a7aCQwWpgm

— Hidden Fashion (@Hidden_Fashion) April 14, 2014

The Slayer vs. Kim Kardashian and Kenye West

Actress Sarah Michelle Geller didn't care too much for the Vogue cover of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. And I guess lots of people agreed with her - 9,832 Retweets 13,729 favorites!

Well......I guess I'm canceling my Vogue subscription. Who is with me???

— Sarah Michelle (@RealSMG) March 21, 2014

Other critics are chiming in, as well as spoofing the cover:
Here on Today and on YahooTV

"Vague" brings you Kermiggy, the #UniversesMostTalkedAboutCouple pic.twitter.com/RhIuKFz34Y

— The Muppets (@TheMuppets) March 21, 2014

Sarah Michelle Geller Gently Mocks "Vampire Academy"

Sarah Michelle Geller tweeted a funny pic of herself in front of a poster for the upcoming movie "Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters" starring Zoey Deutch, wondering if the actress knew how to use the wooden stake she was holding.

.@ZoeyDeutch Check this out!! You sure u know how to use that stake? pic.twitter.com/tCJdXFUA03

— Sarah Michelle (@RealSMG) December 24, 2013

Deutch replied in good-natured fashion:

“@RealSMG: .@ZoeyDeutch Check this out!! You sure u know how to use that stake? pic.twitter.com/QKAFaU62Ht” Hahahah I love this so much.

— Zoey Deutch (@ZoeyDeutch) December 24, 2013

Elisabeth Taylor was a Buffy Watcher

According to an interview with her great-grandson in People Magazine:

Taylor's great-grandson Finn McMurray remembers cuddling in her big bed, watching everything from her movies, Cleopatra and National Velvet to CSI and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "We'd watch bad TV and eat popcorn," recalls Finn, 15. "She was so much fun."

Bad? Well, Taylor made a few bad movies herself, and wasn't above a bit of kitsch - have you seen Cleopatra?

What did Sarah Michelle Geller think of this news? She's still a fan of Ms. Taylor:

All I heard in the article was Elisabeth Taylor watched Buffy. I don't care how she may have regarded it(even if she was incorrect)#ILoveLiz

— Sarah Michelle (@RealSMG) November 26, 2013

Sarah Michelle Geller Tweets

You can follow Sarah Michelle Geller on Twitter @RealSMG

Joking around about Husband Freddie Prinze Jr

“@peoplemag: Lucky @RealSMG - Freddie Prinze Jr. is back on @WitchesEastEnd - and he's got a six-pack: http://t.co/kKNyZxTC47” Yes I am

— Sarah Michelle (@RealSMG) October 11, 2013

Wishing "Little Sister" Michele Trachtenberg (The Key)
Happy Birthday on October 11

.@RealMichelleT Happy Birthday little sister. #Buffy #youarethekey

— Sarah Michelle (@RealSMG) October 11, 2013

Celebrating The Crazy Ones

It's going down on the set of the Crazy Ones!! @ashleytisdale @JamesWolk #thecrazyones #girlfight pic.twitter.com/5SMOSm7rUO

— Sarah Michelle (@RealSMG) October 17, 2013

Smashing Premieres for Geller and Whedon

Both "Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D." on ABC and "The Crazy Ones" on CBS had great premieres this week! As long as they don't put the shows up against each other, I guess we will be okay. :) And lets not forget online watching through cable TV, and future marathons via Netflix. It's just good that these shows exist.

From Variety

Nielsen estimates that the extended, seventh-season premiere of “The Big Bang Theory” did a whopping 5.6 rating/17 share in adults 18-49 and 18.9 million viewers overall from 8 to 9 p.m., funneling plenty of eyeballs into “The Crazy Ones,” which opened well with a 4.0/11 in the demo and 15.6 million viewers overall.

“Crazy,” in which Williams plays a Chicago ad exec, is the season’s No. 2 new series in demos (behind ABC’s “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD”) and No. 1 in total viewers.

The combo of “Crazy Ones” at 9 and veteran “Two and a Half Men” in its new timeslot at 9:30 (2.9/8 in 18-49, 11.5 million viewers overall) provided CBS with nice timeslot improvement in key demos over last year’s drama, “Person of Interest.”

The Eye carried the night in key demos and won easily in total viewers.

Entertainment Weekly Inside Television

ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — a show so big it takes two company names to officially describe it — delivered 11.9 million viewers and a 4.6 adults 18-49 rating. That makes S.H.I.E.L.D. TV’s highest-rated drama debut in nearly four years (since ABC’s V premiere in November, 2009).

That adult demo number is particular impressive given the show’s time slot. S.H.I.E.L.D. had to self-start at 8 p.m. — no lead-in — and ran against huge competition: NBC’s The Voice and CBS’ NCIS are two of the most popular shows on television. And how did it stand up? S.H.I.E.L.D. (recap here) actually managed to tie the two-hour The Voice overall in the demo (4.6) — and beat it head-to-head during the 8 p.m. hour — while trouncing the return of NCIS in the demo (3.4), though obviously losing among total viewers (19.4 million).

. . . S.H.I.E.L.D. co-creator Joss Whedon, who previously launched modestly rated culty dramas like Firefly and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, told EW that ratings for the new show don’t really matter — except for when they do. “I mean, I want it to be a hit because people who I work for have invested in it, and people I work with are in it, and writing it, and I want it to continue,” Whedon explained. “We have the opportunity to do something special. If it’s not special, hopefully it will go away. I think we’ll be okay there. But I can’t measure it in those terms. It doesn’t seem useful to me.”

Sarah Michelle Geller Loves Some HGTV

Who knew? "Crazy Ones" star Sarah Michelle Geller has a favorite show and it has nothing to do with vampires, and everything to do with the home-selling Canadian show "Love it or List it." It's rather hilarious that she expresses such a liking for HGTV, the home-improvement cable channel, since a running joke on Buffy was that the Summers house was constantly being destroyed by demons, to the point that Xander had to learn to be a construction worker so the house could be fixed before the next episode.

The Loop Canada

Spying this reporter’s press badge, Gellar’s eyes opened wide. “Wait, are you TV Guide Canada?” she asked excitedly. “Can we discuss my obsession with Love It or List It?!?”

“It’s like my favourite show!” she continued. “And I love Love It or List It too with the girl from The Bachelorette!”

By Love It or List It Too Gellar was referring to Love It or List It Vancouver, the spinoff series that pairs one-time reality star Jillian Harris with Todd Talbot (picture above). Apparently that’s what the show — which returns to Canada’s W Network on Monday — is called in the States, where it airs on HGTV.

Gellar described herself as an “HGTV addict,” with Canadian import Love It or List It being one of her main fixes. She apparently encourages her friends and co-workers to watch it constantly. She explained, laughing, “I’m like, ‘You have to see what happens! They’re either going to love it or they’re going to list it!’”

. . . “I only know Vancouver. I only know Kitsilano,” she explained, before launching into an impression of her future, house-showing self. “Like, ‘Here’s a really nice house in Kitsilano!’”

Buffy Saves CBS from Time-Warner Cable

What better way for Buffy star Sarah Michelle Geller to return to television than to immediately kick some ass of the corporate kind?

Time Warner Cable was refusing to pay CBS for broadcasting in major markets such as New York and Dallas, but pressure from both football fans and especially Buffy fans anticipating a new Geller series, "The Crazy Ones," they backed down.

From Businessweek

The month-long staring contest between CBS (CBS) and Time Warner Cable (TWC) is over, now that Time Warner has blinked first. The cable giant agreed to pay significantly more than its prior rate for the right to beam CBS signals in New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas, though not quite as big an increase as the network was seeking. It’s “hard to believe this isn’t a CBS victory,” Richard Greenfield, an analyst with BTIG in New York, said in an e-mail to Bloomberg.
. . . With CBS airing its first pro football games of the season on Sunday, including Chicago’s beloved Bears, Time Warner Cable was in store for some serious ire if it didn’t get the network back on its platform.
CBS, however, had an additional programming ace up its sleeve in recent negotiations: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. More precisely, Sarah Michelle Gellar, who stars in The Crazy Ones, a CBS comedy about an ad agency that will premiere on Sept. 26.
In large part because of the seven years she spent hunting the undead, Gellar still carries a cultish fan-base, according to Networked Insights, a New York-based data-analysis shop that helps such big companies as General Electric (GE) deploy advertising dollars. Buffy vanished from the airwaves in 2003, yet Gellar still sparks more conversations on social-media platforms than any of CBS’s actors. That’s a group that includes Robin Williams, who headlines Gellar’s new show, Will Arnett, Carrie-Anne Moss, and all kinds of other top-flight talent that wasn’t in Scooby-Doo 2 or I Know What You Did Last Summer, as Gellar was.

Exciting ~ Sarah Michelle Geller Talks Possible Buffy Movie

Wow - you don't get news like this every day! A Glimmer of Hope for the Fans from an E! Online interview with Sarah Michelle Geller.

"Joss and I always talk about [a movie]," Gellar told me during an interview for E! News. "But the thing with Buffy is that Buffy was a movie, and it ultimately didn't work as a film. And I mean, we had such miles to overcome when we were trying to do a TV show based on a movie. And one of the reasons is that the story works better over time."

And now here comes the tiny sliver: "If there was ever the right story, we would do it."

We'll take it! Right, fans? Even though Gellar also jokes that, "At this point, the stake would be my walker and I would be hobbling in."

Sarah Michelle Geller Tenth Anniversary Quote

Huffington Post had a nice quote from Sarah Michelle Geller:

From Huff Post

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ended 10 years ago on May 20, 2003. Yes, it's been a decade since the Slayer and the Scoobies closed the Hellmouth in Sunnydale, California.
. . . At the CBS 2013 upfront red carpet last week, Gellar was surprised by how much time has passed since she last wielded a wooden stake on TV.

"Wait, wait. Hold on. Really?" she replied when The Huffington Post told her the 10th anniversary of the "Buffy" finale was upon us. "Wow. God, you just blew my mind." Williams, who accompanied Gellar on the red carpet said, "It's kind of wonderful."

"It is," Gellar said. "I'm incredibly proud of that show -- proud of everybody on it, of what we did ... You can't be prouder of that show. It still holds up in reruns and I'm blessed every day ... I've been pretty lucky."

There was also this quote from Danny Strong, who played "Jonathan" - a classmate at Sunnydale High and in later seasons a member of the "Nemesis" gang of three who fought against Buffy.

"It just gets bigger each year. It's really exciting how much it penetrated this public consciousness in a way. People teach courses about it and there are Joss Whedon courses in universities. People write their dissertations on it," he told The Huffington Post. "It's incredibly flattering and I'm really honored just to have been a part of it. It's very exciting."

I definitely agree - people are even still creating new blogs about Buffy after all these years. :)

Behind the Scenes with "The Crazy Ones"

Funny new behind-the-scenes trailer for "The Crazy Ones" TV show starring Sarah Michelle Geller and Robin Williams.

Fall 2013 on CBS.



I haven't seen it confirmed anywhere, but the title of the show seems to come from the "Think Different" ad campaign in the 1990s from Apple Computer. Below is the quote and the video, with a voice-over by Richard Dreyfus

Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine.
They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do…

From Wikipedia

"Think different" was an advertising slogan for Apple Computer (Apple Inc. as of 2007) in 1997 created by the Los Angeles office of advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day.[1] It was used in a television commercial, several print advertisements and a number of TV promos for Apple products.

. . . The words "think different" were created by Chiat/Day art director Craig Tanimoto. The text of the various versions of this commercial was written by Rob Siltanen and Ken Segall. Music was composed by Chip Jenkins for Elias Arts.

The one-minute commercial featured black-and-white footage of 17 iconic 20th century personalities. In order of appearance they were: Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon (with Yoko Ono), Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog), Frank Lloyd Wright and Pablo Picasso. The commercial ends with an image of a young girl opening her closed eyes, as if making a wish. The final clip is taken from the All Around The World version of the "Sweet Lullaby" music video, directed by Tarsem Singh; the young girl is Shaan Sahota, Singh's niece.[4]

Buffy Sixteenth Anniversary Today

Thank you, Joss Whedon, for creating one of the great TV shows of all time! And thanks to the great cast for years of tears and laughter!

Sarah Michelle Geller in New TV Comedy

Exciting news: Sarah Michelle Geller will co-star in a new comedy for CBS called "Crazy Ones." This will be her first acting gig since giving birth in September to her second child, a baby son named Rocky with actor Freddie Prinze, Jr. The couple have been married for ten years and also have a young daughter, Charlotte Grace.

Entertainment Weekly

Gellar is set to co-star in the CBS pilot Crazy Ones, a single-cam comedy about a father (Williams) and daughter who run an advertising agency together. The former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star will play Sydney Roberts, the intense and driven daughter of Williams’s Simon Roberts.

Gellar last headlined CW’s one-season drama Ringer, a role that was billed as her post-Buffy return to television and was part of the 2011-2012 TV season.

First Post ~ Beginning

This blog is my new way to celebrate the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other works of Joss Whedon including TV shows such as Angel and Firefly, and movies such as The Avengers. I will also follow the careers of the stars such as Sarah Michelle Geller, David Boreanaz, and others. I'm a fan but also interested in the writing and literary analysis of the scripts, and the influence on other books, shows, and society in general. I hope you enjoy reading this blog.