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

How Joss Whedon Juggles His Time

From How To Be Prolific - an Interview with Joss Whedon by Ari Karpel of Fast Company

. . . surprisingly, Whedon advises getting the fun stuff done first. “Some people will disagree, but for me if I’ve written a meaty, delightful, wonderful bunch of scenes and now I have to do the hard, connective, dog’s body work of writing, when I finish the dog’s body work, I’ll have a screenplay that I already love. I used to write chronologically when I started, from beginning to end. Eventually I went, That’s absurd; my heart is in this one scene, therefore I must follow it. Obviously, if you know you have a bunch of stuff to do, I have to lay out this, all this dull stuff, and I feel very uncreative but the clock is ticking. Then you do that and you choose to do that. But I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you’re in the part that you hate there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, that you’re close to finished.”

I cut in, asking if he’s read David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done. “I did not get that done,” Whedon says, with a straight face. “I told him, actually, because he did a little talk at someone’s house and I did tell him, ‘You should write a second book called Finishing This Book.' But it has been enormously helpful, even in the baby steps version that I embrace. I still use the phrases.” Such as? “ ‘Next actions’ is one of the most important things that you can say in any endeavor."

. . . *SNIP*

“I read The Killer Angels. It’s a very detailed, extraordinarily compelling account of the Battle of Gettysburg from the point of view of various people in it and it’s historical. It’s historically completely accurate, and the moment I put it down I created Firefly, because I was like, ‘I need to tell this story. I need to feel this immediacy. I so connect with that era, the Western and how tactile everything is and how every decision is life or death, and how hard it is and how just rich it is, and how all the characters are just so fascinating.’ But so I should be on the Millennium Falcon. Now, if I only watched sci-fi I would have just had the Millennium Falcon part, which has already been done, but finding that historical texture, it literally, I put the book down and started writing Firefly. And that was my vacation from Buffy, which was two weeks. I got two weeks every year, and in that vacation I read, in 14 days, 10 books. My wife and I saw like nine plays, and that’s all we did. We just filled the tanks.

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EVERYONE NEEDS SOME TOUGH LOVE.
"This comes from Kai, my wife, who produced the film. She [quotes from] Rio Grande: ‘Get it done, Johnny Reb.’ It’s like, don’t make excuses. There aren’t any anymore. If you’re talking about it, you should be doing it ...

~~~ Much More at Link ~~~

Joss Whedon ~ Frank Langella's Dracula was "Hot"

Fantastic Whedon interview with Time Magazine




Best take-away? Whedon says that for him, the "hottest" vampire of all was Frank Langella. That shouldn't surprise anyone who recalls the "Dracula" episode of Buffy with the suave Langella look-alike.