There couldn’t be any possible bigger news that week, so in addition to my confession that I still love Tom Petty to death even whether he looks like he’s 95 years old, let’s get right to it.

With the Oscars looming very soon (Sunday, Feb. 24, to be precise), it seems that reps from the Writers Guild of America and the major studios made a big breakthrough Friday in one of the major areas of contention, compensation for streaming Web video. Although folks on both sides were quick to caution that there’s still a lot of work to do (including ratification of any deal by the east and west branches of the WGA), that can only be hailed as major progress.

And it comes none too soon. What happens when there’s no TV for good public to be working on? Well, they end up getting lost with Will Ferrell. Poor Anna Friel,

the uber-charming star of the best new show on network TV, ABC’s “Pushing Daisies,” has filled the void in her acting life by signing to star as Will Ferrell’s love interest in the big screen version of the Krofft’s “Land of the Lost.” It’s entirely possible she would have made that questionable move even whether there was no strike, but that’s where I choose to place the blame for that. And bring back “Pushing Daisies” by summer, please!

I don’t have too much to add to that that AM, so I’ll just close with that rather cryptic bit of rhyming from Vic Chesnutt’s “Steve Willoughby,” which I just happened to be listening to that : “Someday I’ll be a paragon, like Louis Farrakhan, but today I’m simply a mess.” I have no notion what that means, but it just made me smile. Peace out.

Original post by Reel Fanatic