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Old-fashioned book
Father Jack of ‘V’ lovers spooked by Vook
wo old radio dogs, for-
mer NPR ‘‘Morning Edi-
tion’’ host Bob Edwards
and retired NPR newscaster
confesses all for Fanboy T
efore playing Father Carl Kasell, were chatting on
Jack Landry on ABC’s Edwards’ Sirius XM radio
‘‘V,’’ returning Tues- show recently.
day night at 10, Joel Gretsch Both men chuckled as Kasell
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was hunting aliens as agent recalled the time British jour-
Tom Baldwin on USA’s ‘‘The nalist and TV host Alistair
4400.’’ Cooke quoted a young girl who
And then there was his said, ‘‘I like radio more than
role in USA’s ‘‘Taken’’ which television because the pictures
are better.’’ digibooks because I’m certain
involved, oh, aliens. Are you
Watch out, little lady. the pictures will be better.
catching a theme here?
I don’t consider myself a In other Web 2.0 news . . .
So what does Gretsch do
Luddite, even though I don’t Some of us Gutenbergs still
when he’s not trying to un-
cover some sort of evil plot own an iPhone and don’t plan enjoy browsing in old-fashion-
hatched by reptilian beings on getting one until the next ed, brick-and-mortar book and
from another planet? He time Halley’s Comet comes record stores because, while
stops by to chat with Fan- around. (Yeah, I know — you we may be scouting for a book
boy, of course. iPhone/BlackBerry folks can on sitar player Ravi Shankar,
access that date instantly, we may stumble upon, say,
HI AND LOIS BEETLE BAILEY Q. First off, congrats on ABC while people like me will have ‘‘Karma Cola: Marketing the
‘‘V.’’ The ratings have been to look it up in some musty, Mystic East’’ by Gita Mehta.
great and people seem to love Joel Gretsch stars as Father Jack on ABC TV’s sci-fi se-
Gutenberg-spawned almanac.) Such an experience is only
it. What drew you to it? ries, ‘‘V.’’ But I confess I cringed when, fleetingly replicated online by
Oh man, we’re having such the same week I heard those Amazon’s ‘‘recommendations’’
a fun time doing it. It was a sense that Father Jack and radio elders reminiscing about and ‘‘customers who bought
great script. I read the pilot Tom Iacuzio Erica Evans equates to Tom the good ol’ days, I read about this item also bought . . .’’ fea-
and it was really . . . I dun- Baldwin and Diana Skouris the Vook. tures.
no . . . often you get a lot of and the uncertainty of who to The Vook? But stumbling through the
scripts and some flow with trust. It’s an electronic, computer- Web does have its pleasures.
you and some don’t. This one Sure, I’ll go with that. Why generated video/book hybrid When I was searching for the
was a nice read and it was not? I think there is . . . (produced in part by venerat- band Rock Sugar recently, Am-
very compelling to me. And uh . . . yeah. Yeah. How’s that ed, Gutenberg-style publisher azon mistakenly took me to
also I knew that (‘‘The 4400’’ for an answer? Simon & Schuster). ‘‘Sugar in My Bowl: Vintage
CATHY WIZARD OF ID creator and writer) Scott Pet- Whether accessed by com- Sex Songs 1923-1952,’’ which in
Q. So Father Jack or Tom puter or mobile thingy, a Vook turn led to a whole slew of
ers was involved. So it had a
FANBOY Baldwin, who’s the bigger (and similar data globs that ‘‘rude blues’’ compilations in
lot of great stuff going for it.
tough guy? have been variously dubbed v- the ‘‘customers who bought
Q. So who is Father Jack?
I think Father Jack’s gonna books, digibooks or multime- this item also bought . . .’’ list.
He’s a Catholic priest. He’s a she to work with and how do surprise you. dia books) come with links and On such albums as ‘‘Let Me
man of faith. He’s a good man. you see the relationship be-
Q. Speaking of Father embedded video so that you Squeeze Your Lemon: The Ulti-
I saw him as a guy who be- tween your priest and her fed-
Jack, last we saw him he was can, well, see a character or mate Rude Blues Collection’’
came a priest for all the right eral agent developing?
in a pretty bad way. As we action instead of pestering that and ‘‘Eat to the Beat — The
reasons. He really wants to It’s hard not to gush about get ready to pick back up, poor ol’ overworked imagina- Dirtiest of Them Dirty Blues,’’
make a difference with people. Elizabeth. Even my wife is what can we expect from Fa- tion of yours. True, current v- the offerings range from the
He’s complex. There’s more like, ‘‘Whoa, slow down a little ther Jack and the resistance books also provide links to Wi- innuendo-drenched and merely
than meets the eye with Fa- bit.’’ She is the consummate in the future? kipedia and other encyclopedic naughty, such as Tampa Red’s
ther Jack. And now with the V professional and the kind of sources, thus backing up imag- ‘‘She Want to Sell My Mon-
showing up, that’s the part I think there is that big
actress everybody dreams to inative text with merely ex- key,’’ to slang-infested ditties
DILBERT MIDDLETONS that gets exploited. It changes thing about the fact that Fa-
work with. She’s the total planatory text. that would make Richard
all of us. ther Jack was stabbed. Some-
package. As for our charac- In an article on the Vook by Pryor blush.
thing is gonna happen that I
Q. The father Jack story ters, Scott Peters said to me a think will interest the fans Monica Hesse of The Washing- Along with lesser-knowns
line is my favorite of the se- while ago, ‘‘Jack’s a priest but about how he comes back. ton Post, the founder of the In- such as Sippie Wallace and
ries. You have this man of he’s also a man.’’ That’s a part That changes you, ya know? stitute for the Future of the Boozoo Chavis, these sets also
faith thrown into such an un- of all of us that you can’t ne- His life was almost taken Book was quoted (yes, there is feature such name brands as
certain situation. He sees the gate. I mean it’s not like there away. The resistance becomes such a thing). Dinah Washington and Screa-
good in everyone but in this is any romantic feelings there more important to him. Time ‘‘The age of pure linear con- min’ Jay Hawkins.
reality it’s the old ‘‘X-Files’’ but who knows what’s under- becomes more important. Ev- tent is going to pass with the No, you likely won’t find
mantra of ‘‘Trust No One.’’ neath. Because of the circum- erything becomes more valu- rise of digital network con- these collections in any big-box
That’s fantastic. (Laughs) stances, it’s made things very able. Father Jack is not sitting tent,’’ said the institute’s Bob chain store.
Well said. You have that man intimate and that’s a great around. At any moment, there Stein. ‘‘Things like the Vook Hey, maybe I can get used to
of faith and when that thing to play off of. are things that are happening are trivial. We’re going to see a post-Gutenberg universe af-
changes, ya know, in the pilot Q. Do you actually believe that he has to do now. And, uh, an explosion of experimenta- ter all.
FRANK & ERNEST HAGAR THE HORRIBLE I say, ‘‘This wasn’t in the in aliens? yeah. I can’t really give much tion before we see a dominant
Scriptures.’’ In the end of the I’ve said this before, but in more away. new format. We’re at the very, Rick de Yampert is The Day-
pilot when I’m sitting there the movie ‘‘Contact’’ with Jo- For more with Joel Gretsch, very beginning.’’ tona Beach News-Journal’s en-
with Elizabeth’s (Mitchell) die Foster where she says it check out go386.com/fanboy. As for myself, I’m like that tertainment writer. He can be
character on a rooftop, these would be an incredible waste little girl: I’m going to like Gu- reached at rick.deyampert
two unlikely partners, right of space, that’s how I feel. Boy, tom.iacuzio@news-jrnl.com tenberg-ish books better than @news-jrnl.com
now, at this particular mo- it’s narcissistic to think that Accent writer Tom Iacuzio
ment, there is no one else we we’re the only ones so why scours the pop culture uni-
can trust. not? verse for the latest in enter- CONTACT US
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