Comments on: Hacker episode of PBS's Ghostwriter w/Julia Stiles (1993)

By: BunnyShank

BunnyShank — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:42:00 +0000

The co-star in the clip is/was pretty talented.

By: GlenBlank

GlenBlank — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:17:00 +0000

Julia Stiles is an actress, not the character she plays. Those lines were written by someone else.

But, perhaps more to the point, as a resident of Hollyweird, I know quite a few extremely attractive people who are, in fact, quite happy to find places where you aren’t judged by how you look.

I mean, really – if you wanted to impress someone with your computer hacking skills, would being a cute blonde who looks like Julia Stiles be an asset…or a liability?

(Outside of TV/movie make-believe, that is?)

By: simonbarsinister

simonbarsinister — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:49:00 +0000

Oh how Julia Stiles yearns for a world where you aren’t judged by how you look. Wut?

By: Brad H.

Brad H. — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:36:00 +0000

Her head, it throbs rhythmically!

Honestly, the last time I can remember her being in something it was in the first couple of Bourne movies.

By: Red Pill Junkie

Red Pill Junkie — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Jump in to the happy little newsgroups ;)

By: Red Pill Junkie

Red Pill Junkie — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:58:00 +0000

And porn. All the porn, all the time, anywhere!

By: Will Bueche

Will Bueche — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:46:00 +0000

That, or her enormous head.

I still like her anyway, despite the big-brain intimidation factor.

By: henrybucks

henrybucks — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 06:22:00 +0000

oh the irony of asking for more paper

By: Kristiyan

Kristiyan — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 06:19:00 +0000

Very emotional snip.

By: Saxton Hale

Saxton Hale — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:54:00 +0000

I watched PBS obsessively as a kid, and into my adolescence, yet I never saw this show.

By: bigattichouse

bigattichouse — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:53:00 +0000

We walked with our Mondo 2000 folded up in our backpack, played with sequencers on our Amiga 500 and chatted via tymenet in france, and argued the possibility of what actually realized as the arab spring, and even dared to think of creating a country that had no physical space…. and then we got old, and maybe a little pudgy, and we still dreamed. Hokey, yes, but we still dream that we can make a place where curiosity and the mind can set you free.

By: Frank Diekman

Frank Diekman — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:52:00 +0000

15 years later: LOLcats.

By: Peter Golanski

Peter Golanski — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:26:00 +0000

boom ba bim boom…

By: Joshua Zelinsky

Joshua Zelinsky — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:09:00 +0000

In 1993 people thought that the internet might be a place where curiosity and imagination gave you power. Then it turned out that what really mattered was having a cute cat that does silly things.

By: retchdog

retchdog — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:01:00 +0000

the sky above citi field was the color of a television tuned to Bob Ross’s “The Joy of Painting” on PBS, or at least the color of the canvas after he paints the sky but before he adds the mountains.

By: jimh

jimh — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:06:00 +0000

(Finger wagging)
She thinks she’s all that, but she’s not all that!

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:55:00 +0000

Well I thought it was rad.

By: malindrome

malindrome — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:37:00 +0000

Wow, that writing is almost as bad as for the movie "Hackers".

By: LinkMan

LinkMan — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:24:00 +0000

So she referenced Neuromancer on a kids’ show about newspapers in 1993.

Then 16 years later she penned one of the most ridiculous ledes ever printed in the Wall Street Journal: “Once again, the Yankees are harshing my mellow…”

Coincidence?

By: zombiebob

zombiebob — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:39:00 +0000

as stale an actress back then as she is now. She always plays herself.

By: Nash Rambler

Nash Rambler — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:58:00 +0000

“Styles upon Styles upon Styles is what I haveYou wanna diss the Phifer but you still don’t know the half. . .”

By: Jorpho

Jorpho — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:19:00 +0000

*130

By: Anne Noise

Anne Noise — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:16:00 +0000

This is my favorite episode of Ghostwriter! Thanks so much for this unexpected nostalgia trip.

By: Brad H.

Brad H. — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:07:00 +0000

Maybe this very clip is what holds Julia Stiles back from headlining the current swath of movies.

By: retchdog

retchdog — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:01:00 +0000

good quality. personally, this video clip is somehow so cheesy that it’s actually painful for me to watch. even worse than some of the “shock sites.”

By: Shane Horan

Shane Horan — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:57:00 +0000

As seen on XKCD 103. Nice to finally see the clip!

By: signsofrain

signsofrain — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:48:00 +0000

GhostWriter! WORD. I always liked that Ghostwriter was an enigma – he was a person once but can’t remember who he was.

By: Thad Boyd

Thad Boyd — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:47:00 +0000

Wow, I remember that one (and I’ve been wondering for nearly 20 years why Julia Stiles looked so familiar).

I was 10 but found it pretty insulting even then.

Ghostwriter was still a good show, though.