The movie presents Michael’s childhood like the sitcoms he grew up watching, complete with phony living-room set and canned laugh track, but he otherwise participates in the real world, where he’s present for his partner Kit Cowan (played by Ben Aldridge) during the worst of his illness, not glued to the set or stuck writing episode recaps when Kit needs him most.

Sure, Michael tunes in to “RuPaul’s Drag Race” on Monday nights, but he’s otherwise quite the opposite of the “born couch potato” the real-life writer calls himself. In “Spoiler Alert,” the writer’s big-screen avatar (embodied by small-screen star Jim Parsons) doesn’t watch much television either, leaving room to live and love - and also to learn from this unthinkable tragedy. It’s a dream job, albeit a demanding one, for a boob tube-obsessed soul like Ausiello, though it was his private life that inspired his best piece of writing - and by extension, “The Big Sick” director Michael Showalter’s latest laugh-a-little/cry-a-little rom-com, based on Ausiello’s 2017 memoir. How do these people - folks like Michael Ausiello, editor-in-chief of TVLine (owned by Variety parent company PMC) and author of “ Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies” - manage to keep up with the sheer volume of new shows on TV, much less nurse a partner through a terminal battle with Stage 4 neuroendocrine cancer? As for the critics and columnists who cover television, I don’t know how they do it. There simply isn’t time, what with all the new movies opening each week. Hint For The Average Socialite: Wristbands will be issued starting at 9am on the day of the event with purchase of feature title from Barnes & Noble at The Grove.As a film critic, I don’t watch much television. Who You May Spot: Jim Parsons, Michael Ausiello

Michael will be in-conversation with Jim Parsons from The Big Band Theory. Hot Spot: Barnes & Noble, The Grove at Farmer's Market, Los Angeles, CAĭeets: In this evocative and gorgeously wrought memoir reminiscent of Rob Sheffield's Love Is a Mixtape and George Hodgman's Bettyville, Michael Ausiello-a respected TV columnist and founder and editor-in-chief of -remembers his late husband and the lessons, love, and laughter that they shared throughout their 14 years together.

Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words Book Event

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