Enjoyed another episode of this reality tv gem. An episode that could be skipped, if need be; sometimes I think they give you such A(+) episodes that they've spoiled us longtime watchers. Regardless, I'll be baack next time .
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1144127/
The camel milking portion is GREAT great TV, though Lorena annoyed the crap out of me. This episode is a classic and great AR. I love how this season their editing is much much tighter. Happy to be back in the mix with my peeps here.
I like this EW idea
In a better situation for comedy, Louis-Dreyfus wouldn't be standing alone: Margaret Cho, Mo'Nique, Kate Clinton, and Susie Essman would all headline their own sitcoms. But for now, a world with an old Christine is much better than one with no Christine at all.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1564555,00.html
i see boogie putting up janelle and george. then janelle wins veto. boogie puts up erika to retain his legion of doom votes, and seemingly push george out for his parital transgression. then right before the votes he take his final chance to use the coup d'etat, putting janelle back on the block - in place of erika, as he's clueless about and not in control of george's vote.
then the next hoh, will aside, needs to put up
ironically, i wonder if will might get hoh after boogie, and turn on danielle and james to weaken that other remaining duo, and strength. too, he might stir the pot and get them really against each other with some good lies, or maybe even truths hidden/unthought of.
definitely a pretty good season to watch!
cool article wrapping up the Finland's shocking Eurovision win from some sci-fi, heavy metal attired rockers. some language, and reactions, within remind me of sporting events.
Just ordered Gregory Douglass' STARK rightfully pumped by Out Magazine (October 2006, p. 44). He's his own creature for sure, somewhere in the metro of Sarah McLachlan, Tori, and softer moody cafe crooners. Look forward to hearing this on my iPod. (Decided to pay a lot more and ordered the actual disc. Perhaps I'll gift it to someone? or simply resell par usual. Wanted him to earn more on it.) Big thanks to OUT!
Billboard (Jan. 28 2006, p. 20) notes the Irish music biz inaugarated an award similar to UK's Mercury as they continue to grow. I wonder how that relates to Dublin growing from the various tech, and other, industries moving in over the last decade or so. Relished the memories and visit just one year ago walking up the way for fresh juice and groceries this AM. Yum.
From some 2005 Out Traveler, I wrote "to advance, we must consider agin honestly for this is how time moves us. looking back is good and certaingly an educaiton too, though perhaps not propelled as we'd like."
From Fast Company (Dec. '05, p.12),"Animation is the only part of film production where quality is going up while costs are going down." Unions withstanding, I think we need to begin seeing this for filmmaking in general. I really am more prone to a cooperative profit sharing, beyond a base/basic salary payment, in my company's model.
BET had an ad, in Billboard, quite awhile back saying they were #1 in 2005 in five different categories. I'm so unimpressed. Of course, it's about more than money with me. As well, I think it's funny they've made it to 25 being so shallow and weathering the consistent criticism about shallow (if quite profitable) programming. Would love to see some better/highbrow amidst all the other stuff. Ah, dreaming again, yes, I am!
Found this VV article about Latin freestyle's early 80s origins being a compromise as hip-hop early on was quite black, and demanded to be strictly so. Hmmm, I guess we can live together; more application on the working together.
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0616,veraacuten,72904,22.html
mistakenly didn't record Elvis night. from brief online perusals, it sounds like a mess of genre for our Final Four. ah well, that is a big name/draw from this show's audience <sighs> would've loved a Vegas night including them singing one Elvis and one.... stagestopper song? eh, maybe that doesn't fit their parameters of generating BIG buzz http://blogs.usatoday.com/idolchatter/2006/05/a_little_more_c.html#comments
Google Video to carry Here TV programming
Gay network Here announced Wednesday that it will begin delivering programming through Google Video. The site allows users both to search for content and to download and view it on their computers. This new arrangement will allow computer users to download original series, films, documentaries, and comedy specials from Here for $3.99 per title. "Making Here content available via Google Video is part of our ongoing effort to expand the options for thousands of viewers to access Here however, whenever, and wherever they want," said Here founder and CEO Paul Colichman in a statement. "As the variety of Here programs continues to increase, Here's growing fan base will be able to catch their Here favorites either on TV or now with Google Video on their PCs and eventually on wireless devices as well." (Advocate.com) I think this distribution model kicks ass; they need to get their content up to par though is the buzz.
My guilty pleasure is B A C K, and just fine. Bravo, oops, bad pun to Heidi for a smart, familiar opening on Project Runway's 2nd season. I so relish this show. Maybe because it's not just drama, it's doing, creating things and looking for voice(s) in fashion's future. Would love to come off this into a new season of Amazing Race (non-family edition)!
Cheers to those of you still riding the high of MODEL's 4th season finale. And big UPS to Tyra for doin' (and owning) a hit show :-)
*If I'm gonna write, then I need to write more - whatever that may be. If I'm not, then I need to let that be and go on to other satisfactions
**I'm feeling more like I want a sturdiness to when I am with(out) roommate. Oddly, I'm not so much itching to live alone - I enjoy the occasionally chat, etc. Then again, maybe I need to expand that much more socially in NYC? * We'll see I sense a move around the 2 yr mark/June (2006).
***I need to do more to build up my energies. feeling a greater sense of .love. and peace - and compassion - these last 2,3 -4?- weeks. Though this week, post-retrograde (Mercury, that is) I feel incredible antsy and questioning around the glue for me and MetLife. As well, I'm thinking - well, even, imagining more of what i want in my 2006. That goalmeister in me is returning in measured and open ways.
****I think I'll hold off on Brokeback Mtn fri eve, and go to Astrology Meetup - see how that's clicking (or not) for me...
*****I'm not avoiding relationship/dating, though I wouldn't say I'm encouraging it either.
(6) Seeing the Dreamgirls teaser makes me think of pouring myself into my 1st screenplay rather than the potentially stage-able Rapper X one. Of course, it's a Gemini thing - why not go back and fro on both now?
(7) what is this art critic facet of mine for? or am i too bent lately about profiting - money, rep, etc. - from it?
Life's good, and I am thankful.
I feel myself separating naturally from the excessive drama pits at work. Also, I could better use the time to get myself ahead, forward even. Perhaps reading PDF'd articles and lots of writing, plus applescript and adobe research, programming. (I want to click around much less on the Web as that seems measurable in time, not to mention sites... not THAT kind.)
Thanks for listening, I need to check in with Sandman. 9 am meeting...
Eye candy and Sutherland foil comes to Bochco's CIC - maybe I jumped ship too soon?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/chiefwillwelcomenewfaceproducer;_ylt=Atf5U4IZmQm17_gdyuXGBt.YExkF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3YXYwNDRrBHNlYwM3NjI-
'nother juicy bit: Meanwhile, Lurie is busy with another potential electoral series. ABC last week ordered a pilot of Triumph, about an 18-year-old who is elected mayor of a town.
Oh, if not cable tv I'm giving up direct access to AI5 http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-11-17-cowell_x.htm and Project Runway... hmmm. Then again, I get back a lot of time...
Good piece discussing 'What is LOST anyways, and how does it keep engaging folks' with such a loose mythology, or world? ;-) * This sense of imbalance and potential non-payoff (on a big scale, at least) is mainly why I don’t bother with the show.
Appreciated the one year later (new) MoMa update. My summation of the article, and visit there: A stifled canon.
I’m dumbfounded by AOL/WB bringing ‘vintage TV’ online for free. What a great, grand expierment; I’m confident very good things will come from it.
Kanye works the Garden theater :-)
Good piece discussing 'What is LOST anyways, and how does it keep engaging folks' with such a loose mythology, or world? ;-) * This sense of imbalance and potential non-payoff (on a big scale, at least) is mainly why I don’t bother with the show.
Appreciated the one year later (new) MoMa update. My summation of the article, and visit there: A stifled canon.
I’m dumbfounded by AOL/WB bringing ‘vintage TV’ online for free. What a great, grand expierment; I’m confident very good things will come from it.
Kanye works the Garden theater :-)
Learned about: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/foodscaping.html
Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle (a French pastry chef/arts photography team) create landscapes out of food: mushrooms, kiwis, salads, ice cream, watermelons, cakes. Cauliflower, even. The result is actually really funny and great, and can be seen through the duo's own photographs.
http://mapage.noos.fr/minimiam/go.htm
West Wing goes live and partially scripted :-)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051101/ap_en_tv/ap_on_tv_west_wing
Apple's New Fifth Ave. Store Gets Cubed - this sounds very cool, and splashy - hurrah for Steve, er, them!
http://www.curbed.com/archives/2005/10/31/apples_new_fifth_ave_store_gets_cubed.php
5,6 * Art * I am great * Jevetta's "Open Book" * moon Can/Leo 5:48p
brother Page Kennedy revealed in TV's best basement
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051024/ap_en_tv/tv_desperate_housewives
oh, i'm running late - quel surprise
Bloomberg is pro-Arts, hmmmm
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/arts/23stei.html?pagewanted=all
Hmmm, I like the sound of Jeanette Winterson's new work "Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Desperately dull?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051017/ap_en_tv/tv_desperate_housewives
Does video iPod draw creators like original (music) iPod?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051017/en_nm/apple_dc;_ylt=AkmM1noRaxQhcbbIfMxlwfe2GL8C;_ylu=X3oDMTA3YXYwNDRrBHNlYwM3NjI-
Emotionally vivid writing!
http://shadesofgray.typepad.com/shades_of_gray/
with a push to revolutionize TV and the whole dealio.... maybe a Dick Tracy type o' watch is in order for Christmas/holidays 2006? How could this new iPod be used to share dailies on (or off) location?!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051013/en_nm/applecomputer_imac_dc
Madonna's coming back strong - at least in the partnerships, if not the visuals + music...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051012/ap_en_tv/music_madonna
Letter from the Edtior, Out July '05 I'm guessing this has to do with different cultural perspectives of gayness & masculinity, eh? HX 27 May 2005 p. 32 1) we didn't have to love them, or even like them, though I hear him in saying the story structuring / making a character sympathetic I love this zero-energy homes idea. Can pursue as we get into this property purchasing outlook ;-) * How come this isn't poppin' as much on the Eastern coast/side of the States? I laughed out loud, and cringed a bit, at this replicating NYC's East Village in Vegas. (Also, Avenue Q has a show up in Vegas as of 27 August - that was a fast year!) IFP MARKET - a few notes
"I was struck by the fact that almost all the male Hollywood A-listers who are not American have played gay or bisexual characters on-screen, while virtually none of the American have. Russell Crowe played queer in The Sum of Us;Antonio Banderas got gay for Perdo Almodovar and opposite TOm Hanks; and last year alone Colin Farrell connected with men in two movies. Look at their American heartthrob counterparts: Neither Tom Cruise nor Brad Pitt has ever played overtly gay in a movie."
HX: How did you respond to the criticism that the show wasn't an accurate depiction of gay life?
Hal Sparks: If we had five gay guys in an office and the show was about how normal they are, it wouldn't last a season - and it wouldn't create any change. We showed gay people who drank and did drugs and fucked everybody - and you still had to love them.
2) I think this everyday gay thing is the way to go, maybe that's just (for) me though...? Or perhaps I'm carrying this over from pre-SoulFood (tv show) when some argued that seeing black folks in more everyday (dramatic) situations can further the bridges, close the divides between seeing blacks as other types, aliens, etc. * Perhaps this is my writing/visioning challenge? The seed was planted awhile ago, no?
Was very very cool to hear Norman Jewison speak at the IFP Market's closing. The icing on that cake was Warrington Hudlin being the moderator/interviewer. Reminded me - as many other things have lately - that I am well connected when I want to be and/or get on the vibe. What is the combination like now that my intuition is strong as I clarify and loft my life (energy) with renewed purpose and positioning?? :-)
The panel with Rosie Perez, Mary Kay Place & Yolonda Ross really added to my thoughts o' late around directing, producing (what type of production am I best with), and how a story is still the thing with(out) that attracts and brings them to a project - money or not!
T-shirt line from Chad Allen (not sure if i'd wear or print this considering where i feel things are going soon(er))... Theater is life. Film is art. TV is furniture. Out May '05 (yes, i'm not on my 60 day cycle for processing periodicals...) mentions X/O Chicago on Halsted (3411 N). I wondered what was there previously... looks like a cabaret/bar named Voltaire - which rings a bell - since 2000. I guess Delta's JFK to Berlin non-stop dealio became a casualty of the bankruptcy - wait, no, i found one. I'd wanted to google John Scognamiglio, and did... he's editorial director at kensington books. I love this (quite astute) line from Moby: Approx. 84% of USA's gays and lesbians have valid passports vs. 29% of the general (USA) population Story idea/sci fi: gay marriage is allowed, yet each/all marriages must procreate at least once... population explosion*
depart 5:55 pm/arrive 8:10 am (very cool, hehehe); leave berlin 12:10 pm/land JFK 2:50 pm
ok, so if leave thu pm, and return monday - would get a 3+ day weekend. for say $486
"I say that I don't live in America, that I live in the Island State of Manhattan. [Laughs] Manhattan is to the United States as Hong Kong is to China."
-from Out Traveler
That's almost triple the percentage!!?!! Is that because of parenting, or a sense of not questing beyond the easily known?
*inspired by this bit from Scene Aug '05's from the publisher note: "...I think this [gay folkd] is God's way of birth control"
Oh how fun - Ex-'Idol' Constantine signs ABC sitcom deal with Kelsey Grammer
Martha Stewart Working on a Third TV Show
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051001/ap_en_tv/martha_stewart
ya, i should use the links thing from webpage - with safari, it's a whole different exercise - to save time and admin effort. the goal is to focus on the writing y'all :-) er, me!
*I should track down the cassette of The Gyrlz's album - song title escapes me at the moment - and dub it over that a way :-) This isn't paramount just right now.
Oh, a waking thought: keep growing, improving, resurging, and let clarity on a specific, big project emerge for a FULL week, then G O! (suspect this will come as winter begins, or is in progress).
I need four meals before I fly out; actually one to take wed eve would be 5, plus drink(s) & snack. (Twill be fun to do DVD playing going forward; loved Renato's description of DVRing things directly onto a hard drive! yeehaw, don't need it yet. just love this idea of flipping into a very digital world. I see, and sense, that's not quite yet though...)
If I can buy the 2, or 3, books at work, do we have a % somewhere? Really, I bet AMZN is the way to go, so I put 1,2 of the titles in my shopping cart. Really, I don't see reading one of these on vacation. In fact, that seems contrary to the whole point/vibe of a (and this) vacation. If I change my mind, I can buy the book in my travels. ** I think I want to read the Da Vinci Code - find/borrow paperback - en routes.
OK, so I think this dessert buffet idea (Vegan EatUp) is a great idea. Need to sketch it out to be more contained, and not over doing it on the spending. Hearing under $200, likely more. I see Vegan Treats, Bethlehem as not an official event, small handpicked group to go - besides only 4-6 will fit in vehicle. Then we could/may offer to pick up items for folks that pre-pay in advance. The event itself would be later that day/evening or the next. I guess I'd do it later that same day:-) ** Now why wouldn't I simply attach on an order direct, or sub, through her Tuesday delivery? I guess because it's a fun roadtrip idea, though I'm not finding an efficiency in going - though wait wait I put it in front of Thanksgiving for people who could take something by Danielle for a holiday celebration to smack people's expectations around ;-)
Will revisit later. I do believe this is an event near Thanksgiving/before Christmas. January is much about the dieting; I'm seeing doing a vegan chocolates something for February's 2nd event. April's could be a pagan easter something - maybe the aforementioned potluck. June is a picnic, eh? August is something indoors and cool, oh so raw, eh? October is harvest themed. Next December is a cookie exchange... All sketches, nothing signed onto. (Yes yes, I know, I love event production.)
smallville season premiere
so much aquarian imagery
the crystals
the feeling alien
beng from another realm
super-human (like #11)
the 'adv.' geometric shapes
the Eyes* (not sure what exactly this means astrologically, heard it 2,3 times - certainly Welling has very catching, and somehow brilliant (colored), eyes though)
secret/unseen abilities
selfless heroism
fortress of solitude in icy, separate realm... an ivory, er, icy tower at the top of the stairs, er, globe
(some kinship with the Vulcans -being mostly mind and body, navigating trickily emotion/heart)
Funny V.Voice piece A critic's guide to what not to watch in the new fall lineup
Bit more on USA gay TV channels
Great Parade article on dethroning parents as gods, yet keeping them as a sort of vanguard... Veronica Chambers' My Father's Gift Of Magic
tatu readies 2nd disc with help from <drum roll> Sting and Richard Carpenter
Martha dazzles on daytime return - heck y'all she's free and a Leo under spotlights doing her domesticity dominance. C'mon, dur
•NY-LON (BBC America, Sept. 20, 10 p.m.) Brit boy (Stephen Moyer), Yank gal (Rashida Jones) experiment with bicontinental love, earn frequent-flier miles.
• The Boondocks (Cartoon, Oct. 2, 11 p.m.) Aaron McGruder brings his award-winning and controversial comic strip to the small screen.
Really dug this professor's report of spending a year as an undergrad. It's funny what we think we know and what experience (aka reality in others' shoes) gives us.
http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/0531,education1,66450,12.html
"...the median age for new infections is around 40..."
WHOA! Find this very curious, though not totally surprising. The juxtaposition with gay retirement communities really comes to me looking back at this piece now. * As we (slowly) peek ahead, I wonder how american queers AND boomers may move us around age(ism). (Perhaps this is too embedded in the greater Western world though...?)
"I know that we are beyond the place where any traditional prevention campaign will be effective."
Glad someone else said it. Now, let's be a lil sassy, if not radical, and move on this!
"Albeit in all the wrong places and all the wrong ways, these guys are basically looking for love."
Sometimes, I wonder if we say this too generally, and often, overlooking how connection, community, open feelings, and sharing can curb this wave. As well, a number of prevention outfits seem to solidly prove this over and over again, not that this is an agenda item of the Right to support. Be curious to see smart arguments from elsewhere about why we need to address the easier ills and so of today's world, so we might collectively move on to the next items.
http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0525,qmoore,65112,24.html
I just have to laugh at the power of celebrity, particularly with The Clintons. Do what you will, Hillary, and make sure they come correct.
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0531,lombardi,66389,6.html
Love the title; Hello on #1, READ! on #2 & Yes, lawd LOL on #4
http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0525,qhannaham,65115,24.html
The Cock changed locations, and history keeps on shifting before our/my eyes... [note to self: go to Europe!]
http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0528,flylife,65774,15.html
Not the storyline I'm after, yet something in the grit, everydayness (plus the menz in uniform) has me thinking about this as something to go after in terms of 'lead cars' tv writing-wise. (Well, if i'm gonna do a daygig, plus the syndication money can be better than movies...)
http://www.villagevoice.com/screens/0525,tv1,65124,28.html
I feel you on Parade Fatigue, Mike!
http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0525,qalbo,65134,24.html
Sometimes, you just need to see yourself, or a part of, grrl. (I skipped the interview since I've yet to see ANY of Season 2 yet...)
http://villagevoice.com/people/0525,qconaway,65109,24.html
NBC signs actor Leguizamo as new 'ER' doctor
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050831/en_nm/er_dc
TLA Releasing to Take "Beverly Kills" to Theaters in Mid '06
http://www.indiewire.com/biz/biz_050811tla.html
I love it Here! (TV) welcomes musicians to their new outfit, Here! Tunes
Can reality tv reap it in rerun-ville? Yes, missed episodes, new viewers, reliving the excitement... How bit will it be is my question?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=529&e=1&u=/ap/20050724/ap_en_tv/ap_on_tv_reality_s_second_life
JUBradio episode #1 was definitely amateurish, if nice with its music clips, and structural sensibility of the macro. Needs to be more decided, info-rich, and focused on delivering particular items of interest to its audience. Some technical issues, particularly better volume on everyone. C+
http://justusboys.com/radio/
PBS in a more stable place
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2005-07-12-pbs-crises_x.htm
Bo still has That Magic as Idols tour in Miami. (Sounds like Nadia needs to find the appropriate handlers and ROLL!)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2005-07-11-american-idols-blog_x.htm
Go Hudlins!
Filmmaker hired as new President of Entertainment.
*BET President and CEO Debra L. Lee has announced filmmaker Reginald Hudlin as President of Entertainment for BET, effective immediately.
The noted director will split time between BET programming and production hubs in Los Angeles and New York, and company headquarters in Washington. He becomes chief programming executive in charge of BET’s music, entertainment, specials, sports, news and public affairs, film and program acquisitions, home entertainment and programming development units.
“There is no media property with greater growth potential than BET,” said Hudlin. “I’m grateful for Debra, Bob (Johnson, Co-founder) and Tom’s (Freston, Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Viacom) confidence in my ability to shape the creative future of the network. I look forward to working with them as we guide BET to the next step in its evolution with a wide range of original programming.”
Hudlin exploded on the scene with older brother Warrington in 1990 with production of the comedy “House Party.” His filmography also includes “Boomerang,” “The Great White Hype,” “Bebe’s Kids” and
“The Ladies Man,” among his producer and directorial credits.
UCLA & OutFest partnership sets up LGBT film archive - woohoo!
http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2005/07/12/3
7,2 * moon Vir * Sheena's "One Love" * Oppression * I can right now
dream 01071105
something about audience folk pushing, challenging Oprah more. she's beginning to crack some.
Kimberley Locke readies a Lane Bryant ad campaign, CD #2, and hosting Game Show Network's "Word Slam" * intriguing title, makes me think of poetry slams online.
When will these queer TV channels show more of in indie musician concerts? Saw a clip of triphopper Karter Louis http://www.karterlouis.com/pages/4/index.htm doing a Rod Stewart (!) cover which was quite quite nice audio-wise. The image was WAAY too dark. Seems they plan to release a Live! DVD; maybe the fringe/indie way is better ;-)
Black Film Lately - we're making progress, yet, of many items, MORE sisters working now...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/movies/10coat.html?pagewanted=all
My inclination is still to have a PC laptop (or Apple with virtual pc?) for the astrology and genealogy software packages, perhaps MS Office too... I get very excited about putting family birthdata into both former packages, such that I can talk about patterns by way of data, and then go interview, inquire around such trends. Also, I suspect some astrology software can pick up relationships AND birthdata from GEDCOM files :-)
B Movies Invade Your TV! - love the cheap per picture budget, the grandkids of Roger Corman indeedy! So why don't we come with (many) more B (and sneak some A) movies per cultural audiences in at these budgets? Also, I'm noting the foreign (or odd, Mississippi!) film locales**
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/arts/television/10beal.html?pagewanted=all
**Laughed when I saw Honeymooners filmed in Dublin. As well, Ireland is going digital in movie theaters per Utne article I'm in the middle of. Maybe I need to get with Mark Cuban('s money)?
Mathew St. Patrick reflects on SIX FEET UNDER
http://www.wctimes.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=8668
read this J.L. King interview during Chicago visit, which leaves him sounding sane & stable, if in the Media mixin'
http://www.wctimes.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=8617
Gorgeous piece: The Agony and the Ecstasy - Getting some outdoors action
http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/4458.html
When Pride Punched Me - another potent (Pride) piece from Chicago visit
http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/4463.html
Congrats to Scott Free on hos Outmusic Award and producing Queer IS Folk Festival http://www.scottfree.net/queerisfolkfest.html
Great to see comixxx "Sticky" getting more attention ;-)
http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/4443.html
Forget the Bootleg, Just Download the Movie Legally - well, eventually, anyhoo. Not so sure this will roll as well as iTunes since it's bigger files, and different audience behaviors (somewhat so).
http://nytimes.com/2005/07/04/technology/04studio.html?pagewanted=all&position=
Portland as great case study for going greener
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/opinion/03kristof.html?incamp=article_popular_1
Hollywood Movie Studios See the Chinese Film Market as Their Next Rising Star
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/04/business/media/04film.html?8dpc=&pagewanted=all&position=
A very odd 'appreciation' of Luther (A Seducer in Song, No Lechery Required)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/04/arts/music/04note.html
What if Google had its own version of PayPal without restrictions? Hmmm
http://www.sugarbank.com/sam_sugars_blog/2005/06/forget_paypal_g.html
EUR feedback from *Shelley, Brooklyn, NY:
"Is it just me or does anyone else out there think that Bob Johnson's comment about staying at BET 'five more years at BET if Beyonce would give me a lap dance' was inappropriate? I was shocked and Beyonce looked mortified. That was one of the most ghetto moments I've seen on television.
We are always trying to talk about how classless the youth are today, but that comment outrageous! I mean the woman's father was sitting right next to her. If someone said that to Bob Johnson's daughter or family member he would have a fit. To me that was that was the saddest part of the whole show and it
came from the network CEO. I guess it's good that's he's the soon-to-be FORMER CEO.
There's no other way to say it, but it was a damn shame and straight
up low class."
AMEN
EUR says:
Toni Braxton will return in September with a new album entitled “Libra,” via Blackground. The Scott Storch-produced first single, "Please," topped Billboard's Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart last week and debuts this week at No. 78 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs tally. A video for the track will be shot with director Chris Robinson.
forgot to mentioned she sounded rather GOOD last night. More so, her energy and look were quite UP, not unlike Gladys or Mary J. :-) [Faith seemed to be off, or perhaps ON something, eh.]
Oh! and what was with the surprise FUGEES opening, yet Lauryn's smart vocalizing choices with a no longer FULL voice?
I'm not sure The Browns are a good match for Bravo... then again, it may be too highbrow for E! LOL
Alan Cumming in 3rd season of The L Word :-)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2005-06-23-cumming-l-word_x.htm
Knots Landing Reunion this autumn :-) weehoo
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-06-22-knots-landing-reunion_x.htm
Fantasia goes shopping, teaches her style
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20050623/111955254000.html
HBO's Rome and ABC's Empire coming this autumn and summer, respectively. Intrigued by both attempted tricky materials as potential futures series, much less hits. Love to hear genesis of both/either...
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20050619/111918822000.html
This was on my mind the other day to research the specific premise/seed...
http://imdb.com/title/tt0103522/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9b258ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9cmVkIHNob2UgZGlhcmllc3xodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1
having read it, I recognize something midconscious. Now back to my other bits I was doing :-)
Great casting, solid idea. Curious to see more, though anxious for show to gel quicker, go deeper and spark the stories more…
Commentary (my first ever!) to Episode 1/pilot needed an interviewer or something. Way too many silences and much awkward delivery, if sincere, open, honest dialogue from and between creator Doug Ellin and Exec Producer Larry David. Felt stilted at points, and didn’t reveal enough about the genesis, if yes good bits about the journey from seed to screen. Why did it take so long to cast for instance? Or can they say? Who’s who actor-wise, I dunno – maybe that’s me though. And desire for that Madden TV wipeboard type o deal. Also revealed they may be more after a sort of everyday in the life of celebrity x, though I don’t feel that they do That more about the posse (ok, per title), and the la la la of that. EH, this simply isn’t compelling tv, much less HBO – c’mon!! as well, this echoes how I did like Showtime’s Beggars & Choosers which definitely had more bite and storylines o’ conflict.
Striking ad for this in both free dailies made me wonder if this is too much bitin' on brother Spike Lee's Kings of Comedy
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