Box Office Weekly #135 (MP3 - 15 MB - 21 min)
In today’s show, Weekend Box Office Figures, TV Ratings and these stories: Leave Ringo Alone!… Poor poor pitiful Sumner Redstone… and in this week’s commentary, what I’m doing right now will never make me any money! All this and get ready for another dozen “Beverly [...]
I think I’ve mentioned once or twice on the show that I’m taking a voice acting class. This weekend marked the end of the beginner course, and I’m confident that I’ll be invited back to the intermediate course in November. For one thing I’m pretty good; for another it means $550 into the pocket of [...]
Box Office Weekly #134 (MP3 - 17 MB - 24 min)
In today’s show, Weekend Box Office Figures, TV Ratings and these stories: Boring old men try to determine a technical standard for digital media… That writer’s strike could still be on - who knew?… and in this week’s commentary, I offer a way for TV [...]
This entry is a follow-up to Dan K’s previous article on how politics has become hot show biz.
First of all, I agree: It’s compelling stuff, the whole “future of American society and civilization” deal. It’s high-ratings event coverage, all right. However, I will part company with Dan’s rather Swiftian suggestion we have sponsored elections, [...]
The long-awaited American version of Life on Mars makes it’s premiere this Thursday on ABC. I have no idea what to expect.
The original version was a British show, and it was very, very good. I’ve written on this show before, when the second season was set to begin on BBC America. Since then, I’ve been [...]
Box Office Weekly #133 (MP3 - 15 MB - 21 min)
In today’s show, Weekend Box Office Figures, TV Ratings and these stories: Hey kids, there’s a free Iron Man inside selected Dell Boxes… Next weekend sees the opening of seven movies, you might not see any of them… and in this week’s commentary, Skot returns [...]
At close of business Monday, the Dow Jones dropped 777.75 points in value, the largest drop in twenty years. In terms of the dollar value of the losses, it equals a one-day loss of about 1.2 trillion dollars US. A number this large borders on the abstract: Thank God we have the movies to put [...]
Just got back from an IMAX screening of EAGLE EYE, the #1 box office champ this weekend. A few thoughts:
This movie is a lot like Michael Bay’s THE ISLAND, in that it rips of ideas from a half dozen movies that I love, adds explosions, and mushes it all together into a movie that I [...]
Paul Newman, a genuine Hollywood legend, died yesterday.
I was shocked and saddened to hear this, even though I knew he announced a few months ago he was too ill to continue acting and retreated in seclusion to his Connecticut home. He was a sensational talent, an irresistible screen presence, a blue-eyed delight. He was one [...]
Okay, I’m back.
Sorry for going two solid months without a single post. Without going into too much detail, I just got too busy taking care of other things. Something had to give way, and that turned out to be the blogging habit.
And that is a shame, because I really enjoy doing this. But as [...]
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