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• 26 - Citrus

  May 07, 2005 at 1:39 pm

  I've been trying to get the "little" blogcritic button, but nothing I do works. In fact, I can't even get the BIG button to fully load on my page, so I end up with an "error" load, even though the link works when I click it.
  
  I give up, man. I'm just going for the text link. Sheesh.

• 27 - Bennett Dawson

  May 07, 2005 at 2:59 pm

  Wow EO, where do you have this thred posted? Unbelievable parade of....
  
  be nice Bennett...

• 28 - ZE

  May 17, 2005 at 4:42 am

  MGM SUED OVER BARBERSHOP / BEAUTY SHOP
  Entertainment and business attorney Paul N. Philips, counsel to screenwriter Thomas Jay Winston Johnson, announced today the filing of a lawsuit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and others related to what he describes as the outrageous theft of his client?s intellectual property. That property, Philips says, was converted into MGM?s ?Barbershop? and movies that have followed it ? ?Barbershop 2? and soon-to-be-released ?Beauty Shop.? The lawsuit was filed today in the US District Court, Central District of California (#CV 052031) and seeks unspecified damages from MGM, Ice Cube?s Cube Vision Productions, and others associated with the ?Barbershop? film.
  
  Plaintiff Johnson, a Colorado resident, submitted his script, entitled ?The Barber Shop,? for consideration in late 1999, and was advised simply that his work was not what producers wanted to pursue at the time. Unbeknownst to Johnson, however, ?Barbershop? was well into pre-production the following year, and Johnson was not attached to it. The film was released in late 2002.
  
  According to Philips, ?Mr. Johnson found out about the making of MGM?s project by chance while at the movie theater to see another film.? According to Philips, Johnson was stunned when he saw the trailer for ?Barbershop? in the summer of 2002 and realized that his original project had been made without him.
  
  Since its 2002 release, Barbershop has grossed nearly $100M, and Johnson and his counsel estimate that the Barbershop franchise, including its sequel and ?Beauty Shop,? will gross MGM nearly $300M by the end of this year.
  
  ?We discussed the matter informally with MGM for months,? Philips reports. ?The end result, however, was that MGM was not willing to satisfy my client, and we were forced to file the lawsuit.? Now, the dispute appears to have reached the point of no return, and the litigation should be in full swing in the immediate future.
  
  According to Philips, who represents a number of entertainers and professional athletes, the goals of the litigation are to get Johnson compensated for what he believes are profits belonging to him, to get him recognition for the artistic endeavor that he says became MGM?s ?Barbershop,? and to win a victory for other members of the artistic community, who Philips comments are subjected to consistent idea piracy by Hollywood studios.
  
  The trial date for Johnson?s case may not be set for many months.
  
  Contact:
  
  Paul N. Phillips
  Law Offices of Paul N. Philips, APLC
  

• 29 - Lowell Brown

  May 21, 2005 at 11:27 am

  I use Blogger and can only upload .jpg files. I'd love to put your botton on my blog but it's GIF. Or am I just wrong?

• 30 - DrPat

  May 21, 2005 at 1:32 pm

  I'm on Blogger, too, and my blog shows the BlogCritics .gif button just fine. The key is, use the code above - then you're not uploading image, only linking to it.

• 31 - Gimikera

  Jun 22, 2005 at 9:26 pm

  Will be linking your site to my blogrolling section. More power to all of you!

• 32 - Steven Rosen

  Jul 22, 2005 at 7:48 pm

  Howdy: I am a longtime music journalist who has been interviewing musicians for over 30 years. I've spoken with everyone from Peter Frampton to Pete Townshend. I've got some great stories about all these classic rock guys, dating back to circa 1972. My question is: Would reading about this kind of stuff interest you readers? Would you dig seeing blogs of my experiences with these guys? Playing tennis with Santana? Being cut down and ridiculed by Frank Zappa? Being accused of padding bar bills by Deep Purple?
  
  Any thoughts? Let me know.
  
  Lastly, I'm looking for some legal advice about these interviews. I have a huge audio library of these interviews on tape - I need to know if I own this content and can I license it to different companies in order to monetize the archive?
  
  Any legal minds out there, I'd love to hear from you.
  
  Blog on ...
  
  Steven

• 33 - Glynn Wilson

  Jul 23, 2005 at 3:56 am

  Just linked to you under Blog The Media.
  
  Glynn Wilson
  Editor & Publisher
  Locust Fork Publishing
  http://www.locustfork.net
  http://www.locustfork.net/blog/

• 34 - Headlong Into Quicksand

  Aug 08, 2005 at 10:26 pm

  America's 225 year large Democracy is the world's record.
  Why, Can we keep it, where others failed.
  already demoralized, decying.

• 35 - Bryce Zabel

  Aug 14, 2005 at 5:04 pm

  I would like to put the Blogcritics button on my blog, but I use TypePad and I'm not clear on how it works with them. Anyone have any ideas?

• 36 - martin

  Aug 20, 2005 at 7:29 pm

  If you are interested in a new book publication, try 'Going For The Laugh'. You can get a free preview at authorhouse.com, seasch the title.
  
  Enjoy

• 37 - Gerry Czarnecki

  Sep 23, 2005 at 2:48 pm

  Lessons in leadership from around the world of politics. We focus on how we as leaders can learn form the world of politics and government. These areas are not always paragons of leadership expertise or best practices, but they do offer a daily opportunity to see leadership, or the lack of it, in action.

• 38 - alexandra barnes

  Sep 26, 2005 at 12:25 am

  please post!
  
  

• 39 - Ron Price

  Oct 04, 2005 at 9:59 am

  Twenty-five years after Lennon's death I write the following. It is a prose-poem, a bit of a recap of Lennon's life before 1980, my life and that of the Baha'i community before 1980. I try to integrate Lennon into some of the wider vistas of my own life.
  ____________________________________
  LITTLE UNDERSTOOD EVEN NOW
  
  In the years from 1968 to 1980 Yoko Ono and John Lennon met, married and had their relationship come to a tragic and swift end. Lennon was shot in 1980. Events in the Baha'i community moved with a tragic swiftness through a series of 'disasters and calamities'1 and, in my own life the years 1968 and 1980 saw incapacitating illness affect my private life. The following poem attempts to tell some of the tale of events on these three fronts. -Ron Price with thanks to the Universal House of Justice, Ridvan 1980.
  _______________
  You got together about the time
  I was putting my psyche together
  in that mild schizo-affective state
  in Whitby Psychiatric Hospital;
  and the Cause was unfolding
  Its Administrative Order
  with a majesty that could scarcely,
  even now, be appreciated
  in this fifth epoch.
  
  I remember your 'Let it Be'
  playing for the first time
  in my, then, young life
  when I visited my mother
  for what was the last time
  in Canada and the Oceanic
  Conference was being held1
  just before I headed to that region.
  
  And finally outside my kitchen
  in Tasmania I heard of your murder,
  joining, in mysterious ways,
  those three Hands who left us,
  bereft and shocked by the
  enormity of our loss,
  little understood, even now.
  
  1 Held in May 1971.
  2 Three Hands of the Cause were 'summoned to the Abha Kingdom' in the 'span of twenty weeks.'
  
  Ron Price
  5/10/05.
  
  
  

• 40 - rich sarles

  Oct 09, 2005 at 10:21 am

  Comment for Eric Olsen,,If you spent any time in Peekskill,NY during the late sixties, drop me a line. rich

• 41 - Eric Olsen

  Oct 09, 2005 at 10:24 am

  HI Rich, I was a kid in SoCal in the late-'60s

• 42 - Eric Olsen

  Dec 14, 2005 at 11:29 am

  we need to add the new links!

• 43 - Mark Bellinghaus

  Mar 24, 2008 at 1:40 am

  Will add those onto my blogs! Greetings, Mark

• 44 - Jet in Columbus

  Mar 24, 2008 at 1:49 am

  Mark, if you're interested, click on my URL and check out the two shortcuts I've created for anyone interested in using tham. The first links to the BC home page and the 2nd one links to my writers page.
  
  Email me from the page and i'll be happy to send along the HTML codes
  
  Jet

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