If you have an unlimited ad budget like Budweiser or the automakers and can afford the repetition throughout the game, maybe it is worth it, but for smaller players shooting their wad on a single showing, I doubt it is. IFILM has its super cool and handy compendium of Super …
Read More »Eric Olsen
Ringtones: Really Cool or Incredibly Stupid Waste of Money?
Hey, I’m at the tail end of the baby boom and you’ve been hearing all about how we refuse to grow old gracefully or cast aside our youthful ways, outlook, thought patterns. Generally this holds true for me: I’m as deeply entrenched in popular culture as ever, and I can …
Read More »NYC’s Hit Factory to Close
Sadly, this solicitation no longer holds: “The worlds largest and most successful commercial recording facility.” “The completion of the Hit Factory in ’93, set a new bench mark against which many recording facilities will be judged well into the new millenium. The studios offer traditional recording techniques supported by innovative …
Read More »Jacko Purrs to Geraldo, Gags Ex
In an interview recorded two weeks ago that will air Saturday at 10 p.m. ET on the FOX News Channel’s “At Large With Geraldo Rivera,” Michael Jackson says, “The bigger the star, the bigger the target. I’m not trying to say I’m the super-duper star, I’m not saying that. I’m …
Read More »Volvo and Virgin Super Bowl Blastoff
First off, allow me to preface the rather notable news that Volvo is announcing a contest to give away a seat on the Virgin Galactic spaceship during their Super Bowl commercial Sunday, by noting that Richard Branson is a dickleak. I have nothing in particular against the guy and his …
Read More »The Imagine Cup ’05
The Imagine Cup is a worldwide tournament challenging the globe’s best and brightest students to use technology to enhance people’s lives. Wild creativity is encouraged and students are allowed to collaborate with up to 3 teammates. All students who register to compete get a free copy of Microsoft Visual Studio …
Read More »“They’ve given you a number and taken away your name”
In the jury pool for the Michael Jackson case.
Read More »Ray Charles: Genius Won’t Go Away
Ray: how can we miss you when you won’t go away? Kidding – it isn’t Ray’s fault he made one of the most popular and successful albums of his career just before he died, or that his mastery of virtually every American musical form is perhaps unparalleled and has taken …
Read More »Hot Stuff for Black History Month on the BET Networks
BET and sister network BET Jazz are delivering a diverse menu of special programming for Black History Month. Anchoring BET’s Black History Month fare is the annual CELEBRATION OF GOSPEL, back for its fifth year celebrating both the traditional and contemporary art form as sung by some of the biggest …
Read More »State of the Union: Behind the Scenes and Expectations
Amusing and interesting behind the scenes look at the cobbling together of presidential speeches from former Bush deputy director of speechwriting Matthew Scully: When we began last year’s effort, my colleague Mike Gerson had taken to calling it our “seven-day death march.” Mike Gerson and another senior writer, John McConnell, …
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