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T&A from Playboy via RealNetwork’s OpenPass paid video service. The girls will also be popping up via video clips and photos on cell phones in Europe and Asia on Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchinson Whampoa’s cellular phone service: Playboy Enterprises last week began offering a $25-a-month “Playboy TV Club” subscription as …
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Gentleman Jack Valenti: Spinning Like a Screaming MoFo
Jack Valenti, the 81-year-old president and chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America since 1966, in on a mission: to deny you have any fair use rights at all. He’s been pretty successful so far: Valenti is considered one of Washington’s top lobbyists to Capitol Hill on behalf …
Read More »What I Learned from Matrix Reloaded
It's more than a movie - or is it?
Read More »Jackass – The Life
Jackass star Steve-O Glover was arrested in Sweden following a raid on his hotel room. Why the raid? Glover and other “Jackass” regulars had performed their “Don’t Try This at Home” show in the Swedish capital Wednesday night. Prosecutor Gunnar Fjaestad said the raid happened after Glover said he swallowed …
Read More »Can a Real Arts Channel Be Supported on TV?
If you are going to be in LA in early June, this sounds very interesting: TV or NOT TV: Discussions To Create A Mass Media Outlet For The Arts At (MOCA) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Thursday, June 5, 2003 7:30 pm The last panel “Can the Arts …
Read More »“That Was Nifty!”
Buffy the Vampire Slayer's big finish
Read More »“Star Wars Kid” Booty Up Over $3K
The Internet, and now the NY Times, dig on the sometimes deft, but more often lurching light saber action of a 15-year-old chunky kid from Quebec, known as Ghyslain: In the video, Ghyslain brandishes a golf ball retriever in a series of maneuvers that are both painfully awkward and unmistakably …
Read More »P2P and Porn
New study says more searches for porn than for music on P2P networks: While much has been reported about the billions of free music and Hollywood movie files on the file-sharing services, there’s been far less attention paid to the abundance of pornography available for download. According to a study …
Read More »Blogcritics on NBC
Major Media Figure, cool guy, Detroit Free Press tech writer, and Blogcritic Mike Wendland is featuring Blogcritics on his NBC-TV High Tech Talk segment that goes out to all 215 affiliates tomorrow! The segment will be running at various times throughout the week on local newscasts. Here’s part of the …
Read More »Matrix Backlash in Record Time
The headline of Dan Ackman’s consideration of The Matrix Reloaded in Forbes screams, “How The Matrix Ruined Movies.” As far as I can tell, he hasn’t seen it yet – that’s backlash, after only four days: The Matrix Reloaded generated $93.3 million at U.S. box offices over the weekend. That’s …
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