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Video webcast of a debate on the merits of a federally mandated “broadcast flag” from the Cato Institute: Battle over the Broadcast Flag: The IP Wars and the HDTV Transition Featuring Fritz Attaway, Motion Picture Association of America; Jim Burger, Dow, Lohnes & Albertson; Mike Godwin, Public Knowledge; and Andy …
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Idol Thoughts
I wrote last week about getting caught up in the talent and the excitement of American Idol. Of the reality shows, it is the least contrived: these are real people who care deeply about singing in a contest to determine who is some combination of the “best” and “most popular.” …
Read More »Death and Neverland
The Michael Jackson freak fest on 20/20 last night (the whole thing can be summarized in three distasteful words: obsession with children) finished off with a segment on the Phil Spector murder case, which featured a lot on Phil – all of it old news, the guy hasn’t done jack …
Read More »Convergence
The Matrix is an apt metaphor for itself as two new Matrix sequels films are being prepared for release this year, inextricably bound to a new video game premiered on Tuesday night: A movie about machines creating an alternate reality for enslaved humanity is turned into a video game that …
Read More »Back It Up, Jack
This is why we need fair use personal copies of DVDs, Jack: If you think your prized collection of DVD movies will last a lifetime, think again – some are already starting to rot while others are falling apart. Unofficial estimates put the number of affected discs at between one …
Read More »More on Spector Murder Victim Clarkson
Lana Clarkson, a moderately successful B movie hottie moving into middle age, had recently begun working at the Sunset Strip House of Blues as a ticket taker and hostess in an effort to get her career back on track. AP writes: “She wasn’t thrilled to have people from the industry …
Read More »Light Side of the Moon
While Hollywood is full of the misguided, foolish, and self-loathing who view America as the enemy, there are also many who don’t: “In how people are thinking, there’s definitely an approach that says, ‘The government is not the bad guy,’ ” said Sean Daniel, an executive producer of “The Hunted,” …
Read More »Broken Saints
Proving anew that an amazing supply of wild, wonderful, category-bursting material is out there on the Internet: the 2003 Sundance Online Film Festival Viewers Award winner for animation, Broken Saints. An online graphic novel created by Brooke Burgess, Andrew West and Ian Kirby, Broken Saints is an epic of 24 …
Read More »More on Jacko Documentary
The Michael Jackson doc airing Thursday on ABC debuted last night in the UK. The British tabs have gone wild over this: When Bashir asked Jackson about his friendships with children, Jackson said: “I have slept in a bed with many children,” including actor Macaulay Culkin (news) and his brother …
Read More »Dragnet
When I first heard that Dick (Runnin’-Out-Of-Law-and-Order-Franchises) Wolf was producing a new version of Dragnet, my first thought was, “Which Dragnet?” Depending on your age, the venerable cop series was either: a noir-ish b-&-w low-budget police procedural starring Jack Webb, a full-color debate-athon deifying Jack Webb or a moderately amusing …
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