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Company working on software to segment “video on demand” for users according to the Boston Globe: an Andover company is developing software to enable viewers to skip through movies, programs, and news broadcasts to find the segments they want to watch. Gotuit Media Corp. is announcing today it has landed …
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Kelly Absolved
As she would have been even if she shouldn't have been. What are they going to do, dump their biggest star and the symbol of the show?
Read More »You Knew It Was Coming
With the headlong race to the lowest common denominator (and below) in reality TV programming, you knew this was just a matter of time: [Showtime] has greenlit a half-hour latenight reality series chronicling the life of adult entertainment producer, director and occasional performer Adam Glasser, aka Seymore Butts. The currently …
Read More »It May Have Been Lame, But Everybody Watched
Last Saturday’s SNL was neither very smoothly performed nor memorably written, but with Robert De Niro as the (somewhat reluctant) guest host, it was certainly watched: The Robert De Niro-hosted Dec. 7 edition of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” drew the largest audience for the latenight series since a Britney Spears-fronted …
Read More »Nimoy Retired From Spock – Generalissimo Francisco Franco Still Dead
Leonard Nimoy says he is retired from Spock, whom he last played in 1991. Nimoy is 71 – was anyone expecting Star Trek: Intergalactic Social Security? the Star Trek icon is “through with acting” after a 51-year career in film, TV and Mr. Spockdom. ….In lieu of on-camera gigs, Nimoy, …
Read More »“6 Billllleeeon Dollars”
It is difficult not to notice the irony of two jurors suing for $6 billion worth of slander, slander associated with the award of exorbitant sums in civil suits. Poetic justice, that: A pair of Mississippi jurors have filed a $6 billion lawsuit against CBS’ “60 Minutes,” alleging that its …
Read More »Helmets and Nylons
Big movie memorabilia sale next week: Four helmets from the original “Star Wars” blockbuster 25 years ago will vie for top billing with Jack Nicholson’s jacket from “The Shining” and Pierce Brosnan’s Omega watch from “The World is Not Enough” at a movie memorabilia sale next week. But they will …
Read More »Mama’s Girl
It’s lonely at the top: that’s the message of the new Britney Spears book and DVD, Stages, a behind-the-scenes view of life on the road: She eats alone. She paces her hotel suites alone at night. While other stars surround themselves with helpers, Spears packs her own suitcases and puts …
Read More »Retirement Home for Gentle Ben, Flipper and Toto
PAWS, my friends, PAWS: The Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) was founded in 1984 by Hollywood animal trainer and author, Pat Derby, and cofounder, Ed Stewart. The story of PAWS began when cofounder Pat Derby worked with exotic animals as a trainer on the sets of many popular television shows …
Read More »Of Harry and Dorothy
It’s been a week and a half since I mentioned the Wizard of Oz/Harry Potter connection: time to get back to it. We saw and enjoyed the new Harry Potter movie over the Thanksgiving weekend, and my daughter has latched onto The Wizard of Oz as her new fave DVD …
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