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Tag Archives: Video

No Wonder Broadcasters Love Elections

$1 billion was spent on TV advertising in the just past midterm elections. Who gained? TV stations. Did the candidates benefit, did the public? I don’t watch that much commercial TV, but I know I saw a boatload of poorly made, vague, repetitive, boring political commercials that just ran together …

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Ben “Addict” – J Lo “Freak”

Matt Welch lookalike Ben Affleck seems like such a nice guy. But the tea leaves portend nothing but trouble and heartbreak: Friends of Jennifer Lopez are concerned following Affleck’s $500,000 Las Vegas shopping spree over the Thanksgiving weekend. It was after a weekend of gambling in Vegas that Affleck checked …

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Those Tricky Animal Metaphors

Richard Gere’s odd serenity leads me to believe he either knows a lot more or a lot less than most of the rest of us. Maybe it’s less: Actor Richard Gere’s animal magnetism has won him the unwelcome accolade of being declared the year’s worst celebrity waffler by Britain’s Plain …

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Celebrity = Drugs, The Theme Continues

We just talked about the Whitney Houston-Bobby Brown TV interview on tonight where they both admit to drugging it up on a regular basis. Now check out the drugstore cowboy list of narcotics Winona Ryder had on her person when apprehended for shoplifting at the Beverly Hills Saks Fifth Avenue …

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Better “Reality”?

I hate reality shows – hate ’em hate ’em hate ’em – and as the grandaddy of them all The Real World holds a special, contrived, insipid, banal place in my heart. Now the production company behind TRW, Road Rules and Making the Band – particularly loathsome all – is …

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No Pox Upon You: Smallpox Preparedness Webcast

Thanks to our own Ross S, public health policy maven extraordinaire, for the heads up on the CDC’s webcast of CDC Bioterrorism Update: Smallpox Preparedness via their website tomorrow and Friday, December 5 and 6, at 5:30 PM ET: BROADCAST INFORMATION “CDC Bioterrorism Update: Smallpox Preparedness” A National Immunization Program …

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RealNetworks and Starz Link For Online Video Service

Joining Movielink in the biz, the new service will offer video-on-demand online: The new online movie subscription service, Starz On Demand, will have robust copyright protection and also allow users to enjoy high-quality video playback, said RealNetworks Chief Executive Rob Glaser. “I would call it a natural progression, videos on …

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Whitney and Bobby Babble Tonight With Diane

I like Whitney Houston – she’s about the only current diva I can stand. She has a great voice, good (but not great) musical sense, charisma, beauty, and a sense of humor well-displayed on her 1996 SNL appearance. I even used to like Bobby Brown when he was the King …

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Stephen Spielberg Presents: Taken

As HBO’s Band of Brothers is to Saving Private Ryan, Taken is to Close Encounters of the Third Kind: a mini-series elaboration of themes introduced by producer Stephen Spielberg’s source flicks. On the basis of the preview ep of this new ten-part series, it looks like Sci-Fi Channel may’ve gotten …

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Another Wreck and Cameron

Sunday night on the Discovery Channel, James Cameron, Titanic’s “King of the World,” takes on another famous lost ship: The Bismarck, the German warship that went down in 1941 only nine days after it’s departure from Germany. On the show’s site, you can examine the underwater wreckage of the ship, …

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