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You gotta love it when a reporter ambushes a subject, only to have the tables expertly turned, suddenly finding yourself on the defensive. Such is the case when Porter Barry, producer of Bill O'Reilly's show, attempts to grill PBS' Bill Moyers. Moral of the story? Don't mess with Bill Moyers, especially if you represent an intellectually stunted network like Fox News.
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The endlessly talented artist collective at Worth100 has once again unleashed their considerable skills, this time creating a thread of pictures that depict cartoon characters in real life, an example which you can see above. There are tons of photos on display, representing a great way to waste your time while you should be working.
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Elizabeth Royte has written a new book titled Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, which details the impressive marketing campaign that duped an entire nation into thinking they needed bottled water. Here's a brief excerpt, from her post on Alternet.
Read More (Source: Alternet)The outrageous success of bottled water, in a country where more than 89 percent of tap water meets or exceeds federal health and safety regulations, regularly wins in blind taste tests against name-brand waters, and costs 240 to 10,000 times less than bottled water, is an unparalleled social phenomenon, one of the greatest marketing coups of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But why did the marketing work? At least part of the answer, I'm beginning to understand, is that bottled water plays into our ever-growing laziness and impatience.
Americans eat and drink more on the run than ever before. The author Michael Pollan reports that one in three American children eat fast food every single day, and 19 percent of American meals and snacks are eaten in the car. Bottled water fills a perceived need for convenience (convenience without the calories of soda, that is): hydration on the go, with bottles that fit in the palm of the hand, in a briefcase or purse.
According to research conducted by the Container Recycling Institute (CRI), between 1960 and 1970 the average person bought 200 to 250 packaged drinks each year-mostly soda and beer-and many of those were in refillable bottles. When I was growing up, my family drank only from the faucet and from family-size containers. We quenched our thirst, when out and about, with water from public fountains. Either that, or we waited till we got where we were going. On picnics, we might have a big plastic jug of lemonade, homemade. Sure, the grown-ups occasionally bought beer, but the idea of single-serve beverages were considered, by and large, frivolous.
FILED UNDER: Videos, Humor. Games, TV.
The title says it all. I don't really know what else to say other than "just watch it."
Obviously those that are familiar with Lupin III will appreciate it more, but even the uninitiated should get a laugh out of it.
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Joss Whedon, the man responsible for everything from Buffy to Firefly, has a new show coming out in January called Dollhouse. It's all about people who have their memories erased and are outfitted with new personalities, working at a mysterious facility known as The Dollhouse. What's really important is that the show is centered around hot chicks kicking ass, which should be all you need to know. Here's a trailer for the new show:
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FILED UNDER: Features, Opinion. Comics, Movies, TV.
If you've followed my posting at all, you've figured out by now that I'm a big fan of Batman. The Dark Knight is easily my most anticipated movie of the year, and I'm trying to spread my love for all things Batman. As a challenge to myself and a service to you all, I set out to compile a list of the best Batman stories of all time, across all media. That includes movies, television, and of course, comics. I don't want to spoil the list, but suffice to say my choices will likely ruffle a few feathers, especially for some of the older Batman fans out there.
Read on for the full list.
Read More (Source: InfoAddict Original)FILED UNDER: Humor, Videos. TV, Sports.
Inside the NBA is one of my favorite programs, and I love when the NBA playoffs roll around and we get more Chuck, Ernie, and Kenny than we can handle. Most of the time, Inside the NBA is actually more entertaining than the games they're covering, so I end up watching even on nights when my teams aren't playing. This week, Ernie played a great prank on poor Charles Barkley that had me nearly dying of laughter.
Poor Chuck. I hope these guys are around covering the NBA for many more years. Hit the jump for more of my favorite Inside the NBA moments.
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Lots of cool space stuff today, so just bear with me. Earlier this week, NASA announced that they've completed restoring over one hundred hours of footage from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs that got us to the moon. MSNBC has more on the story:
The HD makeover was performed by the Discovery Channel for "When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions," a documentary series due to premiere in June.
The archive includes dramatic shots of the first American spacewalk, conducted in 1965 by Gemini 4 astronaut Ed White. If White's spacesuit failed, there were few options available for rescuing him, Gemini 4 commander James McDivitt recalled.
"We didn't have a plan. We didn't have a checklist on how you kill your best friend," McDivitt told the filmmakers behind "When We Left Earth."
The best part about all of this? Besides receiving what will surely be a great Discovery Channel special, the entire high definition library will be made available for our viewing pleasure. This news has me itching to watch one of my favorite mini-series, From the Earth to the Moon, all over again. MSNBC has some of the remastered footage available to watch, but it's not streamed in HD. Go figure.
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The Gong Show used to be my guilty pleasure when I was a kid. Chuck Barris was whacked out of his mind, the acts were horrible and Gene Gene the Dancing Machine actually made me dance. With the rise of all these useless talent shows on TV, it was only a matter of time before someone figured out they should reinvent the Gong Show, and that someone is Comedy Central. Chuck Barris won't be the host as that duty is going to stand-up comedian Dave Attell.
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Blake's 7 was a popular sci-fi television show that aired from 1978-1981. It had a lot in common with Dr. Who, in that it had zero budget, bad effects and lots of cardboard on the set. It also ruled. I remember watching reruns at some ungodly hour on PBS, where episodes usually followed Dr. Who.
Well, if you're old enough to remember Blake's 7, then the news that Sky One has given the greenlight to a reboot of the series should make you all warm and fuzzy inside.
From Hollywood Reporter:
Sky has commissioned two 60-minute scripts with the intention of creating a new sci-fi series of the hugely popular show, which followed the intergalactic tales of a small band of rebel fighters struggling to evade the dark forces of the Federation.
Sky One commissioning editor Elaine Pike said "Seven" was "ripe" for a revival, which will be jointly exec-produced by Andrew Mark Sewell at B7 Productions. Most recently the show was released as a successful series of audio books starring a modern cast including "This Life" star Daniela Nardini.
Revamped television formats have proved a huge success in the U.K., with a re-working of "Doctor Who" also generating original spin-off "Torchwood." But the cultural politics of revamps can be tricky, says Sky One head of programs Richard Woolfe, who two years ago abandoned much-trumpeted plans to remake "The Prisoner."
You'll find the original, superbly cheesy, Blake's 7 opening on page 2.
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No one in the movie business gets screwed-over more regularly than writers. It's an eternal mystery as to why writers are considered such scum, but facts are facts. Underpaid, unappreciated and with zero power, writers seem to find themselves in perpetual litigation just to get their due.
The Hollywood Reporter is saying that Seth MacFarlane and 15 other Family Guy writers are suing 20th Century Fox for breach of contract and deceit, claiming that no one was paid for an additional 12-minutes of footage that was created for the 2005 DVD "Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story". If that's not bad enough, the lawsuit also claims Fox failed to give the writers proper on-screen credit.
Fox declined to comment on the lawsuit, probably because a writer hasn't written a statement yet.
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I never really considered Summer Glau, star of Firefly and the new Terminator series, particularly hot in the traditional sense, but a new photo from Vanity Fair finds me recalibrating my impressions. That's not the psycho River I remember.
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Ronald Moore, genius behind the rebooting of Battlestar Galactica, as well as writer/producer of Star Trek: Next Generation, has signed a "trilogy" deal with Tom Cruises' new studio, United Artists. What's interesting here is the verbiage trilogy as opposed to three-picture deal, which one would normally see.
There is zero information available as to what this project may be, save that it's science-fiction. Since it's a trilogy, I think it's safe to say it's based on a series of novels, either current or classic. Given Moore's track-history of reinventing old shows, methinks Moore is going to reinvent a classic science-fiction trilogy.
Any guesses? Fincher has been attached to Asimov's Foundation, but that is languishing in development hell. Perhaps Robert Heinlein will be getting his due with Stranger in a Strange Land, Time Enough For Love?
With Hyperion now in the works and Dune being redone, it appears the time for quality science-fiction may be upon us, now that digital-effects have made the impossible possible. But please, don't dumb down the source material in the process.
Read More (Source: Variety)FILED UNDER: News. TV, Science.
The poor old 'red shirts' of Star Trek have become a cliche over the years, a term used for throw-away cast members who lurked in the background of Star Trek episodes, usually meeting an untimely end by one means or another. Well, does the cliche have any truth too it? Were members of the Enterprise crew wearing red shirts more likely to die than, say, yellow shirts? It's the question of the ages, but thanks to the hard and brilliant work of Matt Bailey, founder of SiteLogic, we now have answers.
For instance, Matt has proved our suspicions that red-shirts accounted for a whopping 73% of crew member deaths, followed by the yellow-shirts at 10%, blue-shirts at 8%.
What was a red-shirted crewman likely to die from, an on-board accident or beaming down to the planet? If you answered beaming down then ding-ding, you win.
The article is quite fascinating for its detail and obvious dedication, offering all kinds of great minutia for hardcore Trekkies, like:
Here are the statistics:
Red Shirt Death episodes = 18
Episodes with fights = 55
Probability of a fight breaking out = 70%
Kirk "conquest" episodes = 24
Kirk "conquest" + fights = 16
Kirk "conquest" + red shirt casualty= 4
Red shirt death + fight + Kirk "conquest" = 3
Head on over to ClickTracks for the full, mind-blowing analysis.
FILED UNDER: News, Free Stuff. TV.
The recently launched Hulu.com, a joint-venture between FOX, NBC, MGM, Sony Pictures Television, Warner Bros., Lionsgate and others, isn't wasting any time attracting attention, evidenced by today's arrival of all three seasons of Arrested Development.
The video is high-quality and everything is wrapped in a no muss, no fuss interface, which is always welcome. Hulu is kind of growing on me, if for no other reason than it doesn't come across as cheap, corporate shilling. Instead, it has an ever-growing library of good content. Hard to argue with that.
Need some Arrested Development while you pretend to work? Head here.
Personally, I prefer Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, which can be found here.
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