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Post by Roberta on May 16, 2010 10:06:42 GMT -8
Turns out at 9:45 last night I was driving to the Pasadena Laemmle to watch "Exit Through The Gift Shop", a visually delightful look at street art worldwide, and also a fascinating story of a fairly nutty, would-be documentarian of the movement. Due to my impromptu need for a movie fix, I forgot all about looking at the sky.
Tomorrow (Monday) at 4pm there will be an appearance of a beautiful peace banner rising up over Honolulu and Oceanview!
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Post by anni on May 16, 2010 19:52:19 GMT -8
'Broadcast News'
Albert Brooks - I think I'd better be alone, for awhile.
Robert Prosky - OK. I'll go with you.
Albert Brooks - Thanks.
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Post by Brian on Nov 9, 2010 0:30:28 GMT -8
I miss the political ads. Not just because their production values were usually better than the commercials that have returned, like those for the Sham-wow and the Mathis Brothers. Since most of the $4 billion raised this election was spent on television, you could trace the fortunes of all the candidates and the nonprofits as they revealed their not-so-high aspirations alongside their deepest fears. Through the ads I could read the minds of the best consultants money can buy and hear every chorus of their focus groups.
This election was a very effective stimulus for printers and pizza delivery guys, but most of all for television station owners, who now have to let their time go at cheaper rates while waiting for Christmas. The biggest losers were the newspapers, which got few ads but were charged with making sense of what was happening both on and off the screen.
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Post by Brian on Dec 15, 2010 0:25:59 GMT -8
After years of flipping away from "Larry King Live" because he was either exploiting some crime story, moderating a political roundtable badly or stretching someone's 15 minutes of fame into a full hour, I have to admit that I welcomed Larry's retirement from CNN. But he's closing strongly with some familiar faces -- his interviews of Bill Maher, Michael Moore, Al Pacino and the Judds, for instance, might have been the best ones he's ever done with them. Thursday night he's got Barbra Streisand.
I discovered Larry on the Mutual Radio Network in 1980, when the first of many Los Angeles AM stations picked up his show, which started at midnight in Washington, D.C. and ran five and a half hours. I was a 21-year-old night person and Larry was nearly the age I am now, chain smoking all night, taking unscreened phone calls and talking to almost everybody who lived in or passed through our nation's capital, even R. Buckminster Fuller the year before he died. The funniest radio shows ever broadcast were Larry's remotes with Albert Brooks at the Century Plaza and Sheraton Universal, and I can prove it. I have a box full of cassettes I recorded during that decade, the Golden Age of talk radio.
If I miss Larry, I can always dig into that box. Or just hang out at Nate 'N Al's in Beverly Hills for breakfast.
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Post by Roberta on Feb 8, 2011 19:49:18 GMT -8
Please vote to like by Feb. 13, some kind of "contest". And excuse this shameless promotion, for a friend's husband.
But I think the newsprint junkies here may appreciate it for itself.
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Post by anni on Feb 9, 2011 11:45:58 GMT -8
My IP is very log jammed this AM, but I am more stubborn than the Internets and I will prevail and watch this movie from beginning to end. I've voted for it sight unseen (well watched the first 1.14 minutes over 3 times), love the music, too! Thanks, Roberta!
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Post by Brian on Feb 23, 2011 0:55:03 GMT -8
Back in the '90's -- when I had more testosterone and my sense of outrage hadn't yet been dulled by the Bush Administration -- I used to scream at the television when the local news came on. My standards must have lowered as well, because broadcast news certainly hasn't gotten better.
I'm not talking about reporters like Beverly White on Channel 4, obviously a serious TV journalist. I mean the ad libbing idiots standing in live shots where news had been made hours earlier, mangling the names of cities and other basic facts. After the incongruous stand ups, there's the viral You Tube video of the day followed by a naked ad for a local business disguised as reportage.
Still, I watch to learn tidbits like this: the snow level of Saturday's predicted storm might be 1000 feet.
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Post by Brian on Aug 14, 2011 0:15:16 GMT -8
We got an e-mail today from Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace website -- this one hour, ten minute documentary on the Montreal Bed In is available to watch only until 9 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday, August 14: imaginepeace.com/archives/15702 I hope that every member of Montrose Peace Vigil gets a chance to see the documentary before it's gone. John and Yoko's advertisement for peace lit up my 11 year old brain in May 1969. A lot of the footage they shot at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel has shown up over the past four decades, but this particular video is 90 percent new to me, especially the segments with the brilliant Dick Gregory and former Tujungan Tommy Smothers. Tommy thinks wishing for peace is hopeless -- it's as if you're 800 miles from land yet you have to swim toward it anyway. John replies that you always have to hope and believe that your continued action will lead to salvation, even unforeseen help: "Believe in porpoise," John advises Tommy. The Bag Productions copyright says 1969, but this appears to be a recent edit. Yoko also mixes in music from eight months later, with "Instant Karma" and her B-side, "Who Has Seen the Wind?" Watch for footage from John and Yoko's missing weeks in Denmark from early 1970 at the end. Modified to add: Yoko has extended the free screening until 9 p.m. Pacific time on August 21.
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Post by Jeanne on Aug 14, 2011 19:21:35 GMT -8
Wow. Spread the word like butter.
She has extended the deadline another week.
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Post by anni on Aug 15, 2011 17:42:39 GMT -8
And this just in from Nancy @ Brian:
Date: Monday, August 15, 2011, 11:47 AM
Thanks Brian. So great! Up late after $8 worth of Coffee at the Commerce Cafe with my lap top & the ear phones the owner lent me. I educated him on the event that happened before he was born & he had kind of heard about it. Such a trip all these years later. You & Anni the greatest - along with Roberta of course & - while I'm on the subject - all you vigil people. Maybe war will be over in our lifetime. Ya never know with the 100th monkey way of it all. Imagine.... Can't thank you enough - for everything! Love, Nancy
Guess she didn't know what a big deal it is right here on the MPV message board! DUH?
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