It's been a few years. I used to sit in bed watching Community Access TV Saturday morning.The Community Access TV station was in the back of a local high school--the one where all the rich kids go--so I would sit and watch the show the high school kids produced. It was short videos made as assignments for their video class.In one episode, some kids made a short documentary about their friend taking a tennis class. They filmed him playing tennis. He kept missing the ball. He'd go pick it up. He'd miss it again. They interviewed the teacher."What is ______'s greatest strength as a tennis player?"...
Tony Danza, Sarah Palin, Levi Johnston
I shouldn't admit this. I saw some of Teach, Tony Danza's reality show. I stumbled upon the last few minutes of the episode.Tony Danza walks down the hall. Waiting outside the office stands a lovely girl with a black eye. She had gotten into a fight. He tells her that he was on a show called Who's The Boss and there was an episode where he has to move because his daughter got into a fight.Later, the lady vice principal was picking on a child for wearing the wrong color shoes with his school uniform, so the kid cleverly handed her a dog biscuit. The rest of the staff grudgingly admires the youngster,...
Sarah Palin, Reality TV
Sarah Palin has a reality TV show.I just saw Chris Matthews argue it was a smart move on her part."RONALD REAGAN WAS ON DEATH VALLEY DAYS," he said. He was speaking normally, but it was as if a normal person were shouting.So far, I haven't heard of reality television being anyone's ticket to success.There was Danny Bonaduce's reality show. Shirley Jones called him and asked him what he was doing."Shirley, it's a paycheck," he said."It's the last paycheck you'll ever get," she told him.Balloon Boy's fatherWould-be reality TV star Richard Heene is marketing a back scratching device. It's sort of...
Nothing Wrong With Rich Becoming Richer
Politicians always say that the cause of poverty in the Philippines is the rich are becoming richer. I don't get it. What's wrong with that? Common sense tells me that the rich has more probability of becoming richer because they have the guts and the money to invest on businesses with high probability of huge returns.Take for example a middle-class man having an idea for a business. If he had pursued that idea, he would have became a millionaire. But he did not pursue it, because of the 20% risk of it not working. But take this scenario and place a upper-class man with the same idea. He would...
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Juan Williams stinks
Good riddance to bad rubbishFrom Stan Cox:http://www.counterpunch.org/cox10222010.html:NPR should have fired Juan Williams not last Wednesday but nine years ago. The cause for dismissal should have been this radio commentary that I recall hearing him deliver as I was driving through Salina, Kansas on September 14, 2001:He said in part,“This week, Neil Livingston[e], an anti-terrorism expert, told me there is only one meaningful response to terrorism. That is to absolutely extinguish the terrorist. That means using nuclear weapons on terrorists in any country that harbors them . . . Despite my...
Pinoys Are Social Network Addicts
The Philippines ranks at fifth as the "most engaged social networking audience" in the world, according to the latest study on global social network usage by Internet marketing research firm ComScore.com.The study covered the usage habits of various countries and encompassed a broad range of social networking sites. According to the study, Filipinos are the fifth heaviest users of social neworks in the world, with Pinoys spending an average of 6.2 hours logged in. In contrast, the worldwide average is just 4.5 hours. These figures might be higher considering that the study did not include Internet...
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Bionic Heart
Verna, now 78, has a failing heart, for a last attempt, doctors decided to implant an experimental, battery-powered mechanical heart pump known as a Left Ventricular Assist Device, or LVAD, into a cavity in her abdomen to assist her heart in pumping.The device, called HeartMate II and made by Thoratec Corp, was approved by U.S. health regulators in 2008 for the purpose of keeping patients alive while they waited for a heart transplant. But in January, it was approved for permanent use in patients who are ineligible for a transplant.To stay alive, patients must be connected to a lead called a drive-line...
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Man With High-Tech Robot Arm Dies After Car Crash
Christian Kandlbauer had lost both his arms in an accident after climbing up a utility pole and getting shocked by touching a power line in September 2005. I know, who would touch a power line? But he did. Luckily he was given a second chance. With the help of a high-tech, mind-controlled robotic limb, he was able to regain almost every vital movements an independent individual should have. He even got a driver's license.Now the 22-year-old has died of injuries suffered from a car accident. His car veered off the road and hit a tree. The cause of the crash is still unknown and if the robotic arm...
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Randy Quaid
What the hell's wrong with Randy Quaid?He seemed like a rather appealing actor. Now he and his wife are a couple of nuts. They've made a hobby out of running up massive hotel bills--five or ten thousand dollars or more--and running out without paying. Most recently they were arrested for breaking into and living in the guest house of a home they sold several years ago. They allegedly cause $5,000 in damage, then they missed their court date. They were arrested in Canada. During their arraignment before the immigration board, they wrote a note which their lawyer read to the cameras: “Yes,...
Dustin Diamond once again
I saw that Dustin Diamond and Andy Dick are the big stars in a low budget movie, Tetherball, being made in Michigan. I'm all for movie production outside of Hollywood. But----why is Dustin Diamond in it?If straight-to-video movies had existed in the 1970s, maybe the cast from The Brady Bunch would have had more of a career. I remember seeing Greg Brady in a Shasta commercial. "What are we drinking, m'lord," he said in an English accent.Barry Williams 1977 Shasta commercialOf course, Jan Brady went on to play a teenage runaway in a made-for-TV movie. In one scene, she talks with a prostitute who...
It turns out Casablanca stunk. And something about Woody Allen
Okay, so, you have this movie, Casablanca. A "classic".It turns out to be a myth that Ronald Reagan was once slated to star in it, but even if it were true, so what.John Baxter, in his excellent biography of Woody Allen, pointed out that it was only after Allen's Play It Again, Sam that Casablanca started appearing on lists of the "ten greatest movies of all time."I've never been able to sit through the thing.I felt somewhat vindicated by this article by David Macaray which appeared on the Counterpunch website:http://www.counterpunch.org/macaray07172009.html...for all the adoration and praise...
3 minute scenes
So is this true, that TV shows are supposed to be a series of three-minute scenes?I found it on a website that had advice on how to write a script. Three minute scenes.I saw a guy on TV. He worked on the show Baywatch in some capacity and wrote the script to one episode. People were impressed by this, but he said, "It's just a series of three minute scenes. I can write a three minute scene."So early one morning, I turned on TVLand."What the---" I said.An episode of Hunter, the old Reagan-era cop show, was on. All the scenes were almost exactly 90 seconds long."Maybe this three minute thing was...
Are Makati's Smoke-Belching Checkpoints Legal?
Makati ASBU and its officers are full of crap. They have preferences when they apprehend vehicles on their Smoke-Belching check points. They flag down only diesel vehicles, specially delivery aluminum closed vans, L-300s, L-200s. I know this is because delivery vans are the most likely offenders. But don't you think its unfair? They are unfair in so many ways.They are bias and don't dare flag down Pajeros, Patrols (Maybe the driver's politician), PUJs and PUBs (Most likely paid them). The people administering the emission tests are not even qualified. They push the pedal to quickly, which...
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Juan Williams, NPR
I don't know what Juan Williams was doing on NPR in the first place.Not that NPR is so great.Good riddance to him.http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09030/945699-153....
Watch Willow Smith | Whip My Hair Video
The daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith has dropped her first music video for the insanely catchy "Whip My Hair" – and it's a high energy production that leaves little doubt that this little precocious new artist is the real deal.Nine years old is a good age to start a music career. This girl has the "It Factor!" "Whip My Hair" seems destined to become the pre-teen anthem of the year... Can't wait to see what she comes out with next. Check out the video:...
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Bus Number Coding to be Reimplemented, Odd-Even Scheme Rejected
In 2004, former President Gloria Arroyo ordered the removal of city buses from the number-coding scheme, which was introduced in 1995. Now, coding is set to be reapplied to buses on Edsa and other major roads in the National Capital Region, according to the Metro Manila Development Authority(MMDA). Which is a great news for us motorists. Starting on November 15, public utility buses in Metro Manila will have to comply with a number coding schemeThe mayors who form the Metro Manila Council agreed to implement the Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP) or Number Coding on an "experimental...
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Philippines Sets New World Record for Mentos Soda Geyser/Fountain
The Philippines has broken the world record for the most soda fountains/geysers. The previous record by Mexico is 2,433 soda fountains.The Philippines now holds the world record and produced exactly 2,856 soda geysers simultaneously. The 2,856 participants are mostly students from Rizal Technical University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Adamson University, University of the Philippines, Jose Rizal University andcompany employees of Benby, Coca-cola and Perfetti Van Melle took part in record-breaking event at the SM Mall of Asia in Pasay City. There was also appearances of Internet...
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Bail set for Michael Enright
The judge has set bail for Michel Enright, the drunken racist film school student who tried to murder a New York City cab driver because he was Muslim.Bail has been set at half a million dollars, so the guy may not get out of jail anyway.Enright had returned from Afghanistan where he was making a documentary about U.S. troops.His lawyer is planning to argue that he has post-traumatic stress disorder. But when he was arrested, he carried a notebook describing his experiences in Afghanistan which, prosectors argued, show that he didn't witness combat or anything else that was likely to cause PTSD.The...
One more thing about Bell Diamond
"... with a story developed by the filmmaker and cast and completely improvised, the film deals with characters who are neither articulate nor particularly attractive, but pays them the kind of respect and attention that they would never receive from other quarters. Visually Jost's most impressive work to date. The impact of the film's original form of realism arrives only gradually, but once it registers, it becomes indelible." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader "Among the ten best of the year. Formally exquisite and politically...
Ryan Reynolds, Fifteen
There's this actor named Ryan Reynolds. I guess he's been in a lot of things lately. But the only thing I've seen him in was Fifteen, a "teenage soap opera" on Nickelodeon. I don't know who it was aimed at. It was the least operatic soap opera I've seen. It was just terrible. A weekly series. Like Saved By The Bell but without all that high brow gobbledygook.The episode that stands out in my mind is the one where one of the kids has to go to a treatment center because he's an alcoholic. We know he's an alcoholic because he tells his friends that he's going to a treatment center because he's an...
Cartman, South Park, The Big Valley, TV violence
I'm watching the NASCAR episode of South Park.How many people has Cartman killed on this show?Years ago, my friends and I started watching old episodes of The Big Valley which came on every night. Maybe if we had watched it every week as originally intended it wouldn't have bothered me, but the show was about this wealthy, respectable family---Miss Barbara Stanwyck was supposed to be so stinkin' high class. But she was completely untroubled that her sons carried guns everywhere they went and kept killing people. The killings were all justifiable, but you'd think she'd be somewhat troubled...
Some movies I'd like to see
These are some things I've read about over the years that I'd like to see.Silent movies made for Chinese-American audiences in the 1950sThere was someone who reported in the 1950's that, in Chinatown in San Francisco, there were locally produced silent movies in 16mm color being shown to local audiences. That's all I know about them. I haven't read anything about them anywhere else.Pre-1970 silent Siamese moviesAs I understand it, Thailand's capacity to produce sound movies was wiped out in the war. Francois Truffaut mentioned this to Alfred Hitchcock---that, in Thailand, theaters would show movies...
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Miley Cyrus was spotted at Toluca Lake
Miley Cyrus was spotted out and about in California on Friday (October 9th). The Can’t be Tamed hottie showed off some longer locks as she ran some errands in Toluca Lake dressed in some cut-off shorts and moccasin boots.Miley has also just released a new music video for her song Who Owns My Heart. Be sure to take a look!Tags:Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus Gossips, Miley Cyrus images, Miley Cyrus news, Miley Cyrus Pics, Miley Cyrus wallpapers, Miley Cyrus Toluca lake,Mily Cyrus Whot owns my hea...
Jon Jost, Bell Diamond, again
I found a review of Bell Diamond on the New York Times website.From the review by Vincent Canby: ...''Bell Diamond,'' the newest film by Jon Jost, described by the New Directors/New Films festival program notes as ''probably this country's most unseen film maker,'' which is possible, though even that sounds like hyperbole. The notes also praise the film's ''democratic respect for the extraordinariness of the ordinary'' and calls it ''the most public and touching work of a profoundly political film maker.'' I report these appraisals as if I had a gun pointed at my head. Movies as earnestly...
The time I went to a filmmaking seminar with Jon Jost
Sherman's March, Bell DiamondI don't remember if it was the workshop or the seminar.In 1986, I attended the world premiere of Jon Jost's movie Bell Diamond at the University of Oregon. If I remember right, it was the first showing outside of the town where it was filmed. There had been a John Jost film festival. Every weekend for a few weeks, they showed Jon Jost movies. I hadn't been able to go to any. I just went to the last one.That was just a few days after I had seen the documentary, Sherman's March, at Cinema 7, the local art theater at the time. I had been reading a lot about movie-making...
Lea Michele of Glee Went Topless For British Marie Claire Magazine
"Glee" good girl Lea Michele shows a side of herself we've never seen before - the topless side - in the November issue of British Marie Claire magazine.Lea Michelle good girl look in Glee seems like the opposite in reality. The Glee star went topless for a photo shoot for Marie Claire Magazine, with tight pants, boots and only a tutu to cover her breasts."I was told by agents and casting directors I wasn't right for TV," she tells the mag. "I didn't feel that but I was told it and you believe it. I was always working on Broadway and auditioning for TV - things like 'Law & Order' - but there...
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Cebu Pacific Airlines Dancing Flight Attendants Goes Gaga
To all men out there, you don't need to imagine a sexy flight attendant dancing in front of you. Cebu Pacific, a Philippine Airline offers us passengers, dancing flight attendants! One of Lady Gaga's hit songs "Just Dance" serves as a background music for safety demonstration aboard some Cebu Pacific Air Flights. Several of the Philippine airline's flight attendants do the "safety dance" in choreographed moves in a YouTube video that has gone viral. (Video Below) They show you how to put on your seat belt, how to put on the oxygen mask if needed with amusing and arousing dance steps."The safety...
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