Tag Archives: Video

Revisiting the 1967 drive-in horror pic, She Freak. . .

The Bush and Kerry campaigns are sending out videos as email attachments directly to their supporters: President Bush and Democratic front-runner John Kerry are engaged in a high-tech political showdown that combines the targeting power of direct mail with the glossy appearance of a television commercial. The format is a …

I hadn’t heard of the Baftas before, but I’m striving for internationalism. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was the big winner: The film won five awards including best film, but the best director prize went to Master and Commander’s Peter Weir. Lost in Translation stars Scarlett …

I have honestly never heard of the “Baftas” (British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards), the British Oscars. I mean, I knew the British must have an Oscars, but I didn’t know what they were called, nor have I ever taken note of them. But I am trying to …

Conan O’Brien impugns the dignity of French-Canadians: Ottawa and the province of Ontario paid $760,000 to help O’Brien — who appears on the NBC television network — bring his show to Toronto for a week to boost the city’s profile after a deadly SARS outbreak last year. But the federal …

MTV executive says that Janet changed TV forever, in particular no more “live” live TV: Viewer outrage over singer Janet Jackson’s breast-baring Super Bowl stunt is forcing the U.S. television industry to change its live programming, music channel MTV said Friday. “The artist sometimes can be unpredictable, which is difficult …

I love the ambiguity of the ending of The Graduate: Dustin Hoffman stops Katherine Ross’s wedding, “rescues” her and they escape on a bus. But instead of unbridled joy and the prospect of a “happily ever after,” once the bus takes off and they are on their way Hoffman and …

Dennis Kucinich is not going to win the Democratic nomination for president, although he HAS convinced around 1% of the voting Democrats that he’s their man. Perhaps his campaign should not be considered a “failure” however, as how else would such a rodential-looking middle-aged fellow from Cleveland snag a date …

Yesterday’s Senate and House broadcast indecency hearings saw the usual grandstanding and puffery, but the problem is real: At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., urged cable and satellite companies to offer viewers the ability to pick individual channels for purchase, blocking out violence, sex and profanity. …

The Oscars are imposing a five-second delay for the first time, the Grammys had a five-minute delay, and the networks are scrutinizing their shows as they haven’t in years: As executives from Viacom Inc. and the NFL head to Washington today to answer questions about sex and profanity on TV, …