Stop Okay Go (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
++There was a great interview with Emergency author Neil Strauss on the Carson Daly Dark and Intimate Chatshow the other night. Strauss talked about how he will be releasing an anthology of the work he did for Rolling Stone magazine,...
MAYO PR (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The First Annual Noble Awards Event A Huge Success The event honored Morgan Freeman - Lifetime Achievement Award “It was a successful night, everyone who contributed and participated in the event came away with a warm feeling in their heart,” said Founder/Producer Janeen Mansour of The Noble Awards, held (Sunday, October 18 th ) at The Beverly Hilton. Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Does anyone ever stay dead on "24"? One of the real-time series' favorite villains, former President Charles Logan, is coming back for a multi-episode arc in the upcoming eighth season.
Tyee - Home (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Some job opportunities in the US you may have missed.
Dik's Gorilla Toss (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
So my second baseball related post will be videos of my favorite scenes/quotes in the classic baseball comedy "Major League"... you will notice most of the comedy I like in this film is driven by direct statements with a cuss word inserted, great formula! First up is Ricky Vaughn (Charlie Sheen) showing up to Spring Training, I love the delivery of that line. The sad thing is they cut Lou...
MAYO PR (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The First Annual Noble Awards Event A Huge Success The event honored Morgan Freeman - Lifetime Achievement Award “It was a successful night, everyone who contributed and participated in the event came away with a warm feeling in their heart,” said Founder/Producer Janeen Mansour of The Noble Awards, held (Sunday, October 18 th ) at The Beverly Hilton. Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
“The Unit” focuses on a clandestine group of highly-trained soldiers as they execute military missions all around the world. Those that gave the show a try in its first season might want to take another look. “The Unit” struggled early on to find a balance between the intense and compelling military missions (that made male [...]
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Exempted from antitrust laws in the early twentieth century, and often subsidized by public money, major-league baseball proved long ago to be highly profitable for team owners---who, the sportscaster and all-around smart thinker Bob Costas once remarked, “by and large, are soulless and incompetent.” As testimonial, there's the 1989 film Major League . Enjoy the clip, in Italian, no less....
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Reading the credits on The Unit drew serious saliva from quality-TV junkies: The Shield ’s Shawn Ryan and ace writer-director David Mamet co-created and exec-produced the four-season CBS drama about the Army’s elite Delta Force, and Dennis Haysbert, fresh from his turn on 24 , stars. But lofty expectations weren’t met: The Unit played out like an adult (or maybe young-adult) version...
Freedom Writing (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Today, if you fly into Dallas, you probably will arrive at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, which is the third–busiest airport in the world in aircraft movement and the seventh–busiest in passengers. With the exception of a few days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when commercial airlines were grounded, it is a rare experience for someone to scan the skies over Dallas and not...
1853 Chairman (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Allstate Said to Hire GM’s LaNeve as Chief Marketing Officer By Doron Levin and Jamie McGee Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) — Allstate Corp., the insurer that spent $364.6 million on advertising last year, hired General Motors Co.’s top U.S. sales executive as chief marketing officer, two people familiar with the matter said. Mark LaNeve will also hold [...]
Maya Reynolds (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Yesterday the FTC announced new changes to its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising . Yeah, with a title like that, it has to be a government publication. The Guides addresses "endorsements by consumers, experts, organizations, and celebrities, as well as the disclosure of important connections between advertisers and endorsers." If you aren't familiar...
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Covert Warriors. Unsung Heroes. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents all four adrenaline-fueled seasons of the Emmy®-nominated* hit series with “The Unit” Complete Giftset as a 19-disc DVD collection debuting September 29. “The Unit” Season Four will also be available the same day as a six-disc DVD and five-disk Blu-ray set. Starring Golden Globe®-nominee*...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
It's all over now, so perhaps it's the perfect time to catch up on The Unit , CBS' covert-ops drama starring Dennis Haysbert of 24 and insurance-commercials fame and Robert Patrick of Terminator 2 . Created by Shawn Ryan (of The Shield ) and David Mamet (who should need no introduction), The Unit tells the story of Delta Force, that elite squad that's sent around on secret missions around the globe--and...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Women's Impact Report '09: Agent's roster includes rising star Zoe Saldana -- When you represent a throng of young up-and-coming actors, you never know when things will snap, crackle and pop all at once.
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