SFist (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Head of the SF Film Commission Stephanie Coyote -- who makes $132,000 a year to lure film companies to shoot their movies in our fair city -- got wacked fired yesterday. While Gavin may cite the fact that Coyote wasn't doing her job as well as she could, we (and Matier & Ross ) suspect there was a little more to the surprise firing. Coyote is the wife of actor Peter Coyote, who came out vocally...
The Modern Left (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Peter Coyote is probably best known today for his film acting as well as his narration of various documentaries and nature programs. You might remember him as "keys" in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial or possibly from his narration of the program The National Parks: America's Best Idea . Over the years, Coyote has amassed over 100 film roles . What is less widely known is that Peter Coyote led...
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"For the benefit and enjoyment of the people." - President Theodore Roosevelt Renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has been producing and directing films for nearly thirty years and is most recognized for his...
The Music Snob (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
There are two documentary films available about American Folk legend Woody Guthrie. The first released in 2005 is called Woody Guthrie: This Machine Kills Fascists. The other is a PBS documentary from the American Masters series that was released in 2007 called Woody Guthrie – Ain’t Got No Home. Both films are pretty similar, obviously sharing [...]
Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
A well-made, important documentary that asks tough questions and refuses to flinch in the face of tougher answers.
Dan's Media Digest (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
[SPOILERS] Bad title aside, this was a marked improvement for the beleaguered series. Pertinent questions were asked, new relationships were revealed, the investigation took a notable step forward, the melodrama was excised, and an imperative threat was unleashed. It still had some problems (like the fact Joseph Fiennes sleepwalks through his scenes), but "Gimme Some Truth" was a decent hour...
adfreak (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Let's break down MoveOn's "Track Meet" commercial in terms we can all understand.
History is made at night (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
San Francisco Chronicle reports the death of Lenore Kandel, belly dancer, beat poet , Digger and radical: 'Lenore Kandel hung out with Beat poets and was immortalized by Jack Kerouac, wrote a book of love poetry banned as obscene and seized by police, and believed in communal living, anarchic street theater, belly dancing, and all things beautiful... "I met Lenore in 1965 at a citywide meeting...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
This week, the agents go to Washington to testify before a closed session of the Senate Intelligence Committee in order to justify the funding for their Mosaic project. You see, just like in the real Senate, FlashForward ’s senators will, even in the face of an unprecedented national crisis, just hold contentious hearings and bitch about where all the money's going, all the while approving trillions...
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Episode Title: "Gimme Some Truth" Written by: Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin The Story: The Mosaic Team — including Agents Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes), Demetri Noh (John Cho) and Stanford Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance) — heads to Washington, D.C. to speak before Congress about their investigation into the blackouts and resulting flash-forwards, culminating in difficult choices...
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
(S01E05) FlashForward took us to Washington, DC to see the political ramifications of the blackouts, as well as some of the maneuverings that the city is made of, at least in this reality. Also in this reality, Peter Coyote is President. I've always liked him, and I like how he plays the characters as a very regular and relatable guy. We were introduced to a new character in Senator Joyce Clemente...
To God and my country (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
I don't understand why people are attacking Heather Graham for being in an ad supporting the public option. She has a right to support her beliefs as does Peter Coyote who narrates the ad. She's wrong, in my opinion, but it doesn't make sense to me to use attack her for appearing in the ad. It strikes me as the same kind of rhetoric the left uses to attack a person's cause by belittling the person,...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Raid proof that Bush administration's 'cowboy diplomacy' a failure, House Rep. says An October, 2008, US military raid inside Syria that killed seven civilians may not have eliminated a senior al Qaeda operative as anonymous Pentagon sources claimed at the time, says a new investigative report. On October 26 of last year, a squadron of US military [...]
SyriaComment (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
The Murders at al-Sukariya On October 26, 2008, U.S. helicopters stormed a farm near the Iraq-Syria border in order to assassinate leading al-Qaeda operative Abu Ghadiya. One year later, the authors report from Syria that the raid may have been botched, and the lives of seven innocent civilians were mistakenly taken instead. By Reese Erlich and Peter [...]
Duncan's TV Ad Land (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Progressive politics pressure group Moveon.org has enlisted comedy actress Heather Graham to campaign for the public option in the United States health system. Lined up against fit and trim Graham are overweight representatives of CIGNA, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, United Health and Humana. Graham stretches on the pavement while her opponents eat up large. When the gun [...] © 2009 The Inspiration...
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