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Harry Knowles broke embargo on Clone Wars , then pulled it down. Defamer escalated it into a "cease and desist" directly from George Lucas himself. Drew/Moriarty wrote in an AICN talkback : Harry took his CLONE WARS review down at the request of Lucasfilm, who have chosen to enforce an embargo...
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I have to admit, I am losing interest even in mocking the new anti-blog bloggers from Variety and The LA Times. We have heard from neither writer since Friday’s 4 pieces between them. Two pieces the inevitable responses to Bernie Brillstein’s passing. One odd “open letter” to the presidential candidates...
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Someone at the LA Times clearly thinks that grossly misleading headlines are okay. Today's head-scratcher is on John Horn's piece " Wednesday is the new Friday in movie releases ." Do I have problem with the LAT or anyone else noticing that there is a sudden run of Wednesday releases...
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(Actually, Variety changed its urls today... not wure why and why the old ones didn't simply follow to the new addresses... but here is where Peter is now ... he did a whole entry today after taking 3 days off!!!
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Oy... this is what I get for watching The View. The ladies spent 5 minutes discussing how the Western Wall prayer that was taken out of the wall and published in Israel was, according to the paper that published the presumably private document, Ma'ariv, pre-approved for publication by Obama even...
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Is it anything less than a dereliction of duty, whether it be Horn's choice or his editors' choice, to not even mention the worldwide box office success of Titanic, which really is what makes the box office landmark the equal of what “Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak is to baseball....
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I was planning on holding an update on The Pete-n-Pat Blog Show for a while. After all, we’re still waiting for either one of them to do something close to the “blogging” that led me to start an actual blog in addition to my once-daily-then-thrice-weekly-then-weekly-then-almost-never column. Bart has...
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I've been enjoying reading Luke Y Thompson's coverage of ComicCon for the LA Weekly . (Does anyone think Nikki has seen a single entry before Luke has posted them to the site? My guess is her first glimpse is to see it on the site and then to call and SCREAM at the LA Weekly web folks to tell...
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Why are journalists who know better talking about this idiotic Forbes value list as though it made sense? And then I realize… it’s late summer! Any crap flies as news about now! I mean, seriously. I have never read anything quite as random and profoundly irrelevant. The list purports to actually say...
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Two things that has stuck out for me in the Ebert Show exit coverage. First, there is very little discussion taking into account that Roger has now been off the air for two years. His exit from the show, given his physical limitations (specifically his lack of voice), has been a reality for a while....
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Disney, apparently stuck with 2 years to go on syndication contracts and dreaming the dream that their systematic destruction of The Ebert Show - starting with the choice of Roeper, but getting much much worse with the dumbing down of the show with less actual discussion of the films and narrowing of...
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I learned back when I was involved in a minor way in the life of Ebert On TV, that everything happens in June and July for that show. That’s when the decisions for the year to come are made, course is charted, and focus is set. But even before I got there, just after Gene Siskel had passed away, things...
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After 33 years on the air, 23 of them with Disney, the studio has decided to take the program named "Siskel & Ebert" and then "Ebert & Roeper" in a new direction. I will no longer be associated with it. The show was a wonderful experience. It was a great loss to me when surgery...
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Just another reminder of the games people play with press release news... At 9:35a this morning, Michael Fleming ran the news that Mike Vollman was heading over to UA/MGM and exiting Paramount. Ink isn't dry on the deal, but indeed, the town gossip mill has been on notice that this was happening...