Category: Music
FROM REC.TV.ARTS
ABC Nabs Comedy With Wilmer Valderrama
By NELLIE ANDREEVA
EXCLUSIVE: A comedy starring Wilmer Valderrama has landed at ABC.
American Dad co-executive producers Murray and Judah Miller created
the project, a live-action comedy with a musical component. They will
write the script and serve as showrunners. Saturday Night Live writer
Akiva Schaffer, who directs, co-writes and edits the majority of the
late-night sketch show’s digital shorts, developed the untitled comedy
with the Miller brothers and is on board to direct the potential
pilot. Valderrama, Murray Miller, Judah Miller and Schaffer will all
executive produce. 20th Century Fox TV, where Valderrama is under a
talent holding deal, is producing the project, which has landed a
script commitment plus penalty.
That ’70s Show alum Valderrama has 3 upcoming films: From Prada To
Nada, Tom Hanks Larry Crowne and the Spike Lee-produced The Girl Is
In Trouble. On the feature side, Schaffer has The Adventurer’s
Handbook in development at Universal with Jonah Hill and Working
Title, and Henchmen at MRC with Bill Hader, which Shawn Levy is
producing. Valderrama, the Millers and Schaffer and are repped by UTA.
Schaffer is managed by Mosaic.
So it seems the fine fellows over at 4chan are at it again and took down the MPAA site over the weekend. While I sympathize with anon (and do much enjoy the Guy Fawkes masks) I’m not sure that this is the best approach to take. Poking the hornet’s nest is often a really good way to get them angry and yourself stung. The problem here is that while those that make up anonymous may not feel the sting themselves it might rile the MPAA enough to keep up the current lawsuit and technology DRM vector they’re on. Certainly the Betamax fair use decision continues to be whittled down and the MPAA should let people use their purchased films however they see fit, but legal maneuvers need to be taken. If you share this perspective it’s likely more effective to support the EFF instead of trying to take down the MPAA site, amusing though it may be. There’s also a small discussion about this going on in rec.arts.movies.current-films, feel free to jump in and continue the conversation.
Found an article link in misc.writing.screenplays.moderated of Joaquin Phoenix being a crazy rap star is all fake! Whaaaaaat? He spent 2 years of his life acting for this mockumentary? Casey Affleck is the director of his new film “I’m Still Here” that came out in theatres last week and said it was his best performance yet. Seriously? I haven’t seen the film yet, but I have seen the trailer and I’m just not interested. I was really disappointed to what Joaquin Phoenix become of, but I come to find out it was all fake. I’m sure he dooped hundreds of people like me thinking he became a total retard. Even the interview on David Letterman’s show was all a fake!
CASEY AFFLECK wants to come clean.
His new movie, “I’m Still Here,” was performance. Almost every bit of it. Including Joaquin Phoenix’s disturbing appearance on David Letterman’s late-night show in 2009, Mr. Affleck said in a candid interview at a cafe here on Thursday morning.
“It’s a terrific performance, it’s the performance of his career,” Mr. Affleck said. He was speaking of Mr. Phoenix’s two-year portrayal of himself — on screen and off — as a bearded, drug-addled aspiring rap star, who, as Mr. Affleck tells it, put his professional life on the line to star in a bit of “gonzo filmmaking” modeled on the reality-bending journalism of Hunter S. Thompson.
2 years of straight acting? I don’t believe it! Joaquin Phoenix is schedule to appear on the Late Show with David Letterman next week (Sept. 22nd). I can’t wait to see how that turns out, but what’s to say if him acting normal is going to be all real?
Click here to read the full article.
Are you like me and don’t like it when apple app developers try to be funny or cute and try to change things that are standardized and working fantastically well in the first place? If so then try this little gem to correct the discombobulated minimize, maximize and close window buttons in iTunes10 – Guys if it works let it alone…Cheers!
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This is from Mac OS X Hints:
iTunes 10 provides a different layout for the Close, Minimize and Maximize
buttons. Instead of being ordered horizontally, in iTunes 10 they’re
arranged vertically, like a traffic light.
Reverting the buttons to a horizontal layout can easily be done. With
iTunes not running, open Terminal and enter the following code:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1
To restore the vertical layout, simply use this command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -0
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alt.celebrities.gossip – “Pope Having Trouble Selling Tickets, Despite Special Rap Song”
http://gawker.com/5637344/pope-having-trouble-selling-tickets-despite-special-rap-song
Pope Benedict XVI is having trouble giving away tickets to the events he’s presiding over during his visit to Britain. Even though he has a special rap track for the occasion!
According to The Independent, Catholic organizers are scrambling to give away the 400,000 tickets that have been allocated for open-air masses in Glasgow, London and Birmingham. Why? According to Catholic officials, it’s “administration problems,” of course!
Yes, it must be administrative problems, and not, say, that the events cost between five and 25 pounds to attend. After all, those aren’t entrance fees! No, no, according to Peter Jennings, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Birmingham, they’re “contributions.” See, attendees are “not paying to go to mass, which is free–-the £25 contribution is for the cost of travel and the travel arrangements.” Jeez, why isn’t anyone going to this free mass?
And it certainly has nothing to do with the fact that Benedict was one of several clerics involved in a massive institutional coverup of childhood sex abuse. No, it’s definitely “administration problems.”
The real tragedy? The Pope had his own personal rap theme for this visit! (He also got his own personal plaid pattern.) The song is called “Heart’s Cry” and it’s by a band called Ooberfüse. They “sample” him! Listen here: http://soundcloud.com/360degreemusic/ooberfuse-hearts-cry/s-rMS5V
So the event is over (Chris Martin from Coldplay? someone stab a pencil in my ear please), and tons of cool stuff has come out of it: iOS 4.2, HDR pix, Game Center, Apple TV, new music devices, Ping, and a new iTunes. Lets break these down one by one.
iOS4.2 – iPad connectivity. Great for you iPad users all about accessing the content. The printing stuff is nice (although I hate actually printing anything nowadays), but the multitasking and folders are where it’s at. They make life easier for me on the iPhone and will for you iPad users.
HDR pictures – first off if you’re unsure about what an HDR pic is, it’s basically three pictures, one with highlights, shadows, and midranges and it combines them into picures that have a greater range of color. It’s about time, better looking pix with details that pop. Good for you Flickr and Facebook posters, but even better for people who actually print them out on photo paper (yes people still do that from time to time).
Game Center – and the iPhone continues to forge ahead in the mobile gaming world. Project Sword, the Unreal engine on the phone, and oh yea things are looking good for iPhone gamers. Plus I like the fact that there will be one spot to see leader boards instead of all the competing networks like Open Feint, Crystal, and Plus+.
Apple TV – this one just makes sense. I don’t know about you but given recent news about cable subscription rates falling and from friends and family I know considering going the streaming movies and TV shows route it makes sense. Netflix is available on this and it can stream from your main computer not to mention the TV show and movie rentals it can do. I wish there was some free content available via iTunes but I’m sure that’ll get worked out one way or another.
Ping/iTunes 10 – you can’t really separate these from one another. iTunes by itself got a new logo and a slightly revamped view, not bad but no biggie itself. The real news is Ping. According to Apple “It’s like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes. It’s all about music.” On initial glance Ping looks to be one of the rare cases where social networking can be 1) done right 2) adds value to the end user and 3) has a direct commercial tie in. It would be pretty cool to find people with similar taste in music to myself and to see what they’re listening to. It can be another great way to find music beyond Pandora (currently digging The Polish Ambassador whom I found on Pandora). I’m interested to see how it actually works.
New music devices – ehhh ok so I’m not quite so gung-ho on these. I mean ok they’re pretty cool looking and the Nano and Shuffle will probably make great stocking stuffers, but this is a declining market. As more people go with an iPhone or iPad there is little reason to deal with a secondary music device. I did the switch from one to the other two years back when I got my iPhone 3G, and forgot all about my iPod.
My faves from this event are: Ping and the HDR pictures. I only leave Apple TV out because with 3 small kiddos dropping my cable is out of the question. A loss of Team Umizoomi, Caillou, and Scooby Doo could lead to a full scale revolt, and trust me you don’t want an angry 4 yr. old to have a burning torch inside your home. For more thoughts on this you can always check out the Apple discussions going on at: misc.phone.mobile.iphone.
~ Zaaa
