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Scorsese, both Coppolas, Barry Levinson, Redford, Sam Raimi, Darabont, Altman, David Lynch, Spike Jonze, Cronenberg, the Coen Bros... It's virtually a who's-who of all the best filmmakers in Hollywood, and a mix of old greats and up-and-comers.

If those people decided to jump ship and form their own movie collective, they could. Easily. Hell, many of them ALREADY have their own production companies and\or studios. Sure the MPAA technically controls distribution - but do you see any of the huge theatre chains saying 'no' to the latest Redford or Scorsese flick? The Academy - which is a separate entity - refusing them entrance? I don't think so.

The fact that so many truly great directors (and writers) are on that list, I think, proves just HOW misguided Valenti is being. He and the studios see films as nothing more than Product - made as cheap as possible, peddled out to the brain dead masses. But the people who signed that list are the ones who *know* better. And if they ever decided to leave, they could, never look back, and the MPAA system would likely crumble in their wake. (I mean, really, who's the MPAA got left? Speilberg... Uh...)

The question is whether these directors would be willing to take that chance - and whether the studio heads even REALIZE the importance of visionary directors in their schemes anymore.

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... as it would seem the Indies aren't the only ones put out by the screener ban.

... as it would seem the Indies aren't the only ones put out by the screener ban.

Developed in the late 1950s, magnetic induction never really caught on

Gee, silly me, and I always thought Faraday developed "magnetic induction" and that it was in wide use.

I wonder what else was "developed" during the late 1950s? Gravity? Atoms? No doubt by the Americans who captured U-571 and won the Battle of Britain.

It was confirmed by Lynne Hale from Lucasfilm, actually. Here's an article I found about them being cut. The geeks didn't like it, apparently.

Possible "Star Wars Kid" cameo in SW3?
10:30 PM -- Friday July 25 2003

WCityMike writes "One of Lucasfilm's official webcams caught the Lucasfilm crew watching the infamous "Star Wars Kid" video (who, coincidentally, just filed suit against the bullies at school who posted the video to the 'Net). Fourteen minutes into the feed, the crew held up a sign that said, "We Love Ghyslain. You Rock!! Jedi Kid." A moment later, she held up a sign that said, "Ghyslain 4 Episode 3? C'est possible, non?" Wouldn't it be hilarious if something originally intended to humiliate the kid instead landed him the role of his dreams? (Hey, if Lucas filmed N*SYNC in Clones ... )

Run, don't walk, and see The Growing Pains Movie, today!

If you have mod points and would like to support Kirk Cameron, please moderate this post up.

Run, don't walk, and see The Growing Pains Movie, today!

If you have mod points and would like to support Kirk Cameron, please moderate this post up.

Over the years, BBC has gathered tons of live performances by everyone from Beatles to Rolling Stones to Pink Floyd to The Sisters of Mercy to Nirvana, most bootlegged to death, some never even broadcast.

As the archives are rehauled for putting online, some gems are sure to be discovered ("lost" footage of the archives comes up from time to time, this will be perfect time for it).

Live BBC sessions were started to be released officially (Led Zeppelin, Cream and others), but the releases in most cases are incomplete (for example, of the 275 songs Beatles performed for BBC only 52 were released on the 1994 "Live at the BBC" album).

I'm keeping my fingers no legal barriers will stop the music appearing online.

Andrius

Hey, if I was dropping off a $5million check in my Ferarri, I think I could put up with some loss of privacy.

I've watched some of this Celebrities Uncensored show, and I'll never get over how these fuckers feel violated in some way. They live a life of exceeding priveledge, giving back essentially nothing in return. Any one of them could be easily replaced (and there are plenty of losers waiting to pounce, should the opportunity arise). Don't go seeking to be famous, and then shun it once you get it. Take some responsibility.

Admittedly, John Carmack is quite a different case than Shannen Dougherty. He didn't necessarily seek fame. He's not excessively famous either, but I could see it getting to be a bit of a pain-in-the-ass for him. The same goes for Romero (although I think he enjoys fame more). I've never met either of them, but Romero and I have a friend in common, so I'm basing my opinions on what I've heard from that source.

Anyway, I'm rambling a bit... the point is, it might not be so great to have everyone peering into your life, but they've certainly been compensated for their discomfort. The same goes for Bill Gates, George Clooney, Princess Diana, and whoever else.

BTW: cross-dressing in public is a good sign that you're at least a flamboyant transvestite, if not actually a transsexual -- unless, of course, you're Trey Parker and Matt Stone spoofing Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow at the Oscars :)

Not to be like Spike Lee or anything, but I'm mildly annoyed by the use of the term "architecture" in regards to software design. For the most part, I can let it go, but damn, using it as a verb? With marketecture and tarchitecture?

I spent 5 years of my life to get an architecture degree, worked 3 years for firms, and yet I can't put my name anywhere near the word "architecture" until I get my license or I get popped for a section 5536 (Practice Without License or Holding Self Out as Architect).

I don't mind the geeks having it, just keep it away from the damn marketing droids.

helps to get the link right by not hitting the wrong button.

She also did some softcore porn while she was in college, I can't find the link right now but it was somewhere on E! online. If you have time look it up, they even had some pics (cencored). Suprising she was not all that hot but an interesting fact nonetheless.

Judging by their past experiences. Perhaps it would be in Wal-Mart's interest to strike up a deal with Clearplay or any of the other companies who get to decided what we should and should not see.

Mike

The only question is, where are we going to find a player of astronomical proportions?

Did you know that the "q" in qmail stands for "queer"??? That's SO cool!!!

Top results for one-letter google searches as of Sat May 17
a : Apple
b : B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the ...
c : CNET.com
d : D-Link Systems, Inc.
e : Welcome to E! Online
f : Welcome to F-Secure, Securing the Mobile Enterprise
g : G*Loomis
h : H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online
i : Yahoo!
j : J-???
k : KDE Homepage - Conquer your Desktop!
l : LEXPRESS.fr : l'info au quotidien. L'actualité économique, ...
m : 3M Worldwide
n : SBC Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer : Online Learning : ...
o : www.oreilly.com -- Welcome to O'Reilly & Associates -- computer ...
p : Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
q : Q4music.com - The World's Greatest Music Magazine Online
s : GNU's Not Unix! - the GNU Project and the Free Software ...
t : AT&T
u : The whatUseek Network
v : Welcome to Bobby WorldWide
w : Welcome to the White House
x : Netscape.com
y : Yahoo!
z : HealthAtoZ - Your Family Health Site

Please provide a source. According to E Online, the record for weekly sales is 1.7 million (by Eminem). How can he sell 7 million in 2 weeks if he can't even sell 2 million in 1 week?

Spiderman was a cool comic book because Marvel, not sony, not you, and not some amorphous, non corporate comic machine in the sky, paid cool artists, and cool writers, to produce a cool comic, which had to be printed on a cool press, and distributed nationwide.

Today's Marvel is so scandalous they'll even screw Stan Lee himself, the very same "cool writer" who invented half of the characters Marvel shareholders stand to profit from today. So, please -- before you start getting on your soapbox about people being too sanctimonious, make sure you know which company you're talking about first.

The only thing I could dig up on Al Jazeera in English right now is their marketing page:

http://www.aljazeera.net/e-marketing-eng/2002/5/5- 5-1.htm

Actually has some interesting numbers on their demographics and what not.

Does visiting the Al Jazeera site mean that I am put into a Homeland Defense Database or something?

Haha. I am Mexico...

oops. The doorbell just rang.....That had better be the Land Shark.

There's your official reason right there, and it's reasonable. If Warner released an expensive special edition now, it would push the standard Matrix DVD farther back on the shelves.

That doesn't work if it is 10 below zero outside, or you are old, or you are in a bad neighborhood (case in point: Bill Cosby's son), or you are on the New Jersey Turnpike...

It's stupid to not have a cell phone in your car.

curvy sorry for the guest

curvy (arguably)

curvy

NOT curvy (IMO, yours may vary - more power if they do).

The creative talent in Hollywood (please don't snicker) should find that the chance to make art they think is meaningful and appreciated by others is reward enough.

1. Contact chick on right
2. Extract Peroxide from hair
3. ???
4. Profit!!!

As a bonus, we'll throw in the smurf on the left

And they need women . Of course, they should have no problem, as earth girls are easy

what? I google'd it and found this article about a man in Maine who was found dead in his mobile home; apparently he almost killed King by running him down with a car. I wouldn't listen to that radio show anymore...... heh

Reading Gibson is something that drew me into computers when I was younger.

I wonder how many people saw that low budget '90s documentary Cyberpunk?

There's an amusing interview with Gibson, in which he describes writing Neuromancer on a typewriter, back when he had a vision of computers being these amazing, almost magical devices.

Shortly afterwards, he bought an Apple to write on. However, he took it back to the store because it made this weird grinding noise. That was the disk drive... working perfectly. :)

Gibson explained that he had a vision of disk drives as being some kind of spinning crystal mechanism. Certainly not a noisy, grinding electromagnet.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss :)

fexter
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Ashintaro: trance from Tokyo in 2043AD

Not to push celebrity gossip too much on Slashdot, but it probably has more to do with their divorce after he cheated on her than the script...

Good service, too: Here's a photo of a shipment being airlifted to Ralsky's home (with optional accessories).

Only the biggest trekkies will be at this release.

Planning on releasing the movie right inbetween the newest bond and the two towers (that preorder tickets go on sale tomorrow, btw).

It just seems like they shoulda tried to release it before "Die Another Day" to get higher opening day ticket sales, instead of battling the other two movies for income.

Last time my TV blast some uncomprehensible signal, my cat had nearly had a heart attack. For a while, I couldn't figure it out what was causing it!!

Finally, I just gave up watching this horrible show...

Now, my cat is on the road to recovery.

Try again, RETARD!

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has determined that deriding the mentally impaired is a form of hate speech and cannot be tolerated. Please stop sending your hatred over the Canadian border. Thanks you.

If there is a God, you will get a vasectomy or come out of the closet. I can't imagine a future filled with your progeny.

I'm a regular of the #farscape channel on irc.scifi.com, and it has been incredible. Here's a java chat link for the lazy. Random stars and makers of the show have been showing up there at least once a day, sometimes several visits throughout the day, to give encouragement to the fans. The channel grew to consistently hold hundreds of users, maxing out at 700 at a time. Here's a quick rundown of some of the news converage that we've gotten:

Its turning out to be a story not just about a bunch of SciFi geeks crying about a lost show, but a protest against corporations directing culture through actions they don't have to justify. I mean, they killed their #2 show after having already made the commitment to the year. I don't consider myself the protesting type, especially over a TV show... but I wrote a letter, linked to it from my site and sent a few emails because I think the people who make and watch the show aren't out of line to demand what was promised to them.

Mostly he was inspired by The Killer Savages, a book about the Battle of Gettysburg. [See his scifi.com interview.]

I doubt he took much from OLS. He's probably never seen it. He's said in interviews that he doesn't watch TV (because he's to busy making it) [See here for the quote. (Bottom of the page.)]

It has also been suggested that he took from Farscape and Andromeda--two other shows he's never seen.

Some of the things ScroP cites above are pretty common, in both sci-fi and westerns.

Space as the wild west was the basis for Star Trek, OLS, Cowboy Bebop, and any other space opera that treats space as a frontier.

Outlaws vs. the Law is everything from Reservoir Dogs to Ali Baba to Han Solo. Space is just a change of venue.

Character's running from a tragedy in their past? Thousands of people traveling west after the Civil War. It's a basic human motivation to escape our traumas.

Genius Kid on a space ship? Wesley Crusher.
Space pilots with shady jobs? Han Solo again.

We're mostly talking about common archtypes.

Even shipping someone in a box isn't that new an idea. Star Trek did it in "The Emissary" and Bram Stoker shipped Dracula in a box of dirt.

It will be the details that will really display the strengths and differences between the two shows, and we won't see those until later this month.

Ever watch the West Wing? It's not suprising that the most "liberal" shows on TV are created by drug addicts. The "liberal-arts" agenda in our schools, which allow these degenerates to propogate their crazy ideas has been way too flexible for my liking.

The MTV 2002 Movie Awards isn't live and was filmed this past weekend. After the filming, the winners were never a secret. I read the winners earlier this week on Yahoo. Here's a June 3 article on E!Online.

1. U2, $109.7 million
2. 'N Sync, $86.8 million
3. Backstreet Boys, $82.1 million
4. Dave Matthews Band, $60.5 million
5. Elton John and Billy Joel, $57.2 million
6. Madonna, $54.7 million
7. Aerosmith, $49.3 million
8. Janet Jackson, $42.1 million
9. Eric Clapton, $38.8 million
10. Neil Diamond, $35.4 million
11. Matchbox Twenty, $28.4 million
12. Rod Stewart, $27.2 million
13. Jimmy Buffett, $26.9 million
14. Andrea Bocelli, $26.8 million
15. Ozzfest 2001, $26.4 million
16. Sade, $26.2 million
17. Tim McGraw, $24.9 million
18. Britney Spears, $23.7 million
19. James Taylor, $23 million
20. Tool, $20.4 million

No more glamour, the influence, the youth, the hipness, the hookers, the drugs...Yeah right.

Even without concert sales, people are still buying CDs anyway. After all the crap about Eminem's album being pirated before it was released he still managed to sell 1.32 million copies in his first week. I think the reports of the death of the music industry have been greatly exagerrated.

Finally, innovative musicians can parlay their fame into dollars from other means. Just look at Ozzy Osbourne who's about to pull in 20 million for his reality-sitcom.

1. U2, $109.7 million
2. 'N Sync, $86.8 million
3. Backstreet Boys, $82.1 million
4. Dave Matthews Band, $60.5 million
5. Elton John and Billy Joel, $57.2 million
6. Madonna, $54.7 million
7. Aerosmith, $49.3 million
8. Janet Jackson, $42.1 million
9. Eric Clapton, $38.8 million
10. Neil Diamond, $35.4 million
11. Matchbox Twenty, $28.4 million
12. Rod Stewart, $27.2 million
13. Jimmy Buffett, $26.9 million
14. Andrea Bocelli, $26.8 million
15. Ozzfest 2001, $26.4 million
16. Sade, $26.2 million
17. Tim McGraw, $24.9 million
18. Britney Spears, $23.7 million
19. James Taylor, $23 million
20. Tool, $20.4 million

No more glamour, the influence, the youth, the hipness, the hookers, the drugs...Yeah right.

Even without concert sales, people are still buying CDs anyway. After all the crap about Eminem's album being pirated before it was released he still managed to sell 1.32 million copies in his first week. I think the reports of the death of the music industry have been greatly exagerrated.

Finally, innovative musicians can parlay their fame into dollars from other means. Just look at Ozzy Osbourne who's about to pull in 20 million for his reality-sitcom.

I'll watch it a few more times to try to confirm it for you. Please send tickets.

As you can read here, there is already a sequel in the works...

They are getting divorced, just so you know. Apparently, she's become one of those born again shee^H^H^H^Hchristians.

apparently, they are going to be killed by the Empire within seconds of their appearance.

Pop!

Read the other article linked at Yahoo's one, they are not going to appear anymore.

But verisign doesn't have exclusive control over .com or any tlds anymore.

If this passes, whats to stop me from registering my xxx .com/net/org domains through Gandi, and going merrily on my .com-porno way? (gandi doesn't seem like an organzation that's going bend over for some ridiculous US law)

And what about links to sexual content?
If linking to explicit content makes a site explicit, just about any discussion site would immediately have to be in the .prn TLD. But if linking to explicit content was allowed, TGPs would still be OK in the .com namespace, and it would defeat the purpose. And who's going to decide what is explicit content? The government already enforces the age restrictions on rated "R" movies, based on the MPAA's internationally-hated violence-good/sex-bad ideology, and the MPAA has already dipped their toes in the website-rating waters... I'm sure these .prn assignments won't be run like that, though, right?

Theres so many problems with this concept it's rediculous. I'm all for a .prn TLD, but blocking sites from .com is censorship no matter how you look at it. (many services WOULD just block the entire .prm TLD, making those sites exist only to audiences with the "dangerous" full internet connection.

What a marketing strategy for Hollywood - get the Federal Government to start pushing their products. Wow. Does anyone still think Congress isn't for sale?

What if Congress was this interested in promoting education and science instead of movies? You would be better off.

I LOVED his cable TV show! All the "behind the scenes" stuff and all. But I am very disappointed that we can only see it in reruns.

He was a lot better on TV, much funnier, than in this article that shows up as nothing but banner ads in my browser.

Is he still pals with Joan Rivers? She should be the spokeswoman for AMD, IMHO.

Somebody listens to it. Someone buys the albums. N'Sync didn't get big because of major label payola, they got big because some clown looked at a shelf in a record store, and said, 'I want THIS one!'

I don't believe you. Do you know how N'Sync was created? It's an artificial "band." Lou Pearlman, CEO of Trans Continental Entertainment basically did a talent search, picked out a few boys the girls would like, did a big production number with them, did promotion work (payola, basically) and TA-DA, you have N'Sync. He also put together the Backstreet Boys. Here is some info on his lattest idea.

The origin of such pop phenomena has nothing to do with a grass-roots swelling of pupularity from people likeing the music. It's all about promotion, image, and lots and lots and lots of money.

You're damn right I blame the record companies for the shallow pop crap dominating the waves these days.