Stephen J. Cannell, an indefatigable writer-creator-producer who was among TV’s most prolific suppliers of primetime programmming, died Thursday of melanoma at his home in Pasadena. He was 69 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hollywood star Tony Curtis has died at his US home at the age of 85, according to ABC News — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When the exciting new thing called social media first came along, it promised to do what years of reality television, forests’ worth of glossy magazines and countless fish-suppers’ worth of paparazzi shots failed quite to manage: it would allow celebrities to show us The Real Them.
If you ever wondered what really went on in the heads of the people you are used to goggling at on telly, you needed wonder no longer: now, thanks to the wonder of Twitter, we would be able to SEE DIRECTLY INTO THEIR BRAINS.
It seems to work; at least for celebrities who write their own tweets. You discover that Simon Pegg is funny and nice, Graham Linehan intelligent and politically conscious, William Gibson geeky and sociable, Amy Winehouse a bit erratic, and 50 Cent . . . well, you discover that 50 Cent is an absolutely epic plonker.
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A very useful supplementary feed – @English50Cent – interprets his sayings for those less with it. For instance, when Fiddy found himself having an online scrap with some pre-teen Justin Bieber fans, he tweeted: “I’m a take my belt off and beat one of you little motherfuckers were your mama and daddy at anyway bad ass kids.” @English50Cent translated: “I am going to remove my trousers and attack some children” — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For my birthday this year the hubby got me a day with a professional cake decorator to create my own cake since I’m all into that and whatnot. So together, Myself and Liz from the Artisan Cake Company in Portland, OR, sculpted this masterpiece!
I’m glad to have learned a LOT about working with fondant and general cake sculpting. I hope to make many more like him. 😀
He loves the little tacos… and taquitos… he loves them gooooooooood — via deviantART
Cassandra Peterson is back in Elvira drag — back on the blood-red sofa, back in that agonizing position, back assuming the role of, as Elvira refers to herself, the piece everyone’s dying to rest in
— because she’s coming back to TV — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The former girlfriend of an Indiana teenager who pleaded guilty to murder says he told her he wanted to be just like the TV serial killer Dexter before he strangled his 10-year-old brother — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is the third revision of this project. From the first pin to the last took about two and a half semesters, though the final version was completed entirely within the first two months of Fall 2008. There are over 17,000 pins on the board, and the work was done entirely by students, mainly members of the CIS Student Association. The board is currently in the Student Computing Center at the University of the Fraser Valley.
A book detailing the first 40 years of the UK’s foreign intelligence service has been published.
Author Professor Keith Jeffery was given access to the archives at MI6, which has the official title of the Secret Intelligence Service — via redwolf.newsvine.com
English fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett says he was so excited after being knighted by the Queen that he decided to make his own sword to equip himself for his new status — via jedipunk.newsvine.com
The iconic falcon statuette at the center of John Huston’s 1941 film-noir masterpiece “The Maltese Falcon” (Warner Bros.) is one of the most important and recognizable objects in the history of cinema. As the legacy of the film has continued to grow, more so has the intrigue surrounding the seductively mysterious falcon statuette — via Guernsey’s
After discovering that I send his missives live and commenting on one of them a couple of weeks back, it didn’t seem to discourage Bill from writing again:
As the combined energies of Director(s)/Writer(s) Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz left a very strong,almost evocative, and potentially positive appeal for the “X Files” series to continue(ie. Birth of William and many more chances to “pick it up” Would it be advantageous to entertain FOX to “pick it up” and continue with its plot formation? This series povided the viewing public like myself with an ‘air’ of hope for a better tomorrrow!WHICH WE ALL DESPERATELY NEED IT SEEMS STRANGE THAT THE RELATIVE THRUST OF MINE IS AN “X FILE”
At least it’s more annoyed fan this time rather than his usual demands for Chris Carter’s address so Bill can personally resurrect the show, but still, it’s not like I can do anything about it aside from point and laugh.
Glenn Shadix, best remembered for his portrayal of a portly, pretentious designer in the metaphysical comedy “Beetlejuice”, died Tuesday at his home in Birmingham. He was 58 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A record of British life on film could be threatened from an emerging ‘disease’ which eats away at film — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Terry Gilliam has said his latest attempt to make a film about Don Quixote has stalled after his financial backers pulled out — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The 2010 Hugo Award Winners were presented today at Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention, in Melbourne, Australia, Who were among the big winners? China Miéville, Paolo Bacigalupi, and Moon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific, successful and respected composers of all time and has contributed a number of scores that are undeniable classics. With the recent release of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western trilogy on Blu-ray, I thought now would be a good time to look at some of Morricone’s finest work to date — via Den of Geek
NZ On Air, the government agency that funds captioning services in New Zealand, has announced a NZ$500,000 audio description trial on digital television in 2011 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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