... wherein Peter posts a Weekly Media Update.

... the distant Miami skyline.  Now he's stuck.  Management wants nothing to do with him, and they're no longer protecting Michael from all the cops and agents and miscellaneous baddies who have unfinished business. I don't mean to imply that the show has some sort of horribly-convoluted "mythology bloat".  Burn Notice just aims to be a simple, solidly-entertaining show.  It adds just enough ...

The Washington Post recently ran a major two-part article about the sex-killing of Robert Wone, an Asian-American lawyer in D.C. " Murder on Swann Street, Part 1 " laid out the crime: Wone's College of William & Mary friend, attorney Robert Price; Price's lover, marketing expert Victor Zaborsky; Price and Zaborsky's tenant and BDSM lover in their polyamorous marriage, children's author Dylan Ward...

Dish Magazine - Actors who moonlight as musicians

There are a number of actors who have portrayed musicians over the years. Val Kilmer is considered by many to have portrayed the definitive Jim Morrison in the Oliver Stone biopic The Doors . Lou Diamond Phillips was cast as Ritchie Valens in La Bamba . Jamie Fox took to the silver screen as Ray Charles in Ray and numerous actors took on the role of Bob Dylan in I’m Not There ....

Trailer Breakdown: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

...15. “How much could you mean to him, if he left you here, unprotected” Laurent is back, which is good news for fans of Laurent, and bad news for Bella. He gets all up in Bella’s business and prepares to attack. He probably shouldn’t have done that. 16. Which way to the gun show? Taylor Lautner apparently lived at the gym for a year in a desperate attempt to keep the part of Jacob, with ...

Talk to the Newsroom: Assistant Managing Editor Michele McNally

... Managing Editor John Geddes, Deputy Managing Editor Jonathan Landman, Assistant Managing Editor Richard L. Berke, Assistant Managing Editor Glenn Kramon, Associate Managing Editor Charles Strum, Business Editor Larry Ingrassia, Obituaries Editor Bill McDonald, Metropolitan Editor Joe Sexton, Living Editor Trish Hall, Investigations Editor Matthew Purdy, Foreign Editor Susan Chira, National Editor...

Supreme Leader is a Great Gig If You Can Get It.

... to get information about the happenings in the tightly-controlled Iran. Furthermore, the relevance of the newest of the new media highlights some of the irrelevance of the "traditional" media. The Revolution, it seems, will not be televised – CNN.com didn’t mention the unrest for days. As ReadWriteWeb.com put it...

News Clips

...63 in Northern Iraq... Iraq/Democrats/Media Bias 3) Sen. Boxer Offers No...63 in Northern Iraq... Iraq/Democrats/Media Bias http://www.foxnews.com/story...&T is in the ringtone business for the money, it's ... for its commercial VCR-selling business. In short, if there's ... 12 references, or giving a business presentation half a dozen times ... Law. “The implication is, ‘Nice business you have here. Shame if ...

and two tablespoons of tears

... you and I sat together, we were each manipulating electronics while I was sifting through the accumulated media of my life, but now (sufficing to emulate Cortazar) I am manufacturing your sneakily-typed-but-not-...paper-work and painting and figuring out that goes along with owning a house and running a small business. And really, I just want to gather those I care about close to me and contain all ...

I made the "Did You Know...?" section on the front page of Wikipedia today. ... that by the end of its second year in business, Participant Media's films had been nominated for 11 Academy Awards ?

Massive Assault

This post has three parts. 1: Promotion! The boom has gone bust. Banks are past reclaiming possessions from those unable to pay their debts and their minions are now in the business of reclaiming the debtors themselves. Of those who remain, only those without debt are free to walk the streets unharmed, while those who cannot pay must find refuge from danger wherever possible. A lucky few ...